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Queen off to the races as jubilee events begin

Britain's Queen Elizabeth II arrives for the Epsom Derby at Epsom race course, southern England at the start of a four-day Diamond Jubilee celebration to mark the 60th anniversary of the Queen's accession to the throne Saturday, June 2, 2012. The queen will celebrate Saturday at the Epsom Derby, a highlight of the horseracing calendar, and on Sunday she will lead a 1,000-boat flotilla on the River Thames. Monday's festivities include a pop concert in front of Buckingham Palace with Paul McCartney and Elton John, and festivities climax Tuesday with a religious service, a procession through the streets of London and the royal family's appearance on the palace balcony. (AP Photo/Sang Tan)

Britain's Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip arrive for the Epsom Derby at Epsom race course, southern England at the start of four-day Diamond Jubilee celebrations to mark the 60th anniversary of the Queen's accession to the throne Saturday, June 2, 2012. (AP Photo/Sang Tan)

A spectator wearing a flamboyant hat relaxes with strawberries and cream on Derby Day at Epsom Downs Race course, Epsom, England, Saturday, June 2, 2012. Britain's Queen Elizabeth II is attending the Epsom Derby on Saturday, as the country is marking Queen Elizabeth II's 60 years on the throne with a four-day holiday weekend of ceremony, symbolism and street parties. (AP Photo/Tom Hevezi)

LONDON (AP) ? Queen Elizabeth II went to the races Saturday, at the start of a four-day celebration of her 60 years on the throne.

Later in the weekend she'll make a trip down the River Thames, and then take in a concert ? all accompanied by tens of thousands of her subjects, coming out to fete a monarch whose longevity has given her the status of the nation's favorite grandmother.

Diamond Jubilee festivities officially began Saturday with a 41-gun salute fired by the King's Troop, Royal Horse Artillery at Horse Guards Parade in central London.

The 86-year-old monarch and her husband, Prince Philip, arrived at Epsom racecourse south of the capital for the Derby, one of the year's biggest horse-racing meetings. The queen waved to the 130,000-strong crowd as she was driven down the racecourse in a Bentley bearing the Royal Standard ? the car's sun roof kept shut under gray skies ? before settling down to watch the races from the royal box.

She was accompanied by members of the royal family including her sons Prince Andrew and Prince Edward and Andrew's daughters Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie.

The royals were treated to an aerial display by members of the British Army's Red Devils parachute team before the main event ? the racing.

The monarch is a racing fan and horse breeder who reads the Racing Post each day over breakfast, although unlike many of her subjects she does not gamble.

"She's incredibly knowledgeable. Her knowledge of thoroughbreds and breeding goes way back," said Anthony Cane, chairman of Epsom Downs Racecourse.

The queen took the throne in 1952 on the death of her father, King George VI, and most Britons have known no other monarch.

Despite cool, damp weather in much of the country, hundreds of thousands of people are expected to participate in celebrations, including street parties, Sunday's 1,000-boat flotilla down the River Thames and a Monday pop concert in front of Buckingham Palace featuring Elton John and Paul McCartney.

Jubilee events end Tuesday with a religious service at St. Paul's Cathedral, a carriage procession through the streets of London and the queen's appearance with her children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren on the palace balcony.

Prime Minister David Cameron ? the 12th British leader of the queen's reign ? paid tribute to the monarch's "extraordinary level of physical energy, mental energy, and above all devotion to her people, to the institutions of this country, to the way our democracy works."

Not everyone in Britain will be celebrating. The anti-monarchist group Republic plans a riverbank protest as the flotilla goes by on Sunday, followed by a pub night where royal refuseniks can drown their sorrows.

With pictures of the monarch splashed across newspaper front pages, the left-leaning Guardian provided a button on its website that removed all jubilee stories.

But many Britons embraced the jubilee spirit ? a tribute to a monarch whose popularity cuts across all ages, social classes and political affiliations.

Writers and religious leaders used the occasion to reflect on how Britain has changed over the queen's reign, from a war-scarred imperial power to a middle-sized power with oversized cultural clout.

