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Yahoo! News: World - Britain

British opposition leaders in talks to end deadlock (AFP)

Posted: 08 May 2010 04:10 PM PDT

British opposition Liberal Democrat Leader Nick Clegg (L), British opposition Conservative party Leader David Cameron (C) and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown (R) attend a VE Day memorial service at the Cenotaph in central London. Protestors rallied in London demanding voting reform as opposition parties haggled over a power-sharing deal to resolve the political deadlock.(AFP/Leon Neal)AFP - Britain's opposition leaders Saturday held their first face-to-face talks on thrashing out a pact to enter government and end the political deadlock left by the general election.

Britain's Cameron, Clegg hold post-vote talks (Reuters)

Posted: 08 May 2010 02:55 PM PDT

Britain's Conservatives on Friday sought a Reuters - The leaders of Britain's Conservatives and Liberal Democrats met for over an hour of talks on Saturday aimed at resolving the stalemate from this week's election.

UK Conservatives, Lib Dems mull possible pact (AP)

Posted: 08 May 2010 12:53 PM PDT

Britain's Liberal Democrats party leader Nick Clegg arrives at the Local Government Offices in London for a meeting, Saturday, May 8, 2010. Clegg is to meet with lawmakers from his party to discuss a possible deal to support a Conservative-led government following the inconclusive national election. (AP Photo/Sang Tan)AP - Within days, Britain may have something it hasn't seen since World War II — a coalition government.

Qatar buys top London store Harrods (AFP)

Posted: 08 May 2010 12:31 PM PDT

People walk in front of the Harrods department store in London. Egyptian billionaire Mohamed Al Fayed has sold luxury London department store Harrods to the investment arm of Qatar's sovereign wealth fund, his financial advisors Lazard said Saturday.(AFP/Carl Court)AFP - The Qatari royal family's investment arm bought luxury British department store Harrods on Saturday, with the Qatari prime minister vowing to make the London landmark "even greater and better".

UK's voting system could see fundamental reform (AP)

Posted: 08 May 2010 12:25 PM PDT

AP - Britain's messy, unresolved election may have created the conditions for fundamental change of a voting system that has inspired democracies from the United States to India.

Euro lawmaker 'luckiest man alive' after plane crash (AFP)

Posted: 08 May 2010 11:30 AM PDT

Outspoken EU lawmaker Nigel Farage, pictured in 2009, said Saturday he was AFP - Outspoken EU lawmaker Nigel Farage said Saturday he was "the luckiest man alive" following a horror air crash from which he walked away with minor injuries.

Protest targets Lib Dems over voting reform (AFP)

Posted: 08 May 2010 08:50 AM PDT

Liberal Democrat Leader Nick Clegg (top right) speaks to protesters campaigning for proportional representation after they gathered outside the central London building where senior members of his party were meeting.(AFP/Carl Court)AFP - Some 1,000 protestors staged a noisy rally outside Liberal Democrat party meeting on Saturday, pressing them to insist on voting reform in tense power-sharing talks.

Bangladesh celebrates rare British election victory (AFP)

Posted: 08 May 2010 08:03 AM PDT

Bangladeshis wave British and Bangladeshi national flags in the northeastern city of Sylhet as they celebrate the election of the first person of Bangladeshi origin to the British parliament. Rushanara Ali, 35, stood for Gordon Brown's Labour Party and won the east London seat of Bethnal Green and Bow with a comfortable majority in the general elections.(AFP)AFP - Hundreds of people took to the streets on Saturday and ate sweets in the northeastern Bangladesh city of Sylhet to celebrate the election of the first person of Bangladeshi origin to Britain's parliament.

British election: What it means for the UK and the US (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 08 May 2010 06:44 AM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - Sophie Bridge is an investment banker who, by occupation at least, should have voted for the Conservatives in Britain. She didn’t. The self-described “hard-line Labourite” grew up in a family with distinct left-of-center leanings.

Newspapers urge swift election pact (AFP)

Posted: 08 May 2010 05:02 AM PDT

A woman buys a newspaper. British newspapers said Nick Clegg held the role of kingmaker after inconclusive general elections and urged him to seal a power-sharing pact without delay.(AFP/Ben Stansall)AFP - British newspapers on Saturday urged leader Nick Clegg leader to seal a power-sharing pact without delay after inconclusive elections, but differed on his choice of partners.

Clegg outlines key priorities in power-sharing talks (AFP)

Posted: 08 May 2010 03:54 AM PDT

Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg speaks to the media ahead of a meeting of senior party members in central London. Clegg highlighted electoral reform as one of his four key priorities for any power-sharing deal with the Conservatives.(AFP/Leon Neal)AFP - Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg highlighted electoral reform as one of his four key priorities for any power-sharing deal with the Conservatives on Saturday as he began strategy talks with his party.

Bosnian Serb war criminal attacked in Yorkshire jail (AFP)

Posted: 07 May 2010 10:25 PM PDT

Bosnian Serb Radislav Krstic is pictured at the International Criminal Tribunal in April 2004. Krstic, 62, was taken to hospital after being attacked by three inmates Friday at the high-security Wakefield Prison in Yorkshire where he is serving a 35-year sentence for aiding and abetting genocide(AFP/Pool/File/Paul Vreeker)AFP - The first Bosnian Serb convicted of genocide for his part in the Srebrenica massacre was savagely attacked in a Yorkshire prison, police said Saturday.

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