2009年8月27日星期四

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Many Britons think al-Megrahi's release 'about oil' (AFP)

Posted: 27 Aug 2009 06:14 PM PDT

A selection of national newspapers' front pages showing the departure of Abdelbaset Ali Mohmet al-Megrahi, are pictured in London, on August 21. Many Britons suspect the release of the Lockerbie bomber last week was connected to Britain's oil interests in Libya, an opinion poll released on Friday said.(AFP/File/Leon Neal)AFP - Many Britons suspect the release of the Lockerbie bomber last week was connected to Britain's oil interests in Libya, an opinion poll released on Friday said.

Swiss businessmen not returned from Libya: Bern (AFP)

Posted: 27 Aug 2009 05:38 PM PDT

Swiss President Hans-Rudolf Merz speaks during a joint press conference with Libyan Prime Minister Baghdadi Mahmudi (not seen) in Tripoli, on August 20, as Merz apologised to the Libyan people over the arrest in Geneva a year ago of a son of Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi.(AFP/File/Mahmud Turkia)AFP - An aircraft sent by the Swiss government to Libya to pick up two Swiss businessmen held in the country for more than a year has returned empty to Switzerland, the government said Friday.

EU concerns over dissident anger Cuba (Reuters)

Posted: 27 Aug 2009 04:24 PM PDT

Reuters - Diplomats from European Union countries angered Cuba on Thursday when they went to the home of a jailed dissident to express their concern about the case and what they view as government efforts to quell dissent.

Villa make Rapid exit, Everton, Fulham progress (AFP)

Posted: 27 Aug 2009 03:18 PM PDT

Aston Villa's Norwegian striker John Carew, pictured in February 2009.(AFP/File/Glyn Kirk)AFP - Aston Villa crashed out of the Europa League on Thursday losing their play-off tie against unheralded Rapid Vienna just three days after handing mighty Liverpool a humbling Premier League defeat.

Tevez opens City account (AFP)

Posted: 27 Aug 2009 03:12 PM PDT

Argentine striker Carlos Tevez, pictured on August 22, 2009, scored his first Manchester City goal on Thursday as the big-spending Premier League side defeated Crystal Palace 2-0 in the second round of the English League Cup.(AFP/File/Andrew Yates)AFP - Argentine striker Carlos Tevez scored his first Manchester City goal on Thursday as the big-spending Premier League side defeated Crystal Palace 2-0 in the second round of the English League Cup.

Nazi death camp blueprints given to Israel (AP)

Posted: 27 Aug 2009 02:45 PM PDT

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, and 'Bild' newspaper chief editor, Kai Diekmann, right, look at original blueprints of the Nazi concentration camp in Auschwitz, Poland, in Berlin, Thursday, Aug. 27, 2009. Architectural plans for the Auschwitz death camp that were discovered in Berlin last year were handed over Thursday to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for display at Israel's Holocaust memorial. (AP Photo/Rainer Jensen, Pool)AP - Sketched on yellowing parchment, the 29 blueprints presented to Israel's prime minister Thursday lay out the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz in chilling detail, with gas chambers, crematoria, delousing facilities and watch towers drawn to scale.

Latvia gets fresh IMF loan, challenges remain (Reuters)

Posted: 27 Aug 2009 02:41 PM PDT

Reuters - Latvia on Thursday won final approval from the International Monetary Fund for a delayed 200 million euro loan, part of a rescue package helping the country survive a deep recession and avoid devaluation of its lat currency.

Antitrust watchdog probes Google Italy (AP)

Posted: 27 Aug 2009 01:17 PM PDT

AP - Italy's antitrust watchdog is investigating allegations by Italian newspapers that Google Italy is discriminating against newspapers that don't want their content linked on Google's news site by dropping them from its search engine.

Poland marks 65th Lodz ghetto anniversary (AP)

Posted: 27 Aug 2009 01:07 PM PDT

AP - Aged Holocaust survivors commemorated the 65th anniversary of the last deportations from the Lodz ghetto to Nazi death camps on Thursday, and Poland's president recalled their suffering and praised Poles who risked their lives to save Jews.

