2009年7月19日星期日

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Yahoo! News: Europe News


Son of John Surtees dies in F2 race in England (AFP)

Posted: 19 Jul 2009 03:18 PM PDT

The only person to have been World Champion motorcyclist and F1 World Champion, Britain's John Surtees, waves from his MV Agusta rides past the crowds at Goodwood's Festival of Speed in Goodwood, Southern England, on July 5, 2009. The 18-year-old son of former F1 world champion John Surtees died Sunday after an accident during a Formula Two race, the hospital treating him said.(AFP/File/Max Nash)AFP - The 18-year-old son of former F1 world champion John Surtees died Sunday after an accident during a Formula Two race, the hospital treating him said.


British airlines blocking swine flu travellers (AFP)

Posted: 19 Jul 2009 01:56 PM PDT

British Airways aircraft at London's Heathrow airport in 2007. Airlines stepped up restrictions Sunday on travellers to and from Britain as a report said four more British students quarantined in China had been confirmed as having swine flu.(AFP/File/Adrian Dennis)AFP - British airlines on Sunday stepped up restrictions on suspected swine flu carriers, as a report said four more British students quarantined in China have had infections confirmed.


Stewart Cink wins British Open golf after play-off (AFP)

Posted: 19 Jul 2009 01:44 PM PDT

US golfer Stewart Cink hugs the Claret Jug after winning the 138th British Open Championship at Turnberry Golf Course in south west Scotland.(AFP/Glyn Kirk)AFP - For Stewart Cink and his family it might be different but for everyone else, Turnberry 2009 will be remembered as the Open that Tom Watson and, to a lesser extent Lee Westwood, failed to win.


German's Merkel slams Swedish nuclear operator (AFP)

Posted: 19 Jul 2009 12:47 PM PDT

Employees of the nuclear power plant Kruemmel work at the plant, in Geesthacht, northern Germany, in 2007. German Chancellor Angela Merkel hit out at Swedish nuclear operator Vattenfall on Sunday over a series of problems at an ageing reactor near Hamburg.(AFP/DDP/File/Roland Magunia)AFP - German Chancellor Angela Merkel hit out at Swedish nuclear operator Vattenfall on Sunday over a series of problems at an ageing reactor near Hamburg.


Clarke century revives Australia in second Test (AFP)

Posted: 19 Jul 2009 12:11 PM PDT

Australian batsmen Michael Clarke (R) and Brad Haddin (L) walk off as bad light stops play on the fourth day of the second Test match at Lords, in London. Clarke survived some fiery new-ball bowling to keep England at bay with an unbeaten century that gave Australia hope when all seemed lost in the second Ashes Test at Lord's here on Sunday.(AFP/William West)AFP - Michael Clarke survived some fiery new-ball bowling to keep England at bay with an unbeaten century that gave Australia hope when all seemed lost in the second Ashes Test at Lord's here on Sunday.


Iran bails British embassy staffer (AFP)

Posted: 19 Jul 2009 11:55 AM PDT

Iranian riot policemen stand guard outside the British embassy in Tehran as hardline students demonstrate in June 2009. Iran on Sunday freed on bail a British embassy local staffer, who was among a group of nine arrested following disturbances in the wake of the June 12 presidential election, his lawyer said.(AFP/File/Maryam Hasanzadeh)AFP - Iran on Sunday released on bail a British embassy staffer, who was among a group of nine arrested following disturbances after the hotly disputed June 12 presidential election, his lawyer said.


Pope seems at ease with cast in blessing faithful (AP)

Posted: 19 Jul 2009 10:03 AM PDT

Pope Benedict XVI delivers his Angelus prayer in Romano Canavese, northern Italy, Sunday, July 19, 2009. The pope blessed a few hundred faithful Sunday with his right arm in a cast during his first public appearance since undergoing surgery to set a wrist he fractured in a fall. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni)AP - A beaming Pope Benedict XVI raised his cast-encased right arm to bless thousands of faithful Sunday during his first public appearance since surgery to set a wrist fractured in a fall.


