2009年3月5日星期四

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Yahoo! News: Europe News

Govt poised to increase stake in Lloyds: BBC (AFP)

Posted: 05 Mar 2009 04:46 PM PST

A Lloyds Banking Group branch is pictured in central London. Britain is poised to increase its stake in Lloyds Banking Group as part of a deal that would also see the group agree to the government insuring its risky assets, the BBC reported Thursday.(AFP/File/Shaun Curry)AFP - The government is poised to increase its stake in Lloyds Banking Group as part of a deal that would also see the group agree to the government insuring its risky assets, the BBC reported Thursday.

AP Interview: Gorbachev criticizes Putin's party (AP)

Posted: 05 Mar 2009 04:41 PM PST

Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, March 5, 2009. In an interview with The Associated Press on Thursday, Gorbachev likened Vladamir Putin's United Russia Party to the communists he once led and helped bring down, and said Russia is today a country where the parliament and the judiciary are not fully free. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)AP - In some of his strongest criticism of his successors, Mikhail Gorbachev on Thursday likened Vladimir Putin's United Russia party to the worst of the communists he once led and helped bring down, and said Russia is today a country where the parliament and the judiciary are not fully free.

NATO renews Russia ties (Reuters)

Posted: 05 Mar 2009 04:35 PM PST

Reuters - NATO agreed on Thursday to resume formal ties with Russia, suspended after Moscow's war with Georgia, in the hope of winning greater Russian support for its struggle to stabilize Afghanistan.

Man charged with impersonating Dead Sea Scroll experts (Reuters)

Posted: 05 Mar 2009 04:18 PM PST

Reuters - The son of an expert on the Dead Sea Scrolls impersonated other experts in order to further his father's views on the 2,000-year-old documents, New York prosecutors said on Thursday.

Europe, UK cut rates; UK expands money supply (AP)

Posted: 05 Mar 2009 03:45 PM PST

AP - Europe's two leading central banks cut interest rates to record lows Thursday to boost their recession-mired economies, but as rates near their floor all eyes turned to a radical alternative move by the Bank of England to effectively create new money.

Michael Jackson plans London gig before beating it (AP)

Posted: 05 Mar 2009 03:04 PM PST

US singer Michael Jackson announces that he is set to play ten live concerts at the London O2 Arena in July, which he announced at a press conference at the London O2 Arena, Thursday, March 5, 2009. The singer also stated that this would be his final performances in London. (AP Photo/Joel Ryan)AP - Michael Jackson has returned to the spotlight after eight years marked more by scandal than by song and told a crowd of screaming fans that he would play a series of London engagements — his first concerts since 2001.

Boy makes thousands off McDonald's memorabilia (AP)

Posted: 05 Mar 2009 02:08 PM PST

AP - A British boy made a big deal out of Happy Meals.

Britain re-establishing contact with Hezbollah (AP)

Posted: 05 Mar 2009 01:56 PM PST

Hezbollah lawmaker Mohammed Raad, left, speaks with Christian lawmaker Michel Murr, right, during the fifth session of the national dialogue at the Presidential Palace in Baabda, east of Beirut, Lebanon, Monday, March 2, 2009. Leaders of political factions met at the presidential palace for the talks headed by President Michel Suleiman, to discuss a national defense strategy. (AP Photo/Wael Hamzeh, Pool)AP - Britain is re-establishing contact with the militant group Hezbollah following the formation of a unity government in Lebanon, the British government said Thursday.

King of Pop Jackson to play 'final curtain' concerts (AFP)

Posted: 05 Mar 2009 01:44 PM PST

US popstar Michael Jackson addresses a press conference at the O2 arena in London. to announce he will play a series of comeback concerts in London in July, his first major shows for over a decade.(AFP/Carl de Souza)AFP - Pop megastar Michael Jackson is to stage a series of "final curtain" concerts in London in July, his first major shows for over a decade, he announced in typically eccentric style on Thursday.

Italy threatens to quit U.N. conference on racism (Reuters)

Posted: 05 Mar 2009 01:35 PM PST

Reuters - Italy said Thursday it would not attend a U.N. conference on racism next month unless the wording of a document it considers hostile to Israel was altered.

Dye another gray: UK spies getting older (AP)

Posted: 05 Mar 2009 01:20 PM PST

The headquarters of Britain's secret intelligence service MI6 on the banks of the River Thames in London, are seen in this June 4, 2003, file photo. British lawmakers disclosed Thursday March 5, 2009, that veteran intelligence operatives are being asked to keep working after their usual retirement date to tackle an unrelenting threat from terrorism. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)AP - When 007 hits 65, should he be deep-sixed?

Rome meeting snubs intelligent design, creationism (AP)

Posted: 05 Mar 2009 01:05 PM PST

AP - A Vatican-backed conference on evolution is under attack from people who weren't invited to participate: those espousing creationism and intelligent design.

Italy pulls out of UN racism conference (AP)

Posted: 05 Mar 2009 12:51 PM PST

AP - Italy said Thursday it is pulling out of a U.N. conference on racism — the latest blow to a meeting seen by many Western governments as marred by Muslim attempts to attack Israel and shield Islam from criticism.

Spanish experts recommend easing abortion law (AP)

Posted: 05 Mar 2009 11:11 AM PST

AP - A government-appointed panel of experts has recommended that Spain ease restrictions on abortion and allow the procedure on demand up to 14 weeks of pregnancy, a minister said Thursday.

Poland embraces new effort to fight anti-Semitism (AP)

Posted: 05 Mar 2009 10:50 AM PST

AP - A human rights group and Poland's Education Ministry introduced new teaching materials for Poland's middle schools on Thursday in an effort to combat anti-Semitism.

Yemen blocks ex-child bride's trip to Austria (AP)

Posted: 05 Mar 2009 10:34 AM PST

AP - Yemen has barred a former child bride from being honored in Austria, saying she is too young to travel alone.

US space tourist unfazed by satellite smashup (AP)

Posted: 05 Mar 2009 09:55 AM PST

AP - A U.S. billionaire who is making his second flight to the international space station said Thursday he was not worried about the debris that last month's satellite collision sent hurtling through space.

Naftogaz pays Gazprom to avert gas cutoff (AP)

Posted: 05 Mar 2009 09:51 AM PST

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin seen during a meeting in his study at Novo-Ogaryovo residence outside Moscow, Monday, March 2, 2009. Putin's party has commanding leads in local elections in which non-governmental parties and independent observers report widespread voting violations.. (AP Photo/RIA Novosti, Alexei Nikolsky, Pool)AP - Ukraine's energy company paid its February bill for Russian gas in full Thursday, officials said, moving swiftly to avoid a cutoff that could have affected deliveries to Europe.

Reports: Russia building anti-satellite weapons (AP)

Posted: 05 Mar 2009 09:29 AM PST

AP - Russia is working on anti-satellite weapons to match technologies developed by other nations and will speed up modernization of its nuclear forces, a deputy defense minister was quoted as saying Thursday.

Berlin museum reborn after WWII damage (AP)

Posted: 05 Mar 2009 07:57 AM PST

An interior view of the staircase of the historical 'Neue Museum', or New Museum, on the so called Museum Island in Berlin, on Thursday, March 5, 2009. The building is being handed over to city museum officials on Thursday after a decade of painstaking restoration work. That marks a major step forward in a marathon project to revive the German capital's neoclassical Museum Island complex. The plans for the reconstruction were made by British architect David Chipperfield. The museum houses, as it did before the war, Berlin's Egyptian collection(AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)AP - The restored Neues Museum was unveiled Thursday after six years of painstaking work to repair World War II bomb damage that ruined much of the renowned building.

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