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Scientist: Leak of climate e-mails appalling

A leading climate change scientist whose private e-mails are included in thousands of documents that were stolen by hackers and posted online said Sunday the leaks may have been aimed at undermining next month's global climate summit in Denmark. ...

From DAVID STRINGER, Taiwan News,  22 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

Report: UK's Cadbury won't bite on Hershey offer

LONDON - British candy company Cadbury PLC will reject an expected 10.3 billion pound ($17 billion) takeover bid from U.S. ...

From DAVID STRINGER, Atlanta Journal Constitution Vendor,  22 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Wall Street Journal,  Kraft Foods Inc.

Report: Leaked UK documents detail Iraq war chaos

LONDON Leaked British government documents call into question ex-Prime Minister Tony Blair's public statements on the buildup to the Iraq war and show plans for the U.S.-led 2003 invasion were being made more than a year earlier, a newspaper reported ...

From DAVID STRINGER, San Diego Union-Tribune,  22 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Tony Blair,  House of Commons,  Gordon Brown,  John Scarlett,  Saddam Hussein

Leak of climate scientists' e-mails stirs fury

Skeptics seize on them as evidence that the case for global warming has been overblown. Published: 11/22/2009  2:29 AM Last Modified: 11/22/2009  2:29 AM LONDON — Computer hackers have broken into a server at a well-respected climate change ...

From DAVID STRINGER, Tulsa World,  22 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Ban Ki-moon,  Michael Mann,  NASA

Hackers leak e-mails, stoke climate debate

Computer hackers have broken into a server at a well-respected climate change research center in Britain and posted hundreds of private e-mails and documents online _ stoking debate over whether some scientists have overstated the case for man-made ...

From DAVID STRINGER, eTaiwan News,  21 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Ban Ki-moon

Kidnapped Britons say Somali pirates may kill them

that rival pirates and militia groups had fought for control of the British couple. LONDON — A retired British couple snatched from their yacht by Somali pirates said in an interview broadcast Friday that they fear they could be killed within a week ...

From DAVID STRINGER ASSOCIATED PRESS, The San Jose Mercury News,  21 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Paul Chandler

2012 Games pose biggest security risk in decades

London faces the largest security challenge since World War II when it hosts the 2012 Olympics, British security minister Alan West said Friday. West told a London conference that the British capital will almost certainly be at a higher risk of a ...

From DAVID STRINGER, Taiwan News,  13 Nov 2009

Related Topics: MI5

Britain's Miliband rejects new European role

British Foreign Secretary David Miliband said Wednesday that he has rejected the chance to become Europe's new foreign policy chief to focus on a looming election battle at home. Miliband had been touted by European leaders as the leading ...

From DAVID STRINGER, eTaiwan News,  11 Nov 2009

Related Topics: European Union,  David Miliband,  Guido Westerwelle,  Gordon Brown,  Tony Blair

Brown makes emotional apology to bereaved mother

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has personally apologized to the mother of a soldier slain in Afghanistan who was angered by what she said was the leader's botched letter of condolence, a tape released Tuesday showed. But the mother, Jacqui ...

From DAVID STRINGER, eTaiwan News,  10 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Gordon Brown

UK's Brown: foreign policy chief not headed to EU

LONDON British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Tuesday that his foreign policy chief, David Miliband, is not in line for a major European Union job. Brown told reporters that Miliband will not become a candidate to take over a role as EU high ...

From DAVID STRINGER, San Diego Union-Tribune,  10 Nov 2009

Related Topics: David Miliband,  Gordon Brown,  European Union,  BBC,  Poul Nyrup Rasmussen

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