2011年7月2日星期六

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Yahoo! News: World - Britain

Britain to pull 800 troops from Afghanistan: report (Reuters)

Posted: 02 Jul 2011 03:41 PM PDT

Transfer cases containing the remains of Army Pfc. James A. Waters, left case, Army Capt. Matthew G. Nielson, center case, and Marine Cpl. Kyle R. Schneider, right case, sit on a loader Saturday, July 2, 2011, at Dover Air Force Base, Del. According to the Department of Defense, Waters, of Cloverdale, Ind., died while supporting Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan, Schneider, 23, of Phoenix, N.Y., died June 30, 2011, while conducting combat operations in Helmand province, Afghanistan and Nielson, 27, of Jefferson, Iowa, died June 29, 2011 in Badrah, Iraq of wounds sustained when enemy forces attacked his unit with indirect fire. (AP Photo/Steve Ruark)Reuters - Britain will announce this week that it is to withdraw up to 800 troops by the end of next year, according to a report in the Sunday Times newspaper.

British royals put down roots in Ottawa (AFP)

Posted: 02 Jul 2011 01:02 PM PDT

Prince William and his wife Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, arrive at Montreal's Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport on the third day of their nine-day tour of Canada.(AFP/Timothy A. Clary)AFP - Britain's royal stars Prince William and bride Catherine marked their first official trip abroad as newlyweds Saturday by planting a tree in Canada's capital symbolizing their everlasting "love and marriage."

British journalist's Iraq kidnapper jailed 15 years (AFP)

Posted: 02 Jul 2011 06:45 AM PDT

An April 2008 picture from the Iraqi Ministry of Defense shows freed British journalist Richard Butler with British and Iraqi security staff in Basra. An Iraqi court handed down a 15-year jail term on Saturday to a man it convicted of taking part in the abduction of a British journalist in 2008, a judiciary spokesman said.(AFP/null)AFP - An Iraqi court handed down a 15-year jail term on Saturday to a man it convicted of taking part in the abduction of a British journalist in 2008, a judiciary spokesman said.

Mobile phones 'don't cause cancer': new study (AFP)

Posted: 02 Jul 2011 05:51 AM PDT

McLaren F1 driver Lewis Hamilton checks his mobile phone as he arrives at 10 Downing Street in May for a meeting with British Prime Minister David Cameron. Scientific evidence goes increasingly against the theory that mobile phones cause cancer, a new study has concluded.(AFP/File/Leon Neal)AFP - Scientific evidence goes increasingly against the theory that mobile phones cause cancer, a new study has concluded.

London hotel fire 'forces Minnelli, Lennox to flee' (AFP)

Posted: 02 Jul 2011 01:49 AM PDT

Liza Minnelli, pictured in New York in May, was reportedly among 1,500 guests evacuated from London's Park Lane Hilton on Friday(AFP/Getty Images/File/Theo Wargo)AFP - A blaze at London's exclusive Park Lane Hilton led to the evacuation of 1,500 people, reportedly including celebrities such as Liza Minnelli and Annie Lennox.

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