2010年1月5日星期二

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Yahoo! News: Europe News

German officer accused of having sex in church (AP)

Posted: 05 Jan 2010 06:03 PM PST

AP - Police in southern Germany said an officer has been suspended from duty after allegedly having sex in a Catholic church during a service. Regional police spokesman Hans-Peter Kammerer told the German news agency DAPD on Monday that the 26-year-old faces possible disciplinary measures and a criminal complaint for allegedly disturbing religious activities.

N.Ireland loyalist paramilitaries set to confirm weapons dumped: sources (AFP)

Posted: 05 Jan 2010 03:52 PM PST

Firefighters extinguish a fire in a van after it was hijacked in a loyalists area in west Belfast in 2005. Northern Ireland's largest loyalist paramilitary group will announce Wednesday it has completed decommissioning its weapons, a milestone in the troubled province's peace process, sources said.(AFP/File/Cathy Mcarthur)AFP - Northern Ireland's largest loyalist paramilitary group will announce Wednesday it has completed decommissioning its weapons, a milestone in the troubled province's peace process, sources said.

Britain blasted by winter chill (AFP)

Posted: 05 Jan 2010 02:26 PM PST

Snow covers the M6 motorway near Wigan. Freezing temperatures and heavy snow gripped northern England and Scotland Tuesday, halting transport and major football fixtures and closing airports and hundreds of schools.(AFP/Paul Ellis)AFP - Freezing temperatures and heavy snow gripped northern England and Scotland Tuesday, halting transport and major football fixtures and closing airports and hundreds of schools.

Stoke claim points as Fulham feel the chill (AFP)

Posted: 05 Jan 2010 02:04 PM PST

Stoke City's Senegalese midfielder Abdoulaye Diagne-Faye (L) celebrates after scoring the second goal English during the English Premier League football match against Fulham at The Britannia stadium, Stoke-on-Trent. Stoke won 3-2.(AFP/Andrew Yates)AFP - Stoke mastered the elements better than visitors Fulham to climb back into the top half of the Premier League with a 3-2 win at a snow-covered Britannia Stadium here on Tuesday.

Some 30 million German bank cards hit by 2010 bug: banks (AFP)

Posted: 05 Jan 2010 01:38 PM PST

A German debit card in a cash machine in Berlin. Around 30 million high-tech German bank cards could leave owners high and dry, bank associations warned on Tuesday as the feared Y2K computer bug cropped up 10 years later than expected.(AFP/John Macdougall)AFP - Around 30 million high-tech German bank cards could leave owners high and dry, bank associations warned Tuesday as the feared Y2K computer bug cropped up 10 years later than expected.

UK privacy concerns likely to impede body scanners (AP)

Posted: 05 Jan 2010 01:37 PM PST

FILE - This is a Nov. 12, 2009 file photo of a member of staff from Manchester Airport demonstrating a security scanner. Airline passengers bound for the United States faced a hodgepodge of security measures across Europe on Monday Jan. 4, 2010 and airports did not appear to be following a U.S. request for increased screening of passengers from 14 countries. (AP Photo/Dave Thompson/PA, File)AP - Britain's government wants to quickly deploy full body scanners at U.K. airports to fight an expanded terrorist threat, but privacy concerns — and fears that children may be exploited — seem likely to slow the plan.

Transport disrupted as snow and ice sweep Britain (AP)

Posted: 05 Jan 2010 01:37 PM PST

Members of the public are seen in Heaton Park in north Manchester after heavy snowfall across the north west of England, Manchester, England, Tuesday Jan. 5, 2010. Many schools have been closed and some airports have suspended flights after heavy snowfall across large areas of the country, as Britain's authorities has issued severe weather warnings. (AP Photo/Jon Super)AP - Airports and highways were shut, hundreds of schools had to close, and even the venerable soap opera "Coronation Street" was disrupted Tuesday as the worst snow and icy weather in years swept Britain.

Prominent Bulgarian crime journalist shot dead (AP)

Posted: 05 Jan 2010 12:57 PM PST

AP - Gunmen in Bulgaria shot dead a prominent crime journalist and critically injured two other men in a busy part of the capital.

