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Yahoo! News: World - Britain

Lenny Henry and Dawn French to split up (Reuters)

Posted: 06 Apr 2010 06:46 PM PDT

British comedian Lenny Henry arrives at the world premiere of Reuters - British comedians Lenny Henry and Dawn French are to separate after 25 years of marriage, their spokesman said on Tuesday.

Brown calls general election for May 6 (AFP)

Posted: 06 Apr 2010 03:37 PM PDT

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has fired the starting gun on a month-long election race, setting May 6 as the date for voting in what could be the closest-run poll for a generation.(AFP/Carl Court)AFP - Prime Minister Gordon Brown fired the starting gun Tuesday on a month-long election race, setting May 6 as the date for voting in what could be the closest poll for a generation.

Britain's election finally set for May 6 (AP)

Posted: 06 Apr 2010 12:23 PM PDT

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, center right, and his wife Sarah, center left, arrive at St Pancras Station, London Tuesday April 6, 2010 to take the train to Rochester in Kent, after Brown called a May 6 general election. Britain will hold a national election May 6, Prime Minister Gordon Brown announced Tuesday. The bitterly contested race will be dominated by a recession-wracked economy and a sense that 13 years of Labour rule may be coming to an end. (AP Photo/Stefan Rousseau, Pool)AP - Britain is bracing for a May 6 general election that may alter the landscape of its politics — a race that offers at least three unpredictable outcomes and one of the most dramatic since Tony Blair defeated the Conservatives in 1997.

Comedians French, Lenny split (AFP)

Posted: 06 Apr 2010 11:04 AM PDT

Comedians Dawn French, seen here in 2005, and Lenny Henry are to separate after 25 years of marriage, their spokesman said today.(AFP/File/John D McHugh)AFP - Comedians Lenny Henry and Dawn French are to separate after 25 years of marriage, their spokesman said today.

British parties launch month-long election campaign (Reuters)

Posted: 06 Apr 2010 10:52 AM PDT

Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown delivers his speech at the Scottish Labour Party spring conference in Glasgow, Scotland March 27, 2010.REUTERS/David MoirReuters - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown on Tuesday launched a month-long election campaign likely to be dominated by the economy and shaping up to be the most unpredictable contest since 1992.

Labour faces tough sell in UK poll battleground (Reuters)

Posted: 06 Apr 2010 10:50 AM PDT

Reuters - With voters disgusted by sleaze allegations and political bickering, Britain's ruling Labour party has an uphill battle clinging to power in crucial parliamentary seats such as Crawley in southern England.

Correction: Britain-Pope story (AP)

Posted: 06 Apr 2010 10:44 AM PDT

AP - In an April 4 story about lawyers examining papal immunity, The Associated Press erroneously described Liberia's Charles Taylor. He was president of Liberia, not Sierra Leone, at the time of his U.N. trial for alleged war crimes committed in Sierra Leone.

UK's Brown to miss U.S. nuclear security summit (Reuters)

Posted: 06 Apr 2010 10:00 AM PDT

Reuters - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown will miss a nuclear summit hosted by President Barack Obama in Washington next week as he campaigns for Britain's May 6 parliamentary election, his spokesman said on Tuesday.

BoE delays May interest rate meeting due to election (AFP)

Posted: 06 Apr 2010 09:59 AM PDT

People walk past the Bank of England in central London. The Bank of England's interest rate meeting next month will be delayed after Prime Minister Gordon Brown called a general election for May 6, a BoE spokeswoman said on Tuesday.(AFP/File/Carl de Souza)AFP - The Bank of England's interest rate meeting next month will be delayed after Prime Minister Gordon Brown called a general election for May 6, a BoE spokeswoman said on Tuesday.

UK goverment cuts Glaxo swine flu vaccine order (AP)

Posted: 06 Apr 2010 09:31 AM PDT

AP - GlaxoSmithKline PLC has agreed to cut the British government's order of H1N1 swine flu vaccine by around a third without penalty.

Economy at heart of election battleground (AFP)

Posted: 06 Apr 2010 09:09 AM PDT

Conservative Party leader David Cameron speaks to patient Chris Stiles during a visit to the Queen Elizabeth hospital in Edgbaston. The fragile economic recovery will be at the heart of the election battle for May 6 polls, with Gordon Brown struggling to take credit for averting disaster rather than being blamed for the mess.(AFP/Pool/Leon Neal)AFP - The fragile economic recovery will be at the heart of the election battle for May 6 polls, with Gordon Brown struggling to take credit for averting disaster rather than being blamed for the mess.

Wilbur Ross backs Virgin bid to buy RBS branches (AP)

Posted: 06 Apr 2010 07:15 AM PDT

AP - U.S. billionaire investor Wilbur Ross has bought a 21 percent stake in Richard Branson's Virgin Money, backing the British entrepreneur's bid to buy hundreds of branches of the government-owned Royal Bank of Scotland.

Bringing vampires back home -- to Britain (Reuters)

Posted: 06 Apr 2010 07:05 AM PDT

Willem Dafoe, shown in this file photo from the film Reuters - A British university is to hold a conference on Vampires in an effort to counterbalance the "Americanization" of the fictional genre.

Women "tried to smuggle corpse onto plane" (Reuters)

Posted: 06 Apr 2010 05:13 AM PDT

Reuters - Two women were arrested at a British airport on suspicion of trying to smuggle a dead relative onto a flight bound for Germany, police said on Tuesday.

Women try to smuggle dead man on plane (AFP)

Posted: 06 Apr 2010 05:08 AM PDT

A plane prepares to take off at Liverpool John Lennon Airport. Two women have been arrested for trying to board a plane at Liverpool airport with a dead body, police have said.(AFP/File/Paul Ellis)AFP - Two women were arrested at Liverpool airport for trying to board a plane with a dead body, police said on Tuesday.

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