Prince Charles gave viewers a surprise by delivering the weather forecast for Scotland today, and after a bit of a humorous bumbling asked who the hell wrote the script while still live on camera.
View the video on BBC's website: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-18018232#TWEET141408
Washington, D.C. -
Here's the full guest list attending the State Dinner on the South Lawn of the White House for the state dinner which President Obama is hosting for the British Prime Minister, David Cameron.
THE RIGHT HONORABLE DAVID CAMERON, M.P. PRIME MINISTER OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND
MRS. SAMANTHA CAMERON
Mr. Gerald Acker, Huntington Woods, MI
Mrs. Caryn Acker
Mr. David Adjaye, New York, NY
Ms. Ashley Jasmine Shaw-Scott
Mr. Mark Alderman, Bryn Mawr, PA
Mrs. Sue Ellen Alderman
General John Allen, Fort Belvoir, VA
Cupertino, CA -
Apple senior vice president of industrial design, Jonathan Ive, will be knighted in 2012 by Queen Elizabeth of England. Ive was the designer of Apple's popular MacBook, iPod, iPhone, and iPad.
Ive will be a Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (or KBE) by Queen Elizabeth II at a ceremony in 2012 in which she will touch him on the shoulder with a sword, just like in the mid-evil days. He is receiving this coveted title as a result of his "for services to design and enterprise", according to Buckingham Palace officials.
Bristol, U.K. -
A rare earthquake struck the town of Cornwall, England at 7:40 a.m. eastern time this morning and lasted for a few seconds.
According to the British Geological Society, the quake measured only 2.2 magnitude on the Richter scale but was felt as far away as Austell and Padstow.
There have not been any reports of serious damage yet.
The largest known British earthquake occurred 60 miles offshore near the Dogger Bank in 1931, with a magnitude of 6.1.
It was still powerful enough to cause minor damage to buildings on the east coast of England.
London, U.K. -
Britain's Treasury chief, Danny Alexander, announced that the U.K. will cut ties with Iranian banks over the nuclear standoff with Iran. This comes just after the recently revealed report from the IAEA that Iran is indeed attempting to develop nuclear weapons, stating it now has clear evidence for the first time.
Iran has for the more part ignored the report calling it influenced by western nations and that it seeks only to build a peaceful civilian nuclear energy program.
London, England -
The British Parliament has passed a bill that will change a little-known provision of a law meant to bring war criminals to trial by ordinary citizens. In the past, some have used the law to try to have Israeli officials arrested when visiting England.
Now that the bill received Royal Accent, with the Queen's signature, the Universal Jurisdiction Law has been legally amended, and now these kinds of arrest warrants must have higher approval; originally such approval was not needed, and it now makes Israeli officials visiting the U.K. immune.