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Reckitt posts healthy profits, warns of slowdown

AFP - 19 mins ago

LONDON (AFP) - Reckitt Benckiser, the Anglo-Dutch household products and drugs group, on Wednesday posted healthy fourth-quarter and annual profits, lifted by heroin-dependency treatment Suboxone and other key brands. More »

Australia asks Britain to review 100-year-old court martial
AFP - 1 hour 46 mins ago
SYDNEY (AFP) - Australia has sent Britain a petition calling for posthumous pardons for two soldiers court-martialled and executed more than 100 years ago in South Africa, a government spokesman said Wednesday. More »
Hospitals under pressure by Afghan injuries: watchdog
AFP - 1 hour 55 mins ago
LONDON (AFP) - Hospitals treating troops wounded by Afghan insurgents are under growing pressure, a watchdog warned on Wednesday, ahead of a major offensive expected to trigger a fresh surge in casualties. More »
Govt says bomb tests on pigs saved lives in war
AFP - 2 hours 2 mins ago
LONDON (AFP) - The government has defended the use of more than 100 pigs in military explosives tests in the past five years, saying the experiments had saved lives in Afghanistan and Iraq. More »
MPs urged to back "Robin Hood tax" on banks
ITN - 2 hours 16 mins ago
Charities, campaign groups and unions have called on politicians to back a "Robin Hood tax" on banks' financial transactions More »
British hospitals under pressure by Afghan injuries: watchdog
AFP - 5 hours 46 mins ago
LONDON (AFP) - Hospitals treating troops wounded by Afghan insurgents are under growing pressure, a watchdog warned Wednesday, ahead of a major offensive expected to trigger a fresh surge in casualties. More »
London says bomb tests on pigs saved lives in war
AFP - 9 hours 1 min ago
LONDON (AFP) - London has defended the use of more than 100 pigs in military explosives tests in the past five years, saying the experiments had saved lives in Afghanistan and Iraq. More »
Thalidomide survivors receive £1 million
ITN - 9 hours 34 mins ago
More than £1 million is to be received by survivors of the thalidomide scandal in Northern Ireland. More »
Dead soldiers praised for bravery
ITN - 11 hours 19 mins ago
Two soldiers killed in Afghanistan as Britain's death toll in the conflict matched that of the Falklands War have been praised. More »
Anglican head warns of 'chaos' over gays and women
AFP - Yesterday, 08:35 pm
LONDON (AFP) - Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams appealed Tuesday for the Anglican church to resolve its divisions over the ordination of female and gay bishops, warning that they were causing "chaos". More »