Yahoo! News: World - Britain

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• Obama stand on oil spill is tough and temperate (AP)
• British soldier killed in Afghanistan blast (AFP)
• Obama tells Britain no hard feelings over spill (AP)
• Obama, British PM Cameron discuss BP oil spill (AP)
• Horse wins again in UK's annual equine-human race (AP)
• British food critic Egon Ronay dies aged 94: friend (AFP)
• British food critic Egon Ronay dies at 94 (AP)
• Food critic Egon Ronay dies at 94 (Reuters)
• UK celebrates queen's birthday with military pomp (AP)
• Eyeing BP oil spill, British question if North Sea oil firms also push bounds of safety (The Christian Science Monitor)

Obama stand on oil spill is tough and temperate (AP) Posted: 12 Jun 2010 01:54 PM PDT AP - President Barack Obama took a fist-and-olive-branch approach to the Gulf oil spill Saturday, giving BP a deadline to accelerate cleanup efforts while also reassuring Britons he's not pointing a finger at them or their national institutions.

British soldier killed in Afghanistan blast (AFP) Posted: 12 Jun 2010 12:55 PM PDT AFP - A British soldier was killed Saturday by an explosion in southern Afghanistan, the Ministry of Defence in London said.

Obama tells Britain no hard feelings over spill (AP) Posted: 12 Jun 2010 12:04 PM PDT AP - President Barack Obama reassured Prime Minister David Cameron on Saturday that his frustration over the mammoth oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is not an attack on Britain as the two leaders tried to soothe trans-Atlantic tensions over the disaster.

Obama, British PM Cameron discuss BP oil spill (AP) Posted: 12 Jun 2010 10:49 AM PDT AP - The White House says President Barack Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron have discussed BP's need to do all it can to respond effectively to the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

Horse wins again in UK's annual equine-human race (AP) Posted: 12 Jun 2010 10:14 AM PDT AP - Four legs have triumphed over two once again, with a horse galloping to victory in Britain's annual Man vs. Horse race.

British food critic Egon Ronay dies aged 94: friend (AFP) Posted: 12 Jun 2010 08:54 AM PDT AFP - Egon Ronay, the food critic credited with transforming eating habits in Britain with his ground-breaking restaurant and hotel guides, died on Saturday aged 94, a close friend said.

British food critic Egon Ronay dies at 94 (AP) Posted: 12 Jun 2010 08:34 AM PDT AP - Food critic Egon Ronay, whose eponymous restaurant guides helped Britain embrace fine dining after years of postwar austerity, died Saturday. He was 94.

Food critic Egon Ronay dies at 94 (Reuters) Posted: 12 Jun 2010 07:04 AM PDT Reuters - Hungarian-born food critic Egon Ronay, famous in Britain for his restaurant guidebooks, has died at the age of 94, a family friend said on Saturday.

UK celebrates queen's birthday with military pomp (AP) Posted: 12 Jun 2010 06:11 AM PDT AP - Hundreds of soldiers in scarlet tunics and bearskin hats marched in London Saturday to celebrate the official birthday of Queen Elizabeth II.

Eyeing BP oil spill, British question if North Sea oil firms also push bounds of safety (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 11 Jun 2010 01:51 PM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - As British Petroleum and the US try to rein in the BP oil spill sparked by explosions on the Deepwater Horizon rig, some in Britain allege that lax safety practices in its North Sea oil fields could lead to a similar catastrophe there.

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