2011年7月6日星期三

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Yahoo! News: World - Britain

£28 million smashes Guardi record at London auction (AFP)

Posted: 06 Jul 2011 04:34 PM PDT

A woman looks at a work of art entitled 'Venice, A View of the Rialto Bridge, Looking North, From the Fondamenta Del Carbon' by Italian artist Francesco Guardi at Sotheby's auction house in central London, on July 4. The painting of Venice's Rialto Bridge on Wednesday sold in London for almost £27 million, the highest amount ever paid at auction for a work by the Italian artist.(AFP/File/Ben Stansall)AFP - A monumental Francesco Guardi painting of Venice's Rialto Bridge on Wednesday sold in London for almost £27 million, the highest amount ever paid at auction for a work by the Italian artist.

Tabloid may have hacked families of war dead: report (AFP)

Posted: 06 Jul 2011 04:31 PM PDT

The phone-hacking crisis consuming Britain's biggest-selling Sunday newspaper deepened on Thursday after The Telegraph reported that relatives of dead soldiers may had been targeted.(AFP/POOL/File/Andrew Milligan)AFP - The phone-hacking crisis consuming the biggest-selling Sunday newspaper deepened on Thursday after The Telegraph reported that relatives of dead soldiers may had been targeted.

Spreading phone hacking scandal touches UK nerves (AP)

Posted: 06 Jul 2011 02:49 PM PDT

This is an undated Surrey Police handout photo of Milly Dowler made available Monday July 4, 2011 . Britain 's Prime Minister David Cameron said Tuesday Juily 5, 2011 that he is shocked by allegations that a British tabloid hacked into the cellphone of a murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler after she went missing. 'If they are true, this is a truly dreadful act and a truly dreadful situation,' Cameron said about the latest hacking allegations against the News of the World. (AP Photo/Surrey Police. Ho) UNITED KINGDOM OUT NO SALES NO ARCHIVE EDITORIAL USE ONLYAP - Britain's phone hacking scandal intensified Wednesday as the scope of tabloid intrusion into private voice mails became clearer: Murder victims. Terror victims. Film stars. Sports figures. Politicians. The royal family's entourage.

Man who killed British tourists with Porsche gets prison time (Reuters)

Posted: 06 Jul 2011 02:44 PM PDT

Reuters - An Illinois man who was sentenced to house arrest for hitting and killing two British tourists in Florida with his Porsche must serve up to 9 months in prison, but for a different crime, officials said on Wednesday.

Britain to pull 500 troops from Afghanistan: Cameron (AFP)

Posted: 06 Jul 2011 10:16 AM PDT

Prime Minister David Cameron speaks to British and American troops at Camp Bastion, outside Lashkar Gah, the provincial capital of Helmand province on July 4. Britain will withdraw a further 500 troops from Afghanistan by the end of next year, but will keep soldiers in the country in a training role until at least 2023, Cameron has said.(AFP/POOL/File/Lefteris Pitarakis)AFP - Britain will withdraw a further 500 troops from Afghanistan by the end of next year, but will keep soldiers there in a training role until at least 2023, Prime Minister David Cameron said Wednesday.

FTSE 100 stocks in the red (AFP)

Posted: 06 Jul 2011 09:11 AM PDT

Shares in London pushed lower as the banking sector took hits in reaction to the eurozone's deepening debt crisis.(AFP/File/Ben Stansall)AFP - Shares in London pushed lower on Wednesday as the banking sector took hits in reaction to the eurozone's deepening debt crisis.

APNewsBreak: UK torture panel to study rendition (AP)

Posted: 06 Jul 2011 09:01 AM PDT

AP - A British inquiry will investigate CIA prisoner transfer practices as part of a probe into claims that terrorism suspects were tortured after the Sept. 11 attacks in 2001, officials confirmed Wednesday.

Charles and Camilla honour tsunami victims (AFP)

Posted: 06 Jul 2011 07:56 AM PDT

The Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall, pictured, havae paid tribute to the British victims of the devastating 2004 Tsunami, at the opening of a new memorial.(AFP/Matt Dunham)AFP - The Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall paid tribute on Wednesday to the British victims of the devastating 2004 tsunami, at the opening of a new memorial.

UK to withdraw 500 troops from Afghanistan in 2012 (AP)

Posted: 06 Jul 2011 07:06 AM PDT

Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron, right, and Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai, left, shake hands prior to their meeting at Karzai's Presidential Palace in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday July 5, 2011. AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis, pool)AP - British Prime Minister David Cameron confirmed Wednesday that the U.K. will withdraw 500 troops from Afghanistan by the end of 2012, modestly reducing the size of the second largest foreign force in the country to 9,000.

UK to pull out 500 more troops from Afghanistan (Reuters)

Posted: 06 Jul 2011 06:24 AM PDT

Reuters - Britain will pull an extra 500 soldiers from Afghanistan next year, Prime Minister David Cameron said Wednesday, cutting the number of British troops there to 9,000 as NATO begins to hand responsibility for security to Afghan forces.

