Yahoo! News: World - Britain

Cheesy book takes prize for year's oddest title (AP) Posted: 26 Mar 2009 05:01 PM PDT AP - A heavyweight study of the future of soft cheese has won Britain's annual competition to find the year's oddest book title.

Brazilian, British leaders propose trade fund (AFP) Posted: 26 Mar 2009 03:28 PM PDT AFP - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Thursday proposed creating a 100-billion-dollar global fund to spur trade amid the world cash crunch.

Britain to announce new Gurkha rights policy (AFP) Posted: 26 Mar 2009 11:51 AM PDT AFP - The government has agreed to announce a new policy on the right of Gurkhas to settle in the country within a month, after being forced to review the issue by protesting veterans, a spokesman said Thursday.

Gov to announce new Gurkha rights policy (AFP) Posted: 26 Mar 2009 11:14 AM PDT AFP - The government has agreed to announce a new policy on the right of Gurkhas to settle here within three weeks, after being forced to review it by protesting veterans, a lawyer said Thursday.

Brazilian, British leaders propose huge trade fund (AFP) Posted: 26 Mar 2009 11:09 AM PDT AFP - Prime Minister Gordon Brown and Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Thursday proposed creating a 100-billion-dollar global fund to spur on trade amid the world cash crunch.

British PM concerned about east Jerusalem demolitions (AFP) Posted: 26 Mar 2009 10:50 AM PDT AFP - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Thursday that he shared Moroccan King Mohammed VI's concern about the mooted demolition of 90 Palestinian houses in sensitive East Jerusalem.

Palace denies Prince Philip 'sponger' gaffe (AFP) Posted: 26 Mar 2009 10:43 AM PDT AFP - Buckingham Palace denied Thursday that Prince Philip had made another of his notorious gaffes by calling pop impresario Simon Cowell a "sponger" who feeds off the stars on his shows.

Gordon Brown: $100B needed to revitalize trade (AP) Posted: 26 Mar 2009 10:40 AM PDT AP - The world's top economies need to create a $100 billion fund to stimulate global trade, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Thursday.

UK asks police to probe torture claims (AP) Posted: 26 Mar 2009 10:26 AM PDT AP - The British government ordered police Thursday to investigate allegations by an ex-Guantanamo Bay detainee that U.K. intelligence officers were complicit in his torture overseas.

UK may allow abortion advice ads on radio, TV (AP) Posted: 26 Mar 2009 10:15 AM PDT AP - Organizations that provide abortion advice and referrals could run TV and radio ads in Britain for the first time under proposed changes to the nation's advertising codes.

Police sorry for failing to arrest sex attacker (AFP) Posted: 26 Mar 2009 09:49 AM PDT AFP - Scotland Yard apologised on Thursday to female victims of a serial sex attacker who was allowed to remain free for four years after being listed as a suspect.

Britain to investigate possible MI5 role in torture (Reuters) Posted: 26 Mar 2009 09:25 AM PDT Reuters - Britain is to investigate whether members of its secret services were complicit in the torture of a British resident released from Guantanamo Bay last month after nearly seven years in detention.

Britain urges Iran to grasp Obama 'opportunity' (AFP) Posted: 26 Mar 2009 08:53 AM PDT AFP - US President Barack Obama's olive branch to Iran is a one-off opportunity for Tehran to re-engage with the international community, British Foreign Secretary David Miliband said Thursday.

UK government says Iraqis freer than ever before (AP) Posted: 26 Mar 2009 07:47 AM PDT AP - The people of Iraq are probably freer now than at any time in their history, the British government said Thursday in an upbeat assessment of the country's human rights record.

Ancestry hunters' bonanza as London records go online (AFP) Posted: 26 Mar 2009 06:43 AM PDT AFP - Some 77 million documents dating from the 16th to the 20th centuries and including the ancestors of David Beckham and Britney Spears are to go online, under a service launched Thursday.

UK maths expert devises divorce forecast formula (AFP) Posted: 26 Mar 2009 06:19 AM PDT AFP - A British mathematician has devised a formula to predict whether loved-up couples are bound to spend their lives together or end their marriages in divorce.

Acne lights deter spotty teens (AFP) Posted: 26 Mar 2009 06:09 AM PDT AFP - A British town is using garish pink lighting that shows up acne to deter teenagers from loitering, in the latest example of using simple technology to break up loutish gatherings.

Chelsea seek to tap vein of British Asian talent (AFP) Posted: 26 Mar 2009 06:05 AM PDT AFP - Chelsea have launched an initiative aimed at identifying promising young players from a south Asian background in a bid to address the community's chronic under-representation in English football.

"Negligent" councils ignored warnings on Iceland (AFP) Posted: 26 Mar 2009 05:19 AM PDT AFP - Local authorities ignored warnings and "negligently" put nearly £33 million of taxpayers' money in Icelandic banks just days before they collapsed, a spending watchdog said Thursday.

UK charity probed over Bangladesh 'bomb factory' (AFP) Posted: 26 Mar 2009 04:05 AM PDT AFP - British and Bangladeshi authorities on Thursday probed allegations that a charity was linked to a huge cache of weapons and bomb-making equipment found in a religious school in Bangladesh.

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