2010年3月19日星期五

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Yahoo! News: World - Britain

Catholic leader rejects celibacy-abuse link (AFP)

Posted: 19 Mar 2010 04:36 PM PDT

The Most Reverend Vincent Nichols arrives at Westminster Cathedral in central London in 2009. There is no statistical connection between child abuse and celibacy, England's top Catholic cleric said Friday, ahead of the publication of a papal letter to the Irish faithful over an abuse scandal.(AFP/File/Leon Neal)AFP - There is no statistical connection between child abuse and celibacy, England's top Catholic cleric said Friday, ahead of the publication of a papal letter to the Irish faithful over an abuse scandal.

Is that fare? Steep fee to ride with UK's Brown (AP)

Posted: 19 Mar 2010 03:49 PM PDT

AP - Britain's national debt is the key theme in the country's looming national election — but it's now news organizations, not just the country's government, racking up huge bills to meet the cost of covering the campaign.

BA strike to go ahead after talks collapse (AFP)

Posted: 19 Mar 2010 03:01 PM PDT

Two British Airways jets are pictured at London's Heathrow airport. Last-ditch talks aimed at preventing a strike by some 12,000 British Airways cabin crew have collapsed, leaving thousands of passengers facing chaos within hours.(AFP/File/Max Nash)AFP - Last-ditch talks aimed at preventing a strike by some 12,000 BA cabin crew collapsed Friday, leaving thousands of travellers facing chaos from midnight (0000 GMT).

Turkish president wins international relations prize (AFP)

Posted: 19 Mar 2010 01:50 PM PDT

Turkish President Abdullah Gul, seen here in February 2010, has won this year's prestigious Chatham House prize for improving international relations, the British foreign policy think-tank announced Friday.(AFP/File/Indranil Mukherjee)AFP - Turkish President Abdullah Gul has won this year's prestigious Chatham House prize for improving international relations, the British foreign policy think-tank announced Friday.

Strike looms as talks between BA, union collapse (AP)

Posted: 19 Mar 2010 11:43 AM PDT

A British Airways aeroplane descends to land at Heathrow Airport in London, Thursday March 18, 2010. A British news agency says that British Airways Chief Executive Willie Walsh is again talking with the union representing cabin crew staff, who are poised to strike from Saturday. The union has called for a three-day strike beginning Saturday and a four-day walkout beginning on March 27. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)AP - A three-day strike by British Airways cabin crew affecting thousands of travelers is going ahead Saturday after last-ditch talks between the airline's management and union leaders collapsed.

Lloyds predicts return to profit in 2010 (AFP)

Posted: 19 Mar 2010 11:04 AM PDT

Partly-nationalised Lloyds Banking Group has forecast it will return to profitablity in 2010 and reported strong trade in the first few months of the year.(AFP/File/Ben Stansall)AFP - Partly-nationalised Lloyds Banking Group forecast on Friday that it will return to profitability in 2010 and reported strong trade in the first few months of the year.

Nintendo aims to get consoles in schools (AP)

Posted: 19 Mar 2010 10:50 AM PDT

Shigeru Miyamoto, Japanese video game designer and producer is seen during an interview with Associated Press in London, Friday, March 19, 2010. Miyamoto, the creator of such classic games as 'Mario' and the man behind Nintendo's popular Wii console, was in Britain to receive a fellowship at the GAME British Academy Video Games Award. Miyamoto says he's devoting most of his energy to turning Nintendo Co.'s DS handheld consoles into tour guides and educational aids. (AP Photo / Kirsty Wigglesworth)AP - Could Nintendo's Mario be swapping his world of magic mushrooms and ravenous dinosaurs for the staid confines of the classroom?

British Airways crews to strike, angering PM (Reuters)

Posted: 19 Mar 2010 10:25 AM PDT

Reuters - A three-day strike by many of British Airways' cabin crews will go ahead after union talks with management collapsed, leaving the ruling Labour government with a major headache weeks before a general election.

Prince Harry vows to join amputee troops on polar trek (AFP)

Posted: 19 Mar 2010 10:10 AM PDT

Prince Harry seen here in Windsor in 2008. Prince Harry,who served a tour of duty in Afghanistan in 2007 and 2008, said Friday he hopes to join soldiers who lost limbs on the front line in a record-breaking attempt to walk to the North Pole.(AFP/File/Adrian Dennis)AFP - Prince Harry said Friday he hopes to join soldiers who lost limbs on the front line in a record-breaking attempt to walk to the North Pole.

