2010年3月30日星期二

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Vatican offers 3 reasons it's not liable for abuse (AP)

Posted: 30 Mar 2010 06:13 PM PDT

Pope Benedict XVI handles a staff with crucifix during a memorial Mass at St. Peter's Basilica, at the Vatican, to mark the fifth anniversary of the death of Pope John Paul II, Monday, March 29, 2010. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)AP - Dragged deeper than ever into the clerical sex abuse scandal, the Vatican is launching a legal defense that it hopes will shield the pope from a lawsuit in Kentucky seeking to have him answer attorneys' questions under oath.

Atom smasher will help reveal 'the beginning' (AP)

Posted: 30 Mar 2010 06:13 PM PDT

FILE - In this March 22, 2007 file photo, the magnet core of the world's largest superconducting solenoid magnet (CMS, Compact Muon Solenoid) is shown in Geneva, Switzerland. The world's largest atom smasher set a record for high-energy collisions on Tuesday, March 30, 2010 by crashing proton beams into each other at three times more force than ever before. In a milestone in the $10 billion Large Hadron Collider's ambitious bid to reveal details about theoretical particles and microforces, scientists at the European Organization for Nuclear Research, or CERN, collided the beams and took measurements at a combined energy level of 7 trillion electron volts. (AP Photo/Keystone, Martial Trezzini, File)AP - The world's largest atom smasher threw together minuscule particles racing at unheard of speeds in conditions simulating those just after the Big Bang — a success that kick-started a megabillion-dollar experiment that could one day explain how the universe began.

Turkey asks Germany for help if EU bid stalls (Reuters)

Posted: 30 Mar 2010 06:03 PM PDT

German Chancellor Angela Merkel attends a roundtable with Turkish and German businessmen in Istanbul March 30, 2010. REUTERS/Umit BektasReuters - Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan asked visiting German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Tuesday to help Turkey if its bid for EU membership becomes deadlocked, most probably because of a dispute with Cyprus.

UK 'Climategate' inquiry largely clears scientists (AP)

Posted: 30 Mar 2010 04:01 PM PDT

File photo shows a polar bear on the ice outside Churchill, Mantioba, Canada. A foundation set up by Charles Koch, who with his brother controls Koch Industries, a huge privately-owned US company dominated by oil and chemical interests, partly funded a report published in 2007 that said polar bears were not endangered by climate change, a Greenpeace report said.(AFP/File/Paul J. Richards)AP - The first of several British investigations into the e-mails leaked from one of the world's leading climate research centers has largely vindicated the scientists involved.

UK lawmakers delay reform of tough libel laws (AP)

Posted: 30 Mar 2010 02:51 PM PDT

AP - Freedom of speech campaigners accused British lawmakers Tuesday of blocking attempts to reform the country's notoriously tough libel laws.

Last-minute Bayern stun United in Champions League (AFP)

Posted: 30 Mar 2010 02:26 PM PDT

Bayern Munich's French midfielder Franck Ribery (R) celebrates scoring with Bayern Munich's Turkish midfielder Hamit Altintop during the UEFA Champions League 1st leg quarter-final match FC Bayern Munich vs Manchester United at the Allianz Arena in the southern German city of Munich. Bayern won 2-1.(AFP/DDP/Oliver Lang)AFP - Bayern Munich stunned Manchester United 2-1 in their Champions League quarter-final first leg Tuesday, with an injury-time goal by Ivica Olic evoking memories of their famous clash in 1999.

Star striker Wayne Rooney injured (AFP)

Posted: 30 Mar 2010 02:21 PM PDT

Manchester United's English forward Wayne Rooney lays injured during the UEFA Champions League 1st leg quarter-final match FC Bayern Munich vs Manchester United at the Allianz Arena in the southern German city of Munich. Bayern Munich won the match 2-1.(AFP/Andrew Yates)AFP - With just over two months until the World Cup, England's star striker Wayne Rooney sustained an ankle injury on Tuesday at the end of Manchester United's Champions League clash with Bayern Munich.

Obama says wants sanctions on Iran in weeks (Reuters)

Posted: 30 Mar 2010 02:21 PM PDT

Reuters - President Barack Obama said on Tuesday he would like to see new U.N. sanctions placed on Iran in a matter of weeks as he and French President Nicolas Sarkozy presented a united front on Tehran.

Ireland hits banks with hefty penalty, to inject billions (Reuters)

Posted: 30 Mar 2010 02:04 PM PDT

Ireland's Prime Minister Brian Cowen holds a news conference at the end of an European Union leaders summit in Brussels, March 26, 2010. REUTERS/Sebastien PirletReuters - Ireland hit its banks with a hefty penalty to take loans off their hands and said they needed at least 22 billion euros ($30 billion) in extra funds to recover from a property collapse that was worse than feared.

Wenger won't change Arsenal style for Barca clash (AFP)

Posted: 30 Mar 2010 01:50 PM PDT

Arsenal's French manager Arsene Wenger, seen here at a training session in London Colney, insists Arsenal will stick to their purist principles when they take on Barcelona in Wednesday's Champions League quarter-final first leg.(AFP/Adrian Dennis)AFP - Arsene Wenger insists Arsenal will stick to their purist principles when they take on Barcelona in Wednesday's Champions League quarter-final first leg.

