2010年10月29日星期五

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Yahoo! News: World - Britain

Terror plot thwarted as US-bound explosives seized (AP)

Posted: 29 Oct 2010 04:54 PM PDT

President Barack Obama makes a statement to reporters about the suspicious packages found on U.S. bound planes, Friday, Oct. 29, 2010, in the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington.(AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)AP - Authorities on three continents thwarted multiple terrorist attacks aimed at the United States from Yemen on Friday, seizing two explosive packages addressed to Chicago-area synagogues and packed aboard cargo jets. The plot triggered worldwide fears that al-Qaida was launching a major new terror campaign.

Polish teen sailors safe despite severe weather (AP)

Posted: 29 Oct 2010 08:43 AM PDT

**FILE** In this Sept. 19, 2010 file photo Polish tall ship Fryderyk Chopin used to train young sailors is entering the Baltic port of Gdynia. The ship has lost both its masts in foul weather and is drifting off the coast of southern England, British coast guards said Friday, Oct.29, 2010. The 36 teens on board don't appear to be in any immediate danger as two ships are heading in its direction to help tow it to port. (AP Photo/Andrzej J. Gojke, File)AP - A group of teenage sailors whose ship was drifting at sea after it lost both masts in gale-force winds is safe from harm, coast guards said Friday, and the vessel was to be towed to a British port for repairs.

BA, Iberia log profits as sector pilots recovery (AFP)

Posted: 29 Oct 2010 07:12 AM PDT

British Airways chief executive Willie Walsh, pictured at a news conference this month, says changes the company has made to its cost base are having a big impact on the business. BA posted net profit of 107 million pounds for the first six months of its financial year, the group's first interim profit for two years.(AFP/File/Leon Neal)AFP - British Airways and Iberia of Spain posted healthy profits on Friday, mirroring European peers Alitalia and Lufthansa, as the global economic recovery drives growing demand for air travel.

Rescue bid for stranded Polish ship (AFP)

Posted: 29 Oct 2010 07:09 AM PDT

Aerial photo shows the Isles of Scilly, off southwest England, in 2007. The coastguard says it has launched an operation to assist a Polish sailing ship carrying 47 people, including teenagers, after a mast broke in heavy winds off the Isles.(AFP/Marcel Mochet)AFP - The coastguard said Friday it had launched an operation to assist a Polish sailing ship carrying 47 people, including teenagers, after a mast broke in heavy winds off southwest England.

UK hostage's parents credit US for coming clean (AP)

Posted: 29 Oct 2010 06:39 AM PDT

The coffin of aid worker Linda Norgrove is carried from the Uig Community Centre on the Isle of Lewis, Scotland, by mourners after her funeral service, Tuesday Oct. 26, 2010. Slain British aid worker Linda Norgrove has been laid to rest in a ceremony marked by Afghan music and Gaelic gospel tunes on the remote Scottish island of Lewis. The 36-year-old was killed in a failed U.S. rescue operation following her kidnapping by Afghan militants. U.S. and British officials initially claimed she was killed by her captors, but U.S. Gen. David Petraeus later acknowledged that she may have died when one of her would-be rescuers threw a grenade. (AP Photo/Andrew Milligan, PA) ** UNITED KINGDOM OUT **AP - The parents of British aid worker Linda Norgrove praised the U.S. military for admitting one of its service members may have accidentally killed her — saying in an interview televised Friday that the circumstances of the death could easily have been kept secret.

British woman's parents don't blame US for death (AFP)

Posted: 29 Oct 2010 04:34 AM PDT

A photograph released by the family and handed out by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office shows British aid worker Linda Norgrove who was killed during a rescue attempt by US forces on October 8 as she was held hostage in Afghanistan. Her parents have said they do not blame the Americans for her death.(AFP/File/Family of Linda Norgrove)AFP - The parents of British aid worker Linda Norgrove, who was killed as US forces tried to rescue her from kidnappers in Afghanistan, said Friday they did not blame the Americans for her death.

British Airways makes H1 profit amid cost cuts (AP)

Posted: 29 Oct 2010 04:16 AM PDT

AP - British Airways on Friday reported a half-year net profit of 107 million pounds ($170 million) as cost cuts helped offset the impact of cabin crew strikes and nearly a week of canceled flights in April because of the Icelandic volcano.

British food no longer a turn-off for tourists: survey (AFP)

Posted: 29 Oct 2010 04:09 AM PDT

Customers eat at London's New Piccadilly Cafe in 2007. Foreigners have for decades branded British food as bland and unhealthy, but a new survey Friday suggested the country's culinary reputation is changing -- although the French remain unimpressed.(AFP/File/Shaun Curry)AFP - Foreigners have for decades branded British food as bland and unhealthy, but a new survey Friday suggested the country's culinary reputation is changing -- although the French remain unimpressed.

Zutons singer gets community service for assault (AFP)

Posted: 29 Oct 2010 03:06 AM PDT

Dave McCabe of the The Zutons performs at the T in the Park music festival in Scotland in 2008. McCabe has been ordered to do 150 hours' unpaid work and and pay compensation after breaking a man's nose in a drunken row.(AFP/File/Ed Jones)AFP - The lead singer of The Zutons was ordered to do 150 hours' unpaid work and and pay compensation on Friday, after breaking a man's nose in a drunken row.

Newly released files show Hitler's daily routine (AP)

Posted: 29 Oct 2010 02:46 AM PDT

AP - Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler liked to have bread and marmalade for breakfast and was described as mild-mannered during personal exchanges, according to newly released documents.

Reshaping British Politics from Within (Time.com)

Posted: 29 Oct 2010 02:15 AM PDT

Time.com - Reshaping British Politics from Within

British Airways returns to first-half profit (AFP)

Posted: 29 Oct 2010 01:23 AM PDT

British Airways aircraft sit parked at Terminal 5 of Heathrow Airport in west London. The airline has posted net profits of 107 millions pounds for the first six months of its financial year, its first interim profit for two years, as revenues rose and non-fuel costs fell.(AFP/File/Ben Stansall)AFP - British Airways on Friday posted net profits of 107 millions pounds for the first six months of the group's financial year, its first interim profit for two years, as revenues rose and non-fuel costs fell.

Britain feared Nazi resistance from Alps: archives (AFP)

Posted: 29 Oct 2010 12:35 AM PDT

Undated photograph shows Joseph Goebbels, Third Reich Minister of Propaganda, delivering a speech. Allied forces feared the Nazis were planning to fight a guerrilla campaign from a base under the Alps as the tide turned against Germany in World War II, archives released Thursday showed.(AFP/File)AFP - Allied forces feared the Nazis were planning to fight a guerrilla campaign from a base under the Alps as the tide turned against Germany in World War II, archives released Thursday showed.

Holidays threatened by soaring tax hike: airlines (AFP)

Posted: 29 Oct 2010 12:28 AM PDT

A couple look at a check-in information board at Heathrow Airport. The Virgin Atlantic airline has blasted the rise in the country's airport departure tax to be introduced on Monday, warning that many families would be priced out of a holiday.(AFP/File/Carl de Souza)AFP - The Virgin Atlantic airline has blasted the rise in the country's airport departure tax to be introduced on Monday, warning that many families would be priced out of a holiday.

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