Yahoo! News: World - Britain

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• Rules change gives royal girls equal shot at crown (AP)
• Obama, Tony Blair to meet Monday at White House (AP)
• London goes to court to evict St. Paul's protest (AP)
• Analysis: Britons hanker for life outside EU as crisis bites (Reuters)
• Under Historic New Law, Women Given Equal Right to British Throne (Time.com)
• British Monarchy Gets Slightly More Egalitarian (The Atlantic Wire)
• It's a girl! British royal succession rules to change (Reuters)
• UK lawmaker's wife sentenced for kitten theft (AP)

Rules change gives royal girls equal shot at crown (AP) Posted: 28 Oct 2011 04:02 PM PDT AP - If Will and Kate's first child is a girl, it's now clear that she'll probably become queen one day — and not even getting a little brother can mess that up.

Obama, Tony Blair to meet Monday at White House (AP) Posted: 28 Oct 2011 10:26 AM PDT AP - President Barack Obama will meet at the White House on Monday with former British Prime Minister Tony Blair.

London goes to court to evict St. Paul's protest (AP) Posted: 28 Oct 2011 09:58 AM PDT AP - Church and local government authorities are going to court to evict anti-capitalist protesters camped outside St. Paul's Cathedral — though officials acknowledged Friday it could take weeks or months to get an order to remove the tent city.

Analysis: Britons hanker for life outside EU as crisis bites (Reuters) Posted: 28 Oct 2011 09:39 AM PDT Reuters - In Tunbridge Wells, a typically English small town south of London, workers and shoppers around the modern shopping mall talk readily about their frustrations with the EU and their desire for a referendum that could lead Britain to the exit.

Under Historic New Law, Women Given Equal Right to British Throne (Time.com) Posted: 28 Oct 2011 09:20 AM PDT Time.com - For 300 years, the English crown passed to the oldest male heir. Now, it will simply go to the first-born -- even if she's a girl

British Monarchy Gets Slightly More Egalitarian (The Atlantic Wire) Posted: 28 Oct 2011 05:39 AM PDT The Atlantic Wire -

It's a girl! British royal succession rules to change (Reuters) Posted: 28 Oct 2011 05:25 AM PDT Reuters - Centuries of British royal discrimination came to an end on Friday after Commonwealth leaders agreed to drop rules that give sons precedence as heir to the throne and bar anyone in line for the crown from marrying a Roman Catholic.

UK lawmaker's wife sentenced for kitten theft (AP) Posted: 28 Oct 2011 04:02 AM PDT AP - The estranged wife of a British lawmaker has been given a suspended jail sentence for stealing a kitten from the house of her husband's lover.

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