2011年5月20日星期五

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Yahoo! News: World - Britain

BP gets $1 bln settlement from Gulf well partner (AP)

Posted: 20 May 2011 11:54 AM PDT

Shares in BP shot up on Friday after it announced that it had recovered $1.065 billion (£0.656 billion) in costs linked to last year's devastating Gulf of Mexico oil spill from a US subsidiary of Japanese trading house Mitsui & Co.(AFP/File/Ben Stansall)AP - BP has struck a deal to receive around $1 billion from one of its minority partners in the blown-out Gulf of Mexico well, raising hopes it will successfully pursue other companies involved and reduce its bill for the disaster.

Fears of mass whale stranding off Scottish island (AFP)

Posted: 20 May 2011 10:21 AM PDT

Marine experts said Friday they feared a mass stranding of up to 100 pilot whales off the Western Isles of Scotland, like these found stranded on remote Ocean Beach in New Zealand in 2003. The whales were spotted off the coast of South Uist on in May 2011.(AFP/File/Barry Harcourt)AFP - Marine experts said Friday they feared a mass stranding of up to 100 pilot whales off the Western Isles of Scotland.

FTSE slips 0.15 percent at close (AFP)

Posted: 20 May 2011 09:24 AM PDT

Shares in BP shot up on Friday after it announced that it had recovered $1.065 billion (£0.656 billion) in costs linked to last year's devastating Gulf of Mexico oil spill from a US subsidiary of Japanese trading house Mitsui & Co.(AFP/File/Ben Stansall)AFP - London's stocks ended lower on Friday, at the end of a volatile week for equities.

BP recovers $1 bn Gulf spill costs from Japan's Mitsui (AFP)

Posted: 20 May 2011 08:28 AM PDT

A heron overlooks the Gulf of Mexico in Orange Beach, Alabama last month, on the one-year anniversary of the BP oil spill. BP says it has recovered more than $1.0 billion in costs linked to last year's devastating Gulf of Mexico oil spill from a US subsidiary of Japanese trading house Mitsui & Co.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Mario Tama)AFP - BP said on Friday that it had recovered more than $1.0 billion in costs linked to last year's devastating Gulf of Mexico oil spill from a US subsidiary of Japanese trading house Mitsui & Co.

Scots struggle to save 100 pilot whales from dying (AP)

Posted: 20 May 2011 07:53 AM PDT

AP - Rescue workers and fishermen struggled Friday to prevent a pod of up to 100 pilot whales from beaching and dying on the rocky shores of Loch Carnan in Scotland's Western Isles.

Ex-Labour MP Morley jailed over expenses (AFP)

Posted: 20 May 2011 07:44 AM PDT

Former Labour minister Elliot Morley, seen here in April, has been jailed for 16 months for cheating on his expenses, becoming the fourth MP to be imprisoned over the scandal.(AFP/File/Carl Court)AFP - Former Labour minister Elliot Morley was jailed for 16 months on Friday for cheating over his expenses, becoming the fourth MP to be imprisoned over the scandal.

Singer Pete Doherty jailed on cocaine charge (Reuters)

Posted: 20 May 2011 06:43 AM PDT

Musician Pete Doherty performs during the Positivus music festival in Salacgriva, about 100 km (62 miles) from Riga July 17, 2009. REUTERS/Ints KalninsReuters - Musician Pete Doherty was jailed for six months on Friday after pleading guilty to possession of cocaine, the Press Association reported.

Review urges sparing use of super-injunctions (AFP)

Posted: 20 May 2011 06:04 AM PDT

Journalists are pictured outside Westminster Magistrates Court in central London, in 2010. Court injunctions banning the media from reporting that the rich and famous have won gagging orders should only be granted where strictly necessary, a long-awaited judicial report has said.(AFP/File/Carl Court)AFP - Court injunctions banning the media from reporting that the rich and famous have won gagging orders should only be granted where strictly necessary, a long-awaited judicial report said on Friday.

Police officer stabbed in south London (AFP)

Posted: 20 May 2011 05:50 AM PDT

A police officer is in a AFP - A police officer is in a "serious condition" after being stabbed on a street in south London while searching a group of teenagers, Scotland Yard said on Friday.

