2009年2月13日星期五

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Yahoo! News: Europe News

Air France-KLM reports heavy losses, reduces staff (AFP)

Posted: 13 Feb 2009 02:01 AM CST

Air France-KLM, Europe's biggest airline, said Friday it had swung to a heavy loss in the final three months of last year as the economic crisis reduced demand for flights and cargo traffic.(AFP/File/Lionel Bonaventure)AFP - Air France-KLM, Europe's biggest airline, said Friday it had swung to a heavy loss in the final three months of last year as the economic crisis reduced demand for flights and cargo traffic.

Steelmaker ThyssenKrupp 1Q net profit falls 63 pct (AP)

Posted: 13 Feb 2009 01:43 AM CST

AP - ThyssenKrupp AG, Germany's largest steelmaker, said Friday the company posted a large loss in the fiscal first quarter and that it would cut jobs as the world economic crisis caused a sharp fall in demand for steel.

London Stock Exchange appoints new CEO (AFP)

Posted: 13 Feb 2009 01:35 AM CST

The London Stock Exchange on Friday said that Xavier Rolet, a former senior executive at collapsed US bank Lehman Brothers, will replace Clara Furse as chief executive in May.(AFP/File/Shaun Curry)AFP - The London Stock Exchange on Friday said that Xavier Rolet, a former senior executive at collapsed US bank Lehman Brothers, will replace Clara Furse as chief executive in May.

4 police, 3 insurgents killed in Russia clash (AP)

Posted: 12 Feb 2009 08:50 PM CST

Investigators and rescuers work at the rubble of a house which exploded during a clash between police and insurgents in Nazran, the principal city of Ingushetia, southern Russia, Thursday, Feb. 12, 2009. Officials in the restive Russian republic of Ingushetia say four police and three insurgents have died in a clash in the republic's principal city. The clash in Nazran ended when the house where the rebels were holed up exploded, a blast apparently set off by the fighters. (AP Photo)AP - Insurgents and police clashed Thursday in Russia's restive southern republic of Ingushetia, leaving four officers and three attackers dead, a regional Interior Ministry spokesman said.

Royal watchers can track British Queen on website (Reuters)

Posted: 12 Feb 2009 07:45 PM CST

Britain's Queen Elizabeth II looks at the new layout of the British Monarchy website on a giant screen after she relaunched the site at Buckingham Palace central London, February 12, 2009. (John Stillwell/Pool/Reuters)Reuters - More than 30 years after she sent her first email, Britain's Queen Elizabeth will unveil a new version of her website on Thursday that allows her subjects to keep track of the royal family using an online map.

U.S. judges admit to jailing children for money (Reuters)

Posted: 12 Feb 2009 07:09 PM CST

Reuters - Two judges pleaded guilty on Thursday to accepting more than $2.6 million from a private youth detention centre in Pennsylvania in return for giving hundreds of youths and teenagers long sentences.

Police arrest trader in fraud probe (AFP)

Posted: 12 Feb 2009 06:14 PM CST

A man passes in front of the skyline of the main financial district of London. Police said Thursday they have arrested a City trader on suspicion of money laundering, as part of an investigation into a reported 40-million-pound investment fraud.(AFP/File/Leon Neal)AFP - Police said Thursday they have arrested a City trader on suspicion of money laundering, as part of an investigation into a reported 40-million-pound investment fraud.

Hiddink refuses to concede Chelsea trophy hopes (AFP)

Posted: 12 Feb 2009 06:01 PM CST

New Chelsea manager Guus Hiddink, seen here in 2008, has refused to raise the white flag on the Londoners' Premier League and Champions League ambitions despite the crisis which has engulfed the club.(AFP/File/Yuri Kadobnov)AFP - New Chelsea boss Guus Hiddink has refused to raise the white flag on the Londoners' Premier League and Champions League ambitions despite the crisis which has engulfed the club.

Nadal survives teenage test in Rotterdam (AFP)

Posted: 12 Feb 2009 05:52 PM CST

Spanish Rafael Nadal returns a backhand to Bulgarian Grigor Dimitrov during the ATP Tennis Tournament in Ahoy Rotterdam. Nadal won 7-5, 3-6, 6-2.(AFP/ANP/Rick Nederstigt)AFP - Rafael Nadal defeated world number 490 Grigor Dimitrov 7-5, 3-6, 6-2 on Thursday to reach the Rotterdam Open quarter-finals, but the Bulgarian teenager demonstrated his exciting potential as a future star.

The bloom is off Europe's Rose and Orange revolutions (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 12 Feb 2009 05:36 PM CST

McClatchy Newspapers - TBILISI, Georgia — Some four years ago, as he stood before a cheering crowd of tens of thousands, former President George W. Bush declared that Georgia's pro-western government was "inspiring democratic reformers . . . across the world."