England avoid Ireland embarrassment (AFP)

Posted: 27 Aug 2009 12:36 PM PDT

England's Tim Bresnan(L) celebrates with team-mates Graeme Swann(C) and Luke Wright after Ireland's Niall O'Brien is caught out during a 50-over one-day international at the Stormont cricket ground in Belfast. England had a three-run victory under the Duckworth/Lewis method.(AFP/Peter Muhly)AFP - England's Ashes celebrations almost came to an embarrassing end when they narrowly avoided defeat against Ireland, claiming a three-run victory under the Duckworth/Lewis method in Thursday's one-day international in Belfast.

'Videocracy' ads can't air on Italy state TV (AP)

Posted: 27 Aug 2009 11:47 AM PDT

A promotional poster of the documentary 'Videocracy' provided by Fandango distribution, Thursday, Aug. 27, 2009. The director of a new Swedish documentary on television's influence over Italian culture says RAI state TV has refused two promotional spots because they are viewed as an attack on Premier Silvio Berlusconi. Swedish-Italian filmmaker Erik Gandini said Thursday that the movie is not about the media mogul-turned politician. But he said no documentary about Italian television could be made without including Berlusconi. RAI called the spots 'offensive to the honor and personal reputation of the prime minister,' noting that the images of unclothed women were suggestive of the recent scandal over Berlusconi's personal life. Gandini notes the film was finished before the scandals broke.'Videocracy' make its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival next week. (AP Photo/Fandango/Interno Zero)AP - Italy's state broadcaster RAI has refused to air ads promoting "Videocracy," a Swedish documentary examining the influence of television on Italian culture over the last 30 years, because it says the spots are an offense to Premier Silvio Berlusconi.

Cambridge's tranquil River Cam turns turbulent (AP)

Posted: 27 Aug 2009 11:18 AM PDT

Tourists enjoy a boat ride on the river Cam, in Cambridge, England, Tuesday Aug. 25, 2009. On the surface, it's the very picture of a civilized afternoon. But as tourists lounge on more than 200 traditional narrow-beam wooden skiffs, sip champagne and take snaps of Cambridge University's colleges and its picturesque bridges, the young boatmen ferrying them up and down the the river Cam are scanning the shore and looking out for trouble. Cambridge hosts about 4.6 million tourists annually, many of whom flock to the river to go 'punting' , but things have been getting nasty on the River Cam, the otherwise placid waterway which wends its way through Cambridge and offers spectacular views of its stately bridges and gothic colleges. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)AP - On the surface, it is the stuff of English postcards — champagne-swilling tourists gliding down the River Cam and listening to the lore of Cambridge University.

Firefighting plane crashes in Greece, pilot dead (AP)

Posted: 27 Aug 2009 10:31 AM PDT

A water-dropping helicopter fills its bucket in the artificial Lake Marathon, some 40 kilometers (25 miles) north of Athens, Greece, Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2009. Fires that raged for days north of the Greek capital were put out or contained to small areas Wednesday after razing 80 square miles (210 square kilometers) of forest and hillside scrub, an area more than three times the size of Manhattan. Lake Marathon provides Athens with its drinking water, and the government says it will monitor its waters for pollution as a result of the fires. (AP Photo/Nikolas Giakoumidis)AP - Greece mourned its first death Thursday from a string of devastating summer wildfires, when a small water-dropping plane crashed during an island firefighting operation, killing the pilot.

17-year-old British youth sails around the world (AP)

Posted: 27 Aug 2009 10:22 AM PDT

Mike Perham, 17, holds flares as he celebrates arriving at the finish, off the Lizard in Cornwall, England to became the youngest person to sail solo around the world without assistance Thursday Aug. 27, 2009. Perham grabbed the solo record after completing the 28,000-mile (45,000-kilometer) trip, crossing the finish line in Cornwall, in southern England. To mark Thursday's achievement, the Guinness Book of World Records created a new category for Perham — youngest sailor to circumnavigate the globe solo, supported. His father, Peter, sailed in a boat behind him, but did not offer assistance — which Guinness defines as being accompanied on the boat by another human being, said Amarilis Espinoza, a spokeswoman for the record book. P Photo/Barry Batchelor/PA Wire)AP - Freeze-dried food. Autopilot failures. Brutal storms. Accidental dunkings.

