2009年2月7日星期六

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Swiss weigh up EU immigration in crucial vote (AFP)

Posted: 07 Feb 2009 11:39 PM CST

An election poster of the right-wing Swiss People's Party (SVP) against open immigration reads: AFP - Swiss voters go to the polls Sunday to decide whether or not to continue to allow unrestricted immigration from the EU, with the country's ties with its European neighbours hanging in the balance.

Liverpool have staying power, says relieved Benitez (AFP)

Posted: 07 Feb 2009 10:40 PM CST

Liverpool's manager Rafael Benitez attends their Premier League football match against Portsmouth on February 7. Benitez insists his squad are strong enough to compete for the Premier League title despite needing a half-fit Fernando Torres to rescue a 3-2 stoppage time win at Portsmouth.(AFP/File/Glyn Kirk)AFP - Rafael Benitez insists Liverpool are strong enough to compete for the Premier League title despite needing a half-fit Fernando Torres to rescue a 3-2 stoppage time win at Portsmouth on Saturday.

Tough-guy Capello makes no Beckham guarantees (AFP)

Posted: 07 Feb 2009 10:24 PM CST

David Beckham seen during AC Milan's Serie A football match against Reggina on February 7. Tough-minded England manager Fabio Capello insists he will not be swayed by sentimentality when it comes to handing David Beckham a record-equalling 108th England cap.(AFP/Giuseppe Cacace)AFP - Tough-minded Fabio Capello insists he will not be swayed by sentimentality when it comes to handing David Beckham a record-equalling 108th England cap.

Britain orders bank bonuses, management probe (AFP)

Posted: 07 Feb 2009 09:06 PM CST

British Finance Minister Alistair Darling in London. Britain is to conduct a review of bank management that will probe the link between bonuses and excessive risk-taking, Darling has said.(AFP/Pool/File/Lewis Whyld)AFP - Britain is to conduct a review of bank management that will probe the link between bonuses and excessive risk-taking, Finance Minister Alistair Darling said in comments published Sunday.

Wilkins concedes Chelsea's title challenge is fading (AFP)

Posted: 07 Feb 2009 09:04 PM CST

Chelsea's Frank Lampard (left) is challenged by Hull City's Ian Ashbee. Chelsea assistant manager Ray Wilkins admits his side's title hopes are receding after the Blues were held to a surprise 0-0 draw at home to Hull(AFP/Ian Kington)AFP - Chelsea assistant manager Ray Wilkins admits his side's title hopes are receding after the Blues were held to a surprise 0-0 draw at home to Hull.

Bugatti found in Britain gets big bucks at auction (AP)

Posted: 07 Feb 2009 08:14 PM CST

A rare 1937 Bugatti Type 57S Atalante Coupe, originally the property of Francis Curzon, the 5th Earl Howe, is seen displayed at the Retromobile Vintage Cars show, in Paris, Friday, Feb. 6, 2009. The car abandoned in the garage for 50 years has sold at auction for approximately euro3.100,000, US$ 4.006,000, Saturday. (AP Photo/Jacques Brinon)AP - A car abandoned in a garage in Britain for half a century sold at an auction in Paris for euro3.4 million (about $4.4 million) Friday.

The Foreign Office facing big cash pressures: report (AFP)

Posted: 07 Feb 2009 06:09 PM CST

The Foreign Office is facing AFP - The Foreign Office is facing "serious financial pressures" due to the falling pound which could hit its international diplomacy efforts, an influential group of lawmakers said in a report Sunday.

England crash to humiliating innings defeat (AFP)

Posted: 07 Feb 2009 04:15 PM CST

England's batsman Alastair Cook leaves the field after being dismissed off West Indies bowler Jerome Taylor during the fourth day of the first Test match between England and West Indies at the Sabina Park Cricket Groud in Kingston. West Indies beat England by an innings and 23 runs to win.(AFP/Jewel Samad)AFP - England dramatically crashed to an innings and 23-run defeat at the hands of West Indies in the opening Test on Saturday at Sabina Park in the face high-class fast bowling from Jerome Taylor.

Beckham set for record-equalling 108th England cap (AFP)

Posted: 07 Feb 2009 04:07 PM CST

AC Milan's midfielder David Beckham runs for the ball during his team's Italian Serie A football match against Reggina at San Siro Stadium in Milan. Beckham was on Saturday handed the opportunity to win a record-equalling 108th cap for England when Fabio Capello named his squad to face European champions Spain in a friendly in Seville on Wednesday.(AFP/Giuseppe Cacace)AFP - David Beckham was on Saturday handed the opportunity to win a record-equalling 108th cap for England when Fabio Capello named his squad to face European champions Spain in a friendly in Seville on Wednesday.

