2011年10月17日星期一

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Yahoo! News: World - Britain

UK government considers ban on squatters (AP)

Posted: 17 Oct 2011 09:39 AM PDT

Rueben Taylor, 25, a squatter is seen at the house where she resides in London, Tuesday Oct. 11, 2011. Taylor lives with four others in the brick and stucco 19th-century row house on a street of 600,000 British pound (950,000 US dollars) homes. The owner is unhappy about the unwanted guests, but they are not committing a crime — something that could change if the British government has its way. She says this house had been empty for two years when the squatters moved in a month ago. They have since reconnected the water and electricity — and pay the bills — and filled the house with scavenged or donated furniture. Squatting is a well-established, if socially unpopular, tradition in Britain. While the government does not keep hard numbers, it cites an estimate of 20,000 squatters nationwide. Britain's Conservative-led administration says squatters are an anti-social scourge, and is considering criminalizing the practice of living in empty buildings without the owner's permission. It's currently only a civil offense. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)AP - Like many young Londoners, 25-year-old Rueben Taylor shares a house in a neighborhood that's part scruffy, part smart. Unlike many others, she doesn't pay a penny in rent — and that puts her at the center of an escalating battle pitting the rights of property owners against the needs of tenants squeezed out of Britain's shrinking stock of affordable homes.

UK security overhaul after Murdoch pie attack (AP)

Posted: 17 Oct 2011 08:43 AM PDT

AP - The speaker of Britain's House of Commons says a pie attack on media mogul Rupert Murdoch at a parliamentary committee hearing could lead to permanent security changes.

Author Barnes backed for Booker amid literary spat (Reuters)

Posted: 17 Oct 2011 07:41 AM PDT

Reuters - English author and four-time nominee Julian Barnes, who once dismissed the Man Booker Prize for fiction as "posh bingo," is favored to win it on Tuesday with his novel "The Sense of an Ending."

BP, Anadarko settle Gulf disaster claims (AP)

Posted: 17 Oct 2011 07:19 AM PDT

AP - Anadarko Petroleum Co. has agreed to pay $4 billion to BP PLC as part of a settlement related to last year's Gulf of Mexico oil spill, adding weight to BP's contention that it was not solely responsible for the disaster.

Protesters remain outside St. Paul's Cathedral (AP)

Posted: 17 Oct 2011 07:06 AM PDT

A businessman sticks his tongue out in jest as he walks past tents erected by protesters from the Occupy London Stock Exchange group, as they continue their demonstration that started on Saturday outside St Paul's Cathedral, near the London Stock Exchange in London, Monday, Oct. 17, 2011. Protesters in cities across Europe have taken part in rallies inspired by the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations in the United States, expressing their frustration at social inequality and corporate greed. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)AP - Hundreds of anti-capitalist protesters mingled with bemused bank workers outside London's St. Paul's Cathedral Monday, as welcoming but wary cathedral staff urged demonstrators not to deter tourists wanting to visit the historic building.

Policeman denies causing G-20 protester's death (AP)

Posted: 17 Oct 2011 03:05 AM PDT

AP - A British police officer has pleaded not guilty to a manslaughter charge in the death of a newspaper vendor during the Group of 20 demonstrations in 2009.

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