2009年10月5日星期一

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Italian group claims to debunk Shroud of Turin (AP)

Posted: 05 Oct 2009 05:24 PM PDT

FILE - In this Aug. 12, 2000 file photo, The Holy Shroud, a 14 foot-long linen revered by some as the burial cloth of Jesus, is shown at the Cathedral of Turin, Italy. A group of Italian debunkers is claiming it has proved that the Shroud of Turin - revered as the cloth that covered Jesus in the tomb - was man-made. The shroud bears the image of a crucified man. Believers say Christ's image was recorded on the fibers at the time of his resurrection. The Italian Committee for Checking Claims on the Paranormal said Monday Oct 5, 2009 that scientists have reproduced the shroud using materials and methods that were available in the 14th century. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni, file)AP - Scientists have reproduced the Shroud of Turin — revered as the cloth that covered Jesus in the tomb — and say the experiment proves the relic was man-made, a group of Italian debunkers claimed Monday.

Recent winners of the Nobel Prize in physics (AP)

Posted: 05 Oct 2009 05:12 PM PDT

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

Nobel physics prize puzzling to predict (AP)

Posted: 05 Oct 2009 05:11 PM PDT

AP - Scientists who developed a cornerstone in thinking behind quantum mechanics, the broad sweep of chaos theory or the expanding nature of the universe and dark energy could be rewarded for years of effort and research when the 2009 Nobel Prize in physics is announced Tuesday.

Al Faraj company lands majority Portsmouth stake (AFP)

Posted: 05 Oct 2009 04:24 PM PDT

Saudi Arabian businessman Ali Al-Faraj has completed his takeover of English Premier League club Portsmouth, the club said late Monday. The club confirmed on their website former owner Sulaiman Al-Fahim, pictured in August 2009, had sold 90 percent of the shares to Falcondrone Limited, a company owned by Al-Faraj, in a move freeing up funds to pay players and executives.(AFP/File/Glyn Kirk)AFP - Saudi Arabian businessman Ali Al-Faraj has completed his takeover of English Premier League club Portsmouth, the club said late Monday.

Workaday chic gets royal treatment at Celine, YSL (AP)

Posted: 05 Oct 2009 03:22 PM PDT

A model presents a creation by fashion designer Phoebe Philo for Celine during her Ready to Wear Spring Summer 2010 fashion collection, presented in Paris, Monday Oct. 5, 2009. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)AP - It was the moment the fashion world has been waiting for, the return of wildly popular designer Phoebe Philo, whose calm and collected debut spring-summer 2010 collection for Celine proved that after her several-year-long hiatus she still has the magic touch.

Dunne makes his point but Manchester City rescue a draw (AFP)

Posted: 05 Oct 2009 02:36 PM PDT

Manchester City's Emmanuel Adebayor prepares to take a throw in against Aston Villa during a Premier League match at Villa Park in Birmingham. The match ended in a 1-1 draw.(AFP/Ian Kington)AFP - Manchester City striker Craig Bellamy rescued a 1-1 draw against Aston Villa on Monday after Richard Dunne had returned to haunt his former club.

Bristol-Myers gets EU approval for diabetes drug (AP)

Posted: 05 Oct 2009 02:25 PM PDT

AP - Drugmaker Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. said Monday that its new diabetes drug, Onglyza, has been approved for sale in the European Union's 27 countries.

UK supermarket pulls ad from Fox News over Beck (AP)

Posted: 05 Oct 2009 01:58 PM PDT

FILE - In this May 5, 2009 file photo, Glenn Beck attends the Time 100 Gala, a celebration of TIME Magazine's 100 most influential people in the world in New York. (AP Photo/Evan Agostini, file)AP - Upscale British supermarket chain Waitrose said Monday it was pulling its advertisements from Fox News in the U.K. after customers complained about the cable news channel's Glenn Beck program.

Official contradicts French ex-PM in slander trial (AP)

Posted: 05 Oct 2009 01:55 PM PDT

AP - A longtime French intelligence official contradicted former Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin on Monday in much-awaited testimony central to a slander trial that has rocked the French political establishment.

UK plans cutback on public sector salary increases (AP)

Posted: 05 Oct 2009 01:47 PM PDT

AP - The British government plans to freeze the salaries of top bureaucrats and offer only minimal increases to other senior workers in an effort to control the country's spiraling deficit, a treasury official said Monday.

