2009年6月6日星期六

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Bodies, debris from Air France plane recovered (AFP)

Posted: 06 Jun 2009 07:25 PM PDT

Crew keep watch from a Brazilian Air Force Hercules C-130. Brazilian search aircraft spotted seats and part of a plane wing in the Atlantic where an Air France jet went down nearly a week ago, officials said after two bodies and other items were recovered from the area(AFP/Brazilian Air Force)AFP - Brazilian search aircraft spotted seats and part of a plane wing in the Atlantic where an Air France jet went down nearly a week ago, officials said after two bodies and other items were recovered from the area.

Bodies, debris retrieved from Air France crash (Reuters)

Posted: 06 Jun 2009 06:02 PM PDT

Members of the Brazilian Air Force bandeirantes relax after a search operation over the area where Air France flight AF447 went missing en route from Rio to Paris, at a base in Fernando de Noronha island June 6, 2009. REUTERS/Bruno DomingosReuters - Brazilian search crews on Saturday retrieved the first bodies from a crashed Air France flight in the Atlantic, and investigators said faulty speed readings had been found on the same type of jets.

Capello relieved as England edge closer to SAfrica (AFP)

Posted: 06 Jun 2009 06:01 PM PDT

Fabio Capello (pictured) has paid tribute to his England players for the way in which they put a stuttering start behind them to maintain their 100 percent World Cup qualifying record with a 4-0 win over Kazakhstan.(AFP/File/Alexander Nemenov)AFP - Fabio Capello has paid tribute to his England players for the way in which they put a stuttering start behind them to maintain their 100 percent World Cup qualifying record with a 4-0 win over Kazakhstan.

Johnson warns England of Argentina rugby backlash (AFP)

Posted: 06 Jun 2009 05:53 PM PDT

England manager Martin Johnson (pictured) is expecting an Argentina backlash in next Saturday's Test at Salta after his side's comfortable 15-37 win at Old Trafford on Saturday. Despite the lopsided result with England producing three tries to nil the World Cup winning captain is predicting a harsher time for his inexperienced side next week.(AFP/Paul Ellis)AFP - England manager Martin Johnson is expecting an Argentina backlash in next Saturday's Test at Salta after his side's comfortable 15-37 win at Old Trafford on Saturday.

Airbus A330 has history of airspeed problems (Reuters)

Posted: 06 Jun 2009 03:40 PM PDT

Antonio de Orleans e Braganca (L), father of the passenger Pedro Luiz de Orleans e Braganca, of Air France's flight 447, and his wife pray during a mass for the passengers of flight 447 at the Nossa Senhora do Carmo church in Rio de Janeiro June 5, 2009. REUTERS/Sergio MoraesReuters - Airbus has faced problems with the speed sensors on its A330 aircraft dating back to at least 2001, forcing changes in equipment as well as the pilot's flight manual, according to regulatory documents.

Bad day at the office for Monty (AFP)

Posted: 06 Jun 2009 02:54 PM PDT

Scottish golfer Colin Montgomerie lines up his putt during a round in May 2009. Montgomerie's hopes of mounting a challenge at the rain-hit Wales Open were hit as the former European number one struggled badly at the start of his third round on Saturday.(AFP/File/Glyn Kirk)AFP - Colin Montgomerie's hopes of mounting a challenge at the Wales Open were washed away in a third round severely hit by heavy rain here on Saturday.

Irish PM's party suffers ballot-box hammering (AFP)

Posted: 06 Jun 2009 02:48 PM PDT

Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen is pictured in March 2009. Cowen's party suffered a vote collapse in two parliamentary by-elections and faces heavy losses in local councils, exit polls and first results showed Saturday.(AFP/File/John Thys)AFP - Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen's party suffered a vote collapse in two parliamentary by-elections and faces heavy losses in local councils, exit polls and first results showed Saturday.

Holland take first European World Cup berth, England closer (AFP)

Posted: 06 Jun 2009 02:12 PM PDT

Toni Kallio of Finland (R) and Marco Ritzberger of Liechtenstein in action during a World Cup 2010 qualifying football match at the Olympic Stadium in Helsinki, Finland. Finland won 2-1.(AFP/LEHTIKUVA/Roni Rekomaa)AFP - A revived England all but booked their World Cup finals place Saturday by swatting Kazakhstan 4-0 as Holland became the first European nation to seal their berth for South Africa.

Irish PM heads for big poll defeat, vows to stay on (Reuters)

Posted: 06 Jun 2009 02:04 PM PDT

Reuters - Ireland's ruling party was heading for a record defeat in European and local elections on Saturday, but Prime Minister Brian Cowen vowed to stay in office until the end of his government's term in 2012.

