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Yahoo! News: Europe News

European leaders seek bank plan as IMF warns of meltdown (AFP)

Posted: 12 Oct 2008 02:29 AM CDT

French President, Nicolas Sarkozy (R) gives a press conference with German chancellor Angela Merkel in Colombey Les Deux Eglises, eastern France. Leaders of the 15 eurozone countries plus Britain are to gather in Paris on Sunday to announce a new package of measures to protect their banks from the global financial crisis.(AFP/POOL)AFP - World powers vowed to keep a united front to solve the financial crisis as the IMF warned that the global system was on the brink of meltdown ahead of new European crisis talks in Paris on Sunday.

Britain to launch banking rescue: paper (Reuters)

Posted: 12 Oct 2008 02:26 AM CDT

Pedestrians walk past a Barclays bank logo in central London, October 7, 2008. (Stephen Hird/Reuters)Reuters - Britain will launch its biggest retail bank rescue on Monday when the four largest, HBOS, Royal Bank of Scotland, Lloyds TSB and Barclays, ask for a combined 35 billion pounds ($60.5 billion) lifeline, the Sunday Times reported.

Euro-zone chiefs meet to coordinate on meltdown (AP)

Posted: 12 Oct 2008 02:05 AM CDT

AP - European leaders meet Sunday in search of a common response to a spreading financial crisis that has ricocheted across the Atlantic to their shores and to try to preserve the bloc's unity.

Lithuania's impeached president bracing for ballot box comeback (AFP)

Posted: 12 Oct 2008 02:00 AM CDT

Election posters in Vilnius. Polls opened Sunday in Lithuania's general election, a vote expected to mark the comeback of two disgraced populists, ex-president Rolandas Paksas and former political star Viktor Uspaskich.(AFP/Petras Malukas)AFP - Lithuanians were voting Sunday in a general election likely to mark the comeback of two disgraced populists, ex-president Rolandas Paksas and former political star Viktor Uspaskich.

Credit crunch holding up funerals (AFP)

Posted: 12 Oct 2008 01:20 AM CDT

Undertakers hit by the financial crisis are refusing to carry out funerals unless they get paid in advance, The Mail on Sunday newspaper reported.(AFP/File/Paul Ellis)AFP - Undertakers hit by the financial crisis are refusing to carry out funerals unless they get paid in advance, The Mail on Sunday newspaper reported.

Polls open in Lithuania's election, nuclear referendum (AFP)

Posted: 11 Oct 2008 11:35 PM CDT

Election posters in Vilnius. Polls opened Sunday in Lithuania's general election, a vote expected to mark the comeback of two disgraced populists, ex-president Rolandas Paksas and former political star Viktor Uspaskich.(AFP/Petras Malukas)AFP - Polls opened Sunday in Lithuania's general election, a vote expected to mark the comeback of two disgraced populists, ex-president Rolandas Paksas and former political star Viktor Uspaskich.

Lithuanians begin voting in parliamentary poll (Reuters)

Posted: 11 Oct 2008 11:24 PM CDT

Reuters - Lithuanians began voting in a parliamentary election on Sunday against a backdrop of double-digit inflation and fears its once high flying economy will be sucked into the global financial crisis.

IMF warns of meltdown; France says Europe to act (Reuters)

Posted: 11 Oct 2008 10:57 PM CDT

International Monetary Fund Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn speaks at a news conference at the annual IMF-World Bank meeting in Washington October 11, 2008. REUTERS/Yuri GripasReuters - The IMF warned the world's financial system was near meltdown and France promised that a meeting of European leaders in Paris will detail measures to keep a market panic from triggering the most severe global downturn in decades.

European leaders meet on financial meltdown (AFP)

Posted: 11 Oct 2008 10:24 PM CDT

French President, Nicolas Sarkozy (R) gives a press conference with German chancellor Angela Merkel in Colombey Les Deux Eglises, eastern France. Leaders of the 15 eurozone countries plus Britain are to gather in Paris on Sunday to announce a new package of measures to protect their banks from the global financial crisis.(AFP/POOL)AFP - Leaders of the 15 eurozone countries plus Britain are to gather in Paris on Sunday to announce a new package of measures to protect their banks from the global financial crisis.

Vienna director sick, but opera good (AP)

Posted: 11 Oct 2008 08:35 PM CDT

Kwangchul Youn in the role of Mephistopeles performs during a dress rehearsal for the opera 'Faust' by Charles Gounod, on Monday, Oct. 6, 2008, at Vienna's State Opera. Premiere is on Saturday, Oct. 11, 2008, directed by Bertrand de Billy. (AP Photo/Stephan Trierenberg)AP - Damnation was the dominant theme Saturday in a new Vienna State Opera production of Charles Gounod's Faust. But redemption triumphed in the form of wonderful singing and a powerful orchestral performance.

Mercurial Austrian rightist dead in car crash (AP)

Posted: 11 Oct 2008 05:24 PM CDT

In this Aug. 14, 2008 file picture, the Governor of the Austrian province of Carinthia, Joerg Haider arrives for a news conference in Vienna, Austria. Haider, whose far-right rhetoric led to international isolation for Austria during his time in government, died in a car accident Saturday Oct. 11, 2008, when his car veered off the road near the city of Klagenfurt and overturned. He was 58. (AP Photo/Hans Punz)AP - Joerg Haider, who catapulted his rightist anti-immigration party into a powerful force with sharp attacks on rivals and provocative praise of the Nazi era, died Saturday in a car accident. He was 58.

Italian woman in right-to-die case worsens (AP)

Posted: 11 Oct 2008 01:02 PM CDT

This undated file photo released from family shows Eluana Englaro, who fell into a vegetative state following a car accident in 1992. Two years later, doctors called her condition irreversible. The condition of Englaro at the center of a right-to-die case has worsened after she suffered a massive hemorrhage, doctors said Saturday, Oct. 11, 2008. Englaro has been in a vegetative state for 16 years and her father has led a protracted court battle to disconnect her feeding tube, insisting it was her wish. (AP Photo/Englaro family, HO, File)AP - The condition of an Italian woman at the center of a right-to-die case worsened after she suffered a massive hemorrhage, doctors said Saturday.

12 killed in Russian North Caucasus quake (AP)

Posted: 11 Oct 2008 12:29 PM CDT

AP - A strong earthquake hit Chechnya and other parts of Russia's North Caucasus Saturday, killing at least 12 people and damaging scores of hospitals, schools and other buildings, emergency officials said.

Antiquities dealer has colorful, checkered career (AP)

Posted: 11 Oct 2008 09:49 AM CDT

Leonardo Patterson is shown in his apartment in Munich, southern Germany, on Saturday, Sept. 27, 2008. (AP Photo/Uwe Lein)AP - Leonardo Patterson made his first archaeological find at age 7 in a yam field in his native Costa Rica — a piece of clay pottery his cousin said could be thousands of years old.

Russian missile makes record flight (AP)

Posted: 11 Oct 2008 09:12 AM CDT

AP - Russian officials say a submarine-launched ballistic missile has made a record flight, hitting a target in the middle of the Pacific Ocean for the first time.

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