Britain to pull 500 troops from Afghanistan (AFP)

Posted: 06 Jul 2011 05:05 AM PDT

Prime Minister David Cameron speaks to British and American troops at Camp Bastion, outside Lashkar Gah, the provincial capital of Helmand province on July 4. Britain will withdraw a further 500 troops from Afghanistan by the end of next year, but will keep soldiers in the country in a training role until at least 2023, Cameron has said.(AFP/Lefteris Pitarakis)AFP - Britain will withdraw a further 500 troops from Afghanistan by the end of 2012, bringing its contingent there to 9,000, Prime Minister David Cameron said on Wednesday.

British house prices rise in June: survey (AFP)

Posted: 06 Jul 2011 04:09 AM PDT

Estate agents' boards are pictured outside properties in southeast London, in December 2010. House prices in Britain rose by 1.2 percent in June from the level in May, data from a major home-loans provider has shown.(AFP/Ben Stansall)AFP - British house prices rose by 1.2 percent in June from the level in May, data from a major home-loans provider showed on Wednesday.

Huffington Post launches British edition (AFP)

Posted: 06 Jul 2011 04:03 AM PDT

Arianna Huffington, president and editor-in-chief of AOL Huffington Post Media Group. talks backstage at the Nanette Lepore Fall 2011 fashion show during Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week in New York City, February 2011. The Huffington Post launched a British edition, in the first expansion outside North America for its news and opinion website.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Jason Kempin)AFP - The Huffington Post launched a British edition on Wednesday, in the first expansion outside North America for its news and opinion website.

UK newspaper hacking scandal widens (AFP)

Posted: 06 Jul 2011 03:16 AM PDT

The remains of a double-decker bus that was destroyed by a suicide bomber in July 2005. British Prime Minister David Cameron has backed calls for a public inquiry into phone-hacking by a tabloid, amid claims that it targeted relatives of murdered children and victims of the London bombings.(AFP/File/Adrian Dennis)AFP - The row over phone-hacking at a British tabloid erupted into a national scandal on Wednesday, amid allegations that relatives of murdered children and victims of the London 2005 bombings were targeted.

Call to end court agony of murder victims' families (AFP)

Posted: 06 Jul 2011 02:26 AM PDT

Parents of murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler, Bob (L), Sally (R) and sister Gemma (C) gather outside the Old Bailey in central London in June 2011. The families of murder victims suffer worse treatment in the courts than the rich and wealthy pursuing privacy claims, the government's victims commissioner has said.(AFP/File/Carl Court)AFP - The families of murder victims suffer worse treatment in the courts than the rich and wealthy pursuing privacy claims, the government's victims commissioner said on Wednesday.

FTSE down 0.12% at open (AFP)

Posted: 06 Jul 2011 01:28 AM PDT

Shares in London pushed lower as the banking sector took hits in reaction to the eurozone's deepening debt crisis.(AFP/File/Ben Stansall)AFP - Shares in London steadied at the start of trade on Wednesday after closing higher the previous day.

BoE in no rush to lift rates, say analysts (AFP)

Posted: 06 Jul 2011 12:26 AM PDT

The Bank of England is pictured in central London. The central lender will keep its key interest rate at a record low 0.50 percent on Thursday and maintain the status quo into next year due to Britain's flagging recovery, according to economists.(AFP/File/Carl Court)AFP - The Bank of England will keep its key interest rate at a record low 0.50 percent on Thursday and maintain the status quo into next year due to Britain's flagging recovery, according to economists.

Marketing firm WPP buys stake in Indian advertiser (AFP)

Posted: 06 Jul 2011 12:25 AM PDT

Martin Sorrell, founder and CEO of international marketing and advertising firm WPP. The UK group has said that its wholly-owned operating company JWT had agreed to buy a majority stake in Indian advertiser Mindset for an undisclosed sum.(AFP/File/Frederic J. Brown)AFP - British marketing company WPP said Wednesday that its wholly-owned operating company JWT had agreed to buy a majority stake in Indian advertiser Mindset for an undisclosed sum.

London tests Olympic security plans for 2012 (AFP)

Posted: 06 Jul 2011 12:23 AM PDT

A handout picture obtained in March 2011 from the Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) shows an arial view of the Olympic Stadium. British police and key organisations involved in the London 2012 Olympics have launched tests to prepare for a possible terror attack on the event, the police officer in charge of Games security said.(AFP/ODA/Anthony Charlton)AFP - Police and key organisations involved in the London 2012 Olympics have launched tests to prepare for any possible terror attack, the police officer in charge of Games security said.

1879 London murder mystery solved (AFP)

Posted: 06 Jul 2011 12:22 AM PDT

Sir David Attenborough is pictured in 2010. A murder mystery dating back to 1879 was finally resolved Tuesday when a skull unearthed in BBC legend Attenborough's garden was formally recognised as that of a woman murdered by her maid 132 years ago.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Frederick M. Brown)AFP - A murder mystery dating back to 1879 has been finally resolved aftera skull unearthed in BBC legend David Attenborough's garden was formally recognised as that of a woman murdered by her maid 132 years ago.

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