Yahoo! News: World - Britain

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• Britain's Royal Society puts rare scientific manuscripts online (AFP)
• Royal Society celebrates 350 years of discovery (AP)
• British reality TV star's album shoots straight to number one (AFP)
• British paper missing from Dubai news-stands over 'insult' (AFP)
• Blair denies govt attorney advised Iraq war was 'illegal' (AFP)
• Pakistan must step up action against al Qaeda: Brown (Reuters)
• UK calls on Pakistan to step up Al-Qaeda action (AFP)
• Afghanistan to be given timetable for progress (AP)
• British PM sets targets for Afghan president (AFP)

Britain's Royal Society puts rare scientific manuscripts online (AFP) Posted: 29 Nov 2009 04:16 PM PST AFP - Historic manuscripts by Sir Isaac Newton, Benjamin Franklin and other ground-breaking scientists will be published online for the first time, Britain's Royal Society said Monday.

Royal Society celebrates 350 years of discovery (AP) Posted: 29 Nov 2009 04:02 PM PST AP - Sometimes, history's turning points come in blood and gunfire, and sometimes in pen and ink.

British reality TV star's album shoots straight to number one (AFP) Posted: 29 Nov 2009 01:33 PM PST AFP - Scottish singing sensation Susan Boyle has made chart history after her debut album shot straight to number one in Britain, music officials said Sunday.

British paper missing from Dubai news-stands over 'insult' (AFP) Posted: 29 Nov 2009 01:23 PM PST AFP - The Sunday Times newspaper was barred from news-stands in Dubai this week because of a graphic showing the emirate's ruler sinking in a sea of debt, which a media body judged to be an "insult."

Blair denies govt attorney advised Iraq war was 'illegal' (AFP) Posted: 29 Nov 2009 01:10 PM PST AFP - Tony Blair on Sunday denied a report that his government's chief legal adviser told him before the start of the Iraq War that deposing Saddam Hussein would contravene international law.

Pakistan must step up action against al Qaeda: Brown (Reuters) Posted: 29 Nov 2009 07:14 AM PST Reuters - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has called on Pakistan to take tougher action against al Qaeda and step up its efforts to track down the group's leader Osama bin Laden.

UK calls on Pakistan to step up Al-Qaeda action (AFP) Posted: 29 Nov 2009 05:19 AM PST AFP - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown urged Pakistan on Sunday to step up its action against Al-Qaeda and hunt down leader Osama bin Laden and his deputy Ayman al-Zawahiri.

Afghanistan to be given timetable for progress (AP) Posted: 28 Nov 2009 10:40 PM PST AP - Countries backing Afghanistan's government are going to demand that it meet specific security benchmarks, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Saturday, outlining a plan to let foreign troops gradually hand control to local forces.

British PM sets targets for Afghan president (AFP) Posted: 28 Nov 2009 07:04 PM PST AFP - Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Sunday he wanted to set President Hamid Karzai a series of three-monthly targets so that international forces can start to hand over control of Afghanistan.

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