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Man in Baby P case convicted of raping 2-year-old (AFP) Posted: 01 May 2009 01:00 PM PDT AFP - The boyfriend of the mother of Baby P -- whose death in 2007 prompted outrage in Britain -- was found guilty of raping a two-year-old girl Friday.

UK's prime minister faces tough election task (AP) Posted: 01 May 2009 10:37 AM PDT AP - He's lost a major parliamentary vote, a key aide and, according to critics, his authority. So can British Prime Minister Gordon Brown avoid losing the looming national election?

Briton helps wife give birth -- with YouTube as midwife (AFP) Posted: 01 May 2009 10:12 AM PDT AFP - A British man helped deliver his baby son by following clips on YouTube, after his wife went into labour early, he said Friday.

Carol Ann Duffy chosen as UK poet laureate (AP) Posted: 01 May 2009 09:17 AM PDT AP - The centuries-old post of British poet laureate, bard to kings and queens, has been held by William Wordsworth, Alfred Lord Tennyson and Ted Hughes — but never, until Friday, by a woman.

bmi eyes London-Baghdad flights (AFP) Posted: 01 May 2009 07:53 AM PDT AFP - Airline bmi wants to launch a direct flight between London and Baghdad, but does not yet have governmental approval, it said as Iraqi premier Nuri al-Maliki concluded a trip to London on Friday.

Couple arrested for sex on lawn at Windsor Castle (AP) Posted: 01 May 2009 07:40 AM PDT AP - Queen Elizabeth II was at home at Windsor Castle, the sentries who guard her were on duty, and the large park surrounding the magnificent building was full of tourists on a Sunday afternoon.

English poet UA Fanthorpe dies at 79 (AP) Posted: 01 May 2009 06:50 AM PDT AP - U.A. Fanthorpe, a highly regarded English poet who was first inspired by the human tragedy she saw in a neurological hospital, has died at age 79.

Mortgage approvals up in March (AFP) Posted: 01 May 2009 04:58 AM PDT AFP - Approvals for home loans increased in March, figures released Friday show, in a sign the recession-hit housing market may be recovering.

Brown reels from nightmare week (AFP) Posted: 01 May 2009 04:51 AM PDT AFP - Prime Minister Gordon Brown was left reeling Friday from one of his worst weeks since taking power, as a senior ex-minister warned of a policy void in a government facing elections in barely a year.

Blunkett warns Brown over "meltdown of trust" (AFP) Posted: 01 May 2009 03:24 AM PDT AFP - Former cabinet minister David Blunkett has warned Prime Minister Gordon Brown to "get back to old-fashioned politics" after a political scandal and an embarrassing defeat in parliament, a newspaper reported on Friday.

Is the gloom over? Warm "barbeque" summer on way (AFP) Posted: 01 May 2009 03:04 AM PDT AFP - With the global economy on the verge of collapse and a flu pandemic looming, finally some good news: this summer could be warm and dry.

Pearson reports encouraging start to 2009 (AFP) Posted: 01 May 2009 01:34 AM PDT AFP - Media group Pearson, publisher of the Financial Times newspaper and Penguin books, said Friday that it made an encouraging start to 2009 despite a tough economic environment.

Queen received over £473,000 in EU farm subsidies (AFP) Posted: 01 May 2009 12:32 AM PDT AFP - Queen Elizabeth II received 473,583.31 pounds in European agricultural subsidies in 2008, according to figures released Thursday by the department of rural affairs.

WWI Australian, British war dead to be exhumed (AFP) Posted: 30 Apr 2009 07:30 PM PDT AFP - Experts will Tuesday begin exhuming hundreds of British and Australian troops from a World War I mass grave in northern France, before laying the fallen soldiers to rest in a new war cemetery.

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