2010年6月6日星期日

Yahoo! News: World - Britain

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: World - Britain


France: EU can check ships heading to Gaza (AP)

Posted: 06 Jun 2010 03:30 PM PDT

AP - The European Union is willing to check cargo on board ships heading to the Gaza Strip if Israel ends its blockade of the Hamas-ruled territory, France's Foreign Minister said Sunday.

Cameron softens ground for austerity measures (AFP)

Posted: 06 Jun 2010 02:17 PM PDT

David Cameron (R) and Nick Clegg host a joint news conference in the garden of 10 Downing Street. Cameron and his deputy Clegg have both warned of heavy cuts in public expenditure ahead of an emergency budget later this month which will bid to slash a huge deficit.(AFP/Pool/File/Christopher Furlong)AFP - Prime Minister David Cameron will seek to soften the ground Monday for the "inevitably painful" measures required to cut the country's record deficit, ahead of an emergency budget on June 22.


Cabbie who shot dead 12 was 'nicest man': sons (AFP)

Posted: 06 Jun 2010 12:50 PM PDT

Picture from Cumbria Police of Derrick Bird. The sons of a cab driver who killed 12 people in a gun rampage described him as AFP - The sons of a cab driver who killed 12 people in a gun rampage described him as "the nicest man you could ever meet" Sunday, adding they were baffled by his crimes.


Family mystified by UK cabbie's killing spree (AP)

Posted: 06 Jun 2010 07:58 AM 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 - The family of a taxi driver who killed 12 people including his twin brother in a shooting rampage in northern England said Sunday they had no clue what sparked his rampage.


Prudential chief to face shareholders (AFP)

Posted: 05 Jun 2010 10:13 PM PDT

A woman works at the front desk of the offices of British insuruer Prudential in Hong Kong in March 2010. Prudential chief executive Tidjane Thiam will face the British insurance giant's shareholders Monday amid calls for his resignation over a failed takeover of AIG's Asian unit AIA.(AFP/File/Mike Clarke)AFP - Prudential chief executive Tidjane Thiam will face the British insurance giant's shareholders Monday amid calls for his resignation over a failed takeover of AIG's Asian unit AIA.


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