2011年3月10日星期四

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Yahoo! News: World - Britain

British lawyer to plead guilty in bribery case (AP)

Posted: 10 Mar 2011 04:37 PM PST

AP - A British lawyer who had been fighting extradition to the U.S. on charges he helped a former Halliburton Co. subsidiary bribe Nigerian officials will plead guilty in the case, his attorney said Thursday.

British man pleads guilty in U.S. stocks fraud (Reuters)

Posted: 10 Mar 2011 04:32 PM PST

Reuters - A British man pleaded guilty on Thursday to committing mail and wire fraud in an investment scam selling worthless stocks of dormant and sham U.S. companies that bilked investors of more than $40 million.

Sarkozy and Cameron: Gaddafi must step down now (Reuters)

Posted: 10 Mar 2011 01:28 PM PST

Reuters - Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi and his ruling clique have lost legitimacy and must step down to end violence in the country, French President Nicolas Sarkozy and British Prime Minister David Cameron said on Thursday.

UK soldier, loyal dog, make final journey together (AP)

Posted: 10 Mar 2011 01:20 PM PST

FILE -- In this undated image made available in London by the Ministry of Defence, Lance Corporal Liam Tasker trains with his Military Working Dog, Theo, in Camp Bastion, Afghanistan. The body of Lance Corporal Tasker, a dog handler with the Royal Army Veterinary Corps who was killed in a firefight with insurgents in Helmand Province is to be repatriated to Britain, Thursday March 10, 2011, along with Theo, his bomb-sniffing springer spaniel, who suffered a fatal seizure hours later at a British army base. The 26-year-old soldier and the dog had been in Afghanistan for six months, uncovering roadside bombs. In February, the defense ministry announced that Theo had been so successful - finding 14 hidden bombs - that his tour of duty had been extended by a month.(AP Photo/Ministry of Defence, ho) EDITORIAL USE ONLY:AP - Liam and Theo were a team, fast friends doing a dangerous job — searching out roadside bombs laid by insurgents in Afghanistan.

Libya frees Brazilian reporter (AFP)

Posted: 10 Mar 2011 12:59 PM PST

Libyan rebel fighters try to spot approaching tanks of Kadhafi loyalist forces as they take position at a gate of the north-central key Libyan oil town of Ras Lanuf. Libyan security forces freed Thursday a Brazilian reporter detained since March 2 but held on to an award-winning Iraqi journalist working for a British newspaper, their employers said.(AFP/Roberto Schmidt)AFP - Libyan security forces freed Thursday a Brazilian reporter detained since March 2 but held on to an award-winning Iraqi journalist working for a British newspaper, their employers said.

Olympics: Stiffer penalties for 2012 ticket touts (AFP)

Posted: 10 Mar 2011 09:45 AM PST

A police officer displays tickets recovered from a suspected ticket tout during a search of a furniture shop in south London. The maximum penalty for ticket touting at the London 2012 Olympics will be increased from £5,000 to £20,000, the Home Secretary has said.(AFP/POOL/Akira Suemori)AFP - Touts caught selling tickets illegally at the 2012 Olympics in London will face fines of up to £20,000, the government said Thursday.

Britain to return Aboriginal remains to Australia (AFP)

Posted: 10 Mar 2011 09:19 AM PST

Australian Aborigine Major Sumner of the Ngarrindjeri tribe protests outside the Natural History Museum in London in 2003. Sumner was demanding the return of indigenous human remains collected during the colonial era. The museum has agreed to return 138 sets of skeletal remains of indigenous people to Australia, in what it hails as a new approach to the delicate subject of repatriation.(AFP/File/Nicolas Asfouri)AFP - The Natural History Museum in London said on Thursday that it has agreed to return 138 sets of skeletal remains of indigenous people to Australia, in what it hailed as a new approach to the delicate subject of repatriation.

British and Brazilian reporters missing in Libya (AFP)

Posted: 10 Mar 2011 08:56 AM PST

Libyan rebel fighters try to spot approaching tanks of Kadhafi loyalist forces as they take position at a gate of the north-central key Libyan oil town of Ras Lanuf. Libyan security forces freed Thursday a Brazilian reporter detained since March 2 but held on to an award-winning Iraqi journalist working for a British newspaper, their employers said.(AFP/Roberto Schmidt)AFP - British newspaper The Guardian said on Thursday that one of its most experienced correspondents and a Brazilian journalist he was working with had gone missing in Libya.

