2009年5月29日星期五

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Deal reached for Magna to rescue Opel (AP)

Posted: 29 May 2009 05:47 PM PDT

AP - Germany's finance minister says a high-level meeting in Berlin has approved a plan for Canadian auto parts maker Magna International Inc. to move ahead with a rescue of General Motor Corp's Opel unit.

Falkirk out to rob Rangers of league and double (AFP)

Posted: 29 May 2009 05:22 PM PDT

A Glasgow Rangers fan wears a T-Shirt with team manager Walter Smith. League champions Rangers will be aiming to make it a double as they take on Falkirk in the Scottish Cup Final at Hampden(AFP/File/Alberto Pizzoli)AFP - League champions Rangers will be aiming to make it a double as they take on Falkirk in the Scottish Cup Final at Hampden.

Britain's Brown heading for electoral disaster: poll (Reuters)

Posted: 29 May 2009 04:57 PM PDT

Reuters - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown is on course for a drubbing at European elections next week after a scandal over politicians' expenses damaged him far more than his rivals, an opinion poll showed on Saturday.

Labour faces drubbing in EU vote (AFP)

Posted: 29 May 2009 04:37 PM PDT

Prime Minister Gordon Brown stands behind a Vauxhall outside 10 Downing Street in central London. Brown's Labour Party faces being pushed into third place in next week's European Parliament elections, a poll published Saturday showed.(AFP/Shaun Curry)AFP - Prime Minister Gordon Brown's Labour Party faces being pushed into third place in next week's European Parliament elections, a poll published Saturday showed.

Arms body breaks 12 years of deadlock on nukes (AP)

Posted: 29 May 2009 04:05 PM PDT

AP - The 65-nation Conference on Disarmament broke a dozen years of deadlock Friday and opened the way to negotiate a new nuclear arms control treaty.

Youthful Wales see off Estonia (AFP)

Posted: 29 May 2009 03:01 PM PDT

Wales' striker Robert Earnshaw, seen here in action in April 2009, scored the winning goal as Wales beat Estonia 1-0.(AFP/DDP/File/Oliver Lang)AFP - Wales manager John Toshack declared himself satisfied with his youthful side's 1-0 win over Estonia ahead of next weekend's World Cup qualifer in Azerbaijan.

Expenses scandal claims 13th victim (AFP)

Posted: 29 May 2009 02:38 PM PDT

Former government minister Elliot Morley, seen here in 2008, on Friday became the 13th lawmaker to announce he would stand down at the next general election in the wake of revelations about expenses.(AFP/File)AFP - A former government minister on Friday became the 13th lawmaker to announce he would stand down at the next general election in the wake of revelations about expenses.

Official who backed abortive Soviet coup dies (AP)

Posted: 29 May 2009 02:19 PM PDT

AP - Soviet Communist Party official Oleg Shenin, who played an active part in an abortive attempt to overthrow Mikhail Gorbachev in 1991, has died in Moscow, the Russian Communist Party said Friday. He was 71.

France charges Zoe's Ark charity with fraud (AFP)

Posted: 29 May 2009 02:14 PM PDT

French charity Zoe's Ark faces trial as an organisation for AFP - French charity Zoe's Ark faces trial as an organisation for "fraud" related to the adoption under false pretences of 103 Chadian children in 2007, a court source said Friday.

Magna takeover of GM Europe 'likely': Mandelson (AFP)

Posted: 29 May 2009 02:11 PM PDT

British Business Secretary Peter Mandelson, seen here outside 10 Downing Street in central London, said on Friday that Canadian auto parts maker Magna is AFP - Canadian auto parts maker Magna is "pretty likely" to reach a deal to take over General Motors' European operations Opel and Vauxhall, Business Secretary Lord Peter Mandelson said Friday.

Will she crack? Susan Boyle faces final showdown (AP)

Posted: 29 May 2009 01:48 PM PDT

FILE - In this Thursday April 16, 2009 file photo Susan Boyle, whose performance on the television show 'Britain's Got Talent' wowed the judges, poses singing with a hairbrush at her home in Blackburn, Scotland. It's always a bad hair day for Susan Boyle until she starts to sing. Then the physical flaws seem to disappear. The Scottish songbird with the frizzed-out hair doesn't look like a star. She is a bit chubby, with plain features, and no thousand watt show biz smile. But her golden voice has made her the overwhelming favorite in the final of Britain's Got Talent on Saturday May 30, 2009, which expected to draw millions of viewers in Britain, where it's broadcast live, and tens of millions throughout the world, with the help of YouTube and other online sites. (AP Photo, File) EDITORIAL USE ONLYAP - Can she do it? Or will she crack?

