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Fruitless 5th day in search for Air France debris: official (AFP)

Posted: 05 Jun 2009 04:20 PM PDT

Relatives of a passenger aboard ill-fated Air France Flight 447, pray during a mass at the Our Lady of Carmo Cathedral in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. An intensive air and sea operation on Friday failed to recover any debris from an Air France jet that came down in the Atlantic early this week with 228 people on board, Brazilian air force officials said.(AFP/Antonio Scorza)AFP - An intensive air and sea operation on Friday failed to recover any debris from an Air France jet that came down in the Atlantic early this week with 228 people on board, Brazilian air force officials said.

Britain's Brown rejigs cabinet to calm crisis (Reuters)

Posted: 05 Jun 2009 04:11 PM PDT

Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown arrives at the Golden Lane Children's Center in London June 2, 2009. REUTERS/Stefan WermuthReuters - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown sought to fend off a challenge to his authority on Friday, reshuffling his cabinet to secure the loyalty of several ministers and averting a government collapse.

Obama to mark 65th D-Day anniversary in Normandy (Reuters)

Posted: 05 Jun 2009 03:20 PM PDT

Reuters - U.S. President Barack Obama travels to Normandy Saturday to mark the 65th anniversary of the D-Day landings on beaches in northern France that led to the Allied victory over Nazi Germany.

Michelle Obama, 2 daughters visit Eiffel Tower (AP)

Posted: 05 Jun 2009 02:55 PM PDT

FILE -- This April 3, 2009 file photo shows U.S. first lady Michelle Obama, left, stands with Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, wife of French President Nicolas Sarkozy, at Palais Rohan in Strasbourg, France. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)AP - Michelle Obama and her two daughters paid a surprise visit to the Eiffel Tower on Friday night, delighting tourists and doubtless the presidential couple's two girls.

Obama meets wounded US troops in Germany (AP)

Posted: 05 Jun 2009 02:38 PM PDT

Corporal Steven Baker, left, 24 years old from Corinth, Mississippi, and Sgt. Matt Berth, right, 27 years old from Rhinelander, Wisconsin, talk to the press about their impressions after the visit of US President Barack Obama in the US regional warrior center in Landstuhl, Germany, Friday, June 5, 2009. Berth and Baker received the purple heart medal for getting injured in battle. (AP Photo/Roberto Pfeil)AP - Last week, U.S. Army Cpl. Steven Baker was wounded while on patrol in Afghanistan's Wardak province. Friday night in Germany, President Barack Obama pinned a Purple Heart medal on his chest.

Dutch courage undoes England in T20 shock (AFP)

Posted: 05 Jun 2009 02:19 PM PDT

Edgar Schiferli of Netherlands (2ndR) celebrates winning the match after Stuart Broad of England (2ndL) misses the stumps during their ICC World Twenty20 Cup match at Lord's cricket ground in London. The Netherlands enjoyed their greatest day in international cricket as they stunningly beat hosts England by four wickets in the opening match of the ICC World Twenty20.(AFP/Ian Kington)AFP - The Netherlands enjoyed their greatest day in international cricket as they stunningly beat hosts England by four wickets in the opening match of the ICC World Twenty20 here at Lord's on Friday.

Experts mull over lessons from plane crash (AP)

Posted: 05 Jun 2009 02:16 PM PDT

AP - The mysterious disappearance of an Air France jet this week while flying over the Atlantic in fierce thunderstorms is stirring a debate about whether new technologies and procedures are needed to prevent similar tragedies in the future.

UN: New uranium traces found in Syria (AP)

Posted: 05 Jun 2009 02:14 PM PDT

Iranian soldiers gather around an anti-aircraft machinegun inside the uranium enrichment facility in Natanz, 300 kms south of Tehran in 2006. The UN atomic watchdog has not made any progress in its probe into the alleged illicit nuclear activities in Iran and Syria, a senior official close to the agency said Friday.(AFP/File/Behrouz Mehri)AP - The U.N nuclear agency on Friday reported its second unexplained find of uranium particles at a Syrian nuclear site, in a probe launched by suspicions that a remote desert site hit by Israeli warplanes was a nearly finished plutonium producing reactor.

Britain's Brown refuses to quit as prime minister (AP)

Posted: 05 Jun 2009 02:01 PM PDT

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown speaks to the media during a press conference in 10 Downing Street, London Friday June 5, 2009. Brown clung fiercely to his job Friday, defying calls from some within his beleaguered Labour party to resign. Brown told reporters he never even considered resigning, instead announcing a Cabinet reshuffle he hopes will help restore his fortunes. Brown has been badly stung by a scandal over British lawmakers' expenses, a string of top-level resignations and catastrophic results expected in local elections. (AP Photo/ Carl Court, pool)AP - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown battled desperately Friday to keep his job, ignoring demands to quit amid a flurry of Cabinet resignations and a swelling rebellion in the ranks of his Labour Party.

