2010年9月6日星期一

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Yahoo! News: World - Britain

Tube workers start 24-hour strike (AFP)

Posted: 06 Sep 2010 11:12 AM PDT

Passengers wait to board an underground train at Liverpool Street Station in London. Workers on London's Underground train system started a 24-hour strike over staffing cuts on Monday, threatening disruption for millions of commuters.(AFP/Carl Court)AFP - Workers on London's Underground train system started a 24-hour strike over staffing cuts on Monday, threatening disruption for millions of commuters.

Blair cancels book signing amid Iraq protest threat (AFP)

Posted: 06 Sep 2010 10:57 AM PDT

Former Prime Minister Tony Blair waves as he arrives at the ITV Studios in London. Blair has cancelled a planned book signing session in London to promote his memoirs after anti-war protestors threatened to target it.(AFP/Carl Court)AFP - Former prime minister Tony Blair on Monday cancelled a planned book signing session in London to promote his memoirs after anti-war protestors threatened to target it.

Duck house, symbol of UK expenses scandal, sold (Reuters)

Posted: 06 Sep 2010 10:07 AM PDT

Reuters - A floating duck house, which came to symbolize a parliamentary expenses scandal that rocked British politics last year, has been sold and the money given to a cancer charity, the organization said on Monday.

Get the celebrity scent with UK tabloid's perfume (Reuters)

Posted: 06 Sep 2010 10:03 AM PDT

Reuters - Britain's tabloid Sun newspaper launched its own celebrity perfume on Monday to provide readers with the scent of showbiz.

Coulson under pressure over hacking row (AFP)

Posted: 06 Sep 2010 09:59 AM PDT

Pressure is mounting on Prime Minister David Cameron's media chief Andy Coulson, seen here in April 2010, over allegations he knew about illegal phone hacking by reporters when he was editor of a tabloid newspaper.(AFP/Pool/File/Oli Scarff)AFP - Opposition lawmakers called for Prime Minister David Cameron's media chief to quit Monday over fresh allegations that he knew about illegal phone tapping by reporters when he was a tabloid editor.

EU budget chief sparks row over British rebate billions (AFP)

Posted: 06 Sep 2010 09:25 AM PDT

The European Union's budget commissioner Janusz Lewandowski, seen here in April 2010, has taken a swipe at the billions of euros which Britain gets back from the EU budget.(AFP/File/Georges Gobet)AFP - Europe's budget chief sparked a fierce row with Britain on Monday over the 'Thatcher rebate' which sees billions returned to London in lieu of farm payments to France and Germany.

UK police may probe alleged tabloid phone hacking (AP)

Posted: 06 Sep 2010 09:13 AM PDT

FILE- In this April 13, 2010 file picture Andy Coulson, the Conservative Party's Director of Communications, speaks on the phone in Battersea Power Station following the launch of his party's manifesto in London, England. One of Britain's best-selling newspapers denied Monday that it engaged in widespread phone hacking, but police said they might reopen an investigation into claims its reporters illegally eavesdropped on scores of politicians and celebrities.The allegations against the tabloid News of the World — sensational even by the knockabout standards of the British press — are rattling Prime Minister David Cameron's government. Andy Coulson, the former News of the World editor who stepped down after one of his reporters was convicted of hacking, is now Cameron's PR chief.(AP Photo/Oli Scarff, Pool)AP - British Prime Minister David Cameron's communications director, a former tabloid editor, offered Monday to meet with police as they consider reopening an investigation into claims his newspaper's reporters illegally eavesdropped on scores of politicians and celebrities.

Schoolboy finds pipe bomb in Northern Ireland (AFP)

Posted: 06 Sep 2010 08:22 AM PDT

The St. Comgall's Primary School in Antrim. The Northern Ireland school was evacuated after an eight-year-old boy found a pipe bomb in the playground, in what police said was a AFP - A Northern Ireland school was evacuated Monday after an eight-year-old boy found a pipe bomb in the playground, in what police said was a "cowardly" attack blamed on militants opposed to the peace process.

Govt to announce student visas crackdown (AFP)

Posted: 06 Sep 2010 08:18 AM PDT

A man and woman walk through an otherwise deserted international arrivals area at London Gatwick Airport on April 17. The government is to outline a crackdown on people arriving on student visas as it bids to tighten its immigration system, described by a minister as AFP - The government is to outline a crackdown on people arriving on student visas Monday as it bids to tighten its immigration system, described by a minister as "largely out of control".

