2009年2月15日星期日

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Yahoo! News: World - Britain

British, French nuclear subs crash in Atlantic (AFP)

Posted: 15 Feb 2009 10:04 PM CST

File picture shows the French submarine Triomphant which reportedly collided earlier this month with a British submarine in the Atlantic(AFP/File/Philippe Huguen)AFP - A British and a French submarine, both of them nuclear-powered and carrying nuclear weapons, collided in the Atlantic Ocean earlier this month, the Sun newspaper reported on Monday.

Monument to Great Fire of London reopens (AP)

Posted: 15 Feb 2009 06:34 PM CST

AP - It's 202 feet (61 meters) high, has 311 stairs and is known simply as The Monument.

'Nighthawks' plundering England's buried treasures (AFP)

Posted: 15 Feb 2009 06:08 PM CST

Stonehenge at sunrise. AFP - "Nighthawks" armed with metal detectors are illegally raiding England's most sensitive heritage sites and plundering the booty, a report said Monday.

Officials visit Guantanamo detainee (AFP)

Posted: 15 Feb 2009 02:33 PM CST

Razor wire rises to the sky at the Camp 5 maximum security facility on the US Naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. British officials visited a detainee at the US prison in Guantanamo Bay and found there was no medical reason to prevent him from returning home, despite a hunger strike, the Foreign Office said Sunday.(AFP/File/Paul J. Richards)AFP - Officials visited a detainee at the US prison in Guantanamo Bay and found there was no medical reason to prevent him from returning home, despite a hunger strike, the Foreign Office said Sunday.

British say Gitmo inmate on strike fit for release (AP)

Posted: 15 Feb 2009 02:02 PM CST

AP - A British team visiting a hunger-striking detainee at Guantanamo Bay concluded he is medically fit to return to the U.K., authorities announced Sunday.

Guantanamo detainee fit to travel: British diplomats (Reuters)

Posted: 15 Feb 2009 09:53 AM CST

In this photo, reviewed by the U.S. Military, a guard walks through a gate at Guantanamo's Camp 6 detention center, at the U.S. Naval Base, in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, January 21, 2009. (Brennan Linsley/Pool/Reuters)Reuters - A British resident held at the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay is well enough to travel to Britain if a request to release him is approved, the Foreign Office (FCO) said on Sunday.

Baby-faced dad, 13, raises "broken Britain" fears (AP)

Posted: 15 Feb 2009 08:52 AM CST

Teenagers drink alcohol on a street corner on a rundown estate in Hebburn, England, Friday, Feb. 13, 2009. The problem of youthful binge drinking shows up in a rise in liver disease among Britons in their 20s, and in the unpleasant reputation British 'lager louts' have at many holiday resorts on mainland Europe. (AP Photo/Scott Heppell).AP - Ahhh, Britain. The land of Shakespeare and the Beatles, Churchill and the Queen. Rolling green hills, groovy London shops, hip plaids splashed over raincoats and umbrellas.

HBOS whistleblower threatens more disclosure: report (Reuters)

Posted: 15 Feb 2009 06:49 AM CST

Halifax and Bank of Scotland signage is seen, in the City of London on September 17, 2008. (Toby Melville/Reuters)Reuters - The whistleblower whose revelations about British bank HBOS led to the resignation of a top regulatory official said he had more evidence proving that the bank took excessive risks, a newspaper reported on Sunday.

China confident of overcoming economic difficulty: Wen (AFP)

Posted: 15 Feb 2009 06:43 AM CST

Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao gives a speech at Britain's Cambridge University in January. Wen has expressed confidence in his government's ability to overcome the nation's economic downturn, his cabinet said Sunday.(AFP/POOL/File/Darren Staples)AFP - China's Prime Minister Wen Jiabao expressed confidence in his government's ability to overcome the nation's economic downturn, his cabinet said Sunday.

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