2008年10月13日星期一

Yahoo! News: Europe News

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Europe News

England's Spain football friendly set for move due to racism fears (AFP)

Posted: 13 Oct 2008 04:03 AM CDT

England footballer Rio Ferdinand after a training session in Hertfordshire, north London on October 7. A friendly fixture between England and Spain is set to be moved from its scheduled venue of Madrid next year over fears that racism could again become the overriding feature of the match.(AFP/File/Glyn Kirk)AFP - A friendly fixture between England and Spain is set to be moved from its scheduled venue of Madrid next year over fears that racism could again become the overriding feature of the match.

World markets welcome European bank rescue (AFP)

Posted: 13 Oct 2008 04:01 AM CDT

A trader monitors the electronic board at the Philippine Stock Exchange in Manila. European governments have attacked the financial crisis on several fronts, buying into banks and giving huge new loans in a campaign that brought relief to shell-shocked share markets.(AFP/Jay Directo)AFP - European governments attacked the financial crisis on several fronts Monday buying into banks and giving huge new loans in a campaign that brought relief to shell-shocked share markets.

Brown abandons No.10 for more space.. at No.12 (AFP)

Posted: 13 Oct 2008 04:01 AM CDT

A policeman watches a squirrel on the doorstep of 10 Downing Sreet. Prime Minister Gordon Brown is to break with more than 275 years of tradition and move out of 10 Downing Street -- to take up residence next door at No 12, The Sun newspaper has reported.(AFP/File/Shaun Curry)AFP - Prime Minister Gordon Brown is to break with more than 275 years of tradition and move out of 10 Downing Street -- to take up residence next door at No 12, The Sun newspaper reported on Monday.

UK bails out banks as Europe acts (Reuters)

Posted: 13 Oct 2008 03:49 AM CDT

HBOS, Lloyds and the Royal Bank of Scotland signs are seen in this combination photo. (David Moir/Rob Bodman/David Moir/Reuters)Reuters - Britain bailed out three major banks with 37 billion pounds ($64 billion) on Monday, as European governments used taxpayers' cash to take control and boost confidence in the battered industry.

British banks to get $63B infusion from government (AP)

Posted: 13 Oct 2008 03:43 AM CDT

A Barclays bank logo pictured in central London on October 1. Barclays, one of Britain's leading banks, has said it plans to raise more than 6.5 billion pounds (US$11.13-billion) from investors, turning down the offer of government help.(AFP/File/Shaun Curry)AP - The British government said Monday it would provide up to $63 billion to boost the balance sheets of three of Britain's largest banks but demanded in return the departure of some of the country's top bankers.

IMF chief welcomes European bank rescue plan (AP)

Posted: 13 Oct 2008 03:33 AM CDT

AP - The head of the International Monetary Fund welcomed a European bank rescue plan on Monday despite its high cost, and predicted that weekend efforts by world leaders would soothe anxious global markets.

Lithuania centre right wins vote, tough talks ahead (Reuters)

Posted: 13 Oct 2008 03:21 AM CDT

Election district officials count votes during general elections in Vilnius October 12, 2008. (Ints Kalnins/Reuters)Reuters - Lithuania's main center-right opposition won the first round of a parliament election, results showed Monday, but it faced tough coalition talks after populist parties, including a famous TV show host, did well.

Iceland PM says could sue Britain over savings row (AFP)

Posted: 13 Oct 2008 03:05 AM CDT

Iceland's Prime Minister Geir Haarde, seen here, has accused Britain of AFP - Iceland's prime minister on Monday accused Britain in an interview of "bullying a small neighbour" over funds frozen in the online bank Icesave, and threatened to take legal action in response.

London shares leap more than 5% (AFP)

Posted: 13 Oct 2008 02:42 AM CDT

The London Stock Exchange logo. The stock market has surged more than five percent in early trading after leading banks accepted billions of pounds of taxpayers' money to prop up their ailing institutions.(AFP/File/Ben Stansall)AFP - The stock market surged more than five percent in early trading on Monday after leading banks accepted billions of pounds of taxpayers' money to prop up their ailing institutions.

Barclays to raise £6.5bln from investors (AFP)

Posted: 13 Oct 2008 02:37 AM CDT

A Barclays bank logo pictured in central London. Barclays has turned down an offer of government help and said it planned to raise more than 6.5 billion pounds from investors.(AFP/File/Shaun Curry)AFP - Barclays on Monday turned down an offer of government help and said it planned to raise more than 6.5 billion pounds from investors.

