2009年10月30日星期五

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Yahoo! News: World - Britain

Somali pirates want 7 mln dlrs for British couple: official (AFP)

Posted: 30 Oct 2009 03:30 PM PDT

Map locating the area where a British couple's yacht went missing. Somali pirates holding a British couple kidnapped from their yacht have demanded a ransom of seven million dollars (4.7 million euros) to set them free, the Foreign Office said Friday.(AFP/Graphic)AFP - Somali pirates holding a British couple kidnapped from their yacht have demanded a ransom of seven million dollars (4.7 million euros) to set them free, the Foreign Office said Friday.

Guide on BBC children's show killed by elephant (AP)

Posted: 30 Oct 2009 03:02 PM PDT

AP - The BBC says that a British guide working on a children's television show in Tanzania was killed after being charged by an elephant.

Top anti-drugs adviser sacked (AFP)

Posted: 30 Oct 2009 02:01 PM PDT

A bag containing seized ecstasy pills. The government's chief drug adviser has criticised the current classification of substances, claiming that alcohol and tobacco were both more harmful than ecstasy, LSD and cannabis.(AFP/File/Douanes Francaises)AFP - The government's top adviser on drugs was forced to resign Friday after saying that cannabis, LSD and ecstasy were no more dangerous than alcohol and cigarettes.

Britain set for fresh post strikes (AFP)

Posted: 30 Oct 2009 01:30 PM PDT

A Royal Mail postbox is pictured in central London, on October 21, 2009. Postal workers would stage more strikes next week, trade union leaders said Friday, as their battle with bosses over modernisation, pay and jobs escalated.(AFP/File/Leon Neal)AFP - Postal workers would stage more strikes next week, trade union leaders said Friday, as their battle with bosses over modernisation, pay and jobs escalated.

Exit Blair as France, Germany call EU shots (AFP)

Posted: 30 Oct 2009 12:16 PM PDT

France and Germany will join forces to choose a new-look European Union's first big boss, President Nicolas Sarkozy said Friday, sweeping Tony Blair towards the Brussels exit.(AFP/Pool/File/Gali Tibbon)AFP - France and Germany will join forces to choose a new-look European Union's first big boss, President Nicolas Sarkozy said Friday, sweeping Tony Blair towards the Brussels exit.

UK drug adviser fired after marijuana comments (AP)

Posted: 30 Oct 2009 11:57 AM PDT

AP - Britain's top drug adviser was fired Friday after saying that marijuana, Ecstasy and LSD were less dangerous than alcohol.

FTSE 100 falls victim to profit-taking (AFP)

Posted: 30 Oct 2009 10:11 AM PDT

The leading stock exchange fell victim to profit-taking as data showed spending by US consumers fell in September for the first time in five months.(AFP/File/Ben Stansall)AFP - The leading stock exchange fell victim to profit-taking on Friday as data showed spending by US consumers fell in September for the first time in five months.

Captive British woman says pirates 'hospitable' (AP)

Posted: 30 Oct 2009 09:07 AM PDT

In this undated photo made available by the family, Paul and Rachel Chandler, who went missing when sailing from the Seychelles to Tanzania after sending a distress signal on Friday, Oct. 23, 2009, are seen at an unknown location. The British navy on Thursday found an empty yacht in international waters belonging to the missing British couple and a defense official said Somali pirates may have transferred them to another vessel. International naval forces have been searching for the couple for days. Paul and Rachel Chandler were heading to Tanzania in their yacht, the Lynn Rival, when a distress signal was sent last Friday. (AP Photo) EDITORIAL USE ONLYAP - A British woman who is being held by Somali pirates with her husband after their yacht was hijacked said in a phone call broadcast Friday that the couple were "bearing up" and she described her captors as "very hospitable."

Support for Blair as EU president fading: reports (AFP)

Posted: 30 Oct 2009 07:31 AM PDT

France and Germany will join forces to choose a new-look European Union's first big boss, President Nicolas Sarkozy said Friday, sweeping Tony Blair towards the Brussels exit.(AFP/Pool/File/Gali Tibbon)AFP - Tony Blair's chances of becoming EU president are fading due to flagging support among European leaders, newspapers here said Friday.

Super-Sonic gamer smashes world record (AFP)

Posted: 30 Oct 2009 06:29 AM PDT

21 year-old James Richards chews on a games controller. The gamer from Kent played himself into the record books after speeding through the classic Sonic the Hedgehog game in the fastest recorded time ever.(AFP/Leon Neal)AFP - A gamer from Kent has played himself into the record books Friday after speeding through the classic Sonic the Hedgehog game in the fastest recorded time ever.

Byron letters get nearly $460,000 at UK auction (AP)

Posted: 30 Oct 2009 06:04 AM PDT

AP - A British auction house says a set of 15 letters and other writings by the rakish Romantic poet Lord Byron have sold for 277,250 pounds (nearly $460,00).

Shell says in talks to sell refineries (AFP)

Posted: 30 Oct 2009 06:03 AM PDT

A Shell logo at a Shell petrol station, near Chester, north-west England. The energy giant is in AFP - Energy giant Royal Dutch Shell is in "exclusive" talks to sell three European refineries to Indian conglomerate Essar, a company spokesman told AFP.

WPP warns on outlook for advertising (AFP)

Posted: 30 Oct 2009 02:29 AM PDT

WPP, the world's second-biggest advertising group, said that its third-quarter sales fell 8.7 percent on a comparable 12-month basis but showed an improvement from the previous quarter.(WPP)AFP - WPP, the world's second-biggest advertising group, said on Friday that its third-quarter sales fell 8.7 percent on a comparable 12-month basis but showed an improvement from the previous quarter.

Govt mulls resuming deportations to Zimbabwe (AFP)

Posted: 30 Oct 2009 01:26 AM PDT

Zimbabwe Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai pictured in Valladolid, Spain on October 9. The government is moving to resume flights deporting failed asylum seekers back to Zimbabwe, a government minister said, citing a political power-sharing agreement in the troubled state.(AFP/File/Dominique Faget)AFP - The government is moving to resume flights deporting failed asylum seekers back to Zimbabwe, a minister said Thursday, citing a political power-sharing agreement in the troubled state.

Rolls-Royce wins $720mln Virgin engine order (AFP)

Posted: 30 Oct 2009 01:21 AM PDT

File photo of an Airbus worker inspecting the fan blades inside a Rolls Royce high-bypass engine at Sydney Airport. The engine-maker, said that it had won an order worth 720 million dollars for engines to power 10 Virgin Atlantic Airbus A330 aircraft.(AFP/File/Greg Wood)AFP - Rolls-Royce, the maker of plane engines, said Friday that it had won an order worth 435 million pounds for engines to power 10 Virgin Atlantic Airbus A330 aircraft.

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