Prince Harry hopes to join troops on Pole trek (AP)

Posted: 19 Mar 2010 10:09 AM PDT

Britain's Prince Harry tries a harness for pulling a sledge, while visiting a group of military servicemen, who were wounded in the line of duty and subsequently lost limbs, in London, Friday March 19, 2010. The servicemen are training for an unaided trip to the North Pole scheduled to take place in 2011. The Prince met some of the wounded service personnel who will take part in the expedition, and learned about their training programme and the challenges they will face during the world record attempt.(AP Photo/Suzanne Plunkett, pool)AP - Prince Harry says he hopes to join a group of disabled soldiers in a charity expedition to the North Pole to raise money for wounded troops.

British stocks get surprise Lloyds profit boost (AP)

Posted: 19 Mar 2010 09:46 AM PDT

FILE - In this Tuesday, March 16, 2010 file photo, traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange in New York. Stocks are trading in a narrow range Thursday, March 18, after a fresh batch of economic reports showed the economy continues to slowly regain its strength. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)AP - Britain's benchmark stock index bucked the trend and rose modestly Friday after the part-nationalized Lloyds Banking Group PLC issued a buoyant business update.

Life for killer convicted using dog DNA (AFP)

Posted: 19 Mar 2010 09:33 AM PDT

This handout photo from the Metropolitan Police shows convicted murderer Chrisdian Johnson covered in blood stains -- both human and canine -- after being arrested. Johnson received a life sentence for murder after becoming the first ever person to be convicted using new dog DNA technology.(Metropolitan Police)AFP - A gang member received a life sentence for murder on Friday after becoming the first ever person to be convicted using new dog DNA technology.

Dog DNA helps convict man who used pet as weapon (AP)

Posted: 19 Mar 2010 09:19 AM PDT

AP - A man who used his dog to attack a teenager whom he then stabbed to death was sentenced Friday to at least 24 years in jail for murder.

Library book is returned -- 45 years late (Reuters)

Posted: 19 Mar 2010 08:50 AM PDT

Reuters - Staff at the Dinnington library are used to people bringing books back late but the package they received last month was in a class of its own.

UK anti-militant project stirs Muslim unease (Reuters)

Posted: 19 Mar 2010 07:47 AM PDT

Reuters - A British anti-radicalization campaign called Prevent is a pressing priority in the European country experts see as the most at risk from al Qaeda attack.

British Airways strike to go ahead (AFP)

Posted: 19 Mar 2010 07:39 AM PDT

Two British Airways jets are pictured at London's Heathrow airport. Last-ditch talks aimed at preventing a strike by some 12,000 British Airways cabin crew have collapsed, leaving thousands of passengers facing chaos within hours.(AFP/File/Max Nash)AFP - Talks aimed at preventing a strike by British Airways (BA) cabin crew have collapsed, the Unite trade union said Friday, less than 12 hours before the action was due to start.

British boy arrives home after Pakistan kidnap ordeal (AFP)

Posted: 19 Mar 2010 07:11 AM PDT

Sahil Saeed with his mother Akila Naqqash in Oldham, Greater Manchester. The boy whose 12-day kidnap ordeal in Pakistan sparked an international police operation that led to arrests in Europe has arrived home.(AFP/Andrew Yates)AFP - A five-year-old British boy whose 12-day kidnap ordeal in Pakistan sparked an international police operation that led to arrests in Europe has arrived home.

Fears for mother of abandoned baby (AFP)

Posted: 19 Mar 2010 05:58 AM PDT

Gwent Police have launched an urgent appeal to find the mother whose baby died after being abandoned outside a village convenience store in south Wales.(AFP/File/Adrian Dennis)AFP - Gwent Police launched an urgent appeal on Friday to find the mother whose baby died after being abandoned outside a village convenience store in south Wales.

Lloyds Banking Group expects profit this year (AP)

Posted: 19 Mar 2010 05:38 AM PDT

AP - Britain's Lloyds Banking Group PLC said Friday it expects to report a profit this year as trading has so far been strong and provisions for bad assets are not as large as previously forecast.

No charges for son over conductor's Swiss suicide (AP)

Posted: 19 Mar 2010 05:00 AM PDT

AP - British prosecutors say they will not charge the son of conductor Edward Downes and his wife with assisting their suicides at a Swiss clinic last year.

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