Britain bars entry by anti-Islamic Dutch lawmaker (AP)

Posted: 12 Feb 2009 05:22 PM CST

Dutch, right-wing politician Geert Wilders, left, seen at Heathrow Airport, London, after being banned from entering the country, Thursday, Feb. 12, 2009. The British government banned Dutch right-wing lawmaker Geert Wilders from visiting the country to show his anti-Islam film 'Fitna' at the Houses of Parliament, Wilders said Tuesday. Wilders said he was invited by a member of British Parliament's upper house, the House of Lords, to show his 15-minute film, which criticizes the Quran as a 'fascist book.' (AP Photo/Steve Parsons, PA)AP - British officials barred a far-right Dutch lawmaker from entering the country when he flew in Thursday, citing his anti-Islamic views in an order that has touched off a wide-ranging debate in the United Kingdom about the limits of free speech.

Pope tells Jewish leaders he will visit Israel (AP)

Posted: 12 Feb 2009 05:01 PM CST

In this photo provided by the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano, Pope Benedict XVI, center, delivers his message on occasion of an audience with about 60 American Jewish leaders, at the Vatican, Thursday, Feb. 12, 2009. Benedict XVI said Thursday any minimization of the Holocaust was unacceptable, especially for a priest, as he met with Jewish leaders in hopes of ending the rancor over a bishop who denied 6 million Jews were killed by the Nazis. The German-born Benedict also confirmed that he planned to visit Israel in May, in what would be the second official visit by a pope. (AP Photo/L'Osservatore Romano, ho) EDITORIAL USE ONLYAP - Pope Benedict XVI told American Jewish leaders Thursday that he plans to visit Israel in May, coupling the long-awaited announcement with his strongest condemnation of Holocaust denial.

Irish playwright Hugh Leonard dies at 82 (AP)

Posted: 12 Feb 2009 04:04 PM CST

In this May 22, 1978 file photo, Irish playwright and commentator Hugh Leonard is seen after the opening of his play 'Da' on Broadway, in New York City. Leonard, who won a Tony Award in 1978 for his bittersweet father-and-son drama 'Da,' died Thursday, Feb. 12, 2009 his family and government leaders announced. He was 82 and had been hospitalized for more than a year battling various illnesses. (AP Photo/File)AP - Irish playwright and commentator Hugh Leonard, who won a Tony Award in 1978 for his bittersweet father-and-son drama "Da," died Thursday. He was 82 and had been hospitalized for more than a year battling various illnesses.

US Army drops charges against soldier in killings (AP)

Posted: 12 Feb 2009 03:32 PM CST

AP - The U.S. Army dropped charges of conspiracy to commit premeditated murder against a soldier in the deaths of four bound and blindfolded Iraqis in 2007.

Lone man robs EU parliament bank (AP)

Posted: 12 Feb 2009 02:59 PM CST

AP - A lone criminal robbed a bank Thursday at the European Union Parliament complex and made off with an undisclosed sum.

UK marks Darwin's 200th birthday with pride, humor (AP)

Posted: 12 Feb 2009 02:51 PM CST

AP - They threw him a party at the Natural History Museum, they trotted out a set of stamps in his honor, and a zoo offered free admission to anyone sporting a beard in recognition of his famous facial hair.

Shocking attack on Brazilian woman in Switzerland (AP)

Posted: 12 Feb 2009 02:35 PM CST

The scarred midsection, allegedly of Paula Oliveira, 26, of Brazil, can be seen in this photo taken in Zurich, Switzerland, Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2009, and given to a Brazilian newspaper by Oliveira's family. Zurich police on Thursday were investigating an alleged skinhead assault on Oliveira that caused her to miscarry twins and left her scarred with the initials of Switzerland's main right-wing party. (AP Photo/Agencia o Globo)AP - Zurich police on Thursday were investigating an alleged skinhead assault on a pregnant Brazilian woman that caused her to miscarry twins and left her scarred with the initials of Switzerland's main right-wing party.

Stolen Soviet-era tanks recovered in Poland (AP)

Posted: 12 Feb 2009 02:10 PM CST

AP - Polish police say thieves stole four Soviet-era tanks that were being used for target practice at an army test range in eastern Poland.

Swiss to redirect $6M from Haiti's former dictator (AP)

Posted: 12 Feb 2009 01:45 PM CST

AP - The Swiss government is ready to release 7 million Swiss francs ($6 million) seized from bank accounts linked to Haiti's former dictator Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier — but not back to his family.

Team in Germany maps Neanderthal genome (AP)

Posted: 12 Feb 2009 12:26 PM CST

In this July 10, 2002 file photo a man walking his dog is seen through the cutout silhouette of a Neanderthal Man in a monument at the site of the first find of the ancient forefather of man in Mettmann, Germany. At a news conference in Leipzig, Germany, on Thursday, Feb. 12, 2009, scientists reported on the results of their three-year-long research to sequence the genome of the Neanderthal Man. By especially designed methods the international research team of the Max-Planck-Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology said it has extracted some 3 billion DNA fragments from three Croatian Neanderthal fossils. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn, File)AP - Researchers in Germany have completed the first draft of the Neanderthal genome, more than 3 billion genetic building blocks that will shed new light on the ancient hominid as well as the origins of its closest relation — modern humans.

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