2011年7月14日星期四

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Yahoo! News: World - Britain

UK's Top cop under fire after hacking probe arrest (Reuters)

Posted: 14 Jul 2011 04:55 PM PDT

Reuters - Britain's senior police chief came under fire on Thursday after his force said a former News of the World deputy editor, arrested by officers investigating phone hacking by the paper's reporters, had been hired as a consultant by the police.

Major News Corp. investor calls for Brooks to quit (AFP)

Posted: 14 Jul 2011 04:33 PM PDT

Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, pictured in April 2011, a major shareholder in Rupert Murdoch's scandal-hit News Corp. organisation, on Thursday said under-fire executive Rebekah Brooks AFP - Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, a major shareholder in Rupert Murdoch's scandal-hit News Corp. organisation, on Thursday said under-fire executive Rebekah Brooks "had to go".

Prison for ex-official in British Virgin Islands (AP)

Posted: 14 Jul 2011 03:32 PM PDT

AP - A former official of the tourist board in the British Virgin Islands has been sentenced to prison for spending hundreds of thousands of dollars of public money on personal items.

Govt suspends Malawi aid over poor governance (AFP)

Posted: 14 Jul 2011 02:56 PM PDT

A shop owner sells produce in Lilongwe. The United Kingdom has cut direct aid to Malawi as relations worsen following a diplomatic spat earlier this year in which each country expelled the other's envoy.(AFP/Alexander Joe)AFP - The government announced on Thursday it was suspending budgetary aid to Malawi over the African country's failure "to address UK concerns over economic management and governance".

News Corp. handled crisis 'extremely well': Murdoch (AFP)

Posted: 14 Jul 2011 02:24 PM PDT

News Corporation Chief Rupert Murdoch, pictured July 13, said in an interview published Thursday that his company has handled the phone-hacking crisis in Britain AFP - News Corp. chairman and chief executive Rupert Murdoch defended his company's handling of the phone-hacking scandal in Britain on Thursday and said it will recover from the crisis.

Korean young guns impress at British Open (AFP)

Posted: 14 Jul 2011 01:20 PM PDT

Korean golfer Noh Seung-Yul watches his drive from the 17th tee during practice ahead of the 140th British Open Golf championship at Royal St George's in Sandwich. Asian Tour number one Noh is determined to impress on the biggest stage of all and knows that he is capable of doing so following his first round score at the British Open on Thursday.(AFP/Adrian Dennis)AFP - South Korean young guns Noh Seung-Yul and Hwang Jung-Gon led the Asian charge at the British Open on Thursday, signalling their talent with sub-par rounds at Royal St George's.

UK Iraq Inquiry hears that spy agency cut corners (AP)

Posted: 14 Jul 2011 01:13 PM PDT

AP - A former British intelligence official said the country's spy agency cut corners while collecting evidence to back the government's case for the war in Iraq.

Bjorn and Lewis share British Open lead (AFP)

Posted: 14 Jul 2011 12:34 PM PDT

Danish golfer Thomas Bjorn watches his drive from the 18th tee on the first day of the 140th British Open Golf championship at Royal St George's in Sandwich. Bjorn returned to the scene of his former heartbreak here on Thursday to grab the lead in the British Open which he shares with 20-year-old English amateur Tom Lewis.(AFP/Adrian Dennis)AFP - A tearful Thomas Bjorn returned to the scene of his former heartbreak here on Thursday to grab the first round lead in the British Open which he shares with 20-year-old English amateur Tom Lewis.

FBI Has Opened Investigation Into News Corp. (The Atlantic Wire)

Posted: 14 Jul 2011 11:52 AM PDT

The Atlantic Wire - The FBI is investigating allegations that Rupert Murdoch's media empire News Corp. tried to hack into the phones of 9/11 victims and their families, according to a law enforcement officer speaking with the Associated Press. The Wall Street Journal confirms that an investigation is underway. The source spoke on condition of anonymity. An FBI investigation is the latest development bringing the British media scandal to the U.S. following news Wednesday that three Democratic senators and Republican Rep. Peter King are calling for an investigation into News Corp. In the request on Wednesday, Sens. Jay Rockefeller, Barbara Boxer and Frank Lautenberg sent two letters to the Justice Department and SEC that "raised questions about possible violations of the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, an antibribery law that U.S. authorities have enforced with vigor in recent years," reported The Wall Street Journal. Previous reports on the scandal have accused the News Corp. tabloid News of the World (now defunct) of hacking into the phone of a 13-year-old murder victim, members of the British royal family, and victims of the 2005 London bombing. Today, in an about-face, Murdoch caved to pressure from the British government and will appear before the British Parliament next Tuesday as Parliament investigates the allegations against the company.

