2009年11月12日星期四

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Yahoo! News: Europe News

Tallest man unveils largest cookie in Norway (AP)

Posted: 12 Nov 2009 05:19 PM PST

Sultan Kösen, the world's tallest man, unveils the world's largest gingerbread man at an Ikea store in Oslo, Thursday, Nov. 12 2009. The Swedish furniture chain's Oslo outlet says 8-foot-1-inch tall Sultan Koesen of Turkey presented the cookie that weighs 1,435 pounds (651 kilograms). It was baked in the traditional gingerbread man shape by a local bakery and beat the previous 2006 world cookie record of 1,307 pounds (593 kilograms) set in Smithville, Texas. (AP Photo / Morten Holm / Scanpix)AP - The world's tallest living man has unveiled the world's largest gingerbread man at an Ikea outlet in Norway's capital, Oslo. Guinness Book of World Records spokeswoman Justine Bourdariat says 8-foot-1-inch tall Sultan Koesen of Turkey displayed the 1,435-pound (651-kilogram) biscuit. Baked locally in the traditional gingerbread-man shape, it beat the previous gingerbread cookie record of 1,307 pounds set in 2006 in Smithville, Texas.

UK man breaks record for pulling bus with hair (AP)

Posted: 12 Nov 2009 05:19 PM PST

Manjit Singh poses for the cameras, after pulling a double decker London bus for some 21.2 meters by his hair, to set a new Guinness world record in London, Thursday, Nov. 12, 2009. The event was part of an estimated 200,000 people around the world who will come together and attempt a wide range of records in celebration of the fifth annual Guinness World Records Day. The global event will attract record breakers from every continent who strive to make their mark in the famous book.(AP Photo/Alastair Grant)AP - A British man broke the world record for pulling a double-decker bus with his hair. Manjit Singh broke the Guinness World Record on Thursday by pulling the bus weighing 8.5 British tons for 21.2 meters (69.55 feet) across Battersea Park in London with ribbons attached to his hair.

Munch artwork stolen from Oslo art dealership (AP)

Posted: 12 Nov 2009 04:43 PM PST

AP - Police say thieves stole a valuable artwork by Norwegian painter Edvard Munch from an Oslo art dealer.

Iberia, British Airways agree basis for merger (AP)

Posted: 12 Nov 2009 04:40 PM PST

Iberia planes are seen at Barajas airport in Madrid, Thursday, Nov. 12, 2009. British Airways PLC and Spanish airline Iberia SA have announced that they have reached an agreement for a planned merger between the two companies. (AP Photo/Victor R. Caivano)AP - Iberia and British Airways have approved an agreement establishing the basis for a merger, the Spanish carrier said late Thursday.

Blair to face Iraq war inquiry (AFP)

Posted: 12 Nov 2009 04:21 PM PST

Former prime minister Tony Blair, pictured in October 2009, is to be called to give evidence to an inquiry into the Iraq war, officials announced Friday, six years after he controversially backed the US-led invasion.(AFP/Pool/File/Chris Jackson)AFP - Former prime minister Tony Blair is to be called to give evidence to an inquiry into the Iraq war, officials announced Friday, six years after he controversially backed the US-led invasion.

British ex-PM Blair faces Iraq inquiry next year (Reuters)

Posted: 12 Nov 2009 04:03 PM PST

Reuters - Former Prime Minister Tony Blair will face questioning next year about Britain's entry into the Iraq war from a committee which has heard the decision was illegal and based on deception, its chairman said on Friday.

Tony Blair to give public evidence on Iraq war (AP)

Posted: 12 Nov 2009 04:01 PM PST

AP - Former Prime Minister Tony Blair will be publicly questioned about the Iraq war during Britain's long-awaited inquiry into mistakes made before and during the conflict, the inquiry chairman said Friday.

Diary that helped expose Stalin's famine displayed (AP)

Posted: 12 Nov 2009 04:01 PM PST

In this photo released by Cambridge University is an extract from a 1933 diary by Gareth Jones, who was a student at Trinity College, Cambridge, in the late 1920's. The diaries of a British reporter who risked his reputation to expose the horrors of Stalin's murderous famine in Ukraine are to go on display on Friday Nov. 13 2009. Welsh journalist Gareth Jones snuck into Ukraine in March of 1933, at the height of an artificial famine engineered by Soviet dictator Josef Stalin. Millions were starving to death as the Soviet secret police emptied the countryside of grain and livestock, and Jones' reporting was one of first attempts to bring the disaster to the world's attention. Part of the text reads: 'In the Ukraine. A little later. I crossed the border from Great Russia into the Ukraine. Everywhere I talked to peasants who walked past – they all had the same story; AP - The diaries of a British reporter who risked his reputation to expose the horrors of Stalin's murderous famine in Ukraine are to go on display on Friday.

