2009年10月28日星期三

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Yahoo! News: Europe News

Rampant Chelsea thrash Bolton to reach quarter-finals (AFP)

Posted: 28 Oct 2009 03:06 PM PDT

Chelsea's Ivory Coast footballer Didier Drogba celebrates after scoring a goal against Bolton Wanderers during a Carling Cup Fourth Round match at Stamford Bridge in London. Chelsea won 4-0.(AFP/Ian Kington)AFP - Carlo Ancelotti remains on course for his first Wembley appearance after Chelsea reached the League Cup quarter-finals with a 4-0 demolition of Bolton on Wednesday.

Santa Cruz helps City into League Cup last eight (AFP)

Posted: 28 Oct 2009 03:03 PM PDT

Manchester City's Paraguayan forward Roque Santa Cruz (up) vies with Scunthorpe United's English defender Niall Canavan during the Carling Cup fourth round football match at The City of Manchester stadium. City won 5-1.(AFP/Andrew Yates)AFP - Roque Santa Cruz helped Manchester City storm into the League Cup quarter-finals as the Paraguay striker scored his first goal for the club in Wednesday's 5-1 victory over Scunthorpe.

Arsenal's young guns see off Liverpool (AFP)

Posted: 28 Oct 2009 02:58 PM PDT

Arsenal's Fran Merida (L) celebrates with teammates Craig Eastmond (R) and midfielder Samir Nasri (C) celebrate after Meridas goal during their Carling Cup fourth round match against Liverpool at home to Arsenal at the Emirates football stadium. Arsenal won 2-1.(AFP/Carl de Souza)AFP - Arsenal's youngsters secured the most eye-catching scalp of their recent League Cup campaigns with a 2-1 victory over Liverpool in the fourth round on Wednesday.

Zimbabwe: UN torture investigator stopped (AP)

Posted: 28 Oct 2009 02:36 PM PDT

AP - The United Nations' torture investigator said Wednesday he was stopped by immigration authorities as he tried to enter Zimbabwe in defiance of officials who rescinded his invitation.

French-language love letter found on UK coast (AP)

Posted: 28 Oct 2009 02:22 PM PDT

AP - A mysterious missive apparently written by a French-speaking woman to her married lover has washed onto a British beach and into the imagination of the U.K. media.

UK cemetery: Share a grave with a stranger? (AP)

Posted: 28 Oct 2009 01:32 PM PDT

This is an image taken Monday, Oct. 26, 2009 fallen gravestones are seen at the City of London Cemetery & Crematorium in east London. Think London is crowded with the living? Consider the armies of the dead. There are almost 8 million people in the British capital and many millions more under the soil of a city that has been inhabited for 2,000 years. And London is rapidly running out of places to put them. (AP Photo/Sang Tan)AP - So you think London, population 8 million, is crowded with the living?

Shaw could be fit for Pumas says Wasps boss (AFP)

Posted: 28 Oct 2009 12:36 PM PDT

English lock Simon Shaw, seen here in May 2009 and whop was omitted from the England Test squad announced on Monday following a foot injury sustained during the British and Irish Lions tour of South Africa, could be fit to face Argentina on November 14.(AFP/File/Alexander Joe)AFP - Injury-hit England received some encouraging fitness news on Wednesday with Simon Shaw's coach at club side Wasps predicting the second row could be fit to face Argentina on November 14.

Muhammad cartoonist defiant in face of threats (AP)

Posted: 28 Oct 2009 12:06 PM PDT

Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard, sits in the offices of Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten in Aarhus, Denmark, Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2009. Two Chicago men are charged with plotting terrorist attacks against overseas targets, including at the Danish newspaper that sparked outrage throughout the Muslim world by publishing cartoons by the cartoonist depicting the prophet Mohammed in 2005, prosecutors announced Tuesday. David Coleman Headley, 49, and Tahawwur Hussain Rana, 48, were charged in separate complaints filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Chicago. (AP Photo/Polfoto,)AP - A few pen strokes thrust Kurt Westergaard into the midst of an international crisis, exposing him to death threats and an alleged assassination plot.

