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Drug giant pledges cheap medicine for the poor: report (AFP)

Posted: 14 Feb 2009 12:31 AM CST

AFP - The head of drugs giant GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) said in a newspaper Saturday he would cut prices for medication in developing countries and share knowledge of patented treatments.

Brown calls for review of MPs' pensions (Reuters)

Posted: 13 Feb 2009 09:35 PM CST

Reuters - MPs' generous pension arrangements could be downgraded after Prime Minister Gordon Brown set up a review.

UK: No police charges in accidental terror death (AP)

Posted: 13 Feb 2009 09:21 PM CST

AP - No police will be charged in the death of a Brazilian who was mistakenly shot by officers in the tense days following 2005 terror attacks in London, prosecutors announced Friday after a new review of the case.

British press slam West Indies officials over sand farce (AFP)

Posted: 13 Feb 2009 08:47 PM CST

AFP - British newspapers heaped criticism on the West Indies cricket authorities on Saturday after a sand-logged pitch caused one of most bizarre days in the history of Test cricket.

Jet's nosegear collapses during landing in London (AP)

Posted: 13 Feb 2009 08:23 PM CST

AP - The nosewheel of a British Airways passenger jet collapsed with a loud bang as it landed Friday evening at London City Airport, sending the plane scraping across the tarmac with 71 people aboard, officials and witnesses said. All aboard escaped by emergency slides, but one person was taken to a hospital with a minor injury.

British boy reportedly becomes a father at age 13 (AP)

Posted: 13 Feb 2009 07:37 PM CST

AP - He's 13. He scarcely looks 10. And according to a British tabloid, he's a father. Baby-faced and only 4 feet tall, the boy, Alfie, was just 12 when he impregnated Chantelle, now 15, The Sun reported Friday. Shown in a video posted Friday on the tabloid's Web site, the diminutive Alfie takes the newborn girl in his arms.

British investor in Madoff scheme kills himself (Reuters)

Posted: 13 Feb 2009 06:11 PM CST

Reuters - A former British soldier killed himself after losing his life savings in an alleged $50 billion fraud run by Wall Street financier Bernard Madoff, news reports said on Friday.

Plane crash-lands at London airport (AFP)

Posted: 13 Feb 2009 06:03 PM CST

AFP - A British Airways plane arriving from Amsterdam crash-landed at London City Airport on Friday but all 67 passengers and four crew were safely evacuated, emergency services said.

BA plane's undercarriage fails on landing, 4 hurt (Reuters)

Posted: 13 Feb 2009 04:18 PM CST

Reuters - Passengers used emergency slides to evacuate a British Airways plane when its nosewheel collapsed on landing at London's City airport on Friday, injuring four people, officials said.

Prince Charles to visit South America on eco-mission (AFP)

Posted: 13 Feb 2009 04:13 PM CST

AFP - Prince Charles, is to visit the Amazon and the Galapagos Islands next month on a mission promoting environmental preservation, officials said Friday.

Police escape charges over mistaken shooting (AFP)

Posted: 13 Feb 2009 01:40 PM CST

AFP - Prosecutors will not press charges against anti-terror police officers involved in shooting an innocent Brazilian mistaken for a suicide bomber in 2005, a lawyer said Friday.

UK anti-Semitic attacks rise after Gaza conflict (AP)

Posted: 13 Feb 2009 12:34 PM CST

AP - The number of anti-Semitic attacks on British Jews rose sharply after the start of the conflict in Gaza, a Jewish charity said Friday.

British bank Lloyds warns of ten-billion-pound HBOS loss in 2008 (AFP)

Posted: 13 Feb 2009 12:13 PM CST

AFP - Britain's Lloyds Banking Group warned Friday that its HBOS division would suffer a 2008 pre-tax loss of about ten billion pounds (11.2 billion euros, 14.5 billion dollars) because of the credit crunch.

Anger as major British train deal goes to Japan (AFP)

Posted: 13 Feb 2009 06:20 AM CST

AFP - A British decision to award a 7.5 billion pound (10.9 billion dollar, 8.4 billion euro) order for trains to a Japanese-led group sparked anger Friday amid rising unemployment and recession here.