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Yahoo! News: World - Britain

Postal workers agree deal to end long dispute (AFP)

Posted: 08 Mar 2010 04:43 PM PST

Postal workers and state-owned Royal Mail have agreed a deal to end a long-running dispute over pay and modernisation that sparked a series of walkouts last year, both sides said.(AFP/File/Leon Neal)AFP - Postal workers and state-owned Royal Mail have agreed a deal to end a long-running dispute over pay and modernisation that sparked a series of walkouts last year, both sides said.

Sacre bleu! Britons challenging French in the kitchen (AFP)

Posted: 08 Mar 2010 04:35 PM PST

People eat at a sandwich bar in Paris. The French have long been considered masters of cuisine but Britons spend longer in the kitchen and prepare a wider variety of international food, according to a survey out Tuesday.(AFP/File/Mehdi Fedouach)AFP - The French have long been considered masters of cuisine but Britons spend longer in the kitchen and prepare a wider variety of international food, according to a survey out Tuesday.

Iraq war won Britain respect in Middle East: Miliband (AFP)

Posted: 08 Mar 2010 01:06 PM PST

The government's decision to back the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003 earned it respect in the Middle East and it must not be scared of similar action in the future, Foreign Secretary David Miliband, pictured on March 5, said Monday.(AFP/File/Francisco Leong)AFP - The government's decision to back the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003 earned it respect in the Middle East and it must not be scared of similar action in the future, Foreign Secretary David Miliband said Monday.

No Toytown for Phillips at worlds (AFP)

Posted: 08 Mar 2010 11:33 AM PST

Zara Phillips on Toytown jumps the Eventing individual competition of the World Equestrian Games in Aachen, Germany in 2006. Phillips will be unable to defend her world three-day eventing title aboard star horse Toytown in the United States later this year.(AFP/DDP/File/Jochen Luebke)AFP - Zara Phillips will be unable to defend her world three-day eventing title aboard star horse Toytown in the United States later this year.

Brown presses Somali leader over kidnapped Britons (AFP)

Posted: 08 Mar 2010 10:48 AM PST

A woman watches video footage in 2009 of the British couple that were kidnapped while sailing off the coast of Somalia. Prime Minister Gordon Brown pressed the Somali president during talks in London on Monday to help secure the release of a British couple held hostage by pirates, a spokesman said.(AFP/File/Leon Neal)AFP - Prime Minister Gordon Brown pressed the Somali president during talks in London on Monday to help secure the release of a British couple held hostage by pirates, a spokesman said.

Torment for Bulger family as killer 're-offends' (AFP)

Posted: 08 Mar 2010 09:08 AM PST

A picture of Jon Venables on the front page of the Guardian newspaper. The mother of murdered toddler James Bulger has told of her torment amid reports that Venables -- one of the freed killers -- was being held over alleged child pornography crimes.(AFP/File/Ben Stansall)AFP - The mother of murdered toddler James Bulger told of her torment on Monday amid reports one of the freed killers was being held over alleged child pornography crimes.

Scouts founder 'held talks with the Nazis' (AFP)

Posted: 08 Mar 2010 08:04 AM PST

A picture dated 1936 shows German Chancellor and nazi dictator Adolf Hitler shaking hands with young Harald Quandt (1921-1967) in his uniform of the Hitlerian Youth Movement. Scouting founder Lord Baden-Powell was invited to meet Adolf Hitler after friendly talks with the Hitler Youth about forming closer ties, secret British files released have showed.(AFP/FRANCE PRESSE VOIR/File)AFP - Scouting founder Lord Robert Baden-Powell was invited to meet Adolf Hitler after friendly talks with the Hitler Youth about forming closer ties, secret British files released on Monday showed.

English nuclear bunker sold on eBay for $31,000 (AP)

Posted: 08 Mar 2010 07:58 AM PST

AP - An underground Cold War nuclear bunker set in the picturesque English countryside has been sold on the auction site eBay.

UK justices hear detainees' torture appeal (AP)

Posted: 08 Mar 2010 07:32 AM PST

This courtroom sketch shows Canadian defendant Omar Khadr sitting during a hearing inside the courthouse for the US war crimes commission at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba in 2009. US forces in Afghanistan took Khadr prisoner when he was just 15 years old in July 2002. He was later charged with war crimes for allegedly throwing a grenade that killed a US soldier.(AFP/POOL/File/Janet Hamlin)AP - Lawyers for six former Guantanamo detainees on Monday appealed a ruling that the British government can use secret evidence to fight a claim that it was complicit in their abuse.