Vatican visits CERN's Big Bang machine (AP)

Posted: 05 Jun 2009 01:55 PM PDT

AP - A senior Vatican delegation visited the world's biggest nuclear physics laboratory, proclaiming that true faith has no problems with science.

Obama arrives in Paris after visiting German camp (AP)

Posted: 05 Jun 2009 12:36 PM PDT

US President Barack Obama puts down a rose in front of the gate building at the Buchenwald concentration camp near Weimar, Germany, Friday, June 5, 2009. Obama, who is en route from Egypt to France, visited Dresden before visiting the former Nazi concentration camp Buchenwald and the US regional medical center in Landstuhl during his stopover in Germany. (AP Photo/Oliver Multhaup, POOL)AP - President Barack Obama has arrived in Paris after meeting with Chancellor Angela Merkel in Germany and touring the Buchenwald concentration camp, where tens of thousands of Jews perished during the Holocaust.

Expert: suffocation main cause of Briton's death (AP)

Posted: 05 Jun 2009 11:30 AM PDT

US murder suspect Amanda Knox, foreground, is escorted by penitentiary police officers as she arrives for a hearing in the Meredith Kercher murder trial, in Perugia, Italy, Frday June 5, 2009. Knox and her former Italian boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito, are on trial for the murder of Knox's British roommate, student Meredith Kercher, found dead in the house they shared in Nov. 2007. (AP Photo/Stefano Medici)AP - A British student killed in Italy in 2007 died from suffocation caused by her murderers, showing a clear intent to kill, as well as from the stab wounds inflicted to her neck, a forensic expert told a court Friday.

American, German vets pay respects to D-Day fallen (AP)

Posted: 05 Jun 2009 11:04 AM PDT

Second World War veteran Don Roach, 82, takes a moment as he stands on Juno beach in Courseulles sur-Mer, France, on Friday, June 5, 2009 as he visits Normandy to take part in ceremonies marking the 65th anniversary of the D-Day landings and the Battle of Normandy. Roach served as a 5th Engineer with the Canadian Merchant Marines and played an active role in the D-Day landing on June 6, 1944. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Sean Kilpatrick)AP - Americans and Germans who were bitter enemies during the D-Day invasion of France shared stories and moments of silence at a Normandy ceremony Friday, joining together to honor those who perished in the epochal World War II beach landings.

Pope meets with Irish churchmen after abuse report (AP)

Posted: 05 Jun 2009 10:48 AM PDT

AP - Pope Benedict XVI has met with Ireland's top churchmen following the publication of a damning report detailing decades of rapes, humiliation and beatings at church-run reform schools in Ireland.

Delayed spacewalk ends successfully (AP)

Posted: 05 Jun 2009 10:02 AM PDT

In this image provided by NASA Friday June 5, 2009, showing two crew members, centre bottom, during a space walk aboard the International Space Station. Two international space station crew members began a spacewalk Friday, despite initial concerns about high carbon dioxide levels in their redesigned Russian space suits. Commander Gennady Padalka, a veteran Russian cosmonaut, and Flight Engineer Mike Barratt, a U.S. astronaut on his first space mission, were scheduled to install an additional docking port for Russian space vehicles during the planned 5 1/2-hour effort. (AP Photo / NASA )AP - Two international space station crew members wrapped up a successful spacewalk Friday, the first since the size of the station's crew expanded from three to six last month.

Facts about former Buchenwald concentration camp (AP)

Posted: 05 Jun 2009 09:15 AM PDT

AP - Some details about the Buchenwald concentration camp that President Barack Obama visited Friday. The president's great-uncle, Charlie Payne, helped liberate the nearby Ohrdurf subcamp in 1945.

UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown reshuffles Cabinet (AP)

Posted: 05 Jun 2009 09:10 AM PDT

AP - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown announced changes to his Cabinet on Friday. The members are:

Berlusconi: I'll resign if I lied about teen (AP)

Posted: 05 Jun 2009 08:10 AM PDT

AP - Premier Silvio Berlusconi said Friday he would resign immediately if he were shown to have lied about his relationship with an 18-year-old model at the heart of a scandal that has titillated Italy for weeks.

Prosecutor's office opens Airbus plane probe (AP)

Posted: 05 Jun 2009 08:02 AM PDT

AP - The Paris prosecutor's office says it has opened a manslaughter probe in the crash of Air France flight 447, a routine step by authorities in the deaths of French citizens overseas.

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