2009年3月13日星期五

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Yahoo! News: Europe News

Brown dines with German chancellor (AFP)

Posted: 13 Mar 2009 04:53 PM PDT

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown (R) and his wife Sarah (2nd L) meet with German Chancellor Angela Merkel (2nd R) and her husband Joachim Sauer (L) at Chequers, near Ellesborough, England.(AFP/POOL/Steve Parsons)AFP - Prime Minister Gordon Brown and his wife met with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and her husband for dinner on Friday evening at Brown's official country retreat.

OPEC could cut production on weekend (AP)

Posted: 13 Mar 2009 03:25 PM PDT

Traders work on the crude oil futures pit at the New York Mercantile Exchange Wednesday, March 11, 2009. Prices fell despite expectations that OPEC would cut back on production at its weekend meeting in Vienna. Benchmark crude for April delivery dropped 21 cents to $45.50 a barrel by midday in Europe on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Oil prices fell $1.36 on Tuesday to settle at $45.71. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)AP - Slash oil output to boost revenues but risk deepening the world's economic woes? Rarely have OPEC oil ministers faced a tougher choice.

Craigslist ad for free funeral barter laid to rest (Reuters)

Posted: 13 Mar 2009 02:42 PM PDT

Reuters - A New York funeral director hoping to barter a free funeral for construction work on his patio was forced to scrap the idea due to the media frenzy that followed.

Northern Ireland unites at policeman's funeral (AP)

Posted: 13 Mar 2009 02:34 PM PDT

Police Service of Northern Ireland Officers carry the coffin of their colleague Stephen Carroll to St Therese's Roman Catholic church, Banbridge, Northern Ireland, Friday, March, 13, 2009. Several thousand Protestants and Catholics united with their political and security leaders at Friday's funeral of a Northern Ireland policeman — a killing by IRA dissidents that mourners prayed would be the last of this land's 'troubles.' (AP Photo/Peter Morrison)AP - Thousands of Protestants and Catholics united with their political and security leaders Friday at the funeral of a policeman — shot by IRA dissidents in what mourners prayed would mark the end of Northern Ireland's "troubles."

Non-governmental groups in Jersey protest at tax havens (AFP)

Posted: 13 Mar 2009 02:10 PM PDT

Around 20 people stage a demonstration calling for reforms on tax havens in St Helier, on the island of Jersey. Dozens of non-governmental organisations on Friday joined a protest against tax havens outside international banks on Jersey in the Channel Islands.(AFP/Marcel Mochet)AFP - Dozens of non-governmental organisations on Friday joined a protest against tax havens outside international banks on Jersey in the Channel Islands.

Michael Jackson comeback tickets sell out in hours (AFP)

Posted: 13 Mar 2009 02:06 PM PDT

Michael Jackson fans queue at the O2 Arena in London for tickets. Tickets for the 49 comeback concerts sold out within hours of going on sale on Friday.(AFP/Shaun Curry)AFP - Tickets for 49 comeback concerts by pop megastar Michael Jackson sold out within hours of going on sale Friday.

NIreland salutes slain policeman (AFP)

Posted: 13 Mar 2009 02:04 PM PDT

Northern Irish police carry a coffin containing the body of police Constable Stephen Carroll in Banbridge, Northern Ireland. Northern Ireland united Friday to salute the first policeman killed in the province for a decade, amid pleas to shun the AFP - Northern Ireland united Friday to salute the first policeman killed in the province for a decade, as a third man was arrested over his murder.

iPhone Fire Sale Linked To Apple Plans for a New iPhone (NewsFactor)

Posted: 13 Mar 2009 02:04 PM PDT

NewsFactor - Not long after T-Mobile decided to drop the price of its Apple iPhone 3Gs in Germany, rumors have surfaced that O2, a carrier in the United Kingdom, is planning to do the same.

German Massacre Raises Issue of Gun-Control in Europe (Time.com)

Posted: 13 Mar 2009 02:00 PM PDT

Time.com - Despite stringent gun laws, Europeans are more highly armed than they think. Experts say better measures are needed to keep legally-owned guns out of the hands of people who've lost their sanity

European states pledge to ease bank secrecy (AFP)

Posted: 13 Mar 2009 01:48 PM PDT

Swiss President and Finance Minister Hans-Rudolf Merz gives a press conference in Geneva. Switzerland's tradition of bank secrecy has come under threat from the financial crisis. Switzerland, Luxembourg and Austria have said they will relax key bank secrecy laws to meet growing international demands for change but only on a limited, case by case basis.(AFP/File/Fabrice Coffrini)AFP - Switzerland, Luxembourg and Austria said Friday they would relax their bank secrecy laws amid growing international pressure to stamp out tax havens, prompting tiny Monaco to say it would follow suit.

Trial: Italian suspect had knife at police station (AP)

Posted: 13 Mar 2009 01:46 PM PDT

US murder suspect Amanda Knox, right, is escorted in a courtroom during a hearing, in Perugia, Italy, Friday, March 13, 2009. Knox, and Knox's former Italian boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito, are being tried on charges of sexual violence and murder of her British roommate Meredith Kercher in Perugia last Nov. 2007. Both deny wrongdoing. (AP Photo/Stefano Medici)AP - Police officers testifying at the trial of two suspects in the slaying of a British student in Italy said Friday that the Italian suspect carried a knife to the police station and that his American co-defendant looked nervous and repeatedly hit her head with her hands.

