2011年8月18日星期四

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Yahoo! News: World - Britain

Private eye sues Murdoch's firm in hacking scandal (AP)

Posted: 18 Aug 2011 11:51 AM PDT

AP - British police made their 13th arrest Thursday in the country's tabloid phone hacking scandal, and a private investigator at the center of the crisis sued Rupert Murdoch's media empire for breach of contract.

Shell trying to stop oil spill leak in North Sea (AP)

Posted: 18 Aug 2011 11:21 AM PDT

In this image released by Scotland's government marine surveillance agency on Tuesday Aug 17 2011, a sheen of leaked oil can be seen off the east coast of the country. Royal Dutch Shell has shut down the main leak at one of its North Sea oil rigs but struggled Tuesday to repair a secondary spill in a hard to reach part of the ocean floor. The company estimated Monday that 54,600 gallons of oil had spilled into the North Sea, and the leak was continuing at 5 barrels a day. At its largest point the oil sheen, or oil on the surface of the water, covered an area 19 miles wide by 2.7 miles long (31 kilometers by 4.3 kilometers). Most of it has now been dispersed by strong waves. The Gannet Alpha oil rig, 112 miles (180 kilometers) east of the city of Aberdeen, is operated by Shell and co-owned by Shell and Esso, a subsidiary of the U.S. oil firm Exxon Mobil.The BP spill in the Gulf of Mexico last year dumped 206 million gallons of oil. (AP Photo/ Marine Scotland)AP - Royal Dutch Shell PLC said Thursday an operation is under way to stop the leak at its Gannet Alpha platform following the worst North Sea oil spill in more than a decade.

After London riots, a UK war on gangs (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 18 Aug 2011 08:26 AM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - The Cherry Boys, All ’Bout Money, Catford Wildcats, Organized Crime: These are the names of a few youth gangs in South London, part of an estimated 170 active gangs in the United Kingdom.

Wordplay: from growleries to woots and beyond (Reuters)

Posted: 18 Aug 2011 04:50 AM PDT

Reuters - Are you familiar with the brabble of cockyolly birds in the growlery?

UK retail sales barely grow in July (AP)

Posted: 18 Aug 2011 02:37 AM PDT

AP - Retail sales in Britain barely grew in July, in another sign that the country's economy is struggling in the wake of waning global growth and high inflation, official figures showed Thursday.

Cameron to use UK riots to push through reforms (AP)

Posted: 18 Aug 2011 02:22 AM PDT

Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron speaks at a youth center in Witney, his Parliamentary district in southern England, Monday, Aug. 15, 2011. Britain must confront its 'slow-motion moral collapse' Cameron declared Monday, following four days of riots that left five people dead, thousands facing criminal charges and at least 200 million pounds ($326 million) in property losses. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant, Pool)AP - A senior British lawmaker says Prime Minister David Cameron will use the fallout from England's riots to push through social reforms.

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