2010年3月8日星期一

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Yahoo! News: Europe News

Marriott plans to double European properties: report (Reuters)

Posted: 08 Mar 2010 05:30 PM PST

Reuters - Marriott International Inc plans to more than double the number of its properties in Europe in the next few years, with an announcement from the hotel company expected Tuesday, according to the Wall Street Journal.

Postal workers agree deal to end long dispute (AFP)

Posted: 08 Mar 2010 04:43 PM PST

Postal workers and state-owned Royal Mail have agreed a deal to end a long-running dispute over pay and modernisation that sparked a series of walkouts last year, both sides said.(AFP/File/Leon Neal)AFP - Postal workers and state-owned Royal Mail have agreed a deal to end a long-running dispute over pay and modernisation that sparked a series of walkouts last year, both sides said.

Sacre bleu! Britons challenging French in the kitchen (AFP)

Posted: 08 Mar 2010 04:35 PM PST

People eat at a sandwich bar in Paris. The French have long been considered masters of cuisine but Britons spend longer in the kitchen and prepare a wider variety of international food, according to a survey out Tuesday.(AFP/File/Mehdi Fedouach)AFP - The French have long been considered masters of cuisine but Britons spend longer in the kitchen and prepare a wider variety of international food, according to a survey out Tuesday.

Lender putting www.sex.com on auction block (Reuters)

Posted: 08 Mar 2010 04:26 PM PST

Reuters - Sex.com, often touted as one of the most valuable Internet domain names, is due to head to the auction block next week.

Survivors shiver in Turkey after quake kills 51 (AP)

Posted: 08 Mar 2010 04:15 PM PST

A man shows his destroyed house in Okcular village in the eastern province of Elazig, Turkey, Monday, March 8, 2010, hours after a strong earthquake, with a preliminary magnitude of 6, hit eastern Turkey eaarly Monday, killing at least 57 people and knocking down houses in at least six small villages, the government said. The quake affected villages near the town of Kovancilar, toppling stone or mud-brick homes and minarets of mosques, officials and media reports said. The worst-hit area was the village of Okcular where some 17 people were reported killed and homes crumbled into piles of dirt.(AP Photo )AP - Hundreds of earthquake survivors huddled in aid tents and around bonfires Monday in eastern Turkey, seeking relief from the winter cold after a strong temblor knocked down stone and mud-brick houses in five villages, killing 51 people.

Hamilton has no plans to lose (AFP)

Posted: 08 Mar 2010 03:43 PM PST

England's 2008 Formula One world champion Lewis Hamilton, pictured in February 2010, is keen to avoid last season's pitfalls and insists that he has no plans on losing this time round as he tries to dethrone compatriot and now fellow McLaren team-mate Jenson Button.(AFP/File/Jose Jordan)AFP - England's 2008 Formula One world champion Lewis Hamilton is keen to avoid last season's pitfalls and insists that he has no plans on losing this time round as he tries to dethrone compatriot and now fellow McLaren team-mate Jenson Button.

Cyprus police say found corpse could be ex-leader (AP)

Posted: 08 Mar 2010 02:33 PM PST

This Sept. 5, 2007 file photo shows former Cypriot President Tassos Papadopoulos in Nicosia, Cyprus. Cyprus police say a body found at a Nicosia cemetery could be the stolen corpse of former president Tassos Papadopoulos. Spokesman Michalis Katsounotos said a tip-off led police to the corpse late Monday March 8, 2010. But he wouldn't elaborate in what state the corpse was or what evidence investigators have to lead them to believe it could be that of the former Greek Cypriot leader. Papadopoulos' corpse was stolen from a graveyard in suburban Nicosia on Dec. 11 - the eve of the first anniversary of his death from lung cancer. The motive remains a mystery. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias, File)AP - Cypriot police acting on a tipoff found a body at a Nicosia cemetery that they believe could be the stolen corpse of former president Tassos Papadopoulos, a spokesman said on Monday.

Liverpool's Champions League hopes take a battering (AFP)

Posted: 08 Mar 2010 02:15 PM PST

Liverpool's Dutch forward Dirk Kuyt (R) and Wigan Athletic's Scottish defender Gary Caldwell (L) compete for the ball during their English Premier League football match at The DW Stadium in Wigan. Wigan won 1-0.(AFP/Paul Ellis)AFP - Hugo Rodallega scored the only goal of the game as Wigan dented Liverpool's Champions League hope with a 1-0 victory at the DW Stadium here on Monday.

