2011年8月19日星期五

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Yahoo! News: World - Britain

Taliban storm British compound in Kabul; 8 dead (AP)

Posted: 19 Aug 2011 02:37 PM PDT

Afghan security forces carry a wounded man at the site of a suicide attack outside the British Council in Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, Aug. 19, 2011. Two suicide bombers attacked the British compound in the Afghan capital on Friday. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)AP - Taliban suicide bombers stormed a British compound in an upscale Kabul neighborhood shortly after dawn Friday, killing eight people during an eight-hour firefight as two English language teachers and their bodyguard hid in a locked panic room.

Retweet, sexting enter Oxford English Dictionary (AP)

Posted: 19 Aug 2011 02:25 PM PDT

AP - Woot! The online expression of enthusiasm is now in the dictionary. So are textspeak, sexting — and, less happily, cyberbullying.

Nine dead in Taliban assault on British Council in Kabul (Reuters)

Posted: 19 Aug 2011 01:11 PM PDT

Police remove the body of a colleague at the site of a suicide attack in Kabul August 19, 2011. REUTERS/Omar SobhaniReuters - Taliban attackers laid siege to a British cultural center in the Afghan capital on Friday, killing at least nine people during an hours-long assault on the 92nd anniversary of Afghanistan's independence from British rule.

England's prison population jumps after riots (AP)

Posted: 19 Aug 2011 11:45 AM PDT

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge talks to local people as they visit Summerfield Community Center, Birmingham, England Friday Aug. 19, 2011 which was a very badly affected by unrest that swept London and other major cities last week. Prince William and his wife Kate, the Duchess of Cambridge, visited a community center in the English city of Birmingham, where three men were killed in a hit-and-run during last week's violence. The couple spent 15 minutes speaking with families of the victims and greeted emergency workers and locals at the city's Summerfield Community Center. (AP Photo/Geoff Pugh, Pool)AP - England's prison population has hit a record high following the jailing of hundreds of people involved in the country's recent riots, according to figures released Friday. Prison officials said they were working hard to contain the flow of convicts.

Doctor: Lockerbie bomber may live for years (AP)

Posted: 19 Aug 2011 11:44 AM PDT

AP - A Libyan man convicted of murdering 270 people by blowing up a passenger jet could live for several more years, a leading cancer specialist said Friday — two years after the terminally ill bomber was freed on compassionate grounds because he was close to death.

UK detective arrested over phone hacking leak (AP)

Posted: 19 Aug 2011 11:29 AM PDT

AP - One of the detectives investigating phone hacking at the News of the World tabloid has been arrested on suspicion of leaking information about the inquiry, police said Friday.

Shell says it has closed leaking North Sea valve (AP)

Posted: 19 Aug 2011 08:25 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 Friday it has closed a valve from which oil was spilling into the North Sea.

Scientists clock progress of migrating cuckoos (AP)

Posted: 19 Aug 2011 06:59 AM PDT

Undated photo of 'Lyster' the cuckoo, with a tracking device, top right, seen in Thetford, England and currently in North West Africa. They're clocking up thousands of miles (kilometers) as they complete their long journey from England to Africa — and five migrating cuckoos fitted with tiny tracking devices are providing new information which could help explain a sharp decline in the number of the birds in Britain, scientists said Friday. The five cuckoos are carrying satellite tags — which look like miniature backpacks — fitted before they began their migration from Norfolk, in eastern England, in July bound for Africa's southern nations. (Photo/Steve Ashton/British Trust for Ornithology) EDITORIAL USE ONLYAP - They're clocking up thousands of miles (kilometers) as they complete their long journey from England to Africa — and five migrating cuckoos fitted with tiny tracking devices are providing new information which could help explain a sharp decline in the number of the birds in Britain, scientists said Friday.

Brazen Taliban attack strikes British Council in Kabul (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 19 Aug 2011 04:40 AM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - The Afghan capital was rocked by a brazen suicide attack on the British Council early Friday morning, heightening concern about the ability of Afghan security forces to defend the country against a resurgent Taliban.

British borrowing drops sharply in July (AP)

Posted: 19 Aug 2011 02:13 AM PDT

AP - Official figures show that British government borrowed far less in July than it did in the same month a year ago.

Explosions Rock Kabul's British Council Killing Three (The Atlantic Wire)

Posted: 18 Aug 2011 09:45 PM PDT

The Atlantic Wire - The first militant drove a vehicle packed with explosives toward the Council's main security gate before detonating the device, according to Afghan police spokesman Hashamap Stanikzai.

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