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UK house prices seen falling 10 percent in 2009 (AP) Posted: 15 Dec 2008 03:33 AM CST AP - House prices in Britain will fall a further 10 percent next year as the recession deepens and exacts a heavier toll on households, a leading housing index predicted on Monday.

RBS says Madoff could cost it 400 million pounds (AP) Posted: 15 Dec 2008 03:28 AM CST AP - Royal Bank of Scotland Group PLC said Monday it could lose 400 million pounds ($600 million) as a result of its exposure to hedge funds managed by arrested Wall Street investment manager Bernard Madoff, who is accused of running a $50 billion scheme to defraud investors.

'Sex on the beach' Britons await Dubai expulsion: report (AFP) Posted: 15 Dec 2008 03:01 AM CST AFP - Two Britons who were spared jail after being convicted for having sex on a Dubai beach are now in police custody awaiting deportation, a local newspaper reported on Monday.

Hoy wins BBC Sports Personality of the Year award (AFP) Posted: 14 Dec 2008 03:43 PM CST AFP - Olympic track cycling star Chris Hoy was crowned the BBC Sports Personality of the Year for 2008 at an awards ceremony in Liverpool on Sunday after topping a viewers' poll.

RTL mulls takeover of Channel 4: report (AFP) Posted: 14 Dec 2008 02:11 PM CST AFP - Pan-European radio and television broadcaster RTL Group is looking into a possible takeover of state-owned Channel 4, the Sunday Times newspaper reported.

Chertoff: Obama shouldn't rush on Guantanamo Bay (AP) Posted: 14 Dec 2008 08:44 AM CST AP - U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said on Sunday that President-elect Barack Obama shouldn't rush to close Guantanamo Bay before he has a plan to deal with all the detainees.

Labor union seeks bailout for UK automakers (AP) Posted: 14 Dec 2008 07:48 AM CST AP - A British labor union chief says Prime Minister Gordon Brown must agree a bailout plan to save jobs in the country's ailing auto making industry.

Britain's Benn cast doubts on Heathrow expansion (AP) Posted: 14 Dec 2008 07:26 AM CST AP - An expansion of London's Heathrow airport shouldn't be authorized without proof major improvements can be made in cutting pollution, Environment Minister Hilary Benn was quoted as saying Sunday.

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