Bishop of London Richard Chartres said the queen's steadfast presence had helped the country adjust to rapid change.

"The quiet dignity of the queen and the way in which she and her family have reached out to include newly established British communities has provided a focus for continuing but expanding national self-respect and so has assisted the peaceful transformation of our national identity," he wrote in a jubilee pamphlet.

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Can love affair with royals outlast Elizabeth II?

LONDON (Reuters) - When Britons sing "God Save the Queen" over four days of celebrations to mark The Queen's 60 years on the throne, monarchists may have cause to roar the line "long to reign over us" more heartily than ever.

Polls show the much-loved 86-year-old sovereign remains enormously popular and cherished by Britons, but questions linger about the future of the monarchy when she is gone and her already 63-year-old son Charles becomes king.

Republicans, royal watchers and even those with strong sympathies for the monarchy say that the future may pose a king-sized problem for an institution which relies on personal public appeal to stay relevant in the modern world.

"Monarchy is only as good as the people doing the job," said royal biographer Robert Lacey.

"The British have cut off the head of their king, the British have lived as a republic for 11 years under Oliver Cromwell. We could do it again."

Elizabeth became queen aged 25 on February 6, 1952 on the death of her father George VI, while on tour in Kenya with her husband Prince Philip. Winston Churchill was her first prime minister.

She inherited the throne from an enormously popular king, whose reputation for steadfast duty helped the royal family overcome the scandal of Edward VIII's abdication for the love of a divorced American and endeared itself to almost every strata of society during the course of World War Two.

During her 60 years on the throne, Britain has undergone dramatic change, from the austere postwar 1950s through the swinging 60s, the greed is good 80s and former Prime Minister Tony Blair's three-term New Labour era.

Over time, Britain has evolved into a more egalitarian society, where the ruling class has had to make way for a burgeoning middle class, where places at Oxford and Cambridge are no longer reserved for aristocrats and the majority of hereditary peers have lost their seats in the House of Lords.

Despite her auspicious beginnings, Elizabeth's reign has not been all smooth sailing.

She has spent a large majority of her time saying farewell to the British Empire amassed by her forebears from Kenya to Hong Kong, although she remains head of state for 16 countries and head of the Commonwealth. Her own marriage to a Greek prince stayed rock solid, but her sister, daughter and two of her sons have very publicly not been quite so lucky in love.

The 40th anniversary of her accession was a year she famously described as an "annus horribilis" after three of her four children's marriages failed and there was a fire at her Windsor Castle royal residence.

The death of Princess Diana, the divorced wife of Elizabeth's son and heir-to-the-throne Prince Charles, in 1997 did even more damage to the family's public prestige.

But while her children and other royals have at times blundered in and out of headlines with their marital woes, leading the family to be described as the "most dysfunctional in Britain", Elizabeth has remained dignified and dependable.

Shifting attitudes in society and occasional embarrassments have not really provided any serious challenges to a royal line that traces its origins back to William the Conqueror in 1066. Even hardened republicans believe reverence towards the queen means there is little chance to change the status quo soon.

Backed by a far more professional and sophisticated media operation, the royal family's reputation has not only been restored from dark days of the 1990s but lifted to new heights.

WEDDING TRIUMPH

The triumph of last year's wedding of Charles's eldest son Prince William to Kate Middleton, which saw more than a million people throng London's streets and pulled in an estimated two billion viewers around the world, was testament to that.

A poll published by the left-leaning Guardian newspaper last week showed support for the monarchy was at its highest level since the survey was first initiated in 1997.

Almost 70 percent of Britons said the country would be worse off without the monarchy, compared to 22 percent who felt it would be better off. Only 10 percent backed an elected head of state.

"All the anecdotal evidence based upon the crowds that come out to see us and the enthusiasm that we feel is generated by the public ... to us feels like the institution is popular, relevant and successful," a senior royal aide told Reuters.

Ironically the queen only became sovereign because of a quirk of history after her uncle Edward VIII abdicated the throne because of his love for American divorcee Wallace Simpson and the crown passed to her father.

