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Golden nose job for British team plane
(AFP)
21 Aug 2008 at 10:21am
AFP - The plane bringing Britain's Olympic team home next week is to get a golden nose job in honour of the record gold medal haul for Team GB in Beijing, British Airways said Thursday.
British resident wins Guantanamo ruling
(AFP)
21 Aug 2008 at 7:25am
AFP - A British resident held at Guantanamo Bay won a court ruling Thursday that Britain must disclose material he believes supports his claim that evidence against him was obtained by torture.
Court says Guantanamo documents should be released
(AP)
21 Aug 2008 at 6:58am
AP - A British court on Thursday gave Foreign Secretary David Miliband a week to reconsider his decision to withhold secret documents that could prove that a man held in Guantanamo Bay was tortured.
British retail sales recover in July
(AFP)
21 Aug 2008 at 5:45am
AFP - Retail sales rose in July, recovering from the biggest monthly drop for 22 years in June, official data showed on Thursday.
GCSE students achieve record results
(AFP)
21 Aug 2008 at 4:04am
AFP - The nation's teenagers were celebrating record-breaking GCSE results Thursday, with over 65% of exams awarded a C grade or above.
BAE Systems, British govt sign munitions deal
(AFP)
21 Aug 2008 at 3:05am
AFP - British defence contractor BAE Systems has signed a deal worth 2.0 billion pounds (2.5 billion euros, 3.7 billion dollars) to supply the British armed forces with ammunition, the government said Thursday.
British pair win Star class yachting gold
(AFP)
21 Aug 2008 at 2:07am
AFP - The British pairing of Iain Percy and Andrew Simpson won the Star class gold medal at the Olympics on Thursday, securing Britain's fourth sailing gold of the Games.
Tories open up record lead over Labour: poll
(AFP)
21 Aug 2008 at 1:44am
AFP - The Conservatives opened up a record lead in opinion polls Thursday, further hammering Prime Minister Gordon Brown's Labour Party shortly after he returned from his summer break.
No stereotypical terrorist, intelligence agency says
(AFP)
21 Aug 2008 at 1:34am
AFP - There is no straightforward way to identify the typical extremist, research conducted by the domestic intelligence agency MI5 shows, The Guardian reported Thursday.
Thailand says Gary Glitter will be expelled to Britain
(AFP)
21 Aug 2008 at 4:17am
AFP - Thai immigration authorities said Thursday they would expel former glam rocker and convicted paedophile Gary Glitter to his native Britain after Hong Kong refused to let him in.
Capt. Cook's boomerang to be auctioned in London
(AP)
20 Aug 2008 at 3:56pm
AP - Christie's says it will auction an Aboriginal boomerang collected by the explorer Capt. James Cook.
Glitter refused entry to Hong Kong: British foreign office
(AFP)
20 Aug 2008 at 12:48pm
AFP - Former glam rocker and convicted paedophile Gary Glitter was refused entry to Hong Kong Wednesday after being thrown out of Thailand, the British foreign ministry said.
British paedophile arrested in St Tropez
(AFP)
20 Aug 2008 at 12:37pm
AFP - Police in France's jet-setter summer resort of Saint Tropez have arrested a 48-year-old British man over sexual abuse and paedophilia in Britain, a legal source said Wednesday.
Retired UK lawmaker Leo Abse dies at 91
(AP)
20 Aug 2008 at 12:30pm
AP - Leo Abse, a colorful Welsh politician who took a leading role in liberalizing laws on homosexuality and divorce, has died at age 91.
Brown plays down Taliban resurgence
(AFP)
20 Aug 2008 at 11:55am
AFP - Prime Minister Gordon Brown played down Wednesday the threat of a resurgent Taliban in Afghanistan, saying the recent wave of violence that killed 10 French soldiers had always been expected.
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