Yahoo! News: World - Britain

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• BA strike talks abandoned after protestors storm building (AFP)
• Protesters disrupt British Airways strike talks (Reuters)
• UN study backs economic changes to save natural world: report (AFP)
• British ministers on Afghan visit want troops out (AFP)
• Britain says not setting timetable on Afghan pullout (Reuters)
• Candidates to lead UK's Labour renounce Iraq war (AP)
• UK faces aggressive cuts in 'age of austerity' (AFP)
• UK Foreign Secretary in landmark Afghanistan visit (AFP)
• UK foreign, defense ministers visit Afghanistan (Reuters)

BA strike talks abandoned after protestors storm building (AFP) Posted: 22 May 2010 01:43 PM PDT AFP - Last-ditch talks to try and halt a planned strike by British Airways cabin crew were on Saturday abandoned after dozens of noisy protestors stormed the building where negotiations were being held.

Protesters disrupt British Airways strike talks (Reuters) Posted: 22 May 2010 11:02 AM PDT Reuters - Negotiations aimed at avoiding three five-day strikes by British Airways cabin crew ended without resolution on Saturday after protesters gate-crashed talks between union leaders and the airline in London.

UN study backs economic changes to save natural world: report (AFP) Posted: 22 May 2010 10:07 AM PDT AFP - A key UN report on biodiversity will recommend massive economic changes like company fines to help save species and protect the natural world, The Guardian reported here on Saturday.

British ministers on Afghan visit want troops out (AFP) Posted: 22 May 2010 10:04 AM PDT AFP - Britain will not set a deadline for withdrawing troops from Afghanistan, the foreign minister said Saturday, after arriving in Kabul with a warning that the British government wanted to pull out as soon as possible.

Britain says not setting timetable on Afghan pullout (Reuters) Posted: 22 May 2010 09:24 AM PDT Reuters - Britain's new coalition government will not set a deadline for withdrawal from Afghanistan's nine-year-war or lessen its commitment to aid, a team of ministers said after talks with Afghan leaders on Saturday.

Candidates to lead UK's Labour renounce Iraq war (AP) Posted: 22 May 2010 08:42 AM PDT AP - Two of the front-runners to head Britain's Labour Party sought to move on from divisive recent history Saturday by renouncing the Iraq war entered by their former leader, Tony Blair.

UK faces aggressive cuts in 'age of austerity' (AFP) Posted: 22 May 2010 06:02 AM PDT AFP - Britain faces an "age of austerity" as the new coalition government readies aggressive cuts in public spending to slash the deficit, Treasury minister David Laws told the Financial Times on Saturday.

UK Foreign Secretary in landmark Afghanistan visit (AFP) Posted: 21 May 2010 10:37 PM PDT AFP - Britain's Foreign Secretary William Hague and two senior colleagues arrived in Afghanistan Saturday for their first visit since a new coalition government took power in London this month.

UK foreign, defense ministers visit Afghanistan (Reuters) Posted: 21 May 2010 06:43 PM PDT Reuters - Ministers from Britain's new coalition government were in Afghanistan on Saturday for talks with President Hamid Karzai and to get a first-hand look at the situation there, the government said.

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