2011年6月20日星期一

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Yahoo! News: World - Britain

Al Capone's gun to be auctioned in London (AP)

Posted: 20 Jun 2011 12:38 PM PDT

AP - A handgun once owned by notorious gangster "Al" Capone will be going up for sale at a London auction this week.

Hackers target British anti-crime agency website (AFP)

Posted: 20 Jun 2011 12:32 PM PDT

SOCA Director-General Bill Hughes during the official launch of Serious Organized Crime Agency (SOCA) at No. 10 Downing Street in London in 2006. Hackers who have hit the websites of the CIA, US Senate, Sony and others during a month-long rampage claimed to have knocked the site of SOCA offline.(AFP/POOL/Adrian Dennis)AFP - Hackers who have hit the websites of the CIA, US Senate, Sony and others during a month-long rampage claimed on Monday to have knocked the site of Britain's Serious Organized Crime Agency (SOCA) offline.

Music group EMI launches strategic review (AFP)

Posted: 20 Jun 2011 11:04 AM PDT

British music label EMI, home to The Beatles and Coldplay, on Monday launched a strategic review which could result in its sale or a stock market launch.(AFP/File/Carl de Souza)AFP - British music label EMI, home to The Beatles and Coldplay, on Monday launched a strategic review which could result in its sale or a stock market launch.

FTSE 100 shares end in the red (AFP)

Posted: 20 Jun 2011 09:08 AM PDT

Stocks ended in the red as the banking sector slumped on concerns over exposure to Greece.(AFP/File/Ben Stansall)AFP - Stocks ended in the red on Monday as the banking sector slumped on concerns over exposure to Greece.

British Library, Google put thousands of books online (AFP)

Posted: 20 Jun 2011 09:05 AM PDT

Visitors read in the British Library in central London. Works including pamphlets about Marie Antoinette and an account of a stuffed hippopotamus are among 250,000 books being made available online in a deal announced by Google and the British Library.(AFP/Carl Court)AFP - Pamphlets about Queen Marie Antoinette and an account of a stuffed hippopotamus are among 250,000 books being made available online in a deal announced on Monday by Google and the British Library.

UK nuclear plant rescues seal from cooling water pool (Reuters)

Posted: 20 Jun 2011 08:24 AM PDT

Reuters - An Atlantic Grey Seal was rescued from a nuclear power plant water pool in Somerset last week after it got trapped in the facility while chasing fish, the nuclear station operator said.

Police appeal after boy, 6, killed in hit-and-run (AFP)

Posted: 20 Jun 2011 07:48 AM PDT

Owen Wightman is seen in a picture provided by West Yorkshire Police. Police have appealed for a hit-and-run driver to come forward after the six-year-old boy was left on the road to die.(West Yorkshire Police)AFP - Police on Monday appealed for a hit-and-run driver to come forward after a little boy was left on the road to die.

Reporter for British newspaper beaten in Pakistan (AP)

Posted: 20 Jun 2011 06:37 AM PDT

AP - Men wearing police uniforms beat a Pakistani journalist working for the British Guardian newspaper, five days after he published an account of abduction and torture by suspected Pakistani intelligence agents, the daily said.

MPs to debate changes to women's pension age (AFP)

Posted: 20 Jun 2011 06:35 AM PDT

Plans to raise the state pension age for women will be debated in Parliament on Monday. Women can currently claim a state pension from the age of 60, compared to men who must wait until they are 65. But under the government's Pensions Bill, the entitlement age for women would rise to 65 by 2018, and then to 66 for both sexes by 2020.(AFP/File/Sebastien Bozon)AFP - Plans to raise the state pension age for women will be debated in Parliament on Monday.

