2009年7月19日星期日

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Yahoo! News: World - Britain

British airlines blocking swine flu travellers (AFP)

Posted: 19 Jul 2009 01:56 PM PDT

British Airways aircraft at London's Heathrow airport in 2007. Airlines stepped up restrictions Sunday on travellers to and from Britain as a report said four more British students quarantined in China had been confirmed as having swine flu.(AFP/File/Adrian Dennis)AFP - British airlines on Sunday stepped up restrictions on suspected swine flu carriers, as a report said four more British students quarantined in China have had infections confirmed.

Stewart Cink wins British Open golf after play-off (AFP)

Posted: 19 Jul 2009 01:44 PM PDT

US golfer Stewart Cink celebrates winning the play-offs against US golfer Tom Watson on the 18th green, on the final day of the 138th British Open Championship at Turnberry Golf Course in Scotland. Watson's bid to make sporting history ended in heartbreak on Sunday as Cink emerged victorious from a play-off to deny his compatriot a sixth British Open title at the age of 59.(AFP/Peter Muhly)AFP - For Stewart Cink and his family it might be different but for everyone else, Turnberry 2009 will be remembered as the Open that Tom Watson and, to a lesser extent Lee Westwood, failed to win.

Iran bails British embassy staffer (AFP)

Posted: 19 Jul 2009 11:55 AM PDT

Iranian riot policemen stand guard outside the British embassy in Tehran as hardline students demonstrate in June 2009. Iran on Sunday freed on bail a British embassy local staffer, who was among a group of nine arrested following disturbances in the wake of the June 12 presidential election, his lawyer said.(AFP/File/Maryam Hasanzadeh)AFP - Iran on Sunday released on bail a British embassy staffer, who was among a group of nine arrested following disturbances after the hotly disputed June 12 presidential election, his lawyer said.

Cink ends Watson's dream with Turnberry win (Reuters)

Posted: 19 Jul 2009 11:54 AM PDT

Stewart Cink of the U.S. celebrates with his caddie after his birdie putt on the 18th green during the final round of the British Open Golf Championship at the Turnberry Golf Club in Scotland, July 19, 2009. REUTERS/Russell CheyneReuters - Tom Watson's remarkable bid for a British Open victory at the age of 59 fell agonisingly short on Sunday when he lost to fellow American Stewart Cink in a four-hole playoff.

Lost British backpacker says he was 'total idiot' (AP)

Posted: 19 Jul 2009 11:04 AM PDT

British backpacker Jamie Neale tries to walk past the media as he leaves the Blue Mountains hospital in Katoomba 100 km (62 miles) from Sydney, Australia, Friday, July 17, 2009. Neale was found alive on Wednesday July 15 after 12 days in the rugged bush land of the Blue Mountains.(AP Photo/Rob Griffith)AP - A British teenager who was found dehydrated and freezing after 12 wintry days lost in Australia's wilderness said he wrote farewell notes to his family and expected to die of starvation.

Ahmadinejad criticized over vice president choice (AP)

Posted: 19 Jul 2009 02:44 PM PDT

This photo, taken by an individual not employed by the Associated Press and obtained by the AP outside Iran, shows a female supporter of the Iranian opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi holding his poster after Friday prayers in Tehran, Iran, Friday, July 17, 2009. The name of Mousavi is written on the poster. (AP Photo) EDITORS NOTE: AS A RESULT OF AN OFFICIAL IRANIAN GOVERNMENT BAN ON FOREIGN MEDIA COVERING SOME EVENTS IN IRAN, THE AP WAS PREVENTED FROM INDEPENDENT ACCESS TO THIS EVENTAP - President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, already at the center of a post-election crisis, came under criticism from his own hard-line supporters Sunday for appointing a first vice president who once caused an outcry by saying Iranians were friends of Israelis.

British bush survivor denies hoax (AFP)

Posted: 19 Jul 2009 06:22 AM PDT

British teenager Jamie Neale -- who survived 12 nights in the Australian bush -- has denied staging an elaborate hoax, saying he feared dying in the rugged wilderness.(AFP/NSW Police/File)AFP - A British teenager who survived 12 nights in the Australian bush described himself as a "total idiot" Sunday and denied faking his ordeal, saying he feared starving to death in the wilderness.

Britain's ruling Labour faces setback in by-election (Reuters)

Posted: 19 Jul 2009 12:44 AM PDT

Labour party candidate Chris Ostrowski poses for photographers while campaigning in Norwich, eastern England, on Tuesday July 14, 2009. REUTERS/Tim CastleReuters - Prime Minister Gordon Brown faces a test of his leadership this week when a looming by-election defeat in the eastern English city of Norwich could reignite a plot to oust him.

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