2008年9月24日星期三

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Yahoo! News: Europe News

IAEA: NKorea plans to activate Yongbyon reactor (AP)

Posted: 24 Sep 2008 04:49 AM CDT

AP - North Korea plans to start reinserting some of the plutonium-producing nuclear material into its Yongbyon reactor within a week, the chief U.N. nuclear inspector said Wednesday.

Britain's transport secretary to quit (AP)

Posted: 24 Sep 2008 04:49 AM CDT

Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown walks back to his hotel during the Labour Party conference in Manchester, northern England, September 24, 2008. Transport Secretary Ruth Kelly is to quit Prime Minister Gordon Brown's Labour government because she wants to spend more time with her family, an aide said on Wednesday. REUTERS/Phil Noble (BRITAIN)AP - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Wednesday that his transport secretary had asked to quit, reviving questions about restlessness in the Labour Party a day after his stirring speech to an annual rally appeared to quell dissent and silence critics.

Police: Finland shooter killed 8 women, 2 men (AP)

Posted: 24 Sep 2008 04:48 AM CDT

The dormitory home of Matti Saari is seen in Kauhajoki September 24, 2008. Finland mourned the dead of its second school shooting in less than a year on Wednesday, and questioned whether it was time to clamp down hard on private gun ownership. Saari, 22, shot and killed 10 people on Tuesday at a vocational school in Kauhajoki in western Finland, days after drawing police attention with online videos of himself at a gun range, and then turned the gun on himself. REUTERS/Antti Aimo-Koivisto/Lehtikuva (FINLAND). NO THIRD PARTY SALES. NOT FOR USE BY REUTERS THIRD PARTY DISTRIBUTORS. FINLAND OUT. NO COMMERCIAL OR EDITORIAL SALES IN FINLAND.AP - Police say the victims of a school shooting in western Finland were eight women and two men.

Man Utd relief over Pogatetz horror tackle (AFP)

Posted: 24 Sep 2008 04:35 AM CDT

Middlesbrough's Austrian defender Emanuel Pogatetz (centre) is sent off during the Carling Cup third round football match against Manchester United at Old Trafford, Manchester, on September 23. United boss Sir Alex Ferguson breathed a sigh of relief after learning that promising Brazilian teenager Rodrigo Possebon had not broken his leg, as first feared, after a horror challenge by Pogatetz.(AFP/Andrew Yates)AFP - Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson breathed a sigh of relief on Wednesday after learning that promising Brazilian teenager Rodrigo Possebon had not broken his leg, as first feared, after a horror challenge by Middlesbrough's Emanuel Pogatetz.

Bank of England offers further £21.5 bln worth of loans (AFP)

Posted: 24 Sep 2008 03:34 AM CDT

The Bank of England building in central London. The Bank of England made an additional 21.5 billion pounds available to financial institutions on a short-term loan basis.(AFP/File/Shaun Curry)AFP - The Bank of England on Wednesday made an additional 21.5 billion pounds available to financial institutions on a short-term loan basis.

McCartney in Israel for 'peace' concert (AFP)

Posted: 24 Sep 2008 03:18 AM CDT

Music legend Paul McCartney, seen here in July 2008, one of two surviving members of the Beatles, arrived in Israel ahead of his first-ever concert in the Jewish state.(AFP/File/David Boily)AFP - Pop star Paul McCartney, one of two surviving members of the Beatles, arrived in Israel on Wednesday ahead of his first-ever concert in the Jewish state.

Kelly standing down for family reasons: Brown (AFP)

Posted: 24 Sep 2008 02:54 AM CDT

Prime Minister Gordon Brown insisted that Transport Secretary Ruth Kelly, seen here, was standing down for family reasons and that her departure had nothing to do with his politics.(AFP/File/Xavier Leoty)AFP - Prime Minister Gordon Brown insisted Wednesday that a member of his cabinet was standing down for family reasons and that her departure had nothing to do with his politics.

Gunman kills 10 then himself in Finnish school massacre (AFP)

Posted: 24 Sep 2008 02:42 AM CDT

The worst mass killings in schools since 1998.(AFP)AFP - A masked student went on the rampage at a Finnish school, methodically gunning down 10 people before killing himself, a day after police quizzed him over a chilling YouTube warning.

British Energy accepts French EDF takeover offer (AFP)

Posted: 24 Sep 2008 02:30 AM CDT

An undated handout from British Energy press office shows British Energy' Sizewell B power station near Leiston. French electricity firm EDF said that British Energy's management accepted a new takeover offer worth 12.4 billion pounds for the group.(AFP/HO/File)AFP - British Energy accepted a takeover offer worth 12.4 billion pounds by French electricity firm EDF which will build new nuclear reactors in Britain, EDF and officials said Wednesday.

