2009年1月17日星期六

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Yahoo! News: World - Britain

British minister leaves Pakistan after talks with army chief (AFP)

Posted: 17 Jan 2009 02:45 AM CST

Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani (right) with British Foreign Secretary David Miliband in Islamabad on January 16, 2009. Miliband left Saturday after holding talks with Pakistan's army chief during a visit aimed at defusing tensions with India after the Mumbai attacks.(AFP/Aamir Qureshi)AFP - British Foreign Secretary David Miliband left here Saturday after holding talks with Pakistan's army chief during a visit aimed at defusing tensions with India after the Mumbai attacks, officials said.

PM urges banks to come clean over bad assets (AFP)

Posted: 16 Jan 2009 10:20 PM CST

Prime Minister Gordon Brown, pictured during a visit to the 2012 Olympic Park construction site in east London, has told banks they must own up to the extent of their bad assets amid more reports his government could launch a fresh bailout of the struggling sector.(AFP/Pool/File/Kirsty Wigglesworth)AFP - Prime Minister Gordon Brown told banks Saturday they must own up to the extent of their bad assets amid more reports his government could launch a fresh bailout of the struggling sector.

US man jailed for stealing pages from rare books (AP)

Posted: 16 Jan 2009 03:47 PM CST

This image made available Friday, Jan. 16, 2009 by the London's Metropolitan Police shows Farhad Hakimzadeh, 60, who had pleaded guilty in May 2008 to 14 offences of theft. The wealthy, Iranian born, U.S. businessman with a passion for books about the Middle East was sentenced to two years in jail Friday for stealing pages from rare texts at two of Britain's most venerable libraries. Farhad Hakimzadeh sneaked a scalpel into London's British Library to surgically remove leaves from books, according to staff. He used the pilfered pages to replace lower-quality parts of his own copies of the works. Hakimzadeh targeted books at the British Library and Oxford's Bodleian Library which dealt with Europe's interaction with the Middle East. (AP Photo/Metropolitan Police, HO)AP - A wealthy U.S. businessman with a passion for books about the Middle East was sentenced to two years in jail Friday for stealing pages from rare texts at two of Britain's most venerable libraries.

Bank Barclays says it is baffled by share plunge (AFP)

Posted: 16 Jan 2009 03:43 PM CST

A man uses a cashpoint machine at a branch of Barclays Bank in Hounslow, west London. Barclays said it saw AFP - British bank Barclays said it saw "no justification" for its plunging share price Friday after a day which saw its price fall nearly 25 percent at one point.

British writer John Mortimer dead at 85 (AP)

Posted: 16 Jan 2009 03:13 PM CST

In this March 28, 1996 file photo British author and dramatist John Mortimer poses in Beverly Hills, Calif. The creator of the character Rumpole of the Bailey, has died at the age of 85 after a long illness reports the BBC Friday, Jan. 16, 2009. (AP Photo/Eric Draper)AP - British lawyer and writer John Mortimer, creator of the curmudgeonly criminal lawyer Rumpole of the Bailey, died Friday. He was 85.

Chinese man found guilty of murdering British author (AFP)

Posted: 16 Jan 2009 02:50 PM CST

A London policeman. A Chinese man was convicted Friday of killing a wealthy British author at his home in an upmarket district of London in a bid to seize control of his fortune.(AFP/File)AFP - A Chinese man was convicted Friday of killing a wealthy British author at his home in an upmarket district of London in a bid to seize control of his fortune.

British PM meets central bank chief as shares fall (AP)

Posted: 16 Jan 2009 02:36 PM CST

AP - Britain's Prime Minister met with the head of the bank of England and the chairman of the country's financial regulator Friday as banking shares crashed.

KPMG to offer staff a 4-day working week (AP)

Posted: 16 Jan 2009 02:15 PM CST

AP - Financial services company KPMG said Friday it would offer its staff a four-day working week or sabbatical breaks, but said it could not rule out job cuts.

