2010年7月2日星期五

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Trash helps Canadian teens survive 7-storey fall (Reuters)

Posted: 02 Jul 2010 01:20 PM PDT

Reuters - A pile of trash awaiting recycling helped two Vancouver teenagers survive a seven-storey fall from a building roof, police said on Friday.

Total CEO calls Iran oil embargo'an 'error' (AFP)

Posted: 02 Jul 2010 01:04 PM PDT

French oil giant Total chief executive Christophe de Margerie, pictured in Paris on April 2010, on Friday criticised sanctions against Iran, saying an embargo on petrol products was an AFP - The CEO of French energy giant Total on Friday criticised sanctions against Iran, saying an embargo on petrol products was an "error" that would harm ordinary people.

Cyprus official: Russian spy has fled island (AP)

Posted: 02 Jul 2010 12:38 PM PDT

Cyprus justice minister Lucas Louca is seen at his office before an interview in divided capital Nicosia, Cyprus, Friday, July 2, 2010. Louca said in an interview with the Associated Press that it is unlikely that 54-year-old Christopher Metsos will be caught in Cyprus because, Louca believes, he is no longer on the eastern Mediterranean island. Metsos is wanted in the United States on charges that he supplied money to a spy ring that allegedly operated under deep cover in America's suburbs. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)AP - After eluding a dragnet extending from airports to yacht marinas, the suspected paymaster for a Russian spy ring nabbed in America has likely fled this Mediterranean resort island, the Cypriot justice minister said on Friday.

Clinton treads lightly on Russia's doorstep (AP)

Posted: 02 Jul 2010 12:36 PM PDT

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton participates in the Close Strategic Partnership discussion with Ukraine Foreign Minister Kostyantyn Gryshchenko, Friday, July 2, 2010, at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Kiev, Ukraine. (AP Photo/Drew Angerer)AP - Treading lightly on Russia's doorstep, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton praised Ukraine's new Moscow-friendly leadership for its pursuit of democracy, skimming over concerns about a rollback of liberties.

World's biggest cake melting in Paris heatwave (AFP)

Posted: 02 Jul 2010 12:26 PM PDT

A towering cake vying to be the world's biggest, seen here on July 1, lasted one day outdoors in Paris, brought down not by ravenous sweets lovers but a sweltering heatwave in the French capital, organisers said Friday.(AFP/Boris Horvat)AFP - A towering cake vying to be the world's biggest lasted one day outdoors in Paris, brought down not by ravenous sweets lovers but a sweltering heatwave in the French capital, organisers said Friday.

Total CEO says not mulling BP deal (AFP)

Posted: 02 Jul 2010 12:20 PM PDT

French oil giant Total chief executive Christophe de Margerie, pictured on April 2010, said Friday that the French oil group was not considering buying its embattled rival BP, whose market value has dropped by half over the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.(AFP/File/Eric Piermont)AFP - Total chief executive Christophe de Margerie said Friday that the French oil group was not considering buying its embattled rival BP, whose market value has dropped by half over the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.

Debt crisis pushes Europe toward economic reforms (AP)

Posted: 02 Jul 2010 11:53 AM PDT

People line up outside a government job center in Madrid on Friday, July 2, 2010. In the ashes of Europe's debt crisis, some see the seeds of long-term hope. That's because the threat of bankruptcy is forcing governments to implement reforms that economists argue are necessary to help Europe prosper in a globalized world but were long viewed as being politically impossible because of entrenched social attitudes. Changes such as making it easier for companies to fire workers or stare down unions were until recently dismissed as simply not being the 'European way.' Similarly, many were skeptical that European governments would or could tackle bloated public payrolls, trim entitlements or force people to retire later. (AP Photo/Arturo Rodriguez)AP - In the ashes of Europe's debt crisis, some see the seeds of long-term hope.

European unity tested over crucifixes in classroom (AP)

Posted: 02 Jul 2010 11:45 AM PDT

FILE - In this June 30, 2010 file photo, Jean Paul Costa, left, French president of the European Court for Human Rights with judge Nicolas Bratza of Britain opens the hearings, in Strasbourg, eastern France, on the referral request submitted by the Italian government after the Court ruled in November 2009 that Italian schools should remove crucifixes from classrooms. (AP Photo/Christian Lutz, file)AP - An emotional debate over crucifixes in classrooms is opening a new crack in European unity.

Iceland, British, Dutch officials try to revive Icesave talks (AFP)

Posted: 02 Jul 2010 11:41 AM PDT

People protest outside the Icelandic Parliament Reykjavik on March 2010. Representatives of Iceland, Britain and the Netherlands met in Reykjavik this week to prepare further talks on a new repayment deal to cover the collapse of the Icesave bank, the Icelandic government said Friday.(AFP/File/Halldor Kolbeins)AFP - Representatives of Iceland, Britain and the Netherlands met in Reykjavik this week to prepare further talks on a new repayment deal to cover the collapse of the Icesave bank, the Icelandic government said Friday.

Blast kills 1 at Serb protest in north Kosovo town (AP)

Posted: 02 Jul 2010 11:36 AM PDT

Mourners walk in funeral procession for Mensur Dzekovic, who died during surgery for injuries after an explosion in the northern, Serb-dominated part of the ethnically divided town of Kosovska Mitrovica, Kosovo, Friday, July 2, 2010. An explosion tore through a Serb protest in the town on Friday, fatally injuring Dzekovic and leaving about 11 others with shrapnel wounds. Kosovo police say they believe a hand grenade was thrown amid the 1,000 or so Serbs protesting the opening of a civil registry office run by Kosovo's majority ethnic Albanian authorities.(AP Photo/Zveki)AP - An explosion tore through a Serb protest in an ethnically divided town of Kosovo on Friday, fatally injuring one man and leaving about 11 others with shrapnel wounds, police and doctors said.