Arrested ex-tabloid exec was paid police advisor (AFP)

Posted: 14 Jul 2011 11:30 AM PDT

Police officers stand outside the News International offices in Wapping, east London on July 10. A former News of the World senior executive, who was arrested Thursday over Britain's phone-hacking scandal, was paid £24,000 as an advisor by the police force now investigating him, Scotland Yard said.(AFP/File/Carl Court)AFP - A former News of the World senior executive, who was arrested Thursday over Britain's phone-hacking scandal, was paid £24,000 as an advisor by the police force now investigating him, Scotland Yard said.

U-Turn: Murdochs say they plan to go to Parliament (AP)

Posted: 14 Jul 2011 10:17 AM PDT

News Corporation chairman Rupert Murdoch, right, his son Lachlan Murdoch, center, a board member of Australia's Network Ten and an unidentified woman leave his residence in central London, Thursday, July 14, 2011. Murdoch has an obligation to appear before lawmakers to answer questions about the phone hacking scandal at one of his newspapers, Britain's Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg said Thursday. Murdoch had big questions to answer after the widening accusations of eavesdropping and police bribery forced Murdoch's News Corp. to abandon a bid to take full control of British Sky Broadcasting, Clegg said. (AP Photo/Sang Tan)AP - Embattled media mogul Rupert Murdoch caved in to pressure from Britain's Parliament Thursday as he and his son James first refused, then agreed, to appear next week before lawmakers investigating phone hacking and bribery by employees of their British newspaper empire.

FTSE 100 stocks fall (AFP)

Posted: 14 Jul 2011 09:10 AM PDT

Shares in London were on the backfoot rocked by a wave of debt dangers across the globe, ranging from the eurozone to the United States and Japan.(AFP/File/Leon Neal)AFP - Shares in London were on the backfoot rocked by a wave of debt dangers across the globe on Thursday, ranging from the eurozone to the United States and Japan, dealers said.

Australia PM open to media review after News scandal (AFP)

Posted: 14 Jul 2011 08:58 AM PDT

The Chairman and CEO of News Corporation Rupert Murdoch. Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard on Wednesday said she would be open to an inquiry into media regulation and ownership after the AFP - Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard said Thursday she was "shocked and disgusted" by the News Corporation phone hacking scandal and warned of a possible inquiry into media regulation and ownership.

Earthquake strikes in English Channel (AFP)

Posted: 14 Jul 2011 08:08 AM PDT

An image released in 2006 by NASA shows parts of England and France, separated by the English Channel. Buildings shook on the south coast of England on Thursday after an earthquake with a magnitude of 3.9 struck in the middle of the English Channel, the British Geological Survey (BGS) said.(NASA/File/Ho)AFP - Buildings shook on the south coast of England on Thursday after an earthquake with a magnitude of 3.9 struck in the middle of the English Channel, the British Geological Survey (BGS) said.

Four in ten will get cancer, warns charity (AFP)

Posted: 14 Jul 2011 07:32 AM PDT

A medic looks over a cancer patient's image scan to help plan a radiation treatment. Cancer rates are increasing at such a pace that four in ten people in Britain will be diagnosed with the disease at some point during their life, a health charity said on Thursday.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Chris Hondros)AFP - Cancer rates are increasing at such a pace that four in ten people in Britain will be diagnosed with the disease at some point during their life, a health charity said on Thursday.

De Menezes cousin may have been hacked (AFP)

Posted: 14 Jul 2011 06:58 AM PDT

Alex Pereira, cousin of Brazilian Jean Charles de Menezes who was shot dead by police in London after being mistaken for a suicide bomber, is pictured in August 2007. Detectives have told Pereira he may have been targeted by the News of the World, campaigners said.(AFP/File/Carl de Souza)AFP - Detectives have told the cousin of a Brazilian man shot dead by police in London after being mistaken for a suicide bomber he may have been targeted by the News of the World, campaigners said on Thursday.

First man in space Yuri Gagarin gets London statue (AP)

Posted: 14 Jul 2011 06:46 AM PDT

Elena Gagarina, director of the Kremlin Museums in Moscow, and daughter of Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space, poses in front of a newly-unveiled statue of her father, outside the headquarters of the British Council, in central London, Thursday, July 14, 2011. A gift from the Russian Space Agency (Roscosmos) to the British Council, the statue shows Gagarin standing on a globe in his space suit, and it will be installed at this location for a period of 12 months to mark the 50th anniversary of the first manned space flight. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)AP - A statue of Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin has been erected in London to mark the 50th anniversary of the first human space flight.

Suspected vodka brewing blast kills five (AFP)

Posted: 14 Jul 2011 05:56 AM PDT

A powerful explosion at a suspected illegal alcohol distillery in Lincolnshire killed five men and seriously injured another, police said. The blast occurred at an industrial estate in Boston.(AFP/MERCURY PRESS)AFP - A powerful explosion at a suspected illegal alcohol distillery in Lincolnshire killed five men and seriously injured another, police said on Thursday.

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