2009年8月30日星期日

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Yahoo! News: Europe News

WW2 singer Vera Lynn returns to British album charts (AFP)

Posted: 30 Aug 2009 03:13 PM PDT

Dame Vera Lynn, pictured in 2005, the AFP - Dame Vera Lynn, the "sweetheart" of the armed forces during World War II, became on Sunday the oldest living artist to reach the top 20 of Britain's album charts, her record company said.

Swiss tightrope walker takes on German mountain (AP)

Posted: 30 Aug 2009 02:05 PM PDT

Swiss tightrope walker Freddy Nock balances on the 995-meter-long cable of the cable railway on top of the Zugspitz mountain, Germany's highest peak, near Garmisch-Partenkirchen, southern Germany, Sunday Aug. 30, 2009. Nock went for a world record in rope walking. (AP Photo/Diether Endlicher)AP - A Swiss tightrope walker has staged a spectacular climb up a steep cable on the slopes of Germany's highest mountain.

Merkel party suffers setback in election warm-up (AFP)

Posted: 30 Aug 2009 01:41 PM PDT

Saxony's Free Democratic party (FDP) candidate Holger Zastrow addresses an election party in the eastern German city of Dresden. German Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative party suffered a setback Sunday a month before general elections, with preliminary results indicating it will lose control in two states.(AFP/DDP/Uwe Meinhold)AFP - German Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative party suffered a setback Sunday a month before general elections, with preliminary results indicating it will lose control in two states.

Capello keeps Owen in World Cup exile (AFP)

Posted: 30 Aug 2009 01:23 PM PDT

Manchester United's English forward Michael Owen warms up during the English Premier League football match between Manchester United and Arsenal at Old Trafford in Manchester. Owen's chances of playing in the World Cup finals suffered another blow on Sunday when coach Fabio Capello snubbed the striker for next month's qualifier with Croatia.(AFP/Paul Ellis)AFP - Michael Owen's chances of playing in the World Cup finals suffered another blow on Sunday when coach Fabio Capello snubbed the striker for next month's qualifier with Croatia.

Merkel's party loses ground in German votes (AP)

Posted: 30 Aug 2009 01:22 PM PDT

AP - Voters inflicted losses on Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives in state elections Sunday, a setback weeks before a national election that she hopes will produce a new center-right government.

Govt denies oil deal link with Lockerbie bombing (AFP)

Posted: 30 Aug 2009 12:39 PM PDT

Britain's Justice Secretary Jack Straw, seen here in 2008. Britain denied on Sunday any link between trade with Libya and the Lockerbie bomber's release after a report suggested London was swayed by an oil deal into making him eligible for a prison transfer home.(AFP/File/Leon Neal)AFP - The government denied on Sunday any link between trade with Libya and the Lockerbie bomber's release after a report suggested London was swayed by an oil deal into making him eligible for a prison transfer home.

Style critics hit latest Ikea design: catalog type (AP)

Posted: 30 Aug 2009 12:25 PM PDT

Graphic compares the fonts Futura and VerdanaAP - Ikea, the Swedish furniture chain, said Sunday it never expected such a backlash after switching typeface in its latest catalog.

Merkel loses ground to left in German states (Reuters)

Posted: 30 Aug 2009 12:16 PM PDT

German Chancellor Angela Merkel gives a thumb up during an election rally in Dresden, August 29, 2009. REUTERS/Petr JosekReuters - Chancellor Angela Merkel's party suffered losses in German regional elections on Sunday, a setback that could hurt her chances of forming the center-right government she wants after next month's federal vote.

Rain stumps Australia's quest for T20 victory (AFP)

Posted: 30 Aug 2009 11:56 AM PDT

England's Joe Denly hooks a ball from Australia's Brett Lee and is caught out during the first international Twenty 20 cricket match at Olf Trafford, in Manchester. Rain thwarted Australia's bid to win a first Twenty20 international in six matches after their series opener against England ended in a no-result washout at Old Trafford here on Sunday.(AFP/Andrew Yates)AFP - Rain thwarted Australia's bid to win a first Twenty20 international in six matches after their series opener against England ended in a no-result washout at Old Trafford here on Sunday.

Villa recover from Euro exit with Fulham win (AFP)

Posted: 30 Aug 2009 11:03 AM PDT

Aston Villa's Gabriel Agbonlahor (L) vies for the ball against Fulham's Dickson Etuhu during their Premiership match at Villa Park in Birmingham. Villa won 2-0.(AFP/Adrian Dennis)AFP - Aston Villa bounced back from their midweek Europa League exit by cruising to a 2-0 victory over Fulham on Sunday.

