Yahoo! News: World - Britain

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• UK tightens rules on arresting foreigners (AP)
• APNewsBreak: No advice to UK courts on riot cases (AP)
• Rescue under way to free four trapped in Welsh mine (Reuters)
• Britain stops activists from arresting foreigners (AP)
• New London police chief calls in phone hack help (AP)
• UK, French leaders take the stage in Libya (AP)

UK tightens rules on arresting foreigners (AP) Posted: 15 Sep 2011 01:44 PM PDT AP - Britain amended a law Thursday to make it tougher for ordinary citizens or activist groups to get arrest warrants against suspected war criminals or torturers — a move that angered some human rights activists but pleased Israel, whose visiting officials had been under frequent threat of detention.

APNewsBreak: No advice to UK courts on riot cases (AP) Posted: 15 Sep 2011 11:44 AM PDT AP - Judges were not issued advice to get tough in the aftermath of England's riots, despite a wave of harsh punishments for offenders, the country's advisory body on sentencing insisted Thursday.

Rescue under way to free four trapped in Welsh mine (Reuters) Posted: 15 Sep 2011 11:19 AM PDT Reuters - Emergency services were carrying out a major rescue operation on Thursday after four miners became trapped following a flash flood in a coal mine in south Wales.

Britain stops activists from arresting foreigners (AP) Posted: 15 Sep 2011 08:04 AM PDT AP - A spokeswoman for the British Embassy in Israel says her government has approved legislation that overturns a provision allowing activists to obtain arrest warrants against visiting officials they accuse of war crimes.

New London police chief calls in phone hack help (AP) Posted: 15 Sep 2011 07:53 AM PDT AP - The London police's incoming boss has called on an outside police force for help handling Britain's politically sensitive phone hacking probe.

UK, French leaders take the stage in Libya (AP) Posted: 15 Sep 2011 01:42 PM PDT AP - British Prime Minister David Cameron and French President Nicolas Sarkozy offered broad support for Libya's new rulers Thursday, promising to unfreeze billions in assets and give help in finding Moammar Gadhafi, even as revolutionary forces attempted their first significant assault on the ousted leader's hometown.

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