Yahoo! News: World - Britain

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• Leaders on final votes push in knife-edge poll (AFP)
• Medieval African possibly found buried in England (AP)
• Gordon Brown: a survivor fighting to avoid defeat (AP)
• British bishops in defection talks with Vatican (AP)
• Anglican bishops to defect to Rome: report (AFP)
• British soldier dies in Afghan attack: officials (AFP)
• UK election gets personal (Reuters)
• Young Tories: diverse, but still Thatcherite (AP)

Leaders on final votes push in knife-edge poll (AFP) Posted: 02 May 2010 03:03 PM PDT AFP - Party leaders embarked on one final push Sunday before a knife-edge election on May 6 as polls suggested the opposition Conservatives' lead is up but still falls short of an outright win.

Medieval African possibly found buried in England (AP) Posted: 02 May 2010 02:12 PM PDT AP - A 13th century skeleton unearthed on the grounds of a friary may be the earliest physical evidence that Africans lived in England in medieval times, a team of researchers said Sunday.

Gordon Brown: a survivor fighting to avoid defeat (AP) Posted: 02 May 2010 01:53 PM PDT AP - Gordon Brown has never made politics look easy, and Britain's hard-fought election campaign has been a grueling trial for the incumbent prime minister.

British bishops in defection talks with Vatican (AP) Posted: 02 May 2010 12:42 PM PDT AP - Three Church of England bishops traveled to Rome last week for talks with Vatican officials about joining the Catholic Church, according to two of the bishops involved.

Anglican bishops to defect to Rome: report (AFP) Posted: 02 May 2010 07:39 AM PDT AFP - A group of traditionalist Church of England bishops have met Vatican officials to tell them they are ready to defect to Rome, the Sunday Telegraph reported.

British soldier dies in Afghan attack: officials (AFP) Posted: 02 May 2010 06:15 AM PDT AFP - A British soldier died in an explosion in southern Afghanistan while protecting fellow troops as they returned from a patrol, officials said Sunday.

UK election gets personal (Reuters) Posted: 02 May 2010 06:06 AM PDT Reuters - Britain's political leaders launched personal attacks against each other on Sunday ahead of Thursday's parliamentary election, with opinion polls showing support growing for the opposition Conservative Party.

Young Tories: diverse, but still Thatcherite (AP) Posted: 02 May 2010 05:31 AM PDT AP - There's a feisty chick lit author, the Muslim son of a bus driver and a swashbuckling ex-diplomat who braved the Taliban to hike across Afghanistan alone.

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