Yahoo! News: World - Britain

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• British Consulates: Stop with the dumb questions (AP)
• Marc Jacobs perfume ad banned in UK (AP)
• Credibility fading, James Murdoch returns to UK (AP)
• London student protest over fees draws thousands (AP)
• Hague: UK to abstain on UN Palestinian vote (AP)
• Only 11% of Possible Phone-Hacking Victims Have Been Contacted by Police (The Atlantic Wire)
• Iran nuclear standoff enters more dangerous phase: UK (Reuters)
• UK's Cameron backs Home Secretary Theresa May (AP)
• London abbey to lose control of school after abuse (AP)
• Kesa dumps money-losing UK Comet stores (AP)

British Consulates: Stop with the dumb questions (AP) Posted: 09 Nov 2011 04:01 PM PST AP - One British man rang his consulate after being dumped by a dominatrix abroad, while another caller asked what to do about ants in his Florida holiday villa.

Marc Jacobs perfume ad banned in UK (AP) Posted: 09 Nov 2011 02:52 PM PST AP - Britain's advertising standards watchdog on Wednesday banned a Marc Jacobs perfume ad starring actress Dakota Fanning, saying it seemed to sexualize a child and could cause serious offense.

Credibility fading, James Murdoch returns to UK (AP) Posted: 09 Nov 2011 12:21 PM PST AP - Contradicted by key former executives and challenged by his company's ex-lawyers, James Murdoch is expected back for a second grilling in Britain's Parliament Thursday over the phone hacking scandal that has shaken his father's media empire.

London student protest over fees draws thousands (AP) Posted: 09 Nov 2011 10:02 AM PST AP - Amid a heavy police presence, thousands of students marched through central London on Wednesday to protest cuts to public spending and a big increase in university tuition fees.

Hague: UK to abstain on UN Palestinian vote (AP) Posted: 09 Nov 2011 08:08 AM PST AP - Britain will abstain from the United Nations vote on the Palestinian bid for statehood, Foreign Secretary William Hague told Parliament Wednesday.

Only 11% of Possible Phone-Hacking Victims Have Been Contacted by Police (The Atlantic Wire) Posted: 09 Nov 2011 07:41 AM PST The Atlantic Wire - Apparently we've only seen the tip of News Corp.'s phone-hacking iceberg. The Guardian is reporting that of "the possible 5,800 hacking victims identified so far, 638 have been contacted by officers working on the inquiry to confirm that their phones may have been hacked." That means that only 11 in 100 potential victims in the U.K. have even been told that their phones have potentially been hacked by journalists. "The relatively small number shows how far the investigation has to run before it completes its analysis of about 11,000 pages of notes," The Guardian says. Those possibly 5,800 phone-hacked is about 2,000 more than than previously estimated. The new number comes as we learned this week at that one of Rupert Murdoch's newspaper hired a private eye to spy on more than 100 people, including (gasp!) the royal family and the family of Daniel Radcliffe. All the more charcoal for MPs to grill James Murdoch with when he addresses Parliament again tomorrow.

Iran nuclear standoff enters more dangerous phase: UK (Reuters) Posted: 09 Nov 2011 07:05 AM PST Reuters - The standoff over Iran's nuclear program is entering a more dangerous phase and the risk of conflict will increase if Iran does not negotiate, British Foreign Secretary William Hague warned on Wednesday.

UK's Cameron backs Home Secretary Theresa May (AP) Posted: 09 Nov 2011 05:34 AM PST AP - Prime Minister David Cameron offered fresh support Wednesday to an embattled government minister who is embroiled in a scandal over a summer relaxation of border controls.

London abbey to lose control of school after abuse (AP) Posted: 09 Nov 2011 05:09 AM PST AP - A monastery should no longer be allowed to run a London Roman Catholic school where pupils were physically and sexually abused over several decades, an independent report recommended Wednesday.

Kesa dumps money-losing UK Comet stores (AP) Posted: 09 Nov 2011 01:58 AM PST AP - Kesa Electricals says it has agreed to sell its money-losing Comet stores in Britain for a token payment of 2 pounds ($3.22).

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