2009年4月24日星期五

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Yahoo! News: World - Britain

British police paying informants within green groups (AFP)

Posted: 24 Apr 2009 04:45 PM PDT

A protester is removed from the end of a runway at Stansted Airport following a protest by the climate action group AFP - Police claim to be paying hundreds of informants within environmental groups in a bid to get better intelligence about their activities and protests, The Guardian reported Saturday.

Scottish singing sensation gets dye job, makeover (AP)

Posted: 24 Apr 2009 11:56 AM PDT

AP - The economy is scary, jobs are disappearing and taxes are going up. But Britain is buzzing over something else — Susan Boyle's new hairdo.

Toshiba says to cut British jobs, focus on Poland (AFP)

Posted: 24 Apr 2009 10:53 AM PDT

Toshiba's sign is illuminated on the Toshiba building in central Tokyo. The Japanese electronics giant said Friday it was cutting 270 jobs in Britain to move production to Poland.(AFP/File/Yoshikazu Tsuno)AFP - Japanese electronics giant Toshiba said Friday it was cutting 270 jobs in Britain to move production to Poland.

Britain refuses full settlement rights for ex-Gurkhas (AFP)

Posted: 24 Apr 2009 10:10 AM PDT

Former Gurkha Laximan Gurung holds his medals outside the Houses of Parliament in central London. The British government refused to offer full settlement rights to all former Gurkhas Friday despite a High Court ruling last year, in a move slammed by the Nepalese ex-soldiers and their supporters.(AFP/Leon Neal)AFP - The British government refused to offer full settlement rights to all former Gurkhas Friday despite a High Court ruling last year, in a move slammed by the Nepalese ex-soldiers and their supporters.

Furious Lampard lashes DJ over breakup (AFP)

Posted: 24 Apr 2009 09:44 AM PDT

Chelsea midfielder Frank Lampard, seen here in December 2008, launched a ferocious tirade on Friday at a radio show host who criticised his break up from his fiancee and mother of his two children.(AFP/File/Glyn Kirk)AFP - Chelsea midfielder Frank Lampard launched a ferocious tirade on Friday at a radio show host who criticised his split from his fiancee and mother of his children.

British economy shrinks fastest since 1979 (AFP)

Posted: 24 Apr 2009 09:39 AM PDT

A construction worker on a buliding site in central London. Britain's recession-battered economy shrank at its fastest in almost 30 years in the first quarter of 2009, official data showed Friday, heaping fresh doubt on government hopes of a quick recovery.(AFP/File/Carl de Souza)AFP - Britain's recession-battered economy shrank at its fastest in almost 30 years in the first quarter of 2009, official data showed Friday, heaping fresh doubt on government hopes of a quick recovery.

Hero dog's medal sold at UK auction for $35,700 (AP)

Posted: 24 Apr 2009 08:46 AM PDT

AP - A medal awarded to a dog who sniffed out scores of survivors in rubble of the Blitz was sold at auction Friday for 24,250 pounds ($35,700.)

Gurkhas refused full settlement rights (AFP)

Posted: 24 Apr 2009 08:41 AM PDT

Former Gurkha Laximan Gurung holds his medals outside the Houses of Parliament in central London, on April 24, 2009. The government refused to offer full settlement rights to all former Gurkhas on Friday despite a High Court ruling last year, in a move slammed by the Nepalese ex-soldiers and their supporters.(AFP/Leon Neal)AFP - The government refused to offer full settlement rights to all former Gurkhas Friday despite a High Court ruling last year, in a move slammed by the Nepalese ex-soldiers and their supporters.

Firms to reveal gender pay under planned law (AFP)

Posted: 24 Apr 2009 07:13 AM PDT

Women workers in Canary Wharf in 2007. Companies will be forced to disclose how much more they pay men than women under a new law to crackdown on inequality in the workplace, reports said on Friday.(AFP/File/Ben Stansall)AFP - Companies will be forced to disclose how much more they pay men than women under a proposed new law to crackdown on inequality in the workplace, reports said on Friday.

Elderly scooter rider takes wrong turn (AFP)

Posted: 24 Apr 2009 06:40 AM PDT

A file photo of a motorway. An elderly Briton on a mobility scooter took a wrong turn and ended up driving along a motorway with a 70 mile (113 kilometre) per hour speed limit, prompting a police escort home.(AFP/DDP/File)AFP - A British pensioner on a mobility scooter took a wrong turn and ended up driving along a motorway with a 70 mile (113 kilometre) per hour speed limit, prompting a police escort home.

McGuinness: Dissidents trying to kill me (AFP)

Posted: 24 Apr 2009 06:37 AM PDT

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (L) with Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness in Washington on March 17, 2009. McGuinness revealed Friday that dissident republican groups are plotting to kill him.(AFP/File/Paul J. Richards)AFP - Northern Ireland Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness revealed Friday that dissident republican groups are plotting to kill him.

Economy shrinks fastest since 1979 (AFP)

Posted: 24 Apr 2009 05:22 AM PDT

Chancellor Alistair Darling and his Treasury team prepare to leave 11 Downing Street in London on April 22, 2009. The recession-battered economy shrank at its fastest pace in almost 30 years in the first quarter of 2009, official data showed Friday, heaping fresh doubt on government hopes of a fast recovery.(AFP/File/Peter Macdiarmid)AFP - The recession-battered economy shrank at its fastest in almost 30 years in the first quarter of 2009, official data showed Friday, heaping fresh doubt on government hopes of a quick recovery.

British economy shrinks 1.9 percent in Q1 (AP)

Posted: 24 Apr 2009 04:02 AM PDT

AP - The British economy shrank in the first quarter at its sharpest rate since the early days of Margaret Thatcher's government 30 years ago as the financial crisis continued to wreak havoc on banks, retailing and manufacturing.

British car output plunges 51% in March (AFP)

Posted: 24 Apr 2009 01:49 AM PDT

A transporter loaded with Honda cars leaves the Honda car factory in Swindon, western England, January 2009. Car production in Britain slumped 51.3 percent in March compared with a year earlier, industry body SMMT said Friday, as the nation's worst recession since World War II slams the brakes on demand.(AFP/File/Max Nash)AFP - Car production in Britain slumped 51.3 percent in March compared with a year earlier, industry body SMMT said Friday, as the nation's worst recession since World War II slams the brakes on demand.

Police make two arrests over body parts (AFP)

Posted: 24 Apr 2009 01:25 AM PDT

A photo released by the Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Major Crime Unit on April 24 shows Jeffrey Howe. Police have identified Howe as the man whose body parts were found scattered across the countryside.(HO)AFP - Police have identified a man whose body parts have been found scattered across the countryside, and said they had arrested two people on suspicion of his murder.

Britain's Brown slumps in poll after bleak budget (Reuters)

Posted: 23 Apr 2009 10:50 PM PDT

Reuters - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has fallen further behind the opposition Conservatives to trail by 18 percentage points after his government announced a record budget deficit, an opinion poll showed on Friday.

British director Ken Annakin dies at 94 (AFP)

Posted: 23 Apr 2009 04:47 PM PDT

This picture taken in 1957 at the Pinewood Studios in London shows US actor Rod Steiger (L) talking with his director Ken Annakin on the set of the film AFP - British film-maker Ken Annakin, who directed World War II films "The Longest Day" and "Battle of the Bulge," has died in Los Angeles, it was reported Thursday. He was 94.

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