2009年7月2日星期四

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French: Air France plane hit the sea belly first (AP)

Posted: 02 Jul 2009 04:44 PM PDT

Workers unload debris, belonging to crashed Air France flight AF447, from the Brazilian Navy's Constitution Frigate in the port of Recife, northeast of Brazil, Sunday, June 14, 2009. A burst of last-minute automatic messages sent by Air France Flight 447 includes one about a problem with a rudder safety device but that does not explain what sent the jet plunging into the Atlantic Ocean, an aviation expert said. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)AP - Air France Flight 447 slammed into the Atlantic Ocean, intact and belly first, at such a high speed that the 228 people aboard probably had no time to even inflate their life jackets, French investigators said Thursday in their first report into the June 1 accident.

Top officer among soldiers killed in Afghanistan (AFP)

Posted: 02 Jul 2009 03:29 PM PDT

British soldiers conduct a patrol outside Kandahar Air Field, 2006. One of two soldiers killed in southern Afghanistan this week was a commanding officer, the first senior official to die on operations since 1991, the Ministry of Defence said Thursday.(AFP/File/John D Mchugh)AFP - Two soldiers have been killed in an explosion in southern Afghanistan, including the first commanding officer to die in operations since 1991, the Ministry of Defence said Thursday.

RAF jet crashes in Scotland, two dead: ministry (AFP)

Posted: 02 Jul 2009 01:15 PM PDT

An undated handout showing a Tornado F3 Air defence fighter aircraft. Two members of the Royal Air Force (RAF) were killed Thursday when their Tornado F3 crashed during a routine flight in Scotland, the defence ministry said.(AFP/HO/File/Jack Pritchard)AFP - Two members of the Royal Air Force (RAF) were killed Thursday when their Tornado F3 crashed during a routine flight in Scotland, the defence ministry said.

Italy hopes for quake reconstruction pledges at G8 (AP)

Posted: 02 Jul 2009 12:55 PM PDT

AP - Italy is using the upcoming Group of Eight summit in quake-devastated central Italy to encourage participating countries to adopt monuments damaged in the temblor and pledge to help restore them.

Air France jetliner did not break up in mid-air: probe (AFP/HO/File)

Posted: 02 Jul 2009 12:54 PM PDT

View of a wreath floating in Guanabara Bay in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in homage to the people killed when an Air France jet plunged into the Atlantic on June 1, 2009. The Air France jetliner that crashed in the Atlantic with 228 people on board did not break up in mid-air, the French bureau leading the investigation said Thursday.(AFP/File/Vanderlei Almeida)AFP/HO/File - The Air France jetliner that crashed in the Atlantic between Brazil and West Africa with 228 people on board hit the ocean intact and did not break up in mid-air, the French bureau leading the investigation said Thursday.

Siemens to pay $100 million to fight graft: World Bank (AFP)

Posted: 02 Jul 2009 12:38 PM PDT

The logo of German engineering and electronics group Siemens in Munich. German industrial giant Siemens will pay 100 million dollars over 15 years into a fund to fight corruption after probes revealed fraud at its subsidiaries, the World Bank said Thursday.(AFP/DDP/File/Oliver Lang)AFP - German industrial giant Siemens will pay 100 million dollars over 15 years into a fund to fight corruption after probes revealed fraud at its subsidiaries, the World Bank said Thursday.

Oil prices tumble as Europe and the US shed jobs (AP)

Posted: 02 Jul 2009 12:20 PM PDT

AP - Oil prices tumbled to their lowest level in a month Thursday following the release of woeful job numbers in Europe and the U.S.

Serena, Venus set up fourth Wimbledon final (AFP)

Posted: 02 Jul 2009 12:12 PM PDT

US Serena Williams serves Elena Dementieva during their semi final match on Day 10 at the 2009 Wimbledon tennis championships at the All England Club. Williams 6-7 (4/7), 7-5, 8-6.(AFP/Carl de Souza)AFP - Serena and Venus Williams will meet in the Wimbledon final for the fourth time after a rollercoaster Thursday which witnessed epic drama as well as a farcical no-contest.

Anderson on the up ahead of the Ashes (AFP)

Posted: 02 Jul 2009 12:01 PM PDT

James Anderson, seen here in March 2009, signalled his determination to be England's leading pace bowler in the Ashes by taking five wickets in their warm-up match against Warwickshire at Edgbaston here Thursday.(AFP/File/Glyn Kirk)AFP - James Anderson signalled his determination to be England's leading pace bowler in the Ashes by taking five wickets in their warm-up match against Warwickshire at Edgbaston here Thursday.

Oracle plans to lay off up to 1,000 in Europe: AFP (Reuters)

Posted: 02 Jul 2009 11:28 AM PDT

Reuters - Oracle Corp plans to lay off up to 1,000 workers in Europe, or about 1 percent of its global staff, as the recession erodes the giant software company's earnings, French news agency AFP reported on Thursday.

