Jun 7th, 2012 at 2:00PM: This week, the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth countries are celebrating the Diamond Jubilee, commemorating 60 years of Queen Elizabeth II on the royal throne. The Times has an interactive, multimedia infographic detailing six decades of royal travel. Each decade details her Commonwealth and international trips with video and photographs from some of her most important visits. The 1970s-'90s ...Click on a label to read posts from that part of the world.
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60 Years Of Royal Travel: Queen Elizabeth II's State Visits
Jun 7th, 2012 at 2:00PM: This week, the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth countries are celebrating the Diamond Jubilee, commemorating 60 years of Queen Elizabeth II on the royal throne. The Times has an interactive, multimedia infographic detailing six decades of royal travel. Each decade details her Commonwealth and international trips with video and photographs from some of her most important visits. The 1970s-'90s ...Queen Elizabeth's Diamond Jubilee: 2012's other major British event
Mar 2nd, 2012 at 11:00AM: In London, signs of the coming Olympics are everywhere. Barclays Cycle Hire docking stations have begun to expand into East London toward key Olympics sites, billboards urge drivers to begin to think about how they'll deal with increased traffic, and the Prime Minister is busy warning unions that the prospect of a strike during the Olympics would be "unacceptable and unpatriotic."
Meanwhile, ...Terrorists injure two tourists near Delhi mosque
Sep 19th, 2010 at 8:30AM: Two tourists from Taiwan have been wounded in a terrorist attack at the gate to the Jama Masjid, a historic mosque in New Delhi, India.
Witnesses say two men on a motorcycle drove up and the one riding on the back opened fire on the tourists' bus, firing a total of eight to ten rounds. The terrorists then drove off and have not been caught. Two tourists are currently being treated in a local ...International female team reaches South Pole
Dec 30th, 2009 at 5:00PM: Back in November, a group of seven women from a variety of countries around the globe set out on a long, and challenging journey. Calling themselves the Kaspersky Commonwealth Expedition, they left Patriot Hills, along the Antarctic coast, and over the course of the next 39 days, traveled more than 550 miles on skis, before arriving at their destination at the geographic South Pole yesterday. The ...
