Yahoo! News: World - Britain
Yahoo! News: World - Britain |
- UK government considers ban on squatters (AP)
- UK security overhaul after Murdoch pie attack (AP)
- Author Barnes backed for Booker amid literary spat (Reuters)
- BP, Anadarko settle Gulf disaster claims (AP)
- Protesters remain outside St. Paul's Cathedral (AP)
- Policeman denies causing G-20 protester's death (AP)
UK government considers ban on squatters (AP) Posted: 17 Oct 2011 09:39 AM PDT AP - Like many young Londoners, 25-year-old Rueben Taylor shares a house in a neighborhood that's part scruffy, part smart. Unlike many others, she doesn't pay a penny in rent — and that puts her at the center of an escalating battle pitting the rights of property owners against the needs of tenants squeezed out of Britain's shrinking stock of affordable homes. |
UK security overhaul after Murdoch pie attack (AP) Posted: 17 Oct 2011 08:43 AM PDT AP - The speaker of Britain's House of Commons says a pie attack on media mogul Rupert Murdoch at a parliamentary committee hearing could lead to permanent security changes. |
Author Barnes backed for Booker amid literary spat (Reuters) Posted: 17 Oct 2011 07:41 AM PDT Reuters - English author and four-time nominee Julian Barnes, who once dismissed the Man Booker Prize for fiction as "posh bingo," is favored to win it on Tuesday with his novel "The Sense of an Ending." |
BP, Anadarko settle Gulf disaster claims (AP) Posted: 17 Oct 2011 07:19 AM PDT AP - Anadarko Petroleum Co. has agreed to pay $4 billion to BP PLC as part of a settlement related to last year's Gulf of Mexico oil spill, adding weight to BP's contention that it was not solely responsible for the disaster. |
Protesters remain outside St. Paul's Cathedral (AP) Posted: 17 Oct 2011 07:06 AM PDT |
Policeman denies causing G-20 protester's death (AP) Posted: 17 Oct 2011 03:05 AM PDT AP - A British police officer has pleaded not guilty to a manslaughter charge in the death of a newspaper vendor during the Group of 20 demonstrations in 2009. |
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