Greece's Socialists to form new government (AP)

Posted: 05 Oct 2009 12:19 PM PDT

Greek Socialist leader George Papandreou, winner of the country's general election, leaves the Zappion hall on Sunday, Oct. 4, 2009 in Athens. 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 - Greece's Socialist prime minister-elect made final decisions Monday on his new Cabinet, whose main challenges will be to revive the faltering economy and improve environmental protection.

British premier Brown confronts Belfast deadlock (AP)

Posted: 05 Oct 2009 11:33 AM PDT

AP - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown pressed rival Catholic and Protestant leaders Monday to end the deadlock threatening their power-sharing government, the central pillar of Northern Ireland peacemaking.

Farmers create chaos with spilled milk in Brussels (AP)

Posted: 05 Oct 2009 11:12 AM PDT

A business man runs from a cow during a demonstration in front of EU headquarters in Brussels, Monday Oct. 5, 2009. Hundreds of dairy farmers drove tractors into the center of Belgium's capital Monday to push EU farm ministers for more funding to survive the milk price crisis. Thousands of farmers across the 27-nation bloc are facing a financial crunch because of collapsed milk prices and are seeking more EU help and quotas to artificially drive them up. (AP Photo/Yves Logghe)AP - Farmers drove hundreds of tractors and a lone cow to the heart of the European Union bureaucracy on Monday, pelting police with bottles and chickens and dumping milk and manure onto the streets of Brussels in a protest against collapsing milk prices.

Britain's Blair seen as EU presidential material (AP)

Posted: 05 Oct 2009 11:00 AM PDT

Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, left, and California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger participate in a climate control discussion at the second Governors' Global Climate Summit in Los Angeles Friday, Oct. 2, 2009. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)AP - President Tony Blair? Don't laugh, it could happen.

A look at women who have won Nobel Prizes (AP)

Posted: 05 Oct 2009 10:46 AM PDT

Carol Greider, a professor in the department of molecular biology and genetics at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, gives an interview by phone after winning a share of the Nobel Prize for Medicine, from her home in Baltimore, Maryland, October 5, 2009. REUTERS/Jonathan ErnstAP - Only 37 women have received Nobel Prizes since they were first handed out in 1901.

3 Americans share 2009 Nobel medicine prize (AP)

Posted: 05 Oct 2009 10:40 AM PDT

Carol W. Greider, a professor in the department of molecular biology and genetics at Baltimore's Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, talks on the phone at her Baltimore home, Monday, Oct. 5, 2009. Greider, along with two other Americans, won the 2009 Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday for discovering a key mechanism in the genetic operations of cells, an insight that has inspired new lines of research into cancer. (AP Photo/Rob Carr)AP - Americans Elizabeth H. Blackburn, Carol W. Greider and Jack W. Szostak won the 2009 Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday for discovering a key mechanism in the genetic operations of cells, an insight that has inspired new lines of research into cancer.

McDonald's to become Mona Lisa's new neighbor (AP)

Posted: 05 Oct 2009 10:29 AM PDT

AP - French culture and American convenience will come together in December — thanks to plans by the McDonald's restaurant chain to hang its shingle in the shadow of the Louvre.

Spain: Garcia Lorca grave to be opened in weeks (AP)

Posted: 05 Oct 2009 09:51 AM PDT

AP - A Spanish Civil War-era grave believed to hold the remains of the acclaimed poet Federico Garcia Lorca will be dug up in two to three weeks, an official said Monday, in the most high-profile step yet in a drive for Spain to address atrocities committed against civilians during that ruinous conflict.

Britain's Supreme Court hears first case (AP)

Posted: 05 Oct 2009 09:44 AM PDT

Lord Phillips, President of the new Supreme Court, right, Lord Hope, Deputy President, 2nd right, and other Justices, formerly the Law Lords, walk from the Supreme Court building to Westminster Abbey after they are sworn in Thursday, Oct. 1, 2009 in central London. (AP Photo/Akira Suemori)AP - Britain's Supreme Court heard its first case Monday — an appeal by five terrorism suspects who say the British government has overstepped its power by freezing their assets without a conviction.

German magazine swaps thin models for real women (AP)

Posted: 05 Oct 2009 08:53 AM PDT

AP - Germany's most popular women's magazine announced Monday that it is banning professional models from its pages in favor of "real women" in an attempt to combat an unhealthy standard of rail-thin beauty that it says has isolated its readers.

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