2009年12月5日星期六

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Yahoo! News: Europe News

Celtic face sobering festive period, says Hinkel (AFP)

Posted: 05 Dec 2009 04:56 PM PST

Celtic's Georgios Samaras (R) celebrates scotring during a December 2 match at Celtic Park, in Glasgow. A goal from Scott McDonald and a Samaras double sealed a 3-0 win for Celtic over ten-man Aberdeen and kept the Glasgow giants top of the Scottish Premier League on Saturday.(AFP/File/Derek Blair)AFP - Andreas Hinkel said the next month could be vital to Celtic's title challenge after he helped his side back to the top of the Scottish Premier League with a 3-0 win over 10-man Aberdeen on Saturday.

Europeans shy away from Google Android phones (Reuters)

Posted: 05 Dec 2009 04:49 PM PST

The new Droid phone, a Motorola Inc. and Verizon Wireless phone based on Google Inc's Android 2.0 system, is shown at a media event in New York October 28, 2009. REUTERS/Brendan McDermidReuters - Operators pushed market share of cellphones running Google's software a little higher in September quarter in Western Europe, but consumers showed little interest toward them, research firm IDC said on Saturday.

Stuck in crisis, Romanians vote for president (Reuters)

Posted: 05 Dec 2009 04:19 PM PST

People walk past an election poster of presidential candidate Mircea Geoana, head of Romania's Social Democrats, in downtown Bucharest December 5, 2009. REUTERS/Radu SighetiReuters - Romanians vote for a president on Sunday in a ballot expected to unseat incumbent Traian Basescu in favor of a leftist who says he will end a political crisis that has put an IMF-led rescue package at risk.

Austrian news agency: Artist Hrdlicka dead (AP)

Posted: 05 Dec 2009 04:13 PM PST

FILE - In this Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2008 file photo, Austrian artist Alfred Hrdlicka smiles during a reception on the occasion of his 80th birthday, at a gallery in Vienna. Austrian artist Alfred Hrdlicka, whose controversial works in metal, paint and pencil alienated as much as attracted the public died Saturday, Austrian media reported. He was 81. (AP Photo/Lilli Strauss, File)AP - Austrian artist Alfred Hrdlicka, whose controversial works in metal, paint and pencil alienated as much as attracted the public died Saturday, Austrian media reported. He was 81.

Knox upset, tired; gets family visit in prison (AP)

Posted: 05 Dec 2009 04:04 PM PST

U.S. murder suspect Amanda Knox is accompanied by a penitentiary police officer prior to a final hearing before the verdict, at the court in Perugia, Italy, Friday, Dec. 4, 2009. An Italian jury has begun deliberations in the yearlong trial of American student Knox, who is charged with murdering her British roommate Meredith Kercher in 2007 with her former boyfriend Italian murder suspect Raffaele Sollecito. A verdict is expected later Friday. (AP Photo/Pier Paolo Cito)AP - Amanda Knox sought comfort from visiting family members Saturday on her first day in prison since being convicted of murdering her British roommate.

Lax codes cited in Russia blaze that killed 107 (AP)

Posted: 05 Dec 2009 04:00 PM PST

People lay flowers outside the Lame Horse nightclub where a fire broke late Friday, in Perm, about 700 miles (1,200 kilometers) east of Moscow, Saturday, Dec. 5, 2009. Authorities said more than 100 people died and over a hundred injured. The fire tore through the popular Lame Horse nightclub in Perm late Friday, after fireworks set a suspended plastic ceiling ablaze, filling the crowded club with thick black smoke. (AP Photo/Misha Japaridze)AP - President Dmitry Medvedev on Saturday demanded that Russia tighten its notoriously lax fire codes after the deadliest blaze since the Soviet era killed at least 107 people celebrating in a nightclub with a decorative twig ceiling and single exit.

Khan stops Salita to defend light-welter crown (AFP)

Posted: 05 Dec 2009 03:39 PM PST

British boxer Amir Khan celebrates beating Dmitriy Salita of US with a first round stoppage during their WBA light-welterweight, world title boxing match at Metro Radio Arena, in Newcastle upon Tyne.(AFP/Graham Stuart)AFP - Amir Khan defeated Dmitriy Salita in just 76 seconds to retain his World Boxing Association (WBA) light-welterweight title here at the Metro Radio Arena on Saturday.

Manchester City sink Chelsea in Premier League (AFP)

Posted: 05 Dec 2009 02:06 PM PST

Wolverhampton climbed off the bottom of the Premier League with a 2-1 win over Bolton at Molineux on Saturday. Mick McCarthy's side had slipped into 20th place after Portsmouth's victory against Burnley in Saturday's early game, but goals from Jody Craddock, pictured in action in November 2009, and Nenad Milijas ensured they didn't stay there for long.(AFP/File)AFP - Carlos Tevez did his old side Manchester United a favour by scoring the winner as Manchester City beat leaders Chelsea 2-1 in the English Premier League on Saturday.

