2010年2月2日星期二

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Kraft seals Cadbury deal amid growing job fears (AFP)

Posted: 02 Feb 2010 03:43 PM PST

Irene Rosenfeld, Chief Executive Officer of US group Kraft Foods, arrives in Whitehall, London. US group Kraft Foods on Tuesday clinched a takeover deal for Cadbury, as fears grew for thousands of jobs at the iconic British confectioner swallowed up by the American giant.(AFP/Carl Court)AFP - US group Kraft Foods on Tuesday clinched a takeover deal for Cadbury, as fears grew for thousands of jobs at the iconic British confectioner swallowed up by the American giant.

Pope's swipe at UK equality laws provokes foes (AP)

Posted: 02 Feb 2010 03:11 PM PST

AP - Pope Benedict XVI's condemnation this week of British equality legislation designed to protect gays and women in the workplace has deepened the battle lines between the Vatican and secularists, who demand that taxpayers not foot the security bill for his newly announced September visit.

County march on as Palace sink Wolves (AFP)

Posted: 02 Feb 2010 02:48 PM PST

Notts County's English defender Stephen Hunt (L) celebrates with Notts County English midfielder Ben Davies at the final whistle after Notts County had beaten Wigan Athletic 2-0 during the FA Cup Fourth round replay football match at The DW Stadium, Wigan.(AFP/Andrew Yates)AFP - League Two's Notts County continued to fly the flag for English football's fourth tier by dumping Premier League side Wigan out of the competition on Tuesday with a 2-0 victory.

Byrne free to face England as ban lifted (AFP)

Posted: 02 Feb 2010 02:10 PM PST

Lee Byrne, seen here in 2009, will be available for Wales' Six Nations opener against England this weekend after successfully appealing on Tuesday against a two week ban.(AFP/File/Martin Bureau)AFP - Lee Byrne will be available for Wales's Six Nations opener against England this weekend after successfully appealing on Tuesday against a two week ban.

Hull apply the brakes to Chelsea title charge (AFP)

Posted: 02 Feb 2010 02:03 PM PST

Chelsea's English defender John Terry celebrates his team scored scored against Hull City during their English Premier League football match at The KC Stadium in Hull. Chelsea was held to a 1-1 draw.(AFP/Paul Ellis)AFP - Didier Drogba celebrated his return to Premier League duty with a first half equaliser at the KC Stadium to cancel out Stephen Mouyokolo's earlier effort on a frustrating night for Carlo Ancelotti's Chelsea.

Keane and Celtic fail to get off 'Scot free' (AFP)

Posted: 02 Feb 2010 01:58 PM PST

Celtic manager Tony Mowbray, seen here in 2009, saw his hopes that his new look squad could revive their Scottish Premier League title challenge lay in ruins here on Tuesday after they were beaten 1-0 by relegation-threatened Kilmarnock.(AFP/File/Graham Stuart)AFP - Tony Mowbray's hopes that his new look Celtic could revive their Scottish Premier League title challenge lay in ruins here on Tuesday after they were beaten 1-0 by relegation-threatened Kilmarnock.

Chelsea held by Hull (AFP)

Posted: 02 Feb 2010 01:52 PM PST

Chelsea's Ivorian forward Didier Drogba(L) is challenged by Hull City's English defender Anthony Gardner during their English Premier League football match at The KC Stadium in Hull. The match ended on a 1-1 draw.(AFP/Paul Ellis)AFP - Chelsea's hopes of opening up a four-point lead at the top of the Premier League were dashed on Tuesday when Carlo Ancelotti's side were held to a 1-1 draw at Hull.

Chinese, Russian activists nominated for Nobel (AP)

Posted: 02 Feb 2010 01:42 PM PST

FILE - In this Oct. 23, 2009 file photo, pro-democracy activists hold pictures of Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo, who was arrested after co-authoring a bold manifesto urging civil rights and political reform, outside the U.S. Consulate General in Hong Kong. As the submission deadline for the coveted Nobel Peace Prize closed Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2010, the Nobel Committee maintained its tradition of giving no hints, the contenders are kept secret for 50 years. But some nominations were announced by those who made them. Kwame Anthony Appiah, president of the PEN American Center and a Princeton philosophy professor, said in a statement that he had nominated Liu Xiaobo, a recently jailed Chinese dissident, for his 'distinguished and principled leadership in the area of human and political rights and freedom of expression.' (AP Photo/Kin Cheung, File)AP - Candidates for the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize include a Russian human rights group, a Chinese dissident and an inanimate object: the Internet, people who made the nominations said Tuesday.

Prince Harry hails comrade killed in Afghanistan (AFP)

Posted: 02 Feb 2010 01:11 PM PST

Prince Harry, seen here in 2009, revealed on Tuesday that he had served with a soldier killed by an explosion in Afghanistan, and paid tribute to his fallen comrade.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Michael Loccisano)AFP - Prince Harry revealed on Tuesday that he had served with a soldier killed by an explosion in Afghanistan, and paid tribute to his fallen comrade.

Concorde trial starts in France 10 years after crash (Reuters)

Posted: 02 Feb 2010 12:53 PM PST

Flames come out of the Air France Concorde seconds before it crashed in Gonesse near Paris Roissy airport in this file photo from July 25, 2000. REUTERS/Andras Kisgergely/FilesReuters - Continental Airlines and five men went on trial on Tuesday for their alleged role in the crash of an Air France Concorde that killed 113 people in 2000 and hastened the end of luxury supersonic travel.

