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Pedophile Site Cannot Use Royals' Photos

A Dutch court on Thursday barred a pedophile support group from publishing photos of children of the royal family on its Web site, a week after it displayed pictures of the 3-year-old daughter of the heir to the throne.

Govt. Eyes Error That Cost U.S. Billions

How it happened or who's responsible is a mystery eight years after the fact. But what may have been a simple error — or perhaps something more ominous — has given a multimillion-dollar windfall to a group of oil and gas companies and could cost the government billions of dollars more in the years to come.

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Flying eggs, riot police, pro-Quebec slogans - Separatists disrupt British Royaltys' tour of Canada
Source: The Times

Two articles: Quebec nationalists disrupt Charles tour of Canada Demonstrators in Canada hurled eggs and chanted “Majesty Go Home” as the Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall ventured into the French-speaking province of Quebec.

Prince Philip in Indian name gaffe
Source: theage.com.au

Britain's Prince Philip has reportedly made one of his notorious gaffes by joking with a British-Indian business leader about his name, a newspaper said today.

Half a president
Source: American Thinker

President Obama apparently wants to do only half of his job -- the part that is the most fun. And he's got his eyes on a higher position.

Thailand's king admitted to hospital
Source: abc.net.au

Thailand's revered monarch, King Bhumibol Adulyadej, has been admitted to hospital for the second time in a week.

It's time to embrace American royalty
Source: Salon.com

We're obviously hungry to live with royal and aristocratic families so we should really just go ahead and formally declare it

Radio stations caught up in public-service dispute
Source: USA Today

A growing dispute about whether radio stations should pay royalties to artists when their music is aired may be temporarily eclipsed by a potentially precedent-setting fight about radio stations' public-service obligations.

Queen turns corner of palace backyard into an allotment
Source: Guardian Unlimited

As a 14-year-old, she picked up a spade and joined with the rest of wartime Britain in the Dig for Victory campaign. Seven decades later, though no longer wielding the spade herself, the Queen, 83, has again embraced the "grow your own" movement.

No Performance Tax
Source: noperformancetax.org

What is a performance tax? A performance tax is a fee that record labels want the government to impose on local radio stations simply for airing music free of charge for listeners.

Nepal's royal palace opens to the public
Source: Guardian Unlimited

Ed Douglas takes a tour of the compound that witnessed a royal bloodbath and the death of the monarchy in Nepal

Undercover reporters pay their way into palace
Source: sbs.com.au

A royal chauffeur allowed two undercover journalists into Buckingham Palace for cash and let one of them sit in Queen Elizabeth II's Bentley car, a newspaper reported.

BNP London assembly member could be banned from Buckingham Palace party
Source: Guardian Unlimited

A BNP assembly member who planned to take the BNP leader, Nick Griffin, to a Buckingham Palace garden party hosted by the Queen was today told he would be barred from attending unless he agreed to take another guest.

Torture-tape Gulf prince accused of 25 other attacks
Source: Guardian Unlimited

US lawyers claim they have videos implicating Abu Dhabi royal in more cases of torture, a week after outcry over his assaults on Afghan businessman

Public Sex near Windsor Castle Leads to Arrest
Source: The San Francisco Chronicle

A couple having sex in broad daylight at a park near Windsor castle were arrested for "outraging public decency."

President Obama clearly made a deep bow to the King of Saudi Arabia. Was this right or wrong?

Though it happened a few days ago, the controversy is still raging on TV and some websites as to whether President Obama should have acted as he did in such a seemingly obsequious manner.

Michelle Obama Charms Queen in Breaking Protocol
Source: Yahoo! News

Michelle Obama has done what few others have managed — getting Queen Elizabeth II to break protocol.

Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden gets engaged
Source: Hello magazine

Crown Princess Victoria (Sweden's future monarch) has become engaged to Daniel Westling, who is a sports and fitness trainer.

Isle of Man considers unlimited downloads as Ireland pulls plugs
Source: Christian Science Monitor

The Isle of Man is dealing with the crime of Internet piracy in an equally novel way: by accepting defeat. Rather than police the Internet for illegal activity, the Isle of Man has proposed a radical new tax of £1 ($1.45) per week that will be paid directly to recording compani …

Saudi king shakes up religious establishment
Source: Yahoo! News

The Saudi king on Saturday dismissed the chief of the religious police and a cleric who condoned killing the owners of TV networks that broadcast "immoral" content, signaling an effort to weaken the country's hard-line Sunni establishment.

'Code of secrecy' kept alleged Queen assassination plot quiet
Source: abc.net.au

A retired policeman says a plot to assassinate the Queen and Prince Philip during a trip to Australia in 1970 was shrouded in secrecy as part of a gentlemen's agreement between police and the press.

Thailand bans Economist magazine
Source: BBC News

The latest edition of UK-based current affairs magazine the Economist has been banned in Thailand, amid local anger over its coverage of the royal family.

A world free from DRM, copyrights and patents
Source: TG Daily

Opinion - What would it be like to wake up tomorrow and have the ability to take everything that exists and recreate it as needed absolutely free from royalty or limitation? If people and companies could copy anything in existence, rolling it into whatever product they can design …

Thais tighten ban on royal slurs
Source: Christian Science Monitor

Thailand's lèse-majesté laws are already strict, but a new crackdown on insults has resulted in a spike in arrests, including that of an Australian novelist.

BibliOdyssey: The Jewel Book
Source: BibliOdyssey

To be honest, my attention was primarily drawn - at first - not to the jewellery itself, but to the borders and frame decorations.

Incest: Apparently Not Nearly As Bad An Idea As We Thought
Source: Sciam

Inbreeding is the source of jokes about British royalty and is associated with increased birth defects among offspring. The practice is so reviled that 31 U.S.

Thailand's blacklist leaked on the internet
Source: banthisurl.com

Thailand's blacklist of newly-banned websites — all accused of lese majeste, or criticising the King — has been leaked to whistleblower site Wikileaks.

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