Yahoo! News: World - Britain

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• Libya to allow UK police to probe Lockerbie: minister (Reuters)
• Russia holds key to raising pressure on Assad: UK (Reuters)
• UK crime reporter arrested in corruption inquiry (AP)
• The nativity gets updated for the modern age (AP)
• British car industry bucks gloomy economic trend (Reuters)
• UK insists it will help Europe's new fiscal pact (AP)
• Amnesty: Surge of Iran drug executions (AP)

Libya to allow UK police to probe Lockerbie: minister (Reuters) Posted: 15 Dec 2011 01:33 PM PST Reuters - The Libyan government will allow British police to go to Libya to investigate the 1988 Lockerbie bombing and the unsolved 1984 killing of a policewoman in London, a British minister said on Thursday.

Russia holds key to raising pressure on Assad: UK (Reuters) Posted: 15 Dec 2011 01:26 PM PST Reuters - Britain will look into imposing new financial, energy and transport sanctions on Syria over its harsh crackdown on protests but Russia may hold the key to increasing pressure on President Bashar al-Assad, a British minister said on Thursday.

UK crime reporter arrested in corruption inquiry (AP) Posted: 15 Dec 2011 11:56 AM PST AP - The former crime editor for the News of the World tabloid was arrested Thursday in Britain's phone hacking scandal, and authorities announced that CNN journalist Piers Morgan would appear before the U.K.'s media ethics inquiry.

The nativity gets updated for the modern age (AP) Posted: 15 Dec 2011 07:33 AM PST AP - There's a beautifully groomed Mary in a blue party dress, a fashionable Joseph gazing adoringly at the baby, and wise men carrying a Faberge egg, a crystal bottle of perfume and a decorated skull.

British car industry bucks gloomy economic trend (Reuters) Posted: 15 Dec 2011 05:34 AM PST Reuters - It's noon at Nissan's (7201.T) car assembly plant in northeast England, and the men on the early shift have already made 210 Qashqai cars from scratch.

UK insists it will help Europe's new fiscal pact (AP) Posted: 15 Dec 2011 05:18 AM PST AP - Britain's government insists it wants to help its European neighbors hammer out the details of a fiscal pact aimed at fixing the continent's debt crisis — even though Prime Minister David Cameron refused to sign up to the accord.

Amnesty: Surge of Iran drug executions (AP) Posted: 15 Dec 2011 05:16 AM PST AP - Amnesty International says there has been a dramatic rise in the number of drug-related executions in Iran.

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