2011年8月4日星期四

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Yahoo! News: World - Britain

Daily Mail publisher launches review after scandal (AP)

Posted: 04 Aug 2011 01:13 PM PDT

AP - The publisher of Britain's Daily Mail newspaper says it is reviewing its editorial procedures following Britain's tabloid phone hacking scandal.

UK store plans cut-price Pippa Middleton dress (AFP)

Posted: 04 Aug 2011 10:38 AM PDT

A copy of Pippa Middleton's bridesmaid dress at her sister Kate's wedding to Prince William is to go on sale in Britain, at about a 100th of the cost of the original, a store said Thursday.(AFP/File/Paul Ellis)AFP - A copy of Pippa Middleton's bridesmaid dress at her sister Kate's wedding to Prince William is to go on sale in Britain, at about a 100th of the cost of the original, a store said Thursday.

Piers Morgan should answer questions on hacking: MP (AFP)

Posted: 04 Aug 2011 10:32 AM PDT

A senior lawmaker Thursday called on CNN chat show host Piers Morgan to return home to answer questions about phone hacking, after new allegations involving a newspaper he used to edit.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Kevork Djansezian)AFP - A senior lawmaker Thursday called on CNN chat show host Piers Morgan to return home to answer questions about phone hacking, after new allegations involving a newspaper he used to edit.

Lloyds bank suffers vast loss on insurance claims provision (AFP)

Posted: 04 Aug 2011 10:29 AM PDT

A Lloyds Banking Group branch is pictured in central London. Britain's bailed-out Lloyds bank said Thursday it plunged into vast losses in the first half, after setting aside billions of pounds to compensate customers over mis-sold payment protection insurance.(AFP/Leon Neal)AFP - Britain's bailed-out Lloyds bank said Thursday it plunged into vast losses in the first half, after setting aside billions of pounds to compensate customers over mis-sold payment protection insurance.

Bigger feet a growing shoe problem for UK women (Reuters)

Posted: 04 Aug 2011 10:23 AM PDT

Reuters - Demand for larger shoe sizes is growing among women -- but big-footed females are ashamed of stepping out in their shoes, according to a survey by British department store Debenhams.

Britain checking Nigeria hostages video (AFP)

Posted: 04 Aug 2011 09:29 AM PDT

A picture grabbed from a video sent to AFP shows a blindfolded hostage flanked by an armed man. Britain's Foreign Office said it was checking the authenticity of the video obtained by AFP showing a British man and an Italian kidnapped in Nigeria in May in which they say they were abducted by Al-Qaeda.(AFP/HO)AFP - Britain said Thursday it was checking the authenticity of a video obtained by AFP showing two men, a Briton and an Italian, kidnapped in Nigeria in which they say their abductors are Al-Qaeda.

Britain's 'biggest collector of child porn' jailed (AFP)

Posted: 04 Aug 2011 07:34 AM PDT

A picture from West Yorkshire Police shows paedophile Daniel Taylor, 31, from Leeds, who has been jailed for making and possessing indecent pictures of children and sexually assaulting a baby. Police described him as the country's most prolific collector of child abuse images after he was caught with more than 300,000 indecent pictures.(West Yorkshire Police/null)AFP - A paedophile described by police as Britain's most prolific collector of child abuse images was jailed on Thursday after he was caught with more than 300,000 indecent pictures.

Britons addicted to their 'CrackBerries' (AFP)

Posted: 04 Aug 2011 07:05 AM PDT

Many Britons are welded to their smartphones 24 hours a day and refuse to turn them off in cinemas and theatres, according to a study showing how the devices are changing social behaviour.(AFP/Getty Images/Mario Tama)AFP - Many Britons are welded to their smartphones 24 hours a day and refuse to turn them off in cinemas and theatres, according to a study Thursday showing how the devices are changing social behaviour.

Aviva profits tumble 89% (AFP)

Posted: 04 Aug 2011 06:34 AM PDT

The logo of British insurer Aviva is pictured at their office in London. The firm has said net profits slumped 89 percent in the first half on exceptional charges, but its underlying earnings rose and its shares jumped thanks to a dividend hike.(AFP/Ben Stansall)AFP - British insurer Aviva said on Thursday that net profits slumped 89 percent in the first half on exceptional charges, but its underlying earnings rose and its shares jumped thanks to a dividend hike.

Rights groups pull out of UK torture inquiry (Reuters)

Posted: 04 Aug 2011 05:47 AM PDT

Former Guantanamo detainee Binyam Mohammed is driven out of RAF Northolt, west of London, February 23, 2009. REUTERS/Eddie KeoghReuters - Human rights groups and campaigning lawyers will not take part in an inquiry into what British security services knew about the alleged torture of terrorism suspects on foreign soil because it risks becoming a "whitewash," they said Thursday.

