Turns out, they're not doing such a good job with containing the bird flu outbreak at an English farm - it's now linked to the adjacent processing plant, and more turkeys have fallen sick at other sheds. My question is: other sheds? You mean they weren't even culling all the poultry on the same farm? Oy.

And now comes news infected meat may ( Read more... )

So, how did H5N1 (bird flu) get into a turkey farm in the U.K.? A wild bird, of course! It must have flown in through a vent. So what if birds aren't migrating now? No, no, the virus couldn't possibly have been imported from Hungary, where there have been outbreaks, and where the Bernard Matthews company owns plants. Bernard Matthews sez ( Read more... )

Heathrow Airport has started conducting trials of biometric security:

Travellers will be able to bypass long queues if they have their fingerprints biometrically scanned, while face and eye scans will be introduced soon.
Goody! If you're not a criminal, why do you care if the authorities have your fingerprints? I can't imagine anything going ( Read more... )

Kremlin to British Foreign Secretary: "OMG you released the dying spy's accusations against Putin, h0rs!"

British: "Bitch, please."

Only, you know, in British. So it was:

"In Britain, people are still free to speak, which is a lesson that seemingly needs to be learnt in Mr Putin's Russia." And, "absolute bloody cheek, frankly."

The scorn,

Last week, the Head of the British Army said that Britain has to pull out of Iraq:

General Sir Richard Dannatt, the head of the army, dropped a political bombshell last night by saying that Britain must withdraw from Iraq "soon" or risk serious consequences for Iraqi and British society ( Read more... )

patrickdean, and anybody else whose first instinct Thursday was that the timing of the British terror plot revelations was awfully convenient for Republican political spin, we were right:

NBC News has learned that U.S. and British authorities had a significant disagreement over when to move in on the suspects in the alleged plot to bring down trans-Atlantic ( Read more... )

'Airlines terror plot' disrupted.

A plot to blow up planes in flight from the UK to the US and commit "mass murder on an unimaginable scale" has been disrupted, Scotland Yard has said ( Read more... )

++ Remember this when you fill up your tank today.
Exxon Mobil Corp. reported $8.4 billion in first-quarter profit yesterday, as members of Congress outraged over high gasoline prices hastened to propose measures that would boost taxes on oil firms, open new areas to drilling and provide rebates to taxpayers but would not necessarily alter prices ( Read more... )

This is what Blair gets for being Bush's lapdog.
Now, in interviews along these same streets, many people repeatedly complain that Blair's time has passed ( Read more... )

OMG you forgot Poland Britain? From Reuters:

Britain could start pulling its soldiers out of Iraq next year if local forces are strong enough to keep the peace, British Prime Minister Tony Blair said on Monday."I think it's entirely reasonable to talk about the possibility of withdrawal of troops next year but it's got to be always conditioned by ( Read more... )