2011年7月22日星期五

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Yahoo! News: World - Britain

Russian tycoon in biggest British divorce deal (AFP)

Posted: 22 Jul 2011 04:15 PM PDT

Russian oligarch Boris Berezovsky leaves the High Court in central London in 2010. Berezovsky and his former wife have struck the biggest-ever divorce settlement in British legal history, her lawyer said Friday.(AFP/File/Carl Court)AFP - Russian oligarch Boris Berezovsky and his former wife have struck the biggest-ever divorce settlement in British legal history, her lawyer said Friday.

UK nurse charged after 5 patients found dead (AP)

Posted: 22 Jul 2011 03:22 PM PDT

AP - Police investigating the suspicious deaths of five patients at a hospital in northern England said Friday that they had charged a 27-year-old nurse in the case.

Nurse quizzed over Stockport hospital deaths (AFP)

Posted: 22 Jul 2011 01:38 PM PDT

A general view of the Stepping Hill Hospital, in Stockport. Police questioned a 27-year-old nurse Friday after a fifth patient died at the hospital where detectives fear saline solution was deliberately contaminated with insulin.(AFP/File/Andrew Yates)AFP - Police charged a nurse Friday over the deaths of five patients at a hospital where detectives believe saline solution had been contaminated with insulin.

As UK sells old aircraft carriers, China buyers circle (Reuters)

Posted: 22 Jul 2011 11:56 AM PDT

Reuters - As it sells off its flagship aircraft carriers over a government website, Britain is finding enthusiastic interest from an unexpected group -- Chinese businessmen potentially keen enough to outbid any other rivals.

James Murdoch contradicted by his ex-legal manager (AP)

Posted: 22 Jul 2011 11:07 AM PDT

News Corporation head Rupert Murdoch arrives at his Fifth Avenue residence, Wednesday, July 20, 2011, in New York. Emerging relatively unscathed from a British parliamentary hearing on the phone hacking scandal, Rupert Murdoch returned to the United States on Wednesday, where his company faces a host of financial and legal challenges. (AP Photo/Louis Lanzano)AP - James Murdoch was under pressure Friday over claims he misled lawmakers about Britain's phone hacking scandal, as a lawmaker called for a police investigation and Prime Minister David Cameron insisted the media scion had "questions to answer" about what he knew and when he knew it.

James Murdoch faces police probe on hacking (AFP)

Posted: 22 Jul 2011 09:59 AM PDT

A lawmaker referred James Murdoch to police Friday over claims of misleading parliament on the phone-hacking scandal as Prime Minister David Cameron said the media boss had AFP - A lawmaker referred James Murdoch to police Friday over claims of misleading parliament on the phone-hacking scandal as Prime Minister David Cameron said the media boss had "questions to answer".

Stamps mark one-year countdown to London Olympics (AFP)

Posted: 22 Jul 2011 09:56 AM PDT

A combination of images obtained from the Royal Mail shows a set of ten 1st Class stamps that will be issued to celebrate the one year countdown to the London 2012 Olympic Games. They feature depictions of classic Olympic sports such as field athletics and gymnastics as well as more recent additions to the Olympic and Paralympic Games, including triathlon, handball and wheelchair rugby.(AFP/HO/ROYAL MAIL/Ho)AFP - A set of 10 stamps marking the one-year countdown to the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games was unveiled by Britain's Royal Mail on Friday.

AP Interview: Hacking reporter says probe widening (AP)

Posted: 22 Jul 2011 09:30 AM PDT

FILE - October 2005 photo released by the British newspaper The Guardian in London, of journalist Nick Davies. Ever since he scored a once-in-a-lifetime scoop by uncovering the depths of the phone hacking scandal, people keep telling British journalist Nick Davies that they have even more secrets to tell. Davies — who says he became a journalist because of the Watergate scandal that brought down U.S. President Richard Nixon — says the hacking saga that has enveloped Britain's police, politicians and press may ultimately end with the imprisonment of some of the country's power elite. (AP Photo/The Guardian, Graham Turner, File) EDITORIAL USE ONLYAP - Ever since he scored a once-in-a-lifetime scoop by uncovering the depths of the phone hacking scandal, people keep telling British journalist Nick Davies that they have even more secrets to tell.

Queen spooked by Catherine's wedding dress display (AFP)

Posted: 22 Jul 2011 09:26 AM PDT

Caroline de Guitaut, curator of the exhibition display, adjusts the wedding dress of Catherine, the Duchess of Cambridge, at Buckingham Palace on July 20. Queen Elizabeth II has reportedly described as AFP - Queen Elizabeth II has reportedly described as "creepy" a new exhibition featuring the wedding dress worn by the former Kate Middleton when she married Prince William in April.

UK pays compensation to drowned Iraqi teen (AFP)

Posted: 22 Jul 2011 07:22 AM PDT

The Ministry of Defence says it has paid £100,000 in compensation to the family of an Iraqi teenager who drowned while in the custody of British troops. The family of Saeed Shabram, 18, who died near Basra, southern Iraq in 2003, had alleged he was forced into a river by British soldiers with his cousin after being led down a jetty at gunpoint.(AFP/File/Spc. Joshua R. Ford)AFP - The Ministry of Defence said on Friday that it has paid £100,000 in compensation to the family of an Iraqi teenager who drowned while in the custody of British troops.

Police sorry for raiding 'sham marriage' (AFP)

Posted: 22 Jul 2011 05:27 AM PDT

Police in Northern Ireland have apologised to a couple after officers stormed their wedding and mistakenly arrested them on suspicion of having a AFP - Police in Northern Ireland apologised to a couple Friday after officers stormed their wedding and mistakenly arrested them on suspicion of having a "sham marriage" for immigration purposes.

Lecturers' union warns of huge qualification divide (AFP)

Posted: 22 Jul 2011 04:13 AM PDT

Graduates throw their hats into the air. Qualification levels vary sharply across Britain, a study has revealed, prompting an academics' union to warn of a gulf between the country's AFP - Qualification levels vary sharply across Britain, a study revealed on Monday, prompting an academics' union to warn of a gulf between the country's "educational haves and have nots".

Wedding dress to draw record crowds to London palace (Reuters)

Posted: 22 Jul 2011 02:16 AM PDT

The Cartier Reuters - Buckingham Palace expects record crowds this summer, when up to 650,000 people are set to file into Queen Elizabeth's London residence and past the dress worn by Kate Middleton at her royal wedding to Prince William.

Artist Lucian Freud dies aged 88 (AFP)

Posted: 22 Jul 2011 12:08 AM PDT

Lucian Freud, pictured in 2010, who died in London on Wednesday aged 88, was widely recognised as the greatest contemporary British artist in a career spanning seven decades.(AFP/File/Stephan Agostini)AFP - Realist painter Lucian Freud, grandson of the inventor of modern psychoanalysis Sigmund Freud and widely seen as Britain's top contemporary artist, has died in London aged 88, his lawyer said.

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