Argentina Tells Companies to Cut U.K. Purchases Over Falklands

Argentine officials told executives from about 20 companies to cut their imports of goods made in the U.K. as a protest over control of the Falkland Islands, said an official who declined to be identified because...

Britain's RAF and Navy Yellow Sea King Helicopter to be Replaced

Britain's yellow Sea King helicopters will soon disappear from the radar. Today the Ministry of Defence will name the private company who will take over the Sea King emergency service.  The Royal Navy and...

Thatcher's struggle with dementia

Dementia strikes people around the world from any background and no matter what one's politics are it is sad to see Margaret Thatcher being, like Ronald Reagon before her, afflicted by it. Dementia and it's causes...

Falklands or Malvinas?: 25 years of sovereignty struggles for islands

Twenty-five years ago, British PM Margaret Thatcher sent her country's navy to one of its colonies, the Falkland Islands, to oppose Argentina's fascist dictator Leopoldo Galtieri, who was trying to seize the...