2009年8月6日星期四

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Yahoo! News: Europe News

Great train robber Biggs to be freed (AFP)

Posted: 06 Aug 2009 06:04 PM PDT

Authorities will release seriously ill Great Train Robber Ronnie Biggs, seen here in 1994, from prison on compassionate grounds. Biggs is in a prison hospital in Norwich with pneumonia. A series of strokes has also left him bedridden and barely able to communicate.(AFP/File)AFP - Ronnie Biggs, who spent 35 years on the run for his part in the 1963 heist known as the Great Train Robbery, is to be released from jail, the government said, as his son said he was close to death.

Merkel to empower Germany's banking regulator: report (AFP)

Posted: 06 Aug 2009 05:48 PM PDT

German Chancellor Angela Merkel would give the nation's banking supervisor extensive powers over struggling banks, including the capacity to dismiss executives, if reelected, a newspaper said Friday.(AFP/File/Pierre Verdy)AFP - German Chancellor Angela Merkel would give the nation's banking supervisor extensive powers over struggling banks, including the capacity to dismiss executives, if reelected, a newspaper said Friday.

Gucci sues credit processing companies for sales of fakes (Reuters)

Posted: 06 Aug 2009 04:00 PM PDT

Reuters - Gucci America sued several credit card processing companies for trademark infringement on Thursday on grounds those companies facilitated the sale of counterfeit Gucci bags on the Internet.

Fire rages through Belgian retirement home, 9 dead (AP)

Posted: 06 Aug 2009 03:23 PM PDT

A hearse passes a police line towards a retirement home in Melle, Belgium, Thursday Aug. 6, 2009. A fire has raged through a retirement home close to Brussels. A city alderman say nine people are dead and three more in critical condition. (AP Photo/Yves Logghe)AP - A fire raged through a retirement home close to Brussels late Thursday, leaving nine people dead and three more in critical condition, officials said.

Fulham qualify, Roma, Galatasaray swamp rivals in Europa League (AFP)

Posted: 06 Aug 2009 03:23 PM PDT

Roma's Francesco Totti celebrates after scoring a goal during the return leg of the third round qualifying match for the UEFA football Europe League game KAA Gent vs AS Roma. Totti, who scored twice in the first leg, also claimed a hat-trick as AS Roma beat AA Gent 7-1 in Belgium for a 10-2 aggregate.(AFP/BELGA)AFP - English Premier League Fulham reached the Europa League play-off round on Thursday where they were joined by free-scoring Roma and Galatasary.

On war's anniversary, Georgia, Russia vie in media (AP)

Posted: 06 Aug 2009 03:19 PM PDT

Children play jumping across a creek in the village of Satikar, some 10 kilometers from Tskhinvali regional capital of Georgia's breakaway province of South Ossetia, Thursday, Aug. 6, 2009. Despite rising tensions and slashing rhetoric as the first anniversary of the Russian war approaches, top officials in Tbilisi and Moscow downplay the likelihood of renewed fighting — but for deeply different reasons. (AP Photo/Sergey Ponomarev)AP - A year after their war, Russia and Georgia are locked in a battle of words and images over how the world will remember the conflict. Each seeks to be exonerated, each wants its adversary condemned — and both say the other side is spoiling for a new fight.

AP NewsBreak: US looks to Vietnam for Afghan tips (AP)

Posted: 06 Aug 2009 03:09 PM PDT

FILE -This July 8, 2009 photo shows journalist Stanley Karnow, seated, in Washington paying respect to the first American causalities killed in Vietnam in 1959. Gen. Stanley McChrystal, NATO's top commander in Afghanistan, and Richard Holbrooke, the U.S. special envoy to the country, telephoned renowned Vietnam War historian Stanley Karnow on July 27 to discuss the two conflicts. (AP Photo/The Washington Times, Chase Martinez, File)AP - Top U.S. officials have reached out to a leading Vietnam war scholar to discuss the similarities of that conflict 40 years ago with American involvement in Afghanistan, where the U.S. is seeking ways to isolate an elusive guerrilla force and win over a skeptical local population.

Fire in Belgian nursing home kills nine pensioners (Reuters)

Posted: 06 Aug 2009 02:48 PM PDT

Reuters - A nursing home fire killed nine pensioners in the northern Belgian village of Melle on Thursday, officials said.

Victoria Beckham to judge on 'Idol' after Abdul exit (AFP)

Posted: 06 Aug 2009 01:09 PM PDT

Former Spice Girl Victoria Beckham, seen here in May 2009, is to serve as a guest judge on hit US television show AFP - Former Spice Girl Victoria Beckham is to serve as a guest judge on hit US television show "American Idol" following the departure of Paula Abdul, network executives said Thursday.

British Council cleared of Russian tax claims: report (AFP)

Posted: 06 Aug 2009 12:58 PM PDT

A Russian court cleared on Thursday the British Council of most of the back-tax claims made against it amid a diplomatic spat between London and Moscow, the Ria Novosti news agency reported.(AFP/File/Leon Neal)AFP - A Russian court cleared on Thursday the British Council of most of the back-tax claims made against it amid a diplomatic spat between London and Moscow, the Ria Novosti news agency reported.

