2009年7月16日星期四

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Icelanders agonize over future, but wary of the EU (Reuters)

Posted: 16 Jul 2009 03:58 PM PDT

Reuters - As Iceland prepares to negotiate membership of the European Union, Icelanders are torn between feeling it may be best for the country and fears they could lose their independence to faraway Brussels.

Brazil kicks up stink over British rubbish (Reuters)

Posted: 16 Jul 2009 03:57 PM PDT

Reuters - Brazilians are kicking up a stink over 1,200 tonnes of British garbage, including toilet seats, dirty nappies and used syringes, that are rotting at two southern ports after arriving in container ships.

Spliced-in gene lays dogs low (Reuters)

Posted: 16 Jul 2009 03:23 PM PDT

Reuters - An extra gene may explain why dachshunds, corgis and basset hounds have short, stubby legs, U.S. researchers said on Thursday in a finding that may also lend new clues about human dwarfism.

Genuine Stasi files turn up at Berlin film set (Reuters)

Posted: 16 Jul 2009 03:11 PM PDT

Reuters - Secret files of Communist East Germany's Stasi security police were sent to a film set for use as props, triggering an investigation into how such sensitive documents were obtained.

Chechnya activist's murder sparks international outrage (Reuters)

Posted: 16 Jul 2009 02:15 PM PDT

A candle burns under the portrait of murdered human rights activist Natalia Estemirova during a memorial in Moscow, July 16, 2009. REUTERS/Denis SinyakovReuters - The abduction and murder of a prominent human rights activist from Chechnya sparked international outrage on Thursday and her grieving supporters asked "Who is next?."

5-time British Open champ turns it on at Turnberry (AP)

Posted: 16 Jul 2009 01:56 PM PDT

Tom Watson of the US gestures after finishing on the 18th green during the opening round of the British Open Golf championship, at the Turnberry golf course, Scotland, Thursday, July 16, 2009. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)AP - These kind of things usually don't end well, no matter how much we might want them to. Golf is a tough enough game for even the youngsters playing in this British Open, and 59-year-olds have no business getting in the way — no matter what their pedigree might be.

British children's authors boycott school readings (AP)

Posted: 16 Jul 2009 01:46 PM PDT

In this undated file photo made available by Harper Collins Thursday July 16, 2009 of British author Michael Morpurgo. Morpurgo and other prominent childrens' authors in Britain are protesting new government regulations requiring everyone who comes into contact with children to undergo a police check, at their own expense, to prove they are not sex offenders or criminals. The authors say this is not necessary since they read to hundreds of students at a time and are not alone with students. The authors say they will boycott school readings when the new rule goes into effect in October, 2009. The rule is in response to the 2002 killing of two school girls at the hands of a caretaker.(AP Photo-File Harper Collins) **EDITORIAL USE ONLY - AP PROVIDES ACCESS TO THIS PUBLICLY DISTRIBUTED HANDOUT PHOTO TO BE USED ONLY TO ILLUSTRATE NEWS REPORTING OR COMMENTARY ON THE FACTS OR EVENTS DEPICTED IN THIS IMAGE.AP - Some of Britain's leading children's authors are refusing to do readings in schools because of a new policy requiring them to be registered in a national database and undergo criminal background checks to prove they aren't sex offenders.

Jimenez leads British Open, Watson steals the show (AFP)

Posted: 16 Jul 2009 01:39 PM PDT

Republic of Ireland golfer Padraig Harrington watches his drive on the 15th tee on the first day of the 138th British Open Championship at Turnberry Golf Course in south west Scotland.(AFP/Glyn Kirk)AFP - Spain's Miguel Angel Jimenez sunk a monster putt on 18 to take a one shot lead in the British Open on a day when Tom Watson produced a masterclass in links golf seven weeks short of his 60th birthday.

French workers threaten to blow up factory (AP)

Posted: 16 Jul 2009 01:14 PM PDT

AP - Carmaker Renault SA on Thursday rejected pleas for handouts by laid-off workers at a French auto parts supplier, offering a compromise that employees said wasn't enough to defuse their threat to blow up their factory.

Media monitor: 7 photographers detained in Iran (AP)

Posted: 16 Jul 2009 01:11 PM PDT

AP - Media monitor Reporters Without Borders says seven photographers and a cameraman have been detained in Iran, most of them over the past week.

