2008年9月20日星期六

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Yahoo! News: Europe News

Croatia holds convicted 71-year-old British paedophile (AFP)

Posted: 20 Sep 2008 04:00 AM CDT

A police officer tracking paedophiles on the Internet. A 71-year-old Briton who fled his country after he was convicted of paedophilia, has been arrested in Croatia, a judicial official has said.(AFP/Ho/File/Ho)AFP - A 71-year-old paedophile who fled Britain after being convicted, has been arrested in Croatia, a judicial official said Friday.

German regulator bans short-selling in financial stocks (AFP)

Posted: 20 Sep 2008 03:58 AM CDT

Stock brokers go about their business at Frankfurt's stock exchange on September 16. Germany halted short-selling in financial shares, when investors borrow company stock to sell it, following the example of Britain and the United States.(DDP/AFP/File/Thomas Lohnes)AFP - Germany on Saturday halted short-selling in financial shares, when investors borrow company stock to sell it, following the example of Britain and the United States.

Lloyds TSB issues new stock after HBOS rescue (AFP)

Posted: 20 Sep 2008 03:49 AM CDT

Lloyds TSB, fresh from clinching the takeover of distressed rival HBOS, has said it will sell new shares totalling about 5.0 percent of its issued capital.(AFP/File/Ben Stansall)AFP - Lloyds TSB, fresh from clinching the takeover of distressed rival HBOS, has said it will sell new shares totalling about 5.0 percent of its issued capital.

Brown battling for survival at Labour conference (AFP)

Posted: 20 Sep 2008 03:39 AM CDT

Gordon Brown, seen here, faces the fight of his life at the Labour Party conference to squash a revolt which could topple him and prove he can lead Britain through global economic turmoil(AFP/File/Paul Ellis)AFP - Gordon Brown faces the fight of his life at the Labour Party conference opening on Saturday to squash a revolt which could topple him and prove he can lead the country through the wave of global economic turmoil.

Russia against new U.N. measures on Iran (Reuters)

Posted: 20 Sep 2008 03:33 AM CDT

A cleric walks past the national flag and a nuclear logo while visiting the International Koran exhibition at the Imam Khomeini grand mosque in Tehran September 3, 2008. (Morteza Nikoubazl/Reuters)Reuters - Russia is against the United Nations taking any extra measures on Iran over its nuclear program for now, and thinks efforts towards dialogue should continue, the Foreign Ministry said on Saturday.

Georgia to seek U.N. support against Russia (Reuters)

Posted: 20 Sep 2008 03:25 AM CDT

Georgia's President Mikheil Saakashvili attends an award ceremony at the defence ministry in Tbilisi September 17, 2008. (David Mdzinarishvili/Reuters)Reuters - The leaders of Georgia and Ukraine go to the United Nations next week hoping to shore up Western support for their future NATO accession faced with a militarily resurgent Russia.

European Lehman administrators want 8 bln dollars back: report (AFP)

Posted: 20 Sep 2008 02:52 AM CDT

A man leaves Lehman Brothers European Headquarters in London's Canary Wharf. The administrators to the European arm of Lehman Brothers have demanded the return of eight billion dollars transferred to the bank's US holding company before its collapse, a report said(AFP/Ben Stansall)AFP - The administrators to the European arm of Lehman Brothers have demanded the return of eight billion dollars transferred to the bank's US holding company before its collapse, a report said Saturday.

Scolari lights the fuse on United showdown (AFP)

Posted: 19 Sep 2008 10:53 PM CDT

Luiz Felipe Scolari, seen here, has lit the fuse on Chelsea's explosive Premier League showdown with Manchester United by admitting he could make a move to sign Cristiano Ronaldo(AFP/File/Ian Kington)AFP - Luiz Felipe Scolari has lit the fuse on Chelsea's explosive Premier League showdown with Manchester United by admitting he could make a move to sign Cristiano Ronaldo.

Blair goes back to school -- as Yale religion prof (AFP)

Posted: 19 Sep 2008 09:55 PM CDT

Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, seen in July 2008, speaks at the launch of a report in Tokyo. Blair went back to school Friday, launching his new role as a lecturer on religion at top US university Yale.(AFP/File/Toru Yamanaka)AFP - Former prime minister Tony Blair has gone back to school, launching his new role as a lecturer on religion at top US university Yale.

US take Ryder Cup by storm as Europe wilts (AFP)

Posted: 19 Sep 2008 07:19 PM CDT

Stewart Cink (R) and Chad Campbell celebrate on the 18th hole during day one of the 2008 Ryder Cup at Valhalla Golf Club in Louisville, Kentucky. The United States battled back to stun Europe on the opening day of the 37th Ryder Cup on Friday taking a 3-1 lead after the morning foursomes.(AFP/Getty Images/Andrew Redington)AFP - Paul Azinger's tactics of playing all 12 of his men on the opening day of the Ryder Cup paid handsome dividends Friday as the United States grabbed a crushing 5.5 to 2.5 lead over Europe.

