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Yahoo! News: World - Britain

Taiwan's Tseng edges Hull for British Open golf title (AFP)

Posted: 01 Aug 2010 10:49 AM PDT

Yani Tseng of Taiwan plays from the first tee during the final round of the Ricoh Women's British Golf Open golf championship at The Royal Birkdale Golf Club in Southport. Tseng, who led by four shots overnight, edged Australia's Katherine Hull by just one stroke to win the British Open at Royal Birkdale on Sunday to claim her third Major title.(AFP/Paul Ellis)AFP - Taiwan's Yani Tseng, who led by four shots overnight, edged Australia's Katherine Hull by just one stroke to win the British Open at Royal Birkdale on Sunday to claim her third Major title.

Government tells banks to kick-start lending (AFP)

Posted: 01 Aug 2010 05:53 AM PDT

Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, arrives at Downing Street, London in July 2010. Osborne told the country's banks they must use their first-half profits to start lending to businesses again, in an interview out Sunday.(AFP/Leon Neal)AFP - Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne told the country's banks they must use their first-half profits to start lending to businesses again, in an interview out Sunday.

UK's Osborne urges banks to lend, restrain bonuses (Reuters)

Posted: 01 Aug 2010 05:29 AM PDT

Reuters - British finance minister George Osborne urged the country's banks in a newspaper interview to use strong first-half profits to boost business lending rather than pay large bonuses.

Pakistan president to visit Britain amid terror row (Reuters)

Posted: 01 Aug 2010 05:19 AM PDT

Reuters - Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari will visit Britain this week for talks overshadowed by a row over remarks by British Prime Minister David Cameron suggesting Islamabad was not doing enough to fight terrorism.

Britain's military braced for sharp spending cuts (AP)

Posted: 01 Aug 2010 04:31 AM PDT

In this image made available Sunday Aug. 1, 2010, showing British soldiers from Somme Company providing security as Afghan National Army troops search compounds near the town of Sayedebad, Afghanistan, on day three of their operation named TOR SHEZADA. After various costly wars and a financial crisis which have left the government coffers bare, military officials and government ministers have to face the prospects of a diminishing capability in the future within the global military presence.(AP Photo/Corporal Barry Lloyd RLC, British Ministry of Defence) EDITORIAL USE ONLYAP - Tens of thousands of troops, a gleaming new aircraft carrier, one or more of the nuclear-armed submarines that guarantees Britain's place at the world's top table: Something has to give as the government looks to make sharp cuts to its defense budget as part of deficit-shredding austerity measures.

Lib Dems suffer plunging popularity: poll (AFP)

Posted: 01 Aug 2010 04:11 AM PDT

Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg, pictured, has taken a hit in his ratings, with support down to just eight points. Support for the Liberal Democrats has plunged to half the level that they enjoyed in May's general election, a poll shows.(AFP/Katie Collins)AFP - Support for the Liberal Democrats has plunged to half the level that they enjoyed in May's general election, after they formed a coalition with the Conservatives, a poll showed on Sunday.

2 arrested after explosives sent to British spy HQ (AP)

Posted: 01 Aug 2010 02:19 AM PDT

AP - British police are questioning two men after a homemade parcel bomb was sent to the headquarters of the MI6 spy agency, and another was found at a London postal depot.

British anti-Taliban push going well: London (AFP)

Posted: 31 Jul 2010 11:10 PM PDT

In this handout photograph released by the Ministry of Defence on August 1, British soldiers take cover from a controlled explosion of an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) in a village of Sayedebad District in Afghanistan. Britain said a military operation to clear out Taliban fighters from a stronghold in southern Afghanistan was going AFP - Britain said a military operation to clear out Taliban fighters from a stronghold in southern Afghanistan was going "very well", as the push entered its third day Sunday.

Bomb found at MI6 spy agency (AFP)

Posted: 31 Jul 2010 10:29 PM PDT

The headquarters of the MI6 intelligence agency are pictured in London in 2007. Two men were being questioned Sunday after one parcel bomb was sent to the MI6 foreign intelligence agency and another was intercepted.(AFP/File/Bertrand Langlois)AFP - Two men were being questioned Sunday after one parcel bomb was sent to the MI6 foreign intelligence agency and another was intercepted.

Cameron facing rough ride in Pakistan (AFP)

Posted: 31 Jul 2010 10:26 PM PDT

Pakistani activists of Shabab-e-Milli, a youth wing of hardline Islamic party Jamat-e-Islami, shout slogans beside a burning effigy of Prime Minister David Cameron during a demonstration in Karachi on July 31, 2010.(AFP/Rizwan Tabassum)AFP - David Cameron was facing tricky talks this week with Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari after the prime minister's remarks on the export of terror triggered a diplomatic spat.

British police hold two over MI6 parcel bomb (Reuters)

Posted: 31 Jul 2010 08:36 PM PDT

A general view of the MI6 headquarters in London November 9, 2006. REUTERS/Kieran DohertyReuters - British police were questioning two men Sunday after a parcel bomb was sent to the headquarters of the MI6 foreign intelligence service and another was intercepted at a postal sorting office.

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