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Yahoo! News: World - Britain

Leaders on final votes push in knife-edge poll (AFP)

Posted: 02 May 2010 03:03 PM PDT

Prime Minister Gordon Brown (2nd right) and Minister for the Olympics and London Tessa Jowell campaign on the streets of south London. Party leaders embarked on one final push before a knife-edge election on May 6 as polls suggested the Conservatives' lead is up but still falls short of an outright win.(AFP/Ben Stansall)AFP - Party leaders embarked on one final push Sunday before a knife-edge election on May 6 as polls suggested the opposition Conservatives' lead is up but still falls short of an outright win.

Medieval African possibly found buried in England (AP)

Posted: 02 May 2010 02:12 PM PDT

AP - A 13th century skeleton unearthed on the grounds of a friary may be the earliest physical evidence that Africans lived in England in medieval times, a team of researchers said Sunday.

Gordon Brown: a survivor fighting to avoid defeat (AP)

Posted: 02 May 2010 01:53 PM PDT

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown meets local residents during a visit to Dulwich and West Norwood in London Sunday, May 2, 2010. Britain goes to the polls in a general election May 6. (AP Photo/ Dan Kitwood, PA ) ** UNITED KINGDOM OUT **AP - Gordon Brown has never made politics look easy, and Britain's hard-fought election campaign has been a grueling trial for the incumbent prime minister.

British bishops in defection talks with Vatican (AP)

Posted: 02 May 2010 12:42 PM PDT

AP - Three Church of England bishops traveled to Rome last week for talks with Vatican officials about joining the Catholic Church, according to two of the bishops involved.

Anglican bishops to defect to Rome: report (AFP)

Posted: 02 May 2010 07:39 AM PDT

Pope Benedict XVI, seen here in April 2010. A group of traditionalist Church of England bishops have met Vatican officials to tell them they are ready to defect to Rome.(AFP/File/Alberto Pizzoli)AFP - A group of traditionalist Church of England bishops have met Vatican officials to tell them they are ready to defect to Rome, the Sunday Telegraph reported.

British soldier dies in Afghan attack: officials (AFP)

Posted: 02 May 2010 06:15 AM PDT

Soldiers with the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) on patrol in Balamurghab district of Badghis province of Afghanistan. A British soldier has died in an explosion in southern Afghanistan while protecting fellow troops as they returned from a patrol, officials said.(AFP/File/Arif Karimi)AFP - A British soldier died in an explosion in southern Afghanistan while protecting fellow troops as they returned from a patrol, officials said Sunday.

UK election gets personal (Reuters)

Posted: 02 May 2010 06:06 AM PDT

Reuters - Britain's political leaders launched personal attacks against each other on Sunday ahead of Thursday's parliamentary election, with opinion polls showing support growing for the opposition Conservative Party.

Young Tories: diverse, but still Thatcherite (AP)

Posted: 02 May 2010 05:31 AM PDT

British Conservative Party candidate Rory Stewart, is seen, as sheep are gathered from the fell, as he tour's his prospective constituency, meeting the people who live and work in the area, at Heltondale, England, Friday April 16, 2010. Conservative Party leader David Cameron 's crop of new candidates are a group of young, multiethnic professionals who he hopes can shed the Tories' image as a 'nasty party' stuffed with rich, aging white men from privileged backgrounds. The aspiring legislators vow to stir up Britain's sometimes staid politics, and perhaps unsettle their leadership — with hard-line views on Europe, immigration and climate change that often don't stack up with Cameron's message of a more compassionate, greener conservatism.(AP Photo/Scott Heppell)AP - There's a feisty chick lit author, the Muslim son of a bus driver and a swashbuckling ex-diplomat who braved the Taliban to hike across Afghanistan alone.

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