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British house prices fell by record amount in 2008 (AP) Posted: 06 Jan 2009 04:19 AM CST AP - British house prices fell by their biggest annual amount in at least 56 years during 2008 as credit seized up and incentives to enter the market evaporated amid sliding home values, a leading mortgage lender said Tuesday.

UK retailers Debenhams, Next report drop in sales (AP) Posted: 06 Jan 2009 04:17 AM CST AP - British retailers Debenhams and Next saw sales drop over the Christmas season, but both companies said profits held up well as they had prepared for one of the toughest retail periods in a long time.

Closing Gaza tunnels could bring quick ceasefire: Blair (AFP) Posted: 06 Jan 2009 03:52 AM CST AFP - Middle East Quartet envoy Tony Blair insisted Tuesday that cutting off Gaza's supply tunnels from Egypt could bring about an immediate ceasefire -- otherwise Israel was in for a protracted campaign.

Woolworths to close last of its stores (AFP) Posted: 06 Jan 2009 03:26 AM CST AFP - Woolworths, a century-old retail institution buckling under the weight of the economic crisis, will close its remaining 200 stores for the final time at the end of trading on Tuesday.

Bush to honour Blair with US Medal of Freedom (AFP) Posted: 06 Jan 2009 03:22 AM CST AFP - Outgoing President George W. Bush is to award the highest US civilian order to former prime minister Tony Blair next week.

Baby P council boss appeals against dismissal (AFP) Posted: 06 Jan 2009 02:36 AM CST AFP - The ex-director of children's services at the council embroiled in the the Baby P scandal has appealed against her dismissal.

Suicides dropped 40 percent after 2005 attacks: study (AFP) Posted: 06 Jan 2009 02:13 AM CST AFP - The number of suicides in England and Wales fell by about 40 percent after the July 2005 bombings on London, scientists revealed Tuesday, echoing a trend also seen after the September 11 attacks.

Terror suspect is victim of Pakistan geopolitics: lawyer (AFP) Posted: 05 Jan 2009 01:40 PM CST AFP - A refugee in Britain accused of calling for terrorist attacks on Pakistan was a "casualty of geopolitics" due to the West's backing for former president Pervez Musharraf, a London court heard Monday.

FSA to lift short selling ban (AP) Posted: 05 Jan 2009 12:54 PM CST AP - Britain's financial services regulator said it will lift a ban on the short-selling of shares in scores of financial companies later this month.

Blast hits British Columbia natural gas facility (AP) Posted: 05 Jan 2009 12:46 PM CST AP - An explosion at a natural gas facility in northeastern British Columbia forced the site to shut down,in what appeared to be the fourth attack in four months on one of Canada's largest energy companies.

Alan Walters, economic advisor to Thatcher, dies aged 82 (AFP) Posted: 05 Jan 2009 12:02 PM CST AFP - Former prime minister Margaret Thatcher paid tribute Monday to her onetime economic adviser Sir Alan Walters, after he died aged 82.

FTSE shares rise (AFP) Posted: 05 Jan 2009 11:21 AM CST AFP - Shares in London ended higher on Monday after global markets advanced in the new year despite more gloomy economic news.

British reporter tells of mock execution in Somali 'hell-hole' (AFP) Posted: 05 Jan 2009 10:41 AM CST AFP - A British journalist held hostage in a Somali "hell-hole" for almost six weeks told on Monday how kidnappers at one point put a gun to his head and acted out a mock execution.

Cameron announces 4.1 bln-pound tax plan for savers (AFP) Posted: 05 Jan 2009 10:13 AM CST AFP - Conservative leader David Cameron proposed on Monday a 4.1 billion-pound package of tax cuts for savers and pensioners to help "innocent victims" of the economic downturn.

China fines British students for 'illegal map-making' (AFP) Posted: 05 Jan 2009 04:20 AM CST AFP - Chinese authorities have fined three British geology students for "illegal map-making activities" in the politically tense Muslim region of Xinjiang, state media reported on Monday.

Kidnapped British journalist freed in Somalia (AFP) Posted: 05 Jan 2009 04:16 AM CST AFP - Two journalists, from Britain and Spain, have been released after almost six weeks in captivity in Somalia's breakaway Puntland state, police and the two governments said.

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