2011年9月16日星期五

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Yahoo! News: World - Britain

Evicted UK Travelers forced to hit the road (AP)

Posted: 16 Sep 2011 01:05 PM PDT

In this photo taken Thursday, Sept. 15, 2011, two week old baby Vivien Slattery is held outside her mobile home at the Dale Farm travelers site, near Basildon, Essex, England. Within days, baby Vivien and more than 200 others will be evicted, the losers in a decade-long battle between local officials and their community of Irish Travelers that has drawn attention around the world and concern from the United Nations. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)AP - Vivien Slattery has lived her whole life — all 16 days of it — in a tidy mobile home, one of dozens more like it on a crowded site beside green English fields. Her mother grew up here, surrounded by friends and extended family.

Paper: London police wants source of hacking story (AP)

Posted: 16 Sep 2011 12:50 PM PDT

AP - Police are demanding that the Guardian newspaper reveal its sources for the story that reignited Britain's phone-hacking scandal, setting the stage for a court battle that comes at a tense time for relations between the country's media and its largest police force.

British rescue workers find 4th miner dead (AP)

Posted: 16 Sep 2011 12:16 PM PDT

Rescue workers arrive at the Gleision Colliery near Swansea, south Wales as a body is located in the flooded mine Friday Sept. 16, 2011. British rescue workers found one miner dead after searching a flooded coal mine in south Wales, but pressed on Friday with the search for three others trapped underground. (AP Photo/Tim Ireland/PA Wire) UNITED KINGDOM OUTAP - Rescue workers found the body of a fourth miner in a flooded coal mine in south Wales on Friday, dashing hopes that the last trapped miner would be found alive as a close-knit community was forced to confront the kind of tragedy it thought it had left long in the past.

Alleged renegade UBS trader had luxury lifestyle (AP)

Posted: 16 Sep 2011 09:41 AM PDT

Alleged renegade UBS trader Kweku Adoboli, center, walks to be taken away in a security van flanked by police officers after appearing at the City of London Magistrates Court in London, Friday, Sept. 16, 2011. The alleged renegade trader accused of losing Swiss bank UBS about $2 billion in unauthorized trading was ordered held in prison custody Friday charged with fraud and false accounting. Adoboli, 31, will be held until another court appearance on Sept. 22, presiding magistrate Carolyn Wagstaff said. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)AP - Educated at an exclusive school in a picturesque patch of English countryside, Ghana-born trader Kweku Adoboli was known to neighbors as a polite and well dressed young man who mixed grueling hours in London's financial district with a lavish social life in the capital's nightspots.

Futuristic pods whisk travelers around UK airport (Reuters)

Posted: 16 Sep 2011 09:37 AM PDT

Reuters - Laser-guided travel pods that work without drivers or timetables were officially unveiled at London's Heathrow airport on Friday.

Edgy London takes over fashion season baton (Reuters)

Posted: 16 Sep 2011 06:40 AM PDT

A model presents a creation from the Paul Costelloe 2012 Spring/Summer collection during London Fashion Week September 16, 2011. REUTERS/Suzanne PlunkettReuters - London kicked off the British leg of the fashion calendar on Friday, with designers eager to lift the gloom on the high street with the glitz of the catwalk through some of the edgiest shows in the season.

Two miners found dead in Welsh mine (Reuters)

Posted: 16 Sep 2011 06:38 AM PDT

Emergency services are carrying out a major rescue operation after four miners became trapped following a flash flood in a coal mine in south Wales. REUTERS/GraphicReuters - Two miners have been found dead and two others remain missing following a flash flood in a coal mine in south Wales, police and emergency workers said on Friday.

UN vote on Palestine: Can Tony Blair prevent a diplomatic train wreck? (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 15 Sep 2011 05:45 PM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - The Israeli and Palestinian leaders are headed for a showdown at the United Nations next week â€" unless former British Prime Minister Tony Blair succeeds in an apparent 11th-hour bid to table a controversial UN vote on Palestinian statehood.

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