2011年12月12日星期一

Yahoo! News: World - Britain

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: World - Britain


Police unsure of tabloid role in key UK hacking case (Reuters)

Posted: 12 Dec 2011 03:17 PM PST

Reuters - British police said on Monday there was no evidence that journalists from Rupert Murdoch's News of the World tabloid had deleted a murdered schoolgirl's mobile phone messages, a claim that led to public revulsion and the closure of the paper.

Police: Private eye didn't delete Dowler messages (AP)

Posted: 12 Dec 2011 10:56 AM PST

Former New of the World reporter Neville Thurlbeck arrives at the High Court in London to give evidence to Britain's media ethics Leveson Inquiry Monday Dec. 12, 2011. The inquiry is looking into issues arising from the News International phone hacking scandal. (AP Photo/Stefan Rousseau/PA)  UNITED KINGDOM OUTAP - A private investigator working for Rupert Murdoch's News of the World tabloid did not delete voicemails from the phone of a missing girl, a police lawyer said Monday — casting new light on the critical event that sparked Britain's phone hacking scandal.


Cameron says EU membership is vital to Britain (Reuters)

Posted: 12 Dec 2011 10:45 AM PST

Reuters - Prime Minister David Cameron tried to limit the political damage from an historic break with his European partners, insisting on Monday that remaining a member of the 27-nation EU was in Britain's national interest, despite his veto on a new treaty.

Business says Britain's place is at EU's heart (Reuters)

Posted: 12 Dec 2011 10:07 AM PST

Reuters - Britain should stay at the heart of Europe, industry executives said on Monday, with some of them warning that Prime Minister David Cameron's decision to opt out of a common European Union fiscal policy may make life more difficult.

UK urges Bahrain to embrace reform after protests (AP)

Posted: 12 Dec 2011 09:54 AM PST

Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron, right,  greets Bahrain's King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa in 10 Downing Street in central London Monday Dec. 12, 2011. David Cameron's office said Monday he is holding talks at Downing Street with King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa to press Bahrain to take up proposals outlined in a study published last month.  A special commission, authorized by Bahrain's Sunni rulers, sharply criticized the use of torture, excessive force and fast-track justice to quell Shiite-led protests. (AP Photo/Finbarr O'Reilly Pool)AP - British Prime Minister David Cameron urged Bahrain's king on Monday to quickly implement reforms recommended in a scathing report into human rights abuses during the Arab nation's uprising.


UK's newly arrived giant pandas make press debut (AP)

Posted: 12 Dec 2011 08:15 AM PST

Giant panda named Yang Guang, explores his enclosure at Edinburgh Zoo in Edinburgh, Scotland Monday, Dec 12, 2011. Two 8-year-old giant pandas from China landed Sunday Dec. 4, 2011 in Scotland, where they will become the first to live in Britain in nearly two decades. The pandas, from the southwestern Chinese province of Sichuan, are to stay for 10 years at Edinburgh Zoo, where officials hope they will give birth to cubs.  The loan marked the beginning of a U.K.-China research program on the animals, and both sides have described it as a signal of a growing friendship between Scotland and China. (AP Photo/Scott Heppell)AP - The first giant pandas to live in Britain in nearly two decades made their highly anticipated U.K. media debut Monday and appeared to be settling in well at Scotland's Edinburgh Zoo.


Johnson scorns Olympic traffic gridlock fears (Reuters)

Posted: 12 Dec 2011 06:24 AM PST

Reuters - Fears that next Summer's Olympic Games will snarl up London's traffic are as wrong as the doom-laden predictions of the "Millennium Bug" were, Mayor Boris Johnson said on Monday.

Cameron's camp "world's stupidest": French regulator (Reuters)

Posted: 12 Dec 2011 02:42 AM PST

Reuters - Prime Minister David Cameron proved the British political right is the world's stupidest by refusing last week's European summit deal on fiscal reform under pressure from narrow financial lobby interests, the head of France's financial sector regulator said Monday.
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