2009年10月28日星期三

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Yahoo! News: World - Britain

Indian president meets British PM in state visit (AFP)

Posted: 28 Oct 2009 02:56 PM PDT

Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown (R) greets the President of the Republic of India Pratibha Patil in 10 Downing Street in central London. The pair held talks at Brown's Downing Street office as Patil made the first visit to Britain by an Indian head of state for almost 20 years, discussing a range of issues from business to terrorism, officials said.(AFP/POOL/Anthony Devlin)AFP - Prime Minister Gordon Brown welcomed Indian President Pratibha Patil to Britain Wednesday on the second day of her state visit which he said showed growing ties between the two nations.

French-language love letter found on UK coast (AP)

Posted: 28 Oct 2009 02:22 PM PDT

AP - A mysterious missive apparently written by a French-speaking woman to her married lover has washed onto a British beach and into the imagination of the U.K. media.

UK cemetery: Share a grave with a stranger? (AP)

Posted: 28 Oct 2009 01:32 PM PDT

This is an image taken Monday, Oct. 26, 2009 fallen gravestones are seen at the City of London Cemetery & Crematorium in east London. Think London is crowded with the living? Consider the armies of the dead. There are almost 8 million people in the British capital and many millions more under the soil of a city that has been inhabited for 2,000 years. And London is rapidly running out of places to put them. (AP Photo/Sang Tan)AP - So you think London, population 8 million, is crowded with the living?

Second wave of postal strikes looms (AFP)

Posted: 28 Oct 2009 11:53 AM PDT

A postal worker delivers mail in West London, 2007. Postal workers said Wednesday they will launch a second round of national strikes this week after talks to end a bitter dispute over pay, working conditions and modernisation broke down.(AFP/File/Leon Neal)AFP - Postal workers said Wednesday they will launch a second round of national strikes this week after talks to end a bitter dispute over pay, working conditions and modernisation broke down.

UK report: Plane crash deaths were preventable (AP)

Posted: 28 Oct 2009 10:53 AM PDT

AP - Cutbacks on safety checks led to the deaths of 14 British service members when a spy plane exploded in Afghanistan, a sharply critical report concluded Wednesday.

Files reveal IRA targeted Buckingham Palace (AP)

Posted: 28 Oct 2009 10:48 AM PDT

AP - Irish Republican Army terrorists identified Buckingham Palace and other London landmarks as possible targets in a 1970s bombing campaign, newly disclosed documents revealed Wednesday.

Somali pirates warn Britain against yacht rescue (Reuters)

Posted: 28 Oct 2009 10:36 AM PDT

Map locating the area in which a British couple's yacht has gone missing. Somali pirates confirmed Wednesday they had hijacked a yacht carrying a British couple thought to be Paul Chandler, 58, and his wife Rachel, 55, adding that the two hostages were in good health.(AFP Graphics)Reuters - Somali pirates holding two Britons captive aboard a yacht off the coast of the Horn of Africa nation warned Britain not to try to rescue the couple.

Afghan crash probe faults MoD (AFP)

Posted: 28 Oct 2009 10:33 AM PDT

A Nimrod surveillance aircraft flying over Morayshire, Scotland. The Ministry of Defence (MoD) was accused of serious failures Wednesday by a report into the mid-air explosion of a Royal Air Force (RAF) spy plane in Afghanistan which killed 14 troops in 2006.(AFP/File/Ed Jones)AFP - The Ministry of Defence (MoD) was accused of serious failures Wednesday by a report into the mid-air explosion of a Royal Air Force (RAF) spy plane in Afghanistan which killed 14 troops in 2006.

Somali pirates holding British couple (AFP)

Posted: 28 Oct 2009 10:25 AM PDT

A picture taken on October 20 and released by the European Union NAVFOR shows boarding teams of the warship Bremen (C) stopping an attack skiff (R) and a mother skiff (L) in the Indian Ocean, off the coast of Somalia. Somali pirates confirmed they had hijacked a yacht carrying a British couple thought to be Paul Chandler, 58, and his wife Rachel, 55, adding that the hostages were in good health.(AFP/HO/File)AFP - Somali pirates confirmed Wednesday they had hijacked a yacht carrying a British couple thought to be Paul Chandler, 58, and his wife Rachel, 55, adding that the two hostages were in good health.

West Ham's Davenport denies assaulting sister (AFP)

Posted: 28 Oct 2009 10:23 AM PDT

West Ham's Calum Davenport(L), seen here in 2008, was charged Wednesday with assaulting his sister during an incident in which her boyfriend stands accused of stabbing both him and the player's mother.(AFP/File/Ian Kington)AFP - West Ham defender Calum Davenport was charged Wednesday with assaulting his sister during an incident in which her boyfriend stands accused of stabbing both him and the player's mother.

