2009年5月3日星期日

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Yahoo! News: World - Britain

British swine flu cases up to 18 (AFP)

Posted: 03 May 2009 02:50 PM PDT

Director of PrimerDesign Ltd Jim Wicks prepares a sample as the company works against the clock to produce the world's first DNA test for the Mexican strain of swine flu. The number of swine flu sufferers in Britain rose to 18 on Sunday as a man who had returned from the United States and two schoolchildren tested positive, health authorities said.(AFP/File/Leon Neal)AFP - The number of swine flu sufferers in Britain rose to 18 on Sunday as a man who had returned from the United States and two schoolchildren tested positive, health authorities said.

Gascoigne facing up to lifelong battle (AFP)

Posted: 03 May 2009 02:24 PM PDT

Fallen football star Paul Gascoigne, pictured in 2003, said he would spend the rest of his life trying to deal with his personal problems after playing his first match for more than three years on Sunday.(AFP/File)AFP - Fallen football star Paul Gascoigne said he would spend the rest of his life trying to deal with his personal problems after playing his first match for more than three years on Sunday.

UK woman in Laos could go on trial Monday (AP)

Posted: 03 May 2009 12:12 PM PDT

AP - A pregnant British woman who faces death by firing squad if she is convicted of drug smuggling could go on trial in Laos as early as Monday, a human rights group said Sunday.

Mother of woman held in Laos voices fear (AFP)

Posted: 03 May 2009 10:30 AM PDT

US lawyer Clive Stafford Smith (L), friend of Samantha Orobator Ronke Oseni (C), and MP Stephen Pound attend a press conference in central London on May 1, 2009. The mother of a pregnant woman who faces the death penalty in Laos if found guilty of drug trafficking has spoken of her fears for her daughter, who media reports say could go on trial on Monday.(AFP/File/Ben Stansall)AFP - The mother of a pregnant woman who faces the death penalty in Laos if found guilty of drug trafficking has spoken of her fears for her daughter, who media reports say could go on trial on Monday.

UK minister says Brown's party guilty of "failure" (Reuters)

Posted: 03 May 2009 03:54 AM PDT

Britain's Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government Hazel Blears speaks during the annual Labour Party conference in Bournemouth, southern England September 24, 2007. REUTERS/Dylan MartinezReuters - A senior minister in British Prime Minister Gordon Brown's Labor party warned on Sunday his government was at risk of electoral disaster, saying it was guilty of a "lamentable failure" to connect with voters.

Sri Lanka rebels ask British, French to seek truce (AFP)

Posted: 02 May 2009 10:15 PM PDT

Government soldiers in northeast Sri Lanka at Putumathalan.The cornered Tamil Tiger fighters appealed to Britain and France to broker a truce to halt a government military offensive that threatens to wipe out the rebels(AFP/Line Wolf Nielsen)AFP - Sri Lanka's cornered Tamil Tiger fighters appealed to Britain and France to broker a truce to halt a government military offensive that threatens to wipe out the rebels.

Thatcher legacy stalks Britain's Conservatives (AFP)

Posted: 02 May 2009 07:47 PM PDT

Former British Prime Minister Baroness Margaret Thatcher arrives at 10 Downing Street in central London in September 2007. Thirty years since becoming Margaret Thatcher became Britain's first female prime minister, the Conservative Party is again on the brink of power and facing a dilemma - to embrace or reject her divisive legacy?(AFP/File/Alessandro Abbonizio)AFP - Thirty years after Margaret Thatcher became Britain's first female prime minister, the Conservative Party is again on the brink of power and facing a dilemma -- embrace or reject her divisive legacy?

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