2010年2月5日星期五

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Yahoo! News: Europe News

John Terry sacked as England captain (AFP)

Posted: 05 Feb 2010 06:11 PM PST

John Terry, seen here on February 2, said Friday he would continue to AFP - John Terry was sacked as England captain by head coach Fabio Capello, just four months before the World Cup, over an alleged affair with the ex-girlfriend of international team-mate Wayne Bridge.

Chinese sales boosts luxury goods market in 2009 (AFP)

Posted: 05 Feb 2010 05:57 PM PST

French luxury giant LVMH Chief Executive Bernard Arnault talks during a press conference to present the 2009 results at LVMH headquarters in Paris, on Februray 4. Despite the economic crisis, 2009 ended better than it began for the French luxury goods sector, thanks largely to China's growing taste for high-end products, encouraging thoughts of a better 2010.(AFP/File/Eric Piermont)AFP - Despite the economic crisis, 2009 ended better than it began for the French luxury goods sector, thanks largely to China's growing taste for high-end products, encouraging thoughts of a better 2010.

Ferguson sees United hitting form at right time (AFP)

Posted: 05 Feb 2010 05:32 PM PST

Manchester United's manager Sir Alex Ferguson is pictured during a training session with his team in Doha, on January 12. Ferguson says he feels that United are hitting form just as the season is beginning to get serious.(AFP/File/Karim Jaafar)AFP - Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson feels that his team are hitting form just as the season is beginning to get serious.

NATO putting more optimistic face on Afghan war (AP)

Posted: 05 Feb 2010 04:34 PM PST

U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates, right, listens to U.S. Ambassador to NATO Ivo Daalder, unseen, at the beginning of an informal NATO defense ministers meeting on Afghanistan, in Istanbul, Turkey, Friday, Feb. 5, 2010. NATO defense ministers open a two-day meeting on Afghanistan.(AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici)AP - NATO and U.S. officials are putting a more optimistic face on the eight-year-old Afghanistan war, suggesting that tens of thousands more foreign troops can finally turn the corner against a growing Taliban insurgency.

Putin scolds party after rally exposes discontent (Reuters)

Posted: 05 Feb 2010 03:51 PM PST

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin looks on during a meeting with his Kazakh counterpart Karim Masimov in Yalta, November 20, 2009. REUTERS/RIA Novosti/Alexei Nikolsky/PoolReuters - Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin told his ruling party on Friday it must pay more attention to ordinary voters, just days after one of the biggest opposition protests in a decade.

China hits out at US at 'Security Davos' (AFP)

Posted: 05 Feb 2010 03:31 PM PST

Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi (L) speaks with Director of the Security Conference Wolfgang Ischinger prior to the opening session of the 46th Munich Security Conference at the Bayerischer Hof hotel in Munich, southern Germany.Yang used his maiden visit to a security conference in Europe to issue a broadside against US arms sales to Taiwan and to resist US pressure to get tough on Iran.(AFP/John Macdougall)AFP - China's foreign minister used his maiden visit to a security conference in Europe Friday to issue a broadside against US arms sales to Taiwan and to resist US pressure to get tough on Iran.

Chinese FM urges patience in Iran nuclear talks (AP)

Posted: 05 Feb 2010 02:40 PM PST

Police officers check cars near the hotel 'Bayerischer Hof' in Munich, southern Germany, on Friday, Feb. 5, 2010. Politicians and military representatives will meet for the annual Munich Security conference from Friday, Feb. 5 until Sunday, Feb. 7, 2010. (AP Photo/dapd, Christof Stache)AP - China's foreign minister on Friday urged the world to be patient and keep up diplomatic efforts with Iran to try and find a solution to Tehran's nuclear ambitions.

Debt crisis for Europe to deal with: Canada FM (AFP)

Posted: 05 Feb 2010 02:28 PM PST

Canada's Finance Minister Jim Flaherty speaks to reporters during a press conference in Iqaluit, Nunavut, Canada, as G7 Finance Ministers assemble in the northern community for a meeting. G7 finance ministers and central bankers will discuss a looming European debt crisis at talks here, but it is for the EU to address it, Canadian Finance Minister Jim Flaherty said Friday.(AFP/Geoff Robins)AFP - G7 finance ministers and central bankers will discuss a looming European debt crisis at talks here, but it is for the EU to address it, Canadian Finance Minister Jim Flaherty said Friday.

Bond yields remain lower on European debt concerns (AP)

Posted: 05 Feb 2010 02:28 PM PST

AP - Interest rates fell in the bond market Friday as investors remained focused on debt problems at several weak European governments.

Europe's debt crisis intensifies (AP)

Posted: 05 Feb 2010 02:22 PM PST

A broker is seen at the Stock Exchange in Madrid Friday Feb. 5, 2010. Stock markets in Portugal, Spain and Greece have led a sharp global retreat for the second day running as investors fretted over their governments' ability to get a grip on their borrowings. (AP Photo/Paul White)AP - Fears of another crisis spiral for the world economy deepened Friday after the Portuguese parliament defeated a government austerity plan, triggering renewed concern that the financial crisis in that country and in Greece could spread through the euro zone and spill across its borders.

