2009年7月9日星期四

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Drunk badger disrupts traffic (Reuters)

Posted: 09 Jul 2009 03:53 PM PDT

Kyrgyz Taigan dogs chase a badger during a hunting festival near the village of Bokonbayevo, some 300 km (186 miles) east from the capital Bishkek, August 24, 2007. REUTERS/Vladimir PirogovReuters - A badger in Germany got so drunk on over-ripe cherries it staggered into the middle of a road and refused to budge, police said on Wednesday.

G-8 climate talks divide rich and poor countries (AP)

Posted: 09 Jul 2009 02:54 PM PDT

AP - The chasm between rich and poor on how to address climate change burst into the open at the G-8 summit Thursday, showing how difficult it will be to persuade the world to make lifestyle and economic sacrifices needed to save the planet from global warming.

US first lady tours quake-hit city (AP)

Posted: 09 Jul 2009 02:01 PM PDT

U.S. first lady Michelle Obama, center, talks with Sarah Brown, wife of British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, centre left, as Filippa Reinfeldt, wife of Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt, is seen in foreground, as they tour the area damaged by the earthquake, on the sidelines of the G8 Summit in L'Aquila, Italy, Thursday, July 9, 2009. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)AP - Michelle Obama and other first spouses toured the center of L'Aquila on Thursday to see the destruction wrought by an earthquake in the Italian city hosting world leaders for the Group of Eight summit this week.

Report: UK tabloid hacked into voicemails (AP)

Posted: 09 Jul 2009 01:38 PM PDT

NewsCorp's Rupert Murdoch is seen at the annual Allen & Co.'s media summit in Sun Valley, Idaho on Wednesday, July 8, 2009. British lawmakers said Thursday July 9, 2009 that executives from Rupert Murdoch's media group must answer claims that journalists from a tabloid hacked into the phones of politician, celebrities and other public figures (AP Photo/Nati Harnik)AP - The tricks of the trade of Britain's rambunctious tabloid press came under scrutiny Thursday, after a newspaper reported that a tabloid owned by media mogul Rupert Murdoch had illegally hacked into the mobile phones of hundreds of celebrities and politicians.

British diplomat quits amid report of raunchy video (AFP)

Posted: 09 Jul 2009 01:18 PM PDT

The Foreign Office in London confirmed that a British diplomat posted to Russia has resigned, the Foreign Office said Thursday, as a newspaper alleged that a video appeared on the Internet of him apparently in bed with two prostitutes.(AFP/File)AFP - A British diplomat posted to Russia has resigned, the Foreign Office said Thursday, as a newspaper alleged that a video appeared on the Internet of him apparently in bed with two prostitutes.

Benitez salutes Gerrard deal (AFP)

Posted: 09 Jul 2009 01:14 PM PDT

Liverpool manager Rafael Benitez on Thursday saluted the contract extension for skipper Steven Gerrard, seen here in June 2009, claiming it would serve to bolster the team's renewed push for silverware.(AFP/File/Adrian Dennis)AFP - Liverpool manager Rafael Benitez on Thursday saluted skipper Steven Gerrard's contract extension, claiming it would serve to bolster the team's renewed push for silverware.

NY juror threatens to cut off finger of another (Reuters)

Posted: 09 Jul 2009 12:45 PM PDT

Reuters - Jury deliberations can sometimes be contentious, but in a case in New York one juror accused another of threatening to cut off his finger.

Obama expresses solidarity with Brown: governments (AFP)

Posted: 09 Jul 2009 12:16 PM PDT

US President Barack Obama(L) expressed solidarity with British Prime Minister Gordon Brown(R) over the AFP - US President Barack Obama expressed solidarity with Prime Minister Gordon Brown over the "unacceptable" jailing by Iran of a British embassy employee, their governments said Thursday.

Confusion over Leningrad station reflects rifts (AP)

Posted: 09 Jul 2009 11:50 AM PDT

The Leningrad railway station in Moscow, Thursday, July 9, 2009. The sign atop the building reads: The Leningrad Station. Eighteen years after the city of St. Petersburg shed its Soviet-era name, Leningrad, the state railroad company said in a statement Thursday that the Leningrad railway station in Moscow would get its czarist-era name back. But then it backtracked, stressing in a subsequent statement that there was no final decision. The second statement, about two hours later, said the change was under discussion but stressed no decision had been made.(AP Photo/Misha Japaridze)AP - Revolutionary leader Vladimir Lenin may be losing another round in the fight over Russia's history.

Ton-up Katich and Ponting deny England (AFP)

Posted: 09 Jul 2009 11:37 AM PDT

Simon Katich of Australia scores runs during the second day of the first Ashes cricket Test match against England in Cardiff, in Wales. Katich scored his maiden Ashes hundred and Australia captain Ricky Ponting also reached three figures to keep England at bay.(AFP/Andrew Yates)AFP - Simon Katich scored his maiden Ashes hundred and Australia captain Ricky Ponting also reached three figures to keep England at bay on the second day of the first Ashes Test here Thursday.

