2009年3月14日星期六

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Khan triumphs over Barrera in their WBA contest (AFP)

Posted: 14 Mar 2009 05:48 PM PDT

Amir Khan (left) lands a punch onto Mexican Marco Antonio Barrera during their WBA and vacant WBO international Lightweight championship boxing match, on March 14, at the M.E.N arena, Manchester, north-west England. Khan triumphed by a fifth round technical decision after Barrera suffered a gruesome cut early in their bout.(AFP/Andrew Yates)AFP - Amir Khan triumphed by a fifth round technical decision after Marco Antonio Barrera suffered a gruesome cut early in their lightweight bout at the MEN Arena in Manchester.

G-20 pledge sustained action on financial crisis (AP)

Posted: 14 Mar 2009 05:47 PM PDT

U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner talks at a press conference at the G20 Finance Ministers meeting at a hotel near Horsham, England, Saturday, March 14, 2009. Finance officials from the world's richest and leading developing countries pledged a 'sustained effort' to restore the global economy to growth after meeting here Saturday, attempting to patch over divisions about how to tackle the financial crisis. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)AP - Finance officials from rich and developing countries pledged Saturday to do "whatever is necessary" to fix the global economy, including supervision of freewheeling hedge funds and restoring bank lending by dealing with the shaky securities burdening their finances.

Petrol bombs thrown at N. Ireland police over arrests (AFP)

Posted: 14 Mar 2009 04:28 PM PDT

Masked youths prepare to throw molotov cocktails as they block the railway line near the house of former Irish Republican Army man Colin Duffy in Lurgan, Northern Ireland. Three men were arrested Saturday over the killing of two British soldiers in Northern Ireland, while police warned that hundreds of dissidents were aiming to derail the province's peace process.(AFP/Peter Muhly)AFP - Gangs of youths threw petrol bombs at police in Northern Ireland on Saturday after a prominent republican was among three people arrested over the murder of two British soldiers.

NIreland riots after police arrest 3 over killings (AP)

Posted: 14 Mar 2009 03:29 PM PDT

A masked youth throws a petrol bomb at PSNI officers close to were a leading Irish Republican was arrested, Saturday, in connection with the recent murders of two British soldiers, over a hundred Irish Republican's blocked the main railway line and began rioting in Lurgan, Northern Ireland, Saturday, March, 14, 2009. Police arrested three suspected IRA dissidents — including a well-known Irish republican — Saturday on suspicion of killing two off-duty British soldiers, an attack designed to trigger wider violence in Northern Ireland. (AP Photo/Peter Morrison)AP - Irish nationalist gangs hurled gasoline bombs at police Saturday after three alleged IRA dissidents were arrested on suspicion of killing two British soldiers in an attack designed to trigger wider violence in Northern Ireland.

Murray makes winning return (AFP)

Posted: 14 Mar 2009 03:21 PM PDT

Andy Murray of Great Britain returns a shot to Albert Montanes of Spain during the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells, California. Murray showed no lingering ill effects of the virus that sidelined him last month as he reached the third round of the Indian Wells Masters on Saturday.(AFP/Getty Images/Matthew Stockman)AFP - Andy Murray showed no lingering ill effects of the virus that sidelined him last month as he reached the third round of the Indian Wells Masters on Saturday.

French island gripped by 'Christ face' on church cushion (AFP)

Posted: 14 Mar 2009 03:14 PM PDT

Thousands flocked to a Roman Catholic church on the French Indian Ocean island of Reunion Saturday after believers said they saw the AFP - Thousands flocked to a Roman Catholic church on the French Indian Ocean island of Reunion Saturday after believers said they saw the "face of Christ" in the pleats of a church cushion.

Ireland stay on Six Nations Grand Slam track (AFP)

Posted: 14 Mar 2009 02:30 PM PDT

Scotland's Phil Godman (L) and Max Evans (R) challenge Ireland's Brian O'Driscoll (C) during a Six Nations international rugby union match at Murrayfield Stadium in Edinburgh. Ireland won 22-15.(AFP/Graham Stuart)AFP - Ireland fought back from a half-time deficit to beat Scotland 22-15 at Murrayfield on Saturday and keep alive their dream of a first Grand Slam since 1948.

Germany's Postbank chief offers to work for a euro: report (AFP)

Posted: 14 Mar 2009 02:11 PM PDT

German Postbank boss Wolfgang Klein, seen here in February 2009, is ready to work for a symbolic euro this year after he made more than 3.3 million in 2008 despite his company's hefty losses, a newspaper report said Saturday.(AFP/DDP/File/Thomas Lohnes)AFP - German Postbank boss Wolfgang Klein is ready to work for a symbolic euro this year after he made more than 3.3 million in 2008 despite his company's hefty losses, a newspaper report said Saturday.

