2009年9月4日星期五

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Yahoo! News: World - Britain

PM joins thousands in British carbon-cutting pledge (AFP)

Posted: 04 Sep 2009 01:25 PM PDT

Prime Minister Gordon Brown has put his name to a campaign for a 10-percent cut in Britain's carbon emissions, his office said Friday, as the list of signatories to the pledge reached almost 11,000.(AFP/POOL/Shaun Curry)AFP - Prime Minister Gordon Brown has put his name to a campaign for a 10-percent cut in Britain's carbon emissions, his office said Friday, as the list of signatories to the pledge reached almost 11,000.

Jews who escaped Nazis as kids recreate train trip (AP)

Posted: 04 Sep 2009 01:09 PM PDT

Nicholas Winton, left, talks to Tal Cohain at Liverpool Street station in London, Friday, Sept. 4, 2009. A vintage train carrying Holocaust survivors pulled into London on Friday, ending a three-day trip across Europe that marked the 70th anniversary of their extraordinary rescue by a young British stockbroker. Waiting to greet them at London's Liverpool Street Station was Nicholas Winton, age 100, who organized the rail 'kindertransports' that carried hundreds of mostly Jewish children from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia to safety in 1939. Tal Cohain's, grandmother Hanna Slome was one 22 children saved by Sir Nicolas Winton. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)AP - Elderly Holocaust survivors were reunited at a London railway station Friday with the man who saved them on the eve of World War II — a now 100-year-old former stockbroker who rescued hundreds of Jewish children from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia.

UK teens accused of school plot filmed with bombs (AP)

Posted: 04 Sep 2009 12:51 PM PDT

AP - Two British teens accused of planning a massacre inspired by the Columbine school shootings in the United States filmed themselves making and detonating explosives, a prosecutor said Friday.

'British Schindler' reunited with WWII evacuees (AFP)

Posted: 04 Sep 2009 10:59 AM PDT

Sir Nicholas Winton(R), dubbed the AFP - A former stockbroker hailed as the "British Schindler" enjoyed an emotional reunion Friday with mostly Jewish former evacuees whom he helped flee from the Nazis as children 70 years ago.

Graphic car crash warning prove YouTube hit (AFP)

Posted: 04 Sep 2009 10:01 AM PDT

A person uses uses a phone to send a text message. A graphic British police video about the dangers of sending text messages while driving has become a worldwide hit on the Internet.(AFP/File/Stan Honda)AFP - A graphic police video about the dangers of sending text messages while driving has become a worldwide hit on the Internet.

Britain, US defend Afghanistan strategy (AFP)

Posted: 04 Sep 2009 09:53 AM PDT

US soldiers fire artillery shells to support a nearby patrol in Afghanistan's Paktia Province on September 3, 2009. Britain and the United States have defended their strategy in Afghanistan amid mounting criticism over the rising death toll from war-weary voters and questions about the government in Kabul.(AFP/File/Simon Lim)AFP - Britain and the United States on Friday defended their strategy in Afghanistan amid mounting criticism over the rising death toll from war-weary voters.

British author Keith Waterhouse dies at 80 (AP)

Posted: 04 Sep 2009 09:48 AM PDT

FILE -- This is a March 18, 2003 file photo of playwright Keith Waterhouse. British novelist and playwright Keith Waterhouse has died at the age of 80. The writer's family says he died peacefully in his sleep early Friday, Sept. 4, 2009. A versatile writer with a strong streak of curmudgeonly humor, Waterhouse was known for the novel 'Billy Liar,' which became a film starring Tom Courtenay. He also wrote screenplays including 'Whistle Down the Wind' and plays such as 'Jeffrey Bernard is Unwell.' (AP Photo/Myung Jung Kim/PA/file)AP - British writer Keith Waterhouse, a raconteur and wit whose works include the enduringly popular novel "Billy Liar," has died at the age of 80.

BP admits concerns about Libyan prisoner transfer (AP)

Posted: 04 Sep 2009 09:42 AM PDT

Scotland's First Minister Alex Salmond, left, gestures at Justice Secretary Kenny McAskill during First Minister's Questions in the Scottish Parliament, in Edinburgh, Scotland, Thursday Sept. 3, 2009. The session was was dominated by the controversial decision to release Libyan Lockerbie bomber Abdel Baset al-Megrahi.(AP Photo/Andrew Milligan-pa)AP - British oil company BP PLC said Friday that it had expressed concern to the government about progress on a prisoner transfer deal with Libya, but said it had not raised the case of the Libyan agent convicted of the Lockerbie bombing.

