2008年10月31日星期五

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Yahoo! News: World - Britain

Centrica taps shareholders for 2.2 billion pounds (AP)

Posted: 31 Oct 2008 03:58 AM CDT

AP - British gas company Centrica said Friday it planned to tap shareholders for 2.2 billion pounds (about $3.6 billion ) through a new share issue to pay for the potential acquisition of a 25 percent stake in electrical utility British Energy.

Barclays seeking 7.3 billion pound cash injection (AP)

Posted: 31 Oct 2008 03:52 AM CDT

AP - Barclays PLC said Friday it is seeking up to 7.3 billion pounds ($11.8 billion) from Middle Eastern investors as it tries to avoid resorting to a British government bailout.

Britons dying for green burials (AFP)

Posted: 31 Oct 2008 03:38 AM CDT

A mock funeral in Epping Forest, Essex, north-east of London. Britons are increasingly choosing to be buried in green cemeteries, which have growned in popularity in recent years in the United Kingdom.(AFP/HO)AFP - UK residents are increasingly choosing "green" burial plots as their final resting place for ecological reasons and as space in more formal cemeteries fills up, experts say.

Afghan famine greater risk than Taliban: British think-tank (AFP)

Posted: 30 Oct 2008 08:11 PM CDT

A cowded street is pictured in Mazar-i-Sharif, the capital of Balkh province, north of Kabul. A looming famine in Afghanistan poses a greater threat to international efforts to rebuild the country than the ongoing insurgency there, according to a leading defence think-tank.(DDP/AFP/File/Michael Kappeler)AFP - A looming famine in Afghanistan poses a greater threat to international efforts to rebuild the country than the ongoing insurgency there, a leading defence think-tank warned Friday.

UK attorney general considers Gitmo abuse claims (AP)

Posted: 30 Oct 2008 07:18 PM CDT

AP - The case of a Guantanamo detainee who claims he was abused while in U.S. custody has been referred to Britain's attorney general for consideration, the British government said Thursday.

Local UK govt steps up to save red phone boxes (AP)

Posted: 30 Oct 2008 06:27 PM CDT

Two telephone boxes are is seen on the River Thames Embankment near the London Eye, in London, Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2008. Britain's bright red telephone boxes are increasingly unused and unprofitable, but far from unloved.The fate of more than a third of the country's 12,700 iconic red telephone booths are up in the air, telecommunications company BT says it wants to scrap about 400 of them. (AP Photo/Sang Tan)AP - Britain's bright red telephone boxes are increasingly unused and unprofitable, but far from unloved.

Police shot innocent man without giving warning: witnesses (AFP)

Posted: 30 Oct 2008 05:36 PM CDT

A demonstrator holds a placard with the words 'We Demand Truth and Justice For Murder of Jean Charles de Menezes' outside the Brit Oval cricket ground in south London in September 2008. Witnesses to the shooting of an innocent Brazilian man by London police who mistook him for a would-be suicide bomber said Thursday that officers did not shout a warning before killing him.(AFP/File/Shaun Curry)AFP - Witnesses to the shooting of an innocent Brazilian man by London police who mistook him for a would-be suicide bomber said Thursday that officers did not shout a warning before killing him.

In UK, head of radio station quits over prank call (AP)

Posted: 30 Oct 2008 04:41 PM CDT

File photo shows British television presenter Jonathan Ross after receiving his Order of the British Empire (OBE) at Buckingham Palace in London, in 2005. Jonathan Ross was suspended for 12 weeks without pay in a row over offensive comments aired by himself and co-presenter Russell Brand.(AFP/File/Andrew Parsons)AP - The head of Britain's most listened-to radio station resigned Thursday over a prank phone call made by two DJs to an elderly actor, the British Broadcasting Corp. said.

UK and Germany say they want more funds for IMF (AP)

Posted: 30 Oct 2008 04:31 PM CDT

AP - The International Monetary Fund needs more money to bail out struggling countries, the leaders of Britain and Germany said Thursday.

AstraZeneca 3Q profits up 29 percent (AP)

Posted: 30 Oct 2008 12:46 PM CDT

AP - Pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca PLC posted a 29 percent rise in third quarter net profit on Thursday as strong sales in emerging markets like China helped offset flat demand for its products in the United States.

British American Tobacco 3Q net profit up 9.5 pct (AP)

Posted: 30 Oct 2008 12:42 PM CDT

AP - British American Tobacco PLC, Europe's largest cigarette maker, said Thursday net profit rose 9.5 percent in the third quarter on better sales of global brands, particularly in emerging markets, and a gain from changes in currency values.

British military looks to jazz up grim rations (AP)

Posted: 30 Oct 2008 10:43 AM CDT

British celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay stands in the kitchen of his new restaurant 'Gordon Ramsay at the London' at the London NYC Hotel in New York, November 16, 2006. (Mike Segar/Reuters)AP - The discovery of dehydrated potato flakes and milk powder in a professional kitchen would normally send Gordon Ramsay into a frenzy of expletives.

Thousands throng to opening of huge London mall (AP)

Posted: 30 Oct 2008 09:19 AM CDT

People walk around the new Westfield mall after the grand opening in London, Wednesday Oct. 30, 2008. With marble floors, crystal chandeliers and a champagne bar, the Westfield London mall is glitzy and big. But when the doors open Thursday, the retail temple faces the most daunting retail environment in recent memory.(AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)AP - It took Ella Jenkins and two teenage pals less than 15 minutes to give a thumbs up to London's biggest mall, which opened Thursday despite the gloomy economic climate that threatens to dampen vital Christmas sales.

UK must cut interest rate, says BoE policy maker (AP)

Posted: 30 Oct 2008 09:00 AM CDT

AP - Bank of England policy maker David Blanchflower said the bank must cut its interest rate soon, and by a significant measure, to ward off the threat of deflation as the British economy enters a recession.

Adventurer Fogle treated for flesh-eating bug (AFP)

Posted: 30 Oct 2008 08:26 AM CDT

Television star Ben Fogle poses during the Amundsen South Pole Race press launch in Oslo, January 2008. Fogle is undergoing treatment after contracting a potentially fatal flesh-eating bug in Peru.(AFP/Scanpix/File/Lien, Kyrre)AFP - Television star Ben Fogle is undergoing treatment after contracting a potentially fatal flesh-eating bug in Peru.

Tennant bows out of Doctor WHO (AFP)

Posted: 30 Oct 2008 07:23 AM CDT

David Tennant, seen here in 2005, has decided to leave the popular sci-fi show 'Doctor Who' at the end of next year.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Frederick M. Brown)AFP - David Tennant has decided to leave the popular sci-fi show 'Doctor Who' at the end of next year.

Cigarette group BAT profits leap in third quarter (AFP)

Posted: 30 Oct 2008 05:19 AM CDT

British American Tobacco -- the the maker of Dunhill -- said that net profits rose 9.5 percent to 657 million pounds in the third quarter, despite the uncertain economic climate.(AFP/File/Carl de Souza)AFP - British American Tobacco said on Thursday that net profits rose 9.5 percent to 657 million pounds in the third quarter, despite the uncertain economic climate.

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