2009年9月29日星期二

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Yahoo! News: Europe News

Nero's rotating banquet hall unveiled in Rome (AP)

Posted: 29 Sep 2009 05:04 PM PDT

An unidentified man talks to the media, near a recently unearthed brick structure incorporating a 4-meter diameter pillar, seen in the background, discovered during maintenance works in the Roman Forum, in Rome, Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2009. Archaeologists believe the structure supported a rotating dining room imitating the Earth's movement and used by Roman Emperor Nero to impress his guests in his Golden Palace. The Golden Palace, also known by its Latin name Domus Aurea, rose over the ruins of a fire that destroyed much of Rome in 64 A.D. and was completed in 68 A.D. (AP Photo/Domenico Stinellis)AP - Not only was Nero a Roman emperor, it turns out he may also have been the father of the revolving restaurant.

The Sun newspaper backs Britain's Conservatives (AP)

Posted: 29 Sep 2009 04:49 PM PDT

AP - The Sun is setting on Britain's beleaguered Labour Party.

Britain's Brown makes pre-election populist pitch (AP)

Posted: 29 Sep 2009 04:47 PM PDT

Britain's Prime Minister and leader of the ruling Labour Party Gordon Brown gives his keynote speech to the party conference in Brighton, England, Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2009 . Brown's Labour party which has been in power since 1997, is trailing in the opinion polls behind the opposition right of centre Conservative party, with a general election due in the spring of 2010. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)AP - Prime Minister Gordon Brown, seeking to stave off an expected election defeat, pledged Tuesday to restore trust in Britain's tarnished politics, kick start its stuttering economy and slash government debt.

Israeli minister says arrest bid in Britain absurd (AFP)

Posted: 29 Sep 2009 04:07 PM PDT

British Members of Parliament protest against the presence of Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak outside the Brighton Centre which is hosting the Labour Party conference, Brighton. Barak branded Tuesday a bid to have him arrested in Britain AFP - Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak branded Tuesday a bid to have him arrested in Britain "absurd" as he attended the governing Labour party's annual conference.

Bid to arrest Ehud Barak in Britain rejected (AP)

Posted: 29 Sep 2009 04:06 PM PDT

AP - A Palestinian bid to have Israeli defense chief Ehud Barak arrested for alleged war crimes during a visit to Britain has failed, a lawyer for the groups involved said Tuesday.

British Airways launches luxury London-NY flights (AP)

Posted: 29 Sep 2009 03:37 PM PDT

AP - British Airways is launching its pricey new business class service between London and New York.

Swiss choose law over neutrality, arrest Polanski (AP)

Posted: 29 Sep 2009 03:29 PM PDT

The chalet named 'Milky Way' which is, according to Swiss newspaper 'Blick', the chalet of filmmaker Roman Polanski, is seen on Tuesday Sept. 29, 2009 in Gstaad, Canton of Bern, Switzerland. 76-year-old Polanski, who pleaded guilty three decades ago to having sex with a 13-year-old girl, has been arrested Saturday Sept. 26, 2009, when he arrived in Switzerland to receive a lifetime achievement award at the Zurich film festival. Polanski awaits a possible extradition to the United States. (AP Photo/Keystone, Dominic Favre)AP - First numbered bank accounts and now Roman Polanski. Switzerland is no longer a place for foreign fugitives and tax evaders to live above the law.

Sevilla blitz groggy Rangers (AFP)

Posted: 29 Sep 2009 02:49 PM PDT

Sevilla's Brazilian forward Luis Fabiano (Bottom) celebrates scoring his team's third goal against Rangers with Ivorian defender Didier Zokora during their UEFA Champions League, Group G, football match at Ibrox Stadium, Glasgow. Sevilla won 4-1.(AFP/Graham Stuart)AFP - Sevilla dumped Rangers with a stunning second-half goal blitz as they made it two wins out of two in their Champions League campaign following a controversial 4-1 success at Ibrox.

History or no mystery? IOC has a statement to make (AP)

Posted: 29 Sep 2009 02:48 PM PDT

Brandi Chastain, former soccer player with the U.S. national women's team, arrives as part of the Chicago 2016 Olympic bid team at Kastrup airport in Copenhagen, Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2009. Chicago is competing with Tokyo, Madrid and Rio de Janeiro for the right to host the 2016 Summer Olympic Games. The IOC will choose the winning city in a vote on Friday Oct. 2 in Copenhagen. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)AP - Rio or Chicago? Risk vs. reliable.

Fiorentina upset Liverpool in Champions League (AFP)

Posted: 29 Sep 2009 02:43 PM PDT

Fiorentina's Montenegrin forward Stevan Jovetic celebrates after scoring his second goal against FC Liverpool during their UEFA Champions League Group E football match Fiorentina vs Liverpool at the Artemio Franchi stadium in Florence. Fiorentina won 2-0.(AFP/Alberto Pizzoli)AFP - Young playmaker Stevan Jovetic scored a brace as Fiorentina stunned Liverpool 2-0 in Champions League Group E at the Stadio Artemio Franchi here on Tuesday.

