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Yahoo! News: World - Britain

Royal whoops: US admits queen's birthday blunder (AP)

Posted: 04 Jun 2010 01:45 PM PDT

AP - But will she be amused?

UK prime minister meets survivors of mass shooting (AP)

Posted: 04 Jun 2010 01:16 PM PDT

Flower tributes are left for Garry Purdham at the site of where he was gunned down at Boonwood, Cumbria, England Friday, June 4, 2010, one day after taxi driver Derrick Bird drove around the area on a shooting spree across a tranquil stretch of northwest England. bird killed 12 people and woundin gmany others before turning the gun on himself. (AP Photo/Scott Heppell)AP - A taxi driver killed 10 victims in a single hour during a shooting rampage in rural England in which he murdered 12 people and wounded 11 others, police said Friday.

PM visits victims as details of carnage emerge (AFP)

Posted: 04 Jun 2010 01:05 PM PDT

Prime Minister David Cameron, pictured leaving Workington Police Station, visited injured survivors of a gun massacre which killed 12 people, calling it AFP - Prime Minister David Cameron on Friday visited survivors of a gun massacre which killed 12 people in Britain, calling it an "appalling tragedy" as more details emerged of the rampage.

BP assures investors it can cover spill costs (AP)

Posted: 04 Jun 2010 12:41 PM PDT

Boats work to secure oil containment booms in the Perdido Pass in Orange Beach, Ala., Friday, June 4, 2010. Oil from the Deepwater Horizon disaster has started washing ashore on Alabama and Florida coast beaches. (AP Photo/Dave Martin)AP - BP Chief Executive Tony Hayward on Friday apologized to investors for the Gulf oil spill and assured them the company had "considerable firepower" to cover the cost.

US job data sends FTSE plummeting (AFP)

Posted: 04 Jun 2010 09:17 AM PDT

London's leading shares suffered heavy losses as employment data from the US raised concerns over the strength of the global economic recovery.(AFP/File/Shaun Curry)AFP - London's leading shares suffered heavy losses Friday as employment data from the US raised concerns over the strength of the global economic recovery.

Prince William opens forces rehabilitation complex (AFP)

Posted: 04 Jun 2010 08:37 AM PDT

Prince William has opened new exercise and research complex at the leading armed forces rehabilitation centre in Surrey.(AFP/Pool/Ben Stansall)AFP - Prince William opened new exercise and research complex at the leading armed forces rehabilitation centre in Surrey on Friday.

British hear prejudice in US tone on BP oil spill (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 04 Jun 2010 07:19 AM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - Surely, who but a small club of wealthy investors could shed a tear for BP, which has seen a quarter of its share value wiped out since the beginning of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill?  Clue: remember what those initials stand for.  If you thought that fat-cat shareholders were the only losers from the oil giant’s pounding on the international markets, then spare a thought for tens of thousands of ordinary Britons whose futures are heavily linked to the firm’s fortunes.

Nanny loses employment case against McCartney's ex (AFP)

Posted: 04 Jun 2010 07:00 AM PDT

Former Beatle Paul McCartney's ex-wife Heather Mills, pictured here in 2008, did not unfairly dismiss her nanny, a tribunal has found.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Astrid Stawiarz)AFP - Former Beatle Paul McCartney's ex-wife did not unfairly dismiss her nanny, a tribunal found on Friday.

British airline unveils ash cloud detector plan (AFP)

Posted: 04 Jun 2010 06:46 AM PDT

British airline easyJet has announced what it called a ground-breaking device to detect ash clouds, a AFP - British airline easyJet announced on Friday what it called a ground-breaking device to detect ash clouds, a "silver bullet" against the sort of flight chaos recently sparked by an Icelandic volcano.

Britons 'are Europe's worst-dressed tourists' (AFP)

Posted: 04 Jun 2010 05:07 AM PDT

Passengers wait in Reina Sofia airport, on the Spanish Canary island of Tenerife, in September 2008. A survey has concluded that British people are the worst-dressed holidaymakers in Europe followed by Germans, while the Italians and French are the smartest.(AFP/File/Desiree Martin)AFP - British people are the worst-dressed holidaymakers in Europe followed by Germans, while the Italians and French are the smartest, according to a survey released on Friday.

Government lifts 'veil of secrecy' on spending (AFP)

Posted: 04 Jun 2010 04:43 AM PDT

Chief Secretary to the Treasury, Danny Alexander, arrives to attend the weekly cabinet meeting at 10 Downing Street on June 3. The publication of data aimed at lifting the AFP - Data aimed at lifting the "veil of secrecy" on public spending was released to the public on Friday but it is likely to be meaningless to the masses, comments by a cabinet minister suggest.

House prices slip further in May: survey (AFP)

Posted: 04 Jun 2010 03:21 AM PDT

A decorator paints a window of a north London house in 2008. House prices dropped 0.4 percent in May from the level the previous month, data from a top home-loans provider has shown.(AFP/File/Adrian Dennis)AFP - British house prices dropped 0.4 percent in May from the level the previous month, data from a top home-loans provider showed on Friday.

AstraZeneca seeks European OK for aspirin product (AP)

Posted: 04 Jun 2010 03:03 AM PDT

AP - AstraZeneca says it has applied for authorization to market in Europe a drug combining low-dose aspirin with its best-selling ulcer drug Nexium.

'Rock star' welcome after British rower crosses Pacific (AFP)

Posted: 04 Jun 2010 12:58 AM PDT

Handout photo provided by Brocade shows rower Roz Savage near the Golden Gate Bridge before the start of her bid to row solo across the Pacific Ocean. Thousands of cheering onlookers gave a AFP - Thousands of cheering onlookers gave a "rock star" welcome to Britain's Roz Savage as she arrived in jungle-clad Papua New Guinea Friday, becoming the first woman to row across the Pacific Ocean.

Prudential chairman says no heads will roll over AIA (AFP)

Posted: 04 Jun 2010 12:40 AM PDT

Prudential chairman Harvey McGrath, pictured in May 2010, said in an interview Friday that no heads would roll at the British insurer after it abandoned its hugely ambitious takeover of AIG's Asian unit AIA.(AFP/File/Mike Clarke)AFP - Prudential chairman Harvey McGrath said in an interview on Friday that no heads would roll at the British insurer after it abandoned an ambitious takeover of AIG's Asian unit AIA.

UK and Canada disagree on bank levy (AFP)

Posted: 04 Jun 2010 12:30 AM PDT

Prime Minister David Cameron, seen here with his Canadian counterpart Stephen Harper, said that Britain and G20 hosts Canada differed in their approach to a global banking levy.(AFP/Pool/Toby Melville)AFP - Prime Minister David Cameron said on Thursday that Britain and G20 hosts Canada differed in their approach to a global banking levy.

Churchill cigar sold at auction in London (AFP)

Posted: 03 Jun 2010 11:05 PM PDT

A Frenchman gives Winston Churchill a light for his cigar shortly after the D-Day landings in June 1944. A huge collection of diaries, letters and even a pristine cigar belonging to Churchill, Britain's World War II prime minister, has sold for more than half a million pounds at a London auction.(AFP/File)AFP - A huge collection of diaries, letters and even a pristine cigar belonging to Winston Churchill, Britain's World War II prime minister, has sold for more than half a million pounds at a London auction.

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