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Yahoo! News: Europe News

Obama phones Greek leader, welcomes bailout (AP)

Posted: 02 May 2010 03:10 PM PDT

AP - President Barack Obama has told the Greek prime minister the U.S. welcomes action by the European Union and International Monetary Fund to help Greece weather its financial crisis.

Leaders on final votes push in knife-edge poll (AFP)

Posted: 02 May 2010 03:03 PM PDT

Prime Minister Gordon Brown (2nd right) and Minister for the Olympics and London Tessa Jowell campaign on the streets of south London. Party leaders embarked on one final push before a knife-edge election on May 6 as polls suggested the Conservatives' lead is up but still falls short of an outright win.(AFP/Ben Stansall)AFP - Party leaders embarked on one final push Sunday before a knife-edge election on May 6 as polls suggested the opposition Conservatives' lead is up but still falls short of an outright win.

Europe approves giant Greece bailout (AFP)

Posted: 02 May 2010 02:23 PM PDT

A man passes by a shop window in downtown Athens. European governments Sunday endorsed an unprecedented 110-billion-euro bailout to save Greece from bankruptcy and shore up the single currency after Athens agreed to draconian spending cuts.(AFP/Dimitar Dilkoff)AFP - European governments Sunday endorsed an unprecedented 110-billion-euro bailout to save Greece from bankruptcy and shore up the single currency after Athens agreed to draconian spending cuts.

Medieval African possibly found buried in England (AP)

Posted: 02 May 2010 02:12 PM PDT

AP - A 13th century skeleton unearthed on the grounds of a friary may be the earliest physical evidence that Africans lived in England in medieval times, a team of researchers said Sunday.

Gordon Brown: a survivor fighting to avoid defeat (AP)

Posted: 02 May 2010 01:53 PM PDT

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown meets local residents during a visit to Dulwich and West Norwood in London Sunday, May 2, 2010. Britain goes to the polls in a general election May 6. (AP Photo/ Dan Kitwood, PA ) ** UNITED KINGDOM OUT **AP - Gordon Brown has never made politics look easy, and Britain's hard-fought election campaign has been a grueling trial for the incumbent prime minister.

Higgins's snooker future in question over match-fixing claims (AFP)

Posted: 02 May 2010 01:11 PM PDT

The world of snooker was left reeling after world number one John Higgins, seen here in 2009, was suspended over claims he agreed to take a huge bribe in return for fixing matches.(AFP/File/James Baylis)AFP - The world of snooker was left reeling Sunday after world number one John Higgins was suspended over claims he agreed to take a huge bribe in return for fixing matches.

Tweddle lands double gymnastics gold (AFP)

Posted: 02 May 2010 12:58 PM PDT

Great Britain's Elizabeth Tweddle poses with her two gold medals after winning the floor and the uneven bars events of the women seniors apparatus final, in the European Artistic Gymnastics Championships 2010, at the National Indoor Arena in Birmingham.(AFP/Glyn Kirk)AFP - Briton Beth Tweddle landed two gold medals within an hour on Sunday on the last day of the European Gymnastics Championships in Birmingham.

British bishops in defection talks with Vatican (AP)

Posted: 02 May 2010 12:42 PM PDT

AP - Three Church of England bishops traveled to Rome last week for talks with Vatican officials about joining the Catholic Church, according to two of the bishops involved.

Pope all but endorses authenticity of Turin Shroud (AP)

Posted: 02 May 2010 12:36 PM PDT

Pope Benedict XVI gestures from his pope mobile as he arrives to meet youths at San Carlo Square in Turin, Italy, Sunday, May 2, 2010. Benedict XVI took a break Sunday from dealing with the clerical sex abuse scandal to pray before the Shroud of Turin, the linen with an image of a crucified man on it that some believe is Christ's burial cloth and others dismiss as a medieval fake. (AP Photo/Massimo Pinca)AP - Pope Benedict XVI all but gave an outright endorsement of the authenticity of the Shroud of Turin on Sunday, calling the cloth that some believe is Christ's burial shroud an icon "written with the blood" of a crucified man.