German development minister against transactions tax (AFP)

Posted: 05 Dec 2009 01:20 PM PST

Germany's new development minister Dirk Neivel, pictured in May 2009, said Saturday he opposed taxing financial transactions, putting him at odds with support for such a levy expressed earlier this year by Chancellor Angela Merkel.(AFP/DDP/File/David Hecker)AFP - Germany's new development minister said Saturday he opposed taxing financial transactions, putting him at odds with support for such a levy expressed earlier this year by Chancellor Angela Merkel.

Italian police arrest Mafia number two in Sicily (AFP)

Posted: 05 Dec 2009 01:08 PM PST

Policemen stand guard in November 2009. Italian police arrested two Mafia leaders on Saturday, Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said, a day after he was accused of links to the organisation.(AFP/File/Marcello Paternostro)AFP - Italian police arrested two Mafia leaders on Saturday, Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said, a day after he was accused of links to the organisation.

Climate drama climax looks elusive in Copenhagen (AP)

Posted: 05 Dec 2009 12:41 PM PST

Preparations take place at the Bella Convention Centre, Saturday Dec. 5, 2009, in Copenhagen for the UN climate summit, COP15, due to start here Monday Dec. 7. (AP Photo/Jens Panduro/POLFOTO)AP - For 20 years, as this crowded planet grew warmer, nations have gathered annually to try to do something about it. History now brings them to this chilly northern capital, and to a crossroads.

Italy: Mafia's No. 2 nabbed in Sicily (AP)

Posted: 05 Dec 2009 11:27 AM PST

A man described as Cosa Nostra's No. 2 fugitive boss, identified as Giovanni Nicchi, is held by Italian police officers after his arrest in Palermo, Sicily, southern Italy, Saturday Dec. 5, 2009. Italian Interior Minister Roberto Maroni described convicted Nicchi as a 'young, dangerous, ambitious, pitiless killer.' Police found the 28-year-old Mafioso, hiding Saturday in an apartment in Palermo. News reports say he tried to flee. (AP Photo/Alessandro Fucarini)AP - Police captured Cosa Nostra's No. 2 in a raid in Sicily and nabbed another Mafia fugitive strolling down a Milan street Saturday, as authorities crossed more names off the nation's most wanted list, Italy's interior minister said.

Italians fed up with Berlusconi rally in Rome (AP)

Posted: 05 Dec 2009 11:03 AM PST

An effigy of Italian premier Silvio Berlusconi with a sign saying 'I sell pots and pans, not fit, unable, to run the government,' is seen in downtown Rome, Saturday, Dec. 5, 2009, at a 'No Berlusconi-Day' rally asking for Berlusconi's resignation. Organizers called Saturday afternoon's grass-roots protest 'No B Day'' with the 'B'' standing for Berlusconi, the billionaire businessman and conservative leader now in his third term. (AP Photo/Riccado De Luca)AP - Tens of thousands of Italians fed up with Silvio Berlusconi marched peacefully through Rome on Saturday to demand the resignation of the scandal-plagued premier.

Irish Catholic chief, pope to discuss abuse report (AP)

Posted: 05 Dec 2009 10:49 AM PST

AP - The head of the Roman Catholic Church in Ireland says he will meet Pope Benedict XVI next week to discuss a devastating report that found the church covered up clerical child abuse for decades.

Climate change protesters take to London streets (AP)

Posted: 05 Dec 2009 10:19 AM PST

Climate change protestors gather around the Houses of Parliament in central London calling for action on climate change ahead of next week's climate change conference in Copenhagen Saturday Dec. 5, 2009. The marchers are calling for a deal in Copenhagen to prevent dangerous climate change and organizers say more than 10,000 people could participate on Saturday. (AP Photo/Johnny Green/PA Wire)AP - Thousands of people calling for a deal on climate change at next week's United Nations conference in Copenhagen marched through central London on Saturday, encircling the Houses of Parliament in a human wave of blue-clad demonstrators.

(AP)

Posted: 05 Dec 2009 07:38 AM PST

AP - Italian police: $150 million in stashed art masterpieces seized from former dairy mogul

Key dates in the story of a warming planet (AP)

Posted: 05 Dec 2009 07:02 AM PST

AP - 1750 — Before Industrial Revolution, atmosphere holds 280 parts per million of heat-trapping carbon dioxide (CO2).

A little background on Copenhagen talks (AP)

Posted: 05 Dec 2009 07:00 AM PST

AP - Some 15,000 delegates, environmentalists, scientists, journalists and others gather in Copenhagen, Denmark, on Monday to begin two weeks of negotiations on what to do about climate change. Here's a look at what's happening there:

"Climate Express" to Copenhagen lowers footprint (AP)

Posted: 05 Dec 2009 04:42 AM PST

A man runs on the platform as he arrives late to board the Climate Express train at Brussels South station, Saturday, Dec. 5, 2009. More than 400 climate change negotiators, business leaders and environmental activists travel together on board the Climate Express train to Copenhagen in a call for world leaders to agree a fair, ambitious and binding deal to address climate change when they meet at the UN climate summit in Denmark.(AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert)AP - A train splashed with a green stripe carried 450 U.N. officials, delegates, climate activists and journalists from Brussels to the climate summit in Copenhagen on Saturday to symbolize efforts to reduce the convention's carbon footprint.

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