2009年12月31日星期四

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Yahoo! News: Europe News

Spain takes reins of revamped EU (AFP)

Posted: 31 Dec 2009 04:56 PM PST

Blue lighting and the European flag shine on the Puerta del sol in Madrid to mark the Spanish European Union presidency as people gather to celebrate New Year's Day.(AFP/Dominique Faget)AFP - Spain on Friday assumed the rotating presidency of the European Union, the first under a new leadership structure for the bloc which includes its first full-time president and a new foreign policy supremo.

Gunman kills 5, then self, in Finland (AP)

Posted: 31 Dec 2009 04:55 PM PST

This image made available Thursday Dec. 31, 2009 on the website of Finland's Police shows the suspected gunman in Finland's New Year Eve holiday shooting at a shopping mall in a suburb of the capital Helsinki, Finland, killing at least four. Police identify the gunman as 43-year-old Ibrahim Shkupolli, who apparently killed his ex-wife in a nearby apartment before going on a rampage at the mall. (AP Photo/Finland Police, HO)AP - A lone gunman dressed in black killed five people, including four in a crowded shopping mall, before returning home and taking his own life on Thursday. It was the third such massacre in Finland in about two years, and once again raised questions about gun control in a Nordic country where hunting is popular.

Al-Qaeda threat looms into new decade, warns Brown (AFP)

Posted: 31 Dec 2009 04:08 PM PST

The failed Detroit plane bombing showed that terrorism remains a AFP - The failed Detroit plane bombing showed that terrorism remains a "very real" global threat as the world enters a new decade eight years after 9/11, Prime Minister Gordon Brown warned Friday.

UK reviews security, screening after Detroit attack (Reuters)

Posted: 31 Dec 2009 04:06 PM PST

Reuters - Britain said on Friday it was reviewing airport security and passenger screening procedures after a Nigerian who had studied in Britain was charged over last week's failed plot to bomb a U.S. passenger jet.

UK considers body scanners after airline attack (AP)

Posted: 31 Dec 2009 04:01 PM PST

AP - Britain is considering introducing new technology such as full body scanners to improve airport security after the attempted Christmas Day airline attack, Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Friday.

Got a pet tarantula? Better protect your eyes (Reuters)

Posted: 31 Dec 2009 03:36 PM PST

Reuters - Here's some advice stemming from the unusual case of a man who had spider hairs stuck in his cornea: Be sure to cover your eyes when hanging around with your pet tarantula.

Pet tarantula makes eye contact with owner (AFP)

Posted: 31 Dec 2009 03:35 PM PST

A Tarantula spider is examined by a scientist. Tarantula lovers be warned: if you are going to get up-close-and-personal with your hairy eight-legged friend, do it from the other side of an aquarium pane or wearing a pair of glasses.(AFP/File)AFP - Tarantula lovers be warned: if you are going to get up-close-and-personal with your hairy eight-legged friend, do it from the other side of an aquarium pane or wearing a pair of glasses.

Ex-leader of Irish Catholic Church Daly dies at 92 (AP)

Posted: 31 Dec 2009 02:32 PM PST

AP - Roman Catholic Cardinal Cahal Daly, a philosopher who led the church in Ireland during some of the worst years of IRA violence, has died at the age of 92, the church announced Thursday night.

Shops set for tax increase (AFP)

Posted: 31 Dec 2009 02:25 PM PST

Shoppers crowd in Selfridges as the store opens it doors on the first day of its winter sale on Boxing Day 2009 in London. Most shops across Britain were preparing to lift their prices on Friday because of an increase in the taxation on goods and services.(AFP/File/Carl Court)AFP - Most shops across Britain were preparing to lift their prices on Friday because of an increase in the taxation on goods and services.

Soviet-era Lithuanian nuclear plant shuts down under EU deal (AFP)

Posted: 31 Dec 2009 01:45 PM PST

A partial view of the Ignalina nuclear power plant, in Visaginas, Lithuania, taken on December 18. Lithuania Thursday shut down its sole nuclear plant under an EU deal, the site's director told AFP, a move set to drive up electricity prices amid an economic crisis and leave it counting on ex-master Moscow for power.(AFP/File/Petras Malukas)AFP - Lithuania Thursday shut down its Soviet-era nuclear plant under an EU deal in a move set to drive up electricity prices amid an economic crisis and leave it counting on ex-master Moscow for power.

