2010年8月9日星期一

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Yahoo! News: World - Britain

Lawmakers demand Lockerbie bomber medical files (AP)

Posted: 09 Aug 2010 02:18 PM PDT

AP - Scottish lawmakers have demanded the country's government release full details of the medical advice that led to the release from jail of the Lockerbie bomber almost a year ago.

AstraZeneca to pay $198M to settle Seroquel suits (AP)

Posted: 09 Aug 2010 01:28 PM PDT

AP - AstraZeneca PLC said Monday it has reached agreements to pay a modest $198 million to settle a little over half of the U.S. lawsuits that allege its antipsychotic drug Seroquel caused diabetes and other harm.

Briton first known man to walk Amazon River (AP)

Posted: 09 Aug 2010 01:50 PM PDT

Ed Stafford, of England, right, accompanied by Gadiel 'Cho' Sanchez Rivera, of Peru, runs along Crispim beach in Marapanim in Brazil's Para state, Monday Aug. 9, 2010. After 859 days and thousands of miles Ed Stafford became the first man known to have walked the entire length of the Amazon river. (AP Photo/Renato Chalu)AP - He fought tropical disease and deadly snakes, was held captive at one point and collapsed just short of his goal.

British man becomes first to walk Amazon length (Reuters)

Posted: 09 Aug 2010 09:22 AM PDT

Ed Stafford of Leicestershire, England walks in between trees as he walks through the Amazon jungle in Brazil in this undated handout photo. Former British army captain Stafford became on Monday the first known person to walk from the origin of the Amazon river, the world's second-longest river, to its mouth, after withstanding Reuters - A former British army captain became on Monday the first known person to walk from the origin of the Amazon river to its mouth, after enduring "50,000" mosquito bites, attacks by hostile Indians and tropical disease in his nearly 2-1/2 year odyssey.

British adventurer becomes first person to walk the Amazon (AFP)

Posted: 09 Aug 2010 09:15 AM PDT

Aerial view of the city of Manaus in the bank of the Amazon river. A British man is due to finish an epic bid to become the first person ever to walk the length of the Amazon -- if the exhausted explorer can still stand.(AFP/File/Evaristo Sa)AFP - A British man on Monday said he became the first person ever to walk the length of the Amazon, braving a 6,500-kilometer hike through mosquito- and snake-infested jungle over the past two years.

Britain's spending cuts threaten Cameron's big idea (Reuters)

Posted: 09 Aug 2010 08:25 AM PDT

Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron takes questions during a visit to the Institution of Engineering and Technology in Birmingham, central England in an August 3, 2010 file photo. After nearly 100 days in power, Cameron is struggling to sell his flagship vision of a smaller state to voters awaiting the harshest spending cuts in decades. REUTERS/Darren Staples/filesReuters - After nearly 100 days in power, British Prime Minister David Cameron is struggling to sell his vision of a smaller state to voters awaiting the harshest spending cuts in decades.

Britain denies plan to scrap free school milk (AP)

Posted: 09 Aug 2010 04:45 AM PDT

AP - The British government said Monday it would continue giving free milk each day to school children under 5 years old, despite a drive to sharply cut public spending.

Art from Lehman Brothers European offices for sale (AP)

Posted: 09 Aug 2010 04:24 AM PDT

AP - Fancy a credit-crunch keepsake or a meltdown memento?

London's Eleanor Cross monument restored (AP)

Posted: 09 Aug 2010 02:51 AM PDT

AP - A historic monument that marks the traditional center of London has been restored to its Victorian glory.

Breast cancer rates "4 times" higher than east Africa (AFP)

Posted: 09 Aug 2010 01:50 AM PDT

A pink ribbon is seen as a symbol of breast cancer awareness. The number of women being diagnosed with breast cancer is four times higher in Britain than in eastern Africa, the World Cancer Research Fund (WCRF) said.(AFP/Keystone/File/Edi Engeler)AFP - The number of women being diagnosed with breast cancer is four times higher in Britain than in eastern Africa, the World Cancer Research Fund (WCRF) said.

Art from Lehman's European branches to be auctioned (AFP)

Posted: 09 Aug 2010 12:26 AM PDT

Staff arrive at the Lehman Brothers European Headquarters building in Canary Wharf in east London in 2008. Artwork from the European branches of the collapsed US investment bank Lehman Brothers will go under the hammer in London next month in a two-million-pound auction, administrators said Sunday.(AFP/File/Ben Stansall)AFP - Artwork from the European branches of the collapsed US investment bank Lehman Brothers will go under the hammer in London next month in a two-million-pound auction, administrators said Sunday.

Britsh couple murdered in Pakistan 'in wedding row' (AFP)

Posted: 09 Aug 2010 12:25 AM PDT

A Pakistani policeman stands guard in Sargodha, March 2010. A couple from Birmingham have been murdered in Pakistan, police said, after getting caught up in what was thought to be a row over a wedding.(AFP/File/Farooq Naeem)AFP - A couple from Birmingham have been murdered in Pakistan, police said, after getting caught up in what was thought to be a row over a wedding.

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