2008年10月31日星期五

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Yahoo! News: Europe News

Centrica taps shareholders for 2.2 billion pounds (AP)

Posted: 31 Oct 2008 03:58 AM CDT

AP - British gas company Centrica said Friday it planned to tap shareholders for 2.2 billion pounds (about $3.6 billion ) through a new share issue to pay for the potential acquisition of a 25 percent stake in electrical utility British Energy.

Stanford sorry for 'innocent' error, defends Twenty20 tournament (AFP)

Posted: 31 Oct 2008 03:53 AM CDT

Allen Stanford (left) with England captain Kevin Pietersen in St John's, Antigua, on October 26. Stanford, the Texan billionaire behind the ongoing Twenty20 Super Series at his own ground in Antigua, apologised personally for having the wife of an England player sit on his lap.(AFP/File/Jewel Samad)AFP - Allen Stanford, the Texan billionaire behind the ongoing Twenty20 Super Series at his own ground in Antigua, apologised personally for having the wife of an England player sit on his lap.

Barclays seeking 7.3 billion pound cash injection (AP)

Posted: 31 Oct 2008 03:52 AM CDT

AP - Barclays PLC said Friday it is seeking up to 7.3 billion pounds ($11.8 billion) from Middle Eastern investors as it tries to avoid resorting to a British government bailout.

Shares swing into red (AFP)

Posted: 31 Oct 2008 03:41 AM CDT

The London stock market sank by more than one percent in early trading on Friday, reversing earlier gains as investor sentiment was dampened by losses in Asia.(AFP/File/Ben Stansall)AFP - The London stock market sank by more than one percent in early trading on Friday, reversing earlier gains as investor sentiment was dampened by losses in Asia.

Britons dying for green burials (AFP)

Posted: 31 Oct 2008 03:38 AM CDT

A mock funeral in Epping Forest, Essex, north-east of London. Britons are increasingly choosing to be buried in green cemeteries, which have growned in popularity in recent years in the United Kingdom.(AFP/HO)AFP - UK residents are increasingly choosing "green" burial plots as their final resting place for ecological reasons and as space in more formal cemeteries fills up, experts say.

Barclays to raise £7.3bln from investors (AFP)

Posted: 31 Oct 2008 03:33 AM CDT

A Barclays bank leaflet is pictured with coins in London, August 2008. Barclays said on Friday it would raise 7.3 billion pounds, most of which would come from oil-rich Middle East investors.(AFP/File/Leon Neal)AFP - Barclays said on Friday it would raise 7.3 billion pounds, most of which would come from oil-rich Middle East investors.

Puma 3Q net profit flat (AP)

Posted: 31 Oct 2008 03:31 AM CDT

AP - Sportswear maker Puma AG said Friday that its net profit was flat in the third quarter, but the company reported healthy sales growth and raised its sales forecast for the full year.

Hypo Real Estate gets 15 billion euro guarantee (AP)

Posted: 31 Oct 2008 02:59 AM CDT

AP - Hypo Real Estate Holding AG said the German government approved its request for a 15 billion euro ($19.6 billion) credit line, meant to guarantee its debt until it receives a larger bailout in a few weeks.

Sanofi best-sellers help lift core earnings in 3Q (AP)

Posted: 31 Oct 2008 02:49 AM CDT

AP - French pharmaceutical giant Sanofi-Aventis said Friday higher sales of its most widely prescribed treatments helped lift its core earnings in the third quarter.

Libya leader to discuss hosting Russian base: report (Reuters)

Posted: 31 Oct 2008 02:37 AM CDT

Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi listens to a speaker at the African Union summit in the Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh July 1, 2008. (Asmaa Waguih/Reuters)Reuters - Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, starting his first visit to post-Soviet Russia on Friday, will discuss opening a Russian naval base in Libya to counterbalance U.S. interests in the region, a paper reported.

Vatican issues screening guidelines for priests (AP)

Posted: 31 Oct 2008 01:25 AM CDT

Three priests cross St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, in this Oct. 18, 2002 file photo. (AP Photo/Luciano Del Castillo)AP - The Vatican issued new psychological screening guidelines for seminarians Thursday — the latest effort by the Roman Catholic Church to be more selective about its priesthood candidates following a series of sex abuse scandals.