Royal watchers say part of the queen's appeal is her modesty, derived from the fact she never expected to be monarch, which makes her appear less detached and more down-to-earth.

During World War Two she learned to be a driver and a mechanic, and her love of the outdoors and her dogs, especially Corgis, is well documented. Commentators say she comes across as a woman more at home in tweeds than tiaras.

During much of her reign she was often upstaged for attention by three flamboyant women - her mother, Elizabeth the Queen Mother, her younger sister Margaret and Princess Diana, ex-wife of her eldest son and heir Prince Charles.

Ironically, the personal sorrow of losing her mother, and sister who died within weeks of each other in her Golden Jubilee year of 2002 and the trauma caused by Diana's death in 1997, have given her a boost in the last decade, said Lacey, author of a new book "A Brief Life of the Queen".

MOTHER FIGURE

"Those three competitive female icons have vanished and that leaves the queen very clearly established as the principle mother figure of the monarchy and of the nation," he said.

However, ask the public, and no obvious explanation emerges why the queen and the monarchy remain so popular.

"Despite what people might think about the concept of royalty, she is still the monarch of the country, which is something that I support," said Julie Baker, 46, a project manager in east London.

"I support the monarchy because I think they do a lot for the economy and play an important role in history," said Faye Hyland, 28, a trainee solicitor.

"The monarchy doesn't really mean that much to me but I think it brings something to society," said security worker Brian Reid, while Ed Jones, a sales representative, commented: "The monarchy is a good thing to have, it gives the country a sense of identity."

Robert Hardman, another biographer of the queen, offers a simple explanation. She simply personifies Britain itself.

"She is the living incarnation of a set of values and a period of history," he explains.

"In Britain, she is Tower Bridge and a red-double decker bus on two legs, not to mention Big Ben, afternoon tea, village fetes and sheep-flecked hills in the pouring rain."

UNEASY LIES THE HEAD THAT WEARS THE CROWN

But what about the future? Her family and Britain's political elite say the queen's nimble ability to adapt without divesting any of the dignity of her role has been key to her success.

"She's managed to get the family to move with the times, and I think that's incredibly important," grandson Prince Harry told U.S. television's ABC News in an interview aired on Tuesday.

"You can't get stuck in an old-age situation when everything else around you is changing. So you have to go with it."

British Prime Minister David Cameron echoed that view.

"It has been said that 'the art of progress is to preserve order amid change and change amid order', and in this the queen is unparalleled," he said in a speech to Parliament earlier this year. "She has never shut the door on the future; instead, she has led the way through it."

But therein lies the problem for the monarchy, commentators point out, because much might depend on affection for the incumbent rather than the institution itself.

The same Guardian poll that was such good news for Buckingham Palace, also showed only 39 percent wanted the crown to pass to Charles while 48 percent wanted it to go to his son Prince William.

Constitutional experts say there is no chance of the crown skipping a generation, saying the monarchy is not some sort of "The X Factor" reality TV show.

Opposition to Charles could particularly inflame republican sentiments in the other countries where the British monarch remains head of state.

"I think in international terms the monarchy will survive in Australia and New Zealand for the reign of the present queen. I don't think it's at all certain it will survive after that," said Lacey.

ALREADY A REPUBLIC?

Republicans are convinced that most Britons, especially the young are apathetic when it comes to the monarchy, and that will develop into opposition when they realise what lies in store.

That is why royal officials have desperately been boosting coverage of Charles's sons William and Harry, they argue.

"All the evidence they're getting about Charles is he'll be unpopular or at least controversial," said Professor Stephen Haseler, a leading republican and expert on the British constitution.

"If anything happens to the queen, he then becomes king overnight and the British people will then say to themselves did I have a say in any of this? Why do I have a head of state who I never had any say in appointing?

"It's a very odd institution for a modern democratic country to have."

Public relations gurus admire the work that royal officials have done to reinvigorate the monarchy's image and consider that succession may be a long way off for a woman whose mother lived until 101. But they say the transition to Charles may not fare so well.

"I don't believe Charles is very media savvy and that'll come out as arrogance possibly and that might undo quite a lot of work," Mark Borkowksi, one of Britain's leading PR experts.

