2009年3月23日星期一

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Yahoo! News: World - Britain

Amnesty says executions almost double in 2008 (Reuters)

Posted: 23 Mar 2009 05:19 PM PDT

Reuters - Executions rose more than 90 percent to 2,390 last year, with China, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and the United States responsible for over 90 percent of those, Amnesty International said on Tuesday.

More Madoff assets found, U.S.-British probe linked (Reuters)

Posted: 23 Mar 2009 03:36 PM PDT

Reuters - A court-appointed trustee has located more than $1 billion of jailed swindler Bernard Madoff's assets, his house in France could be seized and U.S. prosecutors are cooperating with a British agency that investigates organized crime, a court heard on Monday.

Obama, British PM speak by phone ahead of summit (AP)

Posted: 23 Mar 2009 03:24 PM PDT

AP - President Barack Obama and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown have spoken by phone and are working together ahead of next month's financial summit in London.

UK: 2 charged with Columbine anniversary bomb plot (AP)

Posted: 23 Mar 2009 11:29 AM PDT

AP - British prosecutors say they've charged two teens with plotting to bomb a school on the 10th anniversary of the Columbine High School killings in the United States.

Sylvia Plath's son commits suicide: report (AFP)

Posted: 23 Mar 2009 10:04 AM PDT

AFP - The son of tragedy-scarred poets Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath has killed himself 46 years after his mother famously gassed herself, his sister said in a statement published in the press Monday.

U.S. tried to win ex-Guantanamo detainee's silence (Reuters)

Posted: 23 Mar 2009 09:43 AM PDT

Reuters - U.S. government lawyers tried to get a British resident held at Guantanamo Bay to sign a deal saying he had never been tortured and that he would not speak to the media as a condition of his release, according to documents presented in the High Court in London.

Court says US asked detainee to drop torture claim (AP)

Posted: 23 Mar 2009 09:32 AM PDT

AP - U.S. authorities asked a Guantanamo Bay detainee to drop allegations of torture and agree not to speak publicly about his ordeal in exchange for his freedom, according to British court documents.

Probe to query minister's expense claims (AFP)

Posted: 23 Mar 2009 09:12 AM PDT

Then London Transport Minister Tony McNulty, pictured in January 2004. McNulty, now the Education Minister, is facing a barrage of criticism after it emerged he had claimed an estimated 60,000 pounds of public money to pay for the mortgage on a house in his Harrow constituency.(AFP/File/Nicolas Asfouri)AFP - A senior Labour minister was on Monday facing a possible probe into his parliamentary expenses after he admitted claiming tens of thousands of pounds for a 'second home' located just nine miles from his main residence in west London.

London braces for G-20 summit, protests (AP)

Posted: 23 Mar 2009 08:17 AM PDT

AP - Here's some advice for next week's G20 summit. To Londoners: Be patient. To bankers: Dress down.

Britons shun holidays in Spain as pound weakens (AFP)

Posted: 23 Mar 2009 07:37 AM PDT

An EasyJet passenger plane comes in to land at Gatwick Airport. Tourist arrivals in Spain plunged 15.9% in February, with Britons in particular shunning the world's second largest holiday destination, the Spanish tourism ministry has said.(AFP/File/Adrian Dennis)AFP - Tourist arrivals in Spain plunged 15.9 percent in February, with Britons in particular shunning the world's second largest holiday destination, the Spanish tourism ministry said on Monday.

Belfast zoo hunts 'elephant angel' (AFP)

Posted: 23 Mar 2009 06:51 AM PDT

Sheila the elephant with two women whose identities are unknown. Belfast zoo has launched a search for a mystery woman who sheltered a baby elephant named Sheila during World War II.(AFP)AFP - Belfast zoo on Monday launched a search for a mystery woman who sheltered a baby elephant named Sheila during World War II.

Report: Sylvia Plath's son commits suicide (AP)

Posted: 23 Mar 2009 06:38 AM PDT

AP - A British newspaper is reporting that the son of poets Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes has committed suicide in the United States.

Vodafone, Telefonica in Euro network deal (AFP)

Posted: 23 Mar 2009 04:38 AM PDT

Mobile phone giant Vodafone and Spanish peer Telefonica are to share network infrastructure in four European nations in a deal to save hundreds of millions of pounds.(AFP/File/John Macdougall)AFP - Mobile phone giant Vodafone and Spanish peer Telefonica said on Monday they would share network infrastructure in four European nations in a deal to save hundreds of millions of pounds.

British actress Natasha Richardson buried (AFP)

Posted: 23 Mar 2009 04:20 AM PDT

Pallbearers carry the coffin with the body of actress Natasha Richardson to her gravesite at St. Peter's cemetary in Millbrook, New York. Actress Natasha Richardson, who died after skiing accident last week, has been buried in northern New York state, a church spokesperson said.(AFP/Getty Images/Neilson Barnard)AFP - Actress Natasha Richardson, who died on Wednesday after a skiing accident, has been buried in northern New York state, a church spokesperson said.

Oil and gas giant BG acquires 70% of Pure Energy (AFP)

Posted: 23 Mar 2009 03:56 AM PDT

The British oil and gas group BG has acquired 70% of the capital of Pure Energy of Australia, and has extended its offer until April 6.(AFP)AFP - The British oil and gas group BG said on Monday it had acquired 70 percent of the capital of Pure Energy of Australia, adding that it had extended its offer until April 6.

Reality TV star Jade Goody to be buried April 4 (AFP)

Posted: 23 Mar 2009 12:53 PM PDT

The funeral of British reality television star Jade Goody, seen here in 2002 and who lost her very public battle with cervical cancer at the age of 27, will take place on April 4, a family spokesman said on Monday.(AFP/File/Pal Pillai)AFP - The funeral of reality television star Jade Goody, who lost her very public battle with cervical cancer at the age of 27, will take place on April 4, a family spokesman said on Monday.

Reality TV star Jade Goody dies after cancer fight (AP)

Posted: 22 Mar 2009 11:35 AM PDT

File photo dated Feb. 19 2009 of Jade Goody leaving her home in a wheelchair in Upshire, England. Jade Goody, a dental assistant turned reality-TV star whose whirlwind journey from poverty to celebrity to tragedy became a national soap opera and morality tale in Britain, has died. The 27-year-old had cancer and died in her sleep early Sunday March 22 2009 at her home, her publicist Max Clifford said. Goody gained fame at 21 in 2002, when she joined the reality television show 'Big Brother,' in which contestants live together for weeks and are constantly filmed. Loud and brash, she became a highly divisive star — initially mocked as an ignorant slob, then celebrated as a forthright everywoman by a hungry tabloid press. (AP Photo / pa, Stefan Rousseau, files)AP - Jade Goody's family asks for "privacy at last" after the death at 27 of the brash former dental assistant who turned her tumultuous life and struggle with cervical cancer into a one-woman reality show.

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