Cambridge's fantastical new clock even tells time (AP)

Posted: 19 Sep 2008 04:35 PM CDT

Professor Stephen Hawking unveils The Corpus Clock, seen behind him, a new installation at Corpus Christi College in Cambridge, England, Friday, Sept. 19, 2008. Professor Stephen Hawking, author of A Brief History of Time, was guest of honour at a ceremony to mark the creation of The Corpus Clock, which cost more than 1 million pounds (US$1.8 million) to build and erect in Cambridge. The 'Corpus clock' is the brainchild of inventor John Taylor, who used his own money to build it, in part to pay homage to the genius of John Harrison, the Englishman who in 1725 invented the 'grasshopper' escapement — a mechanical device that helps regulate a clock's movement. Making a visual pun on the grasshopper image, Taylor has designed a fantasy version of a grasshopper at the top of the clock face, and uses this beast — with its long needle teeth and barbed tail — as an integral part of the clockworks. Its jaws begin to open halfway through a minute, then snap shut at 59 seconds. The creature's eyes, usually a dull green, occasionally flash bright yellow. The oversize grasshopper is called a chronophage, or 'time eater.' (AP Photo/Chris Radburn/PA)AP - Most clocks just tell time, simply and reliably. Not the $1.8 million "time eater" formally unveiled Friday at Corpus Christi College in Cambridge.

For now, France backs off idea for 'picnic tax' (AP)

Posted: 19 Sep 2008 02:56 PM CDT

AP - France's government has backed away from instituting a tax on common household products — from plastic forks to disposable diapers — that aren't environmentally friendly.

Immigrant protest turns violent in southern Italy (AP)

Posted: 19 Sep 2008 02:51 PM CDT

Immigrants are seen during a protest following the slain of six Africans in Castel Volturno, near Naples, Italy, Friday, Sept. 19, 2008. Hundreds of African immigrants took their anger over the slaying in an alleged hit by the Neopolitan mafia to the streets, hurling rocks and smashing car and store windows. (AP Photo/Salvatore Laporta)AP - Hundreds of African immigrants took their anger over the alleged mafia killing of six Africans to the streets on Friday, hurling rocks and smashing windows in a town north of Naples.

Ex-politician's son charged with N.Ireland terror (AP)

Posted: 19 Sep 2008 02:34 PM CDT

AP - The son of a one-time local leader in the Sinn Fein party was charged in Northern Ireland on Friday with possessing explosives, ammunition and other illegal equipment while allegedly planning dissident Irish Republican Army attacks.

Spain: Jobless immigrants paid to go home (AP)

Posted: 19 Sep 2008 02:10 PM CDT

AP - Spain will pay jobless immigrants to go home under a decree approved Friday, more evidence of how its once-booming economy has quickly gone bust.

Freemen drive sheep across London Bridge (AP)

Posted: 19 Sep 2008 01:56 PM CDT

Liverymen and Freemen of the City of London re-enact their right to drive sheep across London Bridge, in central London, Friday Sept. 19, 2008. A herd of 15 Romney ewes was driven across by groups of 15 Freemen, some dressed in their official robes of office, to raise an estimated 40,000 British pounds for The Lord Mayor's Appeal. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)AP - Being a freeman of the City of London used to mean strolling around with your sword unsheathed, getting as drunk as you liked and driving your sheep across London Bridge for free.

French retailer in hot seat over Chinese chairs (AP)

Posted: 19 Sep 2008 01:54 PM CDT

A Conforama furniture store is seen in the center of Paris, Friday, Sept. 19, 2008. After tainted baby milk, now toxic chairs from China. Customers in France who bought Chinese-made recliners are complaining of stinging rashes and burns. One customer, Caroline Morin, said Friday she was stunned to learn that the chair she bought last December appears to have been the cause of skin problems she has battled for months. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)AP - After tainted baby milk, now toxic chairs from China.

Medvedev: Russia won't be pushed into isolation (AP)

Posted: 19 Sep 2008 01:52 PM CDT

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev enters to attend a meeting with non-government organizations at the Kremlin in Moscow on Friday, Sept. 19, 2008. President Dmitry Medvedev said Friday that Russia wouldn't yield to Western pressure or be pushed into an isolation over the war in Georgia. (AP Photo/RIA-Novosti, Dmitry Astakhov, Presidential Press Service)AP - President Dmitry Medvedev on Friday derided U.S. accusations that Russia was sliding into irrelevance, saying defiantly that Moscow would set its own course without isolating itself behind a new Iron Curtain.

Hikers make a mountain out of an old Welsh hill (AP)

Posted: 19 Sep 2008 12:42 PM CDT

AP - Three hikers have made a mountain out of an old Welsh hill.

Anti-mosque nationalists attacked in Germany (AP)

Posted: 19 Sep 2008 12:38 PM CDT

People protest in front of the mosque in Cologne, Germany, on Friday, Sept. 19, 2008 against a planned bus tour of the German right-wing Pro Koeln party to the mosque. Sign reads 'Cologne is coulorful and beauty. We don't want to see Nazis here. Never again fascism, nevermore fundamentalism'. (AP Photo/Hermann J. Knippertz)AP - Protesters throwing stones and paintballs disrupted the opening of an "anti-Islamification" conference Friday organized by a right-wing German nationalist group that opposes the building of a large new mosque.

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