Yahoo! News: World - Britain

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• Assange wants top UK court to review extradition (Reuters)
• Signs of broader hacking at Murdoch newspaper (Reuters)
• Concern grows in U.K., U.S. over Somali-based militants (Reuters)
• Top official challenged in UK border check fiasco (AP)
• Retail drives 27 pct profit gain for Burberry (AP)
• Murdoch lawyer says phone hacking 'shameful' (AP)
• UK inflation falls to 5 percent in October (AP)
• Pink Floyd guitarist's son released from jail (AP)
• easyJet warns of economic headwinds (AP)
• Symbolic 'war crimes' tribunal to try Bush, Blair (AP)

Assange wants top UK court to review extradition (Reuters) Posted: 15 Nov 2011 12:51 PM PST Reuters - WikiLeaks' founder Julian Assange will ask senior British judges next month to refer his fight against extradition to Sweden for questioning over alleged sex crimes to the country's highest court, a WikiLeaks spokesman said on Tuesday.

Signs of broader hacking at Murdoch newspaper (Reuters) Posted: 15 Nov 2011 08:08 AM PST Reuters - Evidence is growing that hacking of both telephone voice mail and email was pursued by journalists from Rupert Murdoch's News of the World for years after the arrests of a private detective and reporter who worked for the weekly tabloid.

Concern grows in U.K., U.S. over Somali-based militants (Reuters) Posted: 15 Nov 2011 08:01 AM PST Reuters - In late October, two 18-year-old men from the Welsh town of Cardiff were arrested on Kenya's border with war-torn Somalia. The father of one of them told the BBC he believed his son had been "brainwashed" and was on his way to join an Islamic holy war.

Top official challenged in UK border check fiasco (AP) Posted: 15 Nov 2011 07:09 AM PST AP - Britain's former border chief on Tuesday denied accusations by Home Secretary Theresa May that he acted without authority in relaxing some passport checks during the busy summer tourist season.

Retail drives 27 pct profit gain for Burberry (AP) Posted: 15 Nov 2011 04:45 AM PST AP - Luxury goods company Burberry says its profit was up 27 percent in the six months ending Sept. 30 as retail contributed a growing share to sales and profit.

Murdoch lawyer says phone hacking 'shameful' (AP) Posted: 15 Nov 2011 04:21 AM PST AP - A lawyer for Rupert Murdoch's British newspapers said Tuesday that phone hacking was wrong and shameful, but insisted the huge criminal investigation it sparked proves journalists are not above the law.

UK inflation falls to 5 percent in October (AP) Posted: 15 Nov 2011 02:55 AM PST AP - Inflation in Britain fell to 5.0 percent in October from the previous month's 5.2 percent, official figures showed Tuesday, in a sign that it may have peaked.

Pink Floyd guitarist's son released from jail (AP) Posted: 15 Nov 2011 01:44 AM PST AP - The son of Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour has been released from prison after he was sentenced for violent disorder during student protests last year.

easyJet warns of economic headwinds (AP) Posted: 15 Nov 2011 01:17 AM PST AP - Budget airline easyJet PLC reported an 86 percent increase in full-year profit but warned Tuesday of significant economic headwinds in the current year.

Symbolic 'war crimes' tribunal to try Bush, Blair (AP) Posted: 14 Nov 2011 11:03 PM PST AP - Malaysian-led activists will hold a symbolic trial this month for former President George W. Bush and British ex-leader Tony Blair on charges of committing crimes against peace in the Iraq war, the event's organizers said Tuesday.

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