Iranian collector jailed over British book scam (AFP)

Posted: 16 Jan 2009 12:25 PM CST

Iranian businessman Farhad Hakimzadeh, seen here in 2008, was jailed for two years on Friday for stealing pages from rare books in Britain's top libraries to improve his own collection.(AFP/File/Leon Neal)AFP - A wealthy Iranian businessman was jailed for two years on Friday for stealing pages from rare books in Britain's top libraries to improve his own collection.

Doctor cleared in British terror plot free on bail (AP)

Posted: 16 Jan 2009 11:31 AM CST

AP - A Jordanian doctor cleared of involvement in botched car bomb attacks in Britain but still facing deportation has been granted bail and freed.

Lara Croft owner receives takeover approach (AP)

Posted: 16 Jan 2009 11:29 AM CST

AP - Shares in British games publisher Eidos, the maker of the "Tomb Raider" series, soared nearly 23 percent on Friday after it revealed it has received a takeover approach.

Chinese man convicted of killing English author (AP)

Posted: 16 Jan 2009 11:28 AM CST

AP - A Chinese man was convicted Friday of murdering an elderly author and attempting to steal his identity in a trial held partly in secret for reasons of national security.

Pakistan must move faster against extremists: British FM (AFP)

Posted: 16 Jan 2009 10:29 AM CST

British Foreign Secretary David Miliband (left) shakes hands with Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani in Islamabad. Miliband has stepped up the pressure on Pakistan to act more quickly against extremist networks operating on its soil in the wake of the Mumbai attacks.(AFP/Aamir Qureshi)AFP - British Foreign Secretary David Miliband on Friday stepped up the pressure on Pakistan to act more quickly against extremist networks operating on its soil in the wake of the Mumbai attacks.

Ryanair ready to raise Aer Lingus offer (AP)

Posted: 16 Jan 2009 10:03 AM CST

AP - The chief of budget airline Ryanair said Friday he would consider raising the price of the hostile takeover bid for rival Aer Lingus, but said Ryanair would not wait more than another three weeks for a response.

American student goes on trial in Italy sex-murder case (AFP)

Posted: 16 Jan 2009 03:32 PM CST

Amanda Knox -- one of the two defendants charged with the 2007 murder of British student Meredith Kercher -- at the courthouse in Perugia. The defence has argued that Knox and her former boyfriend were too in love to be tempted by such a sordid affair as the sex-murder of Kercher.(AFP/Fabio Muzzi)AFP - American Amanda Knox and her ex-boyfriend were too in love to be tempted into such a sordid affair as the sex-murder of a British student, the defence argued as their trial opened Friday.

Boy George sentenced to 15 months (AP)

Posted: 16 Jan 2009 09:10 AM CST

In this Dec. 16, 2008 file photo, British singer Boy George performs onstage at Le Pigalle Club in central London. A British judge on Friday, Jan. 16, 2009 sentenced former Culture Club frontman Boy George to 15 months in jail after he was convicted of falsely imprisoning a male escort. (AP Photo/Joel Ryan, File)AP - Singer Boy George was sentenced to 15 months in jail on Friday after being convicted of falsely imprisoning a male escort by handcuffing him to a wall in a London apartment.

Ex-chiefs: scrap UK nuclear missile program (AP)

Posted: 16 Jan 2009 08:47 AM CST

AP - Three retired senior military chiefs made an unlikely appeal Friday for Britain to scrap its 20 billion-pound ($30 billion) nuclear missile program, claiming it is unnecessary and no longer independent of the United States.

Honda extends production halt in Britain (AP)

Posted: 16 Jan 2009 07:09 AM CST

AP - Honda Motor Co. said Friday it will halt production at its British factory for another two months, doubling its planned shutdown period, as the European car market fails to show any sign of recovery amid the economic downturn.

Christian refuses to drive "No God" bus (AFP)

Posted: 16 Jan 2009 06:28 AM CST

Comedy writer Ariane Sherine alongside one of her AFP - A Christian bus driver refused this week to drive a bus that displayed an atheist advertisement saying "There's probably no God" on the side, reports said on Friday.

Top UK central banker says recession will be deep (AP)

Posted: 16 Jan 2009 05:58 AM CST

AP - Countries around the world are facing a deep recession, and more government rescue plans and interest rate cuts may be necessary to stop it being a long one, the deputy governor of the Bank of England said Friday.

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