2008年11月24日星期一

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Yahoo! News: Europe News

Russian giant Gazprom forecasts record gas prices by 2012 (AFP)

Posted: 24 Nov 2008 03:43 AM CST

View of a gas pressure-gauge and the valve of the main gas-pipe not far from Kiev, 2006. Russian gas giant Gazprom forecasts that natural gas prices will hit new records within the next three years despite a temporary easing.(AFP/File/Sergei Supinsky)AFP - Russian gas giant Gazprom forecasts that natural gas prices will hit new records within the next three years despite a temporary easing, boss Alexey Miller said on Monday in an interview.

German business sentiment falls to 85.8 in Nov. (AP)

Posted: 24 Nov 2008 03:36 AM CST

AP - A key report measuring business confidence in Germany fell to a 15-year low in November, a "striking" decline as worries about the economy mounted.

Brown to borrow big to kickstart UK economy (Reuters)

Posted: 24 Nov 2008 03:36 AM CST

Reuters - Prime Minister Gordon Brown will try to kickstart the stalling British economy on Monday by spending billions of borrowed pounds on tax cuts in a bid to stop a recession turning into a slump.

Adidas inks 11-year athletics sponsorship deal (AP)

Posted: 24 Nov 2008 03:25 AM CST

AP - Sportswear company Adidas AG has signed an 11-year agreement with the International Association of Athletics Federations granting the German company worldwide sponsorship rights from 2009 through 2019.

Govt to hit rich to fund tax cuts as recession looms (AFP)

Posted: 24 Nov 2008 03:25 AM CST

Shoppers leave a discount shop in Aldershot in Hampshire. The government is expected to hit the rich to pay for tax cuts aimed at getting consumers spending again, in an economic stimulus package to be unveiled.(AFP/File/Carl de Souza)AFP - The government is expected to hit the rich to pay for tax cuts aimed at getting consumers spending again, in an economic stimulus package to be unveiled on Monday.

Reports: UK Treasury to raise income tax, cut VAT (AP)

Posted: 24 Nov 2008 03:21 AM CST

AP - Britain's Treasury will announce plans Monday to raise the top rate of income tax and cut the basic sales tax to help Britain weather the economic downturn, according to media reports.

Crisis-hit Arsenal face defining moment (AFP)

Posted: 24 Nov 2008 03:17 AM CST

Arsenal's French manager Arsene Wenger watches his team lose 3-0 to Manchester City. Wenger admits Arsenal's Champions League clash against Dynamo Kiev represents the start of a defining period for the crisis-hit Gunners(AFP/File/Andrew Yates)AFP - Arsene Wenger admits Arsenal's Champions League clash against Dynamo Kiev represents the start of a defining period for the crisis-hit Gunners.

Police investigate deaths of officers in NIreland road crash (AFP)

Posted: 24 Nov 2008 02:52 AM CST

Police stop protestors in Belfast. An investigation has been launched after four police officers were killed in a road accident in Northern Ireland(AFP/File/Peter Muhly)AFP - An investigation has been launched after four police officers were killed in a road accident in Northern Ireland, police said on Monday.

Standard Chartered to raise £1.78 bln in rights issue (AFP)

Posted: 24 Nov 2008 02:50 AM CST

A woman reads a newspaper in front of the Standard Chartered bank in Hong Kong. Standard Chartered bank said it plans to raise 1.78 billion pounds in a rights issue to better position itself during the global financial turmoil.(AFP/File/Ted Aljibe)AFP - Standard Chartered bank said Monday it plans to raise 1.78 billion pounds in a rights issue to better position itself during the global financial turmoil.

Michael Jackson settles court case (AFP)

Posted: 24 Nov 2008 02:37 AM CST

Michael Jackson, seen here in 2004, has reached an out-of-court settlement with Sheikh Abdulla bin Hamad Al Khalifa, who was suing him for 4.7 million pounds.(AFP/Getty Images/File)AFP - Michael Jackson's planned appearence at the High Court on Monday was cancelled after he reached an out-of-court settlement with Sheikh Abdulla bin Hamad Al Khalifa, who was suing him for 4.7 million pounds.

