2009年9月14日星期一

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Yahoo! News: Europe News

Norway's leftist gov't poised to stay in power (AP)

Posted: 14 Sep 2009 04:35 PM PDT

Norway's Prime Minister and Labor Party leader Jens Stoltenberg, gestures, in downtown Oslo, during the Norwegian general elections, Monday, Sept. 14, 2009. An exit poll by national broadcaster NRK shows Norway's left-leaning government winning the re-election. (AP Photo/Heiko Junge, Scanpix Norway) NORWAY OUTAP - Norway's left-leaning government appeared to have narrowly won re-election Monday after using oil money to shield the Nordic welfare state from the global recession, near-complete results showed.

Ireland's Olympic medalist Sutherland found dead (AFP)

Posted: 14 Sep 2009 04:12 PM PDT

Irish Olympic medal winning boxer Darren Sutherland, pictured in 2008, was found hanged at his London home on Monday, his manager and police said.(AFP/File/Jacques Demarthon)AFP - Irish Olympic medal winning boxer Darren Sutherland was found hanged at his London home on Monday, his manager and police said, as the sport paid tribute to a "magnificent talent" and a "gentleman".

4 UK Muslims get hefty sentences for airline plot (AP)

Posted: 14 Sep 2009 04:05 PM PDT

An undated handout image from Metropolitan Police shows Abdulla Ahmed Ali who was sentenced to a minimum of 40 years in jail by a judge for plotting to blow up transatlantic airliners with liquid bombs.(AFP/HO/File/Metropolitan Police)AP - In a case that altered airport security worldwide, three British Muslims were imprisoned Monday for at least 30 years each for a plot to kill thousands by blowing up trans-Atlantic airliners with liquid explosives hidden in soda bottles.

BNY Mellon offers $4 billion to end Russia lawsuit: report (Reuters)

Posted: 14 Sep 2009 03:31 PM PDT

Reuters - Bank of New York Mellon may restart trade-finance lending to Russia as a part of an out-of-court settlement of a $22.5 billion lawsuit against the bank, Kommersant business daily and the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday.

Mafia sank boat with radioactive waste: official (AFP)

Posted: 14 Sep 2009 02:28 PM PDT

Italian police conduct a roadblock on the main street of San Luca village in Calabria in 2007. Italian authorities have discovered a ship that was sunk by the mafia off the coast of southern Italy with 120 barrels of radioactive waste on board, a local prosecutor said. The 110-metre (360-feet) long ship was found off the coast of Calabria.(AFP/File/Antonio Taccone)AFP - Italian authorities have discovered a ship that was sunk by the mafia off the coast of southern Italy with 120 barrels of radioactive waste on board, a local prosecutor said Monday.

Iran to meet world powers, 1st talks in a year (AP)

Posted: 14 Sep 2009 02:06 PM PDT

International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) chief Mohamed El-Baradei, background right, delivers a speech at the beginning of a general conference of the IAEA, at Vienna's International Center, in Vienna, Austria, Monday, Sept. 14, 2009. El-Baradei called Monday for talks between Iran and the U.S. and cautioning against the use of force to resolve international disagreements. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak)AP - Iran warned the U.S. and Israel on Monday it will repel any attack — while also tamping down tensions by agreeing to meet with Washington and other world powers more than a year after talks broke down over Tehran's refusal to curb its nuclear activities.

Magna: 10,500 Opel jobs in Europe could be cut (AP)

Posted: 14 Sep 2009 01:54 PM PDT

Chief of Russian Sberbank, German Gref, left, and Co-Ceo of Austrian Magna company Siegfried Wolf meet in a hotel prior to a press conference in Frankfurt, central Germany, Monday, Sept. 14, 2009. A top executive at Magna International Inc. is saying that as many as 10,500 jobs at automaker Opel in Europe could be cut, with nearly half of those coming from Germany.(AP Photo/Michael Probst)AP - As many as 10,500 Opel jobs in Europe could be cut, nearly half of them in Germany, the co-chief executive of Magna International Inc. said Monday, plans that are drawing criticism in countries where the automaker has operations.

Automakers offer new electric cars at Frankfurt (AP)

Posted: 14 Sep 2009 01:31 PM PDT

Covered Wiesmann sports cars are seen as they are prepared for display at the Frankfurt fair ground Monday, Sept. 14, 2009, before the International Car Fair IAA opens first to the media and two days later for the public. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)AP - Sales have plunged, General Motors Co. has emerged from bankruptcy and Chrysler has been taken over by Italy's Fiat. The past year's turbulence will be reflected this week in a smaller U.S. presence at the Frankfurt Auto Show — along with the new electric vehicles many hope will secure the auto industry's post-recession comeback.

VW boss Winterkorn says sector's future is brighter (AFP)

Posted: 14 Sep 2009 01:21 PM PDT

Volkswagen chairman Martin Winterkorn, pictured in August, 2008, expressed cautious optimism on Monday as he announced the group had increased its market share last month despite the global auto crisis.(DDP/AFP/Nigel Treblin)AFP - Volkswagen chairman Martin Winterkorn expressed cautious optimism on Monday as he announced the group had increased its market share last month despite the global auto crisis.

Battle lines drawn for poll over public spending (AFP)

Posted: 14 Sep 2009 01:12 PM PDT

Trades Union Congress (TUC) general secretary Brendan Barber speaks at the annual conference in Liverpool. Battle lines over public spending cuts were marked out ahead of a general election that could see the Labour government lose power to the Conservatives.(AFP/Andrew Yates)AFP - Unions and the government marked out battle lines over public spending on Monday ahead of an upcoming general election that could see the ruling Labour Party ousted from power.