Last-gasp Torres keeps Liverpool dreaming (AFP)

Posted: 07 Feb 2009 03:13 PM CST

Everton's forward Jo (L) celebrates scoring from the penalty spot against Bolton Wanderers during their English Premier League football match at Goodison Park in Liverpool. Jo hit a debut double to inspire Everton to an emphatic 3-0 victory over Bolton at Goodison Park on Saturday.(AFP/Paul Ellis)AFP - Fernando Torres kept Liverpool's dream of a first English league title in 19 years alive with a stoppage-time winner at Portsmouth but Chelsea look dead and buried after yet another stumble.

Roommate testifies in trial of US student in Italy (AP)

Posted: 07 Feb 2009 03:01 PM CST

A 3-pic combo of undated file photos of from left, Italian student Raffaele Sollecito, slain 21-year-old British woman Meredith Kercher and her American roommate Amanda Knox. An American student and the British woman she is accused of killing were friendly at first but then drifted apart, their roommate testified Saturday, Feb. 7, 2009. Filomena Romanelli took the stand in the trial of Amanda Knox and Knox's Italian former boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito, who are charged with murder and sexual violence in the killing of Meredith Kercher. Both deny wrongdoing. (AP Photo / files)AP - American student Amanda Knox and the British student she is accused of killing were friendly when they first met as foreign exchange students in Italy, but they then drifted apart, their roommate testified Saturday.

Russia says it is ready for more arms cuts (AP)

Posted: 07 Feb 2009 01:11 PM CST

AP - Russia is ready for more nuclear weapons cuts and welcomes President Barack Obama's push for talks on an arms reduction treaty, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said in remarks broadcast Saturday.

Pope reaffirms life amid heated right-to-die case (AP)

Posted: 07 Feb 2009 12:34 PM CST

A view of an ambulance at the entrance of the 'La Quiete' (The Stillness) clinic entrance, in Udine, northern Italy, Thursday Feb. 5, 2009. Eluana Englaro, a woman at the center of a right-to-die debate in Italy was transferred to this clinic Tuesday, where she is to be allowed to die after 17 years in a vegetative state. The Catholic church and pro-life activists have mounted a campaign to keep Eluana alive, denouncing what they say would be her execution. Others contend that Englaro's father is trying to give her the dignified death she had sought. The Englaro case has drawn comparisons in Italy with that of Terry Schiavo, the American woman who was at the center of a right-to-die debate until her death in 2005. Schiavo's husband, who wanted her feeding tube removed against her parents' wishes, prevailed in a polarizing battle in the United States that reached Congress, then-President George W. Bush and the Supreme Court. (AP Photo/Franco Debernardi)AP - Pope Benedict XVI said Saturday that all human life must be protected, especially that of the weak and suffering, making a last-minute intervention in a right-to-die case that has convulsed Italy.

Germany, France dodge Afghanistan troop issue (AP)

Posted: 07 Feb 2009 11:42 AM CST

AP - NATO's top official chastised Germany and France for refusing to commit more troops to Afghanistan, but the two European powers skirted the issue Saturday even while agreeing that Washington should not be left to fight international conflicts alone.

Report: Holocaust denier will review evidence (AP)

Posted: 07 Feb 2009 08:56 AM CST

AP - A bishop who faces a Vatican demand to recant his denial of the Holocaust said he would correct himself if he is satisfied by the evidence, but insisted that examining it "will take time," a German magazine reported Saturday.

Cyprus: suspect ship will not be returned to Iran (AP)

Posted: 07 Feb 2009 07:54 AM CST

AP - A ship suspected of carrying arms to Gaza will not be returned to Iran, Cypriot officials said Saturday, but they refused to say what exactly was found onboard the boat or whether the cargo contravened U.N. resolutions.

UK milkman delivered cannabis with bottles of milk (AP)

Posted: 07 Feb 2009 07:34 AM CST

AP - A British prosecutor says an elderly milkman supplied customers with cannabis as well as bottles of milk.

Poland: kidnapped Pole in Pakistan likely dead (AP)

Posted: 07 Feb 2009 06:39 AM CST

AP - Poland's prime minister says it appears that a Pole kidnapped by suspected militants in Pakistan has been killed.

