2011年10月20日星期四

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Yahoo! News: World - Britain

British MP to detail new covert ops by News Corp (AP)

Posted: 20 Oct 2011 01:00 PM PDT

AP - British lawmaker Tom Watson plans to detail new findings of covert surveillance techniques employed by News Corp. that go "beyond phone hacking."

UK police: We knew of phone hacking back in 2002 (AP)

Posted: 20 Oct 2011 10:42 AM PDT

AP - Authorities knew that Rupert Murdoch's News of the World tabloid had hacked into the phone of murdered teenager Milly Dowler nine years before the scandal over the practice exploded, an English police chief said Thursday.

Phone hacking victims get access to critical evidence (Reuters)

Posted: 20 Oct 2011 10:36 AM PDT

Reuters - Like all good tabloid tales, the News of the World saga is a scandal that keeps on giving.

UK police dismantle Irish Travelers camp (AP)

Posted: 20 Oct 2011 09:59 AM PDT

Activists clash with police officers as bailiffs start the eviction of Dale Farm travellers site near Basildon, England, 30 miles (50 kilometers) east of London, Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2011. British police in riot gear on Wednesday used sledgehammers to clear the way for the eviction of a community of Irish Travelers from a site where they have lived illegally for a decade. A large force of police and bailiffs faced resistance from several dozen residents and supporters who threw bricks and struggled with officers. (AP Photo/Sang Tan)AP - Irish Travelers on Thursday began leaving a site in southeast England where they have lived illegally for a decade, ending days of fierce resistance and a lengthy legal battle against authorities who forced their eviction.

Lawyer: Case against Russian 'spy' based on a joke (AP)

Posted: 20 Oct 2011 08:53 AM PDT

Former parliamentary researcher accused of working as a Russian spy, Ekaterina Zatuliveter, arrives for a hearing before a Special Immigration Appeals Commission, in central London Tuesday Oct. 18, 2011. British lawmaker' Mike Hancock's former assistant Ekaterina Zatuliveter accused of spying for Moscow went to court Tuesday in a bid to prevent being deported — telling judges that she had an affair with her boss, but was not a Russian agent. Ekaterina Zatuliveter, also known as Katia, was arrested in December on suspicion of using her position in the office of legislator Mike Hancock to pass information to Russian intelligence. (AP Stefan Rousseau/PA) UNITED KINGDOM OUTAP - Lawyers defending a woman accused of being a Russian spy have mocked the British government's case against her as one based on a joke.

Short on shocks, Turner art prize leaves London (Reuters)

Posted: 20 Oct 2011 08:45 AM PDT

Cameramen film next to George Shaws piece 'The Age of Bullshit 2010'during a press preview for the Turner Prize 2011 at the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art ,in partnership with Tate, in Gateshead, northern England October 20, 2011. REUTERS/Phil NobleReuters - In the absence of any big shocks at this year's Turner Prize exhibition, organizers hope the quality of the works on display will be enough to generate headlines and positive buzz for the show.

Diagrams from Titanic inquest to be auctioned (AP)

Posted: 20 Oct 2011 04:02 AM PDT

AP - A British auctioneer is offering two diagrams of the ill-fated liner Titanic for sale on Oct. 29.

Terror threat closes UK embassy in Kuwait (AP)

Posted: 20 Oct 2011 03:25 AM PDT

AP - Britain's government said Thursday a targeted terrorist threat has forced it to suspend services at its embassy in Kuwait.

Archaeologists find Viking burial site in Scotland (AP)

Posted: 19 Oct 2011 06:21 PM PDT

Dr Hannah Cobb. co-director of the Ardnamurchan Transitions Project, poses at a press conference with a thousand year old Viking sword in Musselburgh Scotland, Tuesday Oct. 18, 2011. Archaeologists have discovered a Viking boat burial site believed to be over 1,000 years old in the Scottish Highlands. The 16-foot (five-meter) long grave contains the remains of a Viking who was buried with an ax, sword and spear along with a boat. It is the first intact boat burial site to have been discovered on mainland Britain. The burial site on the remote Ardnamurchan peninsula in western Scotland was discovered by a team of archeologists from Manchester and Leicester universities working with cultural heritage organization Archaeology Scotland and consultants CFA Archaeology. (AP Photo/Andrew Milligan/PA) UNITED KINGDOM OUTAP - Archaeologists said Tuesday they have discovered the remains of a Viking chief buried with his boat, ax, sword and spear on a remote Scottish peninsula — one of the most significant Norse finds ever uncovered in Britain.

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