Great Britain Rally: Stobart VK M-Sport Ford WRC Final Recap
PaddockTalk
The Stobart VK M-Sport Ford team kept up their remarkable record of scoring manufacturer points at every round of this season’s FIA World Rally Championship as Henning Solberg and Matthew Wilson produced a strong finish to the season at Ral...
Great Britain Rally: BP Ford WRC Final Recap
PaddockTalk
Mikko Hirvonen and Jarmo Lehtinen's dream of a maiden FIA World Rally Championship title ended in disappointment today in Wales after a stirring final day battle. The BP Ford Abu Dhabi World Rally Team drivers missed the drivers' crown by j...
LA police arrest man suspected of breaking into homes of Lindsay Lohan ...
Chicago Tribune
News, articles and information about crime, including murder, home invasion, assault, rape, robbery, burglary, hate crimes, slavery, vandalism. Show more » BEIJING (AP) — Police in China have created a Web site with photos of 60 rescued kid...
Britain's Gay Blood Ban Under Review
Advocate
A lifetime ban on blood donations by gay and bisexual men in the United Kingdom is currently under review and could be lifted in 2010. The government's Advisory Committee on the Safety of Blood, Tissues, and Organs (SaBTO) is holding a publ...
UPDATE 1-Britain's FSA widens structured products probe
Reuters
LONDON, Oct 27 (Reuters) - Britain's Financial Services Authority widened a probe into aggressive selling of structured products, urging all big providers to examine their practices and pay compensation where needed. The FSA also referred t...
Cyclist Jonny Bellis to return to Britain soon
ESPN.com
LONDON -- British Cycling says Jonny Bellis could soon return home, almost six weeks after he was seriously injured in a scooter crash in Italy. Bellis has been treated in a hospital in Florence since crashing near his training base on Sept...
Britain economy remains in recession
San Francisco Gate
Britain's statistics office says the domestic economy shrank 0.4 percent in the third quarter of the year — dashing hopes that the country may have exited recession. Friday's update from the Office for National Statistics shows that gross d...
Britain Resolves, U.S. Wavers
New York Times
LONDON — In Afghanistan there’s the United States, Britain and then the rest. Britain has lost 85 soldiers this year, more than all other European NATO allies combined. For both countries the annual death toll has been rising steadily since...
Somali pirates warn Britain against yacht rescue
Reuters
MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Somali pirates holding two Britons captive aboard a yacht off the coast of the Horn of Africa nation warned Britain not to try to rescue the couple. The pirates seized the vessel on Friday morning hundreds of miles out...
U.K. Economic Contraction Is Longest on Record
New York Times
PARIS — Initial data on third-quarter growth in Britain showed the economy there remained mired in recession, while releases from the euro area Friday presented a picture of steadily improving activity. The large debt burden on British cons...
Britain's opposition calls for bank bonus curb
CNBC
LONDON - The leaders of Britain's top companies have pocketed recent large pay rises, according to research released Monday, helping offset a fall in bonuses after they were blamed for fueling the financial crisis. The Incomes Data Services...
Bernanke: Kids must understand money
Chicago Tribune
A look at economic developments and activity in major stock markets around the world Wednesday: ___ LONDON — European stocks slid after data showed the number of new home sales in the world's largest economy unexpectedly dropped last month ...
Goodell expects multiple games in Britain soon
San Francisco Gate
Friday, October 23, 2009 Goodell said Friday that "every indicator" shows the British market can support more games and that having a franchise here is of "tremendous interest" to the league. But he stopped short of giving a timeline for ex...
Conservatives Say Low Rates Are U.K.’s Best Route Out of Slump
Bloomberg
“What has got Britain through the recession so far has been the activist monetary policy at the Bank of England, keeping interest rates low, supporting the economy through quantitative easing,” Hammond said. “We will only be able to do that...
