2009年10月4日星期日

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Lohan debuts at Ungaro, but Van Noten steals day (AP)

Posted: 04 Oct 2009 05:05 PM PDT

A model displays a creation by Spanish  fashion designer Estrella Archs and co-designer U.S. actress Lindsay Lohan for French fashion house Emanuel Ungaro's Ready to Wear Spring Summer 2010 fashion collection, Sunday Oct. 4, 2009 in Paris. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)AP - Mayhem broke out Sunday at Emanuel Ungaro after starlet Lindsay Lohan made her debut as "artistic adviser" to the storied-but-floundering Paris fashion house with a spring-summer 2010 ready-to-wear collection of teeny mini-bustier dresses and ultra-tight pants that appeared aimed at seducing 20-somethings and the teen set.


Socialists trounce conservatives in Greek election (AP)

Posted: 04 Oct 2009 04:04 PM PDT

Greek Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis casts his ballot at a polling station in the northern Greek city of Thessaloniki during general elections on Sunday, Oct. 4, 2009. Greeks were casting cast ballots Sunday in a snap general election likely to produce a change in government, as voters angered by scandals and a foundering economy were expected to reject the conservatives in favor of the opposition Socialists. (AP Photo/Nikolas Giakoumidis)AP - Greece's Socialists trounced the governing conservatives in a landslide election Sunday, with voters angered by scandals and a faltering economy ousting Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis halfway through his second term.


Greece's new leader is a low-key veteran pol (AP)

Posted: 04 Oct 2009 02:44 PM PDT

Greek Socialist Party leader George Papandreou, bottom right,  is greeted by supporters as he enters his party headquarters in central Athens, on Sunday, Oct. 4, 2009.  Greek voters angered by repeated scandals and a faltering economy ousted Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis in an early election Sunday, returning the Socialists to power after five years of conservative governance, initial results indicated. (AP Photo/ Angelos Tzortzinis)AP - Two years ago, when George Papandreou led Greece's Socialist party to its worst election result in three decades, he was widely derided as an ineffective politician.


Donald closes in on Dunhill Links win (AFP)

Posted: 04 Oct 2009 01:35 PM PDT

Britain's Luke Donald, pictured in September 2009, has a golden opportunity to end his three and a half year run without a win after matching the lowest round of his European Tour career in the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship on Sunday.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Scott Halleran)AFP - Britain's Luke Donald has a golden opportunity to end his three and a half year run without a win after matching the lowest round of his European Tour career in the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship on Sunday.


(AP)

Posted: 04 Oct 2009 12:56 PM PDT

AP - Greek PM Karamanlis resigns conservative party leadership after humbling election defeat.

Berlusconi visits Sicily after landslide kills 23 (AFP)

Posted: 04 Oct 2009 12:24 PM PDT

Residents walk amid debris and mud after the torrential rains in Sicily, in Giampilieri, near Messina. Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi visited landslide survivors in Sicily on Sunday as bulldozers dug for bodies in the devastated area where at least 22 people were killed last week.(AFP/Marcello Paternostro)AFP - Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi visited landslide survivors in Sicily on Sunday as bulldozers found another body in the devastated area where at least 23 people were killed last week.


How the Greek general election works (AP)

Posted: 04 Oct 2009 11:58 AM PDT

AP - A look at how Greek voters chose their government and members of parliament in Sunday's election:

Berlusconi: new homes for Italian mudslide victims (AP)

Posted: 04 Oct 2009 11:55 AM PDT

Damaged buildings stand in the seaside village of Scaletta Zanclea, near Messina, southern Italy, Saturday, Oct. 3, 2009. Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi said he fears that the death toll from the mudslides that have hit Sicily could rise to 50, as rescue teams continued digging Saturday through piles of mud. So far 20 people are known to have died from Italy's worst mudslides in a decade, while 80 were injured, and 40 remained missing, officials said. Rivers of mud unleashed by heavy rains flooded parts of Messina, a city in eastern Sicily, on Friday, sweeping away cars and collapsing buildings. Hundreds were left homeless.in Scaletta,  near Messina, Italy, Saturday, Oct. 3, 2009. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni)AP - Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi promised Sunday to build new houses for the victims of massive mudslides in Sicily that killed at least 22 people and left more than 500 homeless.


Chelsea sweep aside Liverpool to regain top spot (AFP)

Posted: 04 Oct 2009 10:20 AM PDT

Chelsea's French striker Nicolas Anelka (R) celebrates scoring a goal with Portuguese midfielder Anderson Deco (L) during their English Premier League football match against Liverpool at Stamford Bridge, London. Chelsea won 2-0.(AFP/Glyn Kirk)AFP - Chelsea returned to the top of the Premier League on Sunday as goals from Nicolas Anelka and Florent Malouda clinched an impressive 2-0 win over Liverpool at Stamford Bridge.


