2010年8月8日星期日

Yahoo! News: World - Britain

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: World - Britain


Lehman Brothers art work to go under the hammer (Reuters)

Posted: 08 Aug 2010 08:52 AM PDT

Reuters - Art works that once adorned the British and European offices of former banking powerhouse Lehman Brothers are to be auctioned off next month, the bank's administrators said Sunday.

Duchess of York 'owes £5 mln and faces bankruptcy' (AFP)

Posted: 08 Aug 2010 03:58 AM PDT

Duchess of York Sarah Ferguson, pictured at an awards ceremony in New York in April, has debts of almost £5 mln and may face bankruptcy, according to the Sunday Telegraph.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Jason Kempin)AFP - The Duchess of York?s debts have risen to almost £5 million, causing alarm in the Royal family, which now fears her best option is bankruptcy, the Sunday Telegraph reported, without naming its sources.


Cardinal says Scots fed up with U.S. over Lockerbie (Reuters)

Posted: 08 Aug 2010 02:36 AM PDT

Reuters - The leader of the Roman Catholic Church in Scotland launched a scathing attack on U.S. politicians on Sunday saying they were in no moral position to lecture Scottish ministers over the Lockerbie bomber's release.

Cameron's foreign policy 'gaffes' split opinion (AFP)

Posted: 07 Aug 2010 07:23 PM PDT

British Prime Minister David Cameron (R) shakes hands with Pakistan's President Asif Ali Zardari following their meeting at his Chequers residence in southern England, on August 6, 2010. Cameron seems to have patched things up with Zardari after he accused Pakistan of promoting AFP - Straight-talking or gaffe-prone? Prime Minister David Cameron has divided opinion with some unusually direct public comments on foreign policy from Pakistan and Gaza to the US.


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