Yahoo! News: World - Britain

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• Kraft says Cadbury defence 'underwhelming': report (AFP)
• Britain backs ban on tanning beds for under-18s (Reuters)
• Campbell denies 'sexing up' Iraq dossier (AFP)
• UK Gov't to appeal European ruling on terror laws (AP)
• British police anti-terror searches condemned (AFP)
• UK universities warn that they face 'meltdown' (AP)
• France: Niece of UK official convicted of murder (AP)
• UK moves to ban controversial Islamist group (AP)
• Three Britons, one Colombian kidnapped in Nigeria (AFP)
• Ex-UK communications chief: Be proud of Iraq war (AP)
• Peaches Geldof wins damages for "prostitute" slur (Reuters)
• Two Britons sentenced for paedophilia in Albania (AFP)
• FTSE 100 closes lower (AFP)
• Blair said would back U.S. if Iraq diplomacy failed (Reuters)
• British couple arrested in Dubai for extra-marital sex (Reuters)
• Nigeria gunmen kidnap 3 British workers, 1 Colombian (Reuters)
• Scottish leader raps Lockerbie deal bid (AFP)
• Parents of Madeleine McCann face accuser in court (AFP)
• UK bank chiefs defend bonus packages (AP)
• RBS boss vows to minimise staff bonuses (AFP)

Kraft says Cadbury defence 'underwhelming': report (AFP) Posted: 12 Jan 2010 05:30 PM PST AFP - US giant Kraft Foods dismissed on Wednesday as "underwhelming" British confectioner Cadbury's defence against the American firm's multi-billion-dollar hostile takeover bid, a newspaper reported.

Britain backs ban on tanning beds for under-18s (Reuters) Posted: 12 Jan 2010 04:44 PM PST Reuters - The British government backed a call on Wednesday for under-18s to be banned from using sunbeds in tanning salons because they increase skin cancer risk.

Campbell denies 'sexing up' Iraq dossier (AFP) Posted: 12 Jan 2010 03:52 PM PST AFP - Tony Blair's former chief spin doctor Alastair Campbell fiercely denied Tuesday "sexing up" a dossier which claimed Iraq could launch chemical or biological weapons within 45 minutes ahead of the 2003 war.

UK Gov't to appeal European ruling on terror laws (AP) Posted: 12 Jan 2010 02:59 PM PST AP - The British government said Tuesday it will appeal a European Court of Human Rights ruling that prevents police from using anti-terror laws to stop and search members of the public.

British police anti-terror searches condemned (AFP) Posted: 12 Jan 2010 01:51 PM PST AFP - The European Court of Human Rights on Tuesday condemned British anti-terror legislation allowing people to be searched by police without reasonable suspicion of wrongdoing.

UK universities warn that they face 'meltdown' (AP) Posted: 12 Jan 2010 12:33 PM PST AP - Oxford, Cambridge and other British universities said Tuesday that the government's plan to cut hundreds of millions of pounds (dollars) from their funding would put their world-class reputations in jeopardy.

France: Niece of UK official convicted of murder (AP) Posted: 12 Jan 2010 12:31 PM PST AP - The niece of a British junior minister was convicted of murder on Tuesday for the stabbing of a young man she had picked up in a pub in France, and she was sentenced to 15 years in prison.

UK moves to ban controversial Islamist group (AP) Posted: 12 Jan 2010 12:15 PM PST AP - The British government banned an Islamist group notorious for glorifying al-Qaida and tied to terror plots at home and abroad, but its Lebanon-based spiritual leader promised to reorganize under a different name.

Three Britons, one Colombian kidnapped in Nigeria (AFP) Posted: 12 Jan 2010 10:37 AM PST AFP - Gunmen Tuesday seized three Britons and a Colombian, shooting dead their police escort in the first major kidnapping for six months in southern Nigeria's Niger Delta.

Ex-UK communications chief: Be proud of Iraq war (AP) Posted: 12 Jan 2010 10:32 AM PST AP - Spinmaster Alastair Campbell told the Iraq Inquiry on Tuesday that former Prime Minister Tony Blair's team has nothing to apologize for even though the dossier it used to convince the British public to go to war with Iraq was riddled with faulty intelligence.

Peaches Geldof wins damages for "prostitute" slur (Reuters) Posted: 12 Jan 2010 09:39 AM PST Reuters - Peaches Geldof has been awarded substantial undisclosed libel damages over a newspaper article that implied she was a prostitute who charged 5,000 pounds ($8,000) a night.

Two Britons sentenced for paedophilia in Albania (AFP) Posted: 12 Jan 2010 09:27 AM PST AFP - A court in Albania on Tuesday sentenced two Englishmen to lenghty prison terms for sexually molesting and abusing children at an orphanage in Albania.

FTSE 100 closes lower (AFP) Posted: 12 Jan 2010 09:22 AM PST AFP - The leading stock exchange fell on Tuesday as investors reacted to weak earnings data from US aluminium producer Alcoa, which kicked off the latest results season in the world's biggest economy.

Blair said would back U.S. if Iraq diplomacy failed (Reuters) Posted: 12 Jan 2010 09:00 AM PST Reuters - LONDON (Reuters)- Prime Minister Tony Blair told U.S. President George W. Bush in 2002 that Britain would back military action if diplomatic efforts to disarm Iraq's Saddam Hussein failed, his former communications chief said on Tuesday.

British couple arrested in Dubai for extra-marital sex (Reuters) Posted: 12 Jan 2010 08:54 AM PST Reuters - Dubai police said Tuesday they had found no evidence to support a British woman's report that she was raped by a waiter in the Gulf Arab emirate, but have arrested her and her boyfriend for having sex outside marriage.

Nigeria gunmen kidnap 3 British workers, 1 Colombian (Reuters) Posted: 12 Jan 2010 08:08 AM PST Reuters - Gunmen in Nigeria kidnapped three British workers and one Colombian on Tuesday in an attack on their convoy near the oil hub Port Harcourt, a government spokeswoman and security sources said.

Scottish leader raps Lockerbie deal bid (AFP) Posted: 12 Jan 2010 07:55 AM PST AFP - Scottish leader Alex Salmond attacked the government on Tuesday for having tried to include the Lockerbie bomber in a prisoner-transfer deal with Libya.

Parents of Madeleine McCann face accuser in court (AFP) Posted: 12 Jan 2010 07:37 AM PST AFP - The parents of missing girl Madeleine McCann faced a former Portuguese police officer in a libel court on Tuesday over his claims that she is dead and that they were involved in her disappearance.

UK bank chiefs defend bonus packages (AP) Posted: 12 Jan 2010 06:28 AM PST AP - Royal Bank of Scotland PLC Chief Executive Stephen Hester said Tuesday that the bailed-out bank's recovery is ahead of schedule as he defended its upcoming bonus packages against growing criticism.

RBS boss vows to minimise staff bonuses (AFP) Posted: 12 Jan 2010 05:30 AM PST AFP - The boss of state-controlled Royal Bank of Scotland vowed on Tuesday to minimise bankers' bonuses amid public anger over potential payouts that could be deemed a reward for failure.

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