2008年10月1日星期三

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Yahoo! News: World - Britain

Cigarette packs to carry graphic picture warnings (AFP)

Posted: 01 Oct 2008 03:43 AM CDT

One of a range of images issued by the Department of Health showing how smoking harms the body. This image, of a man with throat cancer, is just one of a series of gruesome picture which will be printed on cigarette packets from October 1 instead of the written health warnings.(AFP/HO/Department of Health)AFP - Smokers buying cigarettes will from Wednesday be confronted with a series of gruesome images printed on the packets showing how tobacco damages health.

British Airways exec to serve jail term over price-fixing: US gov't (AFP)

Posted: 30 Sep 2008 04:00 PM CDT

A British Airways aircraft speeds down a runway at London's Heathrow Airport. A former executive in British Airways' cargo business has agreed to plead guilty to price-fixing in the US and will serve eight months in jail and pay a fine of 20,000 dollars (14,000 euros), the US government said Tuesday.(AFP/File/Adrian Dennis)AFP - A former executive in British Airways' cargo business has agreed to plead guilty to price-fixing in the US and will serve eight months in jail and pay a fine of 20,000 dollars (14,000 euros), the US government said Tuesday.

UK court rules in favor of Gurkha veterans (AP)

Posted: 30 Sep 2008 01:37 PM CDT

Actress Joanna Lumley, center, with Gurkha VC veterans Lachhiman Gurong, left, and Tul Bahador Pun, outside the High Court in London, Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2008. Former Gurkha soldiers who served in the British Army have won a significant court battle in their long-running fight to settle in the U.K. The Nepalese soldiers challenged British government rules that those who retired before 1997 did not have an automatic right to settle in Britain. Currently only Gurkhas who retired after July 1, 1997, when their base was moved from Hong Kong to England, are automatically granted the right to stay. Britain has argued that some of those who retired before 1997 have weak links to Britain and must have their cases reviewed individually. London's High Court ruled Tuesday that those restrictions were illegal and had to be reworked. (AP Photo/John Stillwell/PA)AP - A British court has struck down immigration restrictions placed on Gurkha veterans who served in the country's armed forces, ordering the government to draw up a new policy that takes their service into account, lawyers for the Gurkhas said Tuesday.

Brown talks up bank merger after reports of snag (AFP)

Posted: 30 Sep 2008 01:04 PM CDT

Prime Minister Gordon Brown, seen here on September 29, 2008, voiced confidence Tuesday that a bank merger between HBOS and Lloyds TSB will be finalised after HBOS shares dived on reports there was a snag.(AFP/POOL/File/Leon Neal)AFP - Prime Minister Gordon Brown voiced confidence Tuesday that a bank merger between HBOS and Lloyds TSB will be finalised after HBOS shares dived on reports there was a snag.

Nepalese Gurkhas celebrate British rights victory (AFP)

Posted: 30 Sep 2008 11:44 AM CDT

Former Gurkhas and Victoria Cross winners Lachhiman Gurungi (L) and Tul Bahadour Pun (R) celebrate outside the High Court in central London. Former Nepalese Gurkha soldiers have won the right to settle in Britain in what their lawyers have hailed as an AFP - Retired Nepalese Gurkha soldiers cheered and wept with joy Tuesday after winning the right to settle in Britain, a state they and their comrades fought and died for.

FTSE 100 advances (AFP)

Posted: 30 Sep 2008 11:23 AM CDT

A businessman walks past the London Stock Exchange. Shares in London closed higher, getting a boost from a rebound on Wall Street as investors hoped another vote on the US financial bailout package will see the plan passed.(AFP/File/Shaun Curry)AFP - Shares in London closed higher on Tuesday, getting a boost from a rebound on Wall Street as investors hoped another vote on the US financial bailout package will see the plan passed.

Britain's Conservatives see huge lead in polls (AP)

Posted: 30 Sep 2008 10:38 AM CDT

David Cameron, leader of Britain's opposition Conservative Party speaks on stage at the Conservative Party Conference in Birmingham, England Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2008. The annual conference runs until Wednesday.(AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)AP - Ahead in opinion polls, boosted by a run of special election victories over the governing Labour Party and newly in charge of London's City Hall, Britain's main opposition Conservatives have every reason to feel cocky.

Police blame vacuum cleaner for Cutty Sark blaze (AP)

Posted: 30 Sep 2008 10:37 AM CDT

British Metropolitan Police Detective Chief Inspector Dave Garwood of the Homicide and Serious Crime Command, holds a copy of the report on the findings of an investigation into the 2007 fire onboard the clipper ship, 'Cutty Sark' in dry dock at Greenwich, at New Scotland Yard in London, Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2008. The report concluded that the most likely cause of the fire was the failure of an industrial vacuum cleaner that had inadvertently been left switched on for 48 hours before the fire started on May 21, 2007, onboard of the world's sole surviving tea clipper ship. (AP Photo/Sang Tan)AP - A fire that tore through a famous 19th century British ship was likely caused by a vacuum cleaner used for renovation work bursting into flames, police said Tuesday.

