2012年1月17日星期二

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Yahoo! News: World - Britain

Sunday Times editor confirms 'blagging' (AP)

Posted: 17 Jan 2012 02:49 PM PST

AP - The editor of Britain's Sunday Times has confirmed that someone working for the newspaper impersonated Gordon Brown to obtain details about the former prime minister's finances.

European court: Cleric can't be deported from UK (AP)

Posted: 17 Jan 2012 02:30 PM PST

FILE - An undated 2005 image made by the British Prison Service showing Abu Qatada making a televised appeal from Belmarsh high security prison, in London calling for the release of hostage British Norman Kember in Iraq. The extremist cleric described as among Europe's leading al-Qaida operatives should not be deported to Jordan to face trial because of the risk evidence obtained through torture would be used against him, Europe's highest court ruled Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2012. After a 6-year legal battle, the European Court of Human Rights ruled that deporting Abu Qatada from Britain — where he is in prison custody — would 'give rise to a flagrant denial of justice.' (AP Photo/ H.M. Prison Service, File)AP - An extremist cleric described as one of Europe's leading al-Qaida operatives should not be deported to face terrorism charges in Jordan because of the risk evidence obtained through torture would be used against him, Europe's highest court ruled Tuesday.

Prince Philip resumes royal engagements (AP)

Posted: 17 Jan 2012 01:58 PM PST

AP - Queen Elizabeth II's husband has returned to official duties following a heart procedure that saw him spend Christmas in hospital.

EU court denies Scot's extradition appeal (AP)

Posted: 17 Jan 2012 01:28 PM PST

AP - A European court has turned down an appeal by a British man who has been fighting extradition to the United States to face a murder charge for nearly a decade.

UK museum attacked over links to Israeli Dead Sea firm (Reuters)

Posted: 17 Jan 2012 11:50 AM PST

Reuters - Experts at a leading British museum should pull out of a European-funded study into tiny particles because one of their partners is an Israeli company that operates in the occupied West Bank, British scientists and public figures said Tuesday.

Russian billionaire battle reaches London court climax (Reuters)

Posted: 17 Jan 2012 10:24 AM PST

Reuters - A gargantuan lawsuit between two of post-Soviet Russia's richest and most powerful men reached its climax in a London courtroom Tuesday, with lawyers for tycoon Boris Berezovsky making their case that he was extorted into turning the crown jewel of his business empire over to billionaire rival Roman Abramovich.

UK scientists find 'lost' Darwin fossils (AP)

Posted: 17 Jan 2012 07:35 AM PST

This image made available by the Royal Holloway, University of London on Tuesday Jan. 17, 2012 shows a polished section of fossil wood from the cabinet of Reverend John Henslow, Charles Darwin's mentor at Cambridge, comprising a 150 million years old tree. It comes from Dorset, England and you can even make out the annual tree-rings. British scientists have found scores of fossils the great evolutionary theorist Charles Darwin and his peers collected but that had been lost for more than 150 years. Dr. Howard Falcon-Lang, a paleontologist at Royal Holloway, University of London, said Tuesday that he stumbled upon the glass slides containing the fossils in an old wooden cabinet that had been shoved in a 'gloomy corner' of the massive, drafty British Geological Survey. (AP Photo/Royal Holloway, University of London, Kevin D'Souza Ho) EDITORIAL USE ONLYAP - British scientists have found scores of fossils the great evolutionary theorist Charles Darwin and his peers collected but that had been lost for more than 150 years.

British Army defuses pipe bomb near Belfast school (AP)

Posted: 17 Jan 2012 06:54 AM PST

AP - Northern Ireland police say British Army experts have defused a pipe bomb near a Catholic elementary school in Belfast.

UK loses legal bid to deport Jordanian cleric (Reuters)

Posted: 17 Jan 2012 05:28 AM PST

Reuters - A Jordanian cleric once described as "Osama bin Laden's right-hand man in Europe" won an appeal in the European courts on Tuesday to stop Britain from deporting him to Jordan to stand trial on terrorism charges.

'The Artist, 'Tinker Tailor' up for UK film awards (AP)

Posted: 16 Jan 2012 11:55 PM PST

AP - Buoyant silent film "The Artist" and moody spy saga "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy" are among the leading contenders for the British Academy Film Awards, Britain's equivalent of the Oscars.

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