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Russia allows transit of US military supplies (AP)

Posted: 07 Feb 2009 12:58 AM CST

U.S. soldiers open the gates of a military base, which is located within Manas civilian airport, near Kyrgyzstan's capital Bishkek Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2009. Kyrgyzstan's government submitted a draft bill to parliament Wednesday to revoke the country's hosting of a U.S. base that is an important component of the Afghanistan military campaign. (AP Photo/Igor Kovalenko)AP - Russia granted transit rights Friday to non-lethal U.S. military supplies headed to Afghanistan but only after apparently pressuring a former Soviet state to close an air base leased to the Americans.

Details emerge on Thatcher 'froggy golliwog' slur (AFP)

Posted: 06 Feb 2009 09:16 PM CST

Carol Thatcher, seen here in a file picture, called a French tennis star a AFP - Carol Thatcher, the daughter of former PM Margaret Thatcher, called a French tennis star a "froggy golliwog guy", a BBC presenter said Saturday, in the first full account of how a sensitive race row flared.

Prognosis not good for Taiwan nude photo clinic (Reuters)

Posted: 06 Feb 2009 09:12 PM CST

Reuters - A Taiwan clinic is likely to be fined after allowing two of its nurses to pose nude in an advertising campaign.

Dung it! Who threw away my 7-year collection? (AP)

Posted: 06 Feb 2009 07:42 PM CST

AP - A British university has apologized to a Ph.D. student for throwing away his treasured, seven-year collection of lizard dung. Daniel Bennett has told Times Higher Education magazine that he had collected the dung in the Philippines while studying the rare butaan lizard, a relative of the Komodo dragon. The material was to be studied as part of his doctoral research.

Italy government battles over right-to-die case (AP)

Posted: 06 Feb 2009 04:36 PM CST

In this undated file photo released by the Englaro family, Eluana Englaro, who fell into a vegetative state following a car accident in 1992, is seen. Eluana Englaro, who is at the center of Italy's right-to-die debate was transferred Tuesday, Feb. 3, 2009, to a hospital where she is to be allowed to die after 17 years in a vegetative state. Englaro was moved to the northeastern city of Udine overnight, said family lawyer Vittorio Angiolini. Her father has led a protracted court battle to disconnect her feeding tube, insisting it was her wish. (AP Photo/Englaro Family, HO-File)AP - Italy's government issued an emergency decree Friday to prevent a woman who has been in a vegetative state for 17 years from having her feeding tubes disconnected, but the president said he wouldn't sign it.

Italian defendant denies killing British student (AP)

Posted: 06 Feb 2009 04:08 PM CST

Amanda Knox's father Curt is surrounded by journalists as he arrives at the court building in Perugia, Italy, Friday, Feb. 6, 2009. The first witnesses are scheduled to take the stand in the trial of an American student and her Italian former boyfriend accused of killing a British woman in central Italy. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)AP - An Italian student accused of sexual violence and murdering a British student told a court Friday that he was innocent and the victim of a terrible judicial mistake.

Magic cheese scam stinks up rural Chilean town (Reuters)

Posted: 06 Feb 2009 04:02 PM CST

Reuters - It was supposed to be a magic recipe for instant riches, but instead hundreds of residents in this sleepy town in central Chile are up in arms over a "magic cheese" scam that has left many deep in debt.

Italian PM, president locked in battle over euthanasia case (AFP)

Posted: 06 Feb 2009 03:53 PM CST

Eluana Englaro has been in an irreversible coma after a car accident in 1992. The Italian government approved an emergency decree Friday to stop the mercy-killing of a woman in a coma for 17 years and launched a constitutional battle with President Giorgio Napolitano who refused to sign it into law.(AFP/File)AFP - Italy was locked in a constitutional battle on Friday as President Giorgio Napolitano refused to sign into law an emergency decree to stop the mercy killing of a woman who has been comatose for 17 years.

Big freeze puts Cipriani on ice (AFP)

Posted: 06 Feb 2009 03:01 PM CST

Danny Cipriani, seen here in 2008, saw his hopes of playing himself back into Six Nations contention suffer a setback on Friday when the England reserve team's match with Ireland A in Dublin was postponed.(AFP/File/Ian Kington)AFP - Danny Cipriani's hopes of playing himself back into Six Nations contention suffered a setback on Friday when the England reserve team's match with Ireland A in Dublin was postponed.

England claim prize West Indies scalps (AFP)

Posted: 06 Feb 2009 02:49 PM CST

England's cricketer Stuart Broad delivers a ball to West Indies batsman Shivnarine Chanderpaul during the third day of their first Test match in Kingston. Broad collected the wicket of World Cricketer-of-the-Year Chanderpaul, as West Indies, replying to England's first innings total of 318, reached 271 for five at tea.(AFP/Jewel Samad)AFP - England claimed the prized scalps of century-maker Ramnaresh Sarwan and Shivnarine Chanderpaul to enhance their position in the opening Test against West Indies here on Friday.

