2008年11月5日星期三

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Yahoo! News: Europe News

Brown hails Obama as 'true friend of Britain' (AFP)

Posted: 05 Nov 2008 05:14 AM CST

Prime Minister Gordon Brown has congratulated US president-elect Barack Obama, hailing his AFP - Prime Minister Gordon Brown congratulated US president-elect Barack Obama Wednesday, hailing his "energizing" politics and vision and calling him a "true friend of Britain."

Europe's markets take profits on Obama win (AP)

Posted: 05 Nov 2008 05:12 AM CST

Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange November 4, 2008. (Brendan McDermid/Reuters)AP - European stock markets opened lower Wednesday despite gains in Asia, as investors booked some profits after Senator Barack Obama won the U.S. presidential election and the Democrats took a firmer grip on Congress.

European stocks drop, Asians rise on Obama's US vote triumph (AFP)

Posted: 05 Nov 2008 04:59 AM CST

A giant symbol of the European Union's currency outside the headquarters of the European Central Bank in Frankfurt. The European Central Bank is also set to cut its main lending rate sharply at a meeting on Thursday.(AFP/File/John Macdougall)AFP - European stock markets endured heavy falls in early trading on Wednesday while Asian shares closed sharply higher after Democrat Barack Obama was elected US president.

Total says US$ net profit up 7 percent in 3Q (AP)

Posted: 05 Nov 2008 04:51 AM CST

AP - French oil giant Total SA said Wednesday its net profit rose 7 percent to $4.59 billion in the third quarter thanks to record-high oil prices in the period.

Medvedev: Hope for change under Obama (AP)

Posted: 05 Nov 2008 04:48 AM CST

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev walks to lay flowers at the statue of Minin and Pozharsky, the leaders of a struggle against foreign invaders in 1612, to mark the National Unity Day, in the Red Square, Moscow, Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2008. The new holiday was created in 2005 to replace the traditional Nov. 7 celebration of the 1917 Bolshevik rise to power. The Kremlin has tried to give it historical significance by tying it to the 1612 expulsion of Polish and Cossack troops who briefly seized Moscow at a time of political disarray. But it has been seized upon by extreme nationalists. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, Pool)AP - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev says he hopes Barack Obama's administration will take steps to improve badly damaged U.S. ties with Russia.

BNP Paribas 3Q profit 56 percent (AP)

Posted: 05 Nov 2008 04:44 AM CST

AP - French bank BNP Paribas said Wednesday its net profit sank by 56 percent in the third quarter on a 1.1 billion euro ($1.41 billion) loss linked to the financial crisis.

Arab League urges Obama to act quickly in Mideast (AP)

Posted: 05 Nov 2008 04:41 AM CST

AP - Arab League head Amr Moussa has urged President-elect Barack Obama to act swiftly to try to end the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.

EU sees Obama victory as chance to work together (AP)

Posted: 05 Nov 2008 04:41 AM CST

AP - European Union officials hailed Barack Obama's election victory Wednesday as an opportunity to renew a tenuous trans-Atlantic relationship and join forces in "a new deal for a new world."

Ciba 3Q profit down 8 pct, BASF deal advancing (AP)

Posted: 05 Nov 2008 04:31 AM CST

AP - Specialty chemicals maker Ciba Holding reported Wednesday an 8 percent drop in third-quarter net profit on lower demand for its products in Europe, and cut its full-year outlook amid an expected slowdown in the U.S. and Asia.

Arsenal eye Champions League morale booster, Utd march tall (AFP)

Posted: 05 Nov 2008 04:17 AM CST

Manchester United's Portuguese midfielder Cristiano Ronaldo (right), his compatriot Nani (2nd left) and Brazilian midfielder Anderson (2nd right) joke around during a training session at the club's Carrington training complex in Manchester, north-west England, November 4. European champions Manchester United face a north-south battle against Celtic in the Champions League Wednesday.(AFP/Andrew Yates)AFP - Arsenal host Fenerbahce in the Champions League on Wednesday knowing a win is vital to boost team spirits, while north of the border Celtic will attempt to halt the Manchester United juggernaut.

20 reported dead in German bus accident (AP)

Posted: 04 Nov 2008 07:30 PM CST

Firefighter work on a bus with blankets, which was burned out on the motorway near Hannover Garbsen, Germany on late Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2008. A tour bus returning from a day trip to a farm caught fire on a highway near the northern German city of Hannover on Tuesday night, killing 20 people, after a passenger reportedly sneaked a cigarette, police said. (AP Photo/Fabian Bimmer)AP - A German tour bus caught fire on an autobahn near the northern city of Hannover on Tuesday night, killing 20 people after a passenger reportedly sneaked a cigarette, police said.

