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Waterford Wedgwood calls in administrators (AP)

Posted: 05 Jan 2009 02:48 AM CST

AP - Waterford Wedgwood PLC said Monday that its U.K. operations are being placed in administration and a receiver has been appointed for its Irish businesses after it failed to secure new financing.

Britain details muddy battles with Taliban in Afghanistan (AFP)

Posted: 05 Jan 2009 12:14 AM CST

AFP - British, Afghan and coalition forces captured four key Taliban strongholds in southern Afghanistan during a massive operation that saw them fight at close quarters, knee-deep in mud, it emerged Sunday.

Kidnapped British, Spanish journalists freed in Somalia (AFP)

Posted: 04 Jan 2009 02:55 PM CST

AFP - Two journalists, from Britain and Spain, were released Sunday after almost six weeks in captivity in Somalia's breakaway Puntland state, police and the two governments said.

British PM Brown pledges to create 100,000 jobs (AP)

Posted: 04 Jan 2009 09:38 AM CST

AP - Prime Minister Gordon Brown pledged Sunday to create 100,000 jobs through a public works program and said he would press banks to resume normal lending as Britain faces its sharpest economic downturn in decades.

British finance minister refuses to rule out new bank action (AFP)

Posted: 04 Jan 2009 08:51 AM CST

AFP - British finance minister Alistair Darling refused Sunday to rule out fresh government action to help struggling banks although he said it was "not your first port of call."

Jailed British couple asks Gambian president for clemency (AFP)

Posted: 04 Jan 2009 07:50 AM CST

AFP - A British missionary couple sentenced to one year of hard labour for criticising the Gambian leadership publicly apologised on Sunday and asked for clemency in a letter read on state television.