Transsexual to be transferred to women's prison (AP)

Posted: 04 Sep 2009 09:20 AM PDT

AP - A British court issued a landmark ruling Friday, allowing a transsexual prisoner serving life for manslaughter and attempted rape to be transferred to a women's prison.

Brown defends troop presence in Afghanistan (AP)

Posted: 04 Sep 2009 08:16 AM PDT

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, right, and British Defense Secretary Bob Ainsworth, left, attend a question and answer session following a keynote speech on Afghanistan, at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, in central London, Friday, Sept. 4, 2009. Brown says British troops will remain in Afghanistan until the country's own security forces can fight the Taliban and al-Qaida without assistance. (AP Photo/Shaun Curry, Pool)AP - Prime Minister Gordon Brown defended Britain's military presence in Afghanistan on Friday — a major policy speech that came as a defense aide quit over the mission's strategy and a soldier was court-martialed for refusing to return to the war-torn country.

BP warned UK of risk in delayed Libya prisoner deal (Reuters)

Posted: 04 Sep 2009 04:28 AM PDT

A BP logo is seen at a petrol station in central London July 28, 2009. REUTERS/Stefan WermuthReuters - British oil major BP Plc told the UK government two years ago that slow progress in concluding a Prisoner Transfer Agreement with Libya threatened a multi-billion dollar exploration deal it was negotiating.

BP denies lobbying over Lockerbie bomber release (AFP)

Posted: 04 Sep 2009 04:25 AM PDT

Convicted Lockerbie bomber Ali Mohmet al-Megrahi (centre) arrives in Lybia on August 2009. BP said it had lobbied the government to speed up a prisoner transfer accord with Libya to smooth its business ties with Tripoli but denied pressing for the Lockerbie bomber to be released(AFP/HO/File)AFP - BP said on Friday it had lobbied the government to speed up a prisoner transfer accord with Libya to smooth its business ties with Tripoli but denied pressing for the Lockerbie bomber to be released.

British climber dies on Mount Olympus (AFP)

Posted: 04 Sep 2009 02:56 AM PDT

A hiker climbs Mount Olympus in 2006. Olympus was the legendary home of the ancient Greek gods.(AFP/File/Louisa Gouliamaki)AFP - A 22-year-old British climber died on Mount Olympus in central Greece after falling into a ravine, local police said on Friday.

British car sales rise 6% in August (AFP)

Posted: 04 Sep 2009 01:41 AM PDT

Nissan vehicles are pictured parked at Tyne docks in South Shields, north-east England, in January. Sales of new cars in Britain rose by 6.0 percent in August thanks to a government-backed old-for-new scheme, industry body the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders said.(AFP/File/Andrew Yates)AFP - Sales of new cars in Britain rose by 6.0 percent in August thanks to a government-backed old-for-new scheme, industry body the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders said on Friday.

Cannibal killer murdered again after care blunders (AFP)

Posted: 04 Sep 2009 12:25 AM PDT

Official reports said that a killer murdered a friend and cooked and ate part of his brain after tricking mental health staff into releasing him into the community.(AFP/File/Odd Andersen)AFP - A killer murdered a friend and cooked and ate part of his brain after tricking mental health staff into releasing him into the community, official reports said.

Brown defends Afghan mission in key speech (AFP)

Posted: 04 Sep 2009 12:20 AM PDT

British soldiers with the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) stand guard during a patrol in the town of Musa Qala in Helmand province, 2007. Prime Minister Gordon Brown and the United States defended their strategy in Afghanistan amid mounting criticism over the rising death toll from war-weary voters.(AFP/File/Shah Marai)AFP - Prime Minister Gordon Brown will launch Friday a defence of the campaign in Afghanistan amid rising troop deaths, warning Britain will not walk away when its own security is at stake.

Brothers, 10 and 12, plead guilty to brutal attack (AP)

Posted: 03 Sep 2009 06:20 PM PDT

AP - A pair of British brothers pleaded guilty Thursday to luring two young boys into a clearing to see some animals — and then torturing them in an attack so violent it left one of the victims pleading to be left alone to die.

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