2009年1月28日星期三

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Yahoo! News: World - Britain

TV group BSkyB returns to profit (AFP)

Posted: 28 Jan 2009 02:19 AM CST

A 'Sky' remote control. Pay-TV giant BSkyB on Wednesday said it returned to profit during the first half of its financial year as it attracted new customers to its Internet and telephone services.(AFP/File/Leon Neal)AFP - Pay-TV giant BSkyB on Wednesday said it returned to profit during the first half of its financial year as it attracted new customers to its Internet and telephone services.

Supermarket Asda to create 7,000 jobs (AFP)

Posted: 28 Jan 2009 02:17 AM CST

An Asda supermarket store in Halifax, 2007. Asda, the supermarket chain owned by the world's biggest retailer Wal-Mart Stores, said it planned to create 7,000 jobs during 2009.(AFP/File/Paul Barker)AFP - Asda, the supermarket chain owned by the world's biggest retailer Wal-Mart Stores, said on Wednesday it planned to create 7,000 jobs during 2009.

New Met boss to take charge (AFP)

Posted: 28 Jan 2009 02:07 AM CST

Paul Stephenson, seen here in 2008, currently acting commissioner of London's Metropolitan Police, will be appointed to head the force which has responsibility for fighting terrorism and securing the 2012 Olympic Games.(AFP/File/Shaun Curry)AFP - Paul Stephenson, currently acting commissioner of London's Metropolitan Police, will be appointed on Wednesday to head the force which has responsibility for fighting terrorism and securing the 2012 Olympic Games.

Iranian Kurd guilty of setting fire to Iranian embassy in London (AFP)

Posted: 27 Jan 2009 03:35 PM CST

A view of the Iranian embassy in London. An Iranian Kurd who sought asylum in Britain was handed a 50-week suspended jail sentence Tuesday for trying to burn down the Iranian embassy in London.(AFP/File/Shaun Curry)AFP - An Iranian Kurd who sought asylum in Britain was handed a 50-week suspended jail sentence Tuesday for trying to burn down the Iranian embassy in London.

Monster data fraud hits job seekers (AFP)

Posted: 27 Jan 2009 02:44 PM CST

A man looks over job listings on a computer in New York City. Monster Worldwide Inc, the popular global website for job hunters, said Tuesday that hackers have broken into its databases and stolen personal data.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Chris Hondros)AFP - Monster Worldwide Inc, the popular global website for job hunters, said Tuesday that hackers have broken into its databases and stolen personal data.

UK lawmakers pressure BBC over Gaza appeal (AP)

Posted: 27 Jan 2009 02:20 PM CST

AP - Emotional criticism of the British Broadcasting Corp. over its refusal to air a charity appeal for the people of Gaza intensified Tuesday as more legislators demanded the BBC change course.

Scrummy! New novels put the romance into rugby (AP)

Posted: 27 Jan 2009 12:51 PM CST

Felicia Field-Hall,TV presenter center, Rugby Football Union's Rugby Development Officer, Phil Duffy, left, and London Scottish rugby player Rory Greenslade-Jones pose for the media during a launch of romance publisher Mills & Boon's International Billionaires series of eight books, featuring romance of rugby, in London, Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2009. The first book in the series entitled 'The Prince's Waitress Wife' by Sarah Morgan is to be published on Feb. 1 prior to the start of the 2009 RBS Six Nations Championship and with one title published each month until September. (AP Photo/Sang Tan)AP - Romance and rugby — strange bedfellows or perfect match?

Britain ordered to release Iraq war minutes (AFP)

Posted: 27 Jan 2009 12:19 PM CST

The door to 10 Downing Street. The government was ordered Tuesday to release minutes of crucial ministerial meetings from 2003 at which the controversial US-led invasion of Iraq was discussed.(AFP/File/Shaun Curry)AFP - The British government was ordered Tuesday to release minutes of crucial ministerial meetings from 2003 at which the controversial US-led invasion of Iraq was discussed.

British tribunal orders Iraq minutes released (AP)

Posted: 27 Jan 2009 12:04 PM CST

A prisoner dips his finger in election ink as he votes in Basra, 420 km (260 miles) southeast of Baghdad January 28, 2009. Soldiers, police, prisoners and displaced people began early voting on Wednesday ahead of Saturday's provincial election in Iraq, which will determine the political landscape across the country as U.S. forces withdraw. REUTERS/Atef Hassan (IRAQ)AP - A British tribunal ordered the government to make public the formal minutes of two contentious Cabinet discussions held before the invasion of Iraq.

Britain told to publish Iraq war discussions (Reuters)

Posted: 27 Jan 2009 11:55 AM CST

Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown addresses British troops at Basra Air Station in Southern Iraq during his one day visit December 17, 2008. (Stefan Rousseau/Pool/Reuters)Reuters - Records of British cabinet discussions over the legality of invading Iraq, held in the buildup to war in 2003, must be released to the public, a tribunal ruled Tuesday.

British teenager's organs destroyed after autopsy: lawyer (AFP)

Posted: 27 Jan 2009 11:30 AM CST

Fiona MacKeown, seen here in 2008 and who has been fighting for the return of her daughter Scarlett Keeling's full remains since her death in the former Portuguese colony on February 18 last year, has been told by the local authorities have destroyed most of daughter's organs.(AFP/File)AFP - Authorities in the Indian resort state of Goa have destroyed most of the organs of a British girl who was found dead on a beach almost a year ago, her mother's lawyer said Tuesday.

British teams to play cricket on Everest (AFP)

Posted: 27 Jan 2009 10:14 AM CST

A photo, taken from an aircraft, of the world's tallest mountain in 2006. Two teams of cricket-mad Britons vowed Tuesday to take the sport to new heights by climbing Mount Everest to play the world's highest-ever match.(AFP/File/Sam Taylor)AFP - Two teams of cricket-mad Britons vowed Tuesday to take the sport to new heights by playing on Mount Everest in the world's highest-ever match.

Absent fathers could lose passports under crackdown (AFP)

Posted: 27 Jan 2009 06:48 AM CST

A file photo of a mother and child watching a passenger plane in 2001. Fathers who refuse to pay child maintenance could be stripped of their drivers' licence and passport under plans to go before parliament on Tuesday to crackdown on AFP - Fathers who refuse to pay child maintenance could be stripped of their drivers' licence and passport under plans to go before parliament on Tuesday to crackdown on "deadbeat dads".

French ship faces green protest (AFP)

Posted: 27 Jan 2009 04:41 AM CST

The aircraft carrier Clemenceau in 2006 at the seaport of Brest. Local green campaigners are protesting the imminent arrival of the asbestos-tainted French aircraft carrier here, where it is to be dismantled after being rejected by India.(AFP/File/Fred Tanneau)AFP - Local green campaigners are protesting the imminent arrival of an asbestos-tainted French aircraft carrier here, where it is to be dismantled after being rejected by India.

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