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Yahoo! News: Europe News

Nomura interested in Lehman Europe operations: report (Reuters)

Posted: 21 Sep 2008 03:32 AM CDT

The Frankfurt branch of the Lehman Brothers bank is pictured in Frankfurt September 15, 2008. (Alex Grimm/Reuters)Reuters - Nomura Holdings, Japan's largest brokerage, is interested in buying the European operations of failed U.S. investment bank Lehman Brothers, Japan's Mainichi newspaper said on Sunday.

Six injured in car bomb blast in Spain's Basque country: official (AFP)

Posted: 21 Sep 2008 02:00 AM CDT

File photo shows a masked Ertzainzas (local police force officer) standing guard in the centre of the northern Spanish Basque city of Vitoria. Six people have been injured in a car bomb blast in the town of Ondarroa while an earlier bomb in Vitoria caused no injuries.(AFP/File/Rafa Rivas)AFP - Six people were injured Sunday in a car bomb blast outside a police station in Ondarroa, in northern Spain's Basque country, in the second such attack in the region within hours, officials said.

Bomb near Basque Country police station, 7 hurt (Reuters)

Posted: 21 Sep 2008 01:50 AM CDT

Reuters - Seven people were slightly hurt on Sunday after a car bomb exploded outside a police station in the town of Ondarroa in the Basque Country in northern Spain, police said.

Thousands in France, Germany, protest Afghan deployment (AFP)

Posted: 21 Sep 2008 01:03 AM CDT

German soldiers in Afghanistan in October 2006. Thousands of people in France and Germany took to the streets calling for soldiers deployed in Afghanistan to be brought home.(AFP/File/Shah Marai)AFP - Thousands of people in France and Germany took to the streets calling for soldiers deployed in Afghanistan to be brought home, police and march organisers said.

Slovenians begin voting in general election (Reuters)

Posted: 21 Sep 2008 12:24 AM CDT

Slovenia's President Danilo Tuerk leaves the polling station after he votes during general elections in Ljubljana September 21, 2008. (Srdjan Zivulovic/Reuters)Reuters - Slovenians began voting for a new government on Sunday, anxious to maintain the prosperity the tiny Alpine country has gained since independence from the former Yugoslavia in 1991.

Tokyo shop sells PM favourite as "cool old dude" (Reuters)

Posted: 20 Sep 2008 11:52 PM CDT

A store staff wearing masks of the former foreign minister Taro Aso tries to attract customers on a street at Tokyo's Akihabara district September 20, 2008. The store selling items featuring the frontrunner in the race to be Japan's next prime minister opened in Akihabara, a mecca for electronics and Japanese comics in central Tokyo. Outspoken Aso, known for his love of comics, is widely expected to win the Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party presidential election on next Monday to replace outgoing Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda, who quit this month. REUTERS/Issei KatoReuters - Being old is apparently no bar to finding favour with the young -- at least in the world of Japanese politics.

London City workers predict volatile week ahead (AFP)

Posted: 20 Sep 2008 11:44 PM CDT

An aerial view of the 'City', London's business disctrict, seen in July. Bankers and traders in the heart of London's financial district predicted the week ahead would be better than the last but warned there was more market volatility to come.(AFP/File/Leon Neal)AFP - Bankers and traders in the heart of London's financial district predicted the week ahead would be better than the last but warned there was more market volatility to come.

British PM bids to silence rebels at party conference (AFP)

Posted: 20 Sep 2008 10:14 PM CDT

Police in Manchester on the eve of the Labour Party Conference. Gordon Brown came out fighting Saturday at the Labour Party conference, pledging AFP - Prime Minister Gordon Brown will seek to shore up his authority Sunday on the first full day of his Labour Party's annual conference despite a budding rebellion against him.

US lead Europe by two after splitting fantastic fourballs at golf Ryder Cup (AFP)

Posted: 20 Sep 2008 09:36 PM CDT

Graeme McDowell (right) of Team Europe tosses US golfer Jim Furyk's ball to him after his shot landed about one foot from the 15th hole during fourball Ryder Cup competition, on September 20, at Valhalla in Louisville, Kentucky. The US, desperate to end Europe's run of three Ryder Cup victories, emerged with a 9-7 lead heading into Sunday's singles matches.(AFP/Don Emmert)AFP - The United States, desperate to end Europe's run of three Ryder Cup victories, emerged from a thrilling fourball battle Saturday with a 9-7 lead heading into Sunday's singles matches.

Car bomb explodes in Basque capital (AP)

Posted: 20 Sep 2008 08:51 PM CDT

AP - The Interior Ministry says a car bomb has exploded on the outskirts of the Basque capital, causing considerable damage but no injuries.

Scholar claims to find medieval Jewish capital (AP)

Posted: 20 Sep 2008 01:13 PM CDT

This July 30, 2005 photo shows an excavation of an 11th-12th century house made of hard-burnt bricks in Itil, a Silk Road city that served as the Khazar capital, near Astrakhan, about 800 miles (1280 km) south of Moscow, The Khazars established the first feudal state in eastern Europe. A Russian archaeologist says he has found the lost capital of the Khazar empire, a powerful medieval state that once stretched from the northern shores of the Black Sea to Central Asia and whose rulers adopted Judaism as their state religion. (AP Photo/Dmitry Vasilyev)AP - A Russian archaeologist says he has found the lost capital of the Khazars, a powerful nation that adopted Judaism as its official religion more than 1,000 years ago, only to disappear leaving little trace of its culture.

CERN: Damage to new collider forces 2-month halt (AP)

Posted: 20 Sep 2008 01:07 PM CDT

In this file photo dated May 31, 2007, part of the LHC (Large Hadron Collider) is seen in its tunnel at the CERN (European Center for Nuclear Research) near Geneva, Switzerland. The world's largest atom smasher, which was launched with great fanfare earlier this month, has been damaged worse than previously thought and will be out of commission for at least two months, its operators said Saturday, Sept. 20, 2008. (AP Photo/Keystone, Martial Trezzini, File)AP - The world's largest atom smasher — which was launched with great fanfare earlier this month — has been damaged worse than previously thought and will be out of commission for at least two months, its operators said Saturday.

Q&A about problems with Large Hadron Collider (AP)

Posted: 20 Sep 2008 07:58 AM CDT

AP - The damage to the Large Hadron Collider on the Swiss-French border will delay for at least two months the quest for scientists to learn more about the nature of the universe and the origins of all matter.

Officials: Damage to collider forces 2-month halt (AP)

Posted: 20 Sep 2008 06:34 AM CDT

AP - The European Organization for Nuclear Research says its new particle collider has been damaged worse than previously thought and will be out of commission for at least two months.

Austria: Quake sets off buried WWII bomb (AP)

Posted: 20 Sep 2008 06:29 AM CDT

AP - Austrian authorities say a small earthquake set off a large World War II-era bomb in the garden of a Vienna home. No one was injured in the explosion.

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