2009年5月1日星期五

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Yahoo! News: World - Britain

Man in Baby P case convicted of raping 2-year-old (AFP)

Posted: 01 May 2009 01:00 PM PDT

A combination of handout images released by Britain's Metropolitan Police(BMP), showing bloodstained clothing belonging to a child known only as 'Baby P.' The boyfriend of the mother of Baby P -- whose death in 2007 prompted outrage in Britain -- was found guilty of raping a two-year-old girl Friday.(AFP/BMP-HO/Files)AFP - The boyfriend of the mother of Baby P -- whose death in 2007 prompted outrage in Britain -- was found guilty of raping a two-year-old girl Friday.

UK's prime minister faces tough election task (AP)

Posted: 01 May 2009 10:37 AM PDT

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown speaks during an Iraq investment reception with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, not seen, at Brown's official residence at 10 Downing Street in central London, Thursday, April 30, 2009. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis, Pool)AP - He's lost a major parliamentary vote, a key aide and, according to critics, his authority. So can British Prime Minister Gordon Brown avoid losing the looming national election?

Briton helps wife give birth -- with YouTube as midwife (AFP)

Posted: 01 May 2009 10:12 AM PDT

A YouTube webpage. A British man helped deliver his baby son by following clips on YouTube, after his wife went into labour early, he said Friday.(AFP/File/Samantha Sin)AFP - A British man helped deliver his baby son by following clips on YouTube, after his wife went into labour early, he said Friday.

Carol Ann Duffy chosen as UK poet laureate (AP)

Posted: 01 May 2009 09:17 AM PDT

Writer and poet Carol Ann Duffy poses for photographs at John Rylands Library in Manchester, England, Friday, May 1, 2009, after being named as Britain's poet laureate - the first woman to hold a post that has been filled by William Wordsworth, Alfred, Lord Tennyson and Ted Hughes. A witty and popular writer whose work is widely taught in British schools, Duffy is also the first openly gay laureate. Duffy said she had thought 'long and hard' before accepting the job, which now has a 10-year term.(AP Photo/Paul Thomas)AP - The centuries-old post of British poet laureate, bard to kings and queens, has been held by William Wordsworth, Alfred Lord Tennyson and Ted Hughes — but never, until Friday, by a woman.

bmi eyes London-Baghdad flights (AFP)

Posted: 01 May 2009 07:53 AM PDT

A US army Blackhawk helicopter flies over Baghdad International Airport in 2007. British airline bmi wants to launch a direct flight between London and Baghdad, but does not yet have governmental approval, it said as Iraqi premier Nuri al-Maliki concluded a trip to London on Friday.(AFP/File/Patrick Baz)AFP - Airline bmi wants to launch a direct flight between London and Baghdad, but does not yet have governmental approval, it said as Iraqi premier Nuri al-Maliki concluded a trip to London on Friday.

Couple arrested for sex on lawn at Windsor Castle (AP)

Posted: 01 May 2009 07:40 AM PDT

AP - Queen Elizabeth II was at home at Windsor Castle, the sentries who guard her were on duty, and the large park surrounding the magnificent building was full of tourists on a Sunday afternoon.

English poet UA Fanthorpe dies at 79 (AP)

Posted: 01 May 2009 06:50 AM PDT

AP - U.A. Fanthorpe, a highly regarded English poet who was first inspired by the human tragedy she saw in a neurological hospital, has died at age 79.

Mortgage approvals up in March (AFP)

Posted: 01 May 2009 04:58 AM PDT

A file photo of a property for sale in east London. Approvals for home loans increased in March, figures released Friday show, in a sign the recession-hit housing market may be recovering(AFP/File/Shaun Curry)AFP - Approvals for home loans increased in March, figures released Friday show, in a sign the recession-hit housing market may be recovering.

Brown reels from nightmare week (AFP)

Posted: 01 May 2009 04:51 AM PDT

Prime Minister Gordon Brown, seen here on May 01, was left reeling Friday from one of his worst weeks since taking power, as a senior ex-minister warned of a policy void in a British government facing elections in barely a year.(AFP/Peter Macdiarmid)AFP - Prime Minister Gordon Brown was left reeling Friday from one of his worst weeks since taking power, as a senior ex-minister warned of a policy void in a government facing elections in barely a year.

Blunkett warns Brown over "meltdown of trust" (AFP)

Posted: 01 May 2009 03:24 AM PDT

Prime Minister Gordon Brown, seen here on May 01, was left reeling Friday from one of his worst weeks since taking power, as a senior ex-minister warned of a policy void in a British government facing elections in barely a year.(AFP/Peter Macdiarmid)AFP - Former cabinet minister David Blunkett has warned Prime Minister Gordon Brown to "get back to old-fashioned politics" after a political scandal and an embarrassing defeat in parliament, a newspaper reported on Friday.

Is the gloom over? Warm "barbeque" summer on way (AFP)

Posted: 01 May 2009 03:04 AM PDT

Children enjoy a game of cricket in Hyde Park in 2003. With the global economy on the verge of collapse and a flu pandemic looming, finally some good news: this summer could be warm and dry.(AFP/File/Jim Watson)AFP - With the global economy on the verge of collapse and a flu pandemic looming, finally some good news: this summer could be warm and dry.

Pearson reports encouraging start to 2009 (AFP)

Posted: 01 May 2009 01:34 AM PDT

A logo of publishing giant the Penguin group at the Frankfurt Book Fair in 2005. Media group Pearson, publisher of the Financial Times newspaper and Penguin books, said Friday that it made an encouraging start to 2009 despite a tough economic environment.(AFP/File/John Macdougall)AFP - Media group Pearson, publisher of the Financial Times newspaper and Penguin books, said Friday that it made an encouraging start to 2009 despite a tough economic environment.

Queen received over £473,000 in EU farm subsidies (AFP)

Posted: 01 May 2009 12:32 AM PDT

Britains Queen Elizabeth II, seen here on April 12, 2009, received more than 500,000 euros in European agricultural subsidies in 2008, according to figures released Thursday by the department of rural affairs (Defra).(AFP/POOL/File/Murray Sanders)AFP - Queen Elizabeth II received 473,583.31 pounds in European agricultural subsidies in 2008, according to figures released Thursday by the department of rural affairs.

WWI Australian, British war dead to be exhumed (AFP)

Posted: 30 Apr 2009 07:30 PM PDT

The hats of four Australian soldiers who died during World War I at the Commonwealth cemetery in Merris, France. Experts are set to begin exhuming hundreds of British and Australian troops from a mass grave in northern France, before laying the fallen soldiers to rest in a new war cemetery.(AFP/File/Philippe Huguen)AFP - Experts will Tuesday begin exhuming hundreds of British and Australian troops from a World War I mass grave in northern France, before laying the fallen soldiers to rest in a new war cemetery.

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