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Yahoo! News: World - Britain

Police have 'learnt lessons' from Nickell case (AFP)

Posted: 19 Dec 2008 02:45 AM CST

London police declined on Friday to say whether an inquiry would be held into police handling of the case of Rachel Nickell, seen here, after it apologised for mistakes made.(afp.com/MetPolice/File)AFP - London police declined to say on Friday whether an inquiry would be held into its handling of the Rachel Nickell case after it apologised for mistakes made.

UK court rejects enforcement of prenuptial pacts (AP)

Posted: 18 Dec 2008 03:19 PM CST

AP - Prenup? Forget it for now in Britain.

Muslim waitress sues over 'sexy' dress code: reports (AFP)

Posted: 18 Dec 2008 01:38 PM CST

A cocktail waitress carrying drinks. A Bosnian Muslim waitress has demanded compensation from the London bar where she worked over a red dress she was asked to wear, British media reported Thursday.(AFP/Getty Images/File)AFP - A Bosnian Muslim waitress has demanded compensation from the London bar where she worked over a red dress she was asked to wear, British media reported Thursday.

Euro falls against dollar; British pound dives to new low (AFP)

Posted: 18 Dec 2008 12:32 PM CST

A member of the public walks past a currency exchange booth in London. The dollar rebounded from a three-month low against the euro Thursday amid expectations the European Central Bank may reconsider plans to keep eurozone interest rates steady.(AFP/File/Shaun Curry)AFP - The European single currency fell back against the dollar late Thursday after hitting three-month highs earlier in the day, while sterling continued to fall amid mounting British economic gloom.

Wallace & Gromit pirated on YouTube (AP)

Posted: 18 Dec 2008 11:05 AM CST

Director Nick Park, center, walks with stuffed figures for his movie 'Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit,' on Saturday, Oct. 22, 2005, in Tokyo. The animators behind Wallace & Gromit say they have quashed a pirated recording of a special animation feature which is to be shown on TV during Christmas 2008, after it appeared on the social video sharing Internet site YouTube. The makers of Wallace and Gromit reported they don't know how the material slipped out but it has now been withdrawn from the Internet site.(AP Photo/Itsuo Inouye)AP - It's a whodunit for the info age.

Qantas, British Airways say no merger as talks end (AP)

Posted: 18 Dec 2008 10:48 AM CST

AP - British Airways PLC and Qantas Airways Ltd. called off their merger talks Thursday after failing to agree on the terms of a potential deal. The move left the British airline free to pursue other agreements with European carriers as the industry braces for a significant slowdown.

Britons guilty of Al-Qaeda link (AFP)

Posted: 18 Dec 2008 09:44 AM CST

A handout image obtained December 18, 2008, from Greater Manchester Police shows Rangzieb Ahmed. He and another British Muslim were convicted Thursday of being members of the Al-Qaeda terror network.(AFP/HO)AFP - Two British Muslims were convicted Thursday of being members of the Al-Qaeda terror network, including one who was reportedly deported from Pakistan.

UK's Brown confirms Iraq pullout (Reuters)

Posted: 18 Dec 2008 09:43 AM CST

Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown meets British military personnel in Umm Qasr Port, in Iraq December 17, 2008. Britain will start withdrawing troops from Iraq on May 31, 2009 at the latest, Prime Minister Gordon Brown said on Thursday. (Peter Macdiarmid/Pool/Reuters)Reuters - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown rejected calls for an immediate inquiry into the Iraq war on Thursday and confirmed that Britain will start withdrawing troops from the country by the end of May.

British pound sinks under 1.05 euros for first time (AFP)

Posted: 18 Dec 2008 09:41 AM CST

The pound has sunk further towards parity against the European single currency, sliding under 1.05 euros for the first time.(AFP/File)AFP - The pound sank to a record low under 1.05 euros on Thursday, as the British currency headed towards parity on expectations of further interest rate cuts from the Bank of England, analysts said.

Cambridge pips Oxford in research rankings (AFP)

Posted: 18 Dec 2008 09:23 AM CST

File photo of researchers at the University of Cambridge who said in October they have found that alemtuzumab, a drug originally developed to treat leukaemia, can halt and even reverse the debilitating effects of multiple sclerosis.(AFP/DDP/File/Jens Schlueter)AFP - Cambridge has beaten Oxford in the race to become Britain's top research university, a much-anticipated evaluation of academic work published on Thursday showed.

English church head: Case for breaking state link (AP)

Posted: 18 Dec 2008 09:23 AM CST

AP - The head of the Church of England says he can see a case for breaking the church's ties to the state, but he would oppose it now.

Britain's Brown: UK withdrawing from Iraq (AP)

Posted: 18 Dec 2008 08:10 AM CST

South Korean Army soldiers acknowledge to their family members after a welcoming ceremony of the unit returned from Iraq at a military base in Seong Nam, south of Seoul, South Korea, Friday, Dec. 19, 2008. South Korea brought its last remaining troops home from Iraq on Friday. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)AP - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown told lawmakers Thursday that Britain will withdraw almost all its forces from Iraq by July, leaving fewer than 400 troops to complete a naval training mission.

UK auto manufacturers plead for help (AP)

Posted: 18 Dec 2008 07:27 AM CST

AP - British auto manufacturers stepped up pressure on Prime Minister Gordon Brown's government to deliver an industry bailout package on Thursday as a report revealed that car production slumped by a third in November.

Pound falls to new lows on zero interest rate talk (AP)

Posted: 18 Dec 2008 07:08 AM CST

AP - The pound sank to a new record low against the euro Thursday as the government debt's burden hit its highest level in almost a quarter century and a leading Bank of England rate-setter hinted that interest rates could be cut to zero.

Retail sales rise 0.3 percent in November (AFP)

Posted: 18 Dec 2008 07:03 AM CST

A sale sign at a department store on London's Oxford Street. Retail sales rose by 0.3 percent in November from the October level, and jumped by 1.5 percent on a 12-month comparison, official data showed on Thursday.(AFP/File/Carl de Souza)AFP - Retail sales rose by 0.3 percent in November from the October level, and jumped by 1.5 percent on a 12-month comparison, official data showed on Thursday.

British forces to begin rapid Iraq pullout by May 31 (AFP)

Posted: 18 Dec 2008 06:27 AM CST

British troops patrol, along with Iraqi security forces (in black), the streets of central Basra on December 16, 2008. Britain will withdraw all but 400 of its troops from Iraq by the end of next July, Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Thursday, but rejected any link with pressure to send more forces to Afghanistan.(AFP/File/Essam al-Sudani)AFP - British forces are to begin a rapid withdrawal from Iraq by May 31 next year, with most of them out of the country by the end of July, Prime Minister Gordon Brown told MPs on Thursday.

'I'm not qualified to land plane,' pilot tells passengers (AFP)

Posted: 18 Dec 2008 06:20 AM CST

A file photo of of an information board Charles de Gaulle airport. A British passenger plane was forced to turn back minutes before landing in Paris because the pilot of 30 years' experience was not qualified to land in fog, an airline confirmed on Thursday.(AFP/File/Mehdi Fedouach)AFP - A British passenger plane was forced to turn back minutes before landing in Paris because the pilot of 30 years' experience was not qualified to land in fog, an airline confirmed on Thursday.

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