Great Train Robber Ronnie Biggs released in UK (AP)

Posted: 06 Aug 2009 12:36 PM PDT

FILE -- Convicted train robber Ronnie Biggs leaves Chiswick Police station on his way to court in west London in this Monday, May 7, 2001 file photo. Biggs was part of a gang that robbed a Glasgow-to-London mail train in August 1963, in what was called the 'heist of the century.', before fleeing abroad for many years The robbery netted 2.6 million pounds — worth more than $50 million today. Britain's Justice Secretary Jack Straw said Thursday Aug 6 2009 he decided to release Biggs from prison as he is seriously ill and is not expected to recover. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant, file)AP - Britain's notorious "Great Train Robber," nearly 80 and close to death, was released Thursday from his prison sentence, but he's expected to stay right where he is — in a hospital bed.

Britain's final WWI infantryman honored at funeral (AP)

Posted: 06 Aug 2009 11:09 AM PDT

The coffin of Britain's last World War I infantry veteran Harry Patch, is carried away after his memorial service at Wells Cathedral in Wells, England, Thursday, August 6, 2009, followed by Belgian, French and German soldiers as a mark of reconciliation, Thousands of people lined the streets to watch the funeral procession of Patch, who died aged 111, and who was a veteran of the Third Battle of Ypres in 1917.(AP Photo/Christopher Furlong)AP - Harry Patch, the last known survivor of trench warfare on World War I's Western Front, was buried Thursday in his native village with the simplicity he craved.

Turkey, Russia sign gas pipeline deal (AP)

Posted: 06 Aug 2009 10:11 AM PDT

AP - Russia on Thursday secured Turkish support for a pipeline project that challenges European efforts to reduce energy dependence on Moscow, but predicted that Europe would ultimately benefit from the deal.

Demjanjuk lawyer calls for case to be closed (AP)

Posted: 06 Aug 2009 09:49 AM PDT

FILE — Suspected Nazi death camp guard John Demjanjuk is seen inside an ambulance as it arrives in front of the Stadelheim prison in Munich, southern Germany, in this Tuesday, May 12, 2009 file photo, where the Ukrainian-born Demjanjuk faced a warrant accusing him of being accessory to the murder of 29,000 Jews and others at Sobibor. The retired Ohio autoworker's attorney filed two motions Thursday Aug. 6 2009 for the Nazi death-camp case against his client to be closed, arguing that the 89-year-old is not fit to stand trial and that the evidence against him is shaky. (AP Photo/Uwe Lein, file)AP - John Demjanjuk's attorney filed two motions Thursday for the Nazi death-camp case against his client to be closed, arguing that the 89-year-old is not fit to stand trial and that the evidence against him is shaky.

Germany's Stasi fooled in 1988 by Jacko double (AP)

Posted: 06 Aug 2009 09:47 AM PDT

AP - It appears that even the dreaded East German Stasi got caught up in Michael Jackson mania in the late 1980s.

Ex-Liberian prez wants to hear US radio intercepts (AP)

Posted: 06 Aug 2009 09:39 AM PDT

AP - Former Liberian President Charles Taylor called Thursday on the United States and Britain to declassify radio intercepts he says would help clear him of war crimes charges.

Russia's Putin strips for stardom, again (AP)

Posted: 06 Aug 2009 09:17 AM PDT

In this photo taken on Monday, Aug. 3, 2009, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin seen feeding a horse in the mountains of the Siberian Tyva region (also referred to as Tuva), Russia, during his short vacation. (AP Photo/ RIA Novosti, Alexei Drizhinin, Pool)AP - Vladimir Putin drew scrutiny reserved for Hollywood action heroes this week, as Kremlin images of him fishing, swimming, rowing and riding bare-chested on a Siberian mountain were snapped up by media all over the world.

Swiss now pray that glacier will stop shrinking (AP)

Posted: 06 Aug 2009 07:56 AM PDT

FILE - In this Aug. 18, 2007 file photo two tourists look at the ice structure of the Aletschgletscher glacier near Bettmeralp in the canton of Valais, Switzerland. Villagers from the deeply Roman Catholic south Switzerland have for centuries been offering a sacred vow to God to protect them from the once-advancing ice mass of the Great Aletsch glacier. (AP Photo/Keystone, Laurent Gillieron)AP - Villagers from deeply Roman Catholic south Switzerland have for centuries offered a sacred vow to God to protect them from the advancing ice mass of the Great Aletsch glacier.

WHO: Swine flu vaccine on track (AP)

Posted: 06 Aug 2009 07:34 AM PDT

Women wearing surgical masks arrive for a H1N1 flu screening at Ram Manohar Lohia hospital in New Delhi August 6, 2009. REUTERS/Fayaz KabliAP - Swine flu vaccine manufacturers are on track to start delivering the first batches of it in September, the World Health Organization said Thursday.

Irish gov't loses parliament majority as 2 quit (AP)

Posted: 06 Aug 2009 07:23 AM PDT

AP - Prime Minister Brian Cowen lost his parliamentary majority Thursday after two lawmakers said they would ignore their party's voting instructions in a protest against cuts to cancer services.

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