2009年8月28日星期五

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Yahoo! News: Europe News

Noel Gallagher says quitting British rock group Oasis (AFP)

Posted: 28 Aug 2009 05:00 PM PDT

Noel (L) Gallagher and Liam Gallagher members of the British rock band AFP - Lead guitarist Noel Gallagher said Friday he was quitting British rock group Oasis because he can no longer work with his brother Liam.

Formula One: Happy Hamilton surprised to be fastest (AFP)

Posted: 28 Aug 2009 04:47 PM PDT

McLaren Mercedes' British driver Lewis Hamilton, seen here during time trials, said Friday that he was surprised to clock the fastest lap in the afternoon's second free practice session ahead of Sunday's Belgian Grand Prix.(AFP/Fred Dufour)AFP - A happy Lewis Hamilton said Friday that he was surprised to clock the fastest lap in the afternoon's second free practice session ahead of Sunday's Belgian Grand Prix.

Noel Gallagher says he's quitting Oasis (AP)

Posted: 28 Aug 2009 03:50 PM PDT

AP - Oasis guitarist Noel Gallagher says he's leaving the British pop band because he can't work "a day longer" with his brother Liam.

Cricket: Hussey's century helps Australia shake off Ashes agony (AFP)

Posted: 28 Aug 2009 02:59 PM PDT

David Hussey(L) of Australia looks back as he and Shane Watson take runs against Scotland during the one day international between Scotland and Australia, in Edinburgh, Scotland. Hussey smashed his first one-day international century as Australia began life without the Ashes by cruising to a 189-run win(AFP/Brian Stewart)AFP - David Hussey smashed his first one-day international century as Australia began life without the Ashes by cruising to a 189-run win against Scotland in a 50-over clash at Edinburgh on Friday.

Oasis cancel Paris concert after Gallaghers fight (AFP)

Posted: 28 Aug 2009 02:26 PM PDT

Noel (L) Gallagher and Liam Gallagher members of the British rock band AFP - British rock group Oasis cancelled a scheduled appearance at a music festival near Paris at the last minute on Friday after a fight between Noel and Liam Gallagher, organisers said.

Isolde alone cannot save this production (AP)

Posted: 28 Aug 2009 02:26 PM PDT

AP - Tristan and Isolde, Wagner once wrote, was meant to be a "monument to that most beautiful of dreams" — love.

Horse dies, France faces reality of toxic beaches (AP)

Posted: 28 Aug 2009 02:04 PM PDT

This Aug. 20, 2009 photo shows people walking on the beach of Hillion, near Saint Michel en Greve, Brittany, France. Experts say the decaying algae, a blight fed in this case by intensive farming, threatens other beaches around France and the world, from the United States to China. (AP Photo/David Vincent)AP - It should have been a perfect day for Vincent Petit, finishing up an afternoon gallop on a wide expanse of beach along a pastel-colored bay. Instead, he and his mount were sucked into a hole of noxious black sludge.

Cuba protests diplomats' visit to activist's home (AP)

Posted: 28 Aug 2009 01:51 PM PDT

AP - Cuba delivered a formal protest Friday to diplomats from five European Union embassies who visited the home of a jailed dissident.

Correction: Mikhalkov Obituary (AP)

Posted: 28 Aug 2009 01:21 PM PDT

AP - In an Aug. 27 obituary for Russian author Sergei Mikhalkov, The Associated Press misstated one of his positions. Mikhalkov was secretary of the Soviet Writers' Union, not chairman.

Just horsing around, old bruisers Ali and Cooper (AFP)

Posted: 28 Aug 2009 01:13 PM PDT

Boxing legends Muhammad Ali (L) and Sir Henry Cooper chat in an open-top car as they are driven around the stadium at the FEI European Jumping and Dressage Championships in Windsor, Berkshire. Ali's is currently on a tour of Britain, fundraising for his charities.(AFP/Adrian Dennis)AFP - Forty-six years after their memorable world heavyweight title fight, Muhammad Ali and Sir Henry Cooper were reunited on Friday in the genteel surroundings of Windsor Castle.

Half-brother of Raoul Wallenberg dies in Geneva (AP)

Posted: 28 Aug 2009 12:47 PM PDT

AP - Guy von Dardel, a particle physicist who sought for years to find his half-brother Raoul Wallenberg in Soviet imprisonment, died Friday at his home in Geneva. He was 90.

Ancient burial site discovered in northern Greece (AP)

Posted: 28 Aug 2009 11:34 AM PDT

Remains of two large ancient silver vessels found in Aigai, northern Greece, are seen in this undated handout image provided by the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki on Friday, Aug. 28, 2009. One of the vases contained human remains, and archaeologists say the find was made close to a similar burial excavated last year, which may have belonged to an illegitimate son of Alexander the Great, the 4th century B.C. Macedonian warrior king whose empire stretched from modern Greece to India. (AP Photo/ Aristotle University of Thessalonik. HO)AP - Archaeologists said Friday they have unearthed a lavish burial site at the seat of the ancient Macedonian kings in northern Greece, heightening a 2,300-year-old mystery of murder and political intrigue.

