2009年9月12日星期六

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Yahoo! News: World - Britain

Ban on TV product placement 'to be lifted' (AFP)

Posted: 12 Sep 2009 04:33 PM PDT

Culture Secretary Ben Bradshaw is pictured in June 2009. Britain is to lift strict rules on product placement on television shows in an attempt to boost the advertising revenues of struggling broadcasters, reports said Sunday.(AFP/File/Shaun Curry)AFP - Britain is to lift strict rules on product placement on television shows in an attempt to boost the advertising revenues of struggling broadcasters, reports said Sunday.

Pregnant woman jailed for heroin trafficking gives birth (AFP)

Posted: 12 Sep 2009 12:21 PM PDT

Samantha Orobator (C) is led from a courthouse in Vientiane after her sentencing in June 2009. Orobator, who was transferred when she was heavily pregnant from Laos to Britain to serve out her life sentence for drugs trafficking, has given birth, her lawyers said Saturday.(AFP/File)AFP - A woman, transferred when she was heavily pregnant from Laos to Britain to serve out her life sentence for drugs trafficking, has given birth, her lawyers said Saturday.

UK troubled by anti-Islam rallies, counterprotests (AP)

Posted: 12 Sep 2009 11:39 AM PDT

Muslim youths shout against anti-Muslim protesters in the London suburb of Harrow, Friday Sept. 11, 2009. Police separated a small group of anti-Muslims from a crowd outside a northwest London mosque. Police prevented members of Stop Islamification of Europe from approaching a crowd of several hundred that had gathered outside the Harrow Central Mosque. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)AP - Violent clashes between anti-Islam demonstrators and Muslim counter-protesters in English cities are worrying the government, with one British minister comparing the disturbances to 1930s-era fascist incitement.

Report: British special forces train Libyan troops (AP)

Posted: 12 Sep 2009 09:38 AM PDT

Libyan Abdel Baset al-Megrahi, who was found guilty of the 1988 Lockerbie bombing but recently released from his Scottish prison on compassionate grounds, is seen with medical staff and unidentified others as he is visited by a group of African parliamentarians, not pictured, at Tripoli Medical Center in Tripoli, Libya Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2009. The ailing Lockerbie bomber looked weak and pale, sat in a wheelchair, and did not speak as he was visited by a group of African parliamentarians Wednesday in a rare appearance at the hospital where he is being treated for prostate cancer. (AP Photo/Abdel Magid Al Fergany)AP - Some of Britain's most elite soldiers have been training Libyan forces in counterterrorism and surveillance for the past six months, a newspaper said Saturday.

Derren Brown reveals how he 'predicted' lottery (AFP)

Posted: 12 Sep 2009 03:47 AM PDT

Illusionist Derren Brown stunned the nation after apparently predicting the winning lottery numbers on live television, but he claimed it all came down to mathematics.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Bruce Bennett)AFP - Illusionist Derren Brown stunned the nation after apparently predicting the winning lottery numbers on live television, but he claimed it all came down to mathematics.

Britain's military 'training Libyan forces' (AFP)

Posted: 12 Sep 2009 01:08 AM PDT

Freed Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset Ali Mohmet al-Megrahi at a hospital in Tripoli. British special forces have been training Libyan elite troops for the past six months, but are unhappy with the deal which they believe could be linked to the release of Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi, newspapers reported.(AFP/File/Mahmud Turkia)AFP - British special forces have been training Libyan elite troops for the past six months, but are unhappy with the deal which they believe could be linked to the release of Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi, newspapers reported Saturday.

Community tensions flare in mosque stand-off (AFP)

Posted: 11 Sep 2009 09:39 PM PDT

Members of an anti Muslim protest group taunt Muslim protestors after being contained by the police in Harrow. Britain needs new policies to tackle issues that racists exploit, the communities secretary said Saturday, following ugly scenes outside a London mosque.(AFP/Carl de Souza)AFP - Britain needs new policies to tackle issues that racists exploit, the communities secretary said Saturday, following ugly scenes outside a London mosque.

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