2009年5月15日星期五

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Yahoo! News: Europe News

Man United on brink of another Premiership glory (AFP)

Posted: 15 May 2009 05:59 PM PDT

Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson (3rd left) talks with his players during a recent training session at their Carrington training ground in Manchester. One point against an Arsenal side with nothing to play for in Saturday's lunchtime encounter will secure yet another triumph for Ferguson, one of the most extraordinary personalities his country has produced.(AFP/File/Paul Ellis)AFP - When Sir Alex Ferguson walked through the door at Old Trafford in 1986 he memorably defined his job at Manchester United as "knocking Liverpool off their f***ing perch."

More MPs named and shamed in UK expenses scandal (Reuters)

Posted: 15 May 2009 04:57 PM PDT

The Big Ben clock tower at the Houses of Parliament is seen next to a sculpture, in Westminster, in central London May 15, 2009. REUTERS/Toby MelvilleReuters - An MP from Britain's ruling Labour party has said there was an "unforgivable error" in his claim for thousands of pounds in expenses for a mortgage he had already repaid and he would refund the cash, a paper reported on Saturday.

The Reprieve blasts Obama tribunals decision (AFP)

Posted: 15 May 2009 04:52 PM PDT

Detainees at the maximum security prison Camp Delta at Guantanamo Naval Base, in Guantanamo, Cuba, in 2004. A British-based charity that helped secure the release of a Guantanamo Bay detainee said it was dismayed at President Barack Obama's decision to revive military tribunals for top suspects at the camp.(AFP/POOL/File/Marlk Wilson)AFP - A British-based charity that helped secure the release of a Guantanamo Bay detainee said it was dismayed at President Barack Obama's decision to revive military tribunals for top suspects at the camp.

Britain rocked by parliamentary expenses scandal (AP)

Posted: 15 May 2009 03:50 PM PDT

Postcards showing the Houses of Parliament are seen on a tourist kiosk opposite the parliament in central London, Friday May 15, 2009. Britain's shamed lawmakers rushed to spend public money on lavish second homes, swank hotel rooms, luxury meals, Plasma TV's and chandeliers at country estates — now legislators snared in a deepening expenses scandal are in a race to hand it back. For almost a week, daily revelations about how lawmakers billed the taxpayer for everything from ice cubes to housekeepers have whipped up a public storm that threatens to sweep through Britain's political ranks. Dozens of lawmakers have issued humbling apologies in a British political scandal like no other. ''Hearing about how these politicians are claiming for cans of cat food and flowers for their mansions makes me sick', Randy Wallace, 41,an unemployed plumber said. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)AP - Britain has seen its share of sex and sleaze scandals over the years, but few have tarnished all three of the country's main political parties in a single stroke.

Actor, footballer Vinnie Jones not guilty of assault (AFP)

Posted: 15 May 2009 03:49 PM PDT

British football star turned tough-guy Hollywood actor Vinnie Jones, seen here in February 2009, smiled and mouthed AFP - British football star and Hollywood tough guy Vinnie Jones smiled and mouthed "thank you" to a jury that found him not guilty Friday of assault charges.

Britain's Olympic champ DeGale destroys Czech Kubin (AFP)

Posted: 15 May 2009 03:37 PM PDT

Britain's Olympic champion James DeGale, seen here in 2008, produced a powerful display to silence his critics on Friday with a first-round stoppage of unbeaten Czech Jindrich Kubin.(AFP/File/Jacques Demarthon)AFP - Britain's Olympic champion James DeGale produced a powerful display to silence his critics on Friday with a first-round stoppage of unbeaten Czech Jindrich Kubin.

Freed Guantanamo detainee arrives in France (Reuters)

Posted: 15 May 2009 02:43 PM PDT

In this photo, reviewed by the U.S. Military, a sign marks a closed-off area, at Camp Justice, the location of the U.S. Military Commissions court for war crimes, at the U.S. Naval Base, in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, January 19, 2009. REUTERS/Brennan Linsley/PoolReuters - An Algerian-born detainee was released on Friday from the U.S. prison camp at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba and transferred to France where he has relatives, U.S. and French officials said.

Algerian Guantanamo detainee arrives in France (AP)

Posted: 15 May 2009 02:23 PM PDT

AP - A Guantanamo Bay prisoner who was at the center of a Supreme Court battle over inmates' rights arrived Friday in France, which agreed to take in the Algerian in a gesture to the Obama administration.

Expenses scandal claims first minister (AFP)

Posted: 15 May 2009 01:42 PM PDT

Prime Minister Gordon Brown suspended junior justice minister Shahid Malik, seen here, whose expense claims are under investigation in the latest escalation of the embarrassing row.(HO)AFP - The scandal over the expenses of British lawmakers claimed its first ministerial victim Friday and the police said senior officers and lawyers would examine allegations as public anger grew.

