Yahoo! News: World - Britain

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• Amid Europe's crisis, UK skeptics seek looser ties (AP)
• Cat's not right! Judges hit back in UK pet spat (AP)
• Riot-hit Britain plans to put prisoners to work (Reuters)
• Oligarchs' lawsuit hears of 'corrupt' Russia (AP)
• Dubai port firm promises London port open by 2013 (AP)
• 1936 anti-fascist London "battle" has resonance today (Reuters)
• UK firm buys control of Libyan oil field company (AP)

Amid Europe's crisis, UK skeptics seek looser ties (AP) Posted: 04 Oct 2011 10:53 AM PDT AP - It shunned the euro to keep its cherished pound. Now could Europe's deepening debt crisis see Britain turn its back entirely on its struggling neighbors?

Cat's not right! Judges hit back in UK pet spat (AP) Posted: 04 Oct 2011 08:36 AM PDT AP - British judges insist they didn't block a criminal's deportation because of worries he'd be separated from his pet cat.

Riot-hit Britain plans to put prisoners to work (Reuters) Posted: 04 Oct 2011 08:06 AM PDT Reuters - Britain wants to put more prisoners to work in an attempt to rehabilitate a "growing feral underclass" blamed for riots that swept English cities two months ago, Justice Secretary Ken Clarke said on Tuesday.

Oligarchs' lawsuit hears of 'corrupt' Russia (AP) Posted: 04 Oct 2011 07:21 AM PDT AP - Russian tycoon Roman Abramovich paid $2 billion to fellow oligarch Boris Berezovsky for his services as a political godfather in the turbulent years after the collapse of communism, Abramovich's lawyer said Tuesday.

Dubai port firm promises London port open by 2013 (AP) Posted: 04 Oct 2011 07:20 AM PDT AP - DP World, the Dubai port operator building Britain's first deep-sea container port in more than a quarter century, vowed Tuesday to open the new cargo hub outside London by the end of 2013.

1936 anti-fascist London "battle" has resonance today (Reuters) Posted: 04 Oct 2011 02:52 AM PDT Reuters - Max Levitas recalls the electricity in the air as more than 100,000 Jews, Irish workers, communists and residents battled police to stop fascists marching through a Jewish area of east London in 1936.

UK firm buys control of Libyan oil field company (AP) Posted: 04 Oct 2011 01:23 AM PDT AP - British company Heritage Oil PLC said Tuesday that it has acquired a controlling interest in a Libyan company licensed to provide oil field services including offshore and land-based drilling.

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