2011年9月13日星期二

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Yahoo! News: World - Britain

London hosts huge arms show amid economic gloom (AP)

Posted: 13 Sep 2011 02:51 PM PDT

A salesperson waits for customers in front of a fuel tank container as the Defence & Security Equipment International show gets underway in London, Tuesday Sept. 13, 2011. Billed as the largest world's arms fair: 1,200 defense manufacturers converge in London to show everything from the latest unmanned aircraft to camouflage body paint. (AP Photo/ Elizabeth Dalziel)AP - Defense manufacturers from around the world hawked their wares in London on Tuesday, at a time when military budget cuts and the drawdown of operations in Afghanistan pose a challenge to the industry.

James Murdoch faces second grilling in Parliament (AP)

Posted: 13 Sep 2011 12:22 PM PDT

FILE - A Sunday July 10, 2011 photo from files showing Chief executive of News Corporation Europe and Asia, James Murdoch gesturing as he leaves his father Chairman of News Corporation Rupert Murdoch's residence, in central London. James Murdoch will be recalled for a second grilling before Britain's Parliament, a senior lawmaker investigating the tabloid phone hacking scandal said Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2011. The announcement from John Whittingdale, the chairman of Parliament's media committee, comes after former Murdoch executives raised serious doubts about the credibility of the dramatic testimony given by James and his father Rupert, head of the News Corp. media empire. (AP Photo/Sang Tan, File)AP - James Murdoch is being recalled for another grilling before Britain's Parliament after former News Corp. executives raised serious doubts about his role in the country's tabloid phone hacking scandal.

Britain to recall James Murdoch in hacking probe (Reuters)

Posted: 13 Sep 2011 10:32 AM PDT

Reuters - British politicians, struggling in their bid to find out who knew what about phone hacking at a Rupert Murdoch tabloid, will recall son James for further questioning after employees contradicted his repeated claims of innocence.

UK campaign seeks to save Roald Dahl writing hut (AP)

Posted: 13 Sep 2011 05:50 AM PDT

This undated photo issued Tuesday Sept. 13, 2011 by the Roald Dahl Museum and Story Center shows Roald Dahl's hut, located in the garden of his home, Gipsy House in Great Missenden, England. The family of Roald Dahl is trying to raise the funds to preserve a hut in which the late writer wrote tales of big friendly giants and magical chocolate factories. The family hopes to raise 500,000 pounds ($790,000) to stop the 50-year-old brick and polystyrene shed — preserved as it was when Dahl died in 1990 — from falling apart. (AP Photo/ Roald Dahl Museum and Story Centre/PA Wire) UNITED KINGDOM OUTAP - The family of Roald Dahl is trying to raise the funds to preserve a hut in which the late writer wrote tales of big friendly giants, fantastic foxes and magical chocolate factories

UK consumer inflation rises to 4.5 pct (AP)

Posted: 13 Sep 2011 02:12 AM PDT

AP - Official figures show that higher utility and clothing costs pushed Britain's consumer prices up to 4.5 percent in the year to August from 4.4 percent the month before, but economists expressed hope that the rate could begin falling within months.

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