Death penalty 'should be debated' in Commons (AFP)

Posted: 04 Aug 2011 05:09 AM PDT

The sun sets behind Britain's Houses of Parliament in London. MPs should face up to calls to restore the death penalty in Britain and debate the contentious issue in parliament if enough people support a petition backing it, the Commons leader has said.(AFP/File/Ben Stansall)AFP - MPs should face up to calls to restore the death penalty in Britain and debate the contentious issue in parliament if enough people support a petition backing it, the Commons leader said on Thursday.

Rights groups boycott torture inquiry (AFP)

Posted: 04 Aug 2011 05:04 AM PDT

A detainee sits wearing restraints inside Camp VI at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in 2010. British rights groups and lawyers have withdrawn from an inquiry into alleged secret service involvement in the torture of terror suspects, criticising its lack of AFP - Rights groups and lawyers said Thursday they would boycott an inquiry into alleged secret service involvement in the torture of terror suspects, accusing it of lacking credibility.

Lawyers: Britain's torture inquiry deeply flawed (AP)

Posted: 04 Aug 2011 05:00 AM PDT

AP - Former Guantanamo Bay detainees and their lawyers said Thursday they won't cooperate with an inquiry into Britain's conduct as it pursued terrorism suspects in the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on the United States, unless they are able to question spies and other witnesses.

Lloyds Banking post H1 loss on mis-selling charge (AP)

Posted: 04 Aug 2011 04:48 AM PDT

People shelter from the rain under umbrellas as they walk past a branch of Lloyds TSB in the Camden district of London, Thursday, Aug. 4, 2011. Lloyds Banking Group PLC slid to a first-half loss on the back of a big charge related to the mis-selling of products to customers and to a writedown of Irish assets. Taxpayer-backed Lloyds reported Thursday a net loss of 2.3 billion pounds ($3.8 billion) for the six months ending June 30 compared with a profit of 596 million pounds in the same period a year earlier. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)AP - Lloyds Banking Group PLC slid to a first-half loss on the back of a big charge related to the mis-selling of products to customers and to a writedown of Irish assets.

Bank of England holds interest rate at 0.50% (AFP)

Posted: 04 Aug 2011 04:46 AM PDT

The Bank of England has left its main interest rate at a record-low 0.50 percent due to weak economic growth in Britain and mounting debt strains in the neighbouring eurozone.(AFP/Shaun Curry)AFP - The Bank of England left its main interest rate at a record low 0.50 percent on Thursday for the 29th month in a row amid weak economic growth in Britain and a debt crisis in the eurozone.

Bank of England leaves interest rates on hold (AP)

Posted: 04 Aug 2011 04:36 AM PDT

AP - The Bank of England left its key rate on hold Thursday at the record low of 0.5 percent as concerns over Britain's sluggish economic recovery outweighed inflation concerns.

Heather Mills accuses Mirror of phone hacking (AFP)

Posted: 04 Aug 2011 12:34 AM PDT

The ex-wife of Paul McCartney, Heather Mills, pictured here in 2010, has claimed that a journalist at Britain's Mirror Group newspapers admitted hacking into her phone, dragging another tabloid into the long-running scandal.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Michael loccisano)AFP - The ex-wife of Paul McCartney has claimed that a journalist at the Mirror Group newspapers admitted hacking into her phone, dragging another tabloid into the long-running scandal.

Police seize record £300mn cocaine haul (AFP)

Posted: 04 Aug 2011 12:22 AM PDT

Officials said the cocaine seized at Southampton was the largest haul of Class A drugs -- classified as those most likely to cause harm -- ever found in Britain.(AFP/BRITISH HOME OFFICE)AFP - Police have seized Britain's largest ever cocaine haul, worth up to £300 million, from a luxury yacht which had sailed from the Caribbean, officials said.

Drinkers drown out downturn at British beer festival (AFP)

Posted: 03 Aug 2011 07:32 PM PDT

Drinkers are celebrating a much-loved part of Britain's heritage this week at the national beer festival, despite pubs closing at the rate of 25 a week and prices at the bar surging. The Great British Beer Festival temporarily transforms the Earls Court exhibition centre in west London into the biggest pub in the world, serving an expected 65,000 punters over five days until Saturday.(AFP/File/Mustafa Ozer)AFP - Drinkers are celebrating a much-loved part of Britain's heritage this week at the national beer festival, despite pubs closing at the rate of 25 a week and prices at the bar surging.

500,000 centenarians in Britain by 2066: study (AFP)

Posted: 03 Aug 2011 06:24 PM PDT

A UK report has predicted that there will be around 500,000 people aged over 100 by 2066 as diets, living standards and health care continue to improve in the country.(AFP/File/ANDREW YATES)AFP - British 20-year-olds are twice as likely to reach their 100th birthdays as their parents, threatening a crisis in public provision of health and welfare for the elderly, official figures showed Thursday.

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