2011年1月16日星期日

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Yahoo! News: World - Britain

Royal couple may ask guests to make charity gifts (AP)

Posted: 16 Jan 2011 09:00 AM PST

AP - Call it a charity bonanza. Royal aides say Prince William and Kate Middleton are considering asking guests at their April 29 wedding to make donations to charity instead of sending them wedding gifts.

Princess, Dutchess, Countess: What to call Kate? (AP)

Posted: 16 Jan 2011 06:54 AM PST

FILE - Britain's Prince William and his fiancee Kate Middleton at St. James's Palace in London, Tuesday Nov. 16, 2010, after they announced their engagement. She could end up as Her Royal Highness Princess William of Wales. Kate Middleton's royal title is not yet clear and some of the options available are not very good. Queen Elizabeth II is unlikely to clear this up until just before the royal wedding April 29. (AP Photo/Sang Tan, file)AP - If you're invited to the royal wedding, don't go buying Kate Middleton an engraved gift — the poor woman doesn't know yet what her title's going to be.

Thousands of Britons repatriated from Tunisia (AFP)

Posted: 16 Jan 2011 04:13 AM PST

Smoke billows from a French and a Tunisian supermarket on January 15 in La Gazella city near Tunis. Tour operators have repatriated around 3,500 Britons from crisis-hit Tunisia in the last few days, the Foreign Office said.(AFP/Fethi Belaid)AFP - Tour operators have repatriated around 3,500 Britons from crisis-hit Tunisia in the last few days, the Foreign Office said Sunday.

Ex-police spy says he fears for his life (AFP)

Posted: 16 Jan 2011 02:42 AM PST

A policeman stands on a coal heap inside the German energy giant E.ON 's Ratcliffe-on-Soar power station near Nottingham in October 2009. A former undercover police officer who posed as an environmental activist for eight years has said he fears for his life after a trial icentring on the power station collapsed.(AFP/File/Carl Court)AFP - A former undercover police officer who posed as an environmental activist for eight years has said he fears for his life after a trial he was involved in collapsed.

Made in China porcelain for British royal wedding (Reuters)

Posted: 16 Jan 2011 12:51 AM PST

Reuters - A Chinese porcelain manufacturing company has won the order to make the official tableware to be used at the British royal wedding of Prince William and his fiancee Kate Middleton.

Ed Miliband struggles at head of Labour Party (AFP)

Posted: 15 Jan 2011 11:30 PM PST

File photo shows Labour Party leader, Ed Miliband, addressing delegates at annual Confederation of British Industry conference in London. Miliband, who became Labour's youngest ever leader when he took over in September aged 40, has failed to profit from a backlash against the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition's policies of deep spending cuts and tax rises.(AFP/File/Leon Neal)AFP - Having beaten his higher-profile brother to win the leadership of the Labour Party, Ed Miliband has made a stumbling start in his first 100 days in charge.

British actress Susannah York dies aged 72: report (AFP)

Posted: 15 Jan 2011 06:18 PM PST

British actress Susannah York speaks with an Israeli policeman April 19, 1998 outside the prison where jailed nuclear technician Mordechai Vanunu is kept locked up. REUTERS/Str OldAFP - British actress Susannah York, a 1960s beauty who was nominated for an Oscar for the 1969 film "They Shoot Horses, Don't They?", has died at the age of 72, a newspaper reported.

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