2008年11月8日星期六

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Yahoo! News: Europe News

Gunners to walk high wire in Man Utd showdown (AFP)

Posted: 08 Nov 2008 03:37 AM CST

Manchester United's Ryan Giggs (right ) is hugged by Nani. United's most seasoned campaigner, Giggs, believes Arsenal will still be a threat regardless of whether or not United emerge from the Emirates with three points.(AFP/File/Andrew Yates)AFP - Arsene Wenger has billed Saturday's showdown between Arsenal and Manchester United as one of the summit meetings between England's big four that will decide this season's Premier League title battle.

Concert to mark 70th anniversary of Nazi pogrom (AP)

Posted: 08 Nov 2008 03:09 AM CST

The Jan 19, 2008 file photo shows an exterior view of the 'Neue Synagoge' (New Synagoge) in Berlin. On Nov. 9, 1938 Nazi-incited mass riots left more than 91 Jews dead, damaged more than 1,000 synagogues and left some 7,500 Jewish businesses ransacked and looted. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn, FILE)AP - The question troubles officials, academics and rabbis alike: how to commemorate a night of terrible carnage and fear that became known as "Kristallnacht," or "Night of the Broken Glass"?

European MPs reach blockaded Gaza by sea (AFP)

Posted: 08 Nov 2008 01:54 AM CST

Former member of the British parliament Baroness Jeniffer Tonge stands in front of the boat AFP - A boat carrying pro-Palestinian activists and European politicians was allowed to dock in Gaza on Saturday despite a strict Israeli blockade, in the third such voyage in less than three months.

Britain revokes visas of Thai ex-PM and his wife (Reuters)

Posted: 08 Nov 2008 12:39 AM CST

Ousted Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra (R)and his wife Potjaman Shinawatra wade through an army of photographers at the criminal court in Bangkok in this file photo from July 31, 2008. (Sukree Sukplang/Reuters)Reuters - Britain has revoked visas for former Thai prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra and his wife after their convictions in Thailand on corruption charges, newspapers reported on Saturday.

Britain revokes visa of ousted Thai PM Thaksin: airline official (AFP)

Posted: 07 Nov 2008 10:16 PM CST

File photo shows Thailand's deposed prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra (R) and his wife Pojaman (L). British authorities have revoked the visas of Thaksin and his wife Pojaman, an airline official told AFP Saturday.(AFP/File/Pornchai Kittiwongsakul)AFP - British authorities have revoked the visas of ousted Thai prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra and his wife Pojaman, an airline official told AFP Saturday.

French scientists discover new species of gecko (AP)

Posted: 07 Nov 2008 09:29 PM CST

French scientist Ivan Ineich displays a never-before-seen species of gecko, baptised with the latin name Lepidodactylus buleli, at France's Natural History Museum in Paris, Friday, Nov. 7 , 2008. This gecko was born in Paris from an egg that was plucked from the canopy of forest on the west coast of Espiritu Santo, one of the larger South Pacific islands of the archipellago of Vanuatu, east of Australia. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)AP - French scientists say they hatched a new gecko species from an egg plucked from its nest in a South Pacific island and carried it 12,000 miles to Paris in a box lined with Kleenex.

BA boss says it has 'exciting proposition' for Alitalia: report (AFP)

Posted: 07 Nov 2008 06:51 PM CST

Alitalia's plane lands at Fiumicino international airport in Rome in September 2008. The chief executive of British Airways has expressed strong interest in a commercial alliance with Alitalia, the Financial Times reported Saturday.(AFP/File/Vincenzo Pinto)AFP - The chief executive of British Airways has expressed strong interest in a commercial alliance with Alitalia, the Financial Times reported Saturday.

Blinded pilot guided safely to ground (AP)

Posted: 07 Nov 2008 06:42 PM CST

AP - A British pilot who was suddenly blinded by a stroke during a solo flight was talked safely down by a military pilot, the Royal Air Force said Friday.

Australia bookies hold Obama payout on death fears (Reuters)

Posted: 07 Nov 2008 06:04 PM CST

Reuters - Two of Australia's largest bookmakers are refusing to pay out on bets that Barack Obama would win the U.S. presidential election, citing fears he could be assassinated before his inauguration, a report said Saturday.

