Yahoo! News: World - Britain

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• British bobbies hunt burqa-clad bandit (AP)
• Football: Britain vows clampdown as hooliganism flares (AFP)
• London police 'steal' from unlocked cars (AP)
• Brass band defends playing at Libyan bash (AFP)
• Troops off Afghan frontline within five years: UK envoy (AFP)
• New London to Scotland high-speed rail link proposed (AFP)
• Japan's Fujitsu to axe 1,200 jobs in Britain (AFP)
• Big Brother to be wound up next year (AFP)
• Scotland fears Lockerbie row fallout (AFP)
• Britain considers new high-speed rail to Scotland (AP)
• Advertising giant WPP profits slump in first half (AFP)
• G20 need exit strategy, stimulus to stay now: UK source (Reuters)
• Ethiopian athletes 'flee British hotel' (AFP)
• Brown mourns 'senator of senators' Kennedy (AFP)

British bobbies hunt burqa-clad bandit (AP) Posted: 26 Aug 2009 02:28 PM PDT AP - British police say they're on the trail of a burqa-clad bandit, or bandits, who robbed three different locations in the past two months.

Football: Britain vows clampdown as hooliganism flares (AFP) Posted: 26 Aug 2009 01:19 PM PDT AFP - British authorities vowed Wednesday to clamp down hard on hooligans following "large-scale" violence at a London derby in some of the country's worst football-related thuggery in years.

London police 'steal' from unlocked cars (AP) Posted: 26 Aug 2009 12:27 PM PDT AP - British police are combing the upscale London neighborhood of Richmond, looking for things to steal.

Brass band defends playing at Libyan bash (AFP) Posted: 26 Aug 2009 10:30 AM PDT AFP - A British brass band defended Wednesday its participation in Libyan celebrations next week marking the 40th anniversary of Moamer Kadhafi coming to power, despite the recent Lockerbie bomber row.

Troops off Afghan frontline within five years: UK envoy (AFP) Posted: 26 Aug 2009 10:19 AM PDT AFP - London's ambassador to Kabul said Wednesday he expects Britain's presence in Afghanistan will last at least "a generation", but hopes that its troops will no longer be fighting there within five years.

New London to Scotland high-speed rail link proposed (AFP) Posted: 26 Aug 2009 08:11 AM PDT AFP - A plan for a new 34-billion-pound high-speed railway line linking London and Scotland by 2030 was unveiled on Wednesday by Network Rail.

Japan's Fujitsu to axe 1,200 jobs in Britain (AFP) Posted: 26 Aug 2009 06:18 AM PDT AFP - Japanese electronics maker Fujitsu Ltd. on Wednesday said it planned to cut up to 1,200 jobs in Britain by the end of 2009 because of worse-than-expected sales.

Big Brother to be wound up next year (AFP) Posted: 26 Aug 2009 05:28 AM PDT AFP - The final series of reality TV show Big Brother will be broadcast next year, Channel Four announced on Wednesday.

Scotland fears Lockerbie row fallout (AFP) Posted: 26 Aug 2009 04:22 AM PDT AFP - As the dust settles from a political row sparked by Scotland's release of the Lockerbie bomber, the country is nervously bracing for potentially more damaging fallout from a threatened US boycott.

Britain considers new high-speed rail to Scotland (AP) Posted: 26 Aug 2009 03:24 AM PDT AP - Britain's rail operator says it has plans for a new high-speed rail line that could get travelers from London to Scotland in two hours.

Advertising giant WPP profits slump in first half (AFP) Posted: 26 Aug 2009 03:06 AM PDT AFP - WPP, the world's second-biggest advertising group, said Wednesday that first-half net profit sank 47.9 percent because of the global downturn but forecast a brighter performance for the rest of 2009.

G20 need exit strategy, stimulus to stay now: UK source (Reuters) Posted: 26 Aug 2009 02:54 AM PDT Reuters - G20 countries should ensure they have plans to withdraw the huge stimuli put into their economies but are clear the fiscal and monetary boosts remain in place for now, a UK government source told Reuters on Wednesday.

Ethiopian athletes 'flee British hotel' (AFP) Posted: 26 Aug 2009 01:33 AM PDT AFP - Four Ethiopian athletes have gone missing during a visit to Britain for an international athletics event, officials said.

Brown mourns 'senator of senators' Kennedy (AFP) Posted: 26 Aug 2009 01:19 AM PDT AFP - US Senator Ted Kennedy will be mourned around the world as a champion of equal rights, Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Wednesday, while ex-premier Tony Blair called him a "true public servant."

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