Degas drawing stolen from Marseille museum (AP)

Posted: 31 Dec 2009 01:18 PM PST

AP - A drawing by Impressionist Edgar Degas worth euro800,000 ($1.15 million) has been stolen from an exhibit in southeast France, officials said Thursday.

Lithuania shuts Soviet-era nuclear reactor (AP)

Posted: 31 Dec 2009 01:13 PM PST

AP - Officials at Lithuania's Soviet-era nuclear plant say they have shut down the facility's last reactor.

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Posted: 31 Dec 2009 01:05 PM PST

AP - Officials at Lithuania's Soviet-built nuclear reactor say it has been shut down.

Goodbye 2009! World ready for a more hopeful 2010 (AP)

Posted: 31 Dec 2009 12:44 PM PST

New Year fireworks light the Taipei cityscape from the tallest occupied building in the world, Taipei 101, in Taipei, Taiwan, Friday, Jan. 1, 2010. (AP Photo/Wally Santana)AP - Fireworks exploded over Sydney's famous bridge and the Eiffel Tower prepared for its own colored-light spectacle as the world celebrated a New Year that many hope will be more prosperous and peaceful than 2009.

Moscow police detain prominent rights activist (AP)

Posted: 31 Dec 2009 12:12 PM PST

An opposition activist detained during the New Year's Eve anti-Kremlin protest shouts from a police bus in downtown Moscow, Thursday, Dec. 31, 2009. Police detained dozens of people at an anti-Kremlin protest on Thursday, including 82-year-old rights activist Lyudmila Alexeyeva , one of Russia's most respected rights activists. The protest was a repeat of actions held on the 31st of July, August and October. The timing is a nod to the 31st Article of the Russian constitution, which guarantees the right of assembly. City authorities banned all the protests and sent police to break them up.(AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)AP - Police detained dozens of people at an anti-Kremlin protest on Thursday, including 82-year-old Lyudmila Alexeyeva, one of Russia's most respected rights activists.

French journalists, guides missing in Afghanistan (AP)

Posted: 31 Dec 2009 10:34 AM PST

AP - Two French journalists and their local guides have gone missing in Afghanistan, the French government said Thursday in what one Afghan official called a kidnapping.

AP Interview: Shah's son wants UN probe in Iran (AP)

Posted: 31 Dec 2009 09:31 AM PST

FILE - In this June 22, 2009 file photo, Reza Pahlavi, the son of Iran's toppled Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, speaks at the National Press Club in Washington. In an interview Thursday, Dec. 31, 2009 with The Associated Press, the exiled son of the toppled shah of Iran equates the climate of unrest in his homeland with the 'revolutionary atmosphere' that preceded the fall of his father from the Peacock Throne 30 years ago, when the monarchy was replaced by an Islamic republic. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, file)AP - The son of the deposed shah of Iran urged nations worldwide on Thursday to withdraw their ambassadors from Tehran to protest a relentless government crackdown on opposition demonstrators that resulted in at least eight deaths this week alone.

Spain: policeman who stole credit car loses appeal (AP)

Posted: 31 Dec 2009 06:43 AM PST

AP - Spain's Supreme Court has upheld the dismissal of a highway patrolman who confessed to stealing a dead man's credit card and using it to buy gasoline, go shopping and eat at restaurants.

Airline hero says failed bombing mirrors script (AP)

Posted: 31 Dec 2009 06:34 AM PST

This Dec. 2009 photo released by the U.S. Marshal's Service on Monday Dec. 28, 2009 shows Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab in Milan, Mich. Abdulmutallab, 23, has been charged in federal court with trying to detonate an explosive device on a Dec. 25 flight from Amsterdam to Detroit. (AP Photo/U.S. Marshal's Service)AP - The Dutch traveler who has been hailed as a hero for stopping a suspected bomber on a U.S.-bound flight says the whole thing felt like a movie script — his own.

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