Ukraine currency strengthens on hopes of IMF loan (AP)

Posted: 30 Oct 2008 08:07 PM CDT

A worker is seen at a steel factory in Mariupol, southeast of Kiev, Ukraine, Thursday, Oct. 30, 2008. The metal industry, which accounts to 40 percent of Ukraine's exports, suffered tremendously from the global economic crisis on a fall of global demand. (AP Photo/Dmytro Vlasov)AP - Ukraine's battered currency rose Thursday, partly on hopes the country could secure a hefty International Monetary Fund loan to overcome a severe financial crisis.

UK attorney general considers Gitmo abuse claims (AP)

Posted: 30 Oct 2008 07:18 PM CDT

AP - The case of a Guantanamo detainee who claims he was abused while in U.S. custody has been referred to Britain's attorney general for consideration, the British government said Thursday.

Last flight from Berlin's Tempelhof Airport (AP)

Posted: 30 Oct 2008 06:28 PM CDT

The last regular plane which arrived at the Tempelhof airport in Berlin on Thursday, Oct. 30, 2008 is guided to its park position. At midnight the airport will be closed for air traffic after 85 years of service (AP Photo/Wolfgang Kumm, Pool)AP - The last flight lifted off from Berlin's Tempelhof Airport late Thursday, bringing an end to an era of aviation that spanned World War II, the Cold War and the rebirth of the German capital.

Local UK govt steps up to save red phone boxes (AP)

Posted: 30 Oct 2008 06:26 PM CDT

Two telephone boxes are is seen on the River Thames Embankment near the London Eye, in London, Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2008. Britain's bright red telephone boxes are increasingly unused and unprofitable, but far from unloved.The fate of more than a third of the country's 12,700 iconic red telephone booths are up in the air, telecommunications company BT says it wants to scrap about 400 of them. (AP Photo/Sang Tan)AP - Britain's bright red telephone boxes are increasingly unused and unprofitable, but far from unloved.

In UK, head of radio station quits over prank call (AP)

Posted: 30 Oct 2008 04:41 PM CDT

File photo shows British television presenter Jonathan Ross after receiving his Order of the British Empire (OBE) at Buckingham Palace in London, in 2005. Jonathan Ross was suspended for 12 weeks without pay in a row over offensive comments aired by himself and co-presenter Russell Brand.(AFP/File/Andrew Parsons)AP - The head of Britain's most listened-to radio station resigned Thursday over a prank phone call made by two DJs to an elderly actor, the British Broadcasting Corp. said.

Reports: Italy warned Libya of 1986 US strike (AP)

Posted: 30 Oct 2008 04:23 PM CDT

AP - The Italian government gave Libya early warning of the 1986 U.S. airstrikes launched in response to a deadly attack on a disco in Germany, Libyan and Italian officials said Thursday.

Swedish nuclear plant posted cleaners as guards (AP)

Posted: 30 Oct 2008 04:15 PM CDT

AP - Managers of an atomic power plant in Sweden used janitors to guard the facility when the alarm system was malfunctioning, according to a critical report Thursday from the country's nuclear watchdog.

Vatican rejects quick opening of WWII archives (AP)

Posted: 30 Oct 2008 04:04 PM CDT

In this photo provided by the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano, Pope Benedict XVI poses after meeting a delegation of the International Jewish Committee on Interreligious Consultations, at the Vatican, Thursday, Oct. 30, 3008. The Vatican says its secret archives on Pius XII's papacy during the Holocaust years, which historians and Jewish groups have been clamoring to study, cannot be open for at least six-years. Some Jewish leaders and historians have said that Pius didn't speak out enough during World War II to save Jews during Hitler's extermination campaign. (AP Photo/L'Osservatore Romano, h.o)AP - The Vatican on Thursday rejected requests to immediately open its secret archives on wartime Pope Pius XII, who critics say did not speak out enough to save Jews during Hitler's extermination campaign.

Iraq holding thousands in secret prisons: lawmaker (AP)

Posted: 30 Oct 2008 03:55 PM CDT

AP - An Iraqi opposition lawmaker claimed Thursday that thousands of his countrymen are being mistreated in detention centers outside the official prison system.

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