Britain: skulls found in yard sent home to Egypt (AP)

Posted: 30 Sep 2008 10:36 AM CDT

AP - Two ancient Egyptian skulls unearthed in a yard in England have been returned to their native country. And the mystery of how they got from the hot sands of Egypt to the rainy north of England has been solved, investigators said Tuesday.

Police unsure before killing London bomb suspect: officer (AFP)

Posted: 30 Sep 2008 10:08 AM CDT

A tribute to Jean Charles de Menezes outside Stockwell underground station in south London. An inquest heard that London police who mistakenly killed an innocent Brazilian changed their minds about whether he was a suspected suicide bomber moments before shooting him.(AFP/Ben Stansall)AFP - London police who mistakenly killed an innocent Brazilian changed their minds about whether he was a suspected suicide bomber moments before shooting him, an inquest heard Tuesday.

Gurkhas win legal battle to settle in Britain (AFP)

Posted: 30 Sep 2008 09:48 AM CDT

Former Gurkhas and Victoria Cross winners Lachhiman Gurungi (L) and Tul Bahadour Pun (R) celebrate outside the High Court in central London. Former Nepalese Gurkha soldiers have won the right to settle in Britain in what their lawyers have hailed as an AFP - Former Nepalese Gurkha soldiers won the right to settle in Britain on Tuesday, in what their lawyers hailed as an "historic victory" for the veteran fighters.

Top Barclays exec murdered while helping homeless man (AFP)

Posted: 30 Sep 2008 08:58 AM CDT

A top Barclays executive was beaten to death by a group of youths in Norwich as he tried to stop them attacking a homeless man, Norfolk police have said.(AFP/File)AFP - A top Barclays executive was beaten to death by a group of youths in Norwich as he tried to stop them attacking a homeless man, Norfolk police said on Tuesday.

Terror suspect pix found on £17 camera from eEbay (AFP)

Posted: 30 Sep 2008 06:59 AM CDT

Police are investigating how a digital camera reportedly containing MI6 images of terrorist suspects came to be sold on Internet auction site eBay, police and the Foreign Office have said.(AFP/File/Jacques Demarthon)AFP - Police are investigating how a digital camera reportedly containing MI6 images of terrorist suspects came to be sold on Internet auction site eBay, police and the Foreign Office said on Tuesday.

Cutty Sark fire started by vacuum cleaner: police (AFP)

Posted: 30 Sep 2008 06:57 AM CDT

The clipper ship Cutty Sark at Greenwich dock in London in 2004. A fire which gutted the 19th century ship, which is one of London's most popular tourist attractions, was sparked by a vacuum cleaner, police have said.(AFP/File/Carl de Souza)AFP - A fire which swept through a 19th century ship which has long been one of London's most popular tourist attractions was sparked by a vacuum cleaner, police said on Tuesday.

British football clubs out to impress in Champions League (AFP)

Posted: 30 Sep 2008 06:35 AM CDT

Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson answers questions on the eve of the Champions League clash against against Aalborg. Arsenal and Manchester United are seeking to stamp their mark at the Champions League having stumbled at the opening stages with disappointing draws against Dynamo Kiev and Villareal.(AFP/Olivier Morin)AFP - Arsenal are hoping to put their embarrassing weekend defeat by newly-promoted Hull City behind them on Tuesday ahead of their Champions League clash with FC Porto.

Gurkhas await High Court ruling on right to stay in Britain (AFP)

Posted: 30 Sep 2008 05:48 AM CDT

Former Nepalese Gurkha soldiers are awaiting a High Court ruling on their demand for the right to settle in Britain, which could effect the future of 2,000 such veterans.(AFP/File/Geoff Caddick)AFP - Former Nepalese Gurkha soldiers were on Tuesday awaiting a High Court ruling on their demand for the right to settle in Britain, which could effect the future of 2,000 such veterans.

ITV to slash 1,000 jobs (AFP)

Posted: 30 Sep 2008 05:41 AM CDT

A screengrab of the ITV logo. ITV is to cut around 1,000 posts by March next year as it battles to reduce costs, the commercial broadcaster has said.(AFP/File/Leon Neal)AFP - ITV is to cut around 1,000 posts by March next year as it battles to reduce costs, the commercial broadcaster said on Tuesday.

Economy sees weakest quarterly growth for 16 years (AFP)

Posted: 30 Sep 2008 05:11 AM CDT

City workers walk through London's Canary Wharf. The 's economy experienced zero growth in the second quarter compared to the first three months of 2008, the Office for National Statistics has said, maintaining its previous GDP estimate.(AFP/File/Shaun Curry)AFP - The economy experienced zero growth in the second quarter compared to the first three months of 2008, the Office for National Statistics confirmed on Tuesday.

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