• The ruling centre-right National Movement for Simeon II, led by Bulgaria's ex-king and prime minister since 2001, Simeon Saxe-Coburg, won 20%.

    ECONOMIST: Bulgaria's election

  • The phrase was first used by Mee - a celebrated writer and journalist best known for his 1908 Children's Encyclopaedia - in The King's England, a 1930s series of books offering a guide to each of England's counties.

    BBC: Magazine

  • In 1923, the Duke of York -- Britain's future King George VI -- married Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon in Westminster Abbey.

    CNN: Saturday,

  • Meanwhile, Thailand's long-serving king was taken to hospital on September 19th with a fever.

    ECONOMIST: Thailand's rowdy royalists

  • That alone makes it essential reading for anyone intrigued by South Africa's complex philosopher-king.

    ECONOMIST: Thabo Mbeki

  • The leader of a coalition partner, Josef Lux of the Christian Democrats, parliament's current king-maker, looked poised to do a bunk.

    ECONOMIST: Is a Czech era ending?

  • Reign over your romantic retreat from your bed chamber's fittingly king-sized bed-or the two-person Jacuzzi tub-while taking in the sparkling waters of Seneca Lake.

    BBC: Daily deal: Free reign in New York's Finger Lakes

  • While they wait, they can admire some of the statues originally sent in by various states for display in the Capitol proper, such as Hawaii's gold-covered King Kamehameha.

    ECONOMIST: When it comes to mismanagement, Congress is hard to beat

  • This new sanctimoniousness, said officials, was a precaution to ward off a hue-and-cry from Jordan's Islamists, already restive over King Abdullah's hands-off approach to the looming war on Iraq.

    ECONOMIST: A paper that dipped into Muhammad's sex-life is banned

  • McDonald's new Made-For-You marketing is a shameless ripoff of Burger King's Have-It-Your-Way promotion.

    FORBES: Beyond burgers

  • Rieder says King's dual nature -- the "crossover King" with the refined, professorial manner, and the private, even sarcastic King -- take turns on center stage in the letter.

    CNN: How MLK became an angry black man

  • Jones, the lawyer who smuggled the letter for King, stopped wondering about King's emotional stability after he sat down to read a typed-up version of King's notes.

    CNN: How MLK became an angry black man

  • The serialized drama from Steven Spielberg's Amblin Television, based on Stephen King's best-selling novel of the same name, will premiere on the CBS Television Network on June 24, 2013.

    ENGADGET: Amazon expands CBS content on Prime Instant Video, lands an Under the Dome exclusive

  • The change is one of three made by Capello, who has also brought in Liverpool's Jamie Carragher at centre-back for the injured Ledley King and drafted in Manchester City's fit-again midfielder Gareth Barry in place of James Milner.

    BBC: World Cup 2010: David James will play against Algeria

  • The record office said the Raymond Frostick Map Collection included maps where the North Sea is described as the German Ocean - a term often used until World War I - and King's Lynn was called three different names - Linn, Lyn and Lin.

    BBC: Rare Norfolk maps added to county archive

  • Their 16th and 17th generation descendants - by way of a king's illegitimate offspring - were traced via the family history website MyHeritage.

    BBC: First Valentine: Lasting legacy of 500-year-old love

  • North Bimini is only seven miles long and less than a mile wide, so walking and biking along the main road -- "The King's Highway" -- is the best way to experience Bimini.

    CNN: A beach break in Bimini

  • Kelly -- who was a juror in King's lawsuit against the city of Los Angeles in 1994 -- told police King was an "avid swimmer, " but that she was not, De Anda said.

    CNN: Rodney King dead at 47

  • It also lists six cases of children - one aged five at West Winch, near King's Lynn - committing racially or religiously aggravated common assault.

    BBC: Child crimes in Norfolk revealed

  • Playing music from his big-band tribute to Nat King Cole's Spanish-language albums, saxophonist David Murray's Cuban Ensemble occupied the same space as Mr. Bernstein and his Millennial Territory Orchestra, which drew from its new album, a take on the music of Sly Stone.

    WSJ: Winter Jazzfest | The Broad Tent of Jazzfest | By Jim Fusilli

  • Speaking to the National Retail Federation convention in New York on Monday, Alvarez said 2006 will bring more "freshly prepared foods, " to the fast-food king's menu, including more spicy chicken items and high-end coffee.

    FORBES: It's The Burgers, Stupid

  • For starters, Marshall, a U.S. president played by box-office king Harrison Ford in this summer's "Air Force One, " is a highly decorated Vietnam pilot.

    CNN: Sights & Sounds

  • Spaniards generally hold the king in high regard for his service to the nation and his defense of democracy after the death of the dictator Francisco Franco in 1975 -- especially the king's decisive stand to halt a right-wing military coup in 1981.

    CNN: SHARE THIS

  • While the desire to pair humor with a commercial message has a long history in advertising-- Burger King's creepy King character and Bud Light's "Real Men of Genius" being sterling examples--the PR industry has demonstrated a sluggish embrace of yucks as a vehicle to deliver a message about companies, brands or issues.

    FORBES

  • He was given the nickname the "King of Pop" -- a spin on Elvis Presley's status as "the King of Rock 'n' Roll" -- and few questioned the moniker.

    CNN: Michael Jackson, pop music legend, dead at 50

  • The report - part of the King's Fund quarterly update on NHS performance - also found a growing number of finance directors were concerned about budgets.

    BBC: A&E waits 'highest for a decade'

  • Tanya Seghatchian, of the UK Film Council, which part-funded The King's Speech, said it was the organisation's highest- grossing film at the British box office.

    BBC: Colin Firth leads British charge at Academy Awards

  • The trust runs two hospitals in Nottinghamshire - King's Mill and Newark.

    BBC: Sherwood Forest Hospitals Trust appoints new chief

  • The one in the Troll-King's hall (famous for its musical bits) and the whole business of turning Peer into a troll are hard to fathom.

    WSJ: "Peer" Pressure | Peer Gynt | San Francisco Symphony Orchestra | By David Littlejohn

  • The emphasis on dance in French opera started with Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632-1687), himself a dancer, who became the court composer to France's music-loving "Sun King, " Louis XIV.

    NPR: Opera Beyond Words: Rameau's Radiant Dances

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