UK threatens Web access block in piracy fight (Reuters)

Posted: 28 Oct 2009 12:03 PM PDT

Reuters - Britain is to push ahead with a law to clamp down on illegal file sharing, that would start with a series of warning letters and could result in repeat offenders losing their Internet connection.

UK report: Plane crash deaths were preventable (AP)

Posted: 28 Oct 2009 10:53 AM PDT

AP - Cutbacks on safety checks led to the deaths of 14 British service members when a spy plane exploded in Afghanistan, a sharply critical report concluded Wednesday.

Merkel sworn in as German chancellor (AP)

Posted: 28 Oct 2009 10:51 AM PDT

New German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle, left, new Defense Minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg and German Chancellor Angela Merkel, right, gesture in front of their chairs at the parliament in Berlin, Germany, Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2009. A coalition of Christian Democrats and Free Democrats elected Angela Merkel as German chancellor earlier the day. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein)AP - Angela Merkel was sworn in Wednesday for a second term as German chancellor and her new center-right government took up the task of tackling the country's tough economic situation a month after national elections.

Files reveal IRA targeted Buckingham Palace (AP)

Posted: 28 Oct 2009 10:48 AM PDT

AP - Irish Republican Army terrorists identified Buckingham Palace and other London landmarks as possible targets in a 1970s bombing campaign, newly disclosed documents revealed Wednesday.

US Sen. McCain's mother leaves Portuguese hospital (AP)

Posted: 28 Oct 2009 08:43 AM PDT

AP - A Lisbon hospital says it has discharged the 97-year-old mother of U.S. Senator John McCain after a weeklong stay following a fall.

Bosnian president angry over war criminal release (AP)

Posted: 28 Oct 2009 06:58 AM PDT

Former Bosnian Serb President Biljana Plavsic reacts with Bosnian Serb Prime Minister Milorad Dodik, not seen, after arriving in Belgrade, Serbia, Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2009. Plavsic arrived in Belgrade Tuesday following her release from a Swedish prison after serving two-thirds of her 11-year sentence for war crimes. (AP Photo/Srdjan Ilic)AP - Bosnia's top official canceled a diplomatic visit to Sweden on Wednesday, angry that the Swedish government chose to grant Bosnian Serb war criminal Biljana Plavsic an early release from jail.

Halloween etiquette: Trick-or-treat but be polite (AP)

Posted: 28 Oct 2009 06:55 AM PDT

Hudson, a two-year-old Polar Bear devours a pumpkin at the Chicago Zoological Society's Brookfield Zoo in Brookfield, Ill. on Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2009. With Halloween nearing, several of the animals, including lions, tigers, polar bears, brown bears, and gorillas were given pumpkins to enjoy and play with as part of the zoo-wide behavioral enrichment program. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)AP - Trick-or-treaters beware: Manners count — even on Halloween.

Nazi hit man goes on trial in Germany (AP)

Posted: 28 Oct 2009 06:47 AM PDT

AP - Confessed Nazi hitman Heinrich Boere went on trial Wednesday in the western city of Aachen, charged with the 1944 murders of three Dutch civilians in reprisal for partisan attacks.

Russian space chief proposes nuclear spaceship (AP)

Posted: 28 Oct 2009 06:27 AM PDT

AP - Russia's space agency chief is proposing to build a new spaceship with a nuclear engine.

Lutheran Church elects 1st female leader (AP)

Posted: 28 Oct 2009 05:52 AM PDT

A divorced woman once described as AP - Germany's Lutheran Church has elected a woman to lead the nation's Protestants for the first time in its history.

UN climate chief doubts full treaty this year (AP)

Posted: 28 Oct 2009 05:01 AM PDT

A cartoon speech bubble reading 'Berlusconi don't be stupid, save the climate' is placed by a Greenpeace activist close to the statue of Roman emperor Augustus during a protest in central Rome aimed to draw the Italian government's attention to the United Nations Climate Change Conference to be held in Copenhagen in December, Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2009. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)AP - The U.N. climate change chief says reaching a final global warming treaty will be impossible this year, but that the principles of that accord must be determined at a conference in December.

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