2009年10月8日星期四

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Yahoo! News: Europe News

US likely to follow UK objections on Ticketmaster (AP)

Posted: 08 Oct 2009 04:23 PM PDT

AP - Regulators in the U.K. and U.S. appear likely to impose conditions on the merger of concert promoter Live Nation Inc. and ticket-selling giant Ticketmaster Entertainment Inc. now that British authorities came out against the deal Thursday.

Embarrassed Hendry crashes out (AFP)

Posted: 08 Oct 2009 03:14 PM PDT

Stephen Hendry crashed out of the Grand Prix tournament here on Thursday after what the Scot described as an AFP - Stephen Hendry crashed out of the Grand Prix tournament here on Thursday after what the Scot described as an "embarrassing" display against Welshman Mark Williams.

Nobel winner wrote about repression in Romania (AP)

Posted: 08 Oct 2009 02:47 PM PDT

German writer Herta Mueller, seen, during a news conference in Berlin, Germany, Thursday Oct. 8, 2009. Herta Mueller, a little-known Romanian-born author who was persecuted for her critical depictions of life behind the Iron Curtain, won the 2009 Nobel Prize in literature Thursday in an award seen as a nod to the 20th anniversary of communism's collapse. The decision was expected to keep alive the controversy surrounding the academy's pattern of awarding the prize to European writers. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)AP - Herta Mueller never intended to become a writer, it was simply a means of coping with the oppression of everyday life under Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu.

Rebel IRA gunmen fire volley over comrade's coffin (AP)

Posted: 08 Oct 2009 02:45 PM PDT

Masked gunmen fire a volley of shots over the coffin of Republican John Brady, outside his sister's home in Strabane, Northern Ireland, Thursday Oct. 8, 2009. Brady, 40, hanged himself in a police cell last Saturday after being arrested over a domestic dispute while on weekend parole from prison, and it was claimed that he could not face the prospect of returning to jail.(AP Photo/Peter Morrison)AP - Three masked Irish Republican Army dissidents fired a volley of gunfire over a dead comrade's coffin Thursday in the most public display of paramilitary defiance Northern Ireland has seen in years.

French culture minister denies paedophilia charge (AFP)

Posted: 08 Oct 2009 02:06 PM PDT

French Culture Minister Frederic Mitterrand is pictured prior to answer journalist Laurence Ferrari's questions during the French television TF1 eight o'clock news, in Boulogne-Billancourt, west of Paris. Mitterrand said Thursday he would not resign over a book he wrote that describes paying boys for sex and insisted it was not an apology for sex tourism or paedophilia.(AFP/Pool/Joel Saget)AFP - French Culture Minister Frederic Mitterrand said Thursday he would not resign over his autobiographical novel that describes paying Asian boys for sex and denied having ever engaged in paedophile acts.

Novartis buys rights to next-generation antibiotic (AP)

Posted: 08 Oct 2009 01:50 PM PDT

AP - Novartis AG said Thursday it has bought worldwide rights to a new antibiotic drug developed by U.S. company Paratek Pharmaceuticals to treat drug-resistant bacteria such as MRSA.

Cameron makes pitch for power (AFP)

Posted: 08 Oct 2009 01:39 PM PDT

Leader of the Conservative Party David Cameron and his wife Samantha are seen at the end of his speech on the final day of the Conservative Party Conference in Manchester. Cameron has declared himself ready to take power, in a rousing address to his Conservatives' last annual conference before elections he is tipped to win.(AFP/Paul Ellis)AFP - Opposition leader David Cameron declared himself ready to take power Thursday, in a rousing address to his Conservatives' last annual conference before elections he is tipped to win.

French culture minister denies paying boys for sex (AP)

Posted: 08 Oct 2009 01:01 PM PDT

FILE - In this Sept. 15 2009, file photo, France's Minister of Culture Frederic Mitterrand attends the question Government session at the National Assembly in Paris. Criticism is mounting against French Culture Minister Frederic Mitterrand over an autobiographical book in which he describes paying boys for sex in Thailand. (AP Photo/Francois Mori, File)AP - France's culture minister denied Thursday paying boys for sex, in an impassioned response to critics on the right and left demanding that he resign over a candid book recounting encounters with male prostitutes in Thailand.

French minister clings to post in sex tourism furor (Reuters)

Posted: 08 Oct 2009 12:38 PM PDT

Reuters - French Culture Minister Frederic Mitterrand on Thursday rejected calls for his resignation for having written about paying boys for sex in Thailand, saying his partners had been consenting adults.

