2008年9月17日星期三

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Yahoo! News: Europe News

Guthrie escapes additional FA ban for horror tackle (AFP)

Posted: 17 Sep 2008 04:54 AM CDT

Arsenal's Samir Nasri (left) vies with Newcastle's Danny Guthrie during their Premier League match at the Emirates Stadium in London in late August 2008. Guthrie will serve a standard three-match suspension for his reckless tackle on Hull's Craig Fagan and won't get an additional ban, it has been.(AFP/File/Glyn Kirk)AFP - Newcastle midfielder Danny Guthrie will serve a standard three-match suspension for his reckless tackle on Hull's Craig Fagan and won't get an additional ban, it was announced Wednesday.

iPhone 3G is named gadget of the year (Reuters)

Posted: 17 Sep 2008 04:50 AM CDT

An Apple iPhone sits on a display stand during its launch at a Singtel store in Singapore August 22, 2008. (Vivek Prakash/Reuters)Reuters - Apple's iPhone 3G has won a public vote to find the year's best gadget, beating strong competition from three games consoles, a budget laptop and a balloon-shaped iPod speaker system.

Lloyds TSB in talks to buy HBOS: report (AFP)

Posted: 17 Sep 2008 04:36 AM CDT

Lloyds TSB is in talks to buy its rival bank HBOS, whose share price has collapsed in value this week, the BBC has reported.(AFP/File/Ed Jones)AFP - Lloyds TSB is in talks to buy its rival bank HBOS, whose share price has collapsed in value this week, the BBC reported on Wednesday.

Bank of England voted 8-1 to hold interest rates (AFP)

Posted: 17 Sep 2008 04:33 AM CDT

The Bank of England building in central London. Bank of England policymakers voted 8-1 in favour of leaving interest rates at 5.00 percent in September, minutes of their latest meeting have revealed.(AFP/File/Shaun Curry)AFP - Bank of England policymakers voted 8-1 in favour of leaving British interest rates at 5.00 percent in September, minutes of their latest meeting revealed Wednesday.

Suspects in British student murder case appear in court (AFP)

Posted: 17 Sep 2008 04:28 AM CDT

Suspect Raffaele Sollecito is accompanied by police upon his arrival for a hearing with magistrates in charge of the murder case of British student Meredith Kercher in Perugia in January 2008. Two of the suspects in the murder case have appeared in court in Italy, for the first time coming face-to-face with the victim's family. Sollecito did not attend the opening of the trial.(AFP/File/Paolo Tosti)AFP - Two of the suspects in the murder case of British exchange student Meredith Kercher have appeared in court in Italy, for the first time coming face-to-face with the victim's family.

Lloyds TSB in talks to buy HBOS: BBC (AFP)

Posted: 17 Sep 2008 04:28 AM CDT

Lloyds TSB is in talks to buy its rival British bank HBOS, whose share price has collapsed in value this week, the BBC has reported.(AFP/File/Ed Jones)AFP - Lloyds TSB is in talks to buy its rival British bank HBOS, whose share price has collapsed in value this week, the BBC reported on Wednesday.

Russia slams NATO for "Cold War" visit to Georgia (Reuters)

Posted: 17 Sep 2008 04:18 AM CDT

A South Ossetian woman, who now lives in Siberia, holds a flower on a ferry in Krasnoyarsk during a meeting of victims of the military conflict in South Ossetia September 16, 2008. (Ilya Naymusin/Reuters)Reuters - A visit to Georgia by senior NATO officials this week was anti-Russian and showed the alliance is driven by Cold War-style thinking, Russia's Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday.

Karadzic to appear at pretrial UN court hearing (AP)

Posted: 17 Sep 2008 04:01 AM CDT

AP - Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic was returning to court Wednesday for a hearing to continue preparations for his U.N. genocide and crimes against humanity trial.

France says European defence neglect hurting Afghanistan (AFP)

Posted: 17 Sep 2008 03:37 AM CDT

French Defence Minister Herve Morin visits the Australian War Memorial in Canberra on September 17. Morin on Wednesday said years of under-investment in defence by European countries was to blame for a critical shortage of international forces in Afghanistan.(AFP/Torsten Blackwood)AFP - French Defence Minister Herve Morin on Wednesday said years of under-investment in defence by European countries was to blame for a critical shortage of international forces in Afghanistan.

Cricketer Hick admits 'lack of cutting edge' as curtain falls (AFP)

Posted: 17 Sep 2008 02:58 AM CDT

File photo of former England batsman Graeme Hick. 'Unfulfilled promise' has often been a phrase used to describe Hick's career so it may be cruelly apt if his final season before retirement is cut short by injury.(AFP/File/William West)AFP - 'Unfulfilled promise' has often been a phrase used to describe Graeme Hick's career so it may be cruelly apt if his final season before retirement is cut short by injury.