Former PM Tony Blair returns to campaign trail (AP)

Posted: 30 Mar 2010 01:40 PM PDT

**RETRANSMISSION TO REMOVE EXTRANEOUS RESTRICTIONS**Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair addresses Labour party members at the Trimdon Labour Club in Sedgefield, his former parliamentary constituency, Tuesday March 30, 2010. Speaking in support of current Prime Minister Gordon Brown for Britain's forthcoming election, Blair said that while Britain was not yet 'out of the woods' following the financial crisis, it was 'on the path out' as a result of the actions taken by Brown. 'At the moment of peril the world acted. Britain acted. The decision to act required experience, judgment and boldness. It required leadership. Gordon Brown supplied it,' he said.(AP Photo/Owen Humphreys, pool)AP - Former Prime Minister Tony Blair made a dramatic pre-election return to domestic British politics Tuesday with an attack on the policies of David Cameron, the smooth young Conservative leader sometimes nicknamed "Tory Blair."

Catholics find ties to the church tested by crisis (AP)

Posted: 30 Mar 2010 11:18 AM PDT

In this photo taken March 28, 2010, a church member prays with the rosary inside the Basilica of St. Josaphat in Milwaukee before Palm Sunday service. As the faithful fill churches this Holy Week, many Roman Catholics around the world are finding their relationship to the church painfully tested by new revelations of clerical abuse and suggestions Benedict himself may have helped cover up cases in Germany and the U.S. (AP Photo/Jeffrey Phelps)AP - An Austrian priest avoids mention of Pope Benedict XVI in his Masses. A Philadelphia woman stops going to confession, saying she now sees priests as more flawed than herself. British protesters call for the pontiff to resign.

2,000-year-old ceiling partially collapses in Rome (AP)

Posted: 30 Mar 2010 10:30 AM PDT

Italian firefighters work next to a part of the ceiling of a gallery in the complex which includes Nero's Golden Palace collapsed Tuesday, March 30, 2010. 60 square meters (645 square feet) collapsed from the vault in one of the galleries inside the Rome's palace, also known by its Latin name Domus Aurea, Roman emperor Nero, who built the palace in the first century A.D., spent the last months of his life before committing suicide in 68 A.D. In backgroud is Rome's ancient Colosseum. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)AP - A huge chunk of a 2,000-year-old gallery in the complex including Emperor Nero's fabled Golden Palace collapsed on Tuesday, Rome's art officials said.

Convicted Iraq war roadside bomber in Dutch jail (AP)

Posted: 30 Mar 2010 09:34 AM PDT

AP - A Dutch citizen convicted of conspiring to kill Americans with roadside bombs in the Iraq war was flown back to the Netherlands Tuesday to serve his sentence, his lawyer said.

Dutch, British police link 2 grisly slayings (AP)

Posted: 30 Mar 2010 08:32 AM PDT

This undated photo released by Rotterdam police, Netherlands, on Tuesday, March 30, 2010, shows Melissa Halstead. Dutch and British police have joined forces to revive an old unsolved case involving a pair of grisly slayings in which the bodies of two women were found in canals stuffed in bags with their heads and hands hacked off. Prosecutor's office spokeswoman Jeichien de Graaff says Melissa Halstead, 33, from Dayton, Ohio, was found in 1990 in Rotterdam's Westersingel. The second victim, Paula Fields, was found 11 years later in the Regent's Canal in London. De Graaff said Tuesday police now believe both women were killed by the same person. Dutch prosecutors and police were appealing to the public Tuesday night on national television for information that could help crack the cold case. (AP Photo/Rotterdam police, HO)AP - Dutch and British police have joined forces to revive two old unsolved cases in which the bodies of women were found in canals, stuffed in bags with their heads and hands hacked off, a prosecutor's office spokeswoman said Tuesday.

Alleged CIA victim sentenced over mayor attack (AP)

Posted: 30 Mar 2010 08:28 AM PDT

Defendant Khaled el-Masri waits for the verdict in a courtroom of the court in Memmingen, southern Germany, on Tuesday, March 30, 2010. The German man who claims he was kidnapped and tortured by CIA agents has been sentenced to two years in prison for attacking the mayor of his home town. The state court in Memmingen convicted Khaled el-Masri of bodily harm on Tuesday for the attack last September on Neu-Ulm Mayor Gerold Noerenberg, who suffered a broken finger and an eye injury. (AP Photo/dapd, Felix Kaestle)AP - A German man whose claims he was kidnapped and tortured by CIA agents reached top political levels was sentenced to two years in prison on Tuesday for attacking the mayor of his home town.

French council advises against total ban on burqa (AP)

Posted: 30 Mar 2010 07:20 AM PDT

FILE - This Jan. 12, 2010 file photo shows Faiza Silmi, a 32-year-old Moroccan, walking in Le Mesnil-Saint-Denis, 38 kilometers (24 miles) southwest of Paris. France's highest administrative body has concluded that a total ban on Islamic face-covering veils in public risks being found illegal and advises against it. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena, File)AP - France's highest administrative body warned Tuesday that a total prohibition on full-body Islamic veils in public risks being found unconstitutional in a setback to President Nicolas Sarkozy's goal of an all-out ban.

UN report: Afghans plagued by poverty, corruption (AP)

Posted: 30 Mar 2010 07:11 AM PDT

An Afghan woman walks past a carrier sitting on his cart waiting for a customer in Jalalabad, Nangarhar province east of Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, March 30, 2010. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)AP - Afghanistan remains mired in poverty, corruption and violence, despite an estimated $35 billion in aid being poured into the country between 2002 to 2009, the United Nations said Tuesday.

US ex-general apologizes for Dutch gay comments (AP)

Posted: 30 Mar 2010 06:32 AM PDT

AP - A retired American general has apologized for a remark to the U.S. Senate suggesting that gay Dutch soldiers were partly to blame for the Srebrenica massacre by Serb soldiers in Bosnia, according to the Defense Ministry.

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