Iceland to repay UK, Dutch governments for lost savings (Reuters)

Posted: 06 Jun 2009 01:52 PM PDT

Reuters - Resolving a thorny diplomatic dispute, Iceland struck a deal to reimburse Britain and the Netherlands for billions of pounds and euros owed to savers with Icelandic accounts, the nations said on Saturday.

Italy's EU vote becomes a Berlusconi barometer (AP)

Posted: 06 Jun 2009 01:36 PM PDT

Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi gestures during the recording of the talk show Matrix, on one of his Mediaset channels, in Rome, Friday, June 5, 2009. 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. (AP Photo/Alessandro Di Meo, pool)AP - Italians voted Saturday in European Parliament elections that have become a virtual barometer of Premier Silvio Berlusconi's ability to weather a scandal over his attention to young women.

Sarkozy gushes over Obama who keeps his cool (AP)

Posted: 06 Jun 2009 01:00 PM PDT

US President Barack Obama, left, shakes hand with French President Nicolas Sarkozy, right, as Britain's Prince Charles and Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown sit seated in the middle, during the commemoration ceremony marking the 65th anniversary of D-Day, at the Memorial of the Colleville American cemetery, Normandy, western France, Saturday June 6, 2009. (AP Photo/Remy de la Mauviniere)AP - Nicolas Sarkozy certainly tried hard to please the American president when the two leaders met to commemorate the 65th anniversary of the D-Day landings.

Poland honors John Paul II with monument in Warsaw (AP)

Posted: 06 Jun 2009 10:47 AM PDT

A young priest prays during the unveiling ceremony of a giant cross monument in central Warsaw in honor of the late Pope John Paul II marking the 30th anniversary of the Polish-born pontiff's first visit to his homeland, in Warsaw, Poland, Saturday, June 6, 2009. The 30-foot or nine-meter, tall white granite cross stands on the site where John Paul II delivered a Mass in 1979 in then-communist Poland inspiring the country's nascent pro-democracy groups and giving rise to the Solidarity freedom movement that helped topple communist rule in 1989. (AP Photo/Alik Keplicz)AP - Poland on Saturday marked the 30th anniversary of Pope John Paul II's first pilgrimage to his homeland, unveiling a giant cross monument in central Warsaw in honor of the late Polish-born pontiff.

UK World War I veteran marks 113th birthday (AP)

Posted: 06 Jun 2009 10:05 AM PDT

Britain's oldest man, and oldest surviving First World War veteran Henry Allingham, celebrates his 113th birthday at a party hosted by the Royal Navy, at HMS President in London. Saturday June 6, 2009. He is the last survivor of the Battle of Jutland, the last surviving member of the Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS) and the last surviving founding member of the Royal Air Force (RAF). Since 2001, he has become the face of the World War I veterans association and makes frequent public appearances to ensure that awareness of the death and destruction of World War I is not lost to modern generations. (AP Photo/Dominic Lipinski, PA)AP - One of Britain's last surviving veterans of World War I has celebrated his 113th birthday.

Correction: Nuclear Agency-Syria-Iran story (AP)

Posted: 06 Jun 2009 08:49 AM PDT

AP - In a June 5 story about the International Atomic Energy Agency probe of the nuclear programs of Syria and Iran, The Associated Press erroneously cited the Institute for Science and International Security as saying Iran could make two nuclear weapons within eight months at its present rate of uranium enrichment.

Family of slain Briton take stand at Italy trial (AP)

Posted: 06 Jun 2009 05:16 AM PDT

US murder suspect Amanda Knox, right, 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 - The mother of a British student killed in Italy in 2007 said Saturday that she will never get over her daughter's brutal death, as she testified about the victim during the trial of two young people accused of the killing.

Obama to pay tribute to D-Day fallen, meet Sarkozy (AP)

Posted: 06 Jun 2009 01:05 AM PDT

U.S. President Barack Obama , left, Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel, second left, and German Chancellor Angela Merkel third left, eave the former Buchenwald Nazi concentration camp near the eastern German city of Weimar in Thuringia Friday June 5, 2009. Obama is on a two-day visit to Germany. (AP Photo/Ina Fassbender,Pool)AP - President Barack Obama turns Saturday to the icons and heroes of the D-Day invasion of Normandy, paying tribute to a feat that cemented the trans-Atlantic alliance in a bid to shore up today's U.S.-Europe relationship.

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

Posted: 05 Jun 2009 06:26 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.

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