2008年9月25日星期四

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Beatlemania in Israel as McCartney plays for 'peace' (AFP)

Posted: 25 Sep 2008 04:25 AM CDT

Pop star Paul McCartney poses for photographers at a Tel Aviv hotel. Beatlemania has taken hold in Israel as McCartney prepares to play his first ever concert in the Jewish state, saying he hopes to spread a message of peace in the troubled region.(AFP/File/Yehuda Raizner)AFP - Beatlemania has taken hold in Israel as Paul McCartney prepares to play his first ever concert in the Jewish state on Thursday, saying he hopes to spread a message of peace in the troubled region.

Mandelson, China's Chen call for closer trade ties (AP)

Posted: 25 Sep 2008 04:23 AM CDT

AP - European Union trade commissioner Peter Mandelson and China's commerce minister called Thursday for closer trade ties between their giant economies but announced no breakthroughs in talks on import controls and other disputes.

Finland fears copycat attacks, Sweden arrests teen (AP)

Posted: 25 Sep 2008 04:23 AM CDT

People lay candles near the Kauhajoki vocational high school in Kauhajoki, western Finland, on Wednesday Sept. 24, 2008. The government pledged Wednesday to tighten Finland's gun laws and keep mentally unstable people from obtaining firearms following the country's second school massacre in less than a year. The move came a day after a 22-year-old gunman opened fire at a vocational college, killing 10 people — including eight female students — before shooting himself in the head. (AP Photo / Vesa Moilanen, Lehtikuva)AP - Finland could face more copycat school shootings, the country's police chief warned Thursday as investigators probed a growing list of eerie similarities between two deadly rampages in less than a year.

Russia after Georgia war: We aren't isolated at all (Reuters)

Posted: 25 Sep 2008 04:08 AM CDT

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice talks with Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York September 24, 2008. (Joshua Lott/Reuters)Reuters - Russia's foreign minister on Wednesday dismissed suggestions by U.S. and European officials that it has become isolated since its war with Georgia and insisted it acted in justifiable self-defense.

Indian police appeal bail for accused in British teen death (AFP)

Posted: 25 Sep 2008 04:07 AM CDT

Scarlett Keeling stands on Anjuna beach in Goa a few days before her murder in February 2008. Indian police have launched an appeal against a court decision to grant bail to the chief suspect in the death of Keeling in the beach resort state of Goa(AFP/HO/File)AFP - Indian police have launched an appeal against a court decision to grant bail to the chief suspect in the death of a British teenager in the beach resort state of Goa, according to media reports.

Money can't buy success, Man Utd boss warns (AFP)

Posted: 25 Sep 2008 04:04 AM CDT

Sir Alex Ferguson, seen here at a training session in Manchester, has fired a word of warning at rivals Manchester City that it will take more than pots of money to buy them success(AFP/File/PAUL ELLIS)AFP - Manchester United boss Alex Ferguson has fired a word of warning at rivals Manchester City that it will take more than pots of money to buy them success.

UK-Odd Summary (Reuters)

Posted: 25 Sep 2008 03:47 AM CDT

Reuters - A popular Turkish transsexual singer who infuriated the country's powerful armed forces by questioning a military campaign against Kurdish separatists told a court on Wednesday she would rather die than be silent. Bulent Ersoy is on trial on charges of "turning the people against military service" in a case that has raised concerns about free speech in the European Union candidate, where criticising the armed forces is taboo.

Sri Lanka government wants to grow its own marijuana (Reuters)

Posted: 25 Sep 2008 03:46 AM CDT

Reuters - Sri Lanka's government wants to grow its own marijuana.

Man drowns in Bangkok election publicity stunt (Reuters)

Posted: 25 Sep 2008 03:45 AM CDT

Reuters - A publicity stunt by an underdog in the race to be governor of Bangkok went badly wrong when her campaign manager drowned as they bathed in a canal to highlight the plight of residents who have no access to clean water.

Archbishops slam City traders (AFP)

Posted: 25 Sep 2008 03:28 AM CDT

Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams leaves a memorial service at the Great St Mary's Church in Cambridge, February 2008. City traders responsible for the recent economic turmoil came under heavy criticism from the two most senior figures in the Church of England, including Williams.(AFP/File/Ben Stansall)AFP - City traders responsible for the recent economic turmoil came under heavy criticism on Thursday from the two most senior figures in the Church of England.

