2009年8月11日星期二

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Yahoo! News: Europe News

Casey to test injury Wednesday before deciding on PGA (AFP)

Posted: 11 Aug 2009 04:16 PM PDT

World number three Paul Casey, pictured in June 2009, tested his strained rib muscle on the Hazeltine practice range Tuesday and will play a practice round Wednesday before deciding about playing in the PGA Championship.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Andrew Redington)AFP - World number three Paul Casey tested his strained rib muscle on the Hazeltine practice range Tuesday and will play a practice round Wednesday before deciding about playing in the PGA Championship.

Murray eases back in Montreal (AFP)

Posted: 11 Aug 2009 02:40 PM PDT

Andy Murray of Great Britain serves to Jeremy Chardy of France during the Rogers Cup at Uniprix Stadium in Montreal, Canada. Murray won 6-4, 6-2.(AFP/Getty Images/Matthew Stockman)AFP - Andy Murray's summer hardcourt season began at the Montreal Masters on Tuesday with a satisfying 6-4, 6-2 win over Frenchman Jeremy Chardy, as the Scot took his first step towards a possible move to the world number two ranking.

Britain's Royal Opera wants you to make tweet music (Reuters)

Posted: 11 Aug 2009 02:09 PM PDT

Reuters - Britain's Royal Opera House (ROH) wants Twitter users to help create the "world's first online opera."

16 bodies found after coal mine blast in Slovakia (AP)

Posted: 11 Aug 2009 01:57 PM PDT

AP - Sixteen bodies have been recovered from a Slovak coal mine following a fire and explosion, and four other people are also believed to have died, authorities said Tuesday.

German far right tells black politician to "head home" (Reuters)

Posted: 11 Aug 2009 01:56 PM PDT

Reuters - Germany's far-right NPD party on Tuesday called on a black politician who appeared in regional election ads for the Christian Democrats to go home to Angola, and urged its members to bring the message to him personally.

Raiders target diamond store in biggest gem robbery (AFP)

Posted: 11 Aug 2009 01:21 PM PDT

A combination of handout pictures from Britain's Metropolitan Police shows some of the 43 jewellery items stolen from Graff's jewellery store in London. Robbers pulled off what is thought to be the country's biggest jewellery heist in a 40-million-pound raid at a chic London shop, police said Tuesday.(AFP/HO)AFP - Robbers pulled off what is thought to be the country's biggest jewellery heist in a 40-million-pound raid at a chic London shop, police said Tuesday.

Ex-Nazi officer guilty in WWII massacre in Italy (AP)

Posted: 11 Aug 2009 01:15 PM PDT

Defendant Josef Scheungraber waves to a spectator prior to the last day of his trial in a room of the court in Munich, southern Germany, on Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2009. The 90-year-old former German army officer has been convicted of murder in the killings of Italian civilians during World War II. The Munich state court on Tuesday sentenced Josef Scheungraber to life in prison. Presiding Judge Manfred Goetzl announced his conviction on 10 counts of murder and further charges of attempted murder. (AP Photo/Christof Stache)AP - Gino Massetti was only 15 when Nazi troops rounded him up with 10 other Italian civilians and forced them into a barn in Tuscany before blowing it up — a massacre carried out in revenge after partisans killed two soldiers.

$65 million in jewelry stolen from London store (AP)

Posted: 11 Aug 2009 12:58 PM PDT

In this image taken Friday Aug. 7, 2009 shows two security guards standing outside Graff Diamonds store in New Bond Street, London, following an armed robbery Thursday Aug. 6, 2009. Thieves took $65 million worth of jewels and watches from a shop on London's Bond Street in what local media are calling Britain's biggest jewelry heist. Police say two well-dressed men walked into Graff Diamonds' flagship store on Thursday and threatened staff with handguns before making off with 43 pieces of jewelry including rings, bracelets, necklaces and watches. No one was injured. (AP Photo/Clive Gee/PA)AP - Two well-dressed thieves walked into a London Bond Street jewelry store last week and, after brandishing handguns at shop workers, made off with $65 million worth of gems in one of Britain's biggest jewelry heists, police said Tuesday.

UK's Royal Opera House to perform 'Twitter' opera (AP)

Posted: 11 Aug 2009 12:36 PM PDT

People walk by the Royal Opera House in central London, Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2009. The Royal Opera House said Tuesday it hopes to perform excerpts of an opera now being composed on the Web by the growing community of Twitter users. The results will be put to music and, if all goes to plan, performed to an audience next month. (AP Photo/Sang Tan)AP - It probably won't be "Madame Butterfly," but it should be fun.

