2009年2月13日星期五

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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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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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