Madonna to visit victims of French stage accident (AP)

Posted: 19 Jul 2009 09:59 AM PDT

AP - Madonna is expected to visit some of the eight workers who were injured in an accident in which two workers were killed while assembling a music stage for the singer in the French port of Marseilles.

Cavendish says Hushovd, and officials got it wrong (AFP)

Posted: 19 Jul 2009 08:21 AM PDT

US cycling Team Columbia-High Road (THR)'s leader Mark Cavendish of Great Britain rides in the pack during the 200 km and twelfth stage of the 2009 Tour de France cycling race run between Tonnerre and Vittel, July 16. Cavendish said race officials who disqualified him from the Tour de France 14th stage got it all wrong.(AFP/File/Joel Saget)AFP - Britain's Mark Cavendish said race officials who disqualified him from the Tour de France 14th stage on Saturday got it all wrong.


Airlines turning back swine flu victims (AFP)

Posted: 19 Jul 2009 08:20 AM PDT

British Airways aircraft at London's Heathrow airport in 2007. Airlines stepped up restrictions Sunday on travellers to and from Britain as a report said four more British students quarantined in China had been confirmed as having swine flu.(AFP/File/Adrian Dennis)AFP - Airlines have put in place measures to turn back passengers showing swine flu symptoms, they said Sunday.


Turkey extends smoke ban to bars, restaurants (AP)

Posted: 19 Jul 2009 07:53 AM PDT

A man hangs a no-smoking sign at the Karum shopping mall in Ankara, Turkey, Thursday, July 16, 2009. Turkey's government is setting up a 4,500-strong team to help enforce an upcoming no-smoking ban in bars, restaurants and coffeehouses in this country of heavy smokers, a Health Ministry official said Thursday. On July 19, a year-old ban on indoor public smoking will be widened to include bars, restaurants, and even smoky, hazy village coffeehouses and hookah bars, despite protests from owners who fear it will bring ruin to businesses already suffering from the effects of an economic crisis.(AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici)AP - Patrons of a usually smoke-filled hookah bar stepped outside to light up Sunday as Turkey extended a ban on indoor public smoking to bars, restaurants and coffeehouses.


Biden to greet eager allies in Ukraine and Georgia (AP)

Posted: 19 Jul 2009 06:32 AM PDT

Vice President Joe Biden,speaks at J. Sergeant Reynolds Community College  in Richmond, Va., Thursday, July 16, 2009.   (AP Photo/Steve Helber)AP - Vice President Joe Biden is visiting Georgia and Ukraine starting Monday, meeting leaders eager for further reassurance that Washington still supports their joining NATO and that its effort to warm relations with Russia won't come at their expense.


Russia still blue over moon landing 40 years later (AP)

Posted: 19 Jul 2009 04:52 AM PDT

Five year old Ashton Mitchell of Arlington, Virginia plays with a robot toy in front a painting of an astronaut walking on the moon at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC, on July 16, 2009 . The United States this week marks the 40th anniversary of the historic first moon walk, with President Barack Obama kicking off events by meeting Monday with the crew of the Apollo 11 mission.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Mark Wilson)AP - When Neil Armstrong stepped onto the surface of the moon, it was a first for the Soviet Union — the first time the U.S. had beaten the U.S.S.R in the space race.


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Posted: 19 Jul 2009 03:08 AM PDT

AP - Russian aviation agency tells news agencies 15 dead in Kandahar, Afghanistan helicopter crash.

Nun becomes top-selling Polish cookbook writer (AP)

Posted: 18 Jul 2009 09:23 PM PDT

In this June 23, 2009 photo,  Sister Anastazja Pustelnik, a Polish nun, talks over cake  about the fame that came to her unexpectedly with cookbooks that have made her one of the best-selling culinary authors in her mainly Roman Catholic country in Krakow; Poland. ( AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)AP - Emerging from the quiet of her convent, Sister Anastazja Pustelnik was confronted by a jarring image — her smiling face on posters plastered around town to hawk the cookbooks that have made the 59-year-old nun one of Poland's best-selling authors.


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