Prosecutors ask court to drop case against Chirac (AP)

Posted: 29 Sep 2009 10:45 AM PDT

AP - The Paris prosecutor's office has asked a court to drop a case against former President Jacques Chirac and others accused in an alleged corruption scandal dating back to his 1977-1995 tenure as Paris mayor, a judicial official said Tuesday.

EU expects Russia-Georgia war report to blame both (AP)

Posted: 29 Sep 2009 10:36 AM PDT

AP - The European Union expects a new report Wednesday to blame both Russia and Georgia for causing their brief war last year — an assessment EU officials hope will ease tensions and improve stability in the former Soviet sphere.

Russia, Belarus hold joint military exercises (AP)

Posted: 29 Sep 2009 10:17 AM PDT

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, right, and Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko attend the West 2009 joint military exercises near Brest in western Belarus on Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2009. Russia and Belarus on Tuesday completed two days of joint military exercises on bases that are close to borders with NATO members. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)AP - Russia and Belarus on Tuesday completed two days of massive joint military exercises on bases that are close to borders with NATO members.

British girl dies after cervical cancer vaccine (AP)

Posted: 29 Sep 2009 09:46 AM PDT

Flowers at the gate of Blue Coat Church of England School in Coventry England Tuesday Sept. 29, 2009, after a pupil from the school died Monday after receiving the HPV1 Cervarix jab. Health authorities launched an investigation Tuesday into the death of a 14-year-old girl who had just received a vaccine for cervical cancer. Natalie Morton died in a hospital Monday, a few hours after being the given the Cervarix vaccine, which protects against two strains of the human papilloma virus that causes cervical cancer. She was vaccinated at her school in Coventry in central England. (AP Photo/Rui Vieira/PA)AP - British health officials temporarily suspended a vaccination program in an English city Tuesday after a 14-year-old girl died a few hours after being vaccinated against the virus that causes cervical cancer.

UN expert defends Gaza war crimes report (AP)

Posted: 29 Sep 2009 09:32 AM PDT

Aharon Leshno Yaar, Ambassador of the Permanent Representative Mission of Israel to Geneva, adresses his speech during the interactive dialogue with the Fact-Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict during a session of the Human Rights Council at the United Nations European headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2009. (AP Photo/Keystone, Salvatore Di Nolfi)AP - A U.N. investigator defended a report Tuesday that accuses Israel and Palestinian militants of war crimes during their conflict in Gaza, an allegation Israel condemns and claims is the result of bias against the Jewish state.

Spain: $6 million in drug money found under shack (AP)

Posted: 29 Sep 2009 09:12 AM PDT

AP - Spanish police say narcotics investigators have found euro4.3 million ($6.3 million) in cash buried in a shanty town on the island of Mallorca.

Russia seeks guarantees on new US missile plans (AP)

Posted: 29 Sep 2009 08:57 AM PDT

AP - Russia's envoy to NATO on Tuesday called for guarantees from Washington that a revised U.S. missile defense plan won't threaten Moscow.

Kiev marks Babi Yar anniversary with new monument (AP)

Posted: 29 Sep 2009 08:31 AM PDT

Actors portraying Nazi soldiers reenact the escorting of Jews, portrayed by actors, to the Babi Yar for execution, during a ceremony marking the anniversary of the Babi Yar massacre, in Kiev, Ukraine, Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2009. More than 33,700 Jews were rounded up and shot at Babi Yar over 48 hours beginning on Sept. 29, 1941. In the ensuing months, the ravine was filled with an estimated 100,000 bodies, among them those of non-Jewish Kiev residents and Red Army prisoners of the Nazis. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)AP - Stone-faced Nazi soldiers wielding rifles marched Kiev's sobbing Jews to be killed in the Babi Yar ravine as passers-by held back tears in a dramatic theatrical performance meant to mark the anniversary of the massacre Tuesday.

EU says war on Somali pirates not over (AP)

Posted: 29 Sep 2009 07:47 AM PDT

In this photo released by the Turkish military, seven pirates aboard a skiff, hold up their hands a Turkish commandos approach their boat in the Gulf of Aden, off Somalia, Saturday, Sept. 26, 2009. The Turkish military said Saturday navy commandos aboard the Turkish frigate TCG Gediz, part of a NATO force patrolling the seas, have captured seven pirates. Commandos raided the skiff Saturday morning upon a request to block it before it could attack a ship. It says a navy helicopter aboard a Turkish frigate also took part in the operation.(AP Photo/Turkish Military HO )AP - Hulking gray naval frigates fanned out across the Gulf of Aden have combined with monsoon storms to sharply reduce pirate attacks in the world's busiest shipping lanes in recent weeks.

New Niffenegger novel set in Victorian Valhalla (AP)

Posted: 29 Sep 2009 05:26 AM PDT

This is an undated image of writer Audrey Niffenegger's made available by the publisher Random House in London, Tuesday Sept. 29, 2009. Niffenegger's new book ' Her Fearful Symmetry' to be released Oct. 1, 2009, was propelled to literary stardom by her best-selling novel 'Time Traveler's Wife'. (AP Photo/Random House, Ho)AP - West of Karl Marx and just up the path from Charles Dickens' widow and daughter stands author Audrey Niffenegger, deep in the heart of London's Highgate Cemetery, the setting for her new novel, "Her Fearful Symmetry."

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