Eurostar posted a message on its Web site Tuesday morning saying that restricted services would run from 7:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. British time.

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The Queen Elizabeth II's rare visit to the region her third to oil-rich Trinidad since 1966 comes as the Commonwealth Heads of Government

The first anti-stab knife is to go on sale in Britain, designed to work as normal in the kitchen but to be ineffective as a weapon.

Rising temperatures could make almost one in ten bird speciesin Britain extinct by the end of the century, say scientists.Because of global warming, birds will on average have to move 340 miles north - equivalent to the distance from Plymouth to Newcastle - by 2100, a study has revealed...