2008年12月5日星期五

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Yahoo! News: World - Britain

HSBC buys back London HQ from Metrovacesa (AP)

Posted: 05 Dec 2008 04:30 AM CST

AP - HSBC Holdings PLC said Friday it has bought back its London headquarters from Spanish real estate company Metrovacesa S.A. in an 838 million pounds ($1.2 billion) deal.

Publishing house Bloomsbury acquires Wisden (AP)

Posted: 05 Dec 2008 04:23 AM CST

AP - Bloomsbury Publishing PLC announced Friday it had acquired John Wisden & Co, publisher of Wisden Cricketers' Almanack.

UK's Brown to press banks to cut interest rates (AP)

Posted: 05 Dec 2008 03:59 AM CST

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, right, meets with Rwandan President Paul Kagame at 10 Downing Street in London, Thursday Dec. 4, 2008(AP Photo/Andy Rain, pool)AP - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Friday he will be pressing bankers to pass on lower interest rates to consumers after the Bank of England moved to reduce its key lending rate to the lowest level since 1951.

Britons charged with sedition in Gambia (AFP)

Posted: 05 Dec 2008 03:42 AM CST

A car passes a monument in Banjul, Gambia. A British couple working as missionaries in Gambia in West Africa are beginning their seventh day in custody after being charged with sedition. been charged with sedition.(AFP/File/Seyllou Diallo)AFP - A British couple working as missionaries in Gambia in West Africa are beginning their seventh day in custody on Friday after being charged with sedition.

Do not disturb eggs: MP reveals oddest laws (AFP)

Posted: 05 Dec 2008 02:33 AM CST

Liberal Democrat Party MP Chris Huhne in central London 2007. Britons are forbidden from disturbing packs of eggs and from selling game killed on a Sunday, it was revealed by Huhne who condemned ministers for introducing ridiculous laws.(AFP/File/Shaun Curry)AFP - Britons are forbidden from disturbing packs of eggs and from selling game killed on a Sunday, it was revealed by an opposition MP who condemned ministers for introducing ridiculous laws.

De Menezes jurors to resume deliberations (AFP)

Posted: 05 Dec 2008 02:28 AM CST

Giovani Da Silva and Maria Otone de Menezes, brother and mother of Brazilian Jean Charles De Menezes arrive at the Oval cricket ground in London. Jurors at an inquest into the death of De Menezes mistakenly shot by police during an anti-terror operation will resume their deliberations after relatives of the deceased staged a courtroom protest.(AFP/Shaun Curry)AFP - Jurors at an inquest into the death of an innocent Brazilian mistakenly shot by police during an anti-terror operation will resume their deliberations on Friday after relatives of the deceased staged a courtroom protest.

British filmmaker takes on burden of history in Timor (AFP)

Posted: 04 Dec 2008 08:42 PM CST

East Timorese play a theatrical performance to mark the 16th anniversary of the Santa Cruz massacre, in Dili, in November 2007. Some 270 people were killed, another 400 were injured and 250 were listed as missing, after Indonesian troops fired into a crowd of peaceful demonstrators in 1991.(AFP/File/Mario Jonny Dos Santos)AFP - From his terrifying footage of the 1991 massacre at Dili's Santa Cruz cemetery, British journalist and filmmaker Max Stahl has tracked every step of East Timor's transition to independence.

New JK Rowling book goes on sale around the world (AP)

Posted: 04 Dec 2008 04:42 PM CST

British author J.K .Rowling holds a copy of her latest book called 'The Tales of Beedle the Bard' at a children's tea party in Edinburgh, Scotland, Thursday, Dec. 4, 2008. (AP Photo)AP - The latest magical tome by J.K. Rowling has started to fly off bookstore shelves.

Lockerbie bomber's wife in justice protest (AFP)

Posted: 04 Dec 2008 02:31 PM CST

Aisha Al Megrahi, wife of convicted Lockerbie bomber Libyan Abdelbaset Ali Mohmet al-Megrahi joins a silent march to the Scottish Parliament to highlight alleged miscarriages of justice, in Edinburgh.(AFP/Andy Buchanan)AFP - The wife and children of the man jailed over the Lockerbie bombing marched on the Scottish parliament Thursday in a protest weeks after a court rejected his bid to be freed on bail because he has cancer.

