2008年10月8日星期三

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Yahoo! News: Europe News

Home searched in UK investigation of 7/7 bombings (AP)

Posted: 08 Oct 2008 04:26 AM CDT

AP - Police say they are searching an apartment in the northern English city of Leeds as part of the investigation into the London bombings on July 7, 2005.

Volvo Cars to slash more than 3,000 jobs (AP)

Posted: 08 Oct 2008 04:25 AM CDT

AP - Ford-owned carmaker Volvo Cars said Wednesday it will slash more than 13 percent of its work force because of falling global demand.

British government steps in to help banks (AP)

Posted: 08 Oct 2008 04:22 AM CDT

Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling leaves television offices in London, Wednesday Oct. 8, 2008. The British government is to announce early Wednesday shortly before the markets open, plans to partially nationalize major banks, with taxpayers taking a share stake for a 50 billion pounds (US$87.5 billion) extraordinary investment by the government, in a bid to restore stability into the financial markets. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)AP - The British government said Wednesday it would partly nationalize major banks, with taxpayers taking a share stake in a bid to shore up a financial sector that many investors feared could not survive the global turmoil without government help.

Govt part-nationalises eight main banks in bailout (AFP)

Posted: 08 Oct 2008 04:15 AM CDT

The government has announced a part-nationalisation of the country's eight main banks as part of a package worth up to 500 billion pounds to prevent a collapse of the banking system.(AFP/Bundesbank)AFP - The government has announced a part-nationalisation of the country's eight main banks as part of a package worth up to 500 billion pounds to prevent a collapse of the banking system.

Govt vows to protect Icesave customers (AFP)

Posted: 08 Oct 2008 03:47 AM CDT

Sigurjon Arnason, chief executive of Iceland's troubled Landsbanki bank, whose online arm is called Icesave. Iceland is refusing to honour a commitment to compensate British savers with money in frozen online bank Icesave, but the British government will help them due to exceptional circumstances, a minister has said.(AFP/File/Mike Clarke)AFP - The government on Wednesday vowed to protect customers with savings in an online Icelandic bank, saying Reykjavik was refusing to honour its obligations.

Volvo Cars to cut some 3,000 more jobs (AFP)

Posted: 08 Oct 2008 03:44 AM CDT

Beleaguered Swedish car maker Volvo, a unit of US auto giant Ford, said Wednesday it planned to cut more than 3,000 jobs in Sweden and abroad in addition to the 2,000 cuts announced earlier this year.(AFP/File/Stan Honda)AFP - Beleaguered Swedish car maker Volvo, a unit of US auto giant Ford, said Wednesday it planned to cut more than 3,000 jobs in Sweden and abroad in addition to the 2,000 cuts announced earlier this year.

Brown: UK taking legal action against Iceland (AP)

Posted: 08 Oct 2008 03:40 AM CDT

AP - Prime Minister Gordon Brown says the U.K. will take legal action to recover money held by British savers in branches of troubled Icelandic banks.

Palin may be related to Princess Diana and Roosevelt (Reuters)

Posted: 08 Oct 2008 03:39 AM CDT

Reuters - Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin is distantly related to the late Princess Diana and late U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt, genealogy experts said on Wednesday.

Credit crunch forces London Olympic bosses to recalculate (AFP)

Posted: 08 Oct 2008 03:20 AM CDT

The Olympic flag and the Union Jack in front of London's Tower Bridge. London's Olympic chiefs are having to rework their budgets as the global credit crunch squeezes private funding for the 2012 Games -- although Team GB's success in Beijing has helped boost the coffers.(AFP/File/Shaun Curry)AFP - London's Olympic chiefs are having to rework their budgets as the global credit crunch squeezes private funding for the 2012 Games -- although Team GB's success in Beijing has helped boost the coffers.

London stock market dives 7% (AFP)

Posted: 08 Oct 2008 03:18 AM CDT

People walk past an electronic sign showing the progress of the FTSE 100 share index in London. London's FTSE 100 index of top shares has plunged more than seven percent in early trading after the government announced the part-nationalisation of eight major banks amid a sell-off worldwide.(AFP/File/Carl de Souza)AFP - London's FTSE 100 index of top shares briefly plunged by more than seven percent early on Wednesday after the government announced the part-nationalisation of eight banks and amid a sell-off worldwide.

List of recent Nobel Prize in chemistry winners (AP)

Posted: 08 Oct 2008 03:17 AM CDT

AP - Recent winners of the Nobel Prize in chemistry, and their research, according to the Nobel Foundation:

Russian forces in Georgia appear to begin pullout (AP)

Posted: 08 Oct 2008 02:49 AM CDT

Russian soldiers pack up at the Georgian village of Karaleti, Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2008. Russia must pull out of territory surrounding the separatist regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia by Friday under agreements reached after its war with Georgia. (AP Photo/Sergey Ponomarev)AP - Russian forces began the final stage of a pullback from positions outside Georgia's separatist South Ossetia region, bulldozing a camp at a key checkpoint as EU monitors looked on. A Russian general said the withdrawal would be completed Wednesday.

