2011年8月31日星期三

Yahoo! News: World - Britain

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: World - Britain


6th man charged in UK hit-and-run riot deaths (AP)

Posted: 31 Aug 2011 01:01 PM PDT

FILE - In this Monday Aug. 8, 2011 file photo a masked youth pulls a burning garbage bin set on fire by rioters in Hackney, east London.   More than two weeks after the end of riots in London and other English cities, Britain's government and police met social media executives Thursday to discuss how to prevent their services from being used to plot violence. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis, File)AP - British police say a sixth man has been charged with murder in the deaths of three men in a hit-and-run attack during riots in the English city of Birmingham.


Ceremony ends UK market town's repatriation role (AP)

Posted: 31 Aug 2011 12:21 PM PDT

AP - The large role the small town of Wootton Bassett has played in honoring fallen British soldiers has ended with a sunset ceremony Wednesday.

British cadet dies after Calif. skydiving accident (AP)

Posted: 31 Aug 2011 12:10 PM PDT

AP - The British Consulate in Los Angeles says one of two military cadets critically injured in a skydiving jump in Southern California has died.

Flag lowered on British town's tradition of honoring Iraq and Afghanistan war dead (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 31 Aug 2011 12:08 PM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - The scene became a familiar backdrop to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan here: funeral processions slowly creeping through the market town of Wootton Bassett, met by a silent, dignified line of residents, heads bowed.
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