2009年2月27日星期五

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Revitalised Reds seek to pump new life into Premier League title scrap (AFP)

Posted: 27 Feb 2009 08:30 PM PST

Liverpool's Israeli midfielder Yossi Benayoun (left) celebrates scoring during a football match in Madrid, on February 25. Liverpool is scheduled to play Middlesbrough in Premier League on Saturday.(AFP/File/Pierre-Philippe Marcou)AFP - Buoyed by their Champions League victory at Real Madrid in midweek, Liverpool this weekend have a chance to breathe new life into a Premier League title battle that most pundits have already awarded to Manchester United.

French film honors Hoffman, Penn (AP)

Posted: 27 Feb 2009 08:22 PM PST

U.S. Dustin Hoffman reacts at the annual 34th Cesar awards ceremony in Paris, Friday, Feb. 27, 2009. The French film industry has given Hoffman a special Cesar for his body of work. (AP Photo/Jacques Brinon)AP - The French film industry honored Dustin Hoffman and saluted Sean Penn Friday during a ceremony that saw its coveted Cesar for best film going to Martin Provost's "Seraphine."

World-famous British restaurant shuts in poisoning scare (AFP)

Posted: 27 Feb 2009 08:08 PM PST

The Fat Duck restaurant in Berkshire, near London. The world-famous British restaurant has been temporarily closed due to a food poisoning scare, owner Heston Blumenthal has said.(AFP/HO/File/AFP)AFP - The Fat Duck, considered one of the very best in the world, has been temporarily closed due to a food poisoning scare, owner Heston Blumenthal said Saturday.

Florence opera program makes cuts (AP)

Posted: 27 Feb 2009 06:45 PM PST

AP - An Italian music organization says government funding cuts are forcing it to make "heavy cuts" in its spring and summer opera festival.

All victims in Netherlands plane crash identified (AP)

Posted: 27 Feb 2009 06:00 PM PST

Crash investigators examine the wreckage of a Turkish airlines plane near Schiphol Airport, Amsterdam, Netherlands, Friday, Feb. 27, 2009. Forensic experts worked Friday to identify the dead in a Turkish Airlines crash that killed nine people in the Netherlands, while investigators at the scene mapped the exact location of each piece of mangled debris in search of the cause. Five Turks, including both pilots, and four Americans were killed when the Boeing 737-800 plunged into a farmer's field Wednesday morning, smashing into three pieces. Two of the dead Americans were Boeing employees. (AP Photo/Cynthia Boll)AP - The bodies of nine people killed in the crash of a Turkish Airlines flight in the Netherlands have been formally identified, a Dutch mayor said Friday, and Boeing Co. said three of the four Americans among the dead were its employees.

'Slumdog' surge in Indian child sponsorship (AFP)

Posted: 27 Feb 2009 04:30 PM PST

A girl plays with her younger sibling on the railway tracks near the shanty of AFP - Anti-poverty charity ActionAid said Friday there had been a surge in Indian child sponsorship enquiries in Britain since Oscar triumph of "Slumdog Millionaire".

Vatican: Bishop's apology on Holocaust not enough (AP)

Posted: 27 Feb 2009 03:02 PM PST

British-born Roman Catholic Bishop Richard Williamson arrives at Heathrow Airport in London February 25, 2009. A Roman Catholic bishop who caused an international uproar by denying the scale of the Holocaust arrived back in his native Britain on Wednesday after the Argentine government ordered him out. REUTERS/Luke MacGregor (BRITAIN)AP - An apology from a bishop who denied the Holocaust wasn't good enough, the Vatican said Friday, adding that he must repudiate his views if he wants to be a Roman Catholic clergyman.

UK police say man apparently set himself on fire (AP)

Posted: 27 Feb 2009 02:11 PM PST

Parliament Square is seen cordoned off outside the Houses of Parliament in London, Friday, Feb. 27, 2009. British police say they are investigating a report that a man was engulfed in flames outside Parliament and said that London's ambulance service attended a man 'who was apparently on fire for a short time' in Parliament Square in the heart of London. The extent of any injuries are not known. (AP Photo / Sang Tan)AP - A man apparently set himself on fire outside Britain's Parliament on Friday and he was taken to a hospital with superficial burns, authorities said.

Testimony says American suspect turned cartwheels (AP)

Posted: 27 Feb 2009 02:09 PM PST

U.S. murder suspect Amanda Knox, right, is escorted into a courtroom to stand trial, in Perugia, Italy, Friday, Feb. 27, 2009. Knox and her former Italian boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito are being tried on charges of sexual violence and murder of British student Meredith Kercher in Perugia last Nov. 2007. Both deny wrongdoing. (AP Photo/Stefano Medici)AP - A young American woman charged with murder in Italy turned cartwheels and sat on her boyfriend's lap in the police station after the killing of her apartment mate, Italian investigators testified at the trial Friday.