US student appears in Italian court in murder case (AP)

Posted: 16 Sep 2008 04:47 PM CDT

American murder suspect Amanda Knox, left, is escorted by Italian penitentiary police officers, outside Perugia's court, central Italy, Tuesday Sept. 16, 2008. A judge in Perugia is leading a hearing Tuesday on a request for trial for Knox and two other suspects in the 2007 slaying of British student Meredith Kercher in this university town in Umbria. Suspect Amanda Knox, who is from Seattle, showed up in court, but her former Italian boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito did not. The third suspect, Rudy Hermann Guede, an African who lives in Perugia, was attending the hearing. All three deny wrongdoing. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni)AP - An American student suspected of being involved in the slaying of her British roommate in Italy last year appeared with one other suspect Tuesday for their first hearing before a judge who is deciding whether they will be charged and stand trial.

Scientists exhume British diplomat to study flu (AP)

Posted: 16 Sep 2008 04:21 PM CDT

British aristocrat Sir Mark Sykes is seen in this undated handout file photograph received in London on September 16, 2008. The body of Sykes, who died from Spanish flu in 1919, has been exhumed from it's lead coffin, buried in Driffield, northern England. Scientists hope the Spanish flu virus may have been preserved, and that remains will help piece together the DNA of Spanish flu, which might have a similar genetic structure to modern bird flu. This knowledge might help develop new drugs, helping to prevent a modern pandemic, local media reported. REUTERS/East Riding Archives and Local Studies Service/Handout/Files (BRITAIN). NO SALES. NO ARCHIVES. FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY. NOT FOR SALE FOR MARKETING OR ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS..AP - Scientists have exhumed the body of a British diplomat who died of flu during the World War I-era pandemic that killed tens of millions around the world, hoping to find clues that might help fight a future global influenza outbreak.

Georgia: Intercepted calls prove self-defense (AP)

Posted: 16 Sep 2008 03:36 PM CDT

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, left, and leader of Georgian breakaway region of South Ossetia Eduard Kokoity speak during a joint news conference in Tskhinvali on Monday, Sept. 15, 2008. Sending troops deep into Georgia and recognizing the separatist regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia as independent nations, the Kremlin raised the stakes in the struggle with the West for regional influence, and underscored its determination to halt NATO's expansion. (AP Photo)AP - In a bid to portray Russia as the aggressor in last month's war, Georgia has released recordings of what it says are two intercepted cell phone calls purporting to show that Moscow invaded before Georgia's offensive against South Ossetia.

Ukraine prez: Russia wants to destabilize Ukraine (AP)

Posted: 16 Sep 2008 02:58 PM CDT

Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko gestures during an interview with The Associated Press in Kiev, Ukraine, Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2008. Yushchenko on Tuesday accused Russia of seeking to destabilize his country by inciting separatist sentiments in its volatile Crimean peninsula, but vowed the Kremlin will not succeed. (AP Photo/Mykola Lazarenko)AP - President Viktor Yushchenko accused Russia on Tuesday of trying to destabilize Ukraine by encouraging separatists in the Crimea, as fears grow about Russia's willingness to throw its weight around the former Soviet Union.

IAEA info suggests Iran worked on nuclear missile (AP)

Posted: 16 Sep 2008 02:49 PM CDT

Tthe Isfahan Uranium Conversion Facilities, 420 kms south of Tehran. China says UN-imposed sanctions will not resolve the stalemate over Iran's nuclear programme, after the United States raised the prospect of new tough action.(AFP/File/Behrouz Mehri)AP - The U.N. nuclear monitoring agency shared new photos and documents purporting to show that Iran tried to refit its main long-distance missile to carry a nuclear payload, said diplomats who attended the meeting Tuesday.

Gurkhas sue for right to stay in Britain (AP)

Posted: 16 Sep 2008 12:56 PM CDT

AP - Gurkha soldiers challenged the British government Tuesday over what they charge are unfair restrictions on their right to remain in the country for which they risked their lives.

Probe finds flap failure on doomed Madrid plane (AP)

Posted: 16 Sep 2008 12:14 PM CDT

Rescue workers sift through the crash of Spanair's Flight JK5022, an MD-82 jet bound for Las Palmas in the Canary Islands, which crashed on takeoff and burst into flames at Madrid airport on Wednesday, killing 153 of the people on board, in this video grab released August 21, 2008. (TVE/Handout/Reuters)AP - Wing flaps that help lift a plane on takeoff failed on the Spanair flight that crashed last month and an alarm to warn pilots of the problem never sounded, according to an initial report Tuesday on the accident that killed 154 people.

2 charged with 2001 murder of N. Ireland reporter (AP)

Posted: 16 Sep 2008 10:56 AM CDT

AP - Two Protestant extremists were charged Tuesday with the 2001 assassination of an investigative journalist in Northern Ireland — the only killing of a reporter during four decades of conflict over the British territory.

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