Suicide bombing in Chechnya kills 2, wounds 6 (AP)

Posted: 28 Aug 2009 11:14 AM PDT

Map of Chechnya locating the Shali region. Four police were killed in Chechnya when a suicide bomber walked up to their car and blew himself up, the latest attack in the increasingly violent Russian region, officials have said.(AFP/Graphic)AP - Chechnya was hit Friday by the third suicide bombing in the past week, part of a rising wave of violence in Russia's predominantly Muslim southern republics that appears to have alarmed the Kremlin.

Dutch royals win privacy case against AP (AP)

Posted: 28 Aug 2009 10:39 AM PDT

Prince Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands (R) and his wife Princess Maxima, seen here at the 2008 Beijing Olympic games. The Dutch crown prince and his wife asked an Amsterdam court on Friday to fine The Associated Press up to 250,000 euros if photographs taken on their Argentinian skiing holiday are published again.(AFP/File/Omar Torres)AP - A court ruled Friday that The Associated Press violated the privacy of the Dutch royal family by photographing them on a skiing holiday in Argentina.

Poll: Scots believe Lockerbie bomber release wrong (AP)

Posted: 28 Aug 2009 10:21 AM PDT

In this photo taken Thursday, Aug. 20, 2009, Libyan Abdel Baset al-Megrahi, who was found guilty of the 1988 Lockerbie bombing, left, and son of the Libyan leader Seif al-Islam Gadhafi, right, gesture on his arrival at an airport in Tripoli, Libya. Britain has condemned the 'upsetting' scenes of jubilation in Tripoli at the return of Abdel Baset al-Megrahi and considered canceling a royal visit to Libya as a sign of displeasure. (AP Photo)AP - A majority of Scots believe their government's decision to release Lockerbie bomber Abdel Baset al-Megrahi last week was wrong, a poll released Friday suggests.

WHO says swine flu down in Southern Hemisphere (AP)

Posted: 28 Aug 2009 10:10 AM PDT

Turkeys are seen at the entrance to a food processing plant in La Calera, about 125 km (78 miles) south of Santiago, August 28, 2009. Chile detected the H1N1 swine flu virus in turkeys, authorities said, the first time the virus has been found outside humans and pigs, but said there was no indication the disease had spread to other parts of Chile. REUTERS/Eliseo Fernandez (CHILE HEALTH)AP - The World Heath Organization said Friday that swine flu infections are declining in the Southern Hemisphere as its seasonal flu period comes to an end and the pandemic shifts back north.

Dutch delay 13-year-old sailor's worldwide trip (AP)

Posted: 28 Aug 2009 09:37 AM PDT

The sailboat 'Guppy' that belongs to 13 year-old sailor Laura Dekker is is seen in Maurik, the Netherlands. A Dutch court has ruled that a 13-year-old girl cannot set sail on a solo round-the-world voyage next month and ordered her to be taken into the temporary care of social services.(AFP/ANP/File/Koen van Weel)AP - UTRECHT, Netherlands — Dutch judges Friday called a 13-year-old girl's plan to sail solo around the world "undeniably daring and risky," but refused to scupper it completely, in a high profile clash between child care authorities and liberal Dutch parenting.

UN 'alarmed' at immigrant detention site in Greece (AP)

Posted: 28 Aug 2009 09:17 AM PDT

AP - The U.N. refugee agency says it is "alarmed" at the conditions at a Greek detention center where hundreds of illegal immigrants are being held, including scores of children.

Berlusconi nixes religious observance for sins (AP)

Posted: 28 Aug 2009 08:10 AM PDT

In this photo taken Wednesday, in this Feb. 18, 2009, Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi, left, Vatican Secretary of State Tarcisio Bertone, attend a meeting celebrating the 1929 Patti Lateranensi and of the 1984 Revision Agreement anniversary at the Italian Embassy to the Holy See, in Rome. The Vatican says Premier Silvio Berlusconi has canceled a planned visit to L'Aquila for a religious service for the remission of sins. Berlusconi was supposed to have participated in the observation alongside the Vatican No. 2, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone. But the Vatican press office said Friday, Aug. 28, 2009, Berlusconi had canceled his visit to avoid 'exploiting'' the situation. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)AP - Premier Silvio Berlusconi, who has been embroiled in a sex scandal for months, canceled his planned participation in a Catholic religious service for the remission of sins Friday after his presence was deemed problematic.

Egypt: Israeli freeze must include east Jerusalem (AP)

Posted: 28 Aug 2009 08:01 AM PDT

AP - Egypt's foreign minister says east Jerusalem must be included in a freeze of Israeli settlement activity before Middle East peace talks can restart.

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