Police release new shots after MI6 death (AFP)

Posted: 06 Sep 2010 08:00 AM PDT

A Metropolitan Police image shows a CCTV view of Gareth Williams in the lift at Holland Park underground station on August 14. Police have released new images of the British spy whose naked, decomposing body was found padlocked into a bag in his bath tub.(AFP/Handout)AFP - Police released new images Monday of a British spy whose naked, decomposing body was found padlocked into a bag in his bath tub.

Ex-headteacher jailed for abusing boys (AFP)

Posted: 06 Sep 2010 07:48 AM PDT

A police image shows Derek Slade, 61, of Burton-on-Trent, Staffordshire. The former boarding school headteacher who subjected his pupils to a brutal regime of sexual abuse and beatings during the 1970s and 1980s was jailed on Monday for 21 years.(Suffolk Police)AFP - A former boarding school headteacher who subjected his pupils to a brutal regime of sexual abuse and beatings during the 1970s and 1980s was jailed on Monday for 21 years.

Rare color footage of London blitz found (AP)

Posted: 06 Sep 2010 07:33 AM PDT

AP - Rare color footage of the bomb damage inflicted on London during World War II has surfaced on the eve of the 70th anniversary of the Blitz.

Blair cancels book-signing over protests (Reuters)

Posted: 06 Sep 2010 06:59 AM PDT

Reuters - Former Prime Minister Tony Blair said on Monday he had canceled a book-signing in London this week to mark the launch of his memoirs, over fears the event would be hit by protests.

Police hunt for 2 people in slain UK spy case (AP)

Posted: 06 Sep 2010 06:58 AM PDT

AP - Police investigating the mystery death of a British spy say they are hunting for two people seen entering his apartment block.

UK minister jailed for 4 years over sham marriages (AP)

Posted: 06 Sep 2010 06:53 AM PDT

AP - A British judge sentenced a Church of England minister to four years in jail on Monday for his part in a sham-marriage scam which saw hundreds of African men marry European women so they could stay in Britain.

Raphael tapestries go on show in Britain (Reuters)

Posted: 06 Sep 2010 06:49 AM PDT

Reuters - Four priceless tapestries designed by the Renaissance master Raphael have gone on display with their original drawings for the first time at an exhibition in London to coincide with Pope Benedict's visit to Britain.

Church of England vicar jailed for marriage scam (Reuters)

Posted: 06 Sep 2010 06:01 AM PDT

Reuters - A Church of England vicar who oversaw hundreds of sham marriages to help migrants settle illegally in Britain was jailed for four years on Monday.

BA-Iberia target 12 other airlines (AFP)

Posted: 06 Sep 2010 02:29 AM PDT

British Airways and Iberia have identified 12 airlines as potential takeover targets once their own tie-up is finalised, as they bid to create the world's biggest carrier.(AFP/File/Adrian Dennis)AFP - British Airways and Iberia have identified 12 airlines as potential takeover targets once their own tie-up is finalised, as they bid to create the world's biggest carrier, newspapers reported on Monday.

Car sales drop 17.5% in August (AFP)

Posted: 06 Sep 2010 02:28 AM PDT

Honda Jazz cars wait for the production line to be opened at the Honda plant in Swindon, in October 2009. New car sales in Britain dropped by 17.5 percent in August compared with the level 12 months earlier after the end of a government subsidy scheme, trade data showed on Monday.(AFP/File/Max Nash)AFP - New car sales in Britain dropped by 17.5 percent in August compared with the level 12 months earlier after the end of a government subsidy scheme, trade data showed on Monday.

Blair may cancel London appearance over protests (AP)

Posted: 06 Sep 2010 02:13 AM PDT

A protester demonstrates outside Eason book store in Dublin, Ireland, as Irish police look on, Saturday, Sept. 4, 2010. Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair appeared for a public book signing at the Eason book store as anti-war protesters hurled shoes and eggs at him as he arrived for his first public signing of his fast-selling memoir. (AP Photo/Peter Morrison)AP - Tony Blair says he could cancel a planned public appearance in London to promote his new memoir amid security concerns.

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