2008年12月31日星期三

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Yahoo! News: World - Britain

Olympic heroes win gongs in New Year's Honours (AFP)

Posted: 31 Dec 2008 02:34 AM CST

Olympic gold medal winning cyclist Chris Hoy is pictured at Harrods department store in west London, on December 10, 2008. Hoy, who won three gold medals at the Beijing Games in August, received a knighthood.(AFP/File/Shaun Curry)AFP - Britain's Olympic heroes added a fresh haul of gongs to their Beijing medals on Wednesday in the New Year's Honours List, also notably featuring Formula One champion Lewis Hamilton.

Britain hunting lovelorn beaver (AFP)

Posted: 31 Dec 2008 12:55 AM CST

There's a gnawing problem in the British countryside -- a giant beaver on the loose, wreaking havoc in southwest England. The six-stone (84-pound, 38-kilogramme) animal escaped from the Upcott Grange Farm in the county of Devon back in October, along with two females who were recovered soon after from a nearby lake.(AFP/HO/File)AFP - There's a gnawing problem in the countryside -- a giant beaver on the loose, wreaking havoc in southwest England.

Iranians raid British diplomatic compound in Gaza protest (AFP)

Posted: 30 Dec 2008 08:57 PM CST

Iranian protestors break into the British diplomatic residence known as 'Golhak Garden' in north Tehran. A group of Iranian demonstrators stormed the British diplomatic compound in Tehran Tuesday evening to protest London's stance towards the Israeli onslaught on Gaza, state news agency IRNA reported.(AFP)AFP - A group of Iranian demonstrators stormed the British diplomatic compound in Tehran to protest London's stance towards the Israeli onslaught on Gaza, state news agency IRNA reported.

Glitch leaves man 100 billion pounds overdrawn (AFP)

Posted: 30 Dec 2008 05:32 PM CST

A Barclays bank branch signboard is pictured in North London. A man was left reeling in shock Tuesday when his bank statement showed him to be 100 billion pounds (144 billion dollars, 102 billion euros) overdrawn.(AFP/File/Leon Neal)AFP - A man was left reeling in shock Tuesday when his bank statement showed him to be 100 billion pounds (144 billion dollars, 102 billion euros) overdrawn.

Iraq and UK agree to let troops stay until July (Reuters)

Posted: 30 Dec 2008 03:49 PM CST

A British soldier stands guard at Umm Qasr port, in the southern Iraqi city of Basra, July 7, 2008. (Atef Hassan/Reuters)Reuters - Iraq signed agreements with Britain and Australia on Tuesday for their troops to stay in Iraq for seven months after a U.N. mandate authorizing their presence expires on January 1, Iraq's Defense Ministry said.

Iranian students break into UK Embassy residence (AP)

Posted: 30 Dec 2008 03:06 PM CST

AP - Iran's official news agency says dozens of hardline students have broken into the British Embassy residence in Tehran.

Just a second, 2009 — the Earth needs to catch up (AP)

Posted: 30 Dec 2008 02:36 PM CST

Visitors stand around the Greenwich Meridian Line at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London, Tuesday Dec. 30, 2008. Scientists will mark the end of 2008 by tacking a second onto the clock, ever-so-slightly slowing the arrival of the new year. The addition of the 'leap second' has been used sporadically since 1972 to help keep 'atomic time' and 'earth time' in closer union. Despite this compromise, Greenwich Mean Time, a longstanding internationally agreed measure of time, faces irrelevance as time-keeping technology improves. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)AP - Just a second, 2009. It's going to take a little longer to say goodbye to the worst economic year since the Great Depression, but all for good cause.

Gambian court sentences British couple to one year hard labour (AFP)

Posted: 30 Dec 2008 12:45 PM CST

An undated file photo from the Westhoughton Pentecostal Church shows David and Fiona Fulton (R) and their children. A Gambian court on Tuesday sentenced the two British missionaries to one year in prison with hard labour after they pleaded guilty last week to sedition charges.(AFP/HO)AFP - A British missionary couple working in the tiny west African state of Gambia, which has been criticised for its abysmal human rights record, have been sentenced to one-year prison terms with hard labour.

UK vet dies 68 years after "posthumous" honor (AP)

Posted: 30 Dec 2008 11:17 AM CST

AP - A British World War II hero who fought valiantly in North Africa despite severe wounds has died 68 years after he was "posthumously" awarded the nation's highest combat honor by officials who thought he had been killed.

Pound's flirtation with euro parity hits tourists (AP)

Posted: 30 Dec 2008 09:34 AM CST

AP - British tourists going to continental Europe to celebrate the New Year were getting fewer euros for their pounds on Tuesday than at any time since the common European currency's 1999 launch.

British opposition leader calls for 2009 election (AP)

Posted: 30 Dec 2008 08:42 AM CST

AP - Britain's opposition leader on Tuesday urged Prime Minister Gordon Brown to call an election in 2009, saying the country needs a chance to choose between their competing economic plans.

UK small-business group wants credit card rate cap (AP)

Posted: 30 Dec 2008 07:59 AM CST

AP - The British government should cap credit-card interest rates to help small businesses weather the economic downturn, an industry body said Tuesday.

UK house prices fell 12.2 pct year-on-year in Nov. (AP)

Posted: 30 Dec 2008 06:43 AM CST

AP - More bad news for Britain's ailing housing market came out Tuesday, as government figures showed that house prices in England and Wales fell by 12.2 percent in November compared to the same month a year ago — the biggest drop since the price survey began in 2000.

Credit crunched Britons plan cheaper holidays: poll (AFP)

Posted: 30 Dec 2008 05:51 AM CST

Sunbathers relax on Brighton beach in July 2008. Britons are planning to take cheaper and shorter holidays in 2009 due to the economic downturn and the collapsing value of sterling, a poll showed Tuesday.(AFP/|File/Carl de Souza)AFP - Britons are planning to take cheaper and shorter holidays in 2009 due to the economic downturn and the collapsing value of sterling, a poll showed Tuesday.

Liverpool captain Gerrard charged over bar brawl (AFP)

Posted: 29 Dec 2008 08:39 PM CST

Steven Gerrard, seen here, the captain of English Premier League leaders Liverpool, was charged Tuesday with assault and affray over an alleged bar brawl, police told AFP(AFP/FIle/Paul Ellis)AFP - Liverpool captain Steven Gerrard was charged Tuesday with assault and affray over an alleged bar brawl, a Merseyside Police spokesman told AFP.

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