US taking another look at Scotland's haggis (AP)

Posted: 02 Feb 2010 12:30 PM PST

FILE-This Jan. 16, 2007 file photo shows Scottish master butcher Neil Watt preparing his home made haggis, foreground, and other products for sale in his butcher's shop in Montrose Scotland. Just how risky is this Scottish national dish? At the request of Scottish officials, the U.S. government will sort that out as it reviews its ban on haggis, a sort of sausage made of sheep organs cooked inside the lining of the animal's stomach. (AP Photo/Martin Cleaver,File)AP - Just how risky is the Scottish national dish?

UK's Brown on his way out, or is he? (AP)

Posted: 02 Feb 2010 11:05 AM PST

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, left, and rugby player Lawrence Dellaglio, right, rush to assist double amputee Derek Derenalagi as he falls on the doorstep of 10 Downing Street, London, Monday Feb. 1, 2010. The former soldier Derenalagi, who lost both legs in Afghanistan in 2007, was visiting the Prime Minister to promote a St George's Day Rugby Match to raise money for the Help For Heroes charity. Dellaglio is a former England rugby team captain. (AP Photo/Stefan Rousseau/PA)AP - It may not be over after all for Gordon Brown.

Protestant split imperils new Belfast deal (AP)

Posted: 02 Feb 2010 09:48 AM PST

Democratic Unionist Party leader Peter Robinson speaks to the media at Parliament Buildings, Stormont,Belfast, Northern Ireland, Monday, Feb. 1, 2010. Northern Ireland's struggle to save its Catholic-Protestant administration hit another hurdle Monday as the major British Protestant party, the Democratic Unionists, unexpectedly held back from accepting a compromise deal on the table. (AP Photo/Peter Morrison)AP - A compromise plan to save Northern Ireland's Catholic-Protestant government is unraveling because the Protestant party in that coalition is badly split on whether to accept it, a senior party official said Tuesday.

Investigator: Evidence shows Demjanjuk at Sobibor (AP)

Posted: 02 Feb 2010 09:33 AM PST

Ex-judge Thomas Walther is pictured in a courtroom in Munich, southern Germany, Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2010. Walther is one of the key figures behind the decision to try Demjanjuk, who will be the first non-German alleged Nazi collaborator to stand trial in a German court. Demjanjuk, an 89-year-old former U.S. auto worker, is on trial in Germany facing charges he helped force 27,900 Jews into gas chambers in Sobibor extermination camp in 1943. (AP Photo/Michaela Rehle, pool)AP - Evidence shows that John Demjanjuk was a guard at the Sobibor death camp in occupied Poland, and everyone who was there was either a victim or a cog in the Nazi machinery of death, a German investigator testified Tuesday.

Disarmament talks strained over Mideast, Russia (AP)

Posted: 02 Feb 2010 09:03 AM PST

AP - Tensions over nuclear weapons in the Middle East and over Russia's tactical arsenal tangled talks Tuesday aimed at pushing for global nuclear disarmament.

Arrest of ex-Neo-Nazi sought in Auschwitz theft (AP)

Posted: 02 Feb 2010 09:02 AM PST

Visitors from around the world passing under the infamous Arbeit Macht Frei 'Work Sets You Free' sign over the main gate at the former Nazi death camp of Auschwitz on Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2010 just hours before solemn ceremonies to mark 65 years since the camp was liberated by the Red Army. Later Wednesday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will join Polish leaders in commemorative ceremonies at Birkenau, the larger of the two camps, in which about 1 million Jews were murdered. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)AP - A Polish court issued a European arrest warrant Tuesday for a former neo-Nazi leader suspected in the theft of the infamous "Arbeit Macht Frei" sign at Auschwitz.

Conservative Muslim village raided by Bosnian cops (AP)

Posted: 02 Feb 2010 08:34 AM PST

Bosnian policeman looks on at a check point near the Bosnian village of Gornja Maoca, 150 kms north of Sarajevo, on Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2010. Authorities say hundreds of police have raided the village in Bosnia to search for people who pose a security threat to the country. The Office of the State Prosecutor says the raid in the northeast village of Gornja Maoca is the largest police operation in Bosnia since its 1992-1995 war. The isolated village is home to strictly observant Muslim families, including some who fought in the Bosnia's war involving Muslim Bosniaks, Christian Orthodox Serbs and Roman Catholic Croats.(AP Photo/Amel Emric)AP - A remote Bosnian village that is home to highly conservative Wahhabi Muslims was raided Tuesday by hundreds of police who said they were searching for an unspecified security threat.

Big moments in the Concorde's history (AP)

Posted: 02 Feb 2010 06:21 AM PST

AP - Big moments in the Concorde's history:

Ex-UK minister: US unprepared for aftermath of war (AP)

Posted: 02 Feb 2010 06:10 AM PST

Britain's former International Development Secretary Clare Short arrives to give evidence at a hearing of the Iraq Inquiry, at the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Center, London Tuesday Feb. 2, 2010. (AP Photo/Dominic Lipinski /PA Wire )AP - Britain's former international development chief said Tuesday that she warned then-Prime Minister Tony Blair that the U.S. and its allies were unprepared to deal with the aftermath of invading Iraq.

Latvia to accept 1 Guantanamo inmate (AP)

Posted: 02 Feb 2010 05:08 AM PST

AP - Latvia's government says it will accept one inmate from the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay.

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