Yahoo! News: World - Britain

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• UK police: Ritual killing possible in horse death (AP)
• Scots ponder independence vote with 16-year-olds (AP)
• Greenlight Capital fined $11M for market abuse (AP)
• Stocks close higher on Fed promise of low rates (AP)
• UK economy shrinks in Q4, raising recession fears (AP)

UK police: Ritual killing possible in horse death (AP) Posted: 25 Jan 2012 01:22 PM PST AP - British police say the mutilation and brutal death of a horse may have been the result of a pagan ritual.

Scots ponder independence vote with 16-year-olds (AP) Posted: 25 Jan 2012 12:18 PM PST AP - Scotland's leader has presented his proposal for a ballot on independence — and his ideas include letting 16- and 17-year-olds cast ballots in a vote that could see the breakup of Britain within four years.

Greenlight Capital fined $11M for market abuse (AP) Posted: 25 Jan 2012 11:08 AM PST AP - High-profile hedge fund manager David Einhorn and his U.S.-based Greenlight Capital Inc. have been fined 7.2 million pounds ($11.2 million) for trading on inside information, Britain's market regulator said Wednesday.

Stocks close higher on Fed promise of low rates (AP) Posted: 25 Jan 2012 03:13 PM PST AP - The stock market bounced to its highest close since last spring Wednesday after the Federal Reserve said it expected to keep interest rates near zero for almost three more years.

UK economy shrinks in Q4, raising recession fears (AP) Posted: 25 Jan 2012 02:46 AM PST AP - Britain's economy shrank by 0.2 percent in the last three months of 2011, official data showed Wednesday, a worse than expected result that raises fears of a recession and could see the Bank of England push for more monetary stimulus.

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