2008年9月30日星期二

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Yahoo! News: Europe News

Economy sees weakest quarterly growth for 16 years (AFP)

Posted: 30 Sep 2008 05:11 AM CDT

City workers walk through London's Canary Wharf. The 's economy experienced zero growth in the second quarter compared to the first three months of 2008, the Office for National Statistics has said, maintaining its previous GDP estimate.(AFP/File/Shaun Curry)AFP - The economy experienced zero growth in the second quarter compared to the first three months of 2008, the Office for National Statistics confirmed on Tuesday.

EU force cannot enter Georgia buffer zone: Russia (Reuters)

Posted: 30 Sep 2008 04:52 AM CDT

Reuters - European Union ceasefire monitors will for now not operate inside a security zone south of Georgia's breakaway South Ossetia region but talks on access are continuing, Russia's military said Tuesday.

British police probe eBay sale of MI6 camera (Reuters)

Posted: 30 Sep 2008 04:44 AM CDT

Reuters - Britain's MI6 intelligence service is investigating how a camera holding sensitive information about al Qaeda suspects came to be lost by one of its agents, police said on Tuesday.

Dexia chairman, CEO resign after bailout (AFP)

Posted: 30 Sep 2008 04:38 AM CDT

Dexia headquarters. Franco-Belgian ban Dexia became the latest European bank to need a state bailout with Belgium, France and Luxembourg pumping 6.4 billion euros into the group so that the financial crisis would not claim another victim.(AFP/File/Olivier Laban-Mattei)AFP - Dexia chairman Pierre Richard and chief executive Axel Miller resigned on Tuesday, the French-Belgian banking group said after receiving a 6.4 billion euro state bailout.

Regulators halt trading on Russian exchanges (AP)

Posted: 30 Sep 2008 03:47 AM CDT

AP - Regulators quickly halted trading on Russia's two major stock exchanges Tuesday after share prices dropped sharply in response to the economic bailout turmoil in the United States.

German, Italian ex-hostages back home from Egypt (AP)

Posted: 30 Sep 2008 03:45 AM CDT

AP - Five Germans and five Italians who were part of a 19-member tourist group kidnapped in Egypt and taken by their abductors on a dash through the Sahara Desert returned to their home countries Tuesday.

Tesco net profit up 11% in first half (AFP)

Posted: 30 Sep 2008 03:42 AM CDT

A shopping trolley loaded with plastic bags at a Tesco store in Liverpool. Tesco has said its net profit jumped by almost 11 percent during the group's first half to more than one billion pounds as it beat off economic woes.(AFP/File/Paul Ellis)AFP - Tesco said on Tuesday that its net profit jumped by almost 11 percent during the group's first half to more than one billion pounds as it beat off economic woes.

FTSE slides 2.32% shortly after open (AFP)

Posted: 30 Sep 2008 03:37 AM CDT

London's FTSE 100 index of leading shares has opened down 0.71 percent at 4,784.53 points after a rout in Asia and on Wall Street overnight.(AFP/File/Shaun Curry)AFP - London's FTSE 100 index of leading shares tumbled 2.32 percent to 4,707.02 points shortly after the start of trading on Tuesday in the wake of a rout across Asia markets and on Wall Street overnight.

Terry Pratchett warns of Alzheimer's 'tsunami' (AFP)

Posted: 30 Sep 2008 03:12 AM CDT

A nurse helps a patient suffering from Alzheimer's disease. Best-selling author Terry Pratchett, who has Alzheimer's disease, has warned the nation faces a AFP - Best-selling author Terry Pratchett, who has Alzheimer's disease, has warned that the nation faces a "tsunami" of dementia sufferers and pleaded for more funding into research.

Europe pushed to produce its own rescue plans (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 30 Sep 2008 03:00 AM CDT

The Christian Science Monitor - Europe had no time Monday to monitor the US attempt to bail out its banking sector. It was frantically dealing with new leaks in its own financial boat.

Merkel disappointed at Bavarian losses (AP)

Posted: 29 Sep 2008 10:32 PM CDT

AP - Chancellor Angela Merkel said Monday that her governing conservatives must focus on the economy and education in the wake of a dramatic loss for her allies in Bavaria that could bode ill for her in national voting next year.

Paris designers defy economic woes (AP)

Posted: 29 Sep 2008 08:40 PM CDT

A model wears a creation by British fashion designer John Galliano for Christian Dior fashion house during his spring-summer 2009 ready-to-wear collection presented in Paris, Monday, Sept. 29, 2008. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)AP - As retail stocks plunged on Monday, Paris designers came up with antidotes to the economic blues plaguing the luxury industry.

Solar panels installed on Vatican roof (AP)

Posted: 29 Sep 2008 04:32 PM CDT

Vatican site manager Andre Koekenhoff, left, and Johannes Dahl, of German company Thermovolt, set up a solar panel on the roof of the Paul VI Hall, at the Vatican, Monday, Sept. 29, 2008. According to the workers involved in the project, a total of 2700 panels will be placed to provide 300,000 kilowatt hours which will be used to illuminate, heat or cool the building where the pontiff holds his general audiences in the winter and in bad weather. Concerts in honor of the pontiff are also staged in the 6,300-seat audience hall. In the background St. Peter's Basilica. (AP Photo/Riccardo De Luca)AP - The first solar panels were installed Monday on top of the papal audience hall at Vatican City.

As rivals take aim, Britain's Brown bounces back (AP)

Posted: 29 Sep 2008 02:45 PM CDT

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown arrives at the opening of the 'In Memorium: Remembering the Great War' exhibition at the Imperial War Museum in London, on Monday Sept. 29, 2008. The exhibition commemorates the 90th anniversary of the Armistice and will look at the personal stories of those who lived, fought, and died during the First World War, both overseas and on the home front. (AP Photo/Leon Neal/Pool)AP - Prime Minister Gordon Brown began a new work week Monday with the cushion of a positive poll as his Conservative Party rivals held their annual conference.

300 EU monitors in place to watch Russian pullback (AP)

Posted: 29 Sep 2008 11:16 AM CDT

Two South Ossetian woman carry bread near a destroyed building in Tskhunvali. Georgia's conflict with Russia cannot be allowed to damage Tbilisi's hopes of one day joining NATO, the US envoy to the military alliance said Monday.(AFP/Kazbek Basayev)AP - Almost 300 monitors from 22 EU nations were in place Monday to oversee Russia's promised troop withdrawal from the large swaths of Georgia it has occupied since a war in August.

Bulgarian poet Konstantin Pavlov dies at 75 (AP)

Posted: 29 Sep 2008 11:16 AM CDT

AP - Poet and screenwriter Konstantin Pavlov, who became one of Bulgaria's most prominent intellectuals with his rare defiance of the country's communist regime, has died, a filmmakers union said. He was 75.

Czech agency: Spies interested in missile defense (AP)

Posted: 29 Sep 2008 10:19 AM CDT

AP - A Czech intelligence agency says foreign intelligence services operating in the Czech Republic have been trying to gather information about a planned U.S. missile defense facility on Czech territory.

UK: Prince Charles to mark 60th with 2 parties (AP)

Posted: 29 Sep 2008 10:19 AM CDT

AP - Not one, but two, royal affairs are in the works to celebrate the 60th birthday of the Prince of Wales.

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