2010年7月11日星期日

Yahoo! News: World - Britain

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: World - Britain


Report: BP ponders $12B asset sale to Apache (AP)

Posted: 11 Jul 2010 03:05 PM PDT

AP - BP PLC declined to comment Sunday on a report that it is in talks about possibly selling 8 billion pounds ($12 billion) worth of assets, including a stake in Alaska's Prudhoe Bay oil field, to U.S. oil company Apache Corp.

Hamilton thrilled with second at British GP (AFP)

Posted: 11 Jul 2010 01:30 PM PDT

McLaren Mercedes' British driver Lewis Hamilton celebrates on the podium of the Silverstone circuit. Hamilton was overjoyed with the performance of his team after finishing second in Sunday's British Grand Prix.(AFP/Fred Dufour)AFP - Lewis Hamilton was overjoyed with the performance of his team after finishing second in Sunday's British Grand Prix.


Angry Webber finds justice in British GP win (AFP)

Posted: 11 Jul 2010 10:11 AM PDT

Red Bull's Mark Webber celebrates at Silverstone after winning the Formula One British Grand Prix. The Australian driver Mark Webber won the race ahead of McLaren Mercedes' Lewis Hamiltonof Britain and Mercedes GP's German driver Nico Rosberg .(AFP/Ben Stansall)AFP - Mark Webber took out his frustration with his Red Bull employers by cruising to victory in the British Grand Prix on Sunday.


UK vets mark 70 years since the Battle of Britain (AP)

Posted: 11 Jul 2010 09:56 AM PDT

AP - British veterans of the Battle of Britain, the furious aerial conflict between British and German aircraft in 1940, joined Sunday in a ceremony marking the 70th anniversary of the battle.

British police probed over fugitive manhunt (AFP)

Posted: 11 Jul 2010 05:37 AM PDT

Forensics officers at the scene of an armed stand-off in Rothbury, northeast England. Police were under investigation after one of Britain's biggest ever manhunts ended in two officers firing stun guns at fugitive Raoul Moat and the wanted man shooting himself dead.(AFP/Derek Blair)AFP - Police were under investigation Sunday after one of Britain's biggest ever manhunts ended in two officers firing stun guns at fugitive Raoul Moat and the wanted man shooting himself dead.


UK banks predict 1 trln pound whammy (AFP)

Posted: 11 Jul 2010 04:59 AM PDT

A London branch of Lloyds TSB Bank, one opf the banks bailed out in 2008 by the British government. Britain's biggest banks plan to warn the chancellor of the exchequer that up to 1 trln pounds ($1.5 trln) is poised to be drained from the UK's financial system(AFP/Leon Neal)AFP - Britain's biggest banks will warn the chancellor of the exchequer that up to one trillion pounds (1.5 trillion dollars) is poised to be drained from the financial system, The Observer newspaper reported.


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