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One year on, mother remembers British teen killed in India (AFP) Posted: 18 Feb 2009 01:09 AM CST AFP - A year after British teenager Scarlett Keeling was found dead at an Indian resort, her mother told AFP she will mark the date with a beach party -- but will not be able to move on until she can bury her.

British, Afghan troops in Taliban drugs swoop: ministry (AFP) Posted: 17 Feb 2009 08:03 PM CST AFP - Millions of pounds worth of drugs were seized in southern Afghanistan as more than 700 British and Afghan troops staged a major operation against Taliban fighters, officials said Wednesday.

Recession fans economic nationalism in Britain (Reuters) Posted: 17 Feb 2009 07:14 PM CST Reuters - At the Job Center in Grimsby, a hard-knock town on Britain's east coast, security guards man the doors.

Nuclear firm fined for radioactive waste leak: court (AFP) Posted: 17 Feb 2009 05:02 PM CST AFP - A court Tuesday ordered a company which managed a nuclear power plant to pay 400,000 pounds after it was convicted of allowing radioactive waste to leak into the ground over a 14-year period.

Gaza, slump seen spurring rise in anti-Semitism (Reuters) Posted: 17 Feb 2009 04:44 PM CST Reuters - Israel's offensive in Gaza and the global economic downturn have spurred a rise in physical and verbal attacks on Jews, participants in an international conference on anti-Semitism said Tuesday.

Irish authorities monitoring 500-ton oil spill (AP) Posted: 17 Feb 2009 04:29 PM CST AP - Irish authorities said Tuesday they are monitoring a major oil spill that is drifting toward the Irish coast — the largest spill in the waters around Ireland in a decade.

London anti-Semitism summit fires Durban repeat warning (AFP) Posted: 17 Feb 2009 03:11 PM CST AFP - Some 120 lawmakers from 40 countries meeting here Tuesday published a plan for tackling renewed anti-Semitism -- and warned that the upcoming world conference on racism must be no repeat of the last.

8 British men tried for alleged airline bomb plot (AP) Posted: 17 Feb 2009 01:44 PM CST AP - Eight British Muslims plotted to kill thousands of civilians by blowing up at least seven trans-Atlantic passenger planes in mid-air with homemade liquid bombs disguised as soft drinks, a prosecutor said at their trial Tuesday.

Nuclear subs didn't know they'd hit each other (AFP) Posted: 17 Feb 2009 12:52 PM CST AFP - Britain and France's nuclear submarines are so stealthy and their movements so secret that when a pair rammed into each other their crews had no idea what had happened, France said Tuesday.

British protesters urge release of Guantanamo detainee (AFP) Posted: 17 Feb 2009 12:43 PM CST AFP - Protesters wearing Guantanamo-style orange boiler suits protested outside the US embassy in London on Tuesday, demanding the return of a detainee.

Barclays says shutting US mortgage lender EquiFirst (AFP) Posted: 17 Feb 2009 12:30 PM CST AFP - Barclays said Tuesday that it has closed US subprime mortgage lending unit EquiFirst Corp. with immediate effect, citing current market conditions.

Accrington players charged over Gerrard 'bar brawl' (AFP) Posted: 17 Feb 2009 12:27 PM CST AFP - Two more footballers were charged on Tuesday, police said, over the bar brawl in which Liverpool captain Steven Gerrard stands accused of assault and affray.

British lawyer convicted in Berlusconi case (AP) Posted: 17 Feb 2009 11:48 AM CST AP - A British lawyer accused of taking $600,000 in exchange for false testimony designed to help Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was convicted of corruption Tuesday and sentenced to 4 1/2 years in prison.

British bank RBS slashes bonuses by over 90% (AFP) Posted: 17 Feb 2009 11:02 AM CST AFP - Britain's partly-nationalised Royal Bank of Scotland is to slash staff bonuses by over 90 percent this year, it said Tuesday amid growing public anger about banking-sector pay.

Britons on trial over "airliner bomb plot" (Reuters) Posted: 17 Feb 2009 10:49 AM CST Reuters - A group of British Islamists plotted to cause deaths on an "almost unprecedented scale" by blowing up transatlantic airliners using liquid explosives hidden in soft drink bottles, a London court heard Tuesday.

UK Conservatives open 20-point lead over Labour (AP) Posted: 17 Feb 2009 10:32 AM CST AP - Prime Minister Gordon Brown's Labour Party has fallen 20 points behind the surging Conservative Party as Britain's economic woes deepen, a poll released Tuesday shows.

Harrods owner Al Fayed won't face sex charges (AP) Posted: 17 Feb 2009 09:36 AM CST AP - Harrods department store owner Mohamed Al Fayed will not face charges over an allegation he sexually assaulted a teenage girl, British prosecutors said Tuesday.

Second drug charge against S. African airline crew (AP) Posted: 17 Feb 2009 09:07 AM CST AP - South Africa's national carrier says it is working with airport management and law-enforcement to improve security after a second accusation of drug-smuggling against its crew in less than a month.

No sex charges against Fayed (AFP) Posted: 17 Feb 2009 08:58 AM CST AFP - Mohamed Al Fayed, owner of London's up-scale Harrods department store, will not face charges over allegations of sexual assault on a girl aged under 16, prosecutors said Tuesday.

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