Feeling flush: 'Fake' cash put down toilet was real (AFP)

Posted: 20 Jun 2011 05:32 AM PDT

A Scottish businessman flushed hundreds of pounds in supposedly fake notes down the toilet, only to be told days later that they were genuine, a news report said on Monday. The man, who asked not to be named, said he had obtained around £200 in £20 notes from an ATM on the Isle of Lewis off the north coast of Scotland, the Daily Telegraph reported.(AFP/File/SHAUN CURRY)AFP - A Scottish businessman flushed hundreds of pounds in supposedly fake notes down the toilet, only to be told days later that they were genuine, a news report said on Monday.

Boris Johnson calls on Greece to exit euro (AFP)

Posted: 20 Jun 2011 05:20 AM PDT

London mayor Boris Johnson has said Greece should abandon the euro in an effort to mount a recovery of its indebted economy. Writing in The Daily Telegraph newspaper, Johnson said Greece would do better to forge a AFP - Greece should abandon the euro in an effort to mount a recovery of its indebted economy, London mayor Boris Johnson said on Monday.

Three in court over Rooney blackmail plot (AFP)

Posted: 20 Jun 2011 04:49 AM PDT

Coleen Rooney, wife of Manchester United striker Wayne Rooney, is seen in 2010. Three people have appeared in court accused of trying to blackmail Wayne and Coleen Rooney for £5,000.(AFP/File/PAUL ELLIS)AFP - Three people appeared in court on Monday accused of trying to blackmail Manchester United striker Wayne Rooney and his wife Coleen for £5,000.

Policeman to face Old Bailey over G20 death (AFP)

Posted: 20 Jun 2011 03:23 AM PDT

Police Constable Simon Harwood, right, is seen in April leaving an inquest into the death of newspaper seller Ian Tomlinson. A Scotland Yard officer accused of killing a newspaper seller at the G20 protests is to stand trial at the Old Bailey, a court said.(AFP/File/BEN STANSALL)AFP - A Scotland Yard officer accused of killing a newspaper seller at the G20 protests is to stand trial at the Old Bailey, a court said on Monday.

Amy Winehouse cancels shows after Serbian farce (AFP)

Posted: 20 Jun 2011 03:11 AM PDT

British singer Amy Winehouse uses her mobile phone as she arrives at Belgrade airport on June 18. Winehouse on Sunday cancelled her appearances at festivals in Turkey and Greece after she was jeered at a show in Serbia when it appeared that she was too drunk to perform.(AFP/File/Andrej Isakovic)AFP - Troubled singer Amy Winehouse has cancelled her appearances at festivals in Turkey and Greece after she was jeered at a show in Serbia when it appeared that she was too drunk to perform.

Absent fathers should be shamed, says Cameron (AFP)

Posted: 20 Jun 2011 12:25 AM PDT

David Cameron carries his newborn baby daughter as he and his wife arrive for the funeral of his late father in September 2010. Fathers who run out on their children deserve to be shamed in the same way as drink-drivers, Cameron has said in an impassioned article to mark Father's Day.(AFP/File/Stefan Rousseau)AFP - Fathers who run out on their children deserve to be shamed in the same way as drink-drivers, Prime Minister David Cameron has said in an impassioned article to mark Father's Day.

Anglican Church to allow gay bishops (AFP)

Posted: 20 Jun 2011 12:25 AM PDT

File photo of the Archbishop of Canterbury and head of the Church of England, Dr Rowan Williams. The Anglican Church was on Monday set to approve controversial guidelines allowing openly homosexual clergy to become bishops.(AFP/File/Gali Tibbon)AFP - The Anglican Church is set to approve controversial guidelines allowing openly homosexual clergy to become bishops.

Peace protester Brian Haw dies (AFP)

Posted: 20 Jun 2011 12:23 AM PDT

Veteran peace campaigner Brian Haw, seen here in 2007, has died after losing a long battle against lung cancer. Haw spent 10 years camped outside the Houses of Parliament.(AFP/File/Chris Young)AFP - Brian Haw, a peace campaigner who sat outside the Houses of Parliament for a decade in protest at the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, has died aged 62.

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