Gerrard out of Dutch game, Young deputises (AFP)

Posted: 11 Aug 2009 12:27 PM PDT

Liverpool captain Steven Gerrard, seen here in January 2009, has pulled out of the England squad for Wednesday's friendly against the Netherlands in Amsterdam because of a groin strain.(AFP/File/Paul Ellis)AFP - Liverpool captain Steven Gerrard has pulled out of the England squad for Wednesday's friendly against the Netherlands in Amsterdam because of a groin strain with Aston Villa's Ashley Young called on to deputise.

Russian leader says Ukraine endangering gas supply (AP)

Posted: 11 Aug 2009 12:19 PM PDT

AP - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has accused Ukraine of endangering European gas supplies, and threatened to delay sending a new Russian ambassador until relations with its neighbor improve.

Chechen activist, husband found dead in car trunk (AP)

Posted: 11 Aug 2009 11:55 AM PDT

People look on as the body of slain human rights activist Zarema Sadulayeva is being prepared for the burial in her native village of Shalazhi, south of Grozny, Chechnya Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2009. The bullet-riddled bodies of Zarema Sadulayeva and her husband, Alik Dzhabrailov, were found in the trunk of their car Tuesday, a day after they were kidnapped, police and Russian rights groups said. (AP Photo/Musa Sadulayev)AP - The bullet-riddled bodies of a Chechen activist and her husband were found in the trunk of their car Tuesday, the latest in a string of high-profile killings in Chechnya under its Kremlin-backed leader.

Tarzan reconsidered, culturally, in Paris exhibit (AP)

Posted: 11 Aug 2009 10:52 AM PDT

In this photo taken Thursday, June 11, 2009, a poster forming part of the Tarzan exhibition is seen at the Quai Branly museum in Paris. Like many comic constructs, the jungle hero is at least partly a reflection of his time, and recently his image has been given a makeover, according to the curator of a Paris exhibition dedicated the jungle hero. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)AP - Tarzan is back! (Cue distinctive jungle yell.)

Recent Nazi-era suspect cases (AP)

Posted: 11 Aug 2009 10:25 AM PDT

Former German army commander Josef Scheungraber is pictured in court in the southern German city of Munich. The 90-year-old has been jailed for life for ordering a massacre of Italian civilians in 1944 in one of Germany's last major Nazi war crimes trials.(AFP/DDP/File/Joerg Koch)AP - • August 2009: Josef Scheungraber, a 90-year-old former officer in the Nazi army, is convicted of murder for ordering the massacre of 10 civilians in a 1944 reprisal killing in Italy; sentenced to life. Scheungraber plans to appeal.

Couple behind child death that shocked UK unmasked (AP)

Posted: 11 Aug 2009 10:07 AM PDT

This undated picture issued by the Metropolitan Police shows Tracey Connelly, mother of abused toddler Peter. Britons got their first look Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2009, at the mother behind a horrific child death that shocked the country. The face of 28-year-old Tracey Connelly, who stood by as her infant son Peter was tortured for months on end, stared out from the front pages of Britain's newspapers under headlines which read: 'Unmasked' and 'Out of the Darkness.' (AP Photo/Metropolitan Police/PA)AP - He collected Nazi memorabilia and used his rottweiler to frighten her baby. She spent endless hours on the Internet and ignored the abuse heaped upon her child — until paramedics collected him from a blood-spattered crib.

Red Cross: Geneva Conventions pass difficult phase (AP)

Posted: 11 Aug 2009 08:34 AM PDT

AP - The Geneva Conventions on warfare have survived a difficult phase since the 2001 attacks on the United States followed by the U.S.-led war on terror, the president of the International Committee of the Red Cross said Tuesday.

Kosovo editor: Islamist hackers block Web site (AP)

Posted: 11 Aug 2009 08:16 AM PDT

AP - The editor of a Kosovo newspaper said Tuesday he suspects that Islamist radicals have attacked the paper's Web site because it was covering the trial of a Kosovar charged in the United States with plotting terrorist acts.

4 aid workers, 2 pilots released in Somalia (AP)

Posted: 11 Aug 2009 07:31 AM PDT

AP - Four European aid workers and two Kenyan pilots were released Tuesday after nine months as hostages in Somalia thanks to efforts by officials, religious leaders and businessmen to free them, Somalia's national security minister said.

Promoter: Jackson tribute to be televised globally (AP)

Posted: 11 Aug 2009 07:29 AM PDT

Austrian Georg Kindel, founder and chairman of World Awards Media talks to The Associated Press in Vienna on Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2009. 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 in the Austrian capital. (AP Photo/Lilli Strauss)AP - Next month's tribute to Michael Jackson on the grounds of a 17th century palace in Vienna will feature a three-hour, star-studded show to be televised live to a global audience of 1 billion people, the event promoter said Tuesday.

NATO chief calls for closer ties with Russia (AP)

Posted: 11 Aug 2009 06:43 AM PDT

AP - NATO's new Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen called Tuesday for a closer strategic partnership with Russia to tackle common security challenges.

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