2010年1月21日星期四

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Yahoo! News: Europe News

Brown to testify at Iraq inquiry before poll: reports (AFP)

Posted: 21 Jan 2010 04:25 PM PST

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown leaves the Alexandra Hospital in Harlow, Essex, following a visit. Brown's appearance at the Iraq war inquiry will be brought forward to before elections amid growing pressure for him to give evidence, reports said Thursday.(AFP/Pool/Chris Radburn)AFP - Prime Minister Gordon Brown's appearance at the Iraq war inquiry will be brought forward to before elections amid growing pressure for him to give evidence, reports said Thursday.

UK women seek sperm abroad as donations fall (Reuters)

Posted: 21 Jan 2010 04:14 PM PST

Reuters - A drastic lack of sperm donors in Britain means women wanting babies are resorting to importing semen from abroad or using do-it-yourself insemination kits bought on the internet, fertility experts said on Friday.

Europe Gives Oracle The Long-Sought OK To Acquire Sun Micro (Investor's Business Daily)

Posted: 21 Jan 2010 03:44 PM PST

Investor's Business Daily - The saga of Oracle's effort to buy Sun Microsystems and join the ranks of the megatech vendors neared conclusion Thursday when European Commission regulators approved the deal after a nine-month review.

Follow Europe's Laggards? No Thanks (Investor's Business Daily)

Posted: 21 Jan 2010 03:41 PM PST

Investor's Business Daily - Competition: For the past year, Democrats have used the "European model" as their template for change in the U.S. A new report on productivity shows why that might not be such a hot idea.

UK opposition say sharp cuts to diplomacy planned (AP)

Posted: 21 Jan 2010 02:43 PM PST

AP - Britain's main opposition party accused the government Thursday of drafting plans to close embassies and reduce anti-terrorism work to cope with a huge national debt and a slump in the value of the pound.

Eels disappearing from London's River Thames (AP)

Posted: 21 Jan 2010 02:20 PM PST

AP - Eels that have been migrating across the Atlantic Ocean to European rivers for hundreds of years are rapidly disappearing from London's River Thames, scientists said Thursday.

Couple held by Somali pirates 'fears death in days' (AFP)

Posted: 21 Jan 2010 01:42 PM PST

A woman watches video footage in November 2009 of the British couple that were kidnapped while sailing off the coast of Somalia. The British man taken hostage with his wife by Somali pirates almost three months ago has said he fears the couple could be executed within days.(AFP/File/Leon Neal)AFP - A British man taken hostage with his wife by Somali pirates almost three months ago has said he fears the couple could be executed within days.

NIreland police probing scandal-hit wife of leader (AP)

Posted: 21 Jan 2010 01:39 PM PST

Police have started a probe into allegations that Iris Robinson, seen here in 2008 and who if the politician wife of Northern Ireland's First Minister Peter Robinson, accepted a donation to fund her lover's business, a spokesman said Thursday.(AFP/File/Peter MUHLEY)AP - The wife of Northern Ireland's leader is being investigated for allegedly helping to fund the business of a young man she was having an affair with, police said Thursday.

Foreigners dead and missing after Haiti quake (AP)

Posted: 21 Jan 2010 12:48 PM PST

AP - A glance at countries reporting dead and missing in Haiti:

Court rejects appeal from wife of murdered English aristocrat (AFP)

Posted: 21 Jan 2010 12:48 PM PST

A French court has rejected an appeal by Djamila M'Barek, the widow of the 10th Earl of Shaftesbury,seen here in 2007 and who was convicted for plotting to murder the aristocrat in 2004, making her 20-year prison sentence final.(AFP/File/Stephane Danna)AFP - A French court has rejected an appeal by the widow of the 10th Earl of Shaftesbury, who was convicted for plotting to murder the aristocrat in 2004, making her 20-year prison sentence final.

Dutch airlift brings 123 Haitian kids for adoption (AP)

Posted: 21 Jan 2010 11:49 AM PST

A Haitian child wrapped in a blanket walks to a bus after arriving at Eindhoven airport, central Netherlands, Thursday Jan. 21, 2010. A Dutch airplane carrying 106 children from Haiti who are slated for adoption has arrived at a military airport in the city of Eindhoven. Reporters waiting on the tarmac Thursday saw the children, aged 6 months to 7 years, being carried from the plane, wrapped in blue blankets. The adoption agencies that organized the mission say all but nine of the children have already been matched with new parents in the Netherlands and Luxembourg. The others will be placed in foster care while awaiting adoption. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)AP - Enveloped in his new mother's embrace, 4-year-old Jersen Silvester Eefting gazed wide-eyed around a hotel lobby at the end of an 11-hour flight that whisked him from the devastation of Haiti to his new home in the Netherlands.

WTO chief sees US-China trade friction rising (AP)

Posted: 21 Jan 2010 11:49 AM PST

Pascal Lamy, director-general of the World Trade Organization (WTO) gestures during an interview with the AP at his headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, Thursday, Jan. 21, 2010. Trade friction between the United States and China over everything from cars to chemicals will increase in the coming years as the world's biggest importer and exporter buy and sell more of each other's goods, the World Trade Organization's director-general warned. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)AP - Trade friction between the United States and China over everything from cars to chemicals will increase in the coming years as the world's biggest importer and exporter buy and sell more of each other's goods, the World Trade Organization's director general said Thursday.

