United Kingdom
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
CAPITAL: London
FLAG: The Union Jack, adopted in 1800, is a combination of the banners of England (St. George's flag: a red c...
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The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is located in Western Europe, and consists of the island of Great Britain (which includes England, Scotland, and Wales) and the ...
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POPULATION 59,778,002ANGLICAN (INCLUDING THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND) 39.4 percentROMAN CATHOLIC 12.5 percentPRESBYTERIAN (INCLUDING THE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND) 5.5 percentOTHER CHRISTIAN 8.2 per...
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Area: 242,495 sq km (93,628 sq mi)Population (2006 est.): 60,501,000Capital:
London
Chief of state: Queen Elizabeth II
Head of government:
Prime Minister
Tony
Blair
Domestic Affairs.On Sept. 7,...
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Patients with hemophilia and other blood-clotting disorders face an uncertain though probably very low risk of contracting the human form of mad cow disease from medicines made using donated p...
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Florida Gov. Charlie Crist opened a two-day summit on climate change Thursday, promising the state will lower carbon dioxide emissions and make use of alternative energy sources.At his "Serve to Pr...
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Northern Ireland police arrested seven suspected IRA dissidents Thursday and searched houses and fields for caches of explosives and other weapons.The operation in the predominantly Catholic distri...
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New York has unveiled its first multi-nation advertising campaign, inserting itself into the increasingly intense international competition to attract the world's tourists.The "This Is New York Cit...
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Republican Rudy Giuliani talks about surviving prostate cancer in a New Hampshire radio ad promoting the tax breaks he says he would give families to buy private health insurance."I had prostate ca...
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Republican Rudy Giuliani talks about surviving prostate cancer in a New Hampshire radio ad promoting the tax breaks he says he would give families to buy private health insurance."I had prostate ca...
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Rudy Giuliani is defending the survival rates he quotes when talking about his prostate cancer, amid criticism he understates the figures and makes unfair comparisons.In a radio ad running this wee...
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Rudy Giuliani is defending the survival rates he quotes when talking about his prostate cancer, amid criticism he understates the figures and makes unfair comparisons.In a radio ad running this wee...
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Navigational device maker Garmin Ltd. said Thursday it had settled all intellectual property litigation with rival TomTom NV, including lawsuits in the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Wisconsin an...
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