Britain pulls rank on Luxembourg over Blair (AFP)

Posted: 28 Oct 2009 10:03 AM PDT

Britain has pulled rank on tiny Luxembourg, the leading opponent of a bid to crown Tony Blair as the European Union's 'George Washington,' its first full-time president.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Chip Somodevilla)AFP - Britain on Wednesday pulled rank on tiny Luxembourg, the leading opponent of a bid to crown Tony Blair as the European Union's 'George Washington,' its first full-time president.

Somalia piracy a 'desperate' response to poverty: PM (AFP)

Posted: 28 Oct 2009 10:07 AM PDT

A picture taken on October 20 and released by the European Union NAVFOR shows boarding teams of the warship Bremen (C) stopping an attack skiff (R) and a mother skiff (L) in the Indian Ocean, off the coast of Somalia. Somali pirates confirmed they had hijacked a yacht carrying a British couple thought to be Paul Chandler, 58, and his wife Rachel, 55, adding that the hostages were in good health.(AFP/HO/File)AFP - Somalia's prime minister said Wednesday his government would do its utmost to rescue a hijacked British couple but warned that piracy was a "desperate survival measure" for his people.

Barbara Windsor to leave EastEnders (AFP)

Posted: 28 Oct 2009 08:11 AM PDT

Veteran actress Barbara Windsor, seen here during a visit by Queen Elizabeth II to the set of EastEnders in 2001, is to leave the BBC's flagship soap after starring in the show for 15 years.(AFP/File/Fiona Hanson)AFP - Veteran actress Barbara Windsor is to leave the BBC's flagship soap EastEnders after starring in the show for 15 years, the programme makers said on Wednesday.

Work starting on Trump's Scottish golf resort (AFP)

Posted: 28 Oct 2009 07:53 AM PDT

Balmedie beach in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Work on a new golf resort in Scotland being built by US tycoon Donald Trump is due to start, despite fierce opposition from some local people.(AFP/Ed Jones)AFP - Work on a new golf resort in Scotland being built by US tycoon Donald Trump started Wednesday, despite fierce opposition from some local people.

Eight arrested in Man Utd cup clash violence (AFP)

Posted: 28 Oct 2009 07:52 AM PDT

A catering outlet is destroyed and robbed of money at the away end of the Barnsley football ground where the Manchester United fans were housed during their League Cup fourth round match. Eight football fans have been arrested as hooligans went on the rampage, police said(AFP/Andrew Yates)AFP - Eight football fans were arrested as hooligans went on the rampage at Manchester United's League Cup clash at Barnsley, police said Wednesday.

Halloween etiquette: Trick-or-treat but be polite (AP)

Posted: 28 Oct 2009 06:55 AM PDT

Hudson, a two-year-old Polar Bear devours a pumpkin at the Chicago Zoological Society's Brookfield Zoo in Brookfield, Ill. on Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2009. With Halloween nearing, several of the animals, including lions, tigers, polar bears, brown bears, and gorillas were given pumpkins to enjoy and play with as part of the zoo-wide behavioral enrichment program. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)AP - Trick-or-treaters beware: Manners count — even on Halloween.

Brown 'happy' to back Blair as EU chief (AFP)

Posted: 28 Oct 2009 06:24 AM PDT

Prime Minister Gordon Brown said he would be AFP - Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Wednesday he would be "very happy" to support his predecessor Tony Blair for the job of the European Union's first full-time president.

EU backs plan to split Northern Rock (AFP)

Posted: 28 Oct 2009 06:19 AM PDT

A branch of bank Northern Rock is pictured in London. EU competition regulators have approved the state aid contained in plans to break up and sell nationalised bank Northern Rock in the wake of the global financial crisis.(AFP/File/Leon Neal)AFP - EU competition regulators approved Wednesday the state aid contained in plans to break up and sell nationalised bank Northern Rock in the wake of the global financial crisis.

GlaxoSmithKline third quarter profit up 11 percent (AP)

Posted: 28 Oct 2009 06:14 AM PDT

AP - GlaxoSmithKline PLC, the world's second largest drug maker by revenue, posted Wednesday an 11 percent rise in third quarter earnings on the back of strong sales of the flu drug Relenza and forecast an even bigger boost from its swine flu vaccines in the final quarter of the year.

Welsh town eyes record for biggest-ever Mona Lisa (AFP)

Posted: 28 Oct 2009 06:05 AM PDT

A child runs on a Mona Lisa reproduction at the Eagles Meadow shopping centre in Wrexham, north Wales. The town was hoping to enter the record books for creating the world's largest copy of Leonardo Da Vinci's Mona Lisa, arguably the most famous painting in the world.(AFP/Andrew Yates)AFP - A Welsh town was on Wednesday hoping to enter the record books for creating the world's largest copy of Leonardo Da Vinci's Mona Lisa, arguably the most famous painting in the world.

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