ACLU supports UK computer hacker fighting US trial (AP)

Posted: 27 Aug 2009 09:46 AM PDT

Human rights activists demonstrate outside the U.S. Embassy in London protesting against the extradition of British computer hacker, Gary McKinnon to the U.S., Thursday, Aug. 27, 2009. Gary McKinnon, has been charged with hacking into U.S. Pentagon and NASA computer systems from his home computer in London. (AP Photo/Sang Tan)AP - The American Civil Liberties Union has written a letter in support of an autistic British man fighting to avoid extradition to the United States to face trial for hacking into military computers.

Netanyahu in Berlin: Iran, settlements, Auschwitz (AP)

Posted: 27 Aug 2009 09:32 AM PDT

German Chancellor Angela Merkel, left, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, shake hands following a news conference at the chancellery in Berlin, Thursday, Aug. 27, 2009. Netanyahu is in Germany for a two-day visit. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)AP - With memories of the Holocaust as their backdrop, the leaders of Israel and Germany spoke Thursday about the need to keep the Jewish state safe from threats like a nuclear-armed Iran.

Edward Kennedy remembered fondly in Ireland (AP)

Posted: 27 Aug 2009 08:51 AM PDT

FILE -- In this Wednesday, March 15, 2006, file photo, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., speaks to the press as he stands with members of Robert McCartney's family, from left, mother Kathleen McCartney, aunt Emily McCartney, and sister Catherine McCartney, following their meeting on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday. Robert McCartney was killed on Jan. 30, 2005, after intervening in a pub fight between IRA members and a friend of his. Edward Kennedy, who died Tuesday of brain cancer, was mourned by world leaders and ordinary citizens from Johannesburg to Rome. But the remembrances were especially strong in Ireland, the Kennedys' ancestral home. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh/file)AP - Dubliners raised glasses in pubs and signed a book of condolence at the U.S. Embassy on Thursday in heartfelt tributes to Sen. Edward Kennedy.

'Moon rock' in Dutch museum is just petrified wood (AP)

Posted: 27 Aug 2009 08:35 AM PDT

In this photo released by the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam on Thursday, Aug. 27, 2009, a rock supposedly brought back from the moon, and a note from the then-U.S. ambassador is seen. The Dutch national museum says one of its prized possessions, a rock supposedly brought back from the moon by U.S. astronauts, is just a piece of petrified wood. The museum acquired the rock after the death of a former prime minister, who received it in 1969 from the then-U.S. ambassador during a visit by the Apollo 11 astronauts. (AP Photo/Rijksmuseum) NO SALES, EDITORIAL USE ONLYAP - It's not green cheese, but it might as well be.

Russian anthem author Mikhalkov dies at 96 (AP)

Posted: 27 Aug 2009 06:53 AM PDT

FILE -- In this July, 2000 file photo Sergei Mikhalkov is seen during a Moscow film festival, wearing a 'Hero of Socialist Labor Golden Star', one of the highest of Soviet awards, on his jacket. Sergei Mikhalkov, a Russian poet and lyricist of three versions of Soviet and Russian anthems, has died Thursday Aug. 27, 2009 in Moscow, aged 86. Original anthem lyrics lauded Soviet founder Vladimir Lenin, dictator Josef Stalin and the Communist Party. (AP Photo)AP - Sergei Mikhalkov, an author favored by Stalin who wrote the lyrics for the Soviet and Russian national anthems, persecuted dissident writers as part of the Soviet propaganda machine and fathered two noted film directors, has died at age 96.

Russia charges 8 in Arctic Sea case (AP)

Posted: 27 Aug 2009 06:04 AM PDT

In this video image broadcast by Russia TV Channel on Thursday, Aug. 20, 2009 a man identified as the suspected hijacker is led handcuffed by Russian marines to a bus on the Cape Verde island of Sal. (AP Photo/Russian TV Channel)AP - Russia has formally filed criminal charges against eight alleged hijackers of the freighter Arctic Sea, whose voyage is still heavily shrouded in mystery.

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