US lawyer joins Knox's Italian defense team (AP)

Posted: 05 Jan 2010 12:47 PM PST

FILE - In this Thursday, Dec. 3, 2009 file photo, U.S. murder suspect Amanda Knox talks to a lawyer prior to a defense hearing at the court in Perugia, central Italy. Amanda Knox's family says a U.S. attorney with an international practice will work with the Italian defense team for their imprisoned daughter to help map strategy with an eye on the appeals process. The family said in a statement Monday, Jan. 4, 2010, from Seattle that Theodore ''Ted'' Simon will bring international experience as well as a criminal defense experience to the case. (AP Photo/Pier Paolo Cito, File)AP - Amanda Knox's family says a U.S. lawyer with an international practice will work with their imprisoned daughter's Italian defense team to map strategy for the appeals process.

Slovak man takes hidden explosive on Dublin flight (AP)

Posted: 05 Jan 2010 12:07 PM PST

AP - A Slovak man unwittingly carried hidden explosives on board a weekend flight to Dublin after a Slovakian airport-security test went awry, Irish officials announced Tuesday.

Terror suspect raised no suspicion in Amsterdam (AP)

Posted: 05 Jan 2010 11:03 AM PST

AP - Dutch investigators said Tuesday they found no evidence that a Nigerian suspected of trying to blow up a U.S.-bound airliner contacted accomplices at Amsterdam's airport, and that he already had the explosives on him when he arrived on a connecting flight.

London Zoo keepers make annual animal head count (AP)

Posted: 05 Jan 2010 10:41 AM PST

Insect keeper Laura Childs looks up at a spiny stick insect during the annual stocktaking at London Zoo, Tuesday, Jan. 5, 2010. More than 750 different species are tallied up in the count. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)AP - Keepers at London Zoo are counting more than sheep.

Man jokes about terrorism at German airport (AP)

Posted: 05 Jan 2010 07:37 AM PST

AP - A German man was temporarily detained at Stuttgart airport on Tuesday after he repeatedly told security personnel that he had explosives in his underwear, police said.

UN stops food aid to 1 million in southern Somalia (AP)

Posted: 05 Jan 2010 07:01 AM PST

FILE- In this Saturday, Jan.2, 2010 file photo Internally displaced Somali women wait with containers and baskets in hand to receive food aid at a food distribution centre in Mogadishu, Somalia. The U.N. food agency is stopping aid distribution to about 1 million people in southern Somalia because of attacks against staff and demands by armed groups that aid groups remove women from their teams, the agency said Tuesday Jan. 5 2010. (AP Photo/Mohamed Sheikh Nor, file)AP - The U.N. food agency is stopping aid distribution to about 1 million people in southern Somalia because of attacks against staff and demands by armed groups that aid organizations remove women from their teams, the agency said Tuesday.

Switzerland avalanche death toll reaches 7 (AP)

Posted: 05 Jan 2010 06:46 AM PST

Dozens of rescue workers search for the three missing persons at the site where last Sunday two avalanches came down a mountainside in the Diemtig valley in the Bernese Oberland Tuesday Jan. 5, 2010. The three missing persons where found dead Tuesday. (AP Photo/Keystone, Lukas Lehmann)AP - The bodies of three skiers missing after an avalanche in central Switzerland were found Tuesday, raising to seven the death toll in the country's worst avalanche disaster in more than a decade, rescue officials said.

United pilot charged with being over alcohol limit (AP)

Posted: 05 Jan 2010 05:13 AM PST

United Airlines pilot Erwin Washington arrives at Uxbridge Magistrates court, in Uxbridge, England to answer charges of 'being aviation staff performing an aviation function whilst exceeding the proscribed alcohol limit', Tuesday, Jan. 5, 2010. Washington was pulled from his trans-Atlantic flight to Chicago shortly before takeoff on Nov. 9, 2009. Scotland Yard said that 51-year-old Washington, of Lakewood, Colorado, was arrested after officers were called to United Airlines Flight 949, which was already full of passengers and due to leave London's Heathrow Airport. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)AP - A United Airlines pilot who was pulled from his trans-Atlantic flight to Chicago shortly before takeoff pleaded guilty Tuesday to being above the alcohol limit for flying a plane.

Spain: Cuba erred in expelling politician (AP)

Posted: 05 Jan 2010 04:59 AM PST

AP - Spain's foreign minister criticized Cuba on Tuesday for denying entry to a Spanish politician who has promoted ties with opposition figures on the Caribbean island.

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