Ex-UK foreign secretary defends Iraq war decision (AP)

Posted: 21 Jan 2010 10:04 AM PST

Britain's Justice Secretary Jack Straw arrives to speak at the Iraq Inquiry in London,Thursday, Jan. 21, 2010. Straw was Britain's Foreign Secretary at the time of the allied invasion of Iraq. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)AP - Former British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw told the country's Iraq Inquiry on Thursday that he agonized over the decision to topple Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein with force, but feels officials made the best decision they could.

Russian happiness guru faces psychiatric ward (AP)

Posted: 21 Jan 2010 10:04 AM PST

Russian poetess Yulia Privedyonnaya seen at a news conference in Moscow, Thursday, Jan. 21, 2010. Prominent Russian rights activists voice their support for poetess Yulia Privedyonnaya ordered to undergo a psychiatric evaluation. Privedyonnaya is a member of group aiming to spread happiness through poetry. Authorities have accused her of mistreating children in the group's custody and belonging to an illegal armed group. (AP Photo/Mikhail Metzel)AP - Some time in the coming month, Russian poetess Yulia Privedyonnaya may be packed off to a psychiatric ward in a case activists described Thursday as a dangerous throwback to the Soviet-era practice of punitive psychiatry.

Stolen Auschwitz sign returned to museum (AP)

Posted: 21 Jan 2010 08:54 AM PST

Conservation experts and museum director Piotr Cywinski, second right, examine part of the cynical 'Arbeit Macht Frei' sign at the Auschwitz museum, Thursday Jan. 21, 2010. The infamous 'Arbeit Macht Frei' sign stolen last month from Auschwitz and broken into three pieces was returned to the museum at the site of the Nazi death camp Thursday.(AP Photo/Jarek Praszkiewicz)AP - The infamous "Arbeit Macht Frei" sign stolen last month from Auschwitz and broken into three pieces was returned to the museum at the site of the Nazi death camp Thursday.

Pope blesses lambs in annual ceremony (AP)

Posted: 21 Jan 2010 08:23 AM PST

In this picture made available by the Vatican newspaper Osservatore Romano, a lamb is carried on a basket as Pope Benedict XVI, background left, delivers his blessing, at the Vatican, Thursday, Jan. 21, 2010. The Pontiff has blessed two lambs whose wool will be shorn to make shawls for newly appointed archbishops to wear. The annual blessing takes place on the feast day of St. Agnes, a martyr of early Christianity often symbolized by a lamb. (AP Photo/Osservatore Romano, HO)AP - Pope Benedict XVI has blessed two lambs whose wool will be shorn to make shawls for newly appointed archbishops to wear.

Survivor describes Nazi camp at Demjanjuk trial (AP)

Posted: 21 Jan 2010 07:45 AM PST

Philip Bialowitz, left, and Thomas Blatt, right, joint plaintiffs in the Demjanjuk trial, wait in a court room in Munich, southern Germany, prior to another day in the trail against John Demjanjuk, on Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2010. Demjanjuk, an 89-year-old retired Ohio auto worker, was deported from the U.S. last year for the trial in Germany. He is charged with 27,900 counts of accessory to murder for his alleged activities as a guard at Sobibor, in occupied Poland, in 1943. (AP Photo/dapd/Christof Stache, Pool)AP - Jewish prisoners had to unload decomposed corpses at the Nazi death camp at Sobibor and were forbidden to warn new prisoners that they would be gassed within the hour, a survivor testified Thursday at the trial of John Demjanjuk.

Miyake brews up coffee-steeped menswear collection (AP)

Posted: 21 Jan 2010 05:42 AM PST

Models present creations by Japanese fashion designer Dai Fujiwara for Issey Miyake during his Men's Fall Winter 2010-2011 fashion collection presented in Paris, Thursday Jan. 21, 2010.(AP Photo/Christophe Ena)AP - The French capital's menswear displays started with a caffeine rush on Thursday, as Japanese label Issey Miyake sent out a coffee-soaked fall-winter 2010-2011 collection.

GM's Opel to cut 8,300 jobs across Europe (AP)

Posted: 21 Jan 2010 03:48 AM PST

FILE - In this photo taken Sept. 10, 2009, flags are seen reflected in an Opel logo on a car outside the General Motors plant in Antwerp, Belgium, Thursday Sept. 10, 2009. According to sources, U.S. carmaker General Motors will close its Opel assembly plant in the Belgian port city of Antwerp and let go 2,300 staff. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo, File)AP - General Motor Co.'s Opel unit will cut 8,300 jobs across Europe, including 4,000 in Germany, and close a plant in Antwerp, Belgium — casualties of the "tough reality" of a shrinking European auto market.

EU, US discuss airport security with body scanners (AP)

Posted: 21 Jan 2010 02:06 AM PST

The U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, right, speaks during a meeting with Spain's Interior Minister Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba during a Ministers of Justice and Home Affairs meeting in Toledo, Spain, Thursday Jan. 21, 2010. (AP Photo/Sergio Barrenechea, Pool)AP - EU interior ministers met Thursday with the U.S. homeland security chief to discuss boosting airport security with full-body scanners after the failed plot to bomb a U.S. airliner on Christmas Day.

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