2009年6月4日星期四

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Speed an issue in Air France crash, search goes on (Reuters)

Posted: 04 Jun 2009 05:50 PM PDT

Air France employees stand outside the Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris during an ecumenical church service on June 3, 2009 for relatives and families of the passengers of Air France's flight 447 that vanished Monday over the Atlantic Ocean. REUTERS/Bob Edme/PoolReuters - Brazilian search teams on Thursday scoured choppy Atlantic waters for remains of a crashed Air France jet after the first debris retrieved by helicopter turned out to be trash.

No sign of debris yet at jet crash site: Brazil (AFP)

Posted: 04 Jun 2009 05:19 PM PDT

Handout picture given by Brazil's Navy showing an Air Force pilot searching for debris of the Air France flight 447 over the Atlantic Ocean, on board a Hercules C-130 on June 3, 2009. Brazilian officials said late Thursday they have so far only recovered sea AFP - Brazilian officials said late they have so far only recovered sea "trash" from a zone in the Atlantic where an Air France jet came down, and not aircraft debris as originally thought.

4 travelers missed doomed Air France Flight 447 (AP)

Posted: 04 Jun 2009 04:28 PM PDT

Relatives hug during a mass for victims of Air France flight 447 that was reported missing on its way from Rio de Janeiro to Paris, at a church in Rio de Janeiro, Thursday, June 4, 2009. Air France has told families of passengers on Sunday's flight that the jetliner broke apart and they must abandon hope that anyone survived, a grief counselor said Thursday as Brazilian ships neared debris bobbing in the Atlantic. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)AP - A reservation mix-up, an overbooking and a Brazilian cabbie's passion for soccer are all that saved some would-be passengers on Air France flight 447 from the fate of 228 others who lost their lives in the mid-Atlantic.

5th UK minister resigns, piling pressure on Brown (AP)

Posted: 04 Jun 2009 04:14 PM PDT

AP - Prime Minister Gordon Brown was dealt a devastating blow to his leadership late Thursday when one of his most ambitious ministers resigned — hours after Britain voted in European elections — and called on him to step down.

Brown on the brink as minister quits (AFP)

Posted: 04 Jun 2009 03:47 PM PDT

Works and Pensions Secretary James Purnell arrives for a cabinet meeting at 10 Downing Street in London, on June 2, 2009. Purnell has quit the government, urging Prime Minister Gordon Brown to step down, The Times newspaper reported Thursday.(AFP/File/Leon Neal)AFP - Prime Minister Gordon Brown was under severe pressure to resign as one of his ministers quit Thursday, urging Brown to step down.

Brown 'disappointed' as minister quits (AFP)

Posted: 04 Jun 2009 03:34 PM PDT

Works and Pensions Secretary James Purnell arrives for a cabinet meeting at 10 Downing Street in London, on June 2, 2009. Purnell has quit the government, urging Prime Minister Gordon Brown to step down, The Times newspaper reported Thursday.(AFP/File/Leon Neal)AFP - Prime Minister Gordon Brown was "disappointed" by the resignation Thursday of a Cabinet minister and was now focusing on "restructuring the government", a spokesman said.

Dutch far right gains in EU vote: exit polls (Reuters)

Posted: 04 Jun 2009 03:20 PM PDT

A polling station sign is seen on a street in west London June 4, 2009. Britons voted Thursday in both local and European elections. REUTERS/Toby MelvilleReuters - Exit polls showed a Dutch anti-immigration party made gains on Thursday on the first day of a European Parliament election that is expected to punish governments struggling to cope with the global economic crisis.

Poland celebrates 20 years since historic vote (AP)

Posted: 04 Jun 2009 02:31 PM PDT

Former Czech President Vaclav Havel delivers his speech in Krakow, Poland, on Thursday, June 4, 2009. European leaders gathered in Krakow as Poland celebrates the first free parliamentary elections 20 years ago that heralded the collapse of communism. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)AP - European leaders on Thursday hailed Poland's first semi-free vote as an inspiration for movements that brought down regimes across the Soviet bloc, saying on the election's 20th anniversary that it helped pave the way for a reunited Europe.

UK's Brown digs in his heels as pressure to go mounts (Reuters)

Posted: 04 Jun 2009 02:01 PM PDT

Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown leaves Downing Street on his way to Prime Minister's Questions at the Houses of Parliament in London June 3, 2009. REUTERS/Stefan WermuthReuters - Throughout his life, Gordon Brown has been a model of ambition checked by tragedy and the two may soon collide again for Britain's prime minister.

Poll: Right-wing party second in Dutch Euro vote (AP)

Posted: 04 Jun 2009 02:00 PM PDT

A small dog waits as its owner votes for the European elections, at a church in Amsterdam, Netherlands, Thursday June 4, 2009. About 375 million voters across the 27-nation European Union are voting Thursday through Sunday, appointing candidates to 736 seats on the assembly in the second-largest election in the world after India's. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)AP - A right-wing, stridently anti-Islam Dutch lawmaker's party won more than 15 percent of votes in the country's European Parliament elections Thursday, according to the national broadcaster's exit poll.

