Yahoo! News: World - Britain

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• New speaker bills for flat refurbishment: report (AFP)
• Iraq war reparations to Kuwait could be reduced: UK (Reuters)
• Standard Chartered announces profit, share placing (AP)
• RIP: UK fishermen mourn passing of celebrity carp (AP)
• Britain's Brown will not congratulate Ahmadinejad (Reuters)
• Glaxo: 9 more countries order swine flu vaccine (AP)
• Soldier killed in Afghanistan (AFP)
• British bank Northern Rock's losses deepen (AFP)
• Standard Chartered bank posts record profits (AFP)
• Latvian mayor sick of unruly British tourists (AFP)
• Parents warned over teenage 'sext' messages (AFP)
• Calls for inquiry over torture allegations (AFP)
• Top law officer vows fraud crackdown (AFP)
• Helicopters for Afghanistan 'not fit for use' (AFP)
• RBS to sell Asian assets to ANZ (AFP)
• UK's nationalized Northern Rock plans to split (AP)
• Prosecutor: suicide rules will apply everywhere (AP)
• BHP Billiton appoints new chairman (AFP)

New speaker bills for flat refurbishment: report (AFP) Posted: 04 Aug 2009 04:39 PM PDT AFP - The new speaker is spending 20,000 pounds in public money on refurbishing an apartment, after vowing a clean break from an expenses scandal that rocked the country's politics, a report said Wednesday.

Iraq war reparations to Kuwait could be reduced: UK (Reuters) Posted: 04 Aug 2009 01:48 PM PDT Reuters - Britain's U.N. envoy on Tuesday endorsed Iraq's request to lower its war reparation payments to Kuwait but said any reduction would need the blessing of both Baghdad and the Kuwaiti authorities.

Standard Chartered announces profit, share placing (AP) Posted: 04 Aug 2009 12:40 PM PDT AP - Standard Chartered PLC reported Tuesday that first-half profit rose 5.5 percent compared with a year ago even as provisions for bad loans more than doubled to more than a billion dollars.

RIP: UK fishermen mourn passing of celebrity carp (AP) Posted: 04 Aug 2009 11:26 AM PDT AP - She was big. She was beautiful. And boy was she popular with the fishermen.

Britain's Brown will not congratulate Ahmadinejad (Reuters) Posted: 04 Aug 2009 10:47 AM PDT Reuters - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown will not congratulate Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on his second term as Iran's president but Britain will send its ambassador to Ahmadinejad's swearing-in, officials said on Tuesday.

Glaxo: 9 more countries order swine flu vaccine (AP) Posted: 04 Aug 2009 10:28 AM PDT AP - Drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline says that nine additional countries have ordered 96 million doses of swine flu vaccine since last month.

Soldier killed in Afghanistan (AFP) Posted: 04 Aug 2009 10:28 AM PDT AFP - A soldier was killed in an explosion in southern Afghanistan on Tuesday, the Ministry of Defence said, taking Britain's death toll in the country to 23 since the start of July.

British bank Northern Rock's losses deepen (AFP) Posted: 04 Aug 2009 06:43 AM PDT AFP - Nationalised British bank Northern Rock said on Tuesday that losses deepened in the first six months of the year, as more customers struggled to pay off their mortgages and bad debts tripled.

Standard Chartered bank posts record profits (AFP) Posted: 04 Aug 2009 05:38 AM PDT AFP - Emerging markets bank Standard Chartered posted record first-half profits on Tuesday and launched plans to raise extra cash from shareholders to fund ambitious growth in Asia, Africa and the Middle East.

Latvian mayor sick of unruly British tourists (AFP) Posted: 04 Aug 2009 05:20 AM PDT AFP - Latvia's capital Riga is fed up with unruly British tourists who head to the city for boozy holidays, damaging its reputation among other would-be visitors, its mayor said in an interview published on Tuesday.

Parents warned over teenage 'sext' messages (AFP) Posted: 04 Aug 2009 05:04 AM PDT AFP - An alarming number of youngsters are exchanging sexually explicit texts and intimate photos of themselves using mobile phones and the Internet, a survey showed on Tuesday.

Calls for inquiry over torture allegations (AFP) Posted: 04 Aug 2009 05:03 AM PDT AFP - Calls for an inquiry grew Tuesday after MPs said the government was hiding behind a "wall of secrecy" over allegations that agents colluded in the torture of terror suspects abroad.

Top law officer vows fraud crackdown (AFP) Posted: 04 Aug 2009 04:08 AM PDT AFP - Britain aims to become the country most hostile to corporate corruption by targeting fraud in the finance industry, the top law official said on Tuesday.

Helicopters for Afghanistan 'not fit for use' (AFP) Posted: 04 Aug 2009 04:07 AM PDT AFP - Military helicopters set to be deployed to Afghanistan were not properly equipped to fly combat missions, a newspaper said on Tuesday, fuelling a row over adequate resources for troops.

RBS to sell Asian assets to ANZ (AFP) Posted: 04 Aug 2009 03:36 AM PDT AFP - State-controlled Royal Bank of Scotland said on Tuesday that it will sell part of its Asian operations to Australia and New Zealand Banking Group for 247 million pounds.

UK's nationalized Northern Rock plans to split (AP) Posted: 04 Aug 2009 03:32 AM PDT AP - Nationalized bank Northern Rock on Tuesday saw its first half loss rise 31 percent to 740 million pounds ($1.25 billion) as bad loan provisions swelled to over a billion pounds and said it is working on a plan to split its operations into two.

Prosecutor: suicide rules will apply everywhere (AP) Posted: 04 Aug 2009 02:45 AM PDT AP - Britain's chief prosecutor says the same legal rules must apply to assisted suicide whether it takes place in Britain or in countries where the practice is allowed.

BHP Billiton appoints new chairman (AFP) Posted: 04 Aug 2009 02:21 AM PDT AFP - BHP Billiton, the world's biggest miner, said on Tuesday that Jac Nasser, former chief executive of US automaker Ford, will become its new chairman next year.

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