2008年10月10日星期五

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Yahoo! News: World - Britain

Britons flock to Church of England's prayer for credit crunch (AFP)

Posted: 09 Oct 2008 05:38 PM CDT

The exterior of Manchester cathedral is pictured in Manchester. Britons fearful about the global financial crisis are turning to God -- at least online, flocking in their thousands to a special prayer on the Church of England's website, the Church said Thursday.(AFP/File/Paul Ellis)AFP - Britons fearful about the global financial crisis are turning to God -- at least online, flocking in their thousands to a special prayer on the Church of England's website, the Church said Thursday.

OPEC says will hold emergency meeting on Nov 18 (AFP)

Posted: 09 Oct 2008 12:47 PM CDT

A soldier patrols at the headquarters of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) in Vienna in 2006. The OPEC oil producers' cartel will hold an emergency meeting in Vienna on November 18 to discuss the effects of the global financial crisis on crude prices, it said on Thursday.(AFP/File/Jakub Sukup)AFP - The OPEC oil producers' cartel announced Thursday it would hold an emergency meeting in Vienna on November 18, as member countries worried over the effects of the global financial crisis on crude prices.

British court told bombers planned 'wholesale' murders (AFP)

Posted: 09 Oct 2008 11:10 AM CDT

Police officers search the area where a burning car slammed into Glasgow Airport's main terminal building on June 30, 2007. Two men who plotted failed car bomb attacks in London and Glasgow last year wanted to commit AFP - Two doctors accused of plotting failed car bombings in London and Glasgow wanted to commit "indiscriminate and wholesale" murder, prosecutors alleged Thursday on the first day of a major anti-terror trial.

Doctors plotted "wholesale murder" in UK: prosecutor (Reuters)

Posted: 09 Oct 2008 11:09 AM CDT

The scene of an attack on the terminal building at Glasgow Airport Glasgow Scotland July 1, 2007. (Chris McNulty/Daily Mail/Pool/Reuters)Reuters - Two doctors went on trial on Thursday accused of being part of an Islamist cell trying to murder people "wholesale" by carrying out car bomb attacks in central London and at a packed Scottish airport last year.

Britain to compensate Pitcairn sex abuse victims (AFP)

Posted: 09 Oct 2008 08:12 AM CDT

Map locating Pitcairn Island. Victims of sex offences committed on the remote Pacific island of Pitcairn would be eligible for compensation, Britain has said.(AFP/Graphic)AFP - Victims of sex offences committed on the remote Pacific island of Pitcairn would be eligible for compensation, Britain said on Thursday.

Trade deficit unchanged in August (AFP)

Posted: 09 Oct 2008 07:14 AM CDT

Containers are loaded onto ships. Official figures have shown that Britain's trade-in-goods deficit with the rest of the world was unchanged at 8.2 billion pounds in August from July.(AFP/Getty Images/File/David Mcnew)AFP - Britain's trade-in-goods deficit with the rest of the world was unchanged at 8.2 billion pounds in August from July, official data showed on Thursday.

House prices fall at fastest rate on record: survey (AFP)

Posted: 09 Oct 2008 05:51 AM CDT

Estate agents signs are pictured outside a housing estate on the outskirts of Reading. House prices plunged 12.4 percent in September compared with the same month in 2007, the biggest drop on record, home loans provider Halifax has said in a monthly survey.(AFP/File/Adrian Dennis)AFP - House prices plunged 12.4 percent in September compared with the same month in 2007, the biggest drop on record, home loans provider Halifax said Thursday in a monthly survey.

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