2009年12月18日星期五

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Yahoo! News: Europe News

Thieves steal Auschwitz 'Work Sets You Free' sign (AP)

Posted: 18 Dec 2009 06:13 PM PST

This two photo combination shows above: a Polish Police handout showing the entrance to the former Nazi death camp Auschwitz Birkenau, without the Nazi infamous iron sign inscription declaring 'Arbeit Macht Frei', German translated to 'Work Sets You Free', which was stolen from the entrance of the former Auschwitz death camp, Polish police said, in Oswiecim, southern Poland, Friday, Dec. 18, 2009. The photo below shows an exact replica of the sign, produced when the original received restoration work years ago, which was quickly hung in its place, Friday Dec. 18, 2009. (AP Photo)AP - Thieves stole the notorious sign bearing the cynical Nazi slogan "Work Sets You Free" from the entrance to the former Auschwitz death camp on Friday, cutting through rows of barbed wire and metal bars before making their escape through the snow.

Three Eurostar trains stuck in Channel Tunnel (AFP)

Posted: 18 Dec 2009 05:38 PM PST

A Eurostar train is pictured travelling through the Kent countryside in south-east England, on its way to London. Three Eurostar passenger trains are reportedly stuck in the rail tunnel between Britain and continental Europe as they broke down due to the cold weather snap affecting the region.(AFP/File/Carl de Souza)AFP - Three Eurostar passenger trains were stuck in the rail tunnel between Britain and continental Europe, a spokesman for the operator said Saturday.

Fifty Serbian citizens leave on first visa-free EU visit (AFP)

Posted: 18 Dec 2009 04:34 PM PST

A Serbian Kosovan policeman checks the IDs of Serbs as French policemen (background) from the European Union Rule of Law Mission in Kosovo (EULEX) stand guard at Jerinje checkpoint on the border with Serbia in northern Kosovo in 2008. A group of 50 Serbian nationals left for a first visa-free visit to several European Union countries in a trip sponsored by the Serbian government.(AFP/File/Laura Boushnak)AFP - A group of 50 Serbian nationals left for a first visa-free visit to several European Union countries in a trip sponsored by the Serbian government to symbolically mark the abolition of travel restrictions on the citizens of this Balkan republic after more than 18 years.

Wales' Gareth Thomas comes out as gay (AFP)

Posted: 18 Dec 2009 04:11 PM PST

Gareth Thomas (C) and teamate react after the rugby union World Cup group B match Wales vs. Fiji in 2007. Thomas has announced that he is gay in an interview in Saturday's Daily Mail newspaper.(AFP/File/Patrick Kovarik)AFP - Wales rugby union legend Gareth Thomas has announced that he is gay in an interview in Saturday's Daily Mail newspaper.

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Posted: 18 Dec 2009 03:40 PM PST

AP - German Chancellor Merkel: I view Copenhagen outcome 'with mixed feelings' .

Obama says 'unprecedented' deal reached on climate (AP)

Posted: 18 Dec 2009 02:58 PM PST

President Barack Obama speaks at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark, Friday, Dec. 18, 2009. (AP Photo/RIA-Novosti, Mikhail Klimentyev, Presidential Press Service)AP - President Barack Obama declared Friday a "meaningful and unprecedented breakthrough" had been reached among the U.S., China and three other countries on a global effort to curb climate change but said much work was still be needed to reach a legally binding treaty.

Phelps leads US swimming world record spree (AFP)

Posted: 18 Dec 2009 02:48 PM PST

US swimmer Michael Phelps swims in the mens 4 x 100m medley relay during the first day of the AFP - Olympics superstar Michael Phelps marked his competitive British bow by helping the US to a shortcourse world record in the 4x100m medley relay at the Duel in the Pool here on Friday.

1,100 jobs go as British bookshop Borders folds (AFP)

Posted: 18 Dec 2009 01:11 PM PST

General view of a Borders book store in central London. Around 1,100 staff at British bookshop chain Borders will lose their jobs next week, administrators said Friday after they failed to find a buyer for the struggling business.(AFP/File/Leon Neal)AFP - Around 1,100 staff at British bookshop chain Borders will lose their jobs next week, administrators said Friday after they failed to find a buyer for the struggling business.

Google fined $14,300 a day in France over books (AP)

Posted: 18 Dec 2009 12:56 PM PST

FILE - In this May 30, 2007 file photo, a Google sign inside Google headquarters is seen in Mountain View, Calif. A Paris court has convicted Google Inc. Friday, Dec. 18, 2009, in a copyright infringement case over online publication of French books.(AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, file)AP - A Paris court ruled Friday that Google Inc.'s expansion into digital books breaks France's copyright laws, and a judge slapped the Internet search leader with a euro10,000-a-day fine until it stops showing literary snippets.

