More than 60 ships have been attacked by Somali pirates in the Gulf of Aden this year alone, compared with about half that number in 2007, according to a report released earlier this month by Chatham House, a London-based institute that analyzes international affairs.

CNN: Turkish ship 'distressed' in pirate waters

It was one of more than 60 ships that have been attacked by pirates off the Somali coast this year alone, compared with about half that in 2007, according to a report released earlier this month by Chatham House, a London-based institute that analyzes international affairs.

CNN: Somali forces free pirate hostages

"He was a great thinker, " said Hadi Sekura, of Chatham House, a London-based organization for the analysis of international issues.

CNN: Turkish sorrow at Ecevit death

An unnamed bidder is trying to take over London-based Christies International , the world's leading auction house.

ECONOMIST: Retrenching

Fortunately for the British, his Anglophilia survived the rebuff he received as a young man when his admiration for William Pitt the Elder had led him to knock on the door of Pitt's house in London, by then the home of the Royal Institute of International Affairs.

ECONOMIST: Caspar Weinberger