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Yahoo! News: Europe News

RBS close to selling off Asian assets: report (AFP)

Posted: 06 Sep 2009 06:08 PM PDT

A Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) logo is pictured at a branch in central London. RBS is close to sealing a deal to sell its assets in China, India and Malaysia to Standard Chartered, a report said Monday.(AFP/File/Shaun Curry)AFP - Bailed out lender Royal Bank of Scotland is close to sealing a deal to sell its assets in China, India and Malaysia to Standard Chartered, a report said Monday.

Sex Pistols frontman reforms PiL: report (AFP)

Posted: 06 Sep 2009 05:34 PM PDT

Johnny Rotten, British singer of the Sex Pistols' punk band, performs at an earlier concert in France. Rotten, alias John Lydon, is reforming his second most famous band, Public Image Ltd, after 17 years, a report said Monday. Lydon told the Guardian newspaper his PiL band would embark on a mini-tour starting in England in December.(AFP/File/Fred Tanneau)AFP - Punk rocker John Lydon, formerly Johnny Rotten, is reforming his second most famous band, Public Image Ltd, after 17 years, a report said Monday.

Google gives ground to Europe over digital books deal: report (AFP)

Posted: 06 Sep 2009 04:08 PM PDT

Fair-goers check out the Google stand at the Frankfurt Book Fair in 2007. Google will make concessions to European publishers and authors in an attempt to stem rising anger over its move to digitise and sell millions of books online, a report said Monday.(AFP/File/John Macdougall)AFP - Google will make concessions to European publishers and authors in an attempt to stem rising anger over its move to digitise and sell millions of books online, a report said Monday.

Brown vows support for IRA victims (AFP)

Posted: 06 Sep 2009 01:59 PM PDT

Prime Minister Gordon Brown addresses a joint press conference with German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin. Brown pledged Sunday to step up support for victims of bombs that Libya supplied to the IRA, amid claims he declined to press Libya's leader for compensation.(AFP/DDP/Berthold Stadler)AFP - Prime Minister Gordon Brown pledged Sunday to support compensation claims made against Libya by victims of IRA bombings, after reports he declined to press Libya's leader on the issue.

Europe 'big three' call for Afghanistan conference (AFP)

Posted: 06 Sep 2009 01:57 PM PDT

German Chancellor Angela Merkel (R) and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown address a press conference in Berlin. Britain, France and Germany unveiled proposals on Sunday for an international conference on Afghanistan later this year in order to press Afghans to take more responsibility for their own country.(AFP/DDP/Berthold Stadler)AFP - Britain, France and Germany unveiled proposals on Sunday for an international conference on Afghanistan later this year in order to press Afghans to take more responsibility for their own country.

Britain to press Libya to compensate IRA victims (Reuters)

Posted: 06 Sep 2009 01:54 PM PDT

Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown answers a question at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London September 4, 2009. REUTERS/Shaun Curry/PoolReuters - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said on Sunday he would support compensation claims against Libya by families of IRA victims who say Tripoli helped to arm the guerrillas.

Documents on UK-Libyan ties outrage IRA victims (AP)

Posted: 06 Sep 2009 01:35 PM PDT

FILE - In this Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2009 file photo, Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi gestures with a green cane as he takes his seat behind bulletproof glass for a military parade in Green Square, Tripoli, Libya. The indignation and outrage in the U.S. and Britain over Libya's warm welcome home for the Lockerbie bomber may just be a speedbump in the North African nation's drive for rapprochement with the West, analysts say, as Libya has too much to offer to a West yearning for energy security. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)AP - Britain made no demands that Libya offer compensation for Britons killed by Libyan explosives supplied to the Irish Republican Army for fear it could jeopardize ties with Tripoli, according to new documents released Sunday.

WTO raps European export aid for Airbus: sources (Reuters)

Posted: 06 Sep 2009 12:52 PM PDT

Reuters - The WTO has found that loans from European governments to Airbus were not only unfair subsidies but in some cases violated a tougher ban on export aid, according to sources familiar with a report that also rejected some U.S. complaints.

Moore makes first Venice premiere (AP)

Posted: 06 Sep 2009 12:32 PM PDT

US filmmaker Michael Moore attends a meeting at the 66th edition of the Venice Film Festival in Venice, Italy, Saturday, Sept. 5, 2009. Moore will compete with his latest movie ' Capitalism: A Love Story ' . (AP Photo/Domenico Stinellis)AP - Michael Moore says his film "Capitalism: A Love Story" is dedicated to "good people ... who've had their lives ruined" by the quest for profit.

