2010年8月26日星期四

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Yahoo! News: World - Britain

Weight loss surgeries in England jump tenfold (AP)

Posted: 26 Aug 2010 04:02 PM PDT

AP - The number of weight-loss surgeries in England jumped more than tenfold from 2000 to 2007, a new study says.

Fugitive Cyprus tycoon returns to face trial (AFP)

Posted: 26 Aug 2010 03:44 PM PDT

Asil Nadir addresses the media after returning to his temporary home in central London, on August 26. Nadir, one of Britain's most high-profile fugitives, has returned from northern Cyprus to face justice after 17 years' exile amid claims he stole millions of pounds from his collapsed firm.(AFP/Ben Stansall)AFP - One of Britain's most high-profile fugitives returned from northern Cyprus Thursday to face justice after 17 years in exile amid claims he stole millions of pounds from his collapsed firm.

Diageo toasts rising profits on emerging markets growth (AFP)

Posted: 26 Aug 2010 09:40 AM PDT

Diageo, the world's biggest maker of alcoholic drinks, said that annual net profits rose slightly on a strong second half driven by growth in emerging markets which offset weakness in the West.(AFP/File/Peter Muhly)AFP - Guinness maker Diageo, the world's biggest maker of alcoholic drinks, toasted rising annual profits on Thursday on the back of emerging markets growth and forecast more good times ahead.

Summary Box: Diageo full-year profit up 1.5 pct (AP)

Posted: 26 Aug 2010 08:11 AM PDT

AP - DRINK UP: Diageo PLC, the world's biggest liquor maker, said its full-year profit rose 1.5 percent as sales in emerging markets fueled a rebound from a weak first half.

Fugitive Turkish Cypriot tycoon returns to UK (AP)

Posted: 26 Aug 2010 07:51 AM PDT

In this Friday, May 30, 1997 file picture Asil Nadir the former chairman of food and electronics conglomerate 'Polly Peck' gestures during the press conference in Istanbul,Turkey. A tycoon who fled Britain almost two decades ago following the spectacular collapse of his business empire told British media Thursday that he is returning to London to face charges of fraud.Asil Nadir said he was on his way to Britain to write the final chapter of a boom-and-bust story that tarnished the reputation of the Conservative Party — to which he was a major donor — and made him a fugitive from British justice for 17 years.(AP Photo/Murad Sezer/File)AP - A tycoon who fled Britain almost two decades ago following the spectacular collapse of his business empire returned to London Thursday to face charges of fraud.

Summary Box: BP not bidding for Greenland drilling (AP)

Posted: 26 Aug 2010 07:28 AM PDT

AP - NO THANK YOU: BP PLC has decided not to bid for a drilling license near Greenland. It declined to say why or when it made the decision.

Rise in migration, foreign student numbers (AFP)

Posted: 26 Aug 2010 07:10 AM PDT

Net migration to Britain was up 33,000 last year, official figures have shown, indicating this was linked to a fall in the number of Britons moving abroad.(AFP/Stringer)AFP - Net migration to Britain was up 33,000 last year, official figures out Thursday showed, indicating this was linked to a fall in the number of Britons moving abroad.

UK declassifies file on glamorous German spy (AP)

Posted: 26 Aug 2010 06:44 AM PDT

AP - She was thought to be one of Germany's prized secret agents, described as beautiful and languid and capable of infiltrating an enemy camp, obtaining secret plans of attack, and then delivering them to her bosses.

Spanish police nab British murder suspect (AFP)

Posted: 26 Aug 2010 06:18 AM PDT

Police in Spain's southern Costa del Sol have arrested one of Britain's most wanted fugitives, James Tomkins (pictured) who is suspected of a drive-by shooting, after a four-year manhunt.(Metropolitan Police)AFP - Police in Spain's southern Costa del Sol have arrested one of Britain's most wanted fugitives, who is suspected of a drive-by shooting, after a four-year manhunt, they said Thursday.

Fugitive tycoon Nadir returns to Britain (AFP)

Posted: 26 Aug 2010 06:16 AM PDT

Legal officers stand outside the entrance to the Old Bailey in London on August 25. One of Britain's most high-profile fugitives is returning from northern Cyprus to face justice after 17 years' exile amid claims that he stole millions of pounds from his collapsed firm.(AFP/ADRIAN DENNIS)AFP - Businessman Asil Nadir returned to Britain to face justice Thursday, 17 years after fleeing to northern Cyprus amid claims he stole millions of pounds from his collapsed firm Polly Peck.

Police conduct tests in MI6 death probe (AFP)

Posted: 26 Aug 2010 04:52 AM PDT

A police officer stands guard outside of the entrance to a flat where the body of Gareth Williams was discovered in central London on August 26. Further tests are being carried out on the body of the MI6 worker whose remains were found in a bag in the bathtub of his Pimlico flat.(AFP/Ben Stansall)AFP - Further tests were being carried out Thursday on the body of an MI6 worker whose remains were found in a bag in the bathtub of his London flat.

Rise in net migration to the UK (AFP)

Posted: 26 Aug 2010 04:11 AM PDT

Net migration to Britain was up 33,000 last year, official figures have shown, indicating this was linked to a fall in the number of Britons moving abroad.(AFP/Stringer)AFP - Net migration to the UK rose by more than 20 percent last year to 196,000 from 163,000 in 2008, official figures showed Thursday.

BP ruled out bid for drilling off Greenland (AP)

Posted: 26 Aug 2010 03:36 AM PDT

In this August 23 2010 photo issued by environmental campaigners Greenpeace, Greenpeace boats in the water near the Cairn Energy Stena Don Oil Rig, in the seas west of Disko Island in the Arctic. Danish warship Tuesday confronted the Greenpeace protest ship Esperanza as it approached one of the world's most controversial oil drilling projects operated by the British company Cairn Energy. The company's discovery of hydrocarbons off Greenland's coast could spark an oil rush that 'would threaten the fragile environment,' Greenpeace warned Tuesday.(AP Photo/ Will Rose/ Greenpeace) ** EDITORIAL USE ONLY **AP - BP PLC said Thursday that it decided not to bid for a drilling license near Greenland, a move government officials there say may be due to its tarnished safety image after the disastrous blowout of a deepwater well in the Gulf of Mexico.

Camerons name daughter after Cornish village (AFP)

Posted: 26 Aug 2010 01:41 AM PDT

Prime Minister David Cameron, seen here on August 24, and his wife have named their new baby Florence Rose Endellion, giving her a Cornish name to mark the region where she was born.(AFP/Pool/File)AFP - Prime Minister David Cameron and his wife Samantha have named their new baby Florence Rose Endellion, giving her a Cornish name to mark the region where she was born.

Nazi ballerina spy stole WWII battle plans (AFP)

Posted: 26 Aug 2010 01:29 AM PDT

The Kirov Ballet perform AFP - A former ballerina working as a Nazi spy may have been behind the defeat of an Anglo-French force fighting to retake Norway from the Germans during World War II, files showed Thursday.

"Ordain women," London bus ads will urge Pope (Reuters)

Posted: 26 Aug 2010 01:17 AM PDT

Reuters - Pope Benedict will be confronted by posters on London's famous red buses during his trip to the British capital next month which will call for the ordination of women priests.

Diageo full-year profit up 1.5 percent (AP)

Posted: 26 Aug 2010 12:31 AM PDT

AP - Diageo PLC, the world's biggest spirits maker, said Thursday that its full-year profit rose 1.5 percent as sales in emerging markets fueled a rebound from a weak first half.

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