Russian military historian blames Poland for WWII (AP)

Posted: 04 Jun 2009 01:12 PM PDT

AP - As the Kremlin presses a campaign to recast Russia's 20th century history in a more favorable light, a research paper published Thursday on the Defense Ministry's Web site blamed Poland for starting World War II.

German zoo: Gay penguin pair raising chick (AP)

Posted: 04 Jun 2009 01:03 PM PDT

Two male Humboldt penguins cautiously guards the entrence to their cave in the 'Zoo am Meer' zoological park in Bremerhaven, northern Germany, on Wednesday, June 3, 2009, where they are fostering a six weeks old penguin chick. After a penguin egg had been abandoned by its biological parents, it was placed in the male penguins' nest, who then adopted and hatched it. The gender of the penguin chick has not yet been determined. Bremerhaven zoo veterinarian Schoene said the male birds, named Z and Vielpunkt, are one of three same-sex pairs among the zoo's 20 Humboldt penguins that have attempted to mate. (AP Photo/Focke Strangmann)AP - A German zoo says a pair of gay male penguins are raising a chick from an egg abandoned by its parents.

Britons convicted of murdering French students (AP)

Posted: 04 Jun 2009 12:37 PM PDT

AP - A judge sentenced two British men to life in prison Thursday for what he called the sadistic killing of two French students who were bound, tortured and stabbed to death in a London apartment last year.

Researchers say Obama has German roots (AP)

Posted: 04 Jun 2009 11:23 AM PDT

AP - Barack Obama in traditional German lederhosen? It may be hard to imagine, but researchers in the U.S. say they have located documents that prove the president has German roots dating to the 1700s.

Berlusconi probed over use of gov't plane (AP)

Posted: 04 Jun 2009 10:58 AM PDT

AP - Prosecutors are investigating Premier Silvio Berlusconi for alleged improper use of a government plane, a charge the Italian leader dismissed Thursday as politically motivated.

Russia's Putin visits town after protests (AP)

Posted: 04 Jun 2009 10:54 AM PDT

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, left, and billionaire Oleg Deripaska, right, seen during a meeting of factory owners and managers in the town of Pikalyovo, 240 km (153 miles) east of St. Petersburg, Russia, Thursday, June 4, 2009. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin traveled Thursday to a small Russian town where the shutdown of all three of its main factories has left much of the population without any income for months. Pikalyovo's largest factory, a cement and alumina plant owned by billionaire Oleg Deripaska's holding company, shut down in January. (AP Photo/RIA-Novosti, Alexei Nikolsky, Pool)AP - Prime Minister Vladimir Putin traveled Thursday to a small Russian town where all three main factories were shut down and pushed through a deal to put residents back to work.

Queen marks 500th anniversary of royal guards (AP)

Posted: 04 Jun 2009 10:21 AM PDT

Britain's Queen Elizabeth II inspects members of her bodyguard, the Honorable Corps of Gentlemen at Arms, at St James's Palace in London, Thursday June 4, 2009, as part of a parade to mark the 500th anniversary of the founding of the corps as the Monarch's bodyguards by King Henry VIII in 1509. The corps consists of 5 officers and 27 gentlemen, all of whom, except for the captain, are retired officers of the army or Royal Marines, and are members of the royal household.(AP Photo/Dominic Lipinski-pa)AP - Queen Elizabeth II has marked the 500th anniversary of a troop of royal bodyguards.

EU donates millions to preserve Auschwitz (AP)

Posted: 04 Jun 2009 09:44 AM PDT

AP - The European Union will give euro4.2 million ($5.9 million) to help preserve Auschwitz, the former Nazi death camp which more than six decades after the World War II is in a state of serious disrepair.

Mammoth skeleton unearthed in Serbia (AP)

Posted: 04 Jun 2009 09:36 AM PDT

An archeologist works on a recently unearthed skeleton of a mammoth at the open pit coal mine in Kostolac, some 95 km east of Belgrade, Thursday, June 4, 2009. A skeleton of a so-called southern mammoth or mammuthus meridionalis, originating from northern Africa believed to be about one million years old has been unearthed in eastern Serbia. The mammoth was more than 4 meters (13 feet) high, 5 meters (16 feet) long and weighed more than 10 tons, Miomir Korac from the Archaeology Institute says. Another mammoth skeleton, from a much later period, was discovered at a factory in Serbia in 1996 and was named Kika. (AP Photo/Srdjan Ilic)AP - A well-preserved skeleton of a mammoth that is believed to be about 1 million years old has been unearthed in eastern Serbia, archaeologists said Thursday.

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