70 years on, Poland's WWII wounds haven't healed (AP)

Posted: 30 Aug 2009 10:54 AM PDT

AP - Back home in Germany, Erika Steinbach is hardly a household name. But in neighboring Poland she is a national hate figure, caricatured on magazine covers as a Nazi in SS uniform.

Belarusian jet crashes at Polish air show, 2 dead (AP)

Posted: 30 Aug 2009 10:15 AM PDT

In this photo taken Oct. 21, 2008, a Belarusian Sukhoi Su-27 jet fighter releases flares during a military exercise in Domanovo, southwest of Minsk, Belarus. A Belarusian fighter jet of the same type crashed Sunday, Aug. 30, 2009, during an air show in central Poland, killing both pilots on board the two-seater plane, officials said. The Su-27 jet went down while performing maneuvers at a festival in Radom, 65 miles (105 kilometers) south of Warsaw. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)AP - A Belarusian fighter jet crashed Sunday during an air show in central Poland, killing both pilots on board the two-seater plane, officials said.

Slain Russian activist's colleague despairs (AP)

Posted: 30 Aug 2009 09:25 AM PDT

Russian human rights activist Lyudmila Alexeyeva reacts as she visits the grave of her slain Chechen colleague Natalya Estemirova at a cemetery in Koshkeldy, 70 km (44 miles) east of Grozny, Chechnya, Sunday, Aug. 30, 2009. A leading Russian human rights activist has visited the grave of her slain colleague Natalya Estemirova and expressed doubt that her killers will be brought to justice. Lyudmila Alexeyeva spoke with Estemirova's relatives and wept by her grave in a village in war-scarred Chechnya on Sunday. Estemirova's reports on alleged rights abuses in Chechnya made her unpopular with the region's strongman leader and his government. She was abducted outside her home on July 15 and found dead of gunshot wounds later that day. (AP Photo/Musa Sadulayev)AP - A leading Russian human rights activist paid an emotional visit Sunday to the cemetery where her slain colleague Natalya Estemirova is buried, weeping at her grave and predicting her killers will never be never be brought to justice.

Berlusconi allies work to patch up church ties (AP)

Posted: 30 Aug 2009 09:08 AM PDT

AP - Allies of the Italian government have pledged to patch up ties with the Catholic church, after a newspaper in Premier Silvio Berlusconi's media family attacked a Catholic editor who had demanded he answer allegations in a sex scandal over young women.

Report: UK considered oil deal in Lockerbie case (AP)

Posted: 30 Aug 2009 06:56 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 - The British government allowed the Lockerbie bomber to be covered by a prisoner transfer agreement with Libya because that was in the "overwhelming interests of the United Kingdom" as a major oil deal was being negotiated, a newspaper reported Sunday.

Medvedev: blaming Soviets for WWII a 'cynical lie' (AP)

Posted: 30 Aug 2009 06:11 AM PDT

AP - Russia's president defended Moscow's role in World War II before the 70th anniversary of its outbreak, saying in an interview broadcast Sunday that anyone who lays equal blame on the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany is telling a "cynical lie."

Reports: Arctic Sea crewmen home after questioning (AP)

Posted: 30 Aug 2009 03:20 AM PDT

AP - Russian media are reporting that Arctic Sea crew members have returned home after being held in Moscow for questioning about the freighter's mysterious voyage.

Study shows experimental drug cuts stroke risk (AP)

Posted: 30 Aug 2009 03:05 AM PDT

AP - An experimental drug reduces the stroke risk in patients with irregular heartbeats by more than three times, compared with the popular drug warfarin — but possibly at a cost, according to new research released Sunday.

UN meeting: help nations adapt to global warming (AP)

Posted: 30 Aug 2009 12:33 AM PDT

Environmental activists display effigies of, from left to right, U.S. President Barack Obama, Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi during a demonstration calling for the world leaders to take immediate action against climate change in Jakarta, Indonesia, Saturday, Aug. 29, 2009. The demonstration marked he hundred days countdown to the U.N. climate change summit that will be held in Copenhagen in December. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)AP - As nations negotiate tough decisions on cutting greenhouse gases, the United Nations is holding a separate conference on coping with more floods, droughts and other effects of climate change already assured.

New drug reduces risks for heart patients (AP)

Posted: 30 Aug 2009 12:22 AM PDT

AP - A new drug to prevent blood clots in heart patients reduced their chances of dying by more than 20 percent compared to the standard treatment, new research says.

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