Mourners weep for slain Russian rights activist (AP)

Posted: 16 Jul 2009 01:04 PM PDT

People, holding a poster reading Who is next, cry during a mourning ceremony for slaim rights activist Natalya Estemirova in Grozny, Chechnya, Thursday, July 16, 2009. Weeping mourners escorted the body of Natalya Estemirova through Chechnya's capital on Thursday, honoring the activist whose brazen kidnapping and execution-style killing shocked Russia's beleaguered human rights community and prompted international outrage. (AP Photo/Musa Sadulayev)AP - Weeping mourners escorted the body of Natalya Estemirova through Chechnya's capital on Thursday, honoring the activist whose brazen kidnapping and execution-style killing shocked Russia's beleaguered human rights community and prompted international outrage.

UK prosecutors decline new privacy investigation (AP)

Posted: 16 Jul 2009 11:35 AM PDT

AP - British prosecutors say they won't reopen an investigation into a phone-hacking case that saw a tabloid reporter sent to jail.

Stage for French Madonna show collapses; 1 dead (AP)

Posted: 16 Jul 2009 11:32 AM PDT

Ambulances leave the Stade Velodrome stadium in Marseille, southern France, Thursday July 16, 2009. A stage being built for a Madonna concert at the stadium collapsed Thursday, falling apart on top of several workers, leaving one dead and six injured, the fire department said. Madonna's 'Sticky & Sweet' tour was to arrive in Marseille on Sunday, but the concert is now canceled because because of the accident and damage.(AP Photo/Claude Paris)AP - The roof of a stage being built for a Madonna concert in the French port city of Marseille collapsed Thursday, leaving one worker dead and nine injured, city officials said.

Fight for swine flu vaccine could get ugly (AP)

Posted: 16 Jul 2009 11:05 AM PDT

AP - An ugly scramble is brewing over the swine flu vaccine — and when it becomes available, Britain, the United States and other nations could find that the contracts they signed with pharmaceutical companies are easily broken.

Test of Russian ballistic missile fails (AP)

Posted: 16 Jul 2009 10:15 AM PDT

AP - Russia's latest test of its advanced submarine-launched ballistic missile Bulava has failed, with the missile self-destructing, the Defense Ministry said Thursday — another setback for the nation's efforts to upgrade its aging arsenal.

Greece to allow CCTV, DNA database (AP)

Posted: 16 Jul 2009 09:57 AM PDT

AP - Greece's parliament has approved measures allowing police to use surveillance camera footage and create a DNA database, angering opposition parties that say the new powers will trample on people's privacy.

Iceland's parliament votes to join EU (AP)

Posted: 16 Jul 2009 09:51 AM PDT

AP - Iceland's parliament voted by a narrow margin Thursday to apply for membership in the European Union, moving to relinquish some of the recession-hit country's cherished independence in the name of stability.

Taylor says he allowed human skulls at roadblocks (AP)

Posted: 16 Jul 2009 09:02 AM PDT

Former Liberian President Charles Taylor is seen at the U.N.-backed Special Court for Sierra Leone in The Hague, Netherlands, Monday, July 13, 2009. Charles Taylor has begun his defense against charges he led rebels in Sierra Leone who murdered, raped and mutilated villagers. Taylor's lawyer has urged judges at the Special Court for Sierra Leone not to let the horrors inflicted by rebels during the country's civil war cloud their judgment about Taylor's involvement in the crimes. Taylor is charged with 11 crimes including murder, torture, rape, sexual slavery, using child soldiers and spreading terror. (AP Photo/Robin van Lonkhuijsen, Pool)AP - In an unusual defense against war crimes charges, former Liberian President Charles Taylor told judges Thursday that he saw nothing wrong with displaying the skulls of slain enemy soldiers at roadblocks.

East Europeans nervous as US courts Russia (AP)

Posted: 16 Jul 2009 08:37 AM PDT

AP - A group of prominent former Eastern European leaders wrote to President Barack Obama on Thursday that their region is gripped by anxiety that his efforts to reach out to Russia could lead him to forget their interests.

Medvedev: Russian activist's killers will be found (AP)

Posted: 16 Jul 2009 08:18 AM PDT

AP - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said Thursday he is confident that the killer of a prominent human rights activist will be found and punished, while Germany's leader voiced dismay at the slaying and prodded Moscow to ensure it is investigated.

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