G20 to take 'whatever action necessary' on slowdown (AFP)

Posted: 14 Mar 2009 02:07 PM PDT

Chancellor Alistair Darling (L) talks with French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde during a G20 photograph in Horsham, England. G20 finance ministers vowed Saturday to take AFP - G20 finance ministers vowed Saturday to take "whatever action is necessary" on the world economic slowdown, after talks preparing for a key summit on fighting the crisis next month.

Emirates unhappy with giant Airbus: report (AFP)

Posted: 14 Mar 2009 02:03 PM PDT

An Emirates Airlines Airbus A380 arrives at Los Angeles International Airport from New York in August 2008. Emirates is unhappy with its first four giant Airbus A380 aircraft, which showed manufacturing faults that forced flights to be cancelled, a report said Saturday.(AFP/File/Robyn Beck)AFP - Dubai-based airline Emirates is unhappy with its first four giant Airbus A380 aircraft, which showed manufacturing faults that forced flights to be cancelled, a report said Saturday.

Girl decapitated 700 years ago gets church burial (AP)

Posted: 14 Mar 2009 01:18 PM PDT

AP - More than 200 people have attended the funeral of a teenage girl decapitated 700 years ago in a gruesome medieval ritual.

Hood not so good? Ancient Brits questioned outlaw (AP)

Posted: 14 Mar 2009 12:54 PM PDT

AP - An academic says he's found evidence that Britain's legendary outlaw Robin Hood wasn't as popular as folklore suggests.

Report: Cuba, Venezuela could host Russian bombers (AP)

Posted: 14 Mar 2009 12:38 PM PDT

In this photo released by the U.S. Navy, one of two Russian Tupolev 95 Bear long rang bomber aircraft is seen near the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Nimitz on Feb. 9, 2008, south of Japan. The Interfax news agency reported Saturday March 14, 2009 that a Russian Air Force chief says Russian strategic bombers may be based in Cuba. Russia resumed long-range bomber patrols in 2007 after a 15-year hiatus. (AP Photo/U.S. Navy)AP - A Russian air force chief said Saturday that the country could base some strategic bombers in Cuba or on an island offered by Venezuela, the Interfax news agency reported, but a Kremlin official quickly said the military had been speaking only hypothetically.

German town holds first burial in school shooting (AP)

Posted: 14 Mar 2009 12:14 PM PDT

Pupils mourn outside the Albertville school in Winnenden, southern Germany, where flower tributes and candles are placed Saturday, March 14, 2009. A 17-year old gunman dressed in black, opened fire inside his former high school in Winnenden on Wednesday killing 15 people before turning the gun on himself, authorities said. (AP Photo/Jens Meyer)AP - Germans still in shock over a shooting rampage that killed 15 people at a school have conducted the first burial service for the victims.

Austrian incest suspect Josef Fritzl faces justice (AP)

Posted: 14 Mar 2009 12:09 PM PDT

A security man stands in front of the court in St. Poelten, where Josef Fritzl will be on trial in St. Poelten, Austria, on Friday, March 13, 2009. The trial against Josef Fritzl who is accused of imprisoning his daughter for 24 years and fathering seven children with her in a windowless cell, starts on Monday, March 16. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)AP - For almost a quarter of a century, Josef Fritzl allegedly held his daughter as a sex slave in a cramped, rat-infested cellar where he fathered seven children with her.

Divided Cyprus seeks its missing from old conflict (AP)

Posted: 14 Mar 2009 08:29 AM PDT

AP - An executioner's bullet left a coin-sized hole in the skull of Huseyin Mehmet Buba, a Turkish Cypriot army private whose remains were found in a well two years ago, a generation after his death.

Witness: no proof for slay suspect alibi (AP)

Posted: 14 Mar 2009 07:42 AM PDT

Italian murder suspect Raffaele Sollecito arrives in a courtroom for a hearing, in Perugia, Italy, Saturday, March 14, 2009. Sollecito, and U.S. murder suspect Amanda Knox are being tried on charges of sexual violence and murder of her British roommate Meredith Kercher in Perugia last Nov. 2007. A police officer testifying at the murder trial said that there was no trace Sollecito used his computer as he claims the night the British student was killed. Both Sollecito and his former girlfriend Knox deny wrongdoing. At left is Sollecito's lawyer Giulia Bongiorno. (AP Photo/Stefano Medici)AP - A police officer dealt an apparent blow to the alibi of a young Italian man on trial for the murder of a British student when he testified Saturday that there was no sign of the defendant using his computer during the hours the woman was stabbed to death.

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