2010年3月14日星期日

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Yahoo! News: World - Britain

Government plans elected House of Lords (AFP)

Posted: 14 Mar 2010 01:37 PM PDT

The Houses of Parliament. The government is set to unveil plans to replace parliament's upper House of Lords with a wholly-elected chamber, a minister said Sunday.(AFP/File/Ben Stansall)AFP - The government is set to unveil plans to replace parliament's upper House of Lords with a wholly elected chamber in order to make it "legitimate," a minister said Sunday.

Give an Afghan your vote, activists urge Britons (Reuters)

Posted: 14 Mar 2010 12:03 PM PDT

Reuters - Activist group, Egality, is inviting British voters to give their right to vote to someone in one of three developing countries which, it says, are "directly affected by UK policies on war, climate and poverty."

Parties jostle over hung parliament fears (AFP)

Posted: 14 Mar 2010 10:42 AM PDT

Liberal Democrats Party leader Nick Clegg makes a speech on foreign affairs at the Royal Institute of International Affairs at Chatham House, in central London, on March 10. The country's third-biggest party insisted Sunday it would not cosy up to either Labour or the Conservatives as new polls pointed to a hung parliament in which they could hold the balance of power.(AFP/File/Carl Court)AFP - The country's third-biggest party insisted Sunday it would not cosy up to either Labour or the Conservatives as new polls pointed to a hung parliament in which they could hold the balance of power.

Man wanted by Spain for 'terror offences' arrested in London (AFP)

Posted: 14 Mar 2010 09:02 AM PDT

Police said they arrested a man wanted on a Spanish extradition warrant for alleged terror offences.(AFP/File/Odd Andersen)AFP - Police said Sunday they arrested a man wanted on a Spanish extradition warrant for alleged terror offences.

British pair faces jail time in Dubai over kiss (Reuters)

Posted: 14 Mar 2010 08:11 AM PDT

Reuters - A British pair caught kissing in public in Dubai face up to a month in jail in the Gulf Arab emirate for indecency after an Emirati mother complained her child had seen their indiscretion.

British kissing couple awaits jail verdict in Dubai (AFP)

Posted: 14 Mar 2010 06:25 AM PDT

An Emirati man walks past the Dubai Courts. A British couple accused of kissing in public in the Muslim emirate of Dubai will find out next month if an appeals court will uphold their one-month prison sentence.(AFP/File/Karim Sahib)AFP - A British couple accused of kissing in public in the Muslim emirate of Dubai will find out next month if an appeals court will uphold their one-month prison sentence, their lawyer said on Sunday.

British fertility clinic raffling human egg (AFP)

Posted: 14 Mar 2010 06:19 AM PDT

This photo taken at a fertility clinic in Encino, California shows a red vial containing human eggs. A British fertility clinic has said it is raffling off a human egg this week to promote its AFP - A British fertility clinic said Sunday it was raffling off a human egg this week to promote its "baby profiling" service, which it insists is legal under UK law.

Two dead, dozens missing in Canada after massive avalanche (AFP)

Posted: 14 Mar 2010 11:55 AM PDT

Two people died and dozens were missing Sunday, after a massive weekend avalanche in Western Canada hit a crowd of 200 snowmobilers in the mountainous backcountry.(AFP/Graphic)AFP - Two people died and dozens were missing Sunday, after a massive weekend avalanche in Western Canada hit a crowd of 200 snowmobilers in the mountainous backcountry.

British couple appealing Dubai kiss conviction (AP)

Posted: 14 Mar 2010 04:29 AM PDT

AP - A British couple is appealing a jail sentence after being accused of sharing a passionate kiss in a Dubai restaurant.

'SamCam' to the rescue as Tories fight for poll win (AFP)

Posted: 14 Mar 2010 03:01 AM PDT

Leader of the Conservative Party David Cameron gestures next to his wife Samantha at the end of his speech on the final day of the Conservative Party Conference in Manchester, 2009. With the Conservatives facing an unexpectedly tight general election race, Cameron was wheeling out a secret weapon Sunday -- his wife Samantha.(AFP/File/Paul Ellis)AFP - With the Conservatives facing an unexpectedly tight general election race, party leader David Cameron was wheeling out a secret weapon Sunday -- his wife Samantha.

Search for missing after deadly Canadian avalanche (Reuters)

Posted: 14 Mar 2010 10:43 AM PDT

Reuters - Two people were killed, 30 injured and others feared buried in the snow after an avalanche struck a mountain snowmobile rally near Revelstoke, British Columbia, Canadian police said on Sunday.

Flaming torches light up Britain's Hadrian's Wall (AFP)

Posted: 13 Mar 2010 06:45 PM PST

A volunteer looks on after a beacon is lit on Hadrian's Wall at Steel Rigg Northumberland. Hadrian's Wall, a Roman-era fortification spanning the width of northern England, was lit up from end-to-end by volunteers carrying flaming torches Saturday.(AFP/Andy Buchanan)AFP - Hadrian's Wall, a Roman-era fortification spanning the width of northern England, was lit up from end-to-end by volunteers carrying flaming torches.

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