2008年12月8日星期一

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Yahoo! News: Europe News

London shares soar over 6% at open (AFP)

Posted: 08 Dec 2008 03:42 AM CST

The London stock market has rocketed more than six percent at the start of trading, mirroring sharp rebounds for equity prices across the globe.(AFP/File/Shaun Curry)AFP - The London stock market rocketed more than six percent at the start of trading on Monday, mirroring sharp rebounds for equity prices across the globe.

HSBC sets up £1bln fund for small businesses (AFP)

Posted: 08 Dec 2008 03:25 AM CST

Lights glitter in the lobby of the London headquarters of HSBC. HSBC has set up a billion pound fund to help small- and medium-sized businesses in Britain get access to credit during the global financial crisis, the bank said.(AFP/File/Jonathan Utz)AFP - HSBC has set up a one-billion-pound fund to help small- and medium-sized businesses in Britain get access to credit during the global financial crisis, the bank has said.

EdF lifts stake in British Energy, extends offer (AP)

Posted: 08 Dec 2008 03:19 AM CST

AP - Electricite de France SA said Monday it has raised its stake in British Energy Group PLC to 88.67 percent following its public takeover offer announced last month.

U.S., Europe and Asia to raise stimulus stakes (Reuters)

Posted: 08 Dec 2008 03:12 AM CST

A currency trader works in a dealing room as signs show the composite price index of stocks (R) and the exchange rate at a bank in Seoul December 8, 2008. (Lee Jae-Won/Reuters)Reuters - Chinese and European leaders were due to plot their next steps on Monday to move the world economy back from a precipice, while stimulus measures presented, planned or pending injected optimism into stock markets.

Intel, Google Asked to Help Revise EU Data Protection Laws (PC World)

Posted: 08 Dec 2008 03:11 AM CST

PC World - The European Commission has set up an advisory panel including executives from Google and Intel to help it revise European Union laws on data protection.

Director of Britain's Carphone Warehouse resigns (AP)

Posted: 08 Dec 2008 03:10 AM CST

AP - Carphone Warehouse says that a director has resigned after disclosing that he had pledged millions of company shares to secure personal loans.

Protesters break into secure area at UK airport (AP)

Posted: 08 Dec 2008 03:04 AM CST

AP - British police say they have arrested more than two dozen environmental protesters who broke into a secure area of Stansted Airport near London.

Swedish steel maker SSAB cuts 1,300 jobs (AP)

Posted: 08 Dec 2008 03:02 AM CST

AP - Swedish steel maker SSAB will cut 1,300 jobs because of rapidly falling demand for steel, the company said Monday.

More protests planned in Greece in wake of riots (AP)

Posted: 08 Dec 2008 02:54 AM CST

A poster is seen behind a cracked shop window during riots in Athens December 7, 2008. Greece braced for a third day of demonstrations on Monday after the fatal shooting by police of a teenager triggered underlying anger over the Conservative government's economic policies and the worst rioting in decades. REUTERS/John KolesidisAP - Police are bracing for possible new violence at planned demonstrations to protest the fatal police shooting of a 15-year-old boy in Greece.

Time to push for Zimbabwe's Mugabe to go: EU (Reuters)

Posted: 08 Dec 2008 02:23 AM CST

Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe arrives at the U.N. Conference on Financing for Development in Doha November 29, 2008. (Osama Faisal/Reuters)Reuters - The European Union joined calls on Monday for Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe to step down from the leadership of his crisis-hit country.

Tenor cries betrayal as Milan's La Scala dumps him (AP)

Posted: 08 Dec 2008 02:01 AM CST

In this photo released by La Scala theater, U.S. tenor Stuart Neill performs Giuseppe Verdi's opera Don Carlo in Milan's La Scala theater, Italy, Sunday Dec. 7, 2008. The famed La Scala opera house has long been known for its behind-the-scenes intrigues, with strikes, personality disputes and artistic differences often eclipsing its performances. Sunday's opening night was no exception. La Scala unexpectedly removed Italian tenor Giuseppe Filianoti from the leading role of 'Don Carlo' and put American tenor Stuart Neill in his place. (AP Photo/Teatro La Scala, HO)AP - It was classic La Scala intrigue.

Wikipedia article blocked in UK over child photo (AP)

Posted: 07 Dec 2008 03:52 PM CST

AP - British Internet users have been blocked from accessing an article on popular online encyclopedia Wikipedia over child pornography concerns, the country's Internet watchdog and Wikipedia said Saturday.

Bianca Jagger fights for rain forests at UN talks (AP)

Posted: 07 Dec 2008 12:48 PM CST

AP - Among Bianca Jagger's happiest memories are long forest walks in her native Nicaragua with her mother. Today, she said, that love of nature inspires a struggle to stop what she believes is a looming environmental disaster that would deny her granddaughters the same pleasure.

Georgian province in uneasy embrace of Moscow (AP)

Posted: 07 Dec 2008 11:30 AM CST

AP - Russia's footprint is everywhere in this breakaway Georgian province, from billboards featuring its president, Dmitry Medvedev, to its joint military exercises with the Abkhaz navy.

Miss France wants to advertise French diversity (AP)

Posted: 07 Dec 2008 11:00 AM CST

Clhoe Mortaud, 18, center, of Midi Pyrenees is kissed by third placer Miss Pays de Loire Elodie Martineau, left, and second placer Miss Lorraine Camille Cheyere after being crowned Miss France 2009 in Le Puy du Fou western France, Saturday, Dec. 6, 2008. (AP Photo/Jacques Brinon)AP - The new Miss France, born to an African-American mother and white French father, said Sunday she wants to advertise her country's diversity on the world stage.

Native hunters: Climate is thinning caribou herds (AP)

Posted: 07 Dec 2008 10:26 AM CST

Chief Bill Erasmus of the Dene nation in northern Canada stops for a photo during the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Poznan, Poland, Friday, Dec. 5, 2008. Erasmus came to the conference bringing a stark warning about the climate crisis: The once abundant herds of caribou are dwindling, rivers are running lower and the ice is too thin to hunt on. (AP Photo/Alik Keplicz)AP - Chief Bill Erasmus of the Dene nation in northern Canada brought a stark warning about the climate crisis: The once abundant herds of caribou are dwindling, rivers are running lower and the ice is too thin to hunt on.

Pope urges prayers for soul of Russia's Alexy II (AP)

Posted: 07 Dec 2008 06:43 AM CST

Metropolitan Kirill, the Russian Orthodox church's foreign relations chief, who was as interim leader, makes a prayer near a casket with late Patriarch Alexy's body, not seen, in Moscow Christ the Savior Cathedra in Moscow Sunday, Dec. 7, 2008. Alexy II, who died Friday at age 79, led the church for 18 years, from the last year of the officially atheistic Soviet Union through a massive revival that saw it become the world's largest Orthodox church. Alexy's body was taken Saturday to the huge Christ the Savior Cathedral for three days of public viewing and a Tuesday funeral. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)AP - Pope Benedict XVI is calling for prayers for the soul of Russian Orthodox Patriarch Alexy II.

FBI probing threats against Serbian prosecutor (AP)

Posted: 07 Dec 2008 03:18 AM CST

AP - Serbia's war crimes prosecutor's office says the FBI is investigating several U.S. citizens of Serb origin suspected of sending death threats to the prosecutor.

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