Austrian university honors Nazi victims (AP)

Posted: 02 Jul 2009 10:33 AM PDT

This June 26, 2009 picture taken in the festival room of the University of Vienna, in Austria, shows a memorial book which contains the names of expelled lecturers and students at the university during the Nazi era. An online database was launched this week containing the names of students and teachers — many of them Jewish — who were forced to leave the University of Vienna after Adolf Hitler annexed Austria in March 1938. The database also contains the names of people who were stripped of their academic titles — including famous author Stefan Zweig, whom the Nazis in 1941 deemed 'unworthy' of the philosophy degree he earned in 1904. (AP Photo/Lilli Strauss)AP - Kurt Elias vividly remembers the day in 1938 when the Nazis barred him from entering the University of Vienna because he was Jewish.

IAEA chooses Japanese as new head (AP)

Posted: 02 Jul 2009 10:12 AM PDT

AP - The world's top nuclear watchdog chose Japan's Yukiya Amano as its next head on Thursday — and he touched on the devastation U.S. atom bombs wreaked on his country in pledging to do his utmost to prevent the spread of nuclear arms.

Britain braces for 100,000 swine flu cases a day (AP)

Posted: 02 Jul 2009 10:10 AM PDT

AP - Britain faces a projected 100,000 new swine flu cases a day by the end of August and must revamp its flu strategy to cope, the nation's health minister said Thursday.

Geller, ex-bodyguard tell of Jackson drug abuse (AP)

Posted: 02 Jul 2009 10:10 AM PDT

Uri Geller, 62, a medium, a phychic spoonbender and a close friend of Michael Jackson, poses for the Associated Press at his mansion outside London, Thursday July 2, 2009. Geller, a former Jackson confidant, said Thursday he tried to keep Jackson from abusing painkillers and other prescription drugs, but others in the singer's circle kept him supplied. 'When Michael asked for something, he got it. This was the great tragedy,' (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)AP - Two of Michael Jackson's former confidantes, medium Uri Geller and ex-bodyguard Matt Fiddes, say they tried in vain to keep the pop superstar from abusing painkillers and other prescription drugs suspected of leading to his death — but others in the singer's circle kept the supplies flowing.

Possible Michelangelo self-portrait revealed (AP)

Posted: 02 Jul 2009 10:04 AM PDT

AP - The restoration of Michelangelo's frescoes in the Vatican's Pauline Chapel may have produced a special prize — a previously unknown self-portrait of the artist.

EU urges Iran to release British Embassy staff (AP)

Posted: 02 Jul 2009 09:59 AM PDT

AP - The European Union demanded on Thursday that Iran release all detained British Embassy staff amid disagreement over how many there were and discussion of a British proposal for the bloc to jointly withdraw all 27 of its ambassadors from the country.

Stavridis takes helm at NATO command (AP)

Posted: 02 Jul 2009 09:51 AM PDT

AP - NATO's new commander said Thursday that the situation in Afghanistan remains "very challenging," but that the Taliban and other insurgents can be defeated.

Rare copy of Declaration of Independence found (AP)

Posted: 02 Jul 2009 09:31 AM PDT

This undated image released by Britain's National Archives Thursday, July 2, 2009, shows a copy of the United States Declaration of Independence, which has been discovered at the National Archives in Kew, England. The rare copy of the American Declaration of Independence has been found hidden in a file at the British National Archives. The Archives say that the print, known as the Dunlap print after the printer who commissioned it, is the 26th copy of the document to be found. The last Dunlap print found was sold at an auction for $8.14 million in 2000. Archives spokeswoman Katrina McClintock said Thursday that the file was found by a researcher looking through late 18th Century files for something unrelated. McClintock said it was discovered months ago but not revealed to the public until it could be extracted and catalogued. (AP Photo/National Archives)AP - British researchers have announced the discovery of a rare original copy of America's Declaration of Independence — just in time for the Fourth of July.

Italy's train derailment death toll rises to 19 (AP)

Posted: 02 Jul 2009 09:14 AM PDT

Italian Firefighters stand near liquefied petroleum gas-filled tankers of a wrecked freight train, in Viareggio, northern Italy, Wednesday, July 1, 2009, the day after two of them derailed and exploded collapsing at least two nearby buildings. . (AP Photo/Lorenzo Galassi)AP - Italian officials say the death toll from a train explosion in Tuscany has risen to 19, with 25 people injured.

Court accepts German heiress prenuptial agreement (AP)

Posted: 02 Jul 2009 08:42 AM PDT

AP - An appeals court judge strengthened the status of prenuptial contracts in British law Thursday by ruling that a German heiress' premarital agreement with her former husband should influence how their assets are divided.

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