N. Korea orders UN nuclear inspectors from plant (AP)

Posted: 24 Sep 2008 10:53 PM CDT

This Aug. 13, 2002 file photo is a satellite image provided by Space Imaging Asia of the Yongbyon Nuclear Center, located north of Pyongyang, North Korea. The U.N. nuclear agency said Wednesday Sept. 24, 3008 that North Korea plans to reinsert nuclear material into its Yongbyon reactor. (AP Photo/Space Imaging Asia, File)AP - North Korea moved closer to restarting its nuclear arms program Wednesday, barring U.N. inspectors from its main plutonium reprocessing plant and announcing it will reactivate the facility that provided the material for its atomic test blast.

Finland bewildered by deadly school shootings (AP)

Posted: 24 Sep 2008 07:24 PM CDT

A young woman, right, is helped back onto her feet after laying flowers alongside other tributes outside Kauhajoki vocational high school in Kauhajoki, Finland, Wednesday Sept. 24, 2008. Finland's prime minister called for stricter gun laws Wednesday as investigators revealed that the 22-year-old gunman focused his violence against women, killing eight female students at the school and shooting another in the head. The slaughter that left 10 people and the shooter dead Tuesday was Finland's second deadly school shooting in less than a year. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)AP - This sparsely populated nation near the Arctic Circle has long clung to an ethos of rugged individualism where, unlike in most of Western Europe, the right to bear arms is deeply ingrained in the culture.

UK commander: more troops needed in Afghanistan (AP)

Posted: 24 Sep 2008 05:08 PM CDT

German Bundeswehr soldiers of the ISAF Quick Reaction Force (QRF) during a night drill in the Marmal mountains near Masar-i-Sharif, north of Kabul, September 16, 2008. Picture is taken through a night vision device. (Fabrizio Bensch/Reuters)AP - The commander of Britain's forces in Helmand said he could use as many as 4,000 extra troops to help stabilize the battle-scarred southern Afghan province, according to an interview broadcast Wednesday.

French police arrest 11 suspected Basque militants (AP)

Posted: 24 Sep 2008 04:16 PM CDT

A demonstrator shouts as French police block a protest march near the headquarters of the pro-Basque independence Batasuna (Unity) party in Bayonne, southwestern France, on September 24, 2008. Twelve people were arrested on Wednesday in a operation against members of Batasuna, including their spokesman in France, Xabi Larralde. REUTERS/Olivier Pon (FRANCE)AP - Police arrested 11 suspected Basque militants Wednesday in southwest France in two separate investigations, including the financing of terror attacks in France and Spain, officials said.

Northern Ireland: 3rd man charged in 2001 murder (AP)

Posted: 24 Sep 2008 04:16 PM CDT

AP - A judge charged a third Protestant on Wednesday with murdering a Catholic journalist who had specialized in covering Northern Ireland's paramilitary underworld.

French court acquits rapper of libeling police (AP)

Posted: 24 Sep 2008 03:53 PM CDT

AP - A French appeals court has acquitted a rapper of libeling police in a case brought by the Interior Ministry that dragged out for six years, the entertainer's lawyer said Wednesday.

Italian lawyers seek Condoleezza Rice testimony (AP)

Posted: 24 Sep 2008 01:25 PM CDT

AP - Lawyers for a former Italian intelligence chief want to call Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice as a witness in the trial of 26 Americans charged in the alleged kidnapping of an Egyptian cleric.

Nobel peace prize rebuke possible for China (AP)

Posted: 24 Sep 2008 01:21 PM CDT

AP - The annual guessing game about who will get the 2008 Nobel Peace Prize focused this year on a possible human rights rebuke for China.

Marie Antoinette's refuge at Versailles reopens (AP)

Posted: 24 Sep 2008 01:06 PM CDT

View of the chateau of Versailles' Petit Trianon, which was Marie Antoinette's refuge from the royalty, near the main castle in Versailles, Wednesday, Sept. 24, 2008 that reopens after a one-year, 5 millions euros (about US$ 7,332 millions) renovation funded by Swiss watchmakers Breguet. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)AP - The Petit Trianon was Marie Antoinette's refuge, the mini-chateau where she escaped from queenly protocol and played at living a simpler life. Curators who oversaw its renovation have tried to recreate that intimate atmosphere.

Former Russian lawmaker assassinated in Moscow (AP)

Posted: 24 Sep 2008 12:28 PM CDT

AP - A former Russian lawmaker and brother of a Chechen warlord was assassinated on Wednesday as he was stopped at a traffic light just outside the British Embassy in Moscow, an Interior Ministry spokesman said.

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