2010年11月12日星期五

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Yahoo! News: World - Britain

Britain launches fresh drive on tax havens (AFP)

Posted: 12 Nov 2010 04:43 PM PST

Britain is holding talks aimed at striking deals with three more countries where its residents deposit money in banks in a bid to avoid paying tax, finance minister George Osborne, pictured here on October 2010, said Saturday.(AFP/File/Max Nash)AFP - Britain is holding talks aimed at striking deals with three more countries where its residents deposit money in banks in a bid to avoid paying tax, finance minister George Osborne said Saturday.

Police arrest key suspect in student riot (AFP)

Posted: 12 Nov 2010 03:29 PM PST

Demonstrators clash with police as they try to gain entry to the headquarters of the Conservative Party on November 10. Police on Friday arrested a man suspected of throwing a fire extinguisher off the roof at officers during a student protest that besieged the prime minister's party headquarters.(AFP/File/Carl Court)AFP - British police arrested a man Friday suspected of throwing a fire extinguisher off the roof at officers during a student riot targeting Prime Minister David Cameron's party headquarters.

Police file new evidence on phone-hacking scandal (AFP)

Posted: 12 Nov 2010 01:24 PM PST

Police said they had sent new evidence to prosecutors Friday over claims of phone-hacking at a newspaper when it was edited by Andy Coulson, the man seen here in September 2010 who is now Prime Minister David Cameron's media chief.(AFP/File/Ben Stansall)AFP - Police on Friday said they had sent new evidence to prosecutors over phone-hacking claims at a newspaper when it was edited by the man now employed as Prime Minister David Cameron's media chief.

Pot o' Gold: Family's old vase fetches $83 million (AP)

Posted: 12 Nov 2010 01:09 PM PST

This undated photo released by Bainbridge Auctioneers shows a Chinese vase which was sold for 43 million pounds ($69.3 million) in London Thursday, Nov. 11, 2010. The vase is decorated with a fish motif and is 16 inches high. Auctioneers Bainbridges said the vase is believed to have been acquired by an English family during the 1930s or earlier. (AP Photo / Bainbridge Auctioneers ho, via PA) ** UNITED KINGDOM OUT **AP - A Chinese vase that sat, little-noticed, in a suburban London home has become one of the most expensive artworks ever sold, evidence that China's sizzling art market shows no signs of cooling down.

Prosecutors get new info on UK phone hacking (AP)

Posted: 12 Nov 2010 10:43 AM PST

AP - Police on Friday gave prosecutors new information about a phone hacking scandal that occurred at a British newspaper run by the man who now serves as Prime Minister David Cameron's top media aide.

Britain, Algeria boost counter-terrorism strategy: minister (AFP)

Posted: 12 Nov 2010 10:18 AM PST

British Foreign Office Minister for the Middle East and North Africa Alistair Burt gives a press conference held at the British embassy to Algiera.(AFP/File/Fayez Nureldine)AFP - Britain and Algeria will step up cooperation on security with the creation of a committee on counter-terrorism, a British minister said Friday.

Online outrage follows UK's 'Twitter Joke Trial' (AP)

Posted: 12 Nov 2010 09:18 AM PST

AP - He missed the plane. Now thousands of annoyed Internet users says authorities missed the joke.

Chinese vase fetches record 69 million dollars in Britain (AFP)

Posted: 12 Nov 2010 09:17 AM PST

The 16-inch (40-centimetre) Qianlong porcelain vase was bought by a private Chinese buyer after an auction at Bainbridges. The 18th-century Chinese vase was discovered in a house clearance and fetched a staggering 43 million pounds (69.2 million dollars, 50.7 million euros).(AFP/Bainbridge's/Handout)AFP - An 18th-century Chinese vase discovered in the clearance of a modest London house fetched a staggering 43 million pounds, an auction record for Chinese art.