New "Euro-Med Union" takes a step to reality (AP)

Posted: 04 Nov 2008 03:50 PM CST

AP - Countries bordering the Mediterranean edged closer to establishing their "Euro-Med Union" on Tuesday by finessing an Israeli-Arab dispute over the role of the Arab League.

Bomb explodes at Swedish hotel, 1 injured (AP)

Posted: 04 Nov 2008 03:33 PM CST

AP - A homemade bomb exploded Tuesday at a hotel in the central Swedish city of Vasteras, seriously injuring one person, police said.

Pooh's dip into honey fetches pounds at auction (AP)

Posted: 04 Nov 2008 03:05 PM CST

In this undated image made available from Bonhams auction house in London, a sketch showing Winnie-The-Pooh reaching into a honey jar as Tigger and Piglet look on, an illustration that appeared in A.A. Milne's children's classic 'The House at Pooh Corner' in 1928. The sketch by Winnie the Pooh illustrator E.H. Shepard entitled 'Tiggers Don't Like Honey', fetched 31,200 pounds ($49,770) at auction Tuesday Nov. 4, 2008, well above the pre-sale estimate. (AP Photo/Bonhams)AP - Tiggers might not like honey but collectors apparently do.

World hopes for a 'less arrogant America' (AP)

Posted: 04 Nov 2008 01:57 PM CST

Traditional dancers celebrate U.S. President-elect Senator Barack Obama's (D-IL) victory in Nyangoma Kogelo village, 430km (267 miles) west of Kenya's capital Nairobi, November 5, 2008. Kenyans in Obama's ancestral homeland sang and danced with joy on Wednesday as the Illinois senator they see as one of their own became the first black U.S. President. REUTERS/Thomas Mukoya (KENYA)AP - Around the world, throngs packed outdoor plazas and pubs to await U.S. elections results Tuesday, many inspired by Barack Obama's promise of change amid a sense of relief that — no matter who wins — the White House is changing hands.

Ultranationalists scuffle with police in Moscow (AP)

Posted: 04 Nov 2008 11:46 AM CST

Nationalists hold a sanctioned so-called Russian March marking National Unity Day in the Russian capital Moscow, Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2008. The new holiday was created in 2005 to replace the traditional Nov. 7 celebration of the 1917 Bolshevik rise to power. But it has been seized upon by extreme nationalists. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)AP - Ultranationalists and anti-immigrant activists tossed smoke grenades and scuffled with riot police in Moscow on Tuesday as authorities broke up an unauthorized demonstration on a new holiday to mark Russian national unity.

Science in search of the top banana (AP)

Posted: 04 Nov 2008 11:08 AM CST

AP - It's not easy to keep a banana yellow.

Son of Osama bin Laden seeks asylum in Spain (AP)

Posted: 04 Nov 2008 08:05 AM CST

In this file photo dated Jan. 11, 2008, Omar Osama bin Laden is seen during an interview with the Associated Press in Cairo, Egypt. Omar Osama bin Laden, 27, asked for asylum upon arriving Monday at Madrid's airport on a flight stopping over from Cairo, Egypt, en route to Casablanca, Morocco, an Interior Ministry official said on Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2008. Omar, one of al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden's 19 children, is a metals trader who lives in Cairo with his British-born wife. He has not renounced his father, but has said he wants to be an 'ambassador for peace' between Muslims and the West. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser, File)AP - A son of Osama bin Laden who grabbed headlines by marrying a British woman last year has flown to Spain and requested asylum, the Spanish government said Tuesday.

Vatican hosts meeting with Muslim scholars (AP)

Posted: 04 Nov 2008 08:00 AM CST

In this photo made available by the Vatican newspaper L' Osservatore Romano, Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran, head of the Vatican's Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue, right, talks with Mustafa Ceric, head of the Bosnia Islamic Community, during a a three-day Catholic-Muslim forum hosted by the Vatican, Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2008. The meeting is intended to help the two faiths find common ground and improve dialogue. The closed-door forum is gathering 29 scholars and clerics from each side and will end next Thursday, Nov. 6 with an audience with Pope Benedict VI. (AP Photo/Osservatore Romano, HO)AP - In a bid to improve strained Catholic-Muslim relations, the Vatican hosted scholars, imans and clerics from both religions Tuesday as it opened a three-day religious conference.

Italian police arrest 47 in organized crime raids (AP)

Posted: 04 Nov 2008 04:43 AM CST

AP - Italian police say they have arrested 47 people including the wife of a jailed mafia boss in raids on a Naples-based organized crime syndicate.

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