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LONDON - A partial set of dentures used by former British leader Winston Churchill - described as the teeth that saved the world - sold at auction Thursday for 15,200 pounds ($23,723.)
The upper dentures, one of several sets specially made for the wartime prime minister, were crucial for maintaining his distinctively slurred speaking style famous from World War II-era radio broadcasts.
LONDON - British Airways is holding talks with union leaders to try to avert 10 more days of strikes planned by cabin crews.
LONDON - A strike by cabin crew disrupted British Airways flights for a second day on Tuesday, mainly at London's Heathrow airport, one of Europe's busiest travel hubs.
BAGHDAD - The head of Iraqi Airways can now leave Britain after being held there for more than a week over a two-decade-old dispute with Kuwait, Iraq's Transportation Ministry said Thursday.
BAGHDAD - Lawyers working for Kuwait attempted to confiscate the first Iraqi Airways plane to land in London in 20 years over a dispute dating back to Saddam Hussein's 1990 invasion of the oil-rich Gulf state, the Iraqi Ministry of Transportation said Thursday.
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