2010年12月30日星期四

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Yahoo! News: World - Britain

PM fires 2011 terror warning (AFP)

Posted: 30 Dec 2010 04:37 PM PST

Prime Minister David Cameron, pictured on December 21, said Britain had to combat its home-grown Islamic extremism in 2011, in his New Year message released Friday.(AFP/POOL/File/Carl de Souza)AFP - Prime Minister David Cameron said Britain had to combat its home-grown Islamic extremism in 2011, in his New Year message released Friday.

McDowell and Webb cap 2010 with honours (AFP)

Posted: 30 Dec 2010 04:34 PM PST

US Open golf champion Graeme McDowell, pictured on December 5, who also struck the winning putt in the final match as Europe beat the United States to win the Ryder Cup in October, was made an MBE (Member of the Order of the British Empire).(AFP/File/Robyn Beck)AFP - US Open golf champion Graeme McDowell and World Cup final football referee Howard Webb were among the sports figures whose achievements were recognised Friday in Britain's New Year's Honours.

Pop diva Annie Lennox leads New Year's Honours (AFP)

Posted: 30 Dec 2010 04:01 PM PST

Annie Lennox, who founded her SING campaign to raise awareness of AIDS in Africa, said she was AFP - Pop diva and charity campaigner Annie Lennox, actor David Suchet and fashion pioneer Katharine Hamnett are among those rewarded Friday in the list of New Year's Honours.

British flu death toll hits 39 (AFP)

Posted: 30 Dec 2010 02:48 PM PST

A patient is given a swine flu vaccination at the University College London Hospital in 2009. Britain's flu death toll has risen to 39 since October, the Health Protection Agency (HPA) announced Thursday, with 36 of the fatalities due to swine flu.(AFP/POOL/File/Lewis Whyld)AFP - Britain's flu death toll has risen to 39 since October, the Health Protection Agency (HPA) announced Thursday, with 36 of the fatalities due to swine flu.

British queen becomes a great-grandmother (Reuters)

Posted: 30 Dec 2010 10:18 AM PST

Queen Elizabeth is seen in Windsor near London in this October 26, 2010 file photo. REUTERS/Dan Kitwood/POOLReuters - Queen Elizabeth, 84, became a great-grandmother for the first time when the wife of her grandson Peter Phillips gave birth to a baby girl, Buckingham Palace said on Thursday.

UK cable in 1980 said Israel ready to use bomb (Reuters)

Posted: 30 Dec 2010 09:59 AM PST

Reuters - A British ambassador to Israel warned as early as 1980 that Israel would detonate a nuclear bomb in case of a new war with the Arabs, according to previously secret state documents released on Thursday.

'Landlord arrested' over Bristol murder (AFP)

Posted: 30 Dec 2010 08:55 AM PST

Police investigating the murder of Bristol landscape architect Joanna Yeates said Thursday they had arrested a 65-year-old man, widely identified as her landlord Chris Jefferies.(AFP/Avon and Somerset Police/File)AFP - Police investigating the murder of Bristol landscape architect Joanna Yeates said Thursday they had arrested a 65-year-old man, widely identified as her landlord Chris Jefferies.

Queen Elizabeth II becomes great grandmother (AP)

Posted: 30 Dec 2010 08:37 AM PST

FILE -- In this Aug. 6, 2010 file photo, Peter Phillips, eldest grandson of Britain's Queen Elizabeth II, and his wife Autumn attend the Festival of British Eventing 2010 at Gatcombe Park, England. According to an announcement from Buckingham Palace in London, Thursday Dec. 30, 2010, Autumn Phillips, has given birth to a baby girl, which is the queen's first great-grandchild and is 12th in line to the throne. The baby weighed 8 pounds (3.8 kilograms) and eight ounces. Peter Phillips was present at the birth. The palace said the queen and Prince Philip are delighted with the news.(AP Photo/Barry Batchelor-pa, file) UNITED KINGDOM OUT: NO SALES: NO ARCHIVE:AP - Queen Elizabeth was delighted with the birth of her first great-grandchild, Buckingham Palace said Thursday.

One in five Britons to live to 100 (Reuters)

Posted: 30 Dec 2010 08:26 AM PST

A man shaves as Marylebone Cricket Club members wait in a queue outside the ground before the second Ashes test cricket match between England and Australia at Lord's Cricket Ground in London in this July 16, 2009 file photo. REUTERS/Philip BrownReuters - More than 10 million people living in Britain today, almost a fifth of the population, will reach their 100th birthday, the Department for Work and Pensions said on Thursday.

UK's Thatcher appealed to Iran over US hostages (AP)

Posted: 30 Dec 2010 07:25 AM PST

FILE- In a June 7, 1984 file photo, President Ronald Reagan has a word in the ear of Britain's Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, at a reception given by the British Government at London's St. James Palace for leaders attending the Economic Conference. Newly disclosed records show Britain's iconic prime minister Margaret Thatcher snubbed aides who questioned Ronald Reagan's credentials as U.S. president. Files released on Thursday, Dec. 29, 2010 under the country's 30-year disclosure rule also show she made a previously unknown effort to intervene in the U.S. Embassy hostage-taking. (AP Photo, File)AP - British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher made a previously unknown effort to secure the release of American hostages in Iran and predicted that Ronald Reagan would confound expectations following his election, newly disclosed files revealed Thursday.

Queen Elizabeth becomes a great-grandmother (Reuters)

Posted: 30 Dec 2010 06:54 AM PST

Britain's Queen Elizabeth leaves a Christmas Day service at St Mary Magdalene Church on the Royal estate at Sandringham, Norfolk in east England, December 25, 2010. REUTERS/Toby MelvilleReuters - Queen Elizabeth, 84, became a great-grandmother for the first time when the wife of her grandson Peter Phillips gave birth to a baby girl, Buckingham Palace said on Thursday.

Queen becomes great-grandmother (AFP)

Posted: 30 Dec 2010 06:40 AM PST

Peter Phillips, 30, and Autumn Kelly, 31, leave St George's Chapel in Windsor on May 17, 2008 after their marriage vows. The Queen was AFP - The Queen was "delighted" Thursday at becoming a great-grandmother with the birth of a baby girl to her grandson Peter Phillips and his Canadian wife.

Butt's British lawyer preps in Pakistan (AFP)

Posted: 30 Dec 2010 04:06 AM PST

The British lawyer of Pakistan's suspended former Test captain Salman Butt said he was in Lahore on Thursday preparing for his client's spot-fixing hearing next week.(AFP/File/Aamir Qureshi)AFP - The British lawyer of Pakistan's suspended former Test captain Salman Butt said he was in Lahore on Thursday preparing for his client's spot-fixing hearing next week.

UK labor unions warn of surge in strikes (AP)

Posted: 30 Dec 2010 02:06 AM PST

AP - Union leaders say there will be a surge in strikes next year to protest the government's harsh spending cuts — and they may even affect Britain's royal wedding.

Thatcher in secret plea to free US hostages in Iran: files (AFP)

Posted: 29 Dec 2010 07:01 PM PST

When Baroness Margaret Thatcher was prime minister she made a secret plea to Iran's leader in 1980 to free US hostages in Tehran after the rescue of Iranians from a London embassy siege, newly released files showed Thursday.(AFP/Pool/File/Suzanne Plunkett)AFP - Margaret Thatcher, when she was prime minister, made a secret plea to Iran's leader to free US hostages in Tehran after the rescue of Iranians from a London embassy siege, newly released files showed Thursday.

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