France seeks to combat workplace suicides (AP)

Posted: 14 Sep 2009 12:05 PM PDT

FILE - In this Sept. 13, 2002, file photo people stand by the entrance to the headquarters of France Telecom SA in Paris. France Telecom SA is mobilizing all 20,000 of the company's managers Monday Sept. 14, 2009 in an effort to respond quickly to a series of employee suicides that unions blame partly on layoffs and restructuring at the telecommunications giant. (AP PHOTO/Michel Euler, file)AP - France Telecom SA was mobilizing all 20,000 of its managers Monday in an effort to respond to a string of 23 employee suicides that unions blame partly on layoffs and restructuring at the telecommunications giant.

Knox defense witness in Italy doubts DNA evidence (AP)

Posted: 14 Sep 2009 11:43 AM PDT

U.S. murder suspect Amanda Knox, right, is escorted by a penitentiary police officer as she arrives for a hearing in the Meredith Kercher murder trial, in Perugia, Italy, Monday, Sept. 14, 2009. Knox and Sollecito, her former boyfriend, are charged with murder in the 2007 slaying of Meredith Kercher, with whom Knox shared a rented flat in the Italian city of Perugia. Both deny wrongdoing. (AP Photo/Stefano Medici)AP - DNA evidence at the center of a murder trial in Italy of an American student accused of killing her roommate is unreliable, according to a forensic expert testifying for the defense Monday.

Eastern Europe not feeling the love from Obama (AP)

Posted: 14 Sep 2009 10:58 AM PDT

In this Sunday, April 5, 2009 file photo US President Barack Obama delivers a public speech to thousands of people on the Hradcany Square in Prague, Czech Republic. Broadly speaking, Obama is still admired by many ordinary Eastern Europeans. In April, delivering one of his first major foreign policy speeches with Prague's medieval castle as a backdrop, the U.S. leader invoked decades of trans-Atlantic friendship that helped liberate nations hemmed in by the Iron Curtain — and he was cheered by thousands who packed a square. Yet after eight years of being wooed and courted by Bush, they're just not feeling the love from Obama — and the reasons vary widely. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais/file)AP - Czechs feel betrayed, Poles irked, Romanians slighted. Ask them who's to blame, and the answer may come as a surprise: President Barack Obama.

US joins UN rights council as member for 1st time (AP)

Posted: 14 Sep 2009 09:09 AM PDT

Esther Brimmer, US assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs, center, delivers her speech during the 12th UN Human Rights Council at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, Monday Sept. 14, 2009. (AP Photo/Keystone, Salvatore Di Nolfi)AP - The U.S. attended its first formal meeting of the U.N. Human Rights Council as a member Monday, saying it will try to promote dialogue at a body it once avoided and heavily criticized.

Sarkozy wants happiness used as economic indicator (AP)

Posted: 14 Sep 2009 09:08 AM PDT

French President Nicolas Sarkozy gestures as he speaks at the Sorbonne University in Paris, Monday, Sept. 14, 2009. Sarkozy is calling for a 'revolution' in the way economic growth is measured so that happiness and well-being can be included in measurements. (AP Photo/Michel Euler, Pool)AP - French President Nicolas Sarkozy asked world leaders to join a "revolution" in the measurement of economic progress by dropping their obsession with gross domestic product to account for factors such as health-care availability and leisure time.

Medvedev: countries must accept criticism (AP)

Posted: 14 Sep 2009 09:04 AM PDT

AP - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said Monday that all countries must be willing to accept the criticism of others, a policy that would be a distinct break from the prickly defensiveness of his predecessor Vladimir Putin.

No more memorial Mass in Spain for Franco (AP)

Posted: 14 Sep 2009 08:47 AM PDT

AP - The basilica where Francisco Franco is buried has canceled the politically charged tradition of holding a memorial Mass to mark the anniversary of the Spanish dictator's death, a monk said Monday.

'Shakespeare in Love' set to be reborn as theater (AP)

Posted: 14 Sep 2009 08:24 AM PDT

AP - In a case of life imitating art imitating life, a British theater company has announced plans to rebuild an Elizabethan playhouse using the set from hit film "Shakespeare in Love."

Jet makes emergency foam landing at German airport (AP)

Posted: 14 Sep 2009 07:56 AM PDT

A Fokker 100 operated by German airline Contact Air is seen after an emergency landing due to landing gear problems on the runway of the airport in Stuttgart, southern Germany, Monday, Sept. 14, 2009. A passenger jet made an emergency landing at Germany's Stuttgart airport on Monday following problems with its landing gear, but there were no significant injuries, authorities and a passenger said. (AP Photo/Daniel Maurer)AP - A passenger jet made an emergency landing Monday on a protective layer of foam at Germany's Stuttgart airport after having problems with its landing gear.

At 92, Dame Vera Lynn has Britain's No. 1 record (AP)

Posted: 14 Sep 2009 07:48 AM PDT

FILE - In this Sept. 18, 2005 file photo, Dame Vera Lynn is seen at the unveiling of a contemporary sculpture on Victoria Embankment to mark the 65th anniversary of the Battle of Britain, in central London. Seventy years after she first stepped into a recording studio, Dame Vera Lynn is at the top of Britain's album chart. The 92-year-old singer became the oldest living artist to have a number one record in Britain when her album 'We'll Meet Again - The Very Best of Vera Lynn' took the top spot. Three weeks ago, it was at number 20, the Official Charts Company said Monday, Sept. 14, 2009. (AP Photo/Matthew Fearn, Pool)AP - At age 92, Dame Vera Lynn has beaten the Arctic Monkeys and even the Beatles to capture the No. 1 record in Britain.

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