2009年9月23日星期三

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Yahoo! News: Europe News

Brown warns of further sanctions against Iran and NKorea (AFP)

Posted: 23 Sep 2009 04:52 PM PDT

Gordon Brown walks to the podium before speaking during the United Nations General Assembly at UN headquarters in New York. Brown warned Iran and North Korea Wednesday that they face further sanctions should they fail to comply with United Nations demands regarding their nuclear programs.(AFP/Stan Honda)AFP - Prime Minister Gordon Brown warned Iran and North Korea Wednesday that they face further sanctions should they fail to comply with United Nations demands regarding their nuclear programs.

EASA issues warning for Airbus instrument (AP)

Posted: 23 Sep 2009 04:30 PM PDT

AP - The European Aviation Safety Agency has issued a safety warning for an instrument to measure air speed that is used on Airbus A330 and A340 jets.

Pope to visit Britain next year: reports (AFP)

Posted: 23 Sep 2009 03:11 PM PDT

Pope Benedict XVI followed by prelates arrives for his weekly general audience in the Paul VI hall at the Vatican. Pope Benedict XVI will visit Britain in 2010 after accepting an invitation from Prime Minister Gordon Brown, media reports said Wednesday, without naming sources.(AFP/Alberto Pizzoli)AFP - Pope Benedict XVI will visit Britain in 2010 after accepting an invitation from Prime Minister Gordon Brown, media reports said Wednesday, without naming sources.

U.S. warns citizens about al Qaeda threat to Germany (Reuters)

Posted: 23 Sep 2009 02:56 PM PDT

Reuters - The U.S. State Department warned American citizens on Wednesday to be aware of a threat by al Qaeda that it would attack Germany around the time of its federal election on Sunday.

Sweden launches manhunt after helicopter heist (AP)

Posted: 23 Sep 2009 02:55 PM PDT

A police Swat team in action to enter the security firm G4S's cash depot building in Vastberga, Sweden, Wednesday Sept. 23, 2009, after robbers used a helicopter to land on the roof of the building in a robbery attempt. The robbers used a helicopter for their spectacular theft at the cash depot south of Stockholm early Wednesday morning, but it is not yet clear what the robbers escaped with. Police have found a helicopter abandoned in northern Stockholm. (AP Photo / Pontus Lundahl, SCANPIX)AP - With cinematic flourish, the masked robbers dropped from a helicopter onto the roof of a Swedish cash depot before dawn, broke into the building through a glass pyramid, set off explosions to get to the millions inside and escaped by hoisting themselves and their haul back up on rope lines.

Holders Man Utd and Chelsea ease into League Cup fourth round (AFP)

Posted: 23 Sep 2009 02:45 PM PDT

Manchester United's Portuguese midfielder Nani (C) is tackled by Wolverhampton Wanderers' Scottish defender Christophe Berra during their English League Cup football match at Old Trafford in Manchester. Manchester won 1-0.(AFP/Paul Ellis)AFP - Manchester United advanced to the League Cup fourth round with a 1-0 win over Wolverhampton on Wednesday even though the holders played more than half of the match with 10 men.

Kasparov leads Karpov 3-1 in chess rematch (AP)

Posted: 23 Sep 2009 02:42 PM PDT

Former chess world champions Garry Kasparov, right, and Anatoly Karpov, left, play an exhibition rematch in Valencia, Spain, Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2009. Chess eminences Kasparov and Karpov are dusting off their knights and pawns for an exhibition rematch marking the 25th anniversary of their first title bout — a grueling one that lasted five months and was eventually halted. (AP Photo/Alberto Saiz)AP - Garry Kasparov stretched his lead over Anatoly Karpov to 3-1 Wednesday on the second day of an exhibition chess match commemorating the 25th anniversary of their marathon first title bout.

UK reports: Pope Benedict XVI to visit Britain (AP)

Posted: 23 Sep 2009 01:52 PM PDT

Pope Benedict XVI, right, seen, during the weekly general audience in the Paul VI hall at the Vatican, Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2009. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)AP - Pope Benedict XVI next year will make the first visit to Britain by a pontiff in decades, British media reported Wednesday.

Dell wins EU OK to get euro54.5 million Polish aid (AP)

Posted: 23 Sep 2009 01:34 PM PDT

AP - Dell Inc. won EU approval Wednesday to receive a euro54.4 million ($80.4 million) subsidy from the Polish government to build a new plant there, replacing Ireland as the computer maker's new European manufacturing hub.

Russia media: Moscow not ruling out Iran sanctions (AP)

Posted: 23 Sep 2009 01:30 PM PDT

AP - Moscow is not ruling out new U.N. Security Council sanctions against Iran over its nuclear program, Russian news agencies cited an official in the Russian delegation in New York as saying Wednesday.

