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Today's news that London won their 2012 Olympic bid has led to a severe shortage of hankerchiefs and Kleenex in Paris and other French cites. Due to an epidemic of crying, local stocks have vanished. Please, open you hearts and bring hankies and facial tissue to the nearest French embassy or...

From The Mirror - 5 July 2005 10 THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT JACQUES CHIRAC French President Jacques Chirac has ridiculed Britain during talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin and German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder - accusing us, among other things, of having lousy food. But here's a...

First Berlusconi, then Chirac insults the Finns. But this time whilst insulting the British. Mon Jul 4, 2005 11:44 AM BST Printer Friendly | Email Article | RSS PARIS (Reuters) - French President Jacques Chirac cracked jokes to Russian and German leaders about bad British food and mad cow...

London 'poised to snatch victory in race for Olympics' By Simon Hart in Singapore (Filed: 03/07/2005) www.telegraph.co.uk . . . Sebastian Coe and his London campaign team are growing increasingly confident that they can leapfrog odds-on favourite Paris to land the 2012 Olympic Games when the...

Ireland may soon become richest country in the world. Europe is divided into 2 blocs - the prosperous, fast-growing economies of New Europe (Ireland, Britain, the Scandinavian nations and Eastern European nations) and the slow-growing (if even that), cash-strapped countries that are falling...

From The Sun - TONY Blair and Gordon Brown last night gave Jacques Chirac two black eyes, plunging Anglo-French relations into the deep freeze. TAKE THAT! First the PM stunned Paris by demanding an end to EU farmers’ handouts — which would hit the French hardest. TAKE THAT! Then the...

Britain celebrates victory over Napoleon - 200 years on. The biggest gathering of warships, during peacetime, IN HISTORY celebrated Nelson's victory yesterday, a victory which paved the way for Britain to dominate the world's seas for a century. Today, the Royal Navy is still the world's...

Hundreds of warships, modern and old and from all over the world, are gathered off Portsmouth off the South Coast to celebrate the bicentenary of Nelson's victory over Napoleon. Tonight, there will be one of the biggest fireworks displays Britain has ever seen. It is the largest gathering of...

Two died as plague reported in Tibet (Xinhua) Updated: 2005-06-27 14:26 Two persons died of bubonic plague and three others are recovering from the disease in the Tibet Autonomous Region in southwest China, the regional government's information office reported on Saturday. The outbreak...

Why are Continental Europeans so against Anglo-Saxon capitalism when you consider that out of the countries with a population of of over 10 million, four of the five richest countries in the world, per capita, are Anglo-Saxon countries, and out of those countries with a population of more than...

The sightings of mystery big cats in the UK has been well-known for years, with not many people taking them seriously. However, for some reason, sightings of leopard-like, puma-like or lynx-like big cats have increased over the last few years, with an average of four sightings EVERYDAY. The...

Britain and Japan prove the most generous countries in giving aid to the victims of the tsunami. Not only have both of those countries given more money than any other country, they have both given a larger contribution of the money that they pledged than almost anyone else, and are both FAR...

This is how Britain's EU allies, the eastern European states of the EU, think about Blair's mission to sort out the dreadful Common Agricultural Policy. If anyone, it is Slovenia which understands Britain and its stubborn insistence on the rebate for as long as the common purse is an infusion...

Oil sands mining becomes profitable By The Washington Post FORT McMURRAY, Alberta -- Along Highway 63 here the rolling hills give way to massive open pits, huge waste ponds and tangles of pipes and refining equipment that spew smoke into the air. In the pits, shovel trucks load dirt into...

More proof that Britain was right to keep the £. The countries that have the Euro are grinding to a halt. Eurozone's growth 'is grinding to a halt' Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, Telegraph 24/6/05 The eurozone is sliding towards a Japanese-style "liquidity trap" and may have trouble holding...

The UK is still well on its way to becoming Europe's largest economy. Foreign direct investment has plunged in France and Germany, who both have the euro currency. France (probably needless to say) is the worst hit, with its inward investment alomost HALVED. The UK, on the other hand, saw its...

Thousands celebrate solstice at Stonehenge Staff and agencies Tuesday June 21, 2005 A man jumps in the air from the top of one of the stones as the sun rises over Stonehenge. Photograph: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty An estimated 21,000 people today gathered at Stonehenge to watch the sun rise...

Leave Bush alone, Geldof warns stars By Hugh Davies (Filed: 21/06/2005) Bob Geldof has reportedly warned a top recording artist not to publicly criticise the White House during the worldwide television broadcast of the Live 8 concerts next month. The warning came after Geldof insisted that...

Blair insists the UK will get rid of its rebate only if France and other rich EU countries reduce or get rid off their CAP subsidies. U.K.'s Blair Says He Will Seek New EU Budget Accord `Quickly' June 21 (Bloomberg) -- U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair said he will seek a new agreement on the...

France under Chirac has been a disaster. He's alienated the US, the UK, Japanese, Eastern Europeans, Now the Dutch and Swedes. The Italians are no fans of him. A new likely successor to Shroeder, Angela Merkel is no fan of Chirac, even tabling a German parliamentary motion to support Britain on...