British expenses scandal claims first minister (AFP)

Posted: 15 May 2009 01:40 PM PDT

The sun sets on the Houses of Parliament in London. The scandal over the expenses of British lawmakers claimed its first ministerial victim Friday and the police said senior officers and lawyers would examine allegations as public anger grew.(AFP/File/Jim Watson)AFP - The scandal over the expenses of British lawmakers claimed its first ministerial victim Friday and the police said senior officers and lawyers would examine allegations as public anger grew.

US journalist freed from Iran arrives in Austria (AP)

Posted: 15 May 2009 01:21 PM PDT

US-Iranian journalist Roxana Saberi smiles as she arrives at the airport in Schwechat, Austria, on Friday, May 15, 2009. Saberi, the American journalist accused of spying on Iran, has arrived in Austria after her release from an Iranian jail. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak)AP - After four months in an Iranian prison, American journalist Roxana Saberi was savoring her first taste of freedom back in the West — beaming a confident smile Friday upon touching down in Austria's capital but keeping silent about the details of her ordeal.

Watchdog: Piracy not based on intelligence network (AP)

Posted: 15 May 2009 12:45 PM PDT

FILE - This April 9, 2009 file image provided by the U.S. Navy taken from video made with an unmanned aerial vehicle, shows a 28-foot lifeboat from the U.S.-flagged container ship Maersk Alabama in the Indian Ocean. According to the Navy, the cargo ship's Capt. Richard Phillips was being held by Somali pirates aboard the lifeboat when this video was made. A reader-submitted question about what happened to the bodies of the pirates who attacked the Maersk Alabama, is being answered as part of an Associated Press Q&A column called 'Ask AP'.(AP Photo/U.S. Navy, File)AP - Pirate attacks off the Somali coast appear to be mainly opportunistic and there is no indication that vessels are targeted with the help of intelligence from international contacts, a maritime watchdog said Friday.

Moscow braces for European musical song contest (AP)

Posted: 15 May 2009 11:13 AM PDT

AP - Amid a frenzied light show, pyrotechnics and questionable wardrobe decisions, performers from across Europe will seek melodic supremacy Saturday night at the annual Eurovision song contest.

Ex-officials of rebel Georgia area: leader corrupt (AP)

Posted: 15 May 2009 09:01 AM PDT

AP - Former officials of Georgia's breakaway province of South Ossetia said Friday that tyranny and official corruption have flourished there following the Russian-Georgian war last summer.

GlaxoSmithKline taking pandemic vaccine orders (AP)

Posted: 15 May 2009 08:13 AM PDT

AP - Pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline said Friday it has received orders from several countries to stockpile pandemic vaccine as soon as it gets the vaccine's key ingredient from the World Health Organization.

Nobel committee blasts Aung San Suu Kyi treatment (AP)

Posted: 15 May 2009 07:50 AM PDT

AP - The Nobel Peace Prize awards committee issued a rare public statement Friday to condemn the imprisonment of 1991 peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi and to demand her immediate release.

EU assembly pulls brake on 'gravy train' image (AP)

Posted: 15 May 2009 02:54 AM PDT

AP - Among perks enjoyed by EU Parliament lawmakers: flying no-frills and expensing the cost of a full fare ticket, listing spouse or child as aides and paying them fat salaries, wining-and-dining friends at Michelin-starred restaurants and billing the taxpayer.

Medvedev criticizes NATO exercise in Georgia (AP)

Posted: 15 May 2009 02:19 AM PDT

AP - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev criticized NATO's exercises in Georgia and pushed for a new trans-Atlantic security treaty in remarks broadcast Friday.

Karadzic wages paperwork blitz in war crimes trial (AP)

Posted: 15 May 2009 02:10 AM PDT

FILE - In this Aug. 29, 2008 file photo, former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic is seen in the courtroom to enter pleas to 11 charges including genocide and crimes against humanity, at the U.N. Yugoslav war crimes tribunal in the Hague, Netherlands. Karadzic has been a psychiatrist, a poet, a leader of Bosnia's Serbs and a fugitive disguised as a new age guru. Now he has assumed yet another persona, a lawyer defending himself against charges of genocide and mass murder. (AP Photo/ Valerie Kuypers, Pool, file)AP - Radovan Karadzic has been a psychiatrist, a poet, a leader of Bosnia's Serbs and a fugitive disguised as a new age guru. Now he has assumed yet another persona — a lawyer defending himself against charges of genocide and mass murder.

(AP)

Posted: 14 May 2009 09:40 PM PDT

AP - Roxana Saberi, American journalist accused of spying on Iran, arrives in Vienna from Tehran.

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