2011年6月30日星期四

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Yahoo! News: World - Britain

Government played down nuclear fears: report (AFP)

Posted: 30 Jun 2011 04:15 PM PDT

A protestor holds a Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament banner during a protest opposite 10 Downing St in London in March 2011. The government worked with the country's nuclear industry to calm public fears over the safety of nuclear power in the wake of the Fukushima crisis, the Guardian reported Friday.(AFP/File/Carl de Souza)AFP - The government worked with the country's nuclear industry to calm public fears over the safety of nuclear power in the wake of the Fukushima crisis, the Guardian reported Friday.

Twitter Oxford comma commotion punctuated by fact (AP)

Posted: 30 Jun 2011 04:10 PM PDT

FILE - In this Aug. 29, 2010 file photo, an Oxford English Dictionary is shown at the headquarters of The Associated Press in New York. A report that Oxford University had changed its comma rule left some punctuation obsessives alarmed, annoyed, and distraught. Passions subsided as the university said the news was imprecise, incomplete and misleading. Oxford University Press, birthplace of the Oxford comma, said Thursday, June 30, 2011, that there has been no change in its century-old style, and jumped into the Twittersphere to confirm that it still follows the standard set out in 'New Hart's Rules.' (AP Photo/Caleb Jones)AP - A report that Oxford University had changed its comma rule left some punctuation obsessives alarmed, annoyed, and distraught. Passions subsided as the university said the news was imprecise, incomplete and misleading.

Hundreds of thousands strike in UK pensions row (AFP)

Posted: 30 Jun 2011 04:00 PM PDT

A protester is carried away by police during a demonstration in central London. Hundreds of thousands of British public sector workers went on strike Thursday to defend their pensions, causing widespread disruption to schools and state-run services.(AFP/Carl Court)AFP - Hundreds of thousands of British public sector workers went on strike Thursday to defend their pensions, causing widespread disruption to schools and state-run services.

Population grows at fastest rate in 50 years: data (AFP)

Posted: 30 Jun 2011 01:06 PM PDT

The sun sets behind the Houses of Parliament in London. The population grew at the fastest pace for nearly half a century last year, adding almost half a million people due in large part to a high birth rate, official data showed on Thursday.(AFP/Ben Stansall)AFP - The population grew at the fastest pace for nearly half a century last year, adding almost half a million people due in large part to a high birth rate, official data showed on Thursday.

Hundreds of thousands strike over UK pension cuts (AP)

Posted: 30 Jun 2011 12:46 PM PDT

People march with placards as they take part in a protest to mark a nationwide day of strikes in London, Thursday, June 30, 2011. British teachers and public service workers swapped classrooms and offices for picket lines Thursday as hundreds of thousands walked off the job to protest pension cuts. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)AP - Hundreds of thousands of British teachers and public sector workers swapped classrooms and offices for picket lines Thursday in what unions hope will be the first salvo in a summer of discontent against the Conservative-led government's austerity plans.

Britons strike over pensions, government says impact limited (Reuters)

Posted: 30 Jun 2011 11:28 AM PDT

Demonstrators gather for a protest over pension reforms in Birmingham, central England June 30, 2011. REUTERS/Darren StaplesReuters - Hundreds of thousands of British teachers and civil servants went on strike on Thursday in the opening salvo of what could be months of widespread industrial action over planned pension reforms and austerity measures.

Even Queen faces funding squeeze in austerity Britain (Reuters)

Posted: 30 Jun 2011 10:40 AM PDT

Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge arrives at Ottawa's Macdonald-Catier International Airport in Canada June 30, 2011. The potential future king and queen of Britain and Canada began their Canadian tour in Ottawa on Thursday afternoon, a trip designed in part to strengthen bonds between the monarchy and Canadians, whose head of state is Queen Elizabeth. REUTERS/Chris Jackson/Pool (CANADA - Tags: ROYALS ENTERTAINMENT POLITICS)Reuters - Queen Elizabeth became the latest Briton to face a funding squeeze on Thursday when the government proposed changes to how it pays for royal trips and engagements.

Jellyfish halt British nuclear power station (AFP)

Posted: 30 Jun 2011 10:24 AM PDT

A jellyfish display in an aquarium. A nuclear power station in eastern Scotland had to shut down its reactors after AFP - A nuclear power station in eastern Scotland had to shut down its reactors after "high volumes" of jellyfish were found on its seawater filter screens, the operating company said Thursday.

World's first black pro footballer to be celebrated (AFP)

Posted: 30 Jun 2011 10:07 AM PDT

A picture released by Sheffield, UK-based community organisation Football Unites, Racism Divides (FURD) of Arthur Wharton, believed to have been the world's first black professional footballer when he played in England more than a century ago. Wharton's story is to be captured in full for the first time with the Heritage Lottery Fund giving £117,000 to help involve local people in Wharton's story.(AFP/FURD)AFP - The story of Arthur Wharton, believed to have been the world's first black professional footballer when he played in England more than a century ago, is to be captured in full for the first time.

