2009年2月13日星期五

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Yahoo! News: Europe News

Drug giant pledges cheap medicine for the poor: report (AFP)

Posted: 14 Feb 2009 12:31 AM CST

The head of British drugs giant GlaxoSmithKline has said in a British newspaper he would cut prices for medication in developing countries and share knowledge of patented treatments.(AFP/HO/GLAXOSMITHKLINE/File)AFP - The head of drugs giant GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) said in a newspaper Saturday he would cut prices for medication in developing countries and share knowledge of patented treatments.

European lawmaker expelled from Venezuela (AFP)

Posted: 13 Feb 2009 10:32 PM CST

European Parliament deputy Luis Herrero has been expelled from Venezuela for critical remarks about President Hugo Chavez, pictured.(AFP/File/Pedro Rey)AFP - Venezuela expelled European Parliament deputy Luis Herrero late Friday after he called President Hugo Chavez a "dictator" and critized the electoral council ahead of a vote which could permit Chavez unlimited bids to stay in power.

Brown calls for review of MPs' pensions (Reuters)

Posted: 13 Feb 2009 09:35 PM CST

Prime Minister Gordon Brown pauses during a visit to Corby Business Academy, in Corby, February 13, 2009. (Rui Vieira/Pool/Reuters)Reuters - MPs' generous pension arrangements could be downgraded after Prime Minister Gordon Brown set up a review.

UK: No police charges in accidental terror death (AP)

Posted: 13 Feb 2009 09:21 PM CST

AP - No police will be charged in the death of a Brazilian who was mistakenly shot by officers in the tense days following 2005 terror attacks in London, prosecutors announced Friday after a new review of the case.

British press slam West Indies officials over sand farce (AFP)

Posted: 13 Feb 2009 08:47 PM CST

West Indies and England cricketers wait as umpires confe. British newspapers heaped criticism on the West Indies cricket authorities on Saturday after a sand-logged pitch caused one of most bizarre days in the history of Test cricket(AFP/Jewel Samad)AFP - British newspapers heaped criticism on the West Indies cricket authorities on Saturday after a sand-logged pitch caused one of most bizarre days in the history of Test cricket.

Jet's nosegear collapses during landing in London (AP)

Posted: 13 Feb 2009 08:23 PM CST

The scene showing the British Airways aeroplane at London City Airport on Friday, Feb. 13, 2009. A British Airways passenger jet carrying 71 people crash-landed Friday evening after part of its landing gear failed, officials said. One person was taken to a hospital with a minor injury. BA Flight 8456 was flying from Amsterdam to London and the airline said in a statement the four-engine aeroplane's nosewheel failed on landing. Emergency slides were deployed to evacuate the passengers. British Airways said the plane was carrying 67 passengers and four crew. (AP Photo / pa, Stefan Rousseau)AP - The nosewheel of a British Airways passenger jet collapsed with a loud bang as it landed Friday evening at London City Airport, sending the plane scraping across the tarmac with 71 people aboard, officials and witnesses said. All aboard escaped by emergency slides, but one person was taken to a hospital with a minor injury.

Swiss police: Woman may have faked skinhead attack (AP)

Posted: 13 Feb 2009 08:11 PM CST

AP - The Brazilian woman who claimed to lose her unborn twins in a skinhead attack was not pregnant and probably carved the initials of Switzerland's main right-wing party into her own skin, investigators said Friday.

British boy reportedly becomes a father at age 13 (AP)

Posted: 13 Feb 2009 07:37 PM CST

AP - He's 13. He scarcely looks 10. And according to a British tabloid, he's a father. Baby-faced and only 4 feet tall, the boy, Alfie, was just 12 when he impregnated Chantelle, now 15, The Sun reported Friday. Shown in a video posted Friday on the tabloid's Web site, the diminutive Alfie takes the newborn girl in his arms.

British investor in Madoff scheme kills himself (Reuters)

Posted: 13 Feb 2009 06:11 PM CST

Disgraced financier Bernard Madoff (R) is escorted by a U.S. Marshall as he departs U.S. Federal Court after a hearing in New York in this January 5, 2009 file photo. (Lucas Jackson/Files/Reuters)Reuters - A former British soldier killed himself after losing his life savings in an alleged $50 billion fraud run by Wall Street financier Bernard Madoff, news reports said on Friday.

Plane crash-lands at London airport (AFP)

Posted: 13 Feb 2009 06:03 PM CST

People mill arround a British Airways aircraft with its nose on the tarmac at London City airport, London after its nosewheel of the aircraft failed on landing. The plane, arriving from Amsterdam, crash-landed but all 67 passengers and four crew were safely evacuated, emergency services said.(AFP/Carl de Souza)AFP - A British Airways plane arriving from Amsterdam crash-landed at London City Airport on Friday but all 67 passengers and four crew were safely evacuated, emergency services said.