Scandal-plagued Legionaries accept papal takeover (AP)

Posted: 02 May 2010 12:24 PM PDT

FILE - In this Nov. 30, 2004 file photo, Pope John Paul II gives his blessing to late father Marcial Maciel, founder of Christ's Legionaries, during a special audience the pontiff granted to about four thousand participants of the Regnum Christi movement, at the Vatican. Speaking at Rome daily La Repubblica, Rev. Luis Garza Medina, the No. 2 official in the Legionaries of Christ, has broken his silence on the eve of a Vatican meeting to discuss the fate of the order following revelations that its late founder led a double life, saying he only realized the accusations against Rev. Marciel Maciel were true in 2006, when the Vatican ordered the founder to spend the rest of his life in penance and prayer. (AP Photo/Plinio Lepri, File)AP - The Vatican's decision to assume leadership of the scandal-plagued Legionaries of Christ won acceptance Sunday from the order itself and praise from those who abandoned the conservative movement now discredited by revelations that its founder sexually abused seminarians and fathered at least one child.

European Jews sign petition critical of Israel (AP)

Posted: 02 May 2010 09:02 AM PDT

AP - More than 3,000 European Jews, including prominent intellectuals, have signed a petition speaking out against Israeli settlement policies and warning that systematic support for the Israeli government is dangerous.

Young Tories: diverse, but still Thatcherite (AP)

Posted: 02 May 2010 05:31 AM PDT

British Conservative Party candidate Rory Stewart, is seen, as sheep are gathered from the fell, as he tour's his prospective constituency, meeting the people who live and work in the area, at Heltondale, England, Friday April 16, 2010. Conservative Party leader David Cameron 's crop of new candidates are a group of young, multiethnic professionals who he hopes can shed the Tories' image as a 'nasty party' stuffed with rich, aging white men from privileged backgrounds. The aspiring legislators vow to stir up Britain's sometimes staid politics, and perhaps unsettle their leadership — with hard-line views on Europe, immigration and climate change that often don't stack up with Cameron's message of a more compassionate, greener conservatism.(AP Photo/Scott Heppell)AP - There's a feisty chick lit author, the Muslim son of a bus driver and a swashbuckling ex-diplomat who braved the Taliban to hike across Afghanistan alone.

Greek leader say agreement reached on deal (AP)

Posted: 02 May 2010 12:58 AM PDT

Mpuso Lgubale, secretary-general of South Africa's metalworkers' union, addresses a rally by Communist-affiliated unionists in central Athens on Saturday May 1, 2010. Several thousand people protested in the capital and other Greek cities in May Day rallies fueled by anger at expected harsh austerity measures needed to secure rescue loans for near-bankrupt Greece. In a separate Athens protest later Saturday, riots broke out between hundreds of anarchist youths throwing petrol bombs and stones at riot police. Ten arrests were reported. (AP Photo/Dimitri Messinis)AP - Prime Minister George Papandreou says Greece has reached agreement with the IMF and European Union on a rescue package for the debt-laden country.

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Posted: 02 May 2010 12:43 AM PDT

AP - Greek Prime Minister says he will do anything to avoid the country going bankrupt.

Some profit from wives despite French polygamy ban (AP)

Posted: 01 May 2010 11:14 PM PDT

In this Friday, April 23, 2010 picture Lies Hebbadj, left, and his wife who refused to be identified, speak to reporters in Nantes, western France. She was fined for driving a car with a veil covering all but her eyes. Now, her husband is suspected of polygamy. The situation appears to be a boon to President Nicolas Sarkozy, who is trying to rush through controversial legislation forbidding burqa-style Islamic veils that cover the face on the grounds they don't respect French values or women's dignity.(AP Photo/David Vincent)AP - The burqa, or face-covering veil, is getting all the attention in the debate over Muslim immigrants in France. But another controversial tradition among some immigrants is less noticed and far more widespread: Polygamy.

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