Dutch police free 7 after probing terror tip (AP)

Posted: 13 Mar 2009 01:42 PM PDT

Dutch police give directions to shoppers after sealing off a major shopping street in Amsterdam, Netherlands, Thursday March 12, 2009. Dutch police say they arrested seven people on suspicion of preparing a terrorist attack in Amsterdam including a relative of one of the attackers who died in the 2004 bombings in Madrid. Earlier Thursday authorities had sealed off a major Amsterdam shopping street as a result of the threat, while police conducted house searches. District Attorney Herman Bolhaar says those arrested include six men and one woman, aged 19-64. All are Dutch nationals of Moroccan ancestry. (AP Photo/Evert Elzinga)AP - AMSTERDAM — Police released all seven people arrested after an anonymous warning of a plot to plant bombs in an Amsterdam shopping district, prosecutors said Friday, easing fears that the Dutch capital was the target of a terrorist threat by Moroccan immigrants.

Italy dig unearths female 'vampire' in Venice (AP)

Posted: 13 Mar 2009 01:34 PM PDT

This photo released by forensic archaeologist and anthropologist Matteo Borrini of Florence University, Italy, Friday March 13, 2009, shows the 16th-century remains of a woman with a brick stuck between her jaws unearthed in 2006 in an archaeological dig near Venice, northern Italy. (AP Photo/Matteo Borrini of Florence University) NO SALES **AP - An archaeological dig near Venice has unearthed the 16th-century remains of a woman with a brick stuck between her jaws — evidence, experts say, that she was believed to be a vampire.

Switzerland breaks with tradition on tax evasion (AP)

Posted: 13 Mar 2009 01:13 PM PDT

Swiss Federal President Hans-Rudolf Merz, head of the Federal Department of Finance, speaks during a news conference in Bern, Switzerland, Friday, March 13, 2009. The Swiss government said Friday it would cooperate on cases of international tax evasion, breaking with a long-standing tradition of protecting wealthy foreigners accused of hiding billions of dollars in the Alpine nation. (AP Photo/Keystone, Peter Schneider)AP - Switzerland's days as a safe haven for the world's tax evaders are numbered.

Israeli and Palestinian groups accept rights medal (AP)

Posted: 13 Mar 2009 01:09 PM PDT

AP - A prestigious Dutch human rights award was presented Friday to two groups from Israel and the Palestinian territories even though the director of the Palestinian organization was banned from attending the ceremony.

Several buildings swept away in Norwegian mudslide (AP)

Posted: 13 Mar 2009 12:54 PM PDT

Damaged buildings lie at the edge of a fijord, following a mudslide near Namsos, Norway, Friday March 13, 2009. Several houses and cabins were destroyed in the mudslide, which happened near a road construction site.(AP Photo/Scanpix, Norway)AP - A mudslide hit several houses and vacation homes in central Norway on Friday, sweeping some into the fjord below, police and rescue officials said. There were no reports of injuries.

Belfast chooses peace in face of renewed terror (AP)

Posted: 13 Mar 2009 12:52 PM PDT

The funeral of PSNI constable Stephen Carroll makes its way through Banbridge, Northern Ireland, Friday March 13, 2009, to St Therese's Roman Catholic church. Constable Stephen Carroll, 48, was shot while on duty in Craigavon on Monday. Thousands of people lined the streets outside St Therese Church in his hometown of Banbridge, County Down, where funeral mass was held. (AP Photo/Peter Morrison)AP - When Irish Republican Army dissidents gunned down their first British security forces in more than a decade, they hoped to provoke a steely security crackdown and tit-for-tat attacks that would drag Belfast back into the bad old days.

Home of Web celebrates 20th birthday looking ahead (AP)

Posted: 13 Mar 2009 12:38 PM PDT

Tim Berners-Lee, left, and Robert Cailliau, right, inventors of the World Wide Web - WWW or Web - pose next to the first Web server, which ran on an NeXT computer, during the 20th anniversary celebration of the World Wide Web at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Meyrin, near Geneva, Switzerland, Friday, March 13, 2009. (AP Photo/KEYSTONE/Martial Trezzini)AP - The inventor of the World Wide Web celebrated its 20th anniversary Friday by encouraging fellow scientists at his former particle physics laboratory in Switzerland to look to the future.

Activists accuse Russia of mistreating Muslims (AP)

Posted: 13 Mar 2009 12:37 PM PDT

AP - Two activists accused Russia's government on Friday of encouraging prosecutors to target Muslims on trumped up charges of terrorism and extremism, and said the abuse could lead to anti-government unrest.

Man arrested near Amsterdam in German mob killings (AP)

Posted: 13 Mar 2009 12:30 PM PDT

Image released by German police on Friday March 13, 2009 during a news conference by the police in Duisburg, shows the alleged mafia murder Giovanni Strangio . German police say the Italian man wanted for the 2007 mob killings of six people in the western city of Duisburg has been arrested in Amsterdam. Duisburg police said that Strangio was arrested late Thursday night in a joint operation between German, Italian and Dutch police. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein)AP - Dutch police have arrested an Italian man wanted for the 2007 mob killings of six people in the western German city of Duisburg, prosecutors said Friday.

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