Yahoo! News: World - Britain

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• Brown to offer to cut nuclear sub fleet: Downing Street (AFP)
• Brown to offer to cut nuclear sub fleet: reports (AFP)
• Financial watchdog urges 'radical change' (AFP)
• Britain preparing for possible Afghan troop hike (Reuters)
• Ambassador: US-UK ties intact despite Lockerbie (AP)
• Burberry's back — bringing the celebrities with it (AP)
• Vera Lynn: Britain's 92-Year-Old Pop Sensation (Time.com)
• British graduate scores in sandwich-board job hunt (Reuters)
• Construction firms fined £129.5 mln: watchdog (AFP)
• Mother jailed for killing teen daughters (AFP)
• Attorney General fined over illegal maid (AFP)
• Turner vs old masters at new London exhibition (AFP)
• Cadbury shares higher over Kraft tie-up (AFP)
• UK's Brown seeks fewer UK troops in Afghanistan (AP)
• Scotland welcomes US olive branch over Lockerbie bomber (AFP)
• Tests confirm E.coli presence in farm (AFP)
• Tobin Tax 'worth a look': Brown (AFP)
• Swiss firm to buy Rio Tinto division (AFP)

Brown to offer to cut nuclear sub fleet: Downing Street (AFP) Posted: 22 Sep 2009 04:54 PM PDT AFP - Prime Minister Gordon Brown will announce Britain is prepared to scale back its nuclear capability as part of global disarmament efforts, Downing Street confirmed Wednesday.

Brown to offer to cut nuclear sub fleet: reports (AFP) Posted: 22 Sep 2009 04:40 PM PDT AFP - Prime Minister Gordon Brown will announce Britain is prepared to scale back its nuclear capability as part of global disarmament efforts, reports here said Wednesday.

Financial watchdog urges 'radical change' (AFP) Posted: 22 Sep 2009 03:29 PM PDT AFP - The country's financial watchdog called Tuesday for "radical change" in the financial sector to restore public trust in the wake of the global economic crisis, ahead of the G20 summit.

Britain preparing for possible Afghan troop hike (Reuters) Posted: 22 Sep 2009 02:53 PM PDT Reuters - Britain is readying plans to deploy more troops to Afghanistan should Washington pursue a larger ground campaign, as advocated by the U.S. and NATO commander there, the British army's commander said on Tuesday.

Ambassador: US-UK ties intact despite Lockerbie (AP) Posted: 22 Sep 2009 02:38 PM PDT AP - The U.S. ambassador to London said Tuesday that the release of Lockerbie bomber Abdel Baset al-Megrahi has not hurt relations between Britain and the United States.

Burberry's back — bringing the celebrities with it (AP) Posted: 22 Sep 2009 02:29 PM PDT AP - Burberry and its creative director Christopher Bailey made a triumphant return to London on Tuesday night, winning over a star-studded audience at the glitziest event of the capital's fashion week.

Vera Lynn: Britain's 92-Year-Old Pop Sensation (Time.com) Posted: 22 Sep 2009 01:20 PM PDT Time.com - For a generation of Britons, Dame Vera Lynn's voice will forever conjure up memories of World War II. And with her new album of '40s standards at No. 1, she's now the oldest person to top the British pop charts

British graduate scores in sandwich-board job hunt (Reuters) Posted: 22 Sep 2009 10:52 AM PDT Reuters - In a pinstripe suit, silk tie and polished shoes, David Rowe has all the trappings of a successful London city worker, except for one stark difference -- he is wearing a sandwich board that says "JOB WANTED."

Construction firms fined £129.5 mln: watchdog (AFP) Posted: 22 Sep 2009 06:43 AM PDT AFP - More than 100 construction companies have together been fined 129.5 million pounds for collusion on public and private sector contracts, the consumer watchdog said on Tuesday.

Mother jailed for killing teen daughters (AFP) Posted: 22 Sep 2009 05:06 AM PDT AFP - An Indian-born woman who murdered her two teenage daughters with kitchen knives while they slept was jailed for 33 years by a court on Tuesday.

Attorney General fined over illegal maid (AFP) Posted: 22 Sep 2009 04:59 AM PDT AFP - The country's top legal officer apologised on Tuesday as she was fined 5,000 pounds for employing an illegal immigrant as a maid, officials said.

Turner vs old masters at new London exhibition (AFP) Posted: 22 Sep 2009 04:58 AM PDT AFP - A new exhibition which sets paintings by JMW Turner alongside older master works by the likes of Canaletto and Rembrandt which partly inspired them was previewed in London Monday.

Cadbury shares higher over Kraft tie-up (AFP) Posted: 22 Sep 2009 04:52 AM PDT AFP - The share price of confectioner Cadbury climbed on Tuesday after its chief executive admitted that a tie-up with US giant Kraft Foods made "some strategic sense."

UK's Brown seeks fewer UK troops in Afghanistan (AP) Posted: 22 Sep 2009 04:41 AM PDT AP - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Tuesday he was focused on cutting back on the number of the country's troops in Afghanistan, despite a report from the top U.S. commander calling for an increase in the number of soldiers.

Scotland welcomes US olive branch over Lockerbie bomber (AFP) Posted: 22 Sep 2009 03:09 AM PDT AFP - Scotland welcomed on Tuesday an announcement that the United States wants to "move on" from a row over the Lockerbie bomber, triggered when the Libyan was freed from a Scottish jail last month.

Tests confirm E.coli presence in farm (AFP) Posted: 22 Sep 2009 02:46 AM PDT AFP - Health officials probing an E.coli outbreak at a Surrey farm have confirmed the presence of the bug on Tuesday after analysing animal droppings.

Tobin Tax 'worth a look': Brown (AFP) Posted: 22 Sep 2009 12:43 AM PDT AFP - Prime Minister Gordon Brown said the introduction of a global tax to reduce risky behaviour by banks was "worth looking at", as he prepares for a G20 summit next weekend.

Swiss firm to buy Rio Tinto division (AFP) Posted: 22 Sep 2009 12:32 AM PDT AFP - Anglo-Australian mining giant Rio Tinto said on Tuesday that it will sell its Alcan Composites division to Swiss group Schweiter Technologies for 214 million pounds.

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