2009年10月24日星期六

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Yahoo! News: World - Britain

Brown vows credit card clampdown (AFP)

Posted: 24 Oct 2009 02:42 PM PDT

Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Saturday he would force credit card companies to end AFP - Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Saturday he would force credit card companies to end "sharp practices" and make it harder for people to get themselves into debt.

Last Titanic survivor's ashes scattered at sea (AFP)

Posted: 24 Oct 2009 01:51 PM PDT

Titanic survivor Elizabeth Gladys Dean is pictured at the Titanic Voices Exhibition at the Maritime Museum in Southampton in 2002. Friends and relatives of Dean, the last survivor of the Titanic, gathered on Saturday to scatter her ashes at the point where the ill-starred ocean liner set sail in April 1912.(AFP/File/Gerry Penny)AFP - Friends and relatives of the last survivor of the Titanic gathered on Saturday to scatter her ashes at the point where the ill-starred ocean liner set sail in April 1912.

Talks set for Monday on British post strikes (AFP)

Posted: 24 Oct 2009 12:49 PM PDT

Postal workers picket outside the NorthWest mail distribution centre in Warrington on October 22. Fresh talks are to be held on Monday in a bid to resolve a postal workers dispute, where a further three days of mail strikes are looming, the Trades Union Congress said Saturday.(AFP/File/Andrew Yates)AFP - Fresh talks are to be held on Monday in a bid to resolve a postal workers dispute, where a further three days of mail strikes are looming, the Trades Union Congress said Saturday.

Poll boost for BNP after TV first (AFP)

Posted: 24 Oct 2009 12:24 PM PDT

A viewer watches a broadcast of BNP leader Nick Griffin's appearance on the BBC's flagship political programme AFP - Nearly a quarter of adults would consider voting for the far-right British National Party, a poll out Saturday said, after its leader made a controversial appearance on a BBC show.

Protesters demand UK pullout from Afghanistan (AFP)

Posted: 24 Oct 2009 08:59 AM PDT

Protestors attend a demonstration held by Stop the War coallition calling for troops to leave Afghanistan in central London. Protesters marched through London to demand a British military withdrawal from Afghanistan -- among them a serving soldier facing court martial for refusing a second tour of duty there.(AFP/Ben Stansall)AFP - Protesters marched through London on Saturday to demand a British military withdrawal from Afghanistan -- among them a serving soldier facing court martial for refusing a second tour of duty there.

Last Titanic survivor's ashes scattered in England (AP)

Posted: 24 Oct 2009 07:35 AM PDT

AP - The ashes of the last Titanic survivor have been scattered at the English port where the ship began its ill-fated maiden voyage in 1912.

Britons losing confidence in Afghan victory: poll (AFP)

Posted: 24 Oct 2009 05:35 AM PDT

British soldiers conduct a patrol outside Kandahar Air Field, 2006. According to a new poll the public is losing confidence that the war against insurgents in Afghanistan can be won.(AFP/File/John D Mchugh)AFP - The public is losing confidence that the war against insurgents in Afghanistan can be won, according to a new poll published on Saturday.

Two Britons killed in French car crash (AFP)

Posted: 24 Oct 2009 02:26 AM PDT

Traffic on a highway near Lyon. Four people were killed, two from Britain, in an accident in southwest France when two cars collided head-on on a country road.(AFP/File/Fred Dufour)AFP - Four people were killed, two from Britain, in an accident in southwest France when two cars collided head-on on a country road, firefighters said Saturday.

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