French FM airs doubt about Obama's Afghan plan (AP)

Posted: 23 Nov 2008 04:01 PM CST

Hamid Karzai, President of Afghanistan gives an address at the United Nations in New York in early November. A UN Security Council delegation arrived in Kabul Monday to assess Afghanistan's troubled progress towards ending the Taliban-led insurgency and rebuilding after decades of war.(AFP/File/Don Emmert)AP - The French foreign minister says he has doubts about U.S. President-elect Barack Obama's plans to fight Islamic militants in Afghanistan.

US keeps chess medal hopes alive in Chess Olympiad (AP)

Posted: 23 Nov 2008 03:14 PM CST

AP - The U.S. men and women teams kept their slim hopes for a medal alive on Sunday after the men beat Germany 2.5-1.5 and the women rolled over Uzbekistan 3.5-0.5 in the 10th and penultimate round of the Chess Olympiad.

Georgian, Polish presidents' motorcade fired on (AP)

Posted: 23 Nov 2008 03:11 PM CST

Bodyguards are seen alongside a car transporting Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili, in rear seat at center, and his Polish counterpart Lech Kaczyinski, unseen, shortly after shots were fired at their motorcade, near the breakaway province of South Ossetia, close to Akhalgori, Georgia, Sunday, Nov. 23, 2008. The speaker of the Georgian Parliament said Sunday that shots were fired at a motorcade carrying the presidents of Georgia and Poland, but no one was hurt. Speaker David Bakradze said the gunshots came from the breakaway province of South Ossetia, and urged the international community to condemn the incident. (AP Photo/Irakly Gedenidze, Pool)AP - Shots were fired near the motorcade carrying the presidents of Georgia and Poland on Sunday — the fifth anniversary of Georgia's Rose Revolution — Georgian officials said. No one was hurt in the shooting.

Fuel from food? The feast is over (AP)

Posted: 23 Nov 2008 11:01 AM CST

AP - In future years we may look back at the Great Mexican Tortilla Crisis of 2006 as the time when ethanol lost its vroom.

Solar panels on graves give power to Spanish town (AP)

Posted: 23 Nov 2008 10:56 AM CST

Solar panels sit on top of niches at the Santa Coloma de Gramenet cemetery, outside Barcelona, Spain, Friday, Nov. 21, 2008. The city council has installed 462 solar panels on top of the grave niches. The energy they produce, equivalent to the yearly consumption of 60 homes, flows into the local energy grid and is one community's odd and pioneering nod to the fight against global warming. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)AP - A new kind of silent hero has joined the fight against climate change.

Pope speaks to Ukrainian pilgrims of 1930s famine (AP)

Posted: 23 Nov 2008 09:04 AM CST

Pope Benedict XVI delivers his message during the Angelus prayers, from the window of his studio overlooking St. Peter's square at the Vatican Sunday, Nov. 23, 2008. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)AP - Pope Benedict XVI on Sunday prayed that no political ideology would ever again cost people their freedom and dignity, as he recalled the millions who died from famine in Ukraine and other Soviet regions under dictator Josef Stalin.

Georgia marks 5th anniversary of Rose Revolution (AP)

Posted: 23 Nov 2008 08:53 AM CST

Former Georgian Parliament Speaker Nino Burdzhanadze addresses the media, Tbilisi, Sunday, Nov. 23, 2008. Georgia's opposition on Sunday marked the fifth anniversary of the Rose Revolution that brought President Mikhail Saakashvili to power with a rally to demand that he resign. Burdzhanadze, a co-architect of the Rose Revolution, used Sunday's anniversary to launch an opposition party. (AP Photo/Shakh Aivazov)AP - Georgia's opposition marked the Rose Revolution's fifth anniversary with a rally Sunday demanding the resignation of the uprising's leader — President Mikhail Saakashvili.

Vatican: Beatles music better than today's songs (AP)

Posted: 23 Nov 2008 06:36 AM CST

AP - Vatican media are praising the Beatles' musical legacy and sounding philosophical about John Lennon's boast that the British band was more popular than Jesus.

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