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Chuka Umunna MP speaks to delegates at the Labour Party Conference at Manchester Central on October 1, 2012 in Manchester, England. The shadow chancellor Ed Balls, is expected to unveil plans today to stimulate the economy using a GBP 3bn windfall from the sale of 4G mobile phone frequencies to build 100,000 affordable homes and give stamp duty breaks to first time buyers. (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

‘Britain’s Obama’ urges ties with West Africa

Robbie Corey-Boulet, Associated Press
ACCRA, Ghana (AP) - During a trade mission to West Africa last week that included a stop in his father's home country Nigeria, Umunna, a member of the British Parliament, dismissed the comparison to the United States president...
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Anti-Margaret Thatcher graffiti adorns a wall on the Falls Road in west Belfast, Northern Ireland, Tuesday, April 9, 2013. The former prime minister died on Monday aged 87 after suffering a stroke while staying at the Ritz hotel in central London. Later on Monday, "street parties" were held in Londonderry and west Belfast as well as other parts of Britain. (AP Photo/Peter Morrison)

Did Thatcher help or hinder apartheid?

Michelle Faul, Associated Press
JOHANNESBURG (AP) - Nineteen years after the end of apartheid, South Africans are still passionately divided over whether Margaret Thatcher helped or hindered the cruel system of white rule and prolonged the jailing of Nelson Mandela...
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This E-FIT image (Electronic Facial Identification Technique) provided by the Metropolitan Police on Dec. 7, 2012 show a computer-based face of a man whom British police are trying to identify after his body was found near London's Heathrow Airport in September. (AP Photo/Metropolitan Police)

UK police unable to identify man who fell from sky

Gregory Katz, Associated Press
LONDON (AP) - Police believe he was from Africa, probably from Angola, but they don't know his identity...
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Rihanna performs onstage during the 2012 iHeartRadio Music Festival at the MGM Grand Garden Arena on September 21, 2012 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by Isaac Brekken/Getty Images for Clear Channel)

Rihanna allegedly to earn $8 million for Christmas lights gig

Chris Witherspoon
theGRIO REPORT - A London mall is reportedly paying Rihanna a whopping $8 million turn on the shopping center's Christmas lights....
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Phil Ivey takes part in the 2007 Aussie Millions Poker Championships AUD100,000 Holdem Invitational at the Crown Poker Room, Crown Casino on January 12, 2007 in Melbourne, Australia. (Photo by Simon Fergusson/Getty Images)

Casino refuses expert poker player million dollar win

Ugonna Okpalaoka
theGRIO REPORT - Crockfords, Britain's oldest casino, is refusing to pay the world's top poker players his £7.3 million (or $11.7 million) win until they've completed an investigation of his games...
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British police examine suspects for the seven initiation cuts on the body that marked a member of the Mau Mau secret society in this November 1952 image. (Express Newspapers / Hulton Archive via Getty Images)

Colonial sins return to haunt former world powers in Kenya

NBC News' Ian Johnston, Nancy Ing and Ploy Bunlueslip
LONDON - It is a court case that could reverberate round the world: Three elderly Kenyans are suing the U.K. government for torture inflicted by the colonial regime during the African country's struggle for independence...
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This image made available Tuesday Sept. 25, 2012 by MTV Crashes Manchester shows Alicia Keys headlining "MTV Crashes Manchester" in the city's cathedral, Manchester, England Monday night Sept, 24, 2012. (AP Photo/Andrew Timms/MTV Crashes Manchester, HO)

Alicia Keys sings to the heavens

Associated Press
MANCHESTER, England (AP) - Alicia Keys has been getting in touch with her spiritual side, headlining 'MTV Crashes Manchester' in the city's cathedral...
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Image of the murder weapon

Teen sentenced for stabbing girl with 'Afro comb'

Kunbi Tinuoye
theGRIO REPORT - A 16-year-old girl is facing a lengthy prison sentence after being convicted of murdering her teenage rival with a steel Afro comb...
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Rapper Nicki Minaj, Trinidad & Tobago (Getty Images)

Nicki Minaj cancels UK festival show due to vocal chords

Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) - Nicki Minaj has canceled her appearance at this weekend's V Festival in the United Kingdom because of damage to her vocal cords...
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Children from Hallsville Primary School in the Olympic host borough of Newham, jump for joy after discovering that every primary school in the borough will be going to the Games. Photo Credit: Sarah London

Will the Olympics benefit Britain's minorities?

Kunbi Tinuoye
theGRIO REPORT - The London Borough of Newham, the main setting for the Olympic and Paralympic Games, is one of the most deprived in England...
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