2010年5月3日星期一

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Yahoo! News: World - Britain

Party leaders in last-ditch push for swing voters (AFP)

Posted: 03 May 2010 05:25 PM PDT

Conservative Party leader David Cameron (right) with his wife Samantha are greeted by supporters as they leave Chepstow community garden in Blackpool on May 3. Party leaders targeted key marginal seats on Monday in a final push to win what looks like the closest general election in decades this week.(AFP/Pool/Carl de Souza)AFP - Party leaders targeted battleground seats in a final push to win what looks like the closest general election in decades this week.

PM's wife 'looking forward to lie-in' after polls (AFP)

Posted: 03 May 2010 04:06 PM PDT

Embattled Prime Minister Gordon Brown's wife Sarah, pictured in 2009, is looking forward to a nice glass of wine and a lie-in after elections this week, she said in comments published Tuesday.(AFP/File/Carl de Souza)AFP - Embattled Prime Minister Gordon Brown's wife Sarah is looking forward to a nice glass of wine and a lie-in after elections this week, she said in comments published Tuesday.

Two soldiers in same regiment die in Afghanistan (AFP)

Posted: 03 May 2010 03:07 PM PDT

British soldiers walk towards a military helicopter near the Pimon military camp in Nad-e Ali district of Helmand province in March 2010. Two soldiers from the same regiment were killed in southern Afghanistan on Monday in separate incidents, one in an explosion and the second in a traffic accident, defence officials said.(AFP/Pool/File/Massoud Hossaini)AFP - Two soldiers from the same regiment were killed in southern Afghanistan on Monday in separate incidents, one in an explosion and the second in a traffic accident, defence officials said.

Condemned British woman in US loses appeal (AP)

Posted: 03 May 2010 02:56 PM PDT

In this April 13, 2010 photo, Linda Carty, 51, who moved from St. Kitts in the British Virgin Islands to the U.S., poses for a photo at the Texas Department of Criminal Justice Mountain View Unit outside Gatesville, Texas. Carty, a 51-year-old British grandmother convicted of murdering her 20-year-old neighbor Joana Rodriguez and kidnapping her newborn son, Ray, will soon get a date with the executioner, after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected her last appeal on Monday May 3, 2010 by declining to review her case. It is scary,' she told the AP recently from the Texas Department of Criminal Justice Mountain View Unit near Gatesville. 'You're talking about terminating my life for something I know for myself I didn't do. I'm supposed to be this bad criminal.' (AP Photo/Michael Graczyk)AP - A 51-year-old British grandmother convicted of murdering a 20-year-old woman and kidnapping her newborn son will soon get a date with the executioner, after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected her last appeal on Monday by declining to review her case.

British actress Lynn Redgrave dies at 67 (AFP)

Posted: 03 May 2010 11:06 AM PDT

Actress Lynn Redgrave, seen here in New York City in 2009, has died at her New York home, her spokesman Rick Miranmontez said Monday.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Stephen Lovekin)AFP - Oscar-nominated actress Lynn Redgrave has died after a long battle against breast cancer, her children said Monday, in a new blow to one of Britain's most famous acting dynasties.

Too posh? Class may be an issue in UK's May 6 vote (AP)

Posted: 03 May 2010 09:20 AM PDT

** RETRANSMISSION TO REMOVE RESTRICTIONS- IMAGE IS POOL ** Conservative Party leader David Cameron runs along the seafront in Blackpool Monday May 3, 2010. Voters in the UK go to the polls Thursday to elect a new government. With less than 72 hours to go until polling stations open, the election is still poised on a knife edge, with opinion polls consistently pointing to a hung parliament. (AP Photo/Stefan Rousseau/Pool)AP - David Cameron's uppercrust background is well-suited for traditional British politics — he's white, Eton-educated, married to an aristocrat's daughter and speaks as if he still had the proverbial silver spoon in his mouth.

Pragmatism can overcome euroscepticism: Clegg (AFP)

Posted: 03 May 2010 08:12 AM PDT

Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg (C) pictured with his wife Miriam Gonzalez Durantez as he visits the Palace Project community centre in Streatham, south London, on May 3. Party leaders pushed into the final days of campaigning on Monday, targeting key marginal seats in the fight for what looks set to be the closest general election in decades on May 6.(AFP/Leon Neal)AFP - Surprise election package Nick Clegg wants Britain to put aside its traditional euroscepticism and work with its continental partners to confront the challenges of a globalised world.

UK Conservatives could secure tiny majority: poll (Reuters)

Posted: 03 May 2010 07:53 AM PDT

Britain's opposition Conservative Party leader David Cameron (C) talks to staff at a Tesco supermarket in Holywell, Flintshire, North Wales May 2, 2010. REUTERS/Carl de Souza/PoolReuters - Britain's opposition Conservative party is gaining ground in pivotal parliamentary seats and could secure a narrow but outright win in Thursday's general election, a poll published on Monday showed.

Late surge for UK Conservatives in swing seats: poll (Reuters)

Posted: 03 May 2010 07:06 AM PDT

Reuters - Britain's opposition Conservatives are making a late surge in key swing seats, suggesting it could be on course for a narrow but outright win in Thursday's parliamentary election, a poll published on Monday showed.

UK election poll: Tories leading but no majority (AP)

Posted: 03 May 2010 06:13 AM PDT

Britain's Conservative Party leader David Cameron runs along the seafront in Blackpool Monday May 3, 2010. Voters in the UK go to the polls Thursday to elect a new government. With less than 72 hours to go until polling stations open, the election is still poised on a knife edge, with opinion polls consistently pointing to a hung parliament. (AP Photo/Stefan Rousseau/PA) ** UNITED KINGDOM OUT **AP - Britain's three main party leaders fanned out across the country on Monday to campaign in target districts, as a new poll suggested the Conservatives were leading, but unlikely to win a majority.

Swastika on British parliament targets far-right (AFP)

Posted: 02 May 2010 08:24 PM PDT

Protestors from the EMMA Trust project an image of a swastika onto the Houses of Parliament in London on May 3, 2010, in a bid to draw attention to the threat posed by the British National Party in the upcoming general elections on May 6.(AFP/Frantzesco Kangaris)AFP - Campaigners against the far-right in Britain Monday projected an image of a swastika on the side of parliament, amid fears extremists could be voted in at this week's general election

Lake District: Japan tourists' donations help (AFP)

Posted: 02 May 2010 06:16 PM PDT

The Lake District's Derwentwater is seen beneath a snow-capped hill. Japanese visitors to the popular holiday destination are being asked to donate five pounds to help with conservation efforts, organisers have revealed.(AFP/File/Andrew Yates)AFP - Japanese visitors to the popular holiday destination, the Lake District, are from this year being asked to donate five pounds to help with conservation efforts, organisers have revealed.

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