2010年6月6日星期日

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Yahoo! News: Europe News

Golfer Rose rallies to seize first US win at Memorial (AFP)

Posted: 06 Jun 2010 05:03 PM PDT

Justin Rose of England celebrates after finishing the 18th hole during the final round of The Memorial Tournament presented by Morgan Stanley at Muirfield Village Golf Club in Dublin, Ohio. Rose won the Memorial on Sunday, rallying from four shots adrift to capture his first US PGA Tour victory.(AFP/Getty Images/Andy Lyons)AFP - England's Justin Rose won the Memorial on Sunday, rallying from four shots adrift with a sparkling 66 to capture his first US PGA Tour victory.

France, Britain urge international Gaza inquiry (AFP)

Posted: 06 Jun 2010 03:47 PM PDT

France's Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner (R) looks at his British counterpart William Hague at the Quai d'Orsay in Paris before talks. The foreign ministers of France and Britain said an AFP - The foreign ministers of France and Britain said an "international" inquiry was necessary to resolve the dispute over Israel's deadly raid on Gaza aid ships, after talks late Sunday in the French capital.

France: EU can check ships heading to Gaza (AP)

Posted: 06 Jun 2010 03:30 PM PDT

AP - The European Union is willing to check cargo on board ships heading to the Gaza Strip if Israel ends its blockade of the Hamas-ruled territory, France's Foreign Minister said Sunday.

'The Thick of It' takes three Baftas (AFP)

Posted: 06 Jun 2010 03:14 PM PDT

British actress Julie Walters arrives at The Philips British Academy Television Awards held at The Palladium in London. Political satire show AFP - Political satire show "The Thick of It" won a clutch of awards at the television Baftas in London on Sunday, where veteran actors Kenneth Branagh and Julie Walters were also honoured.

BP sucking up 10,000 barrels daily from US oil leak (AFP)

Posted: 06 Jun 2010 03:06 PM PDT

An oiled brown pelican floats in Barataria Bay near Grand Isle, Louisiana. BP said Sunday it was capturing some 10,000 barrels of crude a day from the ruptured Gulf of Mexico well, raising hopes it could be containing most of the worst oil spill in US history.(AFP/Getty Images/Win McNamee)AFP - BP said Sunday it was capturing some 10,000 barrels of crude a day from the ruptured Gulf of Mexico well, raising hopes it could be containing most of the worst oil spill in US history.

Swiss police chase escaped elephant through Zurich (AP)

Posted: 06 Jun 2010 02:22 PM PDT

AP - Swiss police say an elephant that escaped from a circus and wandered through Zurich's banking and commercial district has been recaptured.

Cameron softens ground for austerity measures (AFP)

Posted: 06 Jun 2010 02:17 PM PDT

David Cameron (R) and Nick Clegg host a joint news conference in the garden of 10 Downing Street. Cameron and his deputy Clegg have both warned of heavy cuts in public expenditure ahead of an emergency budget later this month which will bid to slash a huge deficit.(AFP/Pool/File/Christopher Furlong)AFP - Prime Minister David Cameron will seek to soften the ground Monday for the "inevitably painful" measures required to cut the country's record deficit, ahead of an emergency budget on June 22.

Clinical Harlequins win it for grieving skipper (AFP)

Posted: 06 Jun 2010 01:37 PM PDT

Flowers left at the scene of shooting victim Garry Purdham, gunned down by Derrick Bird, are pictured in Gosforth, Cumbria. Harlequins romped to an emotional 50-22 victory over Crusaders in their Super League clash on Sunday without skipper Rob Purdham whose brother Garry was one of the 12 people shot dead by a cab driver in a gun rampage last Wednesday.(AFP/File/Leon Neal)AFP - Harlequins romped to an emotional 50-22 victory over Crusaders in their Super League clash on Sunday without skipper Rob Purdham whose brother Garry was one of the 12 people shot dead by a cab driver in a gun rampage Wednesday.

EADS finance chief sees euro depreciation boosting revenues (AFP)

Posted: 06 Jun 2010 01:12 PM PDT

European aerospace giant EADS could revise up its 2010 sales forecast thanks to the euro's weakness against the dollar, the company's finance chief said in a newspaper interview to be published Monday. AFP - European aerospace giant EADS could revise up its 2010 sales forecast thanks to the euro's weakness against the dollar, the company's finance chief said in a newspaper interview to be published Monday.

Cabbie who shot dead 12 was 'nicest man': sons (AFP)

Posted: 06 Jun 2010 12:50 PM PDT

Picture from Cumbria Police of Derrick Bird. The sons of a cab driver who killed 12 people in a gun rampage described him as AFP - The sons of a cab driver who killed 12 people in a gun rampage described him as "the nicest man you could ever meet" Sunday, adding they were baffled by his crimes.

Opposition presidential pick gains sympathy (AP)

Posted: 06 Jun 2010 11:42 AM PDT

Joachim Gauck, candidate of the Germany's Social Democratic Partc (SPD) and of the Green Party for the presidential elections attends a news conference in Berlin, on Friday, June 4, 2010. The 70-year-old Joachim Gauck will face government candidate Christian Wulff when a special parliamentary assembly meets June 30 to elect a new head of state. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)AP - Despite sharing the chancellor's East German past and devotion to democracy, the opposition pick to be Germany's next head of state, Joachim Gauck, is turning out to be Chancellor Angela Merkel's latest threat.

