A television series was also created, based on the book, which airs in the United States, Australia, Canada, the UK, Norway and Venezuela.

* 1939 – The United Kingdom and Poland form a military alliance in which the UK promises to defend Poland in case of invasion by a foreign power.

Famously, radar was developed in the UK, Germany, and the United States during the same period.

For example the United States uses NTSC-M, the UK uses PAL-I, France uses SECAM-L, much of Western Europe and Australia uses PAL-B / G, most of Eastern Europe uses PAL-D / K or SECAM-D / K and so on.

Such services are offered in the United Kingdom ; the telecommunication arbitrage companies get paid an interconnect charge by the UK mobile networks and then buy international routes at a lower cost.

His mandate derives from the Dayton Agreement, as confirmed by the Peace Implementation Council, an ad hoc body with a Steering Board composed of representatives of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, the UK, the United States, the presidency of the European Union, the European Commission, and the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation.

In the United Kingdom, bass music, or UK Bass, as it is often known there, has had major mainstream success since the late 2000s and early 2010s, with artists such as Example, Chase & Status, Skream, Benga and Wretch 32.

* United Kingdom: The UK introduced universal BCG immunization in 1953, and until 2005, the UK policy was to immunize all school children at the age of 13, and all neonates born into high-risk groups.

These institutions are found in the United Kingdom ( UK ) and several other countries.

The UK sought to acquire the much longer-ranged United States Air Force AGM-48 Skybolt air-launched ballistic missile, and was greatly frustrated when that weapon was cancelled in late 1962.

Before 1998, the United Kingdom profile contained a sentence that asserted the UK had gained independence on 1 January 1801.

This description in reference to the Act of Union 1801 which expanded the United Kingdom of Great Britain to include Ireland, has since been greatly expanded, although the primary date of UK Independence is now given as 1927.

In the UK, since 2009, the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom has the authority to overrule and unify decisions of lower courts.

The foreign relations of the Cayman Islands are largely managed from the United Kingdom, as the islands remain an overseas territory of the UK.

Due to their status as an overseas territory of the UK, the Cayman Islands have no representation either on the United Nations, or in most other international organizations.

A canal boat traverses the longest and highest aqueduct in the United Kingdom | UK, at Pontcysyllte Aqueduct | Pontcysyllte in Denbighshire, Wales

The album gained a following in the United Kingdom, charting at 59 on the UK Albums Chart, as well as its lead single, " Teenage Whore " entering the country's Indie chart at number one.

The United Kingdom also operates a formal coalition cabinet between the Conservative and the Liberal Democrat parties, but this is unusual because the UK normally has a majority government.

Because of this potential for confusion, a number of Conservative Rabbis have proposed renaming the movement, and outside of the United States and Canada, in many countries including Israel and the UK, it is today known as Masorti Judaism ( Hebrew for " Traditional ").

The United States produced in 2010, and the UK in 2008.

In the UK, it would be verbally expressed as Sunday, November the 9th, whereas in the United States, it is usually Sunday, November 9th, although usage of " the " isn't uncommon.

Unique formations also exist in other parts of the United Kingdom, such as in the East Midlands, where the local accent has formed " Derby Road ", which rhymes with " cold ", a conjunction that would not be possible elsewhere in the UK.

This highball is often referred to as a Rum and Coke in the United States, Canada, the UK and Ireland, where the lime juice may or may not be included.

This led to the addition of the number sign (#, sometimes called ' octothorpe ,' ' pound ' or ' diamond ' in this context-' hash ' or ' gate ' in the UK ) and asterisk or " star " (*) keys as well as a group of keys for menu selection: A, B, C and D. In the end, the lettered keys were dropped from most phones, and it was many years before these keys became widely used for vertical service codes such as * 67 in the United States of America and Canada to suppress caller ID.

While Germany created their own adaptations of episodes, the United Kingdom ( UK ) reprinted the Dark Horse titles, then translated some of the German adaptations of Adventure 02 episodes.

In the House of Commons of the United Kingdom on January 19, 1996, health minister Gerald Malone noted that the title doctor had never been restricted to either medical practitioners or those with doctoral degrees in the UK, commenting that the word was defined by common usage but that the titles " physician, doctor of medicine, licentiate in medicine and surgery, bachelor of medicine, surgeon, general practitioner and apothecary " did have special protection in law.

In the United Kingdom, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand and other areas whose cultures were recently linked to the UK, the title Doctor generally applies in both the academic and clinical fields.

ECHELON is a name used in global media and in popular culture to describe a signals intelligence ( SIGINT ) collection and analysis network operated on behalf of the five signatory states to the UK – USA Security Agreement ( Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States, referred to by a number of abbreviations, including AUSCANNZUKUS and Five Eyes ).

However, in the UK, the eurosceptic United Kingdom Independence Party achieved second place in the elections, finishing ahead of the governing Labour Party, and the British National Party ( BNP ) won its first ever two MEPs.

Time topped the UK charts for two weeks and was the last ELO studio album to date to be certified platinum in the United Kingdom.

Although Secret Messages debuted at number four in the United Kingdom, it fell off the charts, failing to catch fire with a lack of hit singles in the U. K. ( though " Rock ' n ' Roll Is King " was a sizeable hit in UK, the US and Australia ) and a lukewarm media response.

Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales, the Republic of Ireland, Australia and New Zealand are notable examples of countries within the UK, or with previous links to it, that use non-FPTP electoral systems ( Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales use First Past the Post in United Kingdom general elections, however ).

Figures from the CIA World Factbook show the main export markets in 2006 were United Kingdom 30. 8 %, Spain 22. 7 %, Germany 13. 7 %, Turkmenistan 10. 4 %, Switzerland 8. 3 %, Italy 6. 7 % while the corresponding figures for imports are Spain 23. 4 %, Russia 12. 3 %, Italy 12 %, UK 9 %, France 8. 9 %, Netherlands 6. 8 % and United States 4. 7 %.

Guatemala has a longstanding claim to a large portion of Belize ; the territorial dispute caused problems with the United Kingdom and later with Belize following its 1981 independence from the UK.

Although, in the United Kingdom ( UK ), the pejorative noun " anorak " ( similar to the Japanese " otaku ", meaning a geek or enthusiast ) is often applied to people who obsessively pursue a particular hobby that is otherwise considered boring.

* Accreditation of Prior Learning ( UK ) refers to a reduction in the amount of study required to pass a degree, due to previous experience or study.

* Accreditation Service for International Colleges, an extension of Ofsted in the UK

Accreditation agencies outside the United States include the Association of MBAs ( AMBA ), a UK based organization that accredits MBA, DBA and MBM programs worldwide, government accreditation bodies such as the All India Council for Technical Education ( AICTE ) that accredits MBA and PGDM programs across India, the Council on Higher Education ( CHE ) in South Africa, the European Foundation for Management Development operates the European Quality Improvement System ( EQUIS ) for mostly European and Asian schools, the Foundation for International Business Administration Accreditation ( FIBAA ), and Central and East European Management Development Association ( CEEMAN ) in Europe.

* Automotive Technician Accreditation, scheme in the UK for vehicle mechanics

* Trent Accreditation Scheme, an international healthcare accreditation scheme headquartered in Sheffield, UK, in the former UK NHS Trent Region

In 2009, Nando's UK was awarded Three Stars ( highest accolade ) in the Best Companies Annual Accreditation Awards – the only entrant in the large companies ' category to achieve the three star rating.

QHA Trent Accreditation, based in the UK, is an active independent holistic accreditation scheme.

The not-for-profit UK hospital accreditation group the Trent Accreditation Scheme base their system upon NHS clinical governance, and apply it to hospitals in Hong Kong and Malta.

School Counselors around the world are affiliated with national and regional school counseling associations including: Asociacion Argentina de Counselors ( AAC-Argentina ), American Counseling Association ( ACA-USA ), African Counseling Association ( AfCA ), American School Counselor Association ( ASCA-USA ), Associacao Portuguesa de Psicoterapia centrada na Pessoa e de Counselling ( APPCPC-Portugal ), Australian Guidance and Counselling Association ( AGCA ), British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy ( BACP-UK ), Canadian Counseling Association ( CCA )/ Association Canadienne de Counseling ( ACC ), Center for Excellence in School Counseling and Leadership ( CESCaL ) ( USA ), Center for School Counseling Outcome Research ( CSCOR-USA ) Council for the Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs ( CACREP-USA and international ), Counselling Children and Young People ( BACP affiliate, UK ), Counseling & Psychotherapy in Scotland ( COSCA ), Cypriot Association of School Guidance Counsellors ( OELMEK ), European Counseling Association ( ECA ), France Ministry of Education, Federacion Espanola de Orientacion y Psicopedagogia ( FEOP-Spain ), Department of Education-Malta, Hellenic Society of Counselling and Guidance ( HESCOG-Greece ), Hong Kong Association of Guidance Masters and Career Masters ( HKAGMCM ), Institute of Guidance Counselors ( IGC ) ( Ireland ), International Association for Educational and Vocational Guidance ( IAEVG )/ Association Internationale d ' Orientation Scolaire et Professionnelle ( AIOSP )/ Internationale Vereinigung für Schul-und Berufsberatung ( IVSBB )/ Asociación Internacional para la Orientación Educativa y Profesional ( AIOEP ), International Baccalaureate ( IB ), International Vanguard of Counsellors ( IVC ), Kenya Association of Professional Counselors ( KAPC ), National Board for Certified Counselors ( NBCC, USA ), National Center for Transforming School Counseling ( NCTSC ) at The Education Trust ( USA ), National Office for School Counselor Advocacy ( NOSCA ) at The College Board ( USA ),

Judge is currently Chairman of Schroder Income Growth Fund plc, a European equity focussed investment trust, a director of ENRC plc, whose main mining assets are in Kazakhstan, Southern Africa and Brazil, and of the United Kingdom Accreditation Service which is the government sponsored umbrella body for International Iso and other standards in the UK.

The Trent Accreditation Scheme recommends a culture of audit to participating hospitals inside and outside of the UK, and can provide advice on audit topics.

Outside of the UK, hospital accreditation schemes, such as the Trent Accreditation Scheme have taken forward audit as a part of clinical governance and promoted its development and execution in places such as Hong Kong and Malta.