Yahoo! News: World - Britain

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• Internet is world's 'greatest spying machine': Assange (AFP)
• Assange: Wikileaks' cables spurred Arab uprisings (Reuters)
• Website hitch as 2012 tickets race starts (AFP)
• Military fanfare teams lead music for royal wedding (AFP)
• Olympics: London 2012 countdown clock stops (AFP)
• Hospital treats 3-year-old alcoholic (AP)
• Alien invasion movie tops UK box office chart (Reuters)
• TV producer suspended for 'all-white' cast remarks (AP)
• Royal wedding music to include choirs (AP)
• Children still play the old schoolyard favorites (Reuters)
• Mobile phone termination charges to drop 80% (AFP)
• English Catholics claim 900 Anglican converts (AP)
• Two clergymen charged in bogus marriages case (AFP)
• Dating agencies make debut in UK inflation basket (Reuters)
• Huge lobster saved from the pot (Reuters)
• Supermarket chains join health responsibility deal (AFP)
• Prison chaplain jailed after favouring inmate lover (AFP)
• Top public sector pay may be performance linked (AFP)
• Up 181,000 migrants 'have stayed in UK illegally' (AFP)

Internet is world's 'greatest spying machine': Assange (AFP) Posted: 15 Mar 2011 05:51 PM PDT AFP - Julian Assange, the founder of whistleblower website WikiLeaks, has warned that the Internet was the "greatest spying machine the world has ever seen" and an obstacle to free speech.

Assange: Wikileaks' cables spurred Arab uprisings (Reuters) Posted: 15 Mar 2011 04:24 PM PDT Reuters - Publishing U.S. diplomatic cables helped shape uprisings in North Africa and the Middle East, Wikileaks co-founder Julian Assange said on Tuesday.

Website hitch as 2012 tickets race starts (AFP) Posted: 15 Mar 2011 02:25 PM PDT AFP - Tickets for the 2012 London Olympics went on sale Tuesday but some applicants found they were unable to process their orders through the online payment system.

Military fanfare teams lead music for royal wedding (AFP) Posted: 15 Mar 2011 12:34 PM PDT AFP - Fanfare teams from the Royal Air Force and the Household Cavalry will be among the musicians performing at the wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton next month, Buckingham Palace said Tuesday.

Olympics: London 2012 countdown clock stops (AFP) Posted: 15 Mar 2011 10:25 AM PDT AFP - The electronic clock counting down the 500 days to the start of the 2012 London Olympics stopped on Tuesday in an embarrassing glitch less than a day after it was unveiled in a glitzy launch.

Hospital treats 3-year-old alcoholic (AP) Posted: 15 Mar 2011 10:18 AM PDT AP - Hospital authorities say they have treated a 3-year-old child for alcoholism.

Alien invasion movie tops UK box office chart (Reuters) Posted: 15 Mar 2011 09:08 AM PDT Reuters - "Battle: Los Angeles" topped the British box office chart over the weekend, ending the brief reign of Johnny Depp's Wild West chameleon.

TV producer suspended for 'all-white' cast remarks (AP) Posted: 15 Mar 2011 07:58 AM PDT AP - The English county of Midsomer is rural, picturesque, astonishingly murder-prone and completely white.

Royal wedding music to include choirs (AP) Posted: 15 Mar 2011 07:57 AM PDT AP - Royal officials say two choirs, an orchestra and a military fanfare team will provide the music for next month's wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton.

Children still play the old schoolyard favorites (Reuters) Posted: 15 Mar 2011 07:43 AM PDT Reuters - Children still enjoy playing traditional games like skipping and clapping in the playground despite the lure of mobile phones, computer games, and television, a study published on Tuesday found.

Mobile phone termination charges to drop 80% (AFP) Posted: 15 Mar 2011 07:24 AM PDT AFP - The cost of calling mobile phones from other networks and landlines is set to become cheaper after Ofcom imposed a reduction in charges.

English Catholics claim 900 Anglican converts (AP) Posted: 15 Mar 2011 07:07 AM PDT AP - About 900 members of the Church of England have taken the first step toward becoming Catholics, the Roman Catholic Church in England and Wales said Tuesday.

Two clergymen charged in bogus marriages case (AFP) Posted: 15 Mar 2011 06:50 AM PDT AFP - Two Church of England clergymen have been charged following a sham marriages probe, the Crown Prosecution Service announced.

Dating agencies make debut in UK inflation basket (Reuters) Posted: 15 Mar 2011 06:26 AM PDT Reuters - Online dating agencies and smart phones are in, pork shoulder and regional newspapers are out, according to Britain's statistics office.

Huge lobster saved from the pot (Reuters) Posted: 15 Mar 2011 06:22 AM PDT Reuters - One of the biggest and oldest lobsters ever caught in Britain has been saved from the pot and will live out the rest of its long life in an aquarium.

Supermarket chains join health responsibility deal (AFP) Posted: 15 Mar 2011 05:19 AM PDT AFP - Seven supermarket chains have joined the government's controversial responsibility deal, which is aimed at improving public health while avoiding regulation.

Prison chaplain jailed after favouring inmate lover (AFP) Posted: 15 Mar 2011 05:02 AM PDT AFP - A prison chaplain has been jailed for eight months after she did favours for an inmate with whom she had sex.

Top public sector pay may be performance linked (AFP) Posted: 15 Mar 2011 03:30 AM PDT AFP - Executives in the public sector should have 10 percent of their pay made subject to them meeting performance targets, a government-commissioned study has recommended.

Up 181,000 migrants 'have stayed in UK illegally' (AFP) Posted: 15 Mar 2011 02:43 AM PDT AFP - Up to 181,000 migrants who should have gone home over the past two years alone could still be in the UK illegally, the National Audit Office says in a study.

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