Conservatives ahead in Lithuania election (AP)

Posted: 13 Oct 2008 12:20 AM CDT

A couple read election posters in Vilnius, Lithuania, Thursday, Oct. 9, 2008. Lithuanians vote Sunday Oct. 12 in a parliamentary election. (AP Photo / Mindaugas Kulbis)AP - A conservative opposition party was ahead in Lithuania's parliamentary election, but strong support for populist groups set the stage for tricky coalition talks, partial results showed Monday.

UK university holds artificial intelligence test (AP)

Posted: 12 Oct 2008 01:24 PM CDT

AP - Computers argued, cracked jokes and parried trick questions Sunday, all part of an annual test of artificial intelligence carried out at the University of Reading.

Writers pick up pens to protest 42-day detentions (AP)

Posted: 12 Oct 2008 12:43 PM CDT

AP - Dozens of renowned British writers came out against new anti-terrorism legislation Sunday, publishing a collection of satire, essays, fiction and poetry to protest a proposal allowing police to hold suspects without charge for up to 42 days.

Amid the meltdown, economics Nobel no easy pick (AP)

Posted: 12 Oct 2008 10:21 AM CDT

Nobel Laureate in Economics Eric S. Maskin from the United States laughs during a news conference in Vienna, on Thursday, Oct. 2, 2008. Maskin is in Austria for the Viennese nobel laureates seminar. (AP Photo/Lilli Strauss)AP - If history is any guide, this year's Nobel economics prize will award the developers of economic theories that have had the time to take root, grow and prove resilient.

Wales rides a coal renaissance (AP)

Posted: 12 Oct 2008 10:10 AM CDT

AP - Deep under a pine-covered mountain, men clamber into red overalls and heavy boots, strap on lamps and attach sensors that check gas levels.

Austrian rightist was speeding at twice limit (AP)

Posted: 12 Oct 2008 09:48 AM CDT

Burning candles are seen at the site of accident in Lambichl near Klagenfurt, Austria, Saturday, Oct. 11, 2008, where Carinthia Governor Joerg Haider, whose far-right rhetoric led to international isolation for Austria during his time in government, died in a car accident here early Saturday morning when his car veered off the road and overturned. He was 58. (AP Photo/Gert Eggenberger)AP - Far-right politician Joerg Haider was speeding at more than twice the posted limit before the car crash that killed him, investigators said Sunday as his grief-stricken party appointed a successor.

Pope creates 4 new saints, including Indian woman (AP)

Posted: 12 Oct 2008 09:36 AM CDT

Pilgrims from India reach out to Pope Benedict XVI as he leaves after an open-air canonization ceremony in St. Peter's square at the Vatican Sunday, Oct. 12, 2008. Benedict gave the Roman Catholic church four new saints, including India's first woman saint, Sister Alphonsa of the Immaculate Conception, whose canonization is seen as a morale boost to Christians in India who have suffered Hindu violence. The other new saints are: Gaetano Errico, a Neapolitan priest who founded a missionary order in the 19th century; Sister Maria Bernarda, who was named Verena Buetler when she was born in Switzerland in 1848 and who worked as a nun in Ecuador and Colombia, and Narcisa de Jesus Martillo Moran, a 19th century laywoman from Ecuador who helped the sick and the poor. (AP Photo/ Pier Paolo Cito)AP - Pope Benedict XVI on Sunday gave the Roman Catholic church four new saints, including an Indian woman whose canonization is seen as a morale boost to Christians in India who have suffered Hindu violence.

France annuls extradition for ex-leftist terrorist (AP)

Posted: 12 Oct 2008 09:07 AM CDT

AP - France has decided not to extradite a former member of the Italian left-wing Red Brigades terrorist group to Italy because she is in poor health, the president's office announced Sunday. It stressed that the measure does not weaken French resolve to fight terrorism.

Russian leader Medvedev watches missile tests (AP)

Posted: 12 Oct 2008 06:41 AM CDT

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, right, and Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov visit Plesetsk cosmodrome in northern Russia, Saturday, Oct. 11, 2008. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has spent the weekend watching missile tests. After watching Saturday a submarine-launched ballistic missile, a part of naval exercises being staged in the northern Barents Sea, Medvedev witnessed a test-firing of a 21-year-old Topol ICBM on Sunday at a rain-soaked launch site in the northern forests. (AP Photo/RIA-Novosti, Dmitry Astakhov, Presidential Press Service)AP - President Dmitry Medvedev watched a missile soar from Russia's rain-soaked northern forests toward a target thousands of miles away on Sunday, capping a weekend of launches reminding audiences at home and abroad about the country's nuclear might.

发贴者：iwvck18 时间 02:06 0 条评论

bnzv