Lloyds bank axes 15,000 jobs (AFP)

Posted: 30 Jun 2011 09:48 AM PDT

Britain's state-rescued Lloyds bank said Thursday it will axe 15,000 jobs in a drastic cost-cutting plan that will halve its international base and save £1.5 billion (1.66 billion euros, $2.4 billion) per year by 2014.(AFP/File/Ben Stansall)AFP - Britain's bailed-out Lloyds Banking Group axed 15,000 jobs Thursday as it bids to halve its international division, save £1.5 billion a year and return to full health after the global financial crisis.

Future mother-in-law's blunt advice goes viral (AP)

Posted: 30 Jun 2011 09:32 AM PDT

AP - An Internet lesson for future mother-in-laws: If you're unhappy with your future daughter-in-law's behavior, keep your thoughts to yourself, or at least don't email them to her.

Italian hair fetishist jailed for life for murder (AFP)

Posted: 30 Jun 2011 08:52 AM PDT

A judge ordered an Italian man with a hair fetish to spend the rest of his life behind bars for the AFP - A judge on Thursday ordered an Italian man with a hair fetish to spend the rest of his life behind bars for the "depraved, calculated" murder of a woman.

British Public Sector Workers Go on Strike (The Atlantic Wire)

Posted: 30 Jun 2011 08:09 AM PDT

The Atlantic Wire - British public sector workers--estimates we've seen range from 100,000 to potentially 750,000--are on strike today. Teachers, civil servants, and unionized employees of all sorts staged a walkoff to protest the government's proposed cuts to their pension plans. And it looks like some of the agencies and government-staffed offices were shuttered for the day. As The New York Times reports:

Pond insect 'loudest animal on Earth' (AFP)

Posted: 30 Jun 2011 07:59 AM PDT

A Kew Gardens employee stands in a lily pond with a giant metal sculpture of a beetle during a photocall in London in May 2010. The tiny 'water boatman' insect is the world's loudest animal relative to its body size, according to a new study.(AFP/File/Carl de Souza)AFP - A tiny 'water boatman' insect is the world's loudest animal relative to its body size, according to a new study.

News Corp edges closer to BSkyB takeover (AFP)

Posted: 30 Jun 2011 06:42 AM PDT

Protesters demonstrate in LOndon in April against News Corp's plan to takeover broadcaster BSkyB. The British government said on Thursday it will begin a new seven-day consultation over News Corp's bid to win control of broadcaster BSkyB, after issuing more robust proposals.(AFP/File/Carl Court)AFP - Rupert Murdoch's sprawling media conglomerate News Corp. moved closer to full control of British pay-TV broadcaster BSkyB on Thursday after the government accepted plans to spin off Sky News.

UK gives qualified OK to Murdoch buyout of BSkyB (AP)

Posted: 30 Jun 2011 06:36 AM PDT

AP - The British government has given qualified approval to Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. to take full control of satellite broadcaster British Sky Broadcasting, but set further conditions on Thursday.

British writer risks death in the afternoon (Reuters)

Posted: 30 Jun 2011 02:15 AM PDT

Reuters - The pavement outside a tapas bar in London's Old Brompton Road is a far cry from a bullring in Spain.

Lloyds Banking Group to cut 15,000 jobs (AP)

Posted: 30 Jun 2011 12:52 AM PDT

AP - Part-nationalized Lloyds Banking Group plans to cut 15,000 more jobs and save 1.5 billion pounds ($2.4 billion) a year by 2014 as it works to return to full private ownership, the company said Thursday.

Britain's Lloyds bank to axe 15,000 jobs (AFP)

Posted: 29 Jun 2011 11:32 PM PDT

Lloyds Banking Group's Chief executive Antonio Horta-Osorio. The bank, rescued by the British state, has announced that it will axe 15,000 jobs in a new cost-savings plan that is designed to save £1.5 billion ($2.4 billion, 1.6 billion euros) by 2014.(AFP/File/Leon Neal)AFP - Britain's state-rescued Lloyds bank said Thursday it will axe 15,000 jobs in a cost-cutting plan to streamline the group, halve its international base and deliver £1.5 billion of annual savings by 2014.

Mass public sector walkout begins (AFP)

Posted: 29 Jun 2011 09:00 PM PDT

Public sector workers march through Manchester city centre in north-west England, as they go on strike on Thursday. Hundreds of thousands of British public sector workers went on strike Thursday to defend their pensions, causing widespread school closures in a major challenge to the year-old government.(AFP/Andrew Yates)AFP - Public sector workers on Thursday began a one day strike which was expected to disrupt schools, airports and ports in the biggest walkout since the government took office last year.

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