Exhibition: UK fabric show tells tale of abandoned children (Reuters)

Posted: 12 Nov 2010 07:38 AM PST

Reuters - Thousands of fabric pieces left with abandoned children in 18th century London have been put on display in a new show illustrating the heart-rending moment when a mother gives up her child.

Troubled hospital probes deaths of premature twins (AFP)

Posted: 12 Nov 2010 04:56 AM PST

A nurse mops the floor in the emergency department of a hospital. A scandal-hit NHS trust has launched an independent investigation after newborn twins born prematurely died in one of its hospitals.(AFP/File/Eric Cabanis)AFP - A scandal-hit NHS trust has launched an independent investigation into the deaths of baby twins born prematurely in one if its hospitals.

Rolls-Royce locates engine fault behind Qantas oil fire (AFP)

Posted: 12 Nov 2010 04:39 AM PST

File picture shows a Qantas Airbus A380 after an emergency landing at Changi International airport in Singapore on November 4. Rolls-Royce said Friday the failure of a AFP - Rolls-Royce pinpointed on Friday the failure of a "specific component" in its Trent 900 engine as the cause of an oil fire which forced a Qantas A380 superjumbo into an emergency landing last week.

Royal Wedding? All eyes on William and Kate (AP)

Posted: 12 Nov 2010 03:16 AM PST

FILE- In this file photo dated Feb. 10, 2007, showing Britain's Prince William, left, and girlfriend Kate Middleton as they watch the England against Italy Six Nation rugby match at Twickenham stadium in London. They've met the parents. They've even gone shooting with the parents. They've had their trial breakups and trial makeups. Now, people in this very English village say, it's time for Prince William and local girl Kate Middleton to make it official. After all, the cautious prince has been dating Middleton on and off — mostly on — for more than eight years, ever since they met at the University of St. Andrews. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant, File)AP - They've met the parents. They've even gone shooting with the parents. They've had their trial breakups and trial makeups.

Three children die in house fire (AFP)

Posted: 12 Nov 2010 03:08 AM PST

A fireman is pictured in 2008 in in West London. Three children have died and a woman is critically injured after a house fire broke out in a seaside town in East Yorkshire, firefighters said.(AFP/File/Leon Neal)AFP - Three children have died and a woman is critically injured after a house fire broke out in a seaside town in East Yorkshire, firefighters said on Friday.

British aid workers held captive on Gaza aid ship (AFP)

Posted: 12 Nov 2010 12:26 AM PST

A Libyan ship carrying aid for Palestinians in the Gaza Strip arrives at the Egyptian port of el-Arish on July 15. A Greek ferry with several British nationals on-board arrived back in port Friday as the owners alleged activists had tried to hijack it in Libya to take aid to Gaza, police said.(AFP)AFP - Seven British aid workers are among a group being held in the Libyan sea on board a boat due to deliver aid to Gaza, a Foreign Office spokesman confirmed Thursday.

Students stage sit-in over fees rise (AFP)

Posted: 12 Nov 2010 12:13 AM PST

Demonstrators hold placards during a student protest march, in central London on November 10. Dozens of students at Manchester University have staged a sit-in against plans to triple tuition fees, a spokesman said, the day after mass protests in London turned into ugly riots.(AFP/Ben Stansall)AFP - Dozens of students at Manchester University staged a sit-in against plans to triple tuition fees, a spokesman said, the day after mass protests in London turned into ugly riots.

PM accused of 'punishing' war widows (AFP)

Posted: 11 Nov 2010 08:31 PM PST

Prince Philip meets the widows of two soldiers killed in Afghanistan during a service in which he opened the Field of Remembrance at Westminster Abbey on November 11. Campaigners for war widows Friday attacked Prime Minister David Cameron and his coalition government for introducing rule changes they claim will punish wives of dead servicemen(AFP/Ben Stansall)AFP - Campaigners for war widows Friday attacked Prime Minister David Cameron and his coalition government for introducing rule changes they claim will punish wives of dead servicemen.

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