US, Switzerland sign treaty to share tax info (AP)

Posted: 23 Sep 2009 12:16 PM PDT

AP - Switzerland and the United States have signed a treaty to increase the amount of tax information they share to help crack down on tax evasion, Swiss officials said Wednesday.

Charges unlikely for helping suicide in England (AP)

Posted: 23 Sep 2009 11:56 AM PDT

Multiple sclerosis sufferer Debbie Purdy and her husband Omar Puente are seen outside the House of Lords in central London in July following her bid to make the Law Lords clarify the law on assisted suicide. People who assist relatives to commit suicide are unlikely to be prosecuted in England and Wales if they were motivated by compassion and the victim was committed to dying, officials said.(AFP/File/Leon Neal)AP - England's top prosecutor unveiled new guidelines that could decriminalize many forms of assisted suicide, saying Wednesday that most people who help close friends or family kill themselves aren't likely to face charges.

Russia presses US to destroy Afghan poppy crop (AP)

Posted: 23 Sep 2009 11:40 AM PDT

AP - Russia is pressing the White House to resurrect the Bush-era policy of large-scale eradication of poppy fields in Afghanistan, an effort that critics say angered Afghan farmers and rallied support for the Taliban but did little to curb the cultivation of opium.

Kosovo: EU police arrest 4 Serb war crime suspects (AP)

Posted: 23 Sep 2009 11:27 AM PDT

AP - Four Serbs were arrested Wednesday under suspicion of committing war crimes against ethnic Albanian civilians during the 1998-99 Kosovo war, EU police said.

British Museum seeks to remake Montezuma's image (AP)

Posted: 23 Sep 2009 11:05 AM PDT

This Monday Sept. 21, 2009 photo shows a turquoise mask, representing probably Tonatiuh, the sun god, is seen at the exhibition entitled: 'Moctezuma: Aztec Ruler', in central London's British Museum, Moctezuma II was the last elected Aztec Emperor that reigned between 1502-1520 and the exhibition will run from Sept 24, to Jan. 24, 2010. Loans of material from Mexico and Europe will be displayed and according to the museum, this is the first exhibition to examine the semi-mythical statues of the ruler and his legacy. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)AP - The world-famous British Museum, home of the contested Elgin Marbles sought by Greece, is leaping into another controversy with a special exhibit re-examining the life of Montezuma, the doomed last ruler of the Aztecs.

(AP)

Posted: 23 Sep 2009 10:35 AM PDT

AP - Russian news agencies: Russian delegation source says Moscow does not rule out new Iran sanctions.

Spanish matador to advertise gay drink on cape (AP)

Posted: 23 Sep 2009 09:55 AM PDT

Bullfighter Joselito Ortega poses with the cape at his home in Benalmadena, southern Spain, on Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2009. Ortega is breaking with a sacred tradition, agreeing to serve as an advertising billboard while slaying bulls and endorse a soft drink that caters to gays. (AP Photo/Sergio Torres)AP - A little-known Spanish matador is breaking with a sacred tradition, agreeing to advertise on his cape while slaying bulls and endorse a soft drink that caters to gays.

Italian police seize mafia boss' pet crocodile (AP)

Posted: 23 Sep 2009 09:53 AM PDT

AP - Here's another of the Mafia's trademark offers-you-can't-refuse: pay or be eaten by a crocodile.

Warming ocean melts Greenland glaciers (AP)

Posted: 23 Sep 2009 09:37 AM PDT

In this picture taken on Monday, Aug. 24, 2009 the Greenpeace vessel the Arctic Sunrise passes through the Sermilk Fjord in Greenland. The Greenpeace icebreaker hosting the a research team from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts. The Woods Hole team on board the Artic Sunrise zigzagged between majestic icebergs in the Sermilik fjord last month in search of proof that waters from warmer latitudes, or subtropical waters, are flushing through this remote and frigid region. They found it — all the way up to the base of the outlet glaciers that spill into the ocean like tongues of ice from Greenland's massive ice sheet. (AP Photo/Karl Ritter)AP - With whale fins splashing in the distance, Ruth Curry hauls up her catch from the blustery deck of an icebreaker.

Spain arrests alleged 'dirty war' fugitive (AP)

Posted: 23 Sep 2009 09:27 AM PDT

AP - An Argentine-born pilot for a low-cost airline was arrested during a stopover in a Spanish airport on suspicion of piloting planes that carried hundreds of dissidents to their deaths during his country's 1976-1983 "dirty war," authorities said Wednesday.

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