US, Japan favored for Nobel chemistry prize (AP)

Posted: 08 Oct 2008 02:45 AM CDT

AP - U.S. and Japanese researchers are among the favorites to win the Nobel Prize in chemistry, but don't expect any recent discoveries to get the nod.

Maldives votes in first democratic election (AP)

Posted: 08 Oct 2008 02:33 AM CDT

A Maldivian woman walks past a wall with electoral posters in Male on October 6, 2008. A bitter campaign ahead of historic elections in the Maldives drew to a close Tuesday, with a veteran Asian leader and a prominent dissident each confident of victory.(AFP/Pedro Ugarte)AP - Islanders in the cramped city of Male and scores of far-flung atolls began voting Wednesday in the first democratic presidential election in their tiny nation's history.

Iceland teeters on the brink of bankruptcy (AP)

Posted: 07 Oct 2008 07:07 PM CDT

A man walks out of a branch of Landsbanki in Reykjavik, Iceland Tuesday Oct. 7, 2008 . Iceland nationalized its second-largest bank Landsbanki on Tuesday under day-old legislation and negotiated a euro4 billion (US$5.4 billion) loan from Russia to shore up the nation's finances amid a full-blown financial crisis. The moves came a day after trading in shares of major banks was suspended, the Icelandic krona lost a quarter of its value against the euro, and the government rushed through emergency legislation giving it new powers to deal with the financial meltdown. Prime Minister Haarde warned late Monday that the heavy exposure of the tiny country's banking sector to the global financial turmoil raised the spectre of 'national bankruptcy.' (AP Photo/Arni Torfason)AP - This volcanic island near the Arctic Circle is on the brink of becoming the first "national bankruptcy" of the global financial meltdown.

Far-right Austria governor isolates asylum seekers (AP)

Posted: 07 Oct 2008 06:01 PM CDT

Top candidate Joerg Haider (L) of the Alliance For Austria's Future (BZOe) prepares for a TV discussion in Vienna September 28, 2008. The far right surged to almost a third of the vote in Austria's parliamentary election on Sunday, complicating prospects for the biggest mainstream party, the Social Democrats, to forge a stable governing coalition. REUTERS/Heinz-Peter Bader (AUSTRIA)AP - Far-right Gov. Joerg Haider has set up a facility in the remote mountains of southern Austria to handle asylum seekers suspected as criminals, saying they need to be isolated to protect the people in the area.

British defuse IRA dissident bomb in N.Ireland (AP)

Posted: 07 Oct 2008 04:15 PM CDT

AP - British army experts have defused a roadside bomb planted by Irish Republican Army dissidents in Northern Ireland four days after finding it.

European Union tested by world economic crisis (AP)

Posted: 07 Oct 2008 04:00 PM CDT

A broker is seen in front of the curve of the German stock index the DAX at the stock market in Frankfurt, central Germany, Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2008. European stocks shed early gains as ongoing fears about the health of the banking system, particularly in Britain, offset hopes that the world's leading central banks will follow Australia's lead and cut interest rates aggressively. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)AP - Wall Street's woes extend far beyond Main Street and all the way to Law Street — the hulking headquarters of the European Union.

Vatican No. 2: Pius protected Jews during WWII (AP)

Posted: 07 Oct 2008 02:15 PM CDT

Rabbi Shear-Yashuv Cohen, Chief Rabbi of Haifa, is interviewed by a television crew at his hotel in Rome October 6, 2008. The first Jew to address a Vatican synod said on Monday that wartime Pope Pius XII should have done more to help Jews during the Holocaust and that he may have stayed away if he knew the major Church gathering coincides with commemorations to honour Pius on the 50th anniversary of his death. REUTERS/Alessandro Bianchi (ITALY)AP - The Vatican stepped up its defense of Pope Pius XII on Tuesday, countering allegations the wartime pontiff was silent about the Holocaust by saying he saved Jews through his prudent diplomacy.

Animal rights group opposed to fur targets Armani (AP)

Posted: 07 Oct 2008 02:14 PM CDT

A member of PETA holds a modified picture of Italian designer Giorgio Armani in front of the Armani store in downtown Milan October 7, 2008. Peta activists protested against Armani's new fall collections. REUTERS/Stefano Rellandini (ITALY)AP - The PETA animal rights organization is targeting Armani in its latest anti-fur campaign.

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