2009年6月24日星期三

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Yahoo! News: Europe News

Can Italian premier survive latest scandal? (AP)

Posted: 24 Jun 2009 04:02 PM PDT

FILE -- In this May 9, 2009 file photo Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi reacts during a news conference at Rome's Chigi Palace premier's office. A high-end prostitute says she has proof she spent the night at Silvio Berlusconi's Rome residence - after a party that allegedly featured the premier's wisecracks, his cabaret crooning, and a bevy of sexy women. As Berlusconi is forced into a denial, there are signs of trouble ahead for the once teflon premier: prosecutors are examining images Patrizia D'Addario allegedly took of his bedroom and telephone recordings of him allegedly sweet-talking her - and the Roman Catholic Church is warning the 'limits of decency' have been breached. A defiant Berlusconi says he has nothing to be sorry about. The Italian Premier launched a new tourism campaign for Italy Wednesday June 24, 2009 that he says will rehabilitate the country's image which he says has suffered from recent personal scandals. (AP Photo/Riccardo De Luca,file)AP - Silvio Berlusconi has survived corruption allegations, a playboy reputation and his wife's wrath to become Italy's longest-serving prime minister. Now come allegations from a high-end prostitute that she spent the night at his residence and can prove it.

Russia's Medvedev heads to Nigeria (AP)

Posted: 24 Jun 2009 03:17 PM PDT

AP - Russia's president said Wednesday his nation's investment in Nigeria could stretch into the billions of dollars, as the two nations signed deals on nuclear energy, gas and oil exploration in Africa largest oil producer.

Netanyahu meeting called off with US Mideast envoy (AP)

Posted: 24 Jun 2009 03:00 PM PDT

French President Nicolas Sarkozy, left, meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, Wednesday June 24, 2009, at the Elysee Palace in Paris. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrived in Paris Wednesday for talks with French President Nicolas Sarkozy, as differences with the United States over settlements emerged as a key issue.(AP Photo/Gerard Cerles, Pool)AP - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's meeting in Paris with the top U.S. Mideast envoy was called off Wednesday in an apparent sign of growing friction over President Barack Obama's call for a halt to construction in Jewish settlements.

Leave us grunters in peace, urges Azarenka (Reuters)

Posted: 24 Jun 2009 02:48 PM PDT

Reuters - Victoria Azarenka turned up the volume on the Wimbledon noise saga on Wednesday, calling for people to respect grunters after the crowd mimicked her wails during a second-round victory.

Federer in, Sharapova out at Wimbledon (AFP)

Posted: 24 Jun 2009 02:45 PM PDT

Roger Federer, pictured on June 22, 2009, demonstrated why he is adored by centre court but Maria Sharapova's return to Wimbledon's main stage turned sour on Wednesday as the Russian became the tournament's biggest casualty to date. Playing with a fluency that was missing in his first round victory, Federer strolled to a 6-2, 6-2, 6-4 win over Spain's Guillermo Garcia-Lopez.(AFP/File/Carl de Souza)AFP - Roger Federer demonstrated why he is adored by centre court but Maria Sharapova's return to Wimbledon's main stage turned sour on Wednesday as the Russian became the tournament's biggest casualty to date.

Blair 'will cooperate' with widened British Iraq inquiry (AFP)

Posted: 24 Jun 2009 01:47 PM PDT

Former premier Tony Blair, seen here on June 15, 2009, will cooperate AFP - Former premier Tony Blair will cooperate "fully" with a new British probe into the Iraq war, officials said Wednesday, as the government conceded the inquiry will have the power to apportion blame.

Nobel prize-winning immunologist Jean Dausset dies (AP)

Posted: 24 Jun 2009 01:26 PM PDT

AP - Jean Dausset, a Nobel prize-winning French immunologist and pioneer behind organ transplants and mapping of the human genome, has died. He was 92.

Playing the flute...35,000 years ago (Reuters)

Posted: 24 Jun 2009 01:13 PM PDT

Reuters - People have been making music for more than 35,000 years, judging by prehistoric bird-bone flutes excavated in southwest Germany.

Journalist Saberi urges Iran to free aid worker (AP)

Posted: 24 Jun 2009 12:53 PM PDT

US-Iranian journalist Roxana Saberi, seen during a press conference to support Iranian humanitarian worker Silva Harotonian who has been imprisoned in Iran for one year, in Paris, Wednesday June 24, 2009. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)AP - American-Iranian journalist Roxana Saberi called Wednesday for the release of a former cellmate — a U.S. aid agency worker held in an Iranian prison — and expressed worry about those detained during opposition protests in Tehran.

StatoilHydro fights Lithuanian alcohol ban: report (Reuters)

Posted: 24 Jun 2009 12:52 PM PDT

Reuters - Norwegian oil and gas group StatoilHydro is trying to reverse a ban on the sale of alcohol at petrol stations in Lithuania, claiming it may lead to massive lay-offs, daily Dagens Naeringsliv said on Wednesday.

