2012年1月3日星期二

Yahoo! News: World - Britain

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: World - Britain


Murder most foul on Queen Elizabeth's estate (AP)

Posted: 03 Jan 2012 04:10 PM PST

FILE - This is a 1978 file photo of Britain's Queen Elizabeth's Sandringham House in eastern England. British police are treating the discovery of a body on the queen's Sandringham estate as murder.  A woman's body was found on the vast estate in eastern England on Jan. 1, 2012 , and Detective Chief Inspector Jes Fry said authorities are examining missing person reports and unsolved cases around the country to see if there are any links. (AP Photo/PA, File) UNITED KINGDOM OUTAP - A murder mystery with elements of an Agatha Christie whodunit is unfolding at the vast country estate where Queen Elizabeth II and her family gathered in rural splendor to celebrate Christmas and New Year's.


Strong winds torment much of Britain, 2 killed (AP)

Posted: 03 Jan 2012 12:04 PM PST

A elderly lady holds onto a lamp post in the strong winds at South Shields, England, Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2012.  There is a severe weather warning for gale force winds across the region. (AP Photo/Scott Heppell)AP - Winds surpassing 100 miles per hour (160 kph) tormented parts of Britain on Tuesday, wreaking havoc with travel and killing two people.


2 men found guilty in UK black teen's murder (AP)

Posted: 03 Jan 2012 10:29 AM PST

Undated family handout photo of murdered teenager Stephen Lawrence. Gary Dobson and David Norris have been found guilty of the murder of Stephen Lawrence at the Old Bailey in London Tuesday Jan. 3, 2012.  Stephen Lawrence was killed in a racist attack by a gang of youths in Eltham, south east London in April 1993. (AP Photo/Family Handout/PA ) UNITED KINGDOM OUT NO SALES NO ARCHIVE EDITORIAL USE ONLYAP - In a case that exposed racism and incompetence in Scotland Yard and took nearly two decades to bring anyone to justice, a jury found two men guilty Tuesday of brutally stabbing a black teenager to death.


UK "journalists' church" seeks financial suitor (Reuters)

Posted: 03 Jan 2012 09:33 AM PST

Reuters - The distinct layered spire of London's St Bride's Church, spiritual home to Britain's media and some of the leading Pilgrim Fathers, is showing its age after chunks of stone fell away from the 300-year-old structure.

Murder probe after body found on Queen Elizabeth's estate (Reuters)

Posted: 03 Jan 2012 07:25 AM PST

Reuters - British police have launched a murder investigation after a woman's body was discovered on Queen Elizabeth's Sandringham country estate in eastern England.

UK artist, St Trinian's creator Searle dies aged 91 (Reuters)

Posted: 03 Jan 2012 02:45 AM PST

Reuters - British cartoonist Ronald Searle, best known for his spiky drawings of the tearaway pupils of the fictional girls school St Trinian's, has died in southern France aged 91, his daughter said on Tuesday.
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