Danish military chief resigns amid book scandal (AP)

Posted: 04 Oct 2009 10:08 AM PDT

AP - Denmark's military chief of staff said Sunday he will resign to restore the public's confidence in the country's defense, an apparent reference to a scandal surrounding a book disclosing Danish military secrets.

Belgium, Honolulu bishop celebrate 'leper priest' (AP)

Posted: 04 Oct 2009 08:59 AM PDT

People from Molokai, Hawaii, stand around a statue depicting Father Damien in the garden of his birthplace in Tremelo, Belgium, Sunday Oct. 4, 2008. A mass attended by Belgian royals and government as well as the bishop of Honolulu among others, celebrated a 19th century local hero Sunday, who cared for leprosy sufferers on the Hawaiian island of Molokai until the disease took his life in 1889, and will become a saint for his work.(AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert)AP - Belgian royals and government officials joined the bishop of Honolulu at a Mass on Sunday to celebrate a 19th-century local hero, a week before he will become a saint for his work with lepers on the Hawaiian island of Molokai.


Stem cell pioneers among Nobel Prize candidates (AP)

Posted: 04 Oct 2009 07:31 AM PDT

AP - Two Canadian scientists whose discovery of stem cells has paved the way for controversial research could be candidates for the 2009 Nobel Prize in medicine, the winners of which will be announced Monday.

Spain: hijacked fishing boat makes port in Somalia (AP)

Posted: 04 Oct 2009 06:45 AM PDT

Pirates pictured on a skiff off Somalia's coast in 2008. Spain launched judicial proceedings Sunday against two Somali pirates who took part in the hijacking of a Spanish tuna trawler that remained in the hands of bandits near the Somali coast, a judicial official said.(AFP/US NAVY/File)AP - A hijacked trawler has been taken to port in Somalia with pirates still in charge of the vessel, the Spanish government said Sunday.


Recent winners of the Nobel Prize in medicine (AP)

Posted: 04 Oct 2009 04:24 AM PDT

AP - Recent winners of the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine, and their research, according to the Nobel Foundation:

Reinhard Mohn, who built up Bertelsmann, dead (AP)

Posted: 04 Oct 2009 04:06 AM PDT

AP - Reinhard Mohn, who helped transform media group Bertelsmann AG from a German book publisher to an international media company, has died, the company said Sunday. He was 88.

Key conservative political gains around Europe (AP)

Posted: 03 Oct 2009 09:03 PM PDT

France's President Nicolas Sarkozy gestures as he visits the Technology University Institute in Avignon, southern France, Tuesday September 29, 2009. REUTERS/Claude Paris/Pool (FRANCE POLITICS)AP - Notable examples of conservatives gaining political clout around Europe:


Across Europe, the embattled left loses its clout (AP)

Posted: 03 Oct 2009 09:02 PM PDT

FILE - This Oct. 1, 2009 file phot shows Christoph Matschie, leader of the local Social Democratic Party, SPD, and top candidate for governor in Thuringia, addressing the media after a party meeting in Erfurt, central Germany. Just when you might think capitalism's global crisis would breathe new life into the left, it's looking increasingly divided and tired. German Chancellor Angela Merkel's re-election a week ago is highlighting a conservative surge in her country and Europe's other powerhouse economies, Britain, France and Italy, where the center-right is either firmly in power or about to get there.  (AP Photo/Jens Meyer, File)AP - Pity Europe's Socialists. It's getting lonely on the left.


Love between German and Pole survives Iron Curtain (AP)

Posted: 03 Oct 2009 09:02 PM PDT

In this July 21, 2009 photo, Elvira Profe holds up the photo of Fortunat Mackiewicz that she carried in her wallet for half a century, in Mieszkowice, Poland. The German woman and Polish man fell in love at the end of World War II but were torn apart when Germans were expelled from Poland. But their love never died. She carried his photograph in her wallet for half a century and when the Berlin Wall came down, sought him out. Today, they live together in a small town on the Polish-German border. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)AP - For five decades, she kept his picture in her wallet — a black-and-white snapshot of a handsome young Polish man with brooding eyes.


Top British general: Ready to boost Afghan force (AP)

Posted: 03 Oct 2009 06:08 PM PDT

U.S. Marines with Bravo Company, 1st Battalion 5th Marines joke with one another as they prepare for a patrol, at a small base in Nawa district, Helmand province, southern Afghanistan, Saturday, Oct. 3, 2009. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)AP - The U.K. is ready to send more soldiers to Afghanistan, if asked to by the commander of the U.S. and NATO forces there, the British army's new chief has been quoted as saying.


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