British tabloids, July 5, 2011

Red top tabloids are so named due to their tendency, in British and Commonwealth usage, to have their mastheads printed in red ink ; the term compact was coined to avoid the connotation of the word tabloid, which implies a red top tabloid, and has lent its name to tabloid journalism, which is journalism after the fashion of red top reporters.

In comparison, today's American daily tabloids are generally much less overheated and less oriented towards scandal and sensationalism than their predecessors, or their British counterparts, reduced to sections of only one-three pages as Internet sources and magazines such as US Weekly have taken up the mantle of disseminating most gossip.

Although its paper size is bigger, its style was copied from the British tabloids.

In Denmark tabloids in the British sense are known as ' formiddagsblade ' ( before-noon newspapers ), the two biggest being BT and Ekstra Bladet.

With Page 3 models becoming fixtures in the British tabloids, glamour models became household names such Jordan who is now known as Katie Price.

After her divorce, the British tabloids became critical of Sarah's notably open extravagance and lifestyle.

But by the time of the release of the second single " God Thank You Woman ", news of George's drug addiction began to circulate in British and American tabloids, which were denied by the singer, and the second single stalled on the charts.

The feature was soon imitated by other British tabloids and by newspapers internationally.

The Sun and other British tabloids also provoked controversy by featuring girls as young as 16 as topless models, when it was legal to do so.

He was accused of being anti-British by British tabloids for his portrayal of the British Army and the Empire in the 2002 movie The Four Feathers ; this perception was strengthened by the fact that during an interview for the DVD release of The Four Feathers, he spoke favourably of the Mahdi, a fanatical religious leader depicted in the film.

Coogan became a prominent figure in the News International phone hacking scandal as one of the celebrities who took action against the British tabloids in light of these events.

Pictures were printed in several British tabloids.

With this growing fame, Anger began to react to publicity in much the same way as his idol Aleister Crowley had done, for instance describing himself as " the most monstrous moviemaker in the underground ", a pun on the fact that Crowley had been labelled " the wickedest man in the world " by the British tabloids in the 1920s.

British tabloids attacked the character and credibility of some of the witnesses in an attempt to discredit their statements, which eventually led to successful libel actions by Carmen Proetta against several newspapers, including The Sun and The Sunday Times.

Speculated by the British media and supported in part by various press releases, the club were believed to be given multi-million pound backing and were linked during the takeover's initial planning stages with the Qatari royal family by British tabloids ; however, the latter claim was denied by the family.

The Sunday Tribune, the Sunday World, The Observer, and a number of British tabloids also published the claim.

After the Second World War, the sports sections of British national daily and Sunday newspapers continued to expand, to the point where many papers now have separate standalone sports sections ; some Sunday tabloids even have sections, additional to the sports pages, devoted solely to the previous day's football reports.

The 2009 British investigative documentary Starsuckers exposed the request to obtain medical records of celebrities by many of the red-top UK tabloids, and the lack of PCC action against the papers that had broken the PCC charter.

The most infamous example was a piece on an allegation of a homosexual relationship involving Prince Charles and the British tabloids ' shameless use of innuendo and euphemisms to spread the rumor while avoiding libelous statements.

Feeling he needed to refine his game in order to become a regular contender in major championships, ( British tabloids dubbed him " Nick Foldo " after collapses at the 1983 Open Championship and the 1984 Masters ), he spent the mid-1980s remodelling his swing under the tutelage of David Leadbetter.

In 2007, British tabloids reported that he may have been involved with a Heather Mills biopic project on her life with Paul McCartney, but Dassanowsky has not commented.

The BBC was besieged with phone calls from irate and frightened viewers, and British tabloids and other newspapers criticised the BBC the next day for the disturbing nature of some scenes, such as Greene's final scene where she is locked in an under-stairs cupboard with the howling ghost, and Parkinson's eerie possession scene.

