2011年11月22日星期二

Yahoo! News: World - Britain

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: World - Britain


Tour operator Thomas Cook in financial trouble (AP)

Posted: 22 Nov 2011 10:45 AM PST

People walk-by a branch of Thomas Cook travel agent in Borehamwood, north London, Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2011. Shares in tour company Thomas Cook lost two-thirds of their value after the company issued a profit warning Tuesday. (AP Photo/Sang Tan)AP - Fears rose over the survival of venerable British tour operator Thomas Cook after financial problems worsened Tuesday for the company that took more than 22 million people on holiday in the latest year.


Symbolic trial convicts Bush, Blair for Iraq war (AP)

Posted: 22 Nov 2011 08:20 AM PST

AP - A tribunal formed by Malaysia's former leader has convicted former President George W. Bush and Britain's ex-prime minister Tony Blair at a symbolic trial for "crimes against peace" in Iraq.

Elle Macpherson's adviser: Hacking cost me my job (AP)

Posted: 22 Nov 2011 05:37 AM PST

British actor Steve Coogan arrives to testify at the Leveson inquiry at the Royal Courts of Justice in central London, Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2011. The Leveson inquiry is Britain's media ethics probe that was set up in the wake of the scandal over phone hacking at Rupert Murdoch's News of the World, which was shut in July. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)AP - Elle Macpherson fired her business adviser, thinking the woman was leaking secrets, when U.K. journalists were actually getting juicy details about the supermodel by hacking into her phone, a British inquiry was told Tuesday.


UK court backs Iraqis' bid for inquiry into abuse (AP)

Posted: 22 Nov 2011 03:40 AM PST

AP - Britain's Court of Appeal on Tuesday backed a bid by more than 100 Iraqi civilians to force a public inquiry into claims they were abused by British troops.
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