Fire breaks out on Italian ferry, 500 evacuate (AP)

Posted: 29 May 2009 01:28 PM PDT

Passengers embrace at the Palermo harbor, after they were evacuated from an Italian ferry Friday, May 29, 2009, as a fire broke out in the car hold. The Vincenzo Florio, traveling from Naples to Palermo, was 25 miles (40 kilometers) from the Sicilian capital when the fire broke out and 526 passengers used lifeboats to reach another ferry and a Coast Guard ship that came to the rescue. Five passengers, including a pregnant woman, were taken to a hospital as a precaution. (AP Photo/Alessandro Fucarini)AP - Fire broke out Friday on an Italian ferry carrying more than 500 people to the island of Sicily, forcing all passengers to evacuate by lifeboat to another ferry and a coast guard vessel.

El Salvador president-elect's son's killer jailed (AP)

Posted: 29 May 2009 01:05 PM PDT

AP - The killer of the son of El Salvador's president-elect has been sentenced by a Paris court to 16 years in prison.

Russia: Village accidentally shelled; no injuries (AP)

Posted: 29 May 2009 11:42 AM PDT

AP - A Russian naval ship carrying out target practice off the Russian Baltic Sea coast accidentally rained shell fragments on a village near St. Petersburg, officials said Friday.

Body found at Paris' luxury hotel Bristol (AP)

Posted: 29 May 2009 11:33 AM PDT

AP - French authorities are searching for the British boyfriend of a Polish woman whose battered and naked body was found in a bathtub at the French capital's chic Bristol Hotel, officials said Friday.

US transport boss rides Spanish bullet train (AP)

Posted: 29 May 2009 10:42 AM PDT

Spain's development Minister Jose Blanco, right, shake hands with US Secretary of Transport Ray LaHood on his arrival at the Atocha train station, before a trip on a high-speed AVE train to Zaragoza, in Madrid, Friday, May 29, 2009.(AP Photo/Daniel Ochoa de Olza)AP - Spain showed off its bullet train system on Friday, giving the U.S. transportation secretary a firsthand glimpse of the high-speed rail grid that President Barack Obama has praised as a model for America.

Former Olympic champion Ruby dies in climbing fall (AP)

Posted: 29 May 2009 10:19 AM PDT

French former Olympic snowboard champion Karine Ruby, seen here in 2006, has been found dead following a fall on Mont Blanc, French police said on Friday.(AFP/File/Boris Horvat)AP - Karine Ruby, a former Olympic snowboarding champion who had been training to become a mountain guide, died Friday in a climbing accident on Mont Blanc. She was 31.

Report: Corpse could be slain German communist (AP)

Posted: 29 May 2009 10:12 AM PDT

FILE- Undated file picture shows German communist politician Rosa Luxemburg who was murdered 1919 . The chief pathologist at Berlin's Charite is investigating whether a mystery corpse he found stored in a basement room could be that of communist hero Rosa Luxemburg, according to a report Friday. Luxemburg, one of the founders of the German Communist Party, was killed by right-wing militiamen in 1919 during a failed uprising and dumped into a Berlin canal. A body was later recovered that purportedly was that of Luxemburg and buried in a Berlin cemetery. But Charite's chief of forensic medicine Michael Tsokos told Der Spiegel magazine he has doubts. (AP photo/str/file)AP - The chief pathologist at Berlin's Charite hospital is investigating whether a corpse he found stored in a basement could be that of German Communist Party founder Rosa Luxemburg, who was slain in 1919, a magazine report said Friday.

Austria: Traces of cocaine found in Red Bull drink (AP)

Posted: 29 May 2009 10:01 AM PDT

AP - Austria's health ministry says traces of cocaine have been found in samples of Red Bull Cola energy drinks.

2 Greek students catch swine flu in UK (AP)

Posted: 29 May 2009 09:42 AM PDT

AP - Two Greek students caught swine flu in Scotland last week, proof that the virus is circulating more widely than European authorities admit.

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