| Shell in landmark £2.2bln gas deal with Iraq (AFP) Posted: 09 Sep 2008 04:40 AM CDT  AFP - Anglo-Dutch energy giant Royal Dutch Shell has agreed a gas joint venture with Iraq worth up to four billion dollars (2.27 billion pounds), the Iraqi oil ministry and the Financial Times said on Tuesday.
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| Briton fails to turn up for 'sex on the beach' trial (AFP) Posted: 09 Sep 2008 04:30 AM CDT  AFP - The trial of two Britons accused of having sex on a beach in Dubai was adjourned on Tuesday after one of the defendants and the main witness failed to show up.
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| Blaze destroys historic pier (AFP) Posted: 09 Sep 2008 04:21 AM CDT  AFP - Firefighters were on Tuesday still battling a serious blaze which has "completely gutted" an historic Lancashire pier.
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| Prosecutors mull retrial of transatlantic bombers (AFP) Posted: 09 Sep 2008 04:00 AM CDT  AFP - Prosecutors have been given until the end of the month to consider a retrial of men accused of plotting to blow up transatlantic aircraft with liquid explosives in 2006.
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| Britain's BG concedes bid for Australian group to fail (AFP) Posted: 09 Sep 2008 03:58 AM CDT  AFP - British gas firm BG Group conceded on Tuesday that its hostile bid for Australia's Origin Energy would fail because it would not raise its offer after Origin teamed up with US oil giant ConocoPhillips.
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| Shannon's stepfather in court over child porn (AFP) Posted: 09 Sep 2008 03:46 AM CDT  AFP - Police investigating the disappearance of schoolgirl Shannon Matthews discovered 134 indecent images of children on the computer of her mother's former partner, a court heard on Monday.
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| British filmmaker exposes India for 'all its beauty and ugliness' (AFP) Posted: 09 Sep 2008 03:09 AM CDT  AFP - It took an Englishman with a penchant for making offbeat films to capture the eccentricities of life in Mumbai's slums, said visiting Indians who saw Danny Boyle's latest film "Slumdog Millionaire" at the Toronto film festival.
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| UK jury finds 3 men guilty in bombing plot (AP) Posted: 08 Sep 2008 05:16 PM CDT  AP - Three British Muslims with ties to Pakistan were found guilty Monday of conspiracy to murder in a terrorist bombing campaign but jurors failed to reach a verdict on whether they plotted to blow up multiple trans-Atlantic airliners with liquid explosives disguised as soft drinks.
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| Three Britons found guilty in liquid bomb plot (Reuters) Posted: 08 Sep 2008 03:19 PM CDT  Reuters - Three Britons were found guilty on Monday of conspiracy to kill using homemade liquid bombs, but a jury failed to agree that they intended to blow up transatlantic airliners in an al Qaeda-style attack.
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| British expats in Qatar hold solidarity march for killed student (AFP) Posted: 08 Sep 2008 12:11 PM CDT  AFP - Dozens of British expatriates held a march in Doha on Monday in solidarity with the family of a Qatari teenager who died in Britain last month after what police called a racially motivated assault.
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| Five pubs close every day as downturn bites (AFP) Posted: 08 Sep 2008 12:05 PM CDT  AFP - Five pubs close every day in Britain, a sharp increase over previous years and a clear reflection of the downturn gripping the country's economy, according to new research published Monday.
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| Guilty verdicts in transatlantic bombing trial (AFP) Posted: 08 Sep 2008 11:16 AM CDT  AFP - Three members of an Islamist cell accused of plotting to blow up transatlantic aircraft with liquid explosives in 2006 were found guilty by a court in London on Monday.
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| Embattled PM takes fight to country (AFP) Posted: 08 Sep 2008 10:04 AM CDT  AFP - With his popularity sagging in the face of an economic slowdown, Prime Minister Gordon Brown took his cabinet out of London and into the British heartland Monday in a bid to show that he can lead the nation back to health.
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| British Cabinet holds rare meeting outside London (AP) Posted: 08 Sep 2008 09:55 AM CDT  AP - Prime Minister Gordon Brown held the first Cabinet meeting outside London in nearly 90 years on Monday, seeking to revive his flagging political fortunes amid a steepening economic downtown.
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| Nationwide snaps up struggling peers (AFP) Posted: 08 Sep 2008 08:24 AM CDT  AFP - Nationwide, Britain's biggest building society, said Monday it had agreed to buy two smaller peers struggling to cope with the global credit crunch.
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| Marines turn Afghan town over to British, Afghans (AP) Posted: 08 Sep 2008 08:21 AM CDT  AP - U.S. Marines who took back a key town in southern Afghanistan from Taliban militants in an operation earlier this year turned over responsibility for the area to British and Afghan forces on Monday.
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| Deadly floods leave multi-million clean-up bill (AFP) Posted: 08 Sep 2008 08:19 AM CDT  AFP - Storms across England which caused up to six deaths over the weekend have caused tens of millions of pounds worth of damage, an insurance industry group said Monday.
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| Mortgage lender Nationwide announces merger (AP) Posted: 08 Sep 2008 05:53 AM CDT AP - The Nationwide Building Society, a British mortgage lender, said Monday it is taking over two smaller rivals. |
| Britain mops up after storms and floods kill 6 (AP) Posted: 08 Sep 2008 04:31 AM CDT AP - Parts of Britain are mopping up after a weekend of storms and flooding that has been blamed for six deaths. |
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