Resurgent French destroy Wales' hopes of Grand Slam repeat (AFP)

Posted: 27 Feb 2009 02:00 PM PST

France's lock and captain Lionel Nallet(R) vies with Wales' fullback Lee Byrne during their 6 nations rugby union match in Saint-Denis, near Paris. France won 21-16.(AFP/Martin Bureau)AFP - France dashed Wales' hopes of a repeat of their Six Nations Grand Slam here on Friday winning a thrilling encounter 21-16.

US won't participate in racism conference (AP)

Posted: 27 Feb 2009 01:54 PM PST

AP - The United States has decided not to participate in a U.N. conference on racism in April unless the final document is changed to drop all references to Israel and its criticism of religion, a senior U.S. official said Friday.

Hostage-takers steal millions from Bank of Ireland (AP)

Posted: 27 Feb 2009 01:48 PM PST

A customer enters the Bank of Ireland headquarters on College Green in Dublin, Friday Feb. 27, 2009. According to police, an employee of the Bank of Ireland has stolen millions of euros from the bank, after a gang took his family hostage and threatened to kill them unless he cooperated. Police have refused to confirm the precise sum stolen, but Irish media are putting it at seven million euro (US$ nine million).(AP Photo/Niall Carson-pa)AP - A Bank of Ireland employee was coerced into stealing an estimated euro7 million ($9 million) from his own branch Friday, police said, after a gang took his family hostage and threatened to kill them unless he cooperated.

Russia: Arms control to top talks with Clinton (AP)

Posted: 27 Feb 2009 01:46 PM PST

AP - Russia's foreign minister said Friday he will focus on arms control talks during his meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton next week, while Moscow has demonstrated its revived military might by sending a bomber on patrol near Canada and putting a new military radar on duty.

Airline pay toilets? Ignore that beverage cart (AP)

Posted: 27 Feb 2009 01:27 PM PST

In this Dec. 1, 2008 file photo a Ryanair jet takes off from Belfast City Airport. Is a bathroom an optional extra when you're at 30,000 feet? Ryanair boss Michael O'Leary seems to think so — as his no-frills airline contemplates charging customers to use its aircrafts' toilets. O'Leary whipped up a frenzy of indignation and potty humor Friday, Feb. 27, 2009, as he suggested that future Ryanair passengers might be obliged to insert a British pound coin before they gain access to in-flight relief. (AP Photo / Peter Morrison, file)AP - When nature calls at 30,000 feet, is $1.40 a wee price to pay? Or could it force passengers without correct change into a whole new kind of holding pattern?

Algerian diplomat suspected in murder is freed (AP)

Posted: 27 Feb 2009 12:28 PM PST

AP - A ranking Algerian diplomat suspected in the 1987 murder of a dissident in Paris is free to go home, three months after Algeria called him a hostage of France.

Russian FM: arms control to top talks with Clinton (AP)

Posted: 27 Feb 2009 10:22 AM PST

AP - News agencies are reporting that Russia's foreign minister says he will focus on arms control during his meeting next week with U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

Hint that English cardinal may join House of Lords (AP)

Posted: 27 Feb 2009 10:14 AM PST

AP - A Roman Catholic archbishop could be appointed to sit in the House of Lords for the first time in nearly 500 years — or at least Prime Minister Gordon Brown did not immediately rule it out.

UK police seeking radioactive fugitive (AP)

Posted: 27 Feb 2009 09:32 AM PST

AP - British authorities hunted Friday for a fugitive whose treatment for a thyroid problem has made him radioactive.

Russian Navy admits causing Irish oil slick (AP)

Posted: 27 Feb 2009 08:47 AM PST

AP - The Russian navy finally admitted Friday it caused an oil slick off Ireland's southwest coast — 12 days after European and Irish marine authorities first spotted the threat and linked it to the Russians' breakdown-prone aircraft carrier.

Record 205 nominations for 2009 Nobel Peace Prize (AP)

Posted: 27 Feb 2009 08:45 AM PST

This is a Friday, July 25, 2008 file photo of U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill, right, meeting France's President Nicolas Sarkozy, left, at the Elysee Palace, in Paris. It was reported, Friday, Feb. 27, 2009, President Barack Obama and his French counterpart Nicolas Sarkozy are believed to be among a record 205 nominations for the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize. The secretive five-member awards committee, which released its final nominations count on Friday, keeps the names of candidates secret for 50 years. But some of the thousands of people with nominating rights do announce their nominees. (AP Photo/Remy de la Mauviniere, File)AP - President Barack Obama and his French counterpart Nicolas Sarkozy are believed to be among a record 205 nominations for the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize.

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