Rugby great JPR Williams banned for drink-driving (AFP)

Posted: 08 Mar 2010 06:33 AM PST

Wales rugby great JPR Williams, seen here in 1997, has received a 17-month ban for drink-driving after a Cardiff court heard how the full-back tried to deceive a breath test by placing coins in his mouth.(AFP/File/Gabriel Bouys)AFP - Wales rugby great JPR Williams received a 17-month ban for drink-driving on Monday after a court heard how the legendary full-back tried to deceive a breath test by placing coins in his mouth.

Fear of ageing drives men's cosmetic sales (Reuters)

Posted: 08 Mar 2010 05:53 AM PST

Reuters - Male cosmetics sales in Britain are growing at twice the rate of the female market, according to a survey, with the need to look good for job interviews and the fear of looking old playing key roles.

Astra's colon cancer drug fails test (AP)

Posted: 08 Mar 2010 05:14 AM PST

AP - AstraZeneca PLC said Monday that its cancer drug Recentin failed in a head to head late stage trial with Roche AG's Avastin in tests for use as an initial treatment against colon cancer.

270,000 civil servants launch two-day strike (AFP)

Posted: 08 Mar 2010 05:10 AM PST

Tessa Jowell MP pictured in 2007. Up to 270,000 public service workers have launched a two-day walkout over reduncancy pay in the biggest show of industrial action by the civil service since 1987.(AFP/File/Leon Neal)AFP - Up to 270,000 public service workers on Monday launched a two-day walkout over redundancy pay in the biggest show of industrial action by the civil service since 1987.

Soldier killed in Afghanistan explosion (AFP)

Posted: 08 Mar 2010 03:33 AM PST

A soldier patrols the Iraqi city of Basra in 2003. A soldier has been killed in an explosion while on foot patrol in southern Afghanistan, the latest in a surge of deaths there, the Ministry of Defence has said.(AFP/File/Dan Chung)AFP - A soldier was killed in an explosion while on foot patrol in southern Afghanistan, the latest in a surge of deaths there, the Ministry of Defence said Monday.

Somali doctor: British yacht couple reunited (AP)

Posted: 08 Mar 2010 02:57 AM PST

Somali doctor Abdi Mohamed Elmi Hangul speaks at Medina hospital, Mogadishu, Somalia, Monday, March 8, 2010. Dr. Abdi Mohamed Elmi Hangul told The Associated Press during an interview at Medina Hospital that a British yachting couple seized by Somali pirates and held in separate locations have been temporarily reunited after weeks apart. The doctor who treated the two said Paul and Rachel Chandler were suffering from severe anxiety brought on by their separation and captivity in war-ravaged Somalia. (AP Photo/Mohamed Sheikh Nor)AP - A British yachting couple seized by Somali pirates and held in separate locations have been temporarily reunited after weeks apart, a doctor who treated the two said.

British reporters face Afghan curb during UK poll (AFP)

Posted: 08 Mar 2010 12:42 AM PST

The camera of a US Marine photographer with 1/3 Marine Charlie Company hangs on an assault rifle in the northeast of Marjah in February. British journalists will have access to Afghan military operations curbed during the election campaign to prevent claims the forces are being used for political purposes, officials have said.(AFP/Patrick Baz)AFP - British journalists will have access to Afghan military operations curbed during the election campaign here to prevent claims the forces are being used for political purposes, officials said Monday.

Three die in fall from Glasgow flats (AFP)

Posted: 08 Mar 2010 12:24 AM PST

Three people plunged to their deaths from a high-rise block of flats in Scotland, police have said, in what neighbours believed was a triple suicide by asylum seekers to avoid deportation.(AFP/File/Odd Andersen)AFP - Three people plunged to their deaths from a high-rise block of flats in Scotland, police said, in what neighbours believed was a triple suicide by asylum seekers to avoid deportation.

MI5 papers show Britain feared Nazi 'spyclists' (AP)

Posted: 07 Mar 2010 09:38 PM PST

AP - Clouds of war were gathering over Europe, and the English police officer was concerned. A group of black-clad Germans had been spotted heading for London — by bicycle.

Iceland vote: president challenges British PM (AFP)

Posted: 07 Mar 2010 06:42 PM PST

Iceland's president has bounced the ball back into the court of Britain's Prime Minister, Gordon Brown (pictured), after voters in the Nordic nation overwhelmingly rejected a plan to pay Britain and the Netherlands billions for losses in the Icesave bank collapse.(AFP/Pool/File/Dan Kitwood)AFP - Iceland's president bounced the ball back into Gordon Brown's court after voters overwhelmingly rejected a plan to pay Britain and the Netherlands billions for losses in the Icesave bank collapse.

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