| British police to probe lawmakers' expenses claims (AFP) Posted: 15 May 2009 06:39 PM PDT  AFP - British police said they would examine allegations over the lavish expense claims of lawmakers after the scandal engulfed its first government minister and public anger grew.
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| More MPs named and shamed in UK expenses scandal (Reuters) Posted: 15 May 2009 04:57 PM PDT  Reuters - An MP from Britain's ruling Labour party has said there was an "unforgivable error" in his claim for thousands of pounds in expenses for a mortgage he had already repaid and he would refund the cash, a paper reported on Saturday.
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| Britain rocked by parliamentary expenses scandal (AP) Posted: 15 May 2009 03:50 PM PDT  AP - Britain has seen its share of sex and sleaze scandals over the years, but few have tarnished all three of the country's main political parties in a single stroke.
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| British expenses scandal claims first minister (AFP) Posted: 15 May 2009 01:40 PM PDT  AFP - The scandal over the expenses of British lawmakers claimed its first ministerial victim Friday and the police said senior officers and lawyers would examine allegations as public anger grew.
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| Pair found guilty of Sol Campbell abuse (AFP) Posted: 15 May 2009 12:31 PM PDT  AFP - A man and a 14-year-old boy were Friday banned from attending football matches for three years for shouting homophobic chants at Portsmouth and former England defender Sol Campbell.
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| Man guilty over firebombing publisher in Britain (AFP) Posted: 15 May 2009 10:52 AM PDT AFP - A man was convicted Friday of involvement in firebombing a London publisher behind "The Jewel of Medina", a controversial book about the child bride of the Islamic prophet Mohammed. |
| Barclays gets interest for asset management arm (AFP) Posted: 15 May 2009 06:21 AM PDT  AFP - British banking group Barclays on Friday said it had received interest regarding the possible sale of its asset management arm.
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| Minister stands down pending expenses probe (AFP) Posted: 15 May 2009 04:55 AM PDT AFP - Junior justice minister Shahid Malik is stepping down pending the outcome of an investigation into his parliamentary expenses, Prime Minister Gordon Brown's office said Friday. |
| Building begins on much-delayed London rail project (AFP) Posted: 15 May 2009 03:40 AM PDT  AFP - Construction work began Friday on a landmark 16-billion-pound rail line through London from west to east, 35 years after plans for the project were first mooted.
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| Cool Britannia? Brits are angriest Europeans: poll (AFP) Posted: 15 May 2009 03:11 AM PDT  AFP - Britons get angry more often than any of their European counterparts, while the Danes are the most relaxed, a new poll published Friday showed.
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| Soldiers using 'outdated equipment' after delays (AFP) Posted: 15 May 2009 02:28 AM PDT  AFP - British soldiers serving in Afghanistan are fighting with outdated and obsolete equipment due to delays in defence projects, a cross-party committee of MPs said on Friday.
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| British aristocrat jailed for poacher death (AFP) Posted: 15 May 2009 02:28 AM PDT  AFP - A Kenyan court on Thursday sentenced Thomas Cholmondeley, scion of the country's foremost family of white settlers, to eight months in prison for shooting dead a black poacher on his ranch.
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| Hot-tempered Brits are 'Europe's angriest' (AFP) Posted: 15 May 2009 02:09 AM PDT AFP - British people, long known for their pragmatism and "stiff upper-lip," have surprisingly come out on top in a poll to find the angriest nation in Europe, it was revealed Friday. |
| Bloody summer for British troops in Taliban country (Reuters) Posted: 15 May 2009 01:37 AM PDT  Reuters - The fate of the war in Afghanistan could be decided in the next few months in sweltering villages like this one alongside a highway that cuts through Helmand province, the heartland of the Taliban.
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| British soldier killed by Afghan explosion (AFP) Posted: 15 May 2009 01:28 AM PDT  AFP - A British soldier has been killed by an explosion in the restive southern Afghan province of Helmand, the Ministry of Defence in London said Friday.
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| Expenses scandal rouses rare British political rage (Reuters) Posted: 15 May 2009 01:26 AM PDT  Reuters - Britons angered by their lawmakers' lavish expense claims say they will exact revenge at the ballot box next month, with ruling Labor set to be the prime target.
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| Brazilian convicted of dismembering British teen (AP) Posted: 14 May 2009 08:30 PM PDT  AP - A young Brazilian man who acknowledged stabbing to death and dismembering a British teen while high on crack cocaine last year was found guilty of first-degree murder Thursday night and sentenced to 21 years in prison.
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