2008年12月11日星期四

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Yahoo! News: World - Britain

Carphone Warehouse co-founder resigns directorship (AP)

Posted: 11 Dec 2008 04:17 AM CST

AP - Carphone Warehouse co-founder David Ross has resigned as a director of Big Yellow, the self-storage company said Thursday.

HMV posts 1H loss, says markets keep weakening (AP)

Posted: 11 Dec 2008 04:10 AM CST

AP - HMV Group PLC, the British retailer of music, DVDs, games and books, reported Thursday a net loss for the first half of its financial year as swelling costs offset higher sales. The company also warned markets had weakened further since the end of the period.

German, American, Britons caught in Thai sex raid (Reuters)

Posted: 11 Dec 2008 03:34 AM CST

Reuters - Thai police arrested two Britons, an American and a German in the beach town of Pattaya on Thursday on suspicion of child sex abuse.

Corus trade unions offer pay cut to save factory: report (AFP)

Posted: 11 Dec 2008 03:01 AM CST

Ratan Tata, chairman of the Indian conglomerate Tata group, speaks in Mumbai in late August. Trade unions at the Tata-owned steel group Corus have proposed a 10 percent pay cut for the next six months in an attempt to avoid a factory closure in Wales.(AFP/File/Sajjad Hussain)AFP - Trade unions at Indian-owned steel group Corus have proposed a 10 percent pay cut for the next six months in an attempt to avoid a factory closure in Wales, the Financial Times reported Thursday.

Suicide on TV condemned in Britain (AP)

Posted: 11 Dec 2008 01:08 AM CST

This is an undated handout photo issued Tuesday Dec. 9, 2008 by British TV channel Sky Real Lives, of Craig Ewert, 59, whose death in an assisted suicide in a Swiss clinic will be broadcast on British television Wednesday Dec, 10, 2008 . The British television channel says it plans to broadcast the death of an American man at a Swiss euthanasia clinic. The death of 59-year-old Craig Ewert in 2006 is due to be shown Wednesday during a documentary on the Sky Real Lives channel. Ewert had degenerative motor neuron disease and died at a clinic in Zurich run by the group Dignitas. Assisted suicide is legal in Switzerland in some circumstances and various organizations there provide suicide services. (AP Photo/Sky Real Lives/PA)AP - The scene is difficult to watch, even for viewers inured to the subject of dying by a steady diet of violent Hollywood and television fare. Craig Ewert, a former computer scientist from Chicago, is shown lying in bed with his wife at his side while he takes barbiturates. He asks for a glass of apple juice to mask the bad taste and help him swallow. Then he uses his teeth to turn off his ventilator — and dies on camera.

Assisted suicide film stokes right to die debate in Britain (AFP)

Posted: 10 Dec 2008 04:43 PM CST

An Internet clip of a film about terminally-ill man Craig Ewert. The film showing Ewert ending his own life at a Swiss clinic has reignited the debate about assisted suicide in Britain, where it was due to be screened Wednesday.(AFP/Shaun Curry)AFP - A documentary showing a terminally-ill man ending his own life at a Swiss clinic was telecast in Britain on Wednesday, reigniting a debate about assisted suicide.

Administrator: no buyer for Woolworths (AP)

Posted: 10 Dec 2008 01:58 PM CST

AP - Prospects for rescuing ailing British retailer Woolworths receded as the company's administrator said Wednesday it had not yet found a buyer and was launching a closing-down sale.

Famous blue diamond sells for record price: $24.3M (AP)

Posted: 10 Dec 2008 01:39 PM CST

In this Friday, Dec. 5, 2008 file photo, Becky Markley holds the Wittelbach diamond a rare 35.56 carat blue diamond, next to a British first class stamp, at Christie's auction house in London, Friday, Dec. 5, 2008. The rare blue diamond which was handed down through generations of German royalty has sold for a record-breaking 16.4 million pounds ($24.3 million) at auction Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2008, Christie's said. The Wittelsbach Diamond, a 35.56 carat cushion-shaped gem, has often had its color and clarity compared to the famed Hope Diamond, now on display at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington. The rare gem was snapped up by billionaire diamond-dealer Laurence Graff for about 16.4 million pounds ($24.3 million), including buyer's premium, Christie's spokeswoman Alexandra Kindermann said. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant/file)AP - A rare blue diamond handed down through generations of German royalty sold for a record-breaking 16.4 million pounds ($24.3 million) at auction Wednesday in London, Christie's said.

Britain's Sky TV criticized for assisted death film (Reuters)

Posted: 10 Dec 2008 11:50 AM CST

Reuters - Britain's Sky television was criticized on Wednesday for plans to screen the final moments of a terminally-ill man who chose to commit suicide.

UK competition regulator approves Lloyds/HBOS deal (AP)

Posted: 10 Dec 2008 11:39 AM CST

AP - A British regulator on Wednesday ruled that Lloyds Group TSB PLC's proposed takeover of rival bank HBOS PLC is legal, two days before a final shareholder vote on the deal.

Brown defends welfare reforms (AFP)

Posted: 10 Dec 2008 11:29 AM CST

A branch of Job Centre Plus in London on November 12, 2008. Prime Minister Gordon Brown defended plans to force benefit claimants, including single mothers, to prepare for work or lose their payments as AFP - Prime Minister Gordon Brown on Wednesday defended as compassionate new plans to force benefit claimants, including single mothers, to prepare for work or lose their payments.

UK's Treasury chief: economy will grow in 2H 2009 (AP)

Posted: 10 Dec 2008 10:09 AM CST

AP - British Treasury chief Alistair Darling said Wednesday the country is on the brink of recession but that the economy would likely start growing again in the second half of 2009.

Virgin in talks on bmi takeover (AFP)

Posted: 10 Dec 2008 08:41 AM CST

Virgin Atlantic president Richard Branson gives a press conference at Heathrow Airport in south-west London, September 2008. Virgin Atlantic said on Wednesday that it was in talks with German rival Lufthansa over the future of low-cost carrier bmi.(AFP/File/Ben Stansall)AFP - Virgin Atlantic said on Wednesday that it was in talks with German rival Lufthansa over the future of low-cost carrier bmi.

UK pound falls to record low against euro (AP)

Posted: 10 Dec 2008 07:28 AM CST

AP - Britain's pound fell to a record low against the euro on Wednesday as fears about the strength of the British economy grew.

British teams look ahead to knockout stages of Champions League (AFP)

Posted: 10 Dec 2008 05:59 AM CST

Manchester United's Paul Scholes (right) attends a training session at the Carrington training complex on the eve of their Champions League match against Aalborg at Old Trafford.(AFP/Andrew Yates)AFP - Manchester United and Arsenal will be among eight teams battling to finish first in their respective Champions League groups when this phase of the competition ends on Wednesday.

Cosmetics boss to pay Stansted activists' legal bills (AFP)

Posted: 10 Dec 2008 05:32 AM CST

The first aircraft takes off from Stansted Airport after the suspension of all flights was lifted following a protest by the climate action group Plane Stupid. The multimillionaire co-founder of cosmetics company Lush has pledged to pay the legal bills of the activists.(AFP/File/Leon Neal)AFP - The multimillionaire co-founder of cosmetics retailer Lush pledged on Wednesday to pay the legal bills of activists who this week brought Stansted Airport to a halt.

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