Yahoo! News: World - Britain

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• Talks bid to avert BA strike (AFP)
• British Airways and union to talk ahead of strike (AP)
• Heroes of WWII recall Dunkirk rescue at new show (Reuters)
• British soldier killed in Afghanistan explosion (AFP)
• British mother admits suffocating her two children: judge (AFP)
• British troops in Afghanistan put under US command (AP)
• British troops in Afghanistan to get U.S. commander (Reuters)
• Britain's role in war on terror under new scrutiny (AP)
• British public deficit revised downwards (AFP)
• BA posts another record loss as strikes loom (AP)
• Gunmen shoot dead British family in Pakistan (AFP)
• UK inquest of 2005 attacks to look at spies' role (AP)
• MI5 faces probe over 7/7 (AFP)
• Struggling statue maker feels economic heat (Reuters)
• 7/7 inquests will look at role of MI5 (Reuters)
• British Airways reports record annual loss of £531m (AFP)
• Britain to probe torture complicity claims: Hague (AFP)
• Three Britons killed in Pakistan over family feud (Reuters)

Talks bid to avert BA strike (AFP) Posted: 21 May 2010 04:19 PM PDT AFP - British Airways and union representatives are to hold last-ditch talks Saturday in a bid to prevent a wave of strike action.

British Airways and union to talk ahead of strike (AP) Posted: 21 May 2010 02:54 PM PDT AP - British Airways PLC will hold last-minute talks with the union representing the airline's cabin crew to try to avert a damaging walkout.

Heroes of WWII recall Dunkirk rescue at new show (Reuters) Posted: 21 May 2010 11:15 AM PDT Reuters - Some of the veterans who took part in the 1940 Dunkirk evacuation of British and French forces reunited in London this week to commemorate the 70th anniversary of World War Two's biggest rescue operation.

British soldier killed in Afghanistan explosion (AFP) Posted: 21 May 2010 10:46 AM PDT AFP - A British soldier was killed in an explosion while on foot patrol in southern Afghanistan on Friday, the Ministry of Defence said.

British mother admits suffocating her two children: judge (AFP) Posted: 21 May 2010 10:07 AM PDT AFP - A British woman has confessed to suffocating to death her two young children in a hotel room using a plastic bag, a Spanish judge said Friday and ordered her held without bail.

British troops in Afghanistan put under US command (AP) Posted: 21 May 2010 09:33 AM PDT AP - About 8,000 British troops in Afghanistan have been placed under U.S. command as part of a restructuring of NATO forces in the country.

British troops in Afghanistan to get U.S. commander (Reuters) Posted: 21 May 2010 08:37 AM PDT Reuters - Almost all British troops fighting in Afghanistan will answer directly to a U.S. commander as part of a restructuring of the NATO-led mission, NATO and the British army said on Friday.

Britain's role in war on terror under new scrutiny (AP) Posted: 21 May 2010 08:21 AM PDT AP - Britain will hold a formal inquiry into whether its government and spy agencies colluded in the torture of terrorism suspects overseas, a potentially embarrassing probe that could affect intelligence gathering and upset ties with allies including the United States.

British public deficit revised downwards (AFP) Posted: 21 May 2010 08:02 AM PDT AFP - The British government got a boost on Friday by revised official data showing that state borrowing was less than expected in the 2009/2010 financial year, but nevertheless it hit a record high.

BA posts another record loss as strikes loom (AP) Posted: 21 May 2010 07:51 AM PDT AP - British Airways PLC toughened its hardball stance against striking workers on Friday as it posted a record annual loss for the second consecutive year, increasing the likelihood of travel chaos for millions of customers over the summer.

Gunmen shoot dead British family in Pakistan (AFP) Posted: 21 May 2010 06:52 AM PDT AFP - A British couple and their daughter were shot dead at a cemetery in Pakistan as part of a family feud while visiting the country for a wedding, police said Friday.

UK inquest of 2005 attacks to look at spies' role (AP) Posted: 21 May 2010 06:35 AM PDT AP - The inquests into the deaths of 52 commuters in the suicide bombings on London's transit system in 2005 will look at whether failures by British spies and police contributed to the attacks, a judge ruled Friday.

MI5 faces probe over 7/7 (AFP) Posted: 21 May 2010 05:34 AM PDT AFP - Inquests into the deaths of 56 people in London's July 2005 suicide bombings will probe alleged failings by police and MI5 intelligence before the attacks, the coroner conducting the hearings said Friday.

Struggling statue maker feels economic heat (Reuters) Posted: 21 May 2010 04:27 AM PDT Reuters - A 170-year-old British foundry that has made some of the world's best known statues, including two of the lions in London's Trafalgar Square and Saddam Hussein's giant crossed-swords arch in Baghdad, faces closure.

7/7 inquests will look at role of MI5 (Reuters) Posted: 21 May 2010 03:38 AM PDT Reuters - The inquests into the deaths of 52 people in the London suicide bombings of July 2005 will examine the roles and possible failures of the police and intelligence service MI5 before the attack, a coroner ruled on Friday.

British Airways reports record annual loss of £531m (AFP) Posted: 21 May 2010 02:40 AM PDT AFP - British Airways on Friday posted a record annual pre-tax loss of 531 million pounds (609 million euros, 765 million dollars) on slumping sales but forecast it would break even this year.

Britain to probe torture complicity claims: Hague (AFP) Posted: 21 May 2010 01:43 AM PDT AFP - A judge will investigate claims that Britain's secret services were complicit in the torture of terror suspects after a spate of damaging allegations, Foreign Secretary William Hague has said.

Three Britons killed in Pakistan over family feud (Reuters) Posted: 21 May 2010 12:18 AM PDT Reuters - Gunmen in Pakistan killed five people, three of them Britons of Pakistani origin, over a family feud, police said on Friday.

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