Vatican says world ignores Christians in Mideast (AP)

Posted: 06 Jun 2010 11:03 AM PDT

Pope Benedict XVI, walks in the U.N controlled area dividing the island's capital prior to a mass at the Church of the Holy Cross in Nicosia, Cyprus, Saturday, June 5, 2010. Pope Benedict XVI appealed Saturday for support for embattled Christian communities in the Middle East, calling them a vital force for peace in the region. (AP Photo/Osservatorio Romano, HO) ** EDITORIAL USE ONLY **AP - The Vatican said Sunday that the international community is ignoring the plight of Christians in the Middle East, and that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the war in Iraq and political instability in Lebanon have forced thousands to flee the region.

Turkish group releases photos of Israeli soldiers (AP)

Posted: 06 Jun 2010 10:08 AM PDT

In this Monday, May 31, 2010, photo taken by an unidentified person aboard the ship Mavi Marmara, an Israeli soldier is surrounded by people aboard the Turkish-flagged vessel. The photo was released by the Turkish activist group IHH, which is outlawed in Israel. According to IHH, the Israeli soldiers were hurt while storming the ship in confrontations with activists aboard, and were later returned to other Israeli troops who boarded the ship. Israel's military said the series of images 'shows that our boarding party in fact did face deadly violence from the hardcore Islamist activists on the boat from the fundamentalist IHH movement.' (AP Photo/IHH) THE ASSOCIATED PRESS IS UNABLE TO INDEPENDENTLY VERIFY THE AUTHENTICITY, CONTENT, LOCATION OR DATE OF THIS HANDOUT PHOTO; NO SALESAP - An Islamic charity released photos on Sunday of Israeli commandos wounded in the deadly raid on a Gaza-bound ship.

Church beatifies Pole slain by communists in 1984 (AP)

Posted: 06 Jun 2010 09:52 AM PDT

The mother of Father Jerzy Popieliszko, Marianna, center, prays at her son's grave in front of the St. Stanislaw Kostka church in Warsaw, Poland, Saturday, June 5, 2010, ahead of the Sunday beatification of Jerzy Popieluszko. Popieluszko, the Solidarity chaplain, was tortured and murdered by the communist secret police in 1984. (AP Photo/Alik Keplicz)AP - Thousands of Poles filled a vast sunbathed square in Warsaw on Sunday for the beatification of Jerzy Popieluszko, a charismatic priest tortured and killed in 1984 by communist Poland's secret police for supporting Lech Walesa's Solidarity freedom movement.

Gates: New US intelligence chief the right choice (AP)

Posted: 06 Jun 2010 08:28 AM PDT

Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates address media aboard a U.S. Military aircraft, en route to Baku, Azerbaijan, from Singapore, Sunday, June 6, 2010. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, Pool)AP - U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Sunday that his Pentagon intelligence chief, in line to oversee all American spy agencies, has the ability to forge consensus among that sprawling network.

Gates courts put-out Azerbaijan, a key Afghan hub (AP)

Posted: 06 Jun 2010 08:04 AM PDT

Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates address media aboard a U.S. Military aircraft, en route to Baku, Azerbaijan, from Singapore, Sunday, June 6, 2010. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, Pool)AP - U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates tried on Sunday to soothe the put-off president of this former Soviet republic that helps move supplies and soldiers to the U.S.-led war in landlocked Afghanistan.

Family mystified by UK cabbie's killing spree (AP)

Posted: 06 Jun 2010 07:58 AM PDT

Flower tributes are left for Garry Purdham at the site of where he was gunned down at Boonwood, Cumbria, England Friday, June 4, 2010, one day after taxi driver Derrick Bird drove around the area on a shooting spree across a tranquil stretch of northwest England. bird killed 12 people and woundin gmany others before turning the gun on himself. (AP Photo/Scott Heppell)AP - The family of a taxi driver who killed 12 people including his twin brother in a shooting rampage in northern England said Sunday they had no clue what sparked his rampage.

Normandy ceremonies mark 66th anniversary of D-Day (AP)

Posted: 06 Jun 2010 06:21 AM PDT

A wreath is laid on the tomb of US soldier Edward M. Withers, from Wisconsin, who died on July 12, 1944, at the Colleville US cemetary, western France, Sunday June 6, 2010, on the 66th anniversary of the D-Day. (AP Photo/Remy de la Mauviniere)AP - Veterans and those grateful for their sacrifices have marked the 66th anniversary of the D-Day landings, remembering the invasion that turned the tide of World War II.

Second flood wave inundates houses in Poland (AP)

Posted: 06 Jun 2010 06:00 AM PDT

Firefighters evacuate residents from flooded houses in Mielec, southern Poland, where the Wisloka River has reached unusually high levels on Saturday, June 5, 2010.(AP Photo/Krzysztof Lokaj)AP - Thousands of firefighters and soldiers are strengthening dikes that are crumbling in a second wave of massive flooding in southern Poland following weeks of torrential rains.

Rightist group jolts Sweden's tolerant self-image (AP)

Posted: 05 Jun 2010 10:32 PM PDT

In this photo taken May 24, 2010, Sweden Democrats party leader Jimmie Akesson speaks during an interview in a basement in Stockholm, Sweden. Akesson said 'In Sweden, if you voice criticism against the immigration policy, you are viewed as a racist or xenophobe.' The man at left is unidentified. (AP Photo/Niklas Larsson)AP - From his party's office in the basement of a Stockholm parking garage, Jimmie Akesson is running for Parliament, preaching sharp cuts in immigration and calling Islam the greatest threat to Swedish society.

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