African leaders slam Congo peacekeepers (AP)

Posted: 07 Nov 2008 05:46 PM CST

Congo's President, Joseph Kabila, arrives for Special Consultative Meeting on conflict in the Eastern Republic of Congo, at an hotel in Nairobi, Kenya, Friday, Nov. 7, 2008. (AP Photo/Sayyid Azim)AP - African leaders criticized the world's largest United Nations peacekeeping force Friday for failing to protect civilians and end the violence that is convulsing eastern Congo and threatening to spread.

Swiss honor a student who tried to kill Hitler (AP)

Posted: 07 Nov 2008 02:54 PM CST

AP - Switzerland's president expressed regret Friday that his country failed to use diplomatic channels to stop the Nazis from executing a Swiss theology student who tried to assassinate Adolf Hitler 70 years ago.

Italy's leader defends remark about 'tanned' Obama (AP)

Posted: 07 Nov 2008 02:45 PM CST

Italy's Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi smiles as he arrives at an extraordinary EU summit on the financial crisis at the EU Council headquarters in Brussels, Friday Nov.7, 2008. EU leaders on Friday considered a financial reform to-do list for next week's summit in Washington, with France pushing a deadline for a global deal by late March to prevent a repeat of the Wall Street excesses that caused havoc in markets worldwide. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert)AP - Italy's Premier Silvio Berlusconi on Friday defended his description of U.S. President-elect Barack Obama as "young, handsome and even tanned," and said critics who saw the remark as racist were "imbeciles."

Serb student's lawyer: US investigation illegal (AP)

Posted: 07 Nov 2008 02:07 PM CST

This is a September 18 2008 file photo showing Miladin Kovacevic, right, a Serbian student and basketball player wanted by U.S. Kovacevic who fled the United States after a bar brawl that left a fellow American college student Bryan Steinhauer hospitalized for months was arrested Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2008, in Belgrade, police said. It was not immediately clear what charges Miladin Kovacevic faced after his arrested in Belgrade, Serbia's capital. The U.S. has been pressing the Serbian government to hand over Kovacevic. The case has strained relations between Washington and Belgrade, which has insisted its laws do not allow extradition. (AP Photo/Srdjan Ilic)AP - The lawyer for a Serbian basketball player wanted on assault charges in the United States is demanding a halt to a Serb-based investigation into the attack.

Georgia's Saakashvili weathering storm (AP)

Posted: 07 Nov 2008 01:13 PM CST

Georgia's United Opposition co-leader Levan Gachechiladze speaks at a protest rally in Tbilisi, Georgia, Friday, Nov. 7, 2008. Thousands of opposition supporters demonstrated Friday in the first major protest against President Mikhail Saakashvili since Georgia's August war with Russia. (AP Photo/Shakh Aivazov)AP - Thousands of flag-waving protesters brought Tbilisi traffic to a standstill Friday in the first major protest against President Mikhail Saakashvili since Georgia's war with Russia.

US writer pledges Shakespeare trove to London (AP)

Posted: 07 Nov 2008 12:10 PM CST

AP - Love's labor won't be lost when U.S. playwright John Wolfson dies.

Former German border strip to be nature preserve (AP)

Posted: 07 Nov 2008 12:07 PM CST

AP - The government says it will create a nature preserve out of the former border zone between East and West Germany.

Pope condemns organ-selling for transplants (AP)

Posted: 07 Nov 2008 11:37 AM CST

AP - Pope Benedict XVI on Friday lamented the shortage of organs for transplants but denounced any selling of organs as immoral.

Georgian opposition protests against president (AP)

Posted: 07 Nov 2008 11:27 AM CST

AP - Thousands of opposition supporters marched across the Georgian capital Friday in the first major protest against President Mikhail Saakashvili since the nation's August war with Russia.

Dutch outcry over naming giant ship after Nazi (AP)

Posted: 07 Nov 2008 11:11 AM CST

In this undated image made available by NIOD, Wednesday Nov. 5, 2008, Pieter Schelte Heerema is seen wearing a SS uniform. Edwin Heerema, founder of Swiss-based Allseas Group SA, wants to name a $1.7 billion vessel that he claims will be the world's largest, the Pieter Schelte after his late father, Pieter Schelte Heerema, who was renowned as a maritime engineer but was condemned for his service in the murderous Nazi Waffen SS. (AP Photo/NIOD, Netherlands Institute for War Documentation)AP - It ought to be a proud milestone in the Dutch seafaring heritage — the construction of a new ship its owner claims will be the world's largest. But there's one problem: its name.

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