Yahoo! News: World - Britain

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• Top UK general says UK ready to boost Afghan force (AP)
• Jamaica cops detain man in death of British consul (AP)
• Official: Standard Chartered, RBS deal breaks down (AP)
• Prehistoric site found near UK's Stonehenge (AP)
• Brown agrees to televised British election debate (AP)
• Transatlantic flights disrupted by technical glitch (AFP)
• Book: MI5 kept a secret file on Harold Wilson (AP)
• Brown agrees to TV debates before election (AFP)
• Brown falls out with media (AFP)

Top UK general says UK ready to boost Afghan force (AP) Posted: 03 Oct 2009 03:27 PM PDT AP - The U.K. is ready to send more soldiers to Afghanistan, if asked to by the commander of the U.S. and NATO forces there, the British army's new chief has been quoted as saying.

Jamaica cops detain man in death of British consul (AP) Posted: 03 Oct 2009 02:26 PM PDT AP - Police in Jamaica have detained a 23-year-old man in connection with the death of a British honorary consul.

Official: Standard Chartered, RBS deal breaks down (AP) Posted: 03 Oct 2009 01:23 PM PDT AP - An attempt by Standard Chartered to buy Asian assets of the Royal Bank of Scotland has failed due to disagreements over how much it should pay for the deal, an official briefed on the negotiations said Saturday.

Prehistoric site found near UK's Stonehenge (AP) Posted: 03 Oct 2009 01:15 PM PDT AP - Archaeologists have discovered a smaller prehistoric site near Britain's famous circle of standing stones at Stonehenge.

Brown agrees to televised British election debate (AP) Posted: 03 Oct 2009 06:41 AM PDT AP - Prime Minister Gordon Brown has agreed to take part in Britain's first televised election debate among party leaders.

Transatlantic flights disrupted by technical glitch (AFP) Posted: 03 Oct 2009 06:41 AM PDT AFP - Transatlantic flights were delayed on Saturday due to a temporary fault in an air traffic control system, officials said.

Book: MI5 kept a secret file on Harold Wilson (AP) Posted: 03 Oct 2009 06:36 AM PDT AP - A new book shows that Britain's domestic spy agency kept a secret file on former Prime Minister Harold Wilson — a leader who had Eastern European contacts and who had long believed MI5 was bugging him.

Brown agrees to TV debates before election (AFP) Posted: 03 Oct 2009 05:30 AM PDT AFP - Prime Minister Gordon Brown said on Saturday he would take part in television debates with opposition leaders in the run-up to the next general election next year.

Brown falls out with media (AFP) Posted: 02 Oct 2009 10:09 PM PDT AFP - Prime Minister Gordon Brown's relations with the country's notoriously aggressive media hit an all-time low this week, recalling for some the way the press abandoned one of his doomed predecessors.

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