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Nintendo launches Feel Great Britain With Wii Fit (Wii Fit)

In order to help promote Wii Fit even further in Britain, Nintendo has launched a brand new website telling the country's residents to Feel Great Britain With Wii Fit.

Graduate art fair of Britain young talent

One of the largest student art shows in the world is on in London. "Free Range 2008" is a major showcase for some of Britain's brightest young talent. Some three thousand students from 45 colleges across Britain are involved.

Britain's defence ministry goes into battle over bed linen

LONDON (AFP) - Britain's defence ministry has launched a legal battle with retailer Next over its use of the Royal Air Force's logo on bedroom furniture aimed at seven-year-old boys, the company said Thursday.

Britain divided over backing for human-animal embryo creation

LONDON, May 20 (RIA Novosti) - The approval by Britain's parliament of the creation of human-animal embryos for scientific research met with mixed reactions from the country's media on Tuesday.

Britain's buggies march into battle against eBay

Two of Britain's most popular baby buggy brands have joined the front line in the growing global battle between retailers and eBay, the internet auction site.

Plan for Britain's biggest sculpture

A monumental, lifelike white horse is the early favourite to become the largest piece of public sculpture Britain has ever produced. At cost of £2m, it will be more than twice as expensive as Antony Gormley's celebrated Angel of the North. And, at 50 metres, it will be well over double the angel's height.

Parliament or bust for Miss Great Britain

LONDON (AFP) - Miss Great Britain vowed to "put the beauty back into politics" Monday as she launched a bid to get elected to parliament that could get Prime Minister Gordon Brown sweating.

Top physicist to quit amateur Britain

One of the leading theoretical physicists in Britain is to leave for Canada, having failed to receive funding for his plan to set up an institute in honour of Stephen Hawking, his friend and colleague. Neil Turok, professor of mathematical physics at Cambridge University, will now realise his ambition at the Perimeter Institute in Ontario.

Pride and prejudice: In praise of Britain's colonial artists

The Tate is about to show works by Britain's 19th-century Orientalist painters. Snobbish? Patronising? Not at all, says Yasmin Alibhai-Brown. These colonialists had a better understanding of the East than we do today

Sprinters Race Through Gallery In Name Of Art At Tate Britain

Gallery goers at Tate Britain will be getting the run around from July 1 2008 when artist Martin Creed unveils his new artwork in the London institution's Duveen Galleries.

St Paul's art project to challenge modern Britain on spirituality

Public artist Martin Firrell is to challenge modern Britain with an innovative art project at one of London’s most famous landmarks.

National Trust Launches Appeal To Preserve Britain's Roman Heritage

From the wall that Emperor Hadrian built to ward off marauding Scots to some of the grandest villas inhabited by Roman noblemen, survivals from Britain's Roman past are truly fascinating.

The Lure Of The East - British Orientalist Painting At Tate Britain

Exhibition Review - The Lure of the East: British Orientalist Painting at Tate Britain until August 31 2008.

PS3 Dualshock 3 controllers finally hit Britain

Sony’s Dualshock 3 controllerSony’s Dualshock 3 saga has rumbled (sorry!) on for months, but finally the vibrating controllers are heading to Britain, and should be on sale in just days!

British Artists Fight for Posthumous Royalties

LONDON—Britain's artistic community is lobbying for a law that would require the payment of royalties on artists' works for 70 years after their deaths, as writers and musicians already receive, reports the Times of London. Leading auction houses and dealers are opposing the law, claiming it would be detrimental to Britain's £8.5 billion ($16.8 billion) art market.

Britain's top bad boss names: John, Anne

An online British poll found the most respondents with gripes about their bosses were unhappy with superiors named John or Anne.

Britain Votes Against Banning Hybrid Embryos

The British Parliament has voted down a ban on the creation of human-animal hybrid embryos. In a 336 to 176 vote against the ban, the MPs sided with Prime Minister Gordon Brown that such embryos were a “moral endeavor� that could save thousands of lives.

Britain's biggest ever comedian

Chris Rock is as dumbfounded as anyone by the phenomenal success that has come his way in the UK these past six months. On stage, when doing his stand-up, he's never at a loss for words but, when he's asked to reflect on how he got so popular here, so quickly, his slick, super-smart outpourings dwindle to a trickle of ums, ahs and who-knows.

Britain's Turner Prize shortlist announced

LONDON (UK): Three women are in the running for this year's Turner Prize, traditionally one of the most controversial in British art, organisers said Tuesday as they announced the shortlist.

Britain complains to EU about Microsoft file system

A British watchdog agency said Tuesday it had complained to European Union regulators that Microsoft Corp.'s new file format for storing documents discouraged competition.

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