Exhibition: Was Captain Kidd friend or foe? (Reuters)

Posted: 20 May 2011 05:34 AM PDT

Reuters - Captain Kidd has gone down in history, rightly or wrongly, as one of the world's most notorious pirates alongside bloodthirsty contemporaries Blackbeard and the fictitious one-legged Long John Silver.

Tata Steel to axe up to 1,500 jobs in Britain (AFP)

Posted: 20 May 2011 05:21 AM PDT

A man steers a kite buggy on the beach near the Redcar steelworks in Teeside, in 2009. Indian steelmaker Tata Steel is to axe up to 1,500 jobs at two sites in the north east of England, the company announced as it blamed weak demand for its products.(AFP/Paul Ellis)AFP - Indian steelmaker Tata Steel is to axe up to 1,500 jobs at two sites in the north east of England, the company announced Friday as it blamed weak demand for its products.

UK judge warns lawmakers on reporting gag orders (AP)

Posted: 20 May 2011 05:14 AM PDT

AP - The top judge in England and Wales warned British lawmakers on Friday to think carefully before using their Parliamentary privilege to circumvent court orders that block media from reporting on often-salacious celebrity lawsuits.

Large whale pod at risk of stranding off Scotland (Reuters)

Posted: 20 May 2011 05:07 AM PDT

Reuters - Marine experts fear a pod of around 100 pilot whales is in danger of becoming stranded off the Western Isles of Scotland.

Ex-UK minister jailed over expenses claims (AP)

Posted: 20 May 2011 04:39 AM PDT

AP - A London court sentenced a former government minister to 16 months in prison on Friday over the largest bogus claim exposed in Britain's lawmaker expenses scandal.

British troops 'face vehicle shortage until 2025' (AFP)

Posted: 20 May 2011 03:44 AM PDT

British soldiers of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) sit on top of their armoured vehicle at Camp Bastion in Helmand Province in 2008. British troops face a AFP - British troops face a "significant shortage" of armoured vehicles for years to come after major procurement projects were cancelled or put on hold, a government spending watchdog warned on Friday.

Olympics: One million bid to see 2012 100m final (AFP)

Posted: 20 May 2011 03:29 AM PDT

Jamaica's Usain Bolt (L) wins the men's 100m final at the 2009 IAAF Athletics World Championships on August 16, 2009 in Berlin. More than a million people have applied to watch the men's 100 metres final at the 2012 London Olympics, organisers said, meaning that hundreds of thousands will be disappointed.(AFP/File/Fabrice Coffrini)AFP - More than a million people have applied to watch the men's 100 metres final at the 2012 London Olympics, organisers said Friday, meaning that hundreds of thousands will be disappointed.

Exhibitions: Tracey Emin's adults-only retrospective (Reuters)

Posted: 20 May 2011 03:14 AM PDT

Reuters - Tracey Emin, the enfant terrible of British art, is holding a major retrospective exhibition and perhaps unsurprisingly it has been slapped with a parental guidance warning.

HMV to sell Waterstone's to Russian billionaire (AFP)

Posted: 20 May 2011 02:51 AM PDT

Britain's struggling entertainment group HMV announced a deal to sell its book shop chain Waterstone's to Russian billionaire Alexander Mamut for £53 million (60 million euros, $86 million).(AFP/File/ADRIAN DENNIS)AFP - Britain's struggling entertainment group HMV announced on Friday a deal to sell its book shop chain Waterstone's to Russian billionaire Alexander Mamut for £53 million (60 million euros, $86 million).

FTSE up 0.26% at open (AFP)

Posted: 20 May 2011 02:00 AM PDT

London shares edged up at the start of trading on Friday building on the previous day's advances after the flotation of Swiss commodities giant Glencore.(AFP/File/Shaun Curry)AFP - London shares edged up at the start of trading on Friday building on the previous day's advances after the flotation of Swiss commodities giant Glencore.

Court lifts anonymity order on ex-RBS chief Goodwin (AFP)

Posted: 20 May 2011 12:35 AM PDT

A court has lifted an anonymity order on former top banker Fred Goodwin, pictured in 2008 which had blocked the media from reporting that he had obtained an injunction to hide a sexual relationship.(AFP/File/Ed Jones)AFP - A court has lifted an anonymity order on former top banker Fred Goodwin which had blocked the media from reporting that he had obtained an injunction to hide a sexual relationship.

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