Britain laying claim to south Atlantic seabed: report
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Britain is seeking to legally annex stretches of the south Atlantic seabed in a bid to tap gas, mineral and oil wealth, in a move that could raise tension with Argentina, a newspaper reported Saturday.
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Oil giant BP is set to announce its return to Libya, Prime Minister Tony Blair&#39;s official spokesman said, shortly before taking off for the north African country.
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Scientists trace London's inexorable sinking in a study that will be critical to the planning of defences against sea level rise.
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Britain's finance minister Gordon Brown began a week-long mission to Africa to pitch his ambitious proposal for a "new Marshall Plan" to help lift the continent out of chronic poverty.
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An American researcher claimed Sunday to have discovered the remains of the legendary lost city of Atlantis on the bottom of the east Mediterranean Sea.
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"Spain has decided to go to (the) courts to claim its right in case the discovery is Spanish"  The Spanish government said Thursday it has filed a lawsuit in a U.S. federal court against an American firm over a shipwreck the company has found laden with a colonial-era treasure.If the vessel was Spanish or was removed from Spanish waters, any treasure would belong to Spain, Spain says.'Odyssey Marine Exploration has been requested in a letter to provide information concerning the identity of the ship and the material recovered, and has not responded with the details we were asking for,' said Susana Tello, Culture Ministry spokeswoman. Read more
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ChevronTexaco reports that its United Kingdom subsidiary and its partners, Statoil, OMV and DONG, have made a significant oil and gas discovery at the offshore Rosebank/Lochnagar well in the Faroe-Shetland ...
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[World News]: London, Nov 15: A team of American ocean researchers have claimed to have found the lost kingdom of Atlantis off the coast of Cyprus.
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Britain outlined proposals on Wednesday to sell part of its holding in British Energy, the nuclear power station operator, which could earn it 2.19 billion pounds.
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By IAN JOHNSTON ENVIRONMENT CORRESPONDENT  SCOTLAND should look to taking control of its seas up to 200 miles offshore, according to a report.
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London - Britain started to plan the invasion of Iraq months before the conflict, even as Prime Minister Tony Blair was denying he was on a course for war, according to a report on Wednesday quoting a leaked Pentagon document.
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Climate change is warming Britain's waters, eroding its coastline, harming its marine wildlife and increasing the likelihood of devastating storms and floods, the government said in a report published Wednesday.
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London - Britain knew about an alleged coup plot in Equatorial Guinea at least five weeks before a team of mercenaries was nabbed in Zimbabwe as they prepared to carry it out, the Observer newspaper reported on Sunday.
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Major shifts in the British marine environment are being partially driven by climate change, according to a new report.
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Science & environment: UK, France and Russia plan to exploit new UN rules to claim huge swaths of ocean.
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Science & environment: An armada of robot submarines and marine sensors are to be deployed across the Atlantic
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Â· Girl alleged to be buried under rocks in PortugalÂ· Police say they are taking claim 'very seriously'