2011年2月21日星期一

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Yahoo! News: World - Britain

Burberry seizes the moment at London Fashion Week (AP)

Posted: 21 Feb 2011 02:53 PM PST

A model presents an outfit by Burberry at London Fashion Week in London, Monday, Feb. 21, 2011.(AP Photo/Joel Ryan)AP - A little snowfall is no problem — even inside — if you have proper raingear to protect you, so the models at the Burberry Prorsum London Fashion Week show Monday had no complaints about the artificial snow cascading down on the catwalk for the finale.

Search continues for British man buried in Spain avalanche (AFP)

Posted: 21 Feb 2011 01:36 PM PST

A man watch area where members of the Spanish Guardia Civil look for a British climber buried by an avalanche in San Juan Canyon, next to the Sierra Nevada National Park, southern Spain.(AFP/Jorge Guerrero)AFP - Over 130 soldiers took part Monday in a search for a British man who was buried in an avalanche a day earlier in Spain's Sierra Nevada mountain range, the defence ministry said.

British PM sweeps into Cairo as West woos new Egypt (AFP)

Posted: 21 Feb 2011 12:51 PM PST

Egyptian Prime Minister Ahmed Shafik meets with his British counterpart David Cameron (R) in Cairo. Cameron became the first foreign leader to visit Cairo since the fall of Hosni Mubarak on Monday, styling himself as the friend of a revolution that remains unfinished.(AFP/Khaled Desouki)AFP - British Prime Minister David Cameron became the first foreign leader to visit Cairo since the fall of Hosni Mubarak on Monday, styling himself as the friend of a revolution that remains unfinished.

News Corp to buy Murdoch daughter's TV company (AP)

Posted: 21 Feb 2011 12:29 PM PST

AP - Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. has reached a deal to buy Shine Group, the U.K.-based television production company founded by the business magnate's daughter Elisabeth, in a deal that values it at 415 million pounds ($673.3 million) including debt.

Bluer skies over Britain's white cliffs of Dover? (AP)

Posted: 21 Feb 2011 12:17 PM PST

AP - Britain should permanently wind its clocks forward by one hour, bringing lighter evenings to woo more vacationers to the U.K, tourism officials said Monday.

Royal Wedding: Beckham's coming but no Obama (Reuters)

Posted: 21 Feb 2011 10:46 AM PST

Britain's Prince William and his fiancee Kate Middleton (L) pose for a photograph in St. James's Palace, central London in a November 16, 2010 file photo. REUTERS/Suzanne Plunkett/filesReuters - News that Britain's royal wedding invites are in the post has touched off lively press speculation, with former England soccer captain David Beckham and the King of Bahrain tipped to be attending but not Barack Obama or Sarah Ferguson.

More jail for 3 Muslims who attacked Srebrenica war criminal (AFP)

Posted: 21 Feb 2011 10:11 AM PST

A British court on Monday handed additional jail terms to three Muslim prisoners for a revenge attack in an English prison on Bosnian Serb war criminal General Radislac Krstic, seen here in 2001.(AFP/Ed Oudenaarden)AFP - A British court on Monday handed additional jail terms to three Muslim prisoners for a revenge attack in an English prison on a Bosnian Serb war criminal over his role in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre.

BP, India's Reliance in $20 bn energy tie-up (AFP)

Posted: 21 Feb 2011 09:23 AM PST

British energy giant BP and India's Reliance Industries announced Monday a large investment deal which could be worth up to $20 billion, with later investment in key Indian oil and gas assets.(AFP/File/Ben Stansall)AFP - British energy giant BP and India's Reliance Industries announced Monday a large investment deal which could be worth up to $20 billion, with later investment in key Indian oil and gas assets.

Senior UK spy gives evidence at bombings inquest (AP)

Posted: 21 Feb 2011 09:21 AM PST

AP - A senior British spy testified Monday that the ringleader of the 2005 suicide attacks and his No. 2 were on MI5's radar for more than a year before the bombings but it wasn't clear an attack was imminent. The suicide bombings — Western Europe's first — killed 52 people.

3 sentenced for prison attack on Serb war criminal (AP)

Posted: 21 Feb 2011 08:33 AM PST

AP - A British judge has sentenced three convicted murderers to additional prison terms for attacking a Bosnian Serb war criminal in his jail cell.

UK police hunt 'Costa del Crime' fugitives (AFP)

Posted: 21 Feb 2011 07:08 AM PST

London ex-gangster AFP - British detectives on Monday named the country's 10 most wanted fugitives who have bolted to the "Costa del Crime", fleeing the urban ganglands for the Spanish sunshine.

Shell agrees to sell African assets for £620 mn (AFP)

Posted: 21 Feb 2011 06:01 AM PST

Anglo-Dutch energy giant Shell agreed Monday to sell most of its African oil-products operations for 620 million pounds ($1 billion) as it continues to sell off its non-core assets.(AFP/File/Adrian Dennis)AFP - Anglo-Dutch energy giant Shell agreed Monday to sell most of its African oil-products operations for 620 million pounds ($1 billion) as it continues to sell off its non-core assets.

BP signs $7.2 bln deal with Reliance in India (AP)

Posted: 21 Feb 2011 05:58 AM PST

AP - BP PLC is paying India's Reliance Industries $7.2 billion to take a stake in key oil and gas blocks, gaining a significant foothold in the Asian country as it continues to reposition global operations following the disastrous Gulf of Mexico spill.

UK mulls opening public services to private sector (AFP)

Posted: 21 Feb 2011 05:26 AM PST

British Prime Minister David Cameron makes a speech on the Big Society in London last week. Cameron has proposed to open up almost all the country's public services to private firms, in a move that would dramatically reduce the role of the state.(AFP/File/Lewis Whyld)AFP - British Prime Minister David Cameron on Monday proposed to open up almost all the country's public services to private firms, in a move that would dramatically reduce the role of the state.

Cameron details plans to open up public services (AFP)

Posted: 21 Feb 2011 04:24 AM PST

British Prime Minister David Cameron makes a speech on the 'Big Society' to social entrepreneurs at Somerset House in central London, February 14, 2011. Cameron on Monday outlined plans to open up almost all of Britain's public services to private firms, in a move that would dramatically reduce the role of the state.(AFP/POOL/File/Lewis Whyld)AFP - Prime Minister David Cameron on Monday outlined plans to open up almost all of Britain's public services to private firms, in a move that would dramatically reduce the role of the state.

Diageo buys Turkish spirits group Mey Icki (AFP)

Posted: 21 Feb 2011 02:15 AM PST

Workers empty raki bottles at a Mey drinks depot in Istanbul in 2005. British drinks giant Diageo has agreed to buy the Turkish spirits giant Mey Icki for 1.5 billion euros (£1.3 billion, $2.1 billion), ramping up its presence in fast-growing emerging markets.(AFP/Mustafa Ozer)AFP - British drinks giant Diageo on Monday agreed to buy Turkish spirits giant Mey Icki for 1.5 billion euros (£1.3 billion, $2.1 billion), ramping up its presence in fast-growing emerging markets.

Thousands of UK lives lost to drink, experts warn (Reuters)

Posted: 21 Feb 2011 01:04 AM PST

Reuters - Failure to tackle Britain's persistent alcohol problem could lead to hundreds of thousands more people dying from liver disease in the UK than in many other European countries, health experts said on Monday.

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