Latvian ghost town auctioned off for $3.1 million (AP)

Posted: 05 Feb 2010 12:44 PM PST

Deserted buildings seen in Skrunda, a Soviet ghost town, Latvia, Friday, Feb. 5, 2010. Latvia is preparing to auction off a Soviet ghost town abandoned after the Russian military withdrew from the Baltic country. The town formerly known as Skrunda-1 was built around a radar base that was part of the Soviet Union's early warning system. It was mothballed 12 years ago not long after Russian military personnel left the country. (AP Photo/Roman Koksarov)AP - Latvia sold a deserted town built around a Soviet-era radar station to a Russian investor who bid $3.1 million at an unusual auction Friday, officials said.

Ukraine presidential race ends in songs and prayer (AP)

Posted: 05 Feb 2010 12:25 PM PST

Ukrainian opposition leader and the Presidential candidate, Viktor Yanukovych greets his supporters during a campaign rally in Kiev, Ukraine, Friday, Feb. 5, 2010. Ukrainian opposition leader Yanukovych and Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko will face each other in the second round of the presidential elections on Feb. 7. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)AP - Ukrainian presidential hopeful Viktor Yanukovych tried to look every part the winner Friday evening as he mounted the stage before thousands of cheering supporters to the accompaniment of a victorious fanfare two days before the vote.

Portuguese police find ETA base (AP)

Posted: 05 Feb 2010 12:14 PM PST

Portuguese policemen walk around a house, its entrance covered by a dark tarpaulin, where a cache of explosives and bomb-making equipment is said to have been found Friday, Feb. 5 2010, in Obidos, some 100 kilometers north of Lisbon. (AP Photo/Armando Franca)AP - Portuguese police seized a large amount of explosives Friday at a home being used by Basque separatist group ETA as a base to prepare attacks in neighboring Spain, officials said.

4 UK lawmakers charged in expenses scandal (AP)

Posted: 05 Feb 2010 09:57 AM PST

Keir Starmer, director of public prosecution, delivers a statement to the media on British lawmakers facing criminal charges relating to claims made on expenses, at the Crown Prosecution Service headquarters in central London, Friday, Feb. 5, 2010. Four British lawmakers will face criminal charges, and the prospect of jail, over Britain's expense claim scandal, Starmer said Friday. (AP Photo/PA, John Stillwell)AP - Four British legislators face the prospect of jail in a deepening scandal over lawmakers' expense claims, after the country's chief prosecutor on Friday charged the men over alleged shady accounting practices.

14-year-old confirmed as UK's youngest WWII death (AP)

Posted: 05 Feb 2010 09:39 AM PST

This image made available in London, Friday Feb. 5, 2010, by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, shows Reginald Earnshaw, who has been identified as Britain's youngest World War II casualty. Officials say Earnshaw, who was 14 and had lied about his age to join the Merchant Navy, was killed in 1941, under enemy attack aboard the SS North Devon. His remains were buried in an unmarked grave in Edinburgh, Scotland, for decades until a fellow shipmate launched an investigation that led to him being identified and given a headstone.(AP Photo/Commonwealth War Grave Commission, ho)AP - He lied about his age to get into the service, and was rewarded for his gallantry with an early death.

Historians hope to publish "Mein Kampf" in Germany (AP)

Posted: 05 Feb 2010 09:32 AM PST

FILE - The Dec. 8, 1999 file photo shows a book store displaying Adolf Hitler's 'Mein Kampf' in downtown Sarajevo. German historians want Adolf Hitler's infamous manifesto, 'Mein Kampf,' to be republished in an annotated version when the copyright lapses in 2015. 'That's better than having it freely publishable by neo-Nazis or others,' historian Edith Raim from the Institute for Contemporary History in Munich said. She and an Austrian colleague started working on the project in January after the state government in Bavaria, which holds the copyright, signalized a shift in its position and is now carefully endorsing the controversial project. (AP Photo/Hidajet Delic)AP - Publish Hitler's infamous memoir "Mein Kampf" in Germany? It sounds like the ultimate taboo.

Medvedev signs Russia's military doctrine (AP)

Posted: 05 Feb 2010 09:09 AM PST

AP - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has signed the country's new military doctrine regulating the stance the country takes in conflict situations.

Cyprus: 3 suspects charged in publisher's murder (AP)

Posted: 05 Feb 2010 08:38 AM PST

AP - Cyprus police have formally pressed murder charges against a TV host, her brother and a third man in the suspected contract killing of the island's most powerful publisher.

Putin criticizes his party after opposition rally (AP)

Posted: 05 Feb 2010 08:21 AM PST

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin enters to attend a Cabinet meeting in Moscow, Thursday, Feb. 4, 2010. (AP Photo/RIA-Novosti, Alexei Druzhinin, Pool)AP - Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Friday criticized his party following an unusually large opposition protest, saying it has fed the country with empty promises.

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