British Airways, Iberia approve merger agreement (AFP)

Posted: 12 Nov 2009 03:57 PM PST

Planes of Spain's national carrier Iberia at Barajas airport in Madrid. British Airways and Iberia of Spain approved Thursday a memorandum of understanding on a planned merger that would create a European aviation giant, the airlines said in a statement.(AFP/File/Dominique Faget)AFP - British Airways and Iberia of Spain approved Thursday a preliminary agreement on a planned merger that would create a European aviation giant, the airlines said.

The hour may be at hand for Russia's 11 time zones (AP)

Posted: 12 Nov 2009 03:11 PM PST

A vendor adjusts a display with TV sets broadcasting Russian President Dmitry Medvedev's address to the nation at a Moscow shop on Thursday, Nov. 12, 2009. Russia needs to shed its dependence on exports of raw materials and build a new high-tech economy to survive, said Medvedev Thursday. (AP Photo/Misha Japaridze)AP - Russia has 11 time zones across its vast territory — and its leaders believe that's just too many hours in the day.

Facebook, Wikipedia execs brief Vatican on Web (AP)

Posted: 12 Nov 2009 02:53 PM PST

AP - Vatican officials and Catholic bishops are getting a lesson on the Internet from Facebook, Wikipedia and Google executives as the church struggles to get its message out in the digital age.

As Obama ponders Afghanistan, so does Europe (AP)

Posted: 12 Nov 2009 12:44 PM PST

NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen from Denmark gives a television interview as he leaves 10 Downing Street in London after meeting with Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown, not pictured, Thursday, Nov. 12, 2009. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)AP - President Barack Obama's delay in deciding U.S. troop levels in Afghanistan has found an echo chamber in Europe, where coalition leaders in NATO are weighing whether to send more help or bow to public demands for a speedy exit.

Norway: Kidnapped journalist freed in Afghanistan (AP)

Posted: 12 Nov 2009 11:54 AM PST

A 1998 photo, made available Thursday Nov, 12 2009, of Norwegian freelance reporter Paal Refsdal, who was kidnapped together with his Afghan interpreter on Thursday Nov. 5 and has now been released, the Norwegian Foreign Department reported Thursday Nov 12. Refsdal was in Afghanistan on an assignment for an independent Norwegian production company. (AP Photo / Morten Holm, SCANPIX, file )AP - A Norwegian freelance journalist kidnapped a week ago in eastern Afghanistan has been released along with his Afghan interpreter, the Foreign Ministry said Thursday.

Denmark invites 191 leaders to UN climate talks (AP)

Posted: 12 Nov 2009 10:38 AM PST

AP - Denmark's premier sent invitations Thursday asking 191 world leaders to attend next month's U.N. climate conference in Copenhagen, saying their presence was "pivotal" to its success.

APNewsBreak: Diplomats: Iran nuke plant 7 yrs old (AP)

Posted: 12 Nov 2009 10:05 AM PST

The New York City skyline is seen in October 2009. US federal prosecutors said Thursday they were moving to seize four mosques and a 36-story New York skyscraper from a non-profit Muslim group suspected of having ties to the Iranian government.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Spencer Platt)AP - Iran's recently revealed uranium enrichment hall is a highly fortified underground space that appears too small to house a civilian nuclear program, but large enough to serve for military activities, diplomats told The Associated Press on Thursday.

Serbian hearings in attack on NY student to start (AP)

Posted: 12 Nov 2009 09:46 AM PST

AP - Pretrial hearings in the case of a Serb accused of beating a fellow student into a coma in the United States will begin in December, a Serbian court said Thursday.

Italy: 17 Algerians arrested in terrorism probe (AP)

Posted: 12 Nov 2009 09:45 AM PST

AP - Italy's top security official said Thursday that authorities have smashed an international terror cell with the arrest in Italy and elsewhere in Europe of 17 Algerians who were raising money to finance terrorism.

Sarkozy: No place for burqas in France (AP)

Posted: 12 Nov 2009 08:57 AM PST

AP - French President Nicolas Sarkozy says there is no place for full face and body veils such as the burqa, or for the debasement of women, in France.

Space station gets new research module (AP)

Posted: 12 Nov 2009 08:50 AM PST

AP - A cargo ship has delivered a Russian research module to the International Space Station.

UN food summit to back new strategy against hunger (AP)

Posted: 12 Nov 2009 08:17 AM PST

AP - A draft declaration for next week's U.N. food summit would commit world leaders to a new hunger-fighting strategy by pledging to increase agricultural development aid to help the world's 1 billion hungry people feed themselves.

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