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Suicides dropped 40 percent after 2005 attacks: study
(AFP)
Tue, 06 Jan 2009 08:13:28 GMT
 AFP - The number of suicides in England and Wales fell by about 40 percent after the July 2005 bombings on London, scientists revealed Tuesday, echoing a trend also seen after the September 11 attacks.
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Bush to honor Blair, Howard
(AFP)
Mon, 05 Jan 2009 22:55:19 GMT
 AFP - Outgoing President George W. Bush is to award the highest US civilian order to former British prime minister Tony Blair and Australia's ex-leader John Howard, the White House said Monday.
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Terror suspect is victim of Pakistan geopolitics: lawyer
(AFP)
Mon, 05 Jan 2009 19:40:14 GMT
 AFP - A refugee in Britain accused of calling for terrorist attacks on Pakistan was a "casualty of geopolitics" due to the West's backing for former president Pervez Musharraf, a London court heard Monday.
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FSA to lift short selling ban
(AP)
Mon, 05 Jan 2009 18:54:01 GMT
AP - Britain's financial services regulator said it will lift a ban on the short-selling of shares in scores of financial companies later this month.
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Blast hits British Columbia natural gas facility
(AP)
Mon, 05 Jan 2009 18:46:24 GMT
AP - An explosion at a natural gas facility in northeastern British Columbia forced the site to shut down,in what appeared to be the fourth attack in four months on one of Canada's largest energy companies.
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Crystal, china maker Waterford Wedgwood collapses
(AP)
Mon, 05 Jan 2009 18:26:05 GMT
 AP - Waterford Wedgwood PLC, the maker of classic china and crystal, filed for bankruptcy protection on Monday after attempts to restructure the struggling business or find a buyer failed.
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Alan Walters, economic advisor to Thatcher, dies aged 82
(AFP)
Mon, 05 Jan 2009 18:02:14 GMT
 AFP - Former prime minister Margaret Thatcher paid tribute Monday to her onetime economic adviser Sir Alan Walters, after he died aged 82.
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FTSE shares rise
(AFP)
Mon, 05 Jan 2009 17:21:19 GMT
 AFP - Shares in London ended higher on Monday after global markets advanced in the new year despite more gloomy economic news.
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British reporter tells of mock execution in Somali 'hell-hole'
(AFP)
Mon, 05 Jan 2009 16:41:07 GMT
 AFP - A British journalist held hostage in a Somali "hell-hole" for almost six weeks told on Monday how kidnappers at one point put a gun to his head and acted out a mock execution.
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Cameron announces 4.1 bln-pound tax plan for savers
(AFP)
Mon, 05 Jan 2009 16:13:44 GMT
 AFP - Conservative leader David Cameron proposed on Monday a 4.1 billion-pound package of tax cuts for savers and pensioners to help "innocent victims" of the economic downturn.
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China fines British students for 'illegal map-making'
(AFP)
Mon, 05 Jan 2009 10:20:37 GMT
 AFP - Chinese authorities have fined three British geology students for "illegal map-making activities" in the politically tense Muslim region of Xinjiang, state media reported on Monday.
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Kidnapped British journalist freed in Somalia
(AFP)
Mon, 05 Jan 2009 10:16:47 GMT
 AFP - Two journalists, from Britain and Spain, have been released after almost six weeks in captivity in Somalia's breakaway Puntland state, police and the two governments said.
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Britain details muddy battles with Taliban in Afghanistan
(AFP)
Mon, 05 Jan 2009 06:14:11 GMT
 AFP - British, Afghan and coalition forces captured four key Taliban strongholds in southern Afghanistan during a massive operation that saw them fight at close quarters, knee-deep in mud, it emerged Sunday.
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British PM Brown pledges to create 100,000 jobs
(AP)
Sun, 04 Jan 2009 15:38:18 GMT
AP - Prime Minister Gordon Brown pledged Sunday to create 100,000 jobs through a public works program and said he would press banks to resume normal lending as Britain faces its sharpest economic downturn in decades.
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British finance minister refuses to rule out new bank action
(AFP)
Sun, 04 Jan 2009 14:51:09 GMT
 AFP - British finance minister Alistair Darling refused Sunday to rule out fresh government action to help struggling banks although he said it was "not your first port of call."
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Jailed British couple asks Gambian president for clemency
(AFP)
Sun, 04 Jan 2009 13:50:46 GMT
 AFP - A British missionary couple sentenced to one year of hard labour for criticising the Gambian leadership publicly apologised on Sunday and asked for clemency in a letter read on state television.
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Britain: No US request to resettle Gitmo inmates
(AP)
Sun, 04 Jan 2009 12:05:26 GMT
AP - Prime Minister Gordon Brown says the U.S. has not asked Britain to accept Guantanamo Bay detainees if the camp for terrorist suspects is closed.
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Jordan king tells Blair world's Gaza 'silence' unacceptable
(AFP)
Sat, 03 Jan 2009 21:00:20 GMT
 AFP - Jordan's King Abdullah II told Middle East peace Quartet envoy Tony Blair on Saturday that the world's "silence" on the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip is unacceptable, the palace said.
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Rare 1937 Bugatti supercar found in English garage
(AP)
Sat, 03 Jan 2009 20:01:12 GMT
 AP - It was the equivalent of finding an old Picasso or an unknown Beatles tape hidden away in your uncle's attic.
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BBC names Matt Smith as new Doctor Who
(AFP)
Sat, 03 Jan 2009 18:38:52 GMT
 AFP - The BBC named Matt Smith as the new Doctor Who on Saturday, with the relatively unknown 26-year-old becoming the youngest ever actor to play the Time Lord in the cult sci-fi television drama.
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