British teacher suspended over push-up punishment (AFP)

Posted: 04 Dec 2008 02:23 PM CST

US Navy recruits doing push-ups at boot camp. A British schoolteacher has been suspended after making his pupils do push-ups as a punishment for arriving late to class, Britain's main teaching union said Thursday.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Scott Olson)AFP - A British schoolteacher has been suspended after making his pupils do push-ups as a punishment for arriving late to class, Britain's main teaching union said Thursday.

European court makes landmark ruling on DNA rights (AP)

Posted: 04 Dec 2008 02:21 PM CST

This undated illustration shows the DNA double helix. The European human rights court condemned Britain Thursday for not destroying DNA samples of two people found innocent of offences of which they were accused, including an 11-year-old boy.(AFP/HO/File)AP - Europe's top human rights court Thursday struck down a British law that allows the government to store DNA and fingerprints from people with no criminal record — a landmark decision that could force Britain to destroy nearly 1 million samples on its database.

British soldier dies in Iraq (AFP)

Posted: 04 Dec 2008 01:12 PM CST

British troops patrolling in Basra in 2007. A British soldier died in Iraq on Thursday due to a gunshot wound to the head, though no enemy forces were involved, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) said, without elaborating.(AFP/File/Essam al-Sudani)AFP - A British soldier died in Iraq on Thursday due to a gunshot wound to the head, though no enemy forces were involved, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) said, without elaborating.

London stocks end flat on rate cut (AFP)

Posted: 04 Dec 2008 12:24 PM CST

The London Stock Exchange logo. The FTSE 100 index of shares closed flat on Thursday as investors took stock after the Bank of England's decision to sharply cut interest rates to their lowest level in 57 years.(AFP/File/Ben Stansall)AFP - The FTSE 100 index of shares closed flat on Thursday as investors took stock after the Bank of England's decision to sharply cut interest rates to their lowest level in 57 years.

BoE slashes interest rates to 57-year low (AFP)

Posted: 04 Dec 2008 11:12 AM CST

The Bank of England has slashed its key lending rate to 2.0 percent, the lowest level in more than half a century amid mounting evidence that Britain faces a deep recession.(AFP/File/Shaun Curry)AFP - The Bank of England on Thursday slashed its key interest rate by a full percentage point to 2.0 percent, the lowest level in more than half a century amid mounting evidence Britain faces a deep recession.

Mum guilty of Shannon kidnap (AFP)

Posted: 04 Dec 2008 09:55 AM CST

An undated handout from the West Yorkshire police of schoolgirl Shannon Matthews. Her mother was found guilty of kidnapping the nine-year-old, allegedly to scoop the reward money when she was found.(AFP/West Yorkshire Police/File)AFP - A mother was found guilty Thursday of kidnapping her own nine-year-old daughter, allegedly to scoop the reward money when the girl was found.

British mother found guilty in kidnap of daughter (AP)

Posted: 04 Dec 2008 09:46 AM CST

AP - A mother who tearfully appealed for her missing daughter's return was found guilty Thursday of staging her disappearance in a kidnapping that prosecutors said was committed to claim a reward.

Britain delays decision on Heathrow expansion (AP)

Posted: 04 Dec 2008 08:22 AM CST

AP - Britain says it has delayed its decision on whether to build a third runway at London's Heathrow airport.

UK union protests government office closures (AP)

Posted: 04 Dec 2008 07:45 AM CST

AP - Britain's public service union says government plans to close Revenue and Customs offices will cost 3,400 jobs.

Bank of England cuts interest rates 100 bps to 2% (Reuters)

Posted: 04 Dec 2008 06:05 AM CST

Reuters - The Bank of England slashed interest rates by a full percentage point on Thursday to shore up Britain's crumbling economy and head off the threat of deflation.

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