Russia says arms deal with US could be near (AP)

Posted: 18 Dec 2009 07:02 AM PST

AP - Russian and American negotiators could reach a new nuclear arms-control deal within the next few hours, a Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman said Friday, but U.S. officials downplayed prospects for such rapid progress.

'Pink Panther' jewel thieves sentenced in Serbia (AP)

Posted: 18 Dec 2009 07:02 AM PST

AP - Three Serb members of the infamous "Pink Panther" ring of thieves were convicted Friday of Japan's biggest-ever jewel heist, which nabbed treasures including a $27-million (euro19-million) diamond necklace.

Spain's Catalans mull bill to ban bullfighting (AP)

Posted: 18 Dec 2009 06:37 AM PST

AP - A bill to ban bullfighting in the Spanish region of Catalonia cleared its first hurdle Friday as legislators mulled a measure to reject a cultural pillar of traditional Spain.

Atom smasher takes a break (AP)

Posted: 18 Dec 2009 06:24 AM PST

A view of a superconducting solenoid magnet at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) near Geneva. CERN said the world's biggest atom-smasher has set a world record by accelerating to energy levels that had never been previously reached.(AFP/File/Fabrice Coffrini)AP - Operators of the world's largest atom smasher say they have shut down the machine until February to prepare for an expected groundbreaking research program.

German police: Missing US man fell drunk in river (AP)

Posted: 18 Dec 2009 05:40 AM PST

AP - An American student who disappeared in November most likely fell drunkenly into the city's Main River, Frankfurt police said Friday.

French judge targets Chirac over party jobs scam (AP)

Posted: 18 Dec 2009 05:22 AM PST

FILE - Nov. 17, 2006 file photo of then French President Jacques Chirac in Paris. Chirac's office said Friday Dec. 18, 2009 he has been placed under investigation over allegations that the city of Paris paid for jobs in his political party when he was mayor. (AP Photo/Charles Platiau/Pool/File)AP - A judge filed preliminary charges against former President Jacques Chirac on Friday over allegations that Paris City Hall paid for jobs in his political party when was mayor, part of a financing scandal that has long dogged the man who for decades dominated French politics.

UN: 74,000 Africans crossed Gulf of Aden in 2009 (AP)

Posted: 18 Dec 2009 05:18 AM PST

Africa's frustration at the UN climate summit boiled over Monday as delegates walked out of key talks and continental giant Nigeria warned the negotiations were now on red alert. Sources at the marathon talks said Africa led a five-hour boycott of working groups, with the backing of the Group of 77 developing nations, and only returned after securing guarantees that the summit would not sideline talks about the future of the Kyoto Protocol. The Kyoto Protocol ties rich countries -- but not developing countries -- that have ratified it to legally binding emissions curbs. It also has an important mechanism enabling the transfer of clean-energy technology to poorer nations. Yet it does not include the United States, which says the Protocol is unfair as the binding targets do not apply to developing giants that are already huge emitters of greenhouse gases. Algeria, speaking at a press briefing on behalf of the 53-member African Union, demanded that there should be a special plenary session devoted to Kyoto. AP - The U.N. refugee agency says a record number of Africans fleeing war, droughts and poverty have crossed the Gulf of Aden into Yemen this year.

Spanish dig to find Lorca's remains finds nothing (AP)

Posted: 18 Dec 2009 04:56 AM PST

Members of the media take pictures near a cordoned-off area where Spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca and others are believed to be buried, in Alfacar, near Granada, in this file picture taken October 28, 2009. The barren, rocky hills of southern Spain have failed over months of digging to yield the remains of Lorca, whose 1936 killing became a symbol of a brutal civil war. Now, hope is fading his body will ever be found. Picture taken October 28. To match FEATURE SPAIN-LORCA/ REUTERS/Pepe Marin (SPAIN - Tags: SOCIETY POLITICS)AP - A high-profile dig aimed at locating the body of the poet Federico Garcia Lorca, who was executed at the start of the Spanish Civil War, has yielded nothing, officials said Friday.

Dutch deny Venezuela's claim of US attack plans (AP)

Posted: 18 Dec 2009 04:50 AM PST

AP - The Dutch government denied Friday that it is allowing the United States to use Caribbean islands to prepare a possible military attack against Venezuela as that country's president contends.

Climate talks bog down in last-minute disputes (AP)

Posted: 18 Dec 2009 12:17 AM PST

US President Barack Obama arrives in Air Force one in Copenhagen Airport for the climate conference in Copenhagen, Friday, Dec. 18, 2009. (AP Photo/Jens Dige/POLFOTO)AP - The U.N. climate talks are running into serious problems, just hours before President Barack Obama and other world leaders are scheduled to gather for their climate summit.

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