Irish Catholic orders to tell gov't of wealth soon (AP)

Posted: 24 Jun 2009 12:47 PM PDT

Bangladesh fans cheer for their team during the ICC World Twenty20 game against Ireland at Trent Bridge in Nottingham, on June 8. Bangladesh cricket captain Mohammad Ashraful was harangued by protesting fans when he returned home after his team crashed out of the World Twenty20 tournament in the first round.(AFP/File/Paul Ellis)AP - The Irish government announced Wednesday that it expects Catholic religious orders responsible for decades of child abuse to report by mid-July on their cash and assets — the next step in making them pay more to thousands of victims.

Prehistoric flute in Germany is oldest known (AP)

Posted: 24 Jun 2009 12:35 PM PDT

Professor Nicholas Conard of the University in Tuebingen shows a flute during a press conference in Tuebingen, southern Germany, on Wednesday, June 24, 2009. The thin bird-bone flute carved some 35,000 years ago and unearthed in a German cave is the oldest handcrafted musical instrument yet discovered, archeologists say, and offers the latest evidence that early modern humans in Europe had established a complex and creative culture. A team led by Conard assembled the flute from 12 pieces of griffon vulture bone scattered in a small plot of the Hohle Fels cave in southern Germany. (AP Photo/Daniel Maurer)AP - A bird-bone flute unearthed in a German cave was carved some 35,000 years ago and is the oldest handcrafted musical instrument yet discovered, archaeologists say, offering the latest evidence that early modern humans in Europe had established a complex and creative culture.

Obama to meet the pope while in Italy for G-8 (AP)

Posted: 24 Jun 2009 12:30 PM PDT

AP - Pope Benedict XVI and President Barack Obama will meet on July 10, a much-anticipated Vatican audience with a president under attack by some American bishops for his support of abortion rights.

Swiss order more evidence destroyed in nuke probe (AP)

Posted: 24 Jun 2009 12:15 PM PDT

AP - The Swiss government on Wednesday ordered the quick destruction of about 100 pages of evidence linked to an investigation of three Swiss engineers suspected of smuggling nuclear weapons technology.

6 killed, 5 wounded in Russia's North Caucasus (AP)

Posted: 24 Jun 2009 11:31 AM PDT

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, left, and Professor of Medicine Vladimir Fedorov speak at a Moscow hospital late Monday, June 22, 2009. Wounded Ingush President Yunus-Bek Yevkurov was brought to this hospital on Monday. A suicide car bomber attacked a convoy carrying the president of the troubled Russian province of Ingushetia Monday, critically wounding him and killing two bodyguards, the latest in a string of assassination attempts that have roiled the North Caucasus. (AP Photo/RIA Novosti, Vladimir Rodionov, Presidential Press Service)AP - Roadside bombs and gunfire killed six people and wounded five in Russia's North Caucasus region, officials said Wednesday, as a provincial leader remained in critical condition from an earlier suicide attack.

UK retailer Habitat sorry for Iran tags on Twitter (AP)

Posted: 24 Jun 2009 10:59 AM PDT

AP - British homewares retailer Habitat apologized on Wednesday after ads for the store appeared on Twitter tagged with words linked to the Iranian election crisis.

Swine flu testing to be required at sports event (AP)

Posted: 24 Jun 2009 10:42 AM PDT

AP - Thousands of athletes who will be competing in next month's World University Games in Serbia will be required to provide a certificate saying they do not have swine flu, or they will be quarantined, the government said Wednesday.

German actress Hanne Hiob dies at 86 (AP)

Posted: 24 Jun 2009 09:17 AM PDT

AP - German actress Hanne Hiob, a daughter of playwright Bertolt Brecht, has died, officials said Wednesday. She was 86.

Ancient well, and body, found in Cyprus (AP)

Posted: 24 Jun 2009 09:08 AM PDT

In this undated image provided by Cyprus' Antiquities Department, Wednesday, June 24, 2009, a researcher descends into a prehistoric well in Kirsonerga village in the Paphos district of Cyprus. Archaeologists have discovered a water well in Cyprus that was built as long as 10,500 years ago, and the skeleton of a young woman at the bottom of it, an official said Wednesday. (AP Photo/Cyprus Antiquities Department, HO)AP - Archaeologists have discovered a water well in Cyprus that was built as long as 10,500 years ago, and the skeleton of a young woman at the bottom of it, an official said Wednesday.

British woman with prosthetic arm sues Abercrombie (AP)

Posted: 24 Jun 2009 08:16 AM PDT

Riam Dean arrives for an employment tribunal in London, Wednesday June 24, 2009. The 22-year-old student who worked at Abercrombie & Fitch Co. says she was discriminated against because she has a prosthetic arm. After a few days Dean, who said she wore a sweater to cover her arm, said she was told she was breaking the company's 'look policy' and asked her to work in the stockroom. The hearing begins Wednesday and is expected to last for three days. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)AP - A British woman with a prosthetic arm has filed a discrimination claim against Abercrombie & Fitch Co., alleging the U.S. retailer made her work in the stockroom because she didn't conform to its "look policy."

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