2008年10月9日星期四

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Yahoo! News: World - Britain

Rhys murder trial to start (AFP)

Posted: 09 Oct 2008 03:18 AM CDT

A handout photograph of 11-year-old Rhys Jones who was shot dead in Liverpool last August. The trial of the teenager accused of murdering Rhys is set to start. Sean Mercer, 18, denies murder.(AFP/HO/File/Merseyside Police)AFP - The trial of a teenager accused of murdering 11-year Rhys Jones in Liverpool last year is set to start on Thursday.

Govt seeks clampdown on extremists in schools (AFP)

Posted: 09 Oct 2008 02:23 AM CDT

Schools Secretart Ed Balls is seen here in September 2008. Balls has unveiled plans to clamp down on extremism among schoolchildren, including far-right nationalism, racism and Islamic fundamentalism.(AFP/File/Leon Neal)AFP - The government has unveiled plans to clamp down on extremism among schoolchildren, including far-right nationalism, racism and Islamic fundamentalism.

British Bank Bailout: Is It Enough? (Time.com)

Posted: 08 Oct 2008 02:30 PM CDT

Time.com - Prime Minister Gordon Brown faces the tough job of restoring trust in a severely battered sector

British princes to join motorbike rally in Africa (AP)

Posted: 08 Oct 2008 12:55 PM CDT

AP - Prince William and Prince Harry plan to ride in an off-road motorcycle rally in Africa to support charity.

UK: 2 doctors face car-bomb terror trial in London (AP)

Posted: 08 Oct 2008 11:30 AM CDT

AP - Two doctors charged with trying to bomb a Glasgow airport and London's West End will be portrayed by prosecutors as terrorists in thrall to a fundamental form of Islam, a jury in London heard Wednesday.

Somali troops free British oil worker; 1 killed (AP)

Posted: 08 Oct 2008 09:15 AM CDT

FILE ** In this photo taken Friday, Oct. 3, 2008 and released by the U.S. Navy on Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2008, pirates holding the hijacked cargo ship Faina conduct resupply operations while under observation by a U.S. Navy ship off the coast of Somalia, according to the U.S. Navy. A Somali pirate on the hijacked Ukrainian cargo ship laden with tanks, reduced the ransom demand Tuesday Oct. 7, down to US$8 million (euro 5.87 million), but it was unclear if he was speaking officially for the pirates who are holding the Ukrainian vessel. (AP Photo/US Navy, Petty Officer 1st Class Eric Beauregard)AP - A Somali government official says troops have freed a British oil worker abducted in northern Somalia.

Iceland plunges further into financial turmoil (AP)

Posted: 08 Oct 2008 02:31 PM CDT

Iceland's Prime Minister Geir H. Haarde, speaks at a press conference as Minister of Commerce Bjorgvin Sugurdsson looks on in background, in Reykjavik, Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2008. Iceland nationalized its second-largest bank on Tuesday under day-old legislation and negotiated a euro4 billion (US$5.4 billion) loan from Russia to shore up the nation's finances amid a full-blown financial crisis. The moves came a day after trading in shares of major banks was suspended, the Icelandic krona lost a quarter of its value against the euro, and the government rushed through emergency legislation giving it new powers to deal with the financial meltdown. Prime Minister Haarde warned late Monday that the heavy exposure of the tiny country's banking sector to the global financial turmoil raised the spectre of 'national bankruptcy.' (AP Photo/Arni Torfason)AP - Iceland plunged further into financial turmoil — and muddled into a diplomatic spat with Britain over its handling of the crisis — on Wednesday as the country's third-largest bank went into receivership and the government abandoned attempts to put a floor under its free-falling currency.

Bald British streaker freed by Tokyo police (AFP)

Posted: 08 Oct 2008 06:45 AM CDT

Policemen conducting a security check on the moat of the Imperial Palace in Tokyo. Tokyo police have released a British tourist who shocked onlookers by swimming naked in the moat of Japan's Imperial Palace, concluding he had mental problems.(AFP/File/null)AFP - Tokyo police on Wednesday released a British tourist who shocked onlookers by swimming naked in the moat of Japan's Imperial Palace, concluding he had mental problems.

Bank of England cuts base rate half a point (AP)

Posted: 08 Oct 2008 06:31 AM CDT

AP - The Bank of England has surprised the market by cutting its base lending rate by half a point to 4.5 percent.

BoE cuts key lending rate by half point to 4.50% (AFP)

Posted: 08 Oct 2008 06:13 AM CDT

The Bank of England has slashed its key lending rate by a half-point to 4.50 percent as part of a coordinated round of interest rate cuts by global central banks.(AFP/File/Shaun Curry)AFP - The Bank of England on Wednesday slashed its key lending rate by a half-point to 4.50 percent as part of a coordinated round of interest rate cuts by global central banks.

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