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31. Shares of U.K.-based mining group Antofagasta (UK:ANTO 1, 078, -4.00, -0.37%) were cut to hold from buy at Citigroup for valuation reasons.

32. The Berlin-based nongovernmental organization, which has published the index since 1995, said it was concerned that the U.K.'s score had deteriorated in recent years.

33. You look at the U.K. and the U.S., not directly dependent on Russian energy - willing and able to take a sharper line with Russia.

34. "We were surprised when we saw the reactions," says Jim Anderson, of the Department of Psychology at the University of Stirling in the U.K., and lead author of the study.

35. Comparable U.K. sales rose 3.6% in the 13 weeks to July 3, with general merchandise sales up 6% and food sales up 1.5%. Total sales rose 4.4%.

36. Freeman played staff cut-up Tim Canterbury on the U.K. version of The Office before taking on the role of Dr. John Watson in BBC detective show Sherlock.

37. Cap Gemini SA, Europe's largest computer services provider, climbed after signing a new contract with the U.K. government.

38. The concept "shook the bedrock" of the sociobiology field, says William Hughes, a biologist at the University of Leeds in the U.K.

39. The research is being reported this week at the Weizmann U.K. conference at University College London and will appear in an upcoming issue of Physical Review Letters.

40. A lower court ruled in December that clients who didn't have properly-segregated funds would be treated as unsecured creditors in the U.K. insolvency case.

41. An example is China Taizinai, a Chinese yogurt-drinks maker now in liquidation, whose creditors include U.K.-based private-equity firm Actis.

42. China's $8.3 billion auction market is now the world's largest, up from third place behind the U.S. and U.K. just three years ago, according to the art-market website Artprice.

43. Still, the offer isn't flying with Cadbury, which said the bid 'fundamentally undervalues' the U.K. confectioner.

44. U.K.-based David Maitland observed from midnight to 3 a.m. as a rare Morelet's tree frog doggedly refused to become supper for a cat-eyed snake--and still didn't see the conclusion.

45. The Open University's free offerings have been downloaded more than 16 million times, with 89 percent of those downloads outside the U.K., says Martin Bean, vice chancellor of the university.

46. We worked hard to make these rates really cheap (see comparison table) with calls to the U.K., France, Germany, China, Japan—and many more countries—for as little as $0.02 per minute.

47. The HMS Ark Royal is up for grabs thanks to the U.K. Ministry of Defence, which auctions off old equipment, such as carriers, to trim back its budget.

48. Quacquarelli Symonds, an education company based in the U.K., has again captured world academia's attention with its annual publication of an international university league table.

49. In 2006, five countries -- the U.S., Japan, Germany, Canada, and the U.K. -- accounted for four-fifths of all commercial fuel cell demand.

50. In fact, according to a 2005 U.K. study in the Journal of Clinical Periodontology, smokers are up to six times more likely than nonsmokers to develop gum disease, which can lead to tooth loss.

51. Parr's career is defined by his color-saturated images of excess, from greasy plates of orange food guzzled by the U.K. working class to the bling of Dubai.

52. "There are still limitations on the export of sheep from Cumbria, in the U.K., and reindeer from Scandinavia," Hoffman said.

53. nce the U.K. government had provided an export license for a U.S. military application, the major U.S. aerospace company we had been dealing with stopped talking to us.

54. One research team in the U.K. recently experimented on human cells in artificial blood vessels to try to understand what role omega 3s play in inflammation.

55. Geoff Hilton, a U.K.-based biologist with the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds and study co-author, has compared the mismatch to a house cat attacking a hippopotamus.

56. French Connection Group Plc surged 4.4 percent to 47 pence after the U.K.-based fashion retailer reported a 4.2 percent rise in half-yearly sales to 96.2 million pounds.

57. You're listening to Carol Turley, a senior scientist at the Plymouth Marine Laboratory in the U.K. Her research confirms that oceans are acidifying from atmospheric CO2.

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59. It did not have a government monopoly on note issue but over the time it became the prime issuer of U.K. notes.

60. Shares in the group dropped 1.4% in London, making it the biggest faller among U.K. banks.