Besides helping to prevent the movement of the British to the west, Valley Forge also obstructed the trade between Howe's forces and the farmers, thus threatening the vital subsistence of the redcoats and rendering their foraging to obtain necessary supplies extremely hazardous.

He smiled also at a British bloke seated next to me, who asked the most asinine questions.

I know that I myself felt that it was a mortal shame for a man to be torn open by a British musket ball, as Isaac had been, yet I also felt relieved and lucky that it had been him and not myself.

Her young British lawyer, James Dunlop, pleaded that she was sorely needed at her Portland home by her widowed mother, 80, her maiden aunt, also 80 and bedridden for 20 years, and her uncle, 76, who once ran a candy shop.

Seward's initial reaction to the Trent affair, however, was too bellicose, so Lincoln also turned to Senator Charles Sumner, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and an expert in British diplomacy.

In other countries ( and in some, particularly smaller, British and North American universities ), anthropologists have also found themselves institutionally linked with scholars of folklore, museum studies, human geography, sociology, social relations, ethnic studies, cultural studies, and social work.

Persons who from having been born within British territory are British subjects, but who at birth became under the law of any foreign state subjects of such state, and also persons who though born abroad are British subjects by reason of parentage, may by declarations of alienage get rid of British nationality.

Not only was his Belgian nationality interesting because of Belgium's occupation by Germany ( which provided a valid explanation of why such a skilled detective would be out of work and available to solve mysteries at an English country house ), but also at the time of Christie's writing, it was considered patriotic to express sympathy with the Belgians, since the invasion of their country had constituted Britain's casus belli for entering World War I, and British wartime propaganda emphasized the " Rape of Belgium ".

The British also negotiated the safe return of Hasan Ali Shah to Persia, which was in accordance with his own wish.

Africa was also set on its course to decolonization, swept by what Harold Macmillan, the then British Prime Minister, aptly termed the " wind of change ".

He also wrote controversial criticisms of the British class structure which seemed to conflict with his promotion of Anglo-American friendship.

Nonetheless Canadian English also features many British English items and is often described as a unique blend of the two larger varieties alongside several distinctive Canadianisms.

While the earlier settlers were primarily of British ancestry, the newer settlers also consisted of Germans, Irish, and African-Americans.

Along with the Bill of Rights 1689, it remains today one of the main constitutional laws governing the succession to not only the throne of the United Kingdom, but, following British colonialism, the resultant doctrine of reception, and independence, also to those of the other Commonwealth realms, whether by willing deference to the act as a British statute or as a patriated part of the particular realm's constitution.

The Irish Free State, whose consent to the Abdication Act was also required, neither gave it nor allowed the British legislation to take effect in the Free State's jurisdiction ; instead, the Irish parliament passed its own Act — the Executive Authority ( External Relations ) Act — the day after the Declaration of Abdication Act took force elsewhere, meaning Edward VIII, for one day, remained King of Ireland while George VI was king of all the other realms.

First: it " mandates that whoever is the sovereign of the United Kingdom is also, by virtue of this external fact, sovereign of Australia "; accordingly, changes to British succession laws would have no effect on Australian law, but if the British amendment changed the sovereign, then the new sovereign of the United Kingdom would automatically become the new sovereign of Australia.

British, German, Jewish, and other immigrants also settled in Argentina, all bringing their styles of cooking and favorite foods with them.

English cultural influence ( reinforced at the end of the 19th century and beginnings of the 20th by British contacts with the Far East ) has also made the consumption of tea very common.

The Porvoo Common Statement ( 1996 ), agreed to by the Anglican churches of the British Isles and most of the Lutheran churches of Scandinavia and the Baltic, also stated that " the continuity signified in the consecration of a bishop to episcopal ministry cannot be divorced from the continuity of life and witness of the diocese to which he is called.

British and American forces also deployed vehicles designed for a close support role, but these were conventional tanks whose only significant modification was the replacement of the main gun with a howitzer.