UN expert: Big sports events force many from homes (AP)

Posted: 08 Mar 2010 02:11 PM PST

AP - A U.N. human rights investigator said Monday that numerous people have complained to her of being forced from their homes or priced out of the housing market as a result of large events such as the World Cup.

UN highlights plight of impoverished drug addicts (AP)

Posted: 08 Mar 2010 01:53 PM PST

Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, UNODC, Antonio Maria Costa speaks at a news conference during the 53rd session of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs, CND, at the International Center in Vienna, on Monday, March 8, 2010. (AP Photo/Hans Punz)AP - While celebrities earn notoriety from publicly going into rehab, millions of impoverished drug addicts are being ostracized, do not have access to doctors and are often imprisoned, a senior U.N. official said Monday.

Interpol issues alert for 16 in Dubai killing (AP)

Posted: 08 Mar 2010 12:34 PM PST

AP - Interpol on Monday expanded its wanted list over the killing of a Hamas commander to a total of 27 people, and also revealed previously unreleased details about one suspect, including his alias and a snapshot of his smiling face.

Bemba war crimes trial delayed (AP)

Posted: 08 Mar 2010 12:26 PM PST

AP - The International Criminal Court announced Monday it has delayed the start of the war crimes trial of former Congo vice president Jean-Pierre Bemba by more than two months after he claimed his case was inadmissible.

German minister critical of Vatican rule on abuse (AP)

Posted: 08 Mar 2010 12:24 PM PST

AP - Germany's justice minister said Monday that a Vatican secrecy rule has played a role in a "wall of silence" surrounding sexual abuse of children.

Vatican appeals for Holy Land Christians (AP)

Posted: 08 Mar 2010 08:52 AM PST

AP - The Vatican has launched an appeal for support for Christians in the Holy Land, seeking to stem the exodus from the ancient community.

Terror trial opens for 9 in Belgium (AP)

Posted: 08 Mar 2010 08:45 AM PST

AP - Nine people went on trial Monday on terrorism charges, including a 50-year-old woman accused of using an incendiary Islamic Web site to recruit jihadists for suicide bombing missions.

Deadly quakes are coincidence, scientists say (AP)

Posted: 08 Mar 2010 08:33 AM PST

Turkish villagers search for bodies among the ruins in Okcular, in the Elazig province. A powerful earthquake has buried sleeping villagers in eastern Turkey, claiming at least 51 lives and leaving scores injured, officials say.(AFP/Str)AP - Experts say there is nothing unusual about the latest spate of earthquakes in Haiti, Chile and now Turkey, but their devastating effects illustrate how increased construction up and down the world's fault lines can translate into massive casualties.

English nuclear bunker sold on eBay for $31,000 (AP)

Posted: 08 Mar 2010 07:58 AM PST

AP - An underground Cold War nuclear bunker set in the picturesque English countryside has been sold on the auction site eBay.

UK justices hear detainees' torture appeal (AP)

Posted: 08 Mar 2010 07:32 AM PST

This courtroom sketch shows Canadian defendant Omar Khadr sitting during a hearing inside the courthouse for the US war crimes commission at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba in 2009. US forces in Afghanistan took Khadr prisoner when he was just 15 years old in July 2002. He was later charged with war crimes for allegedly throwing a grenade that killed a US soldier.(AFP/POOL/File/Janet Hamlin)AP - Lawyers for six former Guantanamo detainees on Monday appealed a ruling that the British government can use secret evidence to fight a claim that it was complicit in their abuse.

(AP)

Posted: 08 Mar 2010 07:14 AM PST

AP - Interpol issues alert for 16 more suspects in probe of Hamas operative's slaying in Dubai.

German poker tournament robbers still on the run (AP)

Posted: 08 Mar 2010 07:12 AM PST

A Police vehicle is parked in front of the Grand Hyatt Hotel at Potsdamer Platz, Berlin on March 6. German police have said they are hunting a masked, machete-wielding gang that staged a brazen raid on a high stakes poker tournament at one of Berlin's swankiest hotels, but had no AP - German police were hunting Monday for four bandits who stormed a poker tournament in Berlin and made off with euro240,000 ($328,000) in jackpot money in a brazen daylight heist.

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