Yahoo! News: World - Britain

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• UK police apologize about royal wedding day arrest (AP)
• In Britain, Lesbians Separate at Half the Rate Heteros Do (The Atlantic Wire)
• Lawyers look to US for phone hacking justice (AP)
• UK High Court delays Traveler eviction ruling (AP)
• UK military think tank: Libya campaign needed luck (AP)
• Queen Elizabeth II to visit Australia (AP)
• US man jailed in Britain for drunken midair rant (AP)
• UK's SAS offer rare details of secret missions (AP)
• Sleeping With the Enemy: British Woman's Web-Stalker Was Scarily Close to Home (Time.com)

UK police apologize about royal wedding day arrest (AP) Posted: 23 Sep 2011 02:35 PM PDT AP - A man who was arrested on his way to an anti-royal demonstration on the day of the wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton received an apology and compensation from London police, his lawyer said Friday.

In Britain, Lesbians Separate at Half the Rate Heteros Do (The Atlantic Wire) Posted: 23 Sep 2011 01:47 PM PDT The Atlantic Wire - Bad news for those looking for unequivocal proof that gays just simply aren't cut out for this whole marriage thing: According to a U.K. government analysis, lesbians couples in civil partnerships (the training wheels for real marriage) separate at a shockingly high rate of ... 2.5 percent, according to The Telegraph.

Lawyers look to US for phone hacking justice (AP) Posted: 23 Sep 2011 11:00 AM PDT AP - Lawyers from the U.S. and Britain said Friday they are looking to see if American courts can take up a case against Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. on behalf of British phone hacking victims.

UK High Court delays Traveler eviction ruling (AP) Posted: 23 Sep 2011 09:14 AM PDT AP - A decade-long battle between British authorities and a community of Irish Travelers who have been living illegally on a former scrapyard must be brought to an end, a judge said Friday, but acknowledged the legal wrangling would drag on for days.

UK military think tank: Libya campaign needed luck (AP) Posted: 23 Sep 2011 09:12 AM PDT AP - The NATO-led air campaign in Libya needed luck to overcome its initially haphazard command, complex new international partnerships and the withdrawal of the United States from a leading role, a top military think tank says.

Queen Elizabeth II to visit Australia (AP) Posted: 23 Sep 2011 08:28 AM PDT AP - Queen Elizabeth II and her husband Prince Philip will visit Australia in October.

US man jailed in Britain for drunken midair rant (AP) Posted: 23 Sep 2011 06:23 AM PDT AP - A British court has sentenced an American mortgage consultant to three months in jail for launching a drunken rant aboard a trans-Atlantic flight.

UK's SAS offer rare details of secret missions (AP) Posted: 23 Sep 2011 04:02 AM PDT AP - Veterans of Britain's elite Special Air Service say newly disclosed wartime files offer rare details of the regiment's secret missions, including an ambitious 1944 plan to capture or the kill infamous Nazi Field Marshal Erwin Rommel.

Sleeping With the Enemy: British Woman's Web-Stalker Was Scarily Close to Home (Time.com) Posted: 22 Sep 2011 09:00 PM PDT Time.com - A British woman was hounded for three years by a creepy online predator who turned out to be her own boyfriend; now she wants her tormentor jailed

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