2011年5月29日星期日

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Yahoo! News: World - Britain

Grieving mothers adopt life-like dolls (AFP)

Posted: 29 May 2011 12:12 PM PDT

'Reborn babies', dolls which are made to look just like real babies, are displayed at the reborn babies fair in Brentwood, east of London, in February 2011. Weighing five kilos, with perfectly combed hair and her eyes closed in sleep, Abby looks like a baby girl. But she is a doll, adopted by a grieving mother to help come to terms with the loss of a child.(AFP/File/Beatrice Debut)AFP - Weighing five kilos (11 pounds), with perfectly combed hair and eyes closed in sleep, Abby looks like a baby girl. But she is a doll, adopted by a grieving mother to help come to terms with the loss of a child.

British local authority takes Twitter to court in US (AFP)

Posted: 29 May 2011 10:50 AM PDT

Homepage of the microblogging website Twitter. An English local authority said it had taken Twitter to court in California and forced it to release the details of a British user. South Tyneside Council, in northeast England, took the legal action in a bid to discover the identity of a blogger behind allegedly libelous statements.(AFP/File/Loic Venance)AFP - An English local authority said on Sunday it had taken US micro-blogging site Twitter to court in California and forced it to release the details of a British user.

Britain advised to 'consider sale' of Northern Rock (AFP)

Posted: 29 May 2011 08:58 AM PDT

The British government has been advised to consider selling nationalised lender Northern Rock, rather than float it on the stock market or return it to the mutual sector, a report said.(AFP/File/Shaun Curry)AFP - The British government has been advised to consider selling nationalised lender Northern Rock, rather than float it on the stock market or return it to the mutual sector, a report said on Sunday.

Britain deports Pakistani child sex offender (AFP)

Posted: 29 May 2011 07:55 AM PDT

A British police officer and a community support Officer are seen in Birmingham, central England. A Pakistani man convicted of child sex offences in Britain has been deported after losing a fight to stay in the country, the interior ministry has said.(AFP/File/Paul Ellis)AFP - A Pakistani man convicted of child sex offences in Britain has been deported after losing a fight to stay in the country, the interior ministry said Sunday.

British fraudsters' excuses to scam welfare system (AFP)

Posted: 29 May 2011 04:05 AM PDT

Britons have invented AFP - Britons have invented "ridiculous" excuses to swindle money out of the welfare system, from pretending their identity was stolen to saying an identical twin claimed the payments, officials said Sunday.

Tributes for British soldiers killed in Afghanistan (AFP)

Posted: 29 May 2011 03:48 AM PDT

A file picture of British soldier Lieutenant Ollie Augustin, who was one of the two killed by a homemade bomb while on patrol in southern Afghanistan on May 27.(MOD/AFP/HO)AFP - The families of two British soldiers killed by a homemade bomb while on patrol in southern Afghanistan paid them tributes on Sunday.

Large-scale plan of Titanic sells for $363,000 (AP)

Posted: 29 May 2011 03:28 AM PDT

AP - A large-scale plan of the Titanic, prepared for the official inquiry into the ship's sinking, has fetched 220,000 pounds ($363,000) in a British auction.

British Queen, Obama put Irish tourism back on map (Reuters)

Posted: 28 May 2011 10:07 PM PDT

U.S. President Barack Obama (L) and first lady Michelle Obama (2nd R) host a dinner for Queen Elizabeth (2nd L) and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (R), at the Winfield House in London May 25, 2011. REUTERS/Larry DowningReuters - After Barack Obama put it on the map by downing a gulp of Guinness, residents of the U.S. president's tiny ancestral home of Moneygall have spent the past week greeting busloads of tourists.

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