Pixar wins lifetime award at Venice Film Festival (AP)

Posted: 06 Sep 2009 12:29 PM PDT

Film director George Lucas flanked by characters from animated movie upon arrival for the presentation of the Golden Lion for life-time achievements at the 66th edition of the Venice Film Festival in Venice, Italy, Sunday, Sept. 6, 2009. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)AP - The Venice Film Festival's red carpet was festooned with balloons on Sunday to mark the lifetime achievement award for director and producer John Lasseter and his crew of Pixar directors.

Pope meets Berlusconi aide amid scandal fallout (AP)

Posted: 06 Sep 2009 12:13 PM PDT

AP - Premier Silvio Berlusconi's top aide met with Pope Benedict XVI on Sunday amid continuing fallout over scandals that have strained ties between Italy's government and the Catholic Church.

Germany's Merkel launches re-election campaign (AP)

Posted: 06 Sep 2009 11:55 AM PDT

German Chancellor Angela Merkel, center, receives applause from the Christian Democratic party members during the official start of their election campaign for upcoming German federal elections at the end of the month in Duesseldorf, Germany, Sunday, Sept. 6, 2009. (AP Photo/Roberto Pfeil)AP - Chancellor Angela Merkel has kicked off her conservative party's campaign for the Sept. 27 German election by calling for a center-right coalition with the pro-business Free Democrats.

Sarkozy to Brazil with fighter jet bid looming (AP)

Posted: 06 Sep 2009 10:52 AM PDT

AP - French President Nicolas Sarkozy left Sunday for Brazil with hopes of persuading officials there to choose French-made fighter jets in a hot competition with U.S. and Swedish rivals.

Greek column capital stolen at Ancient Olympia (AP)

Posted: 06 Sep 2009 09:45 AM PDT

AP - Greece's Culture Ministry says a column capital has been stolen from the archaeological site of Ancient Olympia, one of the country's most important.

Russia's one-factory towns struggle to survive (AP)

Posted: 06 Sep 2009 07:38 AM PDT

AP - Three decades ago, the Yasnogorsk Machine-Building Factory stamped out thousands of pounds of steel and iron into parts for wagons, pumps and locomotives for Russia's mining industry.

Cypriot mixed wedding defies ethnic division (AP)

Posted: 06 Sep 2009 06:57 AM PDT

Turkish Cypriot Murat Kanatli, right, and Greek Cypriot Georgia Chappa kiss each other after their wedding at the town hall of Vathi on Greece's Aegean Sea island of Samos on Friday, Sept. 4, 2009. From opposite sides of their divided island of Cyprus, Georgia Chappa and Murat Kanatli made it their mission to break down the ethnic hatreds by bringing rivals together. Their biggest success is themselves; they just got married. Mixed marriages are extremely rare in Cyprus, but Chappa and Kanatli are sure one day they'll be the norm. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)AP - From opposite sides of their divided island, Georgia Chappa and Murat Kanatli made it their mission to break down the ethnic hatreds by bringing rivals together.

Police: Skipper detained in Macedonia boat sinking (AP)

Posted: 06 Sep 2009 04:53 AM PDT

The wreckage of the sunken boat 'Ilinden' is seen just few meters below the surface, in Lake Ohrid southwestern Macedonia, on Saturday, Sept. 5, 2009. Police said that at there were fatalities when a boat sunk Saturday during a sightseeing tour of Macedonia's Lake Ohrid. (AP Photo/Pooi)AP - The skipper of an overloaded sightseeing boat that sank in a western Macedonian lake was detained on suspicion of causing the deaths of 15 Bulgarian tourists, police said Sunday.

Pope: religion should build peace, fight racism (AP)

Posted: 06 Sep 2009 04:36 AM PDT

Pope Benedict XVI, next to Viterbo's bishop Lorenzo Chiarinelli, left, and Viterbos' mayor Giulio Marini, greets people from the Popes' Palace during his visit at Viterbo, central Italy, Sunday, Sept. 6, 2009. In the background is Viterbo's Trinity Church cupola. (AP Photo/Pier Paolo Cito)AP - Pope Benedict XVI marked the 70th anniversary of the start of World War II on Sunday by saying religion should promote peace and fight racism and totalitarianism.

British police arrest 90 after Birmingham clashes (AP)

Posted: 06 Sep 2009 04:18 AM PDT

AP - Authorities arrested 90 people after racially charged violence erupted between a group protesting Islamic extremism and counter-demonstrators in the central English city of Birmingham, police said Sunday.

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