"They know just how far they can fall."

Lacey suggests the fact that the monarch has little more than a role as a ceremonial head of state who cannot express opinions publicly means the fascination with Britain becoming a republic is simply missing the point.

"At the end of the day, she's a tenant of ours in Buckingham Palace. We can kick her out of Buckingham Palace any day we want," he said.

"We are essentially, when you look at the structure and the way the country runs, a republic with this glorious bauble that we all enjoy on top. And we can always unscrew the bauble any time we want."

(Additional reporting by Philip Baillie, editing by Paul Casciato)

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Bieber falls into glass wall, suffers concussion

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Justin Bieber performs live at the Opera House on May 30 in Oslo, Norway.

By Piya Sinha-Roy, Reuters

Canadian pop star Justin Bieber ran headlong into trouble on a European promotional tour on Thursday, knocking himself out backstage in Paris and dealing with a crushing crowd in Norway that left some fans injured one day earlier.

Thursday's incident occurred after the singer fell into a glass wall during an intimate concert in Paris. Bieber told celebrity news website TMZ.com he felt lightheaded but was able to perform his last song before going backstage and passing out for 15 seconds.

TMZ posted an audio clip of its conversation with the pop sensation in which he said doctors told him he suffered a concussion and ordered him to relax. The singer quickly posted on Twitter that he was doing well, joking about the incident and saying "gotta laugh at yourself sometimes."

The concussion comes one day after Bieber, on a brief tour of major European cities to promote upcoming album "Believe," was met with a crush of fans before a free concert in Oslo leading to reports of dozens of young girls being injured.

Bieber's record label, Universal Music, said in a statement to celebrity site E! Online on Thursday that it "regrets strongly that some of those who were [at the] Justin concert had a bad experience."

A label executive said "fortunately no one was seriously injured," and added that Bieber wanted to return to Norway and perform a future concert there.

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Calls and e-mails to Bieber's representatives were not immediately returned.

Bieber performed a free, six-song concert at the Oslo Opera House on Wednesday that is planned to be featured on his upcoming one-hour NBC television special to be aired next month.

The 18-year-old singer was forced to tweet a safety message ahead of the show after police were unable to control the crowds of fans trying to catch a glimpse of the star.

"for the show to happen u must all listen to the police. we are all concerned for your safety and i want what is best for u. please listen," Bieber posted to his 22 million Twitter followers on Wednesday.

TMZ said 49 young girls were injured and 14 taken to hospitals, and police came close to declaring a state of emergency in the capital. Those reports could not be immediately confirmed.

This is not the first time Bieber fever has caused crowd control and safety issues. In November 2009, fans stampeded a shopping mall in Long Island, New York ahead of an appearance by the pop star, forcing organizers to cancel the event.

Bieber's manager was charged with reckless endangerment and criminal nuisance, but the charges were later dropped.

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More insects, including many carnivores and scavengers, hang out under streetlights than between them, even during the day. Christopher Intagliata reports.

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You've probably seen clouds of insects swirling round a streetlamp at night. But something you may not have noticed is that streetlights attract bugs to the ground below them, too?especially carnivorous bugs, like beetles. So says a study in the journal Biology Letters by researchers at the University of Exeter. Thomas W. Davies, Jonathan Bennie and Kevin J. Gaston, Street lighting changes the composition of invertebrate communities]

The researchers set up 28 traps in the grass below and between streetlamps in the English town of Helston, in Cornwall. They collected captured insects at dawn and dusk over three days, and ended up with nearly 1200 specimens. Turns out, more bugs hung out under the lights than between them. And that was true at night and day?suggesting that streetlights permanently upped the value of the buggy real estate below them.

The researchers also found greater numbers of predators and scavengers under the lamps?like ground beetles, harvestmen and ants?because it may be easier to hunt for prey with the help of a spotlight.

With artificial lighting increasing globally at six percent a year, the authors say there's a chance light pollution could shake up food webs in unforeseen ways. Call it a bug in the system.

?Christopher Intagliata

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