2010年1月24日星期日

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Yahoo! News: Europe News


HP to launch music service in Europe (Reuters)

Posted: 24 Jan 2010 03:11 PM PST

A man tries the Acer Aspire One netbook at a computer mall in Taipei September 8, 2009. PC-RECOVERY/ REUTERS/Nicky LohReuters - Hewlett-Packard, the world's biggest maker of PCs, will launch a digital music service across key European markets on Monday, hoping to benefit from consumers' rising appetite for new types of music download services.


Boy, 7, raises 50,000 pounds in a day for Haiti (AFP)

Posted: 24 Jan 2010 01:54 PM PST

A family wakes up in their makeshift shelter in Port-au-Prince. A seven-year-old boy told Sunday how he raised more than 50,000 pounds in a day for survivors of the Haiti earthquake by doing a sponsored bike ride.(AFP/Jewel Samad)AFP - A seven-year-old boy told Sunday how he raised more than 50,000 pounds in a day for survivors of the Haiti earthquake by doing a sponsored bike ride.


Iraq PM orders probe into 'bomb detector' (AFP)

Posted: 24 Jan 2010 12:22 PM PST

An Iraqi policeman holds the cards that are used in the ADE651 bomb detection device in Baghdad. Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki on Sunday ordered an investigation into a device used to detect bombs at checkpoints despite a ban on their export by Britain.(AFP/Arthur Macmillan)AFP - Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki on Sunday ordered an investigation into a device used to detect bombs at checkpoints despite a ban on their export by Britain.


Fuller sends Arsenal crashing out of FA Cup (AFP)

Posted: 24 Jan 2010 10:40 AM PST

Stoke City's Ricardo Fuller celebrates after scoring the opening goal against Arsenal during the FA Cup fourth round football match at The Brittania Stadium in Stoke. Stoke City won the game 3-1.(AFP/Adrian Dennis)AFP - Arsenal became the latest member of the Premier League's elite to suffer an early exit from the FA Cup as Ricardo Fuller's double strike inspired Stoke's 3-1 win over the Gunners in the fourth round on Sunday.


U.S.-Russia nuclear deal "95 percent" agreed upon (Reuters)

Posted: 24 Jan 2010 10:18 AM PST

Reuters - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said Sunday that a deal with the United States on a landmark nuclear arms reduction treaty was "95 percent" agreed, news agencies reported Sunday.

Celtic run riot to close gap on leaders Rangers (AFP)

Posted: 24 Jan 2010 09:56 AM PST

Marc-Antoine Fortune of Celtic, pictured in 2009. Celtic closed the gap on Scottish Premier League leaders Rangers with a 4-1 win over 10-man St Johnstone on Sunday.(AFP/File)AFP - Celtic closed the gap on Scottish Premier League leaders Rangers with a 4-1 win over 10-man St Johnstone on Sunday.


Foreigners dead and missing after Haiti quake (AP)

Posted: 24 Jan 2010 09:40 AM PST

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

Iceland seeks int'l mediation on Icesave: report (Reuters)

Posted: 24 Jan 2010 09:11 AM PST

A page from icesave online bank is seen on a computer screen, in London October 7, 2008. REUTERS/Dylan MartinezReuters - Iceland has approached several governments about the possibility of mediating talks on the more than $5 billion its owes to Britain and the Netherlands after the island's banking crisis, Icelandic media reported on Sunday.


Medvedev: Russia, US arms treaty near completion (AP)

Posted: 24 Jan 2010 09:02 AM PST

AP - A new nuclear arms reduction treaty is "95 percent ready," Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said Sunday in the clearest indication to date that an end to wrangling over the seminal agreement may be close.

Arsenal roughed up by Stoke goal hero Fuller (AFP)

Posted: 24 Jan 2010 07:56 AM PST

Stoke City's Ricardo Fuller celebrates after scoring the opening goal against Arsenal during the FA Cup fourth round football match at The Brittania Stadium in Stoke. Stoke City won the game 3-1.(AFP/Adrian Dennis)AFP - Ricardo Fuller was the scourge of Arsenal as Stoke finally ended their long wait for an FA Cup triumph over the Gunners with a 3-1 win in the fourth round on Sunday.


Sweden rattled by Somali militants in its midst (AP)

Posted: 24 Jan 2010 07:02 AM PST

Abadirh Abdi Hussein, a 25-year-old hip hop artist known by his stage name 'Kadafi' stands at the entrance to a square in Rinkeby, an largely immigrant suburb on the outskirts of Stockholm, Sweden, on Friday Jan. 22, 2010.   Hussein has become the best known Somali in Rinkeby because of his campaign to counter radical Islamic extremists, who he says are recruiting young members of Somali immigrant families in the Rinkeby area,  for a bloody insurgency war against Somalia's government, in the Horn of Africa.(AP Photo / Karl Ritter)AP - Ten subway stops from downtown Stockholm is "little Mogadishu," a drab suburb of the Swedish capital where radical Islamists are said to be recruiting the sons of Somali immigrants for jihad in the Horn of Africa.


Lanvin's man sports camper chic (AP)

Posted: 24 Jan 2010 04:26 AM PST

A model wears a creation by Dutch fashion designer Lucas Ossendrijver for Lanvin fashion house during his men's Fall Winter 2010-2011 fashion collection presented in Paris, Sunday, Jan. 24, 2010.(AP Photo/Christophe Ena)AP - Lanvin delivered Sunday a ravishing fall-winter 2010-2011 menswear collection for the discriminating camper that infused billowing coats and oversized rucksacks that looked ready for an Alpine trek with a stiff dose of Parisian glamour.


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