Gunman kills 10, self in Finnish school shooting (Reuters)

Posted: 24 Sep 2008 02:29 AM CDT

Police officers guard a vocational school in Kauhajoki, Finland, September 24, 2008. (Ints Kalnins/Reuters)Reuters - A student shot dead 10 people at a vocational school on Tuesday, Finland's second such attack in less than a year and just one day after the gunman was interviewed by police over Internet postings.

Great poet's grave stokes Civil War dispute (AP)

Posted: 24 Sep 2008 02:11 AM CDT

Members of the Historic Memory Association give a press conference in Madrid, Monday, Sept. 22, 2008. Relatives of the people killed during the Civil War took their case to crusading investigative magistrate Baltasar Garzon, who had recently begun a probe into what are essentially Spain's missing ones. Garzon has spent years going after former military rulers accused of human rights abuses in far-flung nations like Argentina or Chile. (AP Photo/Daniel Ochoa de Olza)AP - The tranquil, pine-carpeted hills in this patch of southern Spain hold awful secrets. Now, one of them has been thrust into the spotlight of a still painful accounting of atrocities committed in the Spanish Civil War.

Italy returns piece of Parthenon Marbles to Greece (AP)

Posted: 23 Sep 2008 04:11 PM CDT

Italian President Giorgio Napolitano views a display at the National Archeological Museum of Athens, on Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2008. On Tuesday, he returned a small piece of the ancient Parthenon Sculptures to Athens, a foot from a sculpture of the goddess Artemis, which was kept for the past two centuries at the Antonio Salinas Museum in Palermo, Sicily. The returned artifact will be housed at a new Athens museum. Greek officials say the Italian gesture will boost their campaign for the return of the Elgin Marbles collection from the British Museum in London. Napolitano is in Greece on a three-day official visit. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)AP - Greece has finally taken possession of a chunk of the Elgin Marbles, and now holds renewed hopes of regaining the rest.

Facts and figures about Finland's gun culture (AP)

Posted: 23 Sep 2008 04:01 PM CDT

AP - Facts and figures about Finland's gun laws and gun ownership.

Winter, repairs stall atom smasher until spring (AP)

Posted: 23 Sep 2008 03:30 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 - Scientists will have to wait until spring to use the world's biggest particle collider for groundbreaking research because repairs to damage will run into the laboratory's normal winter shutdown, the operators said Tuesday.

Interpol says police can't be blamed for shootings (AP)

Posted: 23 Sep 2008 02:09 PM CDT

AP - The head of Interpol said Tuesday that police cannot be blamed for school shootings like the one in Finland because they cannot know in advance what the suspect is going to do.

France: Tight security for EU monitors in Georgia (AP)

Posted: 23 Sep 2008 11:47 AM CDT

AP - EU observers deploying near breakaway regions of Georgia this week to monitor simmering tensions will be protected by tight security but will not be armed, French officials said Tuesday.

Jurors retrace steps of man shot by police (AP)

Posted: 23 Sep 2008 11:47 AM CDT

AP - A jury on Tuesday retraced the steps of a Brazilian man who was killed by police after being mistaken for a suicide bomber. The visit included a stop at the London Underground station where Jean Charles de Menezes was shot seven times in the head as he sat on a subway train.

Princess Diana letters to former nanny to be sold (AP)

Posted: 23 Sep 2008 11:11 AM CDT

AP - Several letters that Princess Diana wrote to her former nanny, including one comparing her own dancing skills to those of an elephant, will be auctioned in London next week, and they are expected to sell for thousands of pounds (dollars).

Box memorial of Admiral Nelson sold at auction (AP)

Posted: 23 Sep 2008 11:10 AM CDT

AP - A box said to be made from wood used in bringing home the body of Adm. Horatio Nelson from the Battle of Trafalgar sold for 8,160 pounds (US$15,020) on Tuesday, Bonhams auction house said.

2nd genocide charge filed against Karadzic (AP)

Posted: 23 Sep 2008 11:10 AM CDT

Bosnian Serb wartime leader Radovan Karadzic, seen here in August 2008, appeared defiantly before a UN war crimes judge Wednesday, claiming a top US envoy had promised him immunity on behalf of the UN Security Council.(AFP/ANP/File/Valerie Kuypers)AP - U.N. prosecutors have filed a second genocide charge against Radovan Karadzic in a proposed new indictment released Tuesday that aims to speed up the trial of the former Bosnian Serb leader.

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