Iran: US must rethink policies for reconciliation (AP)

Posted: 06 Feb 2009 01:56 PM CST

Ali Larijani, Member of the Supreme National Security Council of Iran, center, arrives at the International Conference on Security Policy, Sicherheitskonferenz, at the hotel 'Bayerischer Hof' in Munich, southern Germany, on Friday, Feb. 6, 2009. Many notable leaders participate in the 45th annual Munich Security Conference until Sunday, Feb. 8, 2009. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein) * EDS note: German spelling for Munich is Muenchen *AP - Iran sternly dismissed decades of U.S. policies targeting Tehran and declared Friday that the new American administration had to admit past wrongs before it could hope for reconciliation.

Georgia: 27 Russian jets sent to Abkhazia (AP)

Posted: 06 Feb 2009 01:08 PM CST

AP - Georgia's foreign minister accused Russia on Friday of sending more than two dozen fighter jets to a base in the breakaway region of Abkhazia.

Russia, EU spar over human rights (AP)

Posted: 06 Feb 2009 01:05 PM CST

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, right, and European Commission President Jose-Manuel Barroso, left, are seen at a joint news conference after their talks in Moscow, Russia, Friday, Feb. 6, 2009. Russia and the European Union tested the troubled waters of their relationship Friday, holding the first top-level meetings since a chilling two-week cutoff of Russian gas supplies via Ukraine. (AP Photo/Alexei Druzhinin, Pool)AP - The EU's top executive angered Prime Minister Vladimir Putin while standing next to him at a news conference on Friday by raising concerns about the murders of Russian human rights activists and journalists in Moscow.

Video portrait of mankind on display in Paris (AP)

Posted: 06 Feb 2009 11:54 AM CST

French photographer Yann Arthus-Bertrand talks with visitors at the Grand Palais museum in Paris, Sunday Feb. 1, 2009. What does Hollywood movie star Martin Sheen have in common with an Afghan farmer, a Brazilian fisherman, a Bolivian miner, a German artist, and a Rwandan refugee? They all took part in the latest project of French photographer Yann Arthus-Bertrand, '6 Billion Others,' a video portrait of mankind. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)AP - What does Hollywood movie star Martin Sheen have in common with an Afghan farmer, a Brazilian fisherman, a Bolivian miner, a German artist, and a Rwandan refugee?

Saudi Arabia says only mosques allowed (AP)

Posted: 06 Feb 2009 11:54 AM CST

AP - A Saudi Arabian official says mosques can be the only places of worship in his country, rejecting pressure to change heavy restrictions on religious besides Islam.

Iran-bound cargo seized in Greece, official says (AP)

Posted: 06 Feb 2009 11:43 AM CST

AP - The cargo of a ship bound for Iran was seized near Athens because it violated an international embargo, a Greek government official said Friday, and a Greek newspaper reported that the vessel was carrying steel that can be used to make missile components.

key issues facing Security Conference (AP)

Posted: 06 Feb 2009 11:33 AM CST

AP - Here are two of the key issues facing the 45th annual Munich Security Conference, and the varying positions.

Clarkson apologizes for insulting UK leader (AP)

Posted: 06 Feb 2009 11:22 AM CST

AP - British TV presenter Jeremy Clarkson said Friday he was sorry for calling Prime Minister Gordon Brown a "one-eyed Scottish idiot."

Christians post faith messages on London buses (AP)

Posted: 06 Feb 2009 11:16 AM CST

In this Tuesday Jan. 6, 2009 file photo, Professor Richard Dawkins, the author of non-fiction book 'The God Delusion', poses for photographers in front of a London bus featuring an atheist advertisement with the slogan 'There's probably no God. Now stop worrying and enjoy your life'. Christian groups are to launch a campaign promoting God on posters pasted onto the city's iconic red buses, in response to similar ads from atheists proclaiming that God does not exist. The Christian Party has paid 15,000 pounds ($22,000) to run an advertisement declaring: 'There definitely is a God. So join the Christian Party and enjoy your life,' in bright red, pink and orange letters on the side of the buses.(AP Photo/Akira Suemori, file)AP - Christians are soldiering on in the battle over God's existence by putting ads on London's famous red buses urging people to have faith.

ABBA tribute band says it played for Putin (AP)

Posted: 06 Feb 2009 10:45 AM CST

AP - A British-based ABBA tribute band said Friday the Kremlin whisked it away to perform a private concert for Vladimir Putin — offering a rare glimpse into the private life of the secretive Russian prime minister.

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