2009年5月18日星期一

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Yahoo! News: World - Britain

UK Labour Party faithful want Brown to quit -poll (Reuters)

Posted: 18 May 2009 04:04 PM PDT

Reuters - Prime Minister Gordon Brown should step down as leader of Britain's ruling Labour Party before the next election, according to a majority of party members and supporters questioned in a poll published on Tuesday.

Queen gives green-minded son gardening award (AP)

Posted: 18 May 2009 01:52 PM PDT

Britain Queen Elizabeth II presents to Prince Charles with a Royal Horticultural Society's Victoria Medal of Honour during a visit to Chelsea Flower Show in London, Monday, May 18, 2009. The Victoria Medal of Honour is the highest accolade that the Royal Horticultural Society can bestow. (AP Photo/Sang Tan, Pool)AP - Prince Charles, an avid gardener and environmentalist, has received Britain's top gardening award from his mother, Queen Elizabeth II.

Tamil protesters refuse to believe in Tigers' defeat (Reuters)

Posted: 18 May 2009 12:22 PM PDT

Reuters - Tamils and their supporters demonstrating outside Britain's parliament on Monday refused to believe that Sri Lanka's long civil war was over or that separatist Tamil Tiger rebels were defeated.

Britain's Speaker apologizes, election calls grow (Reuters)

Posted: 18 May 2009 12:14 PM PDT

Britain's Houses of Parliament are seen across the river Thames in London May 18, 2009. An expenses scandal is eroding support for Britain's three main political parties, a poll showed on Monday, and has brought calls for parliament's most senior figure, the Speaker of the House of Commons, Michael Martin, to step down. REUTERS/Stephen HirdReuters - The most senior official in Britain's lower house of parliament apologized to the nation on Monday for an expenses scandal among lawmakers that has prompted growing calls for an early general election.

UK lawmakers call on speaker to quit over scandal (AP)

Posted: 18 May 2009 12:08 PM PDT

FILE -- This is a Dec. 3, 2008 file photo of the Speaker of the House of Commons Michael Martin walking in a procession during the State Opening of Parliament in the Member's Lobby of the Palace of Westminster in London. In a sharp break with tradition, the leader of a British political party on Sunday urged the speaker of the House of Commons to resign due to his handling of the expenses scandal that has rocked Britain. Citing a lack of leadership, Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg, Sunday, May 17, 2009, said speaker Michael Martin should step down from the powerful post. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham/file)AP - The speaker of Britain's House of Commons apologized Monday for his role in the burgeoning lawmaker expense scandal, hoping to retain his office by pledging to lead efforts to restore Parliament to respectability.

Operator BAA says to appeal order to sell airports (AFP)

Posted: 18 May 2009 10:13 AM PDT

Vapour trails from aircraft landing and taking off from London City airports. BAA said Monday it would appeal a recent order by Britain's competition watchdog to sell three British airports, including London Gatwick.(AFP/File/Alessandro Abbonizio)AFP - BAA said Monday it would appeal a recent order by Britain's competition watchdog to sell three British airports, including London Gatwick.

Speaker rebuffs no-confidence bid (AFP)

Posted: 18 May 2009 09:25 AM PDT

Speaker of the House of Commons Michael Martin is seen here in 2008. The Speaker said Monday he was AFP - House of Commons Speaker Michael Martin said Monday he was "profoundly sorry" for the expenses scandal wrecking Britain's parliament, but rebuffed debate on a rare motion of no-confidence in him.

British speaker says sorry in expenses row (AFP)

Posted: 18 May 2009 09:14 AM PDT

Speaker of the House of Commons Michael Martin pictured at the State Opening of Parliament in the Member's Lobby of the Palace of Westminster in London, December 2008. Martin said Monday he was AFP - Britain's House of Commons Speaker said Monday he was "profoundly sorry" for the expenses row which has rocked parliament, but rebuffed a bid to voice no confidence in his authority.

UK military loses in court over troop protection (AP)

Posted: 18 May 2009 08:35 AM PDT

AP - Britain's second-highest court ruled Monday that soldiers at war are covered by European human rights law, a decision that could compel the military to give troops on the battlefield better equipment and medical care.

Soldiers protected by rights laws (AFP)

Posted: 18 May 2009 04:31 AM PDT

A British soldier in Baghdad on May 16, 2009. British troops are protected by human rights laws even while fighting overseas, according to a landmark judgment Monday centred on a soldier who died of heatstroke in Iraq.(AFP/File/Ahmad al-Rubaye)AFP - British troops are protected by human rights laws even while fighting overseas, according to a landmark judgment Monday centred on a soldier who died of heatstroke in Iraq.

Anti-British protest in Colombo (AFP)

Posted: 18 May 2009 03:32 AM PDT

Sri Lankan demonstrators burn an effigy outside the British High Commission in Colombo. Hundreds of protesters demonstrated outside the High Commission in the Sri Lankan capital Colombo denouncing Britain's alleged support for the Tamil Tiger rebels.(AFP/Ishara S. Kodikara)AFP - Hundreds of protesters demonstrated outside the High Commission in the Sri Lankan capital Colombo denouncing Britain's alleged support for the Tamil Tiger rebels.

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