Italy's Berlusconi vows to stay, tension worrying (Reuters)

Posted: 08 Oct 2009 12:25 PM PDT

Italy's Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi looks on during a meeting with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas at Chigi palace in Rome Octobet 7, 2009. REUTERS/Tony GentileReuters - A combative Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi vowed on Thursday to govern with "even more grit" after Italy's top court lifted his immunity from prosecution and he dismissed corruption charges against him as "laughable."

Russian court hears Stalin's grandson's libel case (AP)

Posted: 08 Oct 2009 12:23 PM PDT

FILE - In this March 3, 1999 file photo, grandson of the late Soviet dictator Josef Stalin, Yevgeny Dzhugashvili, wearing a 'USSR' lapel pin, is photographed during an interview in Moscow. A Moscow court began hearings Thursday in a libel suit brought by Stalin's grandson against a Russian newspaper that he claims called into question the Soviet dictator's honor and dignity. The grandson, Yevgeny Dzhugashvili, is demanding 10 million rubles (US$340,000) compensation from the independent newspaper Novaya Gazeta. He contests its claims in an April 22 article that Josef Stalin personally signed execution orders for thousands of Soviet and foreign citizens. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, File)AP - A Moscow court began hearings Thursday in a libel suit brought by Stalin's grandson against a Russian newspaper that he claims called into question the Soviet dictator's honor and dignity.

'Miracle' Hawaiian: Damien's already a saint (AP)

Posted: 08 Oct 2009 10:37 AM PDT

AP - The Hawaiian woman whose recovery from lung cancer was called miraculous says the Belgian-born priest she prayed to is already a saint, even before the pope canonizes him Sunday.

Swedes deny owning Pirate Bay in Dutch court (AP)

Posted: 08 Oct 2009 10:32 AM PDT

AP - Lawyers for three Swedish men denied in Dutch civil court Thursday that the men are the owners of The Pirate Bay web site.

Herta Mueller wins 2009 Nobel literature prize (AP)

Posted: 08 Oct 2009 10:20 AM PDT

FILE -- This is a Sunday May 16, 2004 file picture of Romanian-born German writer Herta Mueller. Mueller has the won the 2009 Nobel Prize in literature. The Swedish Academy, which has picked the winner annually since 1901, said Thursday, Oct. 8, 2009, that Mueller 'who with the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose, depicts the landscape of the dispossessed.' The prize includes a 10 million kronor (US$1.4 million) prize and will be handed out Dec. 10 in the Swedish capital. (AP Photo/Jens Meyer/file)AP - Herta Mueller, a little-known Romanian-born author who was persecuted for her critical depictions of life behind the Iron Curtain, won the 2009 Nobel Prize in literature Thursday in an award seen as a nod to the 20th anniversary of communism's collapse.

UK postal workers vote for national strike (AP)

Posted: 08 Oct 2009 09:47 AM PDT

AP - Workers for Britain's Royal Mail approved a nationwide strike Thursday after months of rolling regional strikes over pay and job security that have caused a massive backlog of undelivered letters and packages.

Ukraine holds naval exercises in Crimea (AP)

Posted: 08 Oct 2009 09:34 AM PDT

AP - Ukraine sent hundreds of troops, five ships and 15 aircraft into the Black Sea region Thursday for day-long military drills off its Crimean peninsula, a potential flashpoint with Russia.

Admitted Nazi hit man trial to begin this month (AP)

Posted: 08 Oct 2009 09:32 AM PDT

FILE - In this 2003 file photo, Heinrich Boere, seen in front of his house, in Eschweiler, Germany. Germany's highest court said Thursday Oct. 8, 2009, it had declined to hear the appeal of admitted Nazi hit man Heinrich Boere, clearing the way for his trial later this month for the execution-style killings of three Dutch civilians during World War II. (AP Photo/ Eric Brinkhorst, File)AP - Germany's highest court said Thursday it has declined to hear the appeal of admitted Nazi hit man Heinrich Boere, clearing the way for his trial later this month for the execution-style killings of three Dutch civilians during World War II.

Demjanjuk attorney will appeal case to high court (AP)

Posted: 08 Oct 2009 09:19 AM PDT

AP - John Demjanjuk's attorney says he plans to ask Germany's high court to block his trial on charges of being an accessory to the murder of thousands at a Nazi death camp.

Italian Lamborghini cop car on display in Holland (AP)

Posted: 08 Oct 2009 08:33 AM PDT

Two officers of Italian police, left and right, and their Swiss colleague pose near a Lamborghini Gallardo of Italian traffic police 'Polizia stradale', which is told to be the world's fastest police car, at a highway rest area in Bellinzona, southern Switzerland, Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2009. The Lamborghini will be presented at an international police meeting in the Netherlands. (AP Photo/Keystone/Karl Mathis)AP - The Dutch are about to learn how Italian police catch speeders.

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