Hospital: 12-year-old crash survivor has surgery (AP)

Posted: 09 Jul 2009 11:31 AM PDT

AP - A Paris hospital says a 12-year-old girl who was the only known survivor of the Yemenia Airways flight that crashed in the Indian Ocean has undergone facial surgery.

German exhibit examines Nazi influence on music (AP)

Posted: 09 Jul 2009 10:54 AM PDT

FILE - In this undated file illustration, late German composer Johann Sebastian Bach is shown. Richard Wagner is the classical composer most associated with the Nazis, but it was Johann Sebastian Bach whom the party dubbed 'the most German of Germans' and whose music was played at rallies to stir up nationalist zeal. The Nazis praised Bach for his 'racially pure' family tree dating back to the 11th century and for the 'German' discipline of his baroque-style music. Felix Mendelssohn, on the other hand, who revived Bach's concertos and overtures in modern concert halls, was scorned by the Nazis for his Jewish roots. (AP Photo, File)AP - Richard Wagner is the classical composer most associated with the Nazis, but Johann Sebastian Bach was the one the party dubbed "the most German of Germans" and whose music was played at rallies to stir up nationalist zeal.

UK PM to set out plan for nuclear talks (AP)

Posted: 09 Jul 2009 10:15 AM PDT

AP - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Thursday he will soon propose sweeping changes to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty that would require states suspected of seeking to build nuclear weapons to prove that they are not.

Irish Catholics say tree stump looks like Mary (AP)

Posted: 09 Jul 2009 10:12 AM PDT

An unidentified person places an item at the stump in St Patricks Roman Catholic Church, Limerick, Ireland, Thursday, July, 9, 2009. Thousands of Irish Catholics are flocking to a church to pray at a tree stump — a recently cut-down willow that many say bears the shape of the Virgin Mary. The phenomenon at St. Mary's parish church in the village of Rathkeale in County Limerick harkens back to decades past when Catholic devotion and pilgrimages were a dominant feature of rural life in Ireland. (AP Photo)AP - Thousands of Irish Catholics have flocked this week to a County Limerick church to pray at the stump of a recently cut willow that many observers say, has the silhouette of the Virgin Mary.

Obama broadens push for climate change pact (AP)

Posted: 09 Jul 2009 10:05 AM PDT

Leaders applaud as U.S. President Barack Obama, center, arrives for a group photo of G8 and G5 leaders at the G8 summit in L'Aquila, Italy on Thursday, July 9, 2009. Leaders from front row left to right, South Africa's President Jacob Zuma, Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva, French President Nicolas Sarkozy, Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, Mexico's President Felipe Calderon. Back row left to right, China's State Councilor Dai Bingguo, India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso, Sweden's Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt and European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso. (AP Photo/Michel Euler, Pool)AP - President Barack Obama says the global recession makes it harder to strike an international climate agreement but that leaders must "fight the temptation toward cynicism" and press forward.

Sweden to extradite Rwanda genocide suspect (AP)

Posted: 09 Jul 2009 09:55 AM PDT

AP - Sweden will extradite a man accused of taking part in mass slaughter in Rwanda to his homeland, marking the first time an EU nation has sent back a suspect to face charges in the 1994 genocide, officials said Thursday.

Alcoa fails to give world markets much of a lift (AP)

Posted: 09 Jul 2009 08:46 AM PDT

A currency dealer monitors the Tokyo Foreign Exchange Market in Tokyo, Thursday, July 9, 2009. In currencies, the dollar was trading at 93.23 yen Thursday morning. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)AP - European stock markets trimmed gains Thursday after Wall Street failed to react positively to a smaller than expected loss by aluminum company Alcoa Inc. Investors clearly want more evidence before subscribing to the view that businesses may have seen off the worst of the recession.

World leaders want deal in trade talks (AP)

Posted: 09 Jul 2009 06:28 AM PDT

G5 members from left, India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva, Mexico's President Felipe Calderon, South Africa's President Jacob Zuma and China's State Councilor Dai Bingguo participate in a press conference of G5 countries on the sidelines of a G8 summit in L'Aquila, Italy on Wednesday, July 8, 2009. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)AP - Leaders of rich and developing nations want to finish a long-delayed world trade deal in 2010 and head off trade wars that could worsen global economic troubles, according to a draft of a joint declaration obtained by The Associated Press.

French academic in Iran prison healthy but worried (AP)

Posted: 09 Jul 2009 04:47 AM PDT

AP - France's foreign minister says a French academic held in an Iranian prison is in good health but worried.

Russia: US-Russian summit was 'groundbreaking' (AP)

Posted: 09 Jul 2009 12:53 AM PDT

AP - A high-level Russian diplomat says the recent U.S.-Russia summit was "groundbreaking" for relations between the old Cold War adversaries.

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