2009年8月10日星期一

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Yahoo! News: Europe News

Restive youths burn cars in new suburban unrest (AP)

Posted: 10 Aug 2009 04:55 PM PDT

AP - Restive youths in a Paris suburb torched a tourist bus and nearly a half-dozen cars and hurled objects at police early Tuesday, a night after fullblown unrest prompted by the death of a teen fleeing police.

Mom behind child death that shocked UK unmasked (AP)

Posted: 10 Aug 2009 04:18 PM PDT

AP - Britons got their first look Tuesday at the mother behind a horrific child death that shocked the country.

Casey to decide Tuesday about competing in year's last major (AFP)

Posted: 10 Aug 2009 04:02 PM PDT

World number three Paul Casey, pictured in June 2009, of England will decide on Tuesday whether or not his strained rib muscle will allow him to play in the 91st PGA Championship.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Andrew Redington)AFP - World number three Paul Casey of England will decide on Tuesday whether or not his strained rib muscle will allow him to play in the 91st PGA Championship.

Albanians refuse meeting in organ removal probe (Reuters)

Posted: 10 Aug 2009 03:54 PM PDT

Reuters - An Albanian family refused on Monday to meet a European human rights team investigating a Serbian allegation that Serb civilians had been kidnapped in Kosovo in 1999, taken to Albania and had organs removed.

Twenty miners presumed dead in Slovak blast (Reuters)

Posted: 10 Aug 2009 03:38 PM PDT

Relatives wait in front of the main building at the Handlova coal mine, some 195 km (120 miles) northeast of the capital Bratislava, August 10, 2009. REUTERS/Radovan StoklasaReuters - An explosion in a northern Slovak coal mine most likely killed 20 miners on Monday in the central European country's worst mining disaster.

England defend India tournament pull-out (AFP)

Posted: 10 Aug 2009 02:06 PM PDT

Indian policemen attend a briefing at the Gachibowli Stadium, the venue of the World Badminton Championships, in Hyderabad on August 9, 2009. England's badminton team defended Monday its decision to pull out of the world championships in India, saying security in the host city of Hyderabad was lax and denying they had overreacted.(AFP/File/Indranil Mukherjee)AFP - England's badminton team defended Monday its decision to pull out of the world championships in India, saying security in the host city of Hyderabad was lax and denying they had overreacted.

German bride spends first night with crate of vodka (Reuters)

Posted: 10 Aug 2009 01:26 PM PDT

Reuters - A bride in Germany spent her wedding night passed out next to a crate of vodka in the back seat of a car and had to be rescued by police when the BMW began to overheat in the sun.

Kremlin prepares law on military missions abroad (Reuters)

Posted: 10 Aug 2009 01:15 PM PDT

Russian soldiers march during a parade during a visit of Russia's President Dmitry Medvedev to their unit in Vladikavkaz, August 8, 2009. REUTERS/Sergei KarpukhinReuters - President Dmitry Medvedev on Monday proposed legislation to give him the legal basis to send troops abroad to defend Russia's interests, the Kremlin said.

England get boost as Flintoff set for Ashes finale (AFP)

Posted: 10 Aug 2009 01:02 PM PDT

England paceman Andrew Flintoff tosses a ball up during training for the fourth Ashes cricket test between England and Australia at Headingly in Leeds, on August 6, 2009. Flintoff is expected to be fit for the fifth and final Test against Australia at the Oval starting on August 20 after swelling on his right knee eased, the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) announced on Monday.(AFP/File/William West)AFP - England have been given a huge boost ahead of next week's Ashes decider with the announcement that key all-rounder Andrew Flintoff is set for a farewell to Test cricket at the Oval.

Spain seeks woman in ETA bomb probe (AFP)

Posted: 10 Aug 2009 12:58 PM PDT

This handout photo from Spain's Interior Ministry shows an undated picture of Itziar Moreno, an alleged member of the Basque separatist group ETA sought by Spanish police. Spanish police were looking for the woman, suspected of involvement in a recent wave of ETA bombings in Majorca that killed two police officers, media reports said.(AFP/HO)AFP - Police in Spain were looking Monday for a woman suspect following a wave of ETA bombings in Majorca where officials downplayed the impact of the attacks on the battered tourism sector.

Russian bill expands reasons for deploying troops (AP)

Posted: 10 Aug 2009 12:14 PM PDT

AP - President Dmitry Medvedev has submitted a bill expanding legal reasons to deploy Russian troops abroad, the Kremlin said Monday.

Survey says Glasgow is UK's laziest city (AP)

Posted: 10 Aug 2009 12:09 PM PDT

AP - Not tonight, dear.

20 Slovak workers missing after coal mine blast (AP)

Posted: 10 Aug 2009 11:19 AM PDT

Police guard the entrance to the mine in Handlova, central Slovakia, Monday Aug. 10, 2009. Nineteen workers were trapped underground Monday after a fire and explosion hit the coal mine, officials said. (AP Photo/CTK, Eduard Genserek)AP - Twenty workers were trapped underground Monday after a fire and explosion hit a coal mine in central Slovakia, and rescue workers operating in darkness and high temperatures were struggling to reach them, officials said.

