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• Obama starts UK visit, security issues paramount (Reuters)
• Air France pilots may have erred in 2009 crash: report (AFP)
• France, Britain to deploy helicopters to Libya: Paris (AFP)
• Obama in jubilant Ireland: `I've come home' (AP)
• Obama arrives in Britain for official state visit (AFP)
• Europe on alert for Icelandic volcano ash cloud (Reuters)
• UK lawmaker names soccer star Ryan Giggs in privacy row (Reuters)
• KLM suspends 16 flights over ash cloud concerns (AFP)
• UK lawmakers green light shale gas drilling (AP)
• 'Proud, resilient' Ireland embraces Obama (AFP)
• Obama arrives in London ahead of schedule (AP)
• Clinton: More NATO nations must join Libya mission (AP)
• Probe: NIreland police didn't protect slain lawyer (AP)
• WHITE HOUSE NOTEBOOK: Obama downs pint in Ireland (AP)
• Ex-IMF chief's sturdy marriage enduring new strain (AP)
• French official: helicopters being sent to Libya (AP)
• Bulgaria's black market in blood is flourishing (AP)
• Rockfall at Greek island kills US tourist (AP)
• Twitter 1, UK justice 0 as gag order collapses (AP)
• Obama leaving Ireland early as ash cloud looms (AP)

Obama starts UK visit, security issues paramount (Reuters) Posted: 23 May 2011 04:08 PM PDT Reuters - President Barack Obama on Tuesday begins a visit to Britain where he and Prime Minister David Cameron will review NATO action to help end conflict in Libya and Western policy toward uprisings in the Arab world.

Air France pilots may have erred in 2009 crash: report (AFP) Posted: 23 May 2011 03:55 PM PDT AFP - Pilots aboard an Air France plane whose plunge into the Atlantic killed 228 people were confused by a series of flight control alarms and possibly reacted in error before the crash, The Wall Street Journal reported Monday.

France, Britain to deploy helicopters to Libya: Paris (AFP) Posted: 23 May 2011 03:35 PM PDT AFP - France and Britain are deploying attack helicopters to strike Moamer Kadhafi's forces, top French ministers said Monday, in a shift in tactics two months into NATO's air war in Libya.

Obama in jubilant Ireland: `I've come home' (AP) Posted: 23 May 2011 03:32 PM PDT AP - He downed a pint of Guinness with a distant cousin and checked out centuries-old parish records tracing his family to Ireland. From the tiny village of Moneygall to a huge, cheering crowd in Dublin, President Barack Obama opened his four-nation trip through Europe on Monday with an unlikely homecoming far removed from the grinding politics of Washington and the world.

Obama arrives in Britain for official state visit (AFP) Posted: 23 May 2011 03:15 PM PDT AFP - US President Barack Obama on Monday landed in London for the second leg of his European visit, a day ahead of schedule due to a volcanic ash cloud drifting towards Britain.

Europe on alert for Icelandic volcano ash cloud (Reuters) Posted: 23 May 2011 03:10 PM PDT Reuters - Airlines began cancelling flights to Britain late on Monday because of an ash cloud from an Icelandic volcano reaching its airspace, although experts expected no repeat of travel chaos from an eruption a year ago.

UK lawmaker names soccer star Ryan Giggs in privacy row (Reuters) Posted: 23 May 2011 03:07 PM PDT Reuters - A British politician defied a court order on Monday by identifying Manchester United's Ryan Giggs as the soccer star fighting a legal battle to prevent newspapers from publishing allegations of an affair.

KLM suspends 16 flights over ash cloud concerns (AFP) Posted: 23 May 2011 02:43 PM PDT AFP - Dutch airline KLM has cancelled at least 16 flights to and from northern Britain and Scotland due to the shifting plume of ash from an erupting volcano in Iceland, the company said late Monday.

UK lawmakers green light shale gas drilling (AP) Posted: 23 May 2011 02:39 PM PDT AP - British lawmakers said Monday that shale gas resources in Britain should be developed to reduce the country's reliance on imported supplies.

'Proud, resilient' Ireland embraces Obama (AFP) Posted: 23 May 2011 02:30 PM PDT AFP - A star-struck Ireland opened its heart to Barack Obama Monday and the US president returned the favour, saying his ancestral homeland had a bright future despite current economic turmoil.

Obama arrives in London ahead of schedule (AP) Posted: 23 May 2011 02:24 PM PDT AP - President Barack Obama is in London well ahead of schedule after concerns over an ash cloud spreading from a volcano in Iceland sped up his travel plans.

Clinton: More NATO nations must join Libya mission (AP) Posted: 23 May 2011 01:30 PM PDT AP - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Monday urged more NATO nations to take an operational role in the air campaign in Libya, and defended her own country's contribution to the mission.

Probe: NIreland police didn't protect slain lawyer (AP) Posted: 23 May 2011 01:04 PM PDT AP - Northern Ireland police failed to protect a Catholic attorney at particularly high risk of assassination because of her work representing IRA and other Irish republican clients, a six-year investigation into the 12-year-old killing concluded Monday.

WHITE HOUSE NOTEBOOK: Obama downs pint in Ireland (AP) Posted: 23 May 2011 01:03 PM PDT AP - Downing a Guinness is a rite of passage for any visitor to Ireland, but too often the VIPs, including some U.S. presidents, disappoint the Emerald Isle.

Ex-IMF chief's sturdy marriage enduring new strain (AP) Posted: 23 May 2011 12:55 PM PDT AP - Anne Sinclair is sacrificing millions of her family's fortune on her husband's bail and house arrest. Dominique Strauss-Kahn declared his love for his wife in a public letter, and blew her a kiss across a New York courtroom where he was charged with trying to rape a hotel maid.

French official: helicopters being sent to Libya (AP) Posted: 23 May 2011 12:46 PM PDT AP - France and Britain will deploy attack helicopters in Libya as soon as possible, the French defense minister said Monday — a move that would allow their pilots more precision but also expose them to greater risk.

Bulgaria's black market in blood is flourishing (AP) Posted: 23 May 2011 12:30 PM PDT AP - Her 85-year-old husband needed immediate surgery but doctors told her to find blood for the operation herself. So Slavka Petrova swallowed her anguish and went to haggle on the black market outside the national blood clinic.

Rockfall at Greek island kills US tourist (AP) Posted: 23 May 2011 11:20 AM PDT AP - Greek police say a boulder dislodged from towering volcanic cliffs on the resort island of Santorini has killed an American tourist and injured four foreign women.

Twitter 1, UK justice 0 as gag order collapses (AP) Posted: 23 May 2011 11:04 AM PDT AP - Britain's scandal-hungry news media, an outspoken parliamentarian and thousands of ordinary people using the Twitter micro-blogging site have dealt a body blow to an institution of British justice, flouting a gag order imposed by one of the country's top judges.

Obama leaving Ireland early as ash cloud looms (AP) Posted: 23 May 2011 10:41 AM PDT AP - The White House says President Barack Obama will leave Ireland early due to safety concerns over a cloud of ash from an Icelandic volcano that is moving toward Europe.

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