Noise, fuel-dumping cause anger at US Kyrgyz base (AP)

Posted: 13 Feb 2009 04:14 PM CST

US military planes , are seen at Manas US military base in Bishkek airport Kyrgyzstan on Thursday, Feb. 12, 2009. Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiyev last week announced the closure of the base, which is a crucial staging post for coalition operations in Afghanistan. The U.S. began using the Manas base in December 2001. (AP Photo/Igor Kovalenko)AP - For many in this ramshackle village just outside the last U.S. base in Central Asia, news the Americans may be leaving hasn't come a moment too soon.

US suspect says she's innocent (AP)

Posted: 13 Feb 2009 02:09 PM CST

US murder suspect Amanda Knox, center, reacts, as she is escorted inside a courtroom to stand trial, in Perugia, Italy, Friday, Feb. 13, 2009. An American student charged with the murder of her British roommate showed no distress and was cuddling with her boyfriend hours after the slaying, a friend of the victim testified on Friday. Robyn Carmel Butterworth told the packed courtroom in this Umbrian university town that she was among several students waiting to talk to officers in Perugia's police station shortly after Meredith Kercher's bloodied body was found. (AP Photo/Stefano Medici)AP - Sounding confident and speaking fluent Italian, a U.S. student charged with murdering her British roommate told a court Friday she was innocent and was sure the truth would come out.

UN extends Georgia cease-fire observer mission (AP)

Posted: 13 Feb 2009 01:45 PM CST

AP - The U.N. Security Council agreed Friday to a four-month extension of a peacekeeping mission monitoring a cease-fire between Georgia and the separatist Abkhazia region.

Space crash called "catastrophic," lots of debris (AP)

Posted: 13 Feb 2009 01:41 PM CST

This image provided by the European Space Agency shows and artist impression of catalogued objects in low-Earth orbit viewed over the Equator. Scientists are keeping a close eye on orbital debris created when two communications satellites — one American, the other Russian — smashed into each other hundreds of miles above Siberia Tuesday Feb. 10, 2009. The collision was the first high-speed impact between two intact spacecraft, NASA officials said. The debris field shown in this image is an artist's impression based on actual data but not shown in their actual size or density. (AP Photo/ESA)AP - The crash of two satellites has generated an estimated tens of thousands of pieces of space junk that could circle Earth and threaten other satellites for the next 10,000 years, space experts said Friday.

Austria: Former Nazi concentration camp vandalized (AP)

Posted: 13 Feb 2009 01:31 PM CST

AP - Austrian police say a former Nazi concentration camp has been vandalized with anti-Muslim graffiti.

Analysis: Sarkozy pushes France into NATO embrace (AP)

Posted: 13 Feb 2009 01:13 PM CST

AP - Defying critics, Nicolas Sarkozy is about to open a door Charles de Gaulle slammed shut four decades ago, wounding French-U.S. relations for years.

Hijacked ship crew welcomed home in Ukraine (AP)

Posted: 13 Feb 2009 12:42 PM CST

Crew members of the Ukrainian ship MV Faina, in khaki camouflage, are welcomed by their family members after arriving at the Kiev's Boryspil International Airport, Friday, Feb. 13, 2009. The Ukrainian cargo ship Faina which was hijacked by Somali pirates with its 20-man crew, and carrying tanks and other heavy weapons was released Thursday Feb. 5, 2009, after pirates received an airdropped ransom of $3.2 million. (AP photo/Efrem Lukatsky)AP - Twenty joyful but exhausted sailors stepped off a plane and into the arms of their loved ones Friday — a happy ending to an emotionally searing four-month hijack drama off the coast of Somalia.

Palestinians urge war crimes case against Israel (AP)

Posted: 13 Feb 2009 12:36 PM CST

AP - Palestinian leaders pressed prosecutors of the International Criminal Court on Friday to investigate alleged Israeli war crimes during the recent Gaza conflict.

UK anti-Semitic attacks rise after Gaza conflict (AP)

Posted: 13 Feb 2009 12:34 PM CST

This image issued by Britain's Community Security Trust on Friday Feb. 13, 2009 shows graffiti on a piece of pavement in north London in Oct. 2008, one of 314 incidences of graffiti, verbal abuse, and anti-Semitic hate mail. A Jewish charity in Britain says that the number of anti-Semitic attacks on British Jews rose sharply after the start of the conflict in Gaza. The Community Security Trust said Friday that 250 anti-Semitic incidents were recorded in the four weeks after the Gaza conflict began Dec. 27. That compares with 40 from the same period the year before. (AP Photo/ Community Security Trust, HO)AP - The number of anti-Semitic attacks on British Jews rose sharply after the start of the conflict in Gaza, a Jewish charity said Friday.

Greek man arrested with stash of antiquities (AP)

Posted: 13 Feb 2009 11:48 AM CST

A small statue from central or south America stands among ancient Greek coins and potshards seized from an alleged antiquities smuggler and presented by police at a press conference in the northern Greek port city of Thessaloniki, on Friday, Feb. 13, 2009. Police have arrested a 47-year-old vet for illegal possession of more than 2,000 ancient coins, vases, lamps and pieces of bronze jewellery. (AP Photo/Nikolas Giakoumidis)AP - Greek police arrested a veterinarian with more than 2,000 illegally excavated antiquities, including a small clay statue from pre-Columbian America, officials said Friday.

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