Remains of missing Greek Cypriot soldiers found (AP)

Posted: 10 Aug 2009 11:17 AM PDT

In this image released by the Cyprus Press and Information Office on Monday, Aug. 10, 2009, show five Greek Cypriot soldiers are pictured surrendering to advancing Turkish troops near Kiados or (Tziaos) village during the second phase of Turkey's invasion of the island that started on August 14, 1974. The remains of the five soldiers were recently identified after being unearthed from an abandoned well along with those of 14 other individuals in the breakaway Turkish Cypriot north of the island. Cyprus' government spokesman Stefanos Stefanou urged Turkey to account for some 1,500 Greek Cypriots who vanished during the invasion. Around 500 Turkish Cypriots also dissapeared mainly during inter-ethnic clashes in the early 1960s. Cyprus was ethnically split in 1974 when Turkey invaded in response to a coup by supporters of union with Greece. (AP Photo/Cyprus Press and Information Office, HO)AP - The remains of five Greek Cypriot soldiers who appear in an iconic 1974 photo surrendering to invading Turkish troops were found in an abandoned well in the Turkish Cypriot north, officials said Monday.

In Vienna, a Jackson tribute fit for a king (AP)

Posted: 10 Aug 2009 11:10 AM PDT

FILE - In this March 27, 2007 file picture, Schoenbrunn castle in Vienna, Austria, is shown. The King of Pop is about to get a royal send-off in Vienna. Events promoter World Awards Media GmbH confirmed Monday Aug. 10, 2009 that members of Michael Jackson's family and a 'high-profile lineup of international stars' are planning a tribute concert to be held within a few weeks in the Austrian capital. Organizers said they'll announce the date soon, but the venue is set: the sculpted and sprawling grounds of Vienna's former imperial Schoenbrunn Palace. (AP Photo/Hans Punz)AP - It's a concert venue fit for a king — even the King of Pop.

Lenin statue collapses, kills man in Belarus (AP)

Posted: 10 Aug 2009 10:44 AM PDT

AP - A massive statue of Soviet founder Vladimir Lenin collapsed on a man who was hanging from it Monday, killing him on the spot, authorities said.

Stasi prison memorial pleas for financial help (AP)

Posted: 10 Aug 2009 10:39 AM PDT

AP - The memorial at the former prison run by Communist East Germany's Stasi secret police is deep in debt after being flooded with nonpaying visitors this year as Germany marks the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, an official said Monday.

UK chief says spies not complicit in torture (AP)

Posted: 10 Aug 2009 10:13 AM PDT

FILE - In this Tuesday Aug. 26, 2003 file photo, Sir John Scarlett, then Chairman of Britain's Joint Intelligence Committee, arrives at the Royal Courts of Justice in London, to testify before a judicial inquiry investigating the suicide of weapons adviser David Kelly, a top British scientist who took part in the drafting of the dossier on Saddam Hussein's alleged weapons of mass destruction. Scarlett, now Britain's foreign spy chief, denied in an interview with the BBC to be broadcast on Monday Aug. 10, 2009, that agents tortured terror suspects or that Britain colluded with countries that use torture - a claim that comes amid growing calls for an official inquiry into how much the government knew about the treatment of terror suspects overseas.(AP Photo/Dave Caulkin, file)AP - Britain's foreign spy chief denied in an interview broadcast Monday that agents tortured terror suspects or that Britain colluded with countries that use torture.

Britain's promised 'barbecue summer' is a washout (AP)

Posted: 10 Aug 2009 09:54 AM PDT

FILE - This is a Friday June 26 2009 file photo of festival-goers walking through the mud at the Glastonbury festival in Glastonbury England, Friday June 26 2009. It's the phrase that haunts Britain's weather forecasters 'barbecue summer'. It was used in April by the country's chief weather forecasting body when it predicted the summer would be warm and sunny. After a soggy July, Britons are miffed. Meteorologists have been forced to defend their science and their bonuses. The government-funded Met Office has paid more than 1 million pounds ($1.7 million) in annual bonuses to staffers for meeting targets, including the accuracy of forecasts. (AP Photo/Joel Ryan, File )AP - It's the phrase that haunts Britain's weather forecasters — "barbecue summer."

5 die in fire at French housing project (AP)

Posted: 10 Aug 2009 09:48 AM PDT

Police officers search the apartment building where a fire broke early Monday Aug. 10, 2009, killing five people and leaving 29 injured. Firefighters say a fire in a housing project in a Paris suburb has killed five people and left 29 injured. Paris fire department spokesman Florent Hivert says two children and three adults died in the blaze that broke out in a stairwell before dawn Monday in a 10-story building in the suburb of Sevran. (AP Photo/Remy de la Mauviniere)AP - A fire broke out in a housing project building outside Paris early Monday, killing two sleeping adults and three children, one an infant, officials said. Another 15 people with smoke inhalation were hospitalized.

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