London museum repatriates islands' human remains (Reuters)

Posted: 10 Mar 2011 08:50 AM PST

Reuters - LONDON (Reuters Life!) -- The remains of 138 indigenous people from the Torres Strait Islands are set to be repatriated after they were removed at the behest of a missionary during the 19th century, London's Natural History Museum said on Thursday.

Olympic ticket touts face £20,000 fine (AFP)

Posted: 10 Mar 2011 06:53 AM PST

A police officer displays tickets recovered from a suspected ticket tout during a search of a furniture shop in south London. The maximum penalty for ticket touting at the London 2012 Olympics will be increased from £5,000 to £20,000, the Home Secretary has said.(AFP/POOL/Akira Suemori)AFP - The maximum penalty for ticket touting at the London 2012 Olympics will be increased from £5,000 to £20,000, the Home Secretary said on Wednesday.

London Heathrow terminal evacuated (AFP)

Posted: 10 Mar 2011 06:52 AM PST

A British Airways passenger jet takes off from Terminal 5 at Heathrow Airport.(AFP/File/Ben Stansall)AFP - Police partially evacuated London Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5 on Thursday after a security alert sparked by a man with a suspect package, they said.

Bank of England holds fire on rates (Reuters)

Posted: 10 Mar 2011 06:43 AM PST

Reuters - The Bank of England kept interest rates at a record low on Thursday, reluctant to jeopardize a fragile economic recovery and hopeful the recent surge in inflation will prove temporary.

Heathrow terminal reopens after partial evacuation (AP)

Posted: 10 Mar 2011 06:38 AM PST

AP - A security alert that prompted a partial evacuation of London's Heathrow Airport has been resolved with no arrests, police said Thursday.

Royal gift: A Jewish wedding scroll (AP)

Posted: 10 Mar 2011 06:36 AM PST

Artist Mike Horton presents a scroll written in the style of a Ketubah, a traditional Jewish wedding scroll, he made for Britain's Prince William and fiance Kate Middleton's upcoming royal wedding, to Britain's Ambassador to Israel Matthew Gould, in Ramat Gan, Israel, Thursday, March 10, 2011. According to the artist the scroll will be put in the diplomatic pouch and delivered to Common House next to Buckingham Palace.(AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)AP - Britain's newest royal couple is receiving an unusual wedding gift: A Jewish-style marriage contract.

Brief alert at London's Heathrow airport over: police (Reuters)

Posted: 10 Mar 2011 06:20 AM PST

Reuters - British police said on Thursday a security alert at London's Heathrow Airport was over and a cordon at Terminal 5 had been lifted.

Public sector pensions shake-up urged (AFP)

Posted: 10 Mar 2011 05:56 AM PST

Former Labour minister John Hutton is seen in 2008. Millions of public sector workers should work longer for lower pensions, Hutton has recommended in a report commissioned by the coalition government.(AFP/File/Andrew Yates)AFP - Millions of public sector workers should work longer for lower pensions, a government-commissioned report recommended on Thursday.

Britain holds record-low interest rates for 2 years (AFP)

Posted: 10 Mar 2011 05:08 AM PST

The Bank of England says it will hold key interest rate at a record low 0.50 percent, where it has now stood for two years, as it balances strong inflation against a fragile economic recovery. AFP - The Bank of England on Thursday held its key interest rate at a record low 0.50 percent, where it has now stood for two years, as it balanced strong inflation against a fragile economic recovery.

Bank of England holds key interest rate at 0.50% (AFP)

Posted: 10 Mar 2011 04:42 AM PST

The Bank of England says it will hold key interest rate at a record low 0.50 percent, where it has now stood for two years, as it balances strong inflation against a fragile economic recovery. AFP - The Bank of England on Thursday held its key interest rate at a record low 0.50 percent, where it has now stood for two years, as it balances strong inflation against a fragile economic recovery.

Be William's princess? I'd rather watch "X Factor" (Reuters)

Posted: 10 Mar 2011 04:37 AM PST

Reuters - When she was a little girl, Elsa Hardcastle loved to dress up as a princess and read stories about young women swept off their feet by a prince charming.

Bank of England holds key interest rate at 0.5 pct (AP)

Posted: 10 Mar 2011 04:08 AM PST

AP - The Bank of England has kept its base interest rate at a record low of 0.5 percent, as the market expected, despite increasing concerns about inflation.

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