UK conman convicted of trying to sell Ritz Hotel (AP)

Posted: 02 Jul 2010 11:16 AM PDT

Undated North Yorkshire Police handout photo of Anthony Lee, 49, who faces a substantial jail sentence after being convicted Friday July 2 2010 of an ambitious scam to sell London's Ritz hotel for 250 million pounds ($380 million). Jobless truck driver Lee was at the heart of a con based on 'one great big lie', convincing potential buyer Terence Collins that he was a 'close friend and associate' of the reclusive billionaire Barclay brothers, owners of the prestigious hotel in Piccadilly, Southwark Crown Court in central London heard. (AP Photo/North Yorkshire Police via PA)AP - An unemployed British truck driver was convicted Friday of trying to sell the world famous Ritz Hotel for 250 million pounds ($380 million) to a duped investor.

Documents on Hitler's jail time auctioned (AP)

Posted: 02 Jul 2010 10:43 AM PDT

FILE - In this June 23, 2010 file picture auctioneer Werner Behringer shows a visitor card supposed to be of of General Ludendorff and later SA leader Ernst Roehm (June 12, 1924) to visit Adolf Hitler in Prison Landsberg, in the auction house Behringer in Fuerth near Nuremberg, southern Germany. Some 500 documents from the prison that held Adolf Hitler in 1924 documenting the future dictator's time behind bars are being auctioned in Germany Friday July 2, 2010. The papers from the Landsberg prison were recently found by a Nuremberg man among the possessions of his late father, who had purchased them at a flea market in the 1970s. They're being sold at an auction house in the Bavarian city of Fuerth with a starting price of 25,000 euro (US dlrs 30,677). (AP Photo/Jens Meyer,File)AP - Historical records from the prison that held Adolf Hitler in 1924 documenting the future dictator's time behind bars sold to an anonymous bidder for euro27,000 ($33,400) Friday at an auction in Germany.

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Posted: 02 Jul 2010 09:10 AM PDT

AP - Cyprus justice minister says he believes alleged Russian spy has fled island.

8 probed in Eiffel Tower souvenir racket (AP)

Posted: 02 Jul 2010 08:28 AM PDT

FILE - This Aug.19 1998 file photo shows tourists walking on the Trocadero square in front of the Eiffel Tower in Paris. Small Eiffel Towers are souvenir gifts sold here. French police have detained 39 people in breaking up a Chinese-run ring of illegal Senegalese immigrants accused of selling unauthorized Eiffel Tower souvenirs. A spokeswoman for the Paris police headquarters said Thursday July 1, 2010 that several vendors were arrested at or near the Eiffel Tower, while some of their Chinese employers were detained in offices. (AP Photo/Gael Cornier, File)AP - The Paris prosecutors' office says it has opened an inquiry into eight people suspected of running a black-market ring pedaling mini Eiffel Tower replicas and other souvenirs.

UK public to vote on changing voting system (AP)

Posted: 02 Jul 2010 08:19 AM PDT

Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron answers a reporter's question during a news conference at the end of the G20 nations summit in Toronto, Canada, Sunday June 27, 2010. Wary of slamming on the stimulus brakes too quickly but shaken by the European debt crisis, world leaders pledged Sunday to slash government deficits in the most industrialized nations in half by 2013, with wiggle room to meet the goal. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)AP - Britain will hold a public referendum next year on overhauling its voting system — a potentially radical change that could see the country frequently led by European-style coalition governments rather than by one strong party.

Terror charge in alleged Danish cartoonist attack (AP)

Posted: 02 Jul 2010 08:15 AM PDT

AP - Denmark's top prosecutor on Friday charged a Somali man with terrorism for allegedly trying to kill a cartoonist who caricatured the Prophet Muhammad.

Montenegrin convicted in 1990 murder in New York (AP)

Posted: 02 Jul 2010 07:29 AM PDT

Montenegrin police officer escorts Smail Tulja, left, outside of the court in Podgorica, Montenegro, Friday, July 2, 2010. The Montenegro court convicted Tulja Friday for murdering and mutilating Yugoslav immigrant woman Mary Beal, 61, in New York in 1990 while he was working in the city as a taxi driver. The 69-year old Montenegro native, Smail Tulja was sentenced to serve 12-years in prison. (AP Photo/Risto Bozovic)AP - A Montenegro court convicted a man Friday for murdering and mutilating a woman in New York in 1990 while he was working in the city as a taxi driver.

Turkish jets bomb Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq (AP)

Posted: 02 Jul 2010 06:36 AM PDT

A Turkish soldier patrols a road in Sirnak province. Twelve Kurdish rebels and five members of the Turkish security forces were killed in violent clashes in the southeast of the country following two separate Kurdish attacks.(AFP/File/Mustafa Ozer)AP - Turkish warplanes have bombed Kurdish rebel bases in northern Iraq over the past two days, Turkey's military said Friday, a day after violent clashes between the troops and rebels claimed 17 lives.

NATO chief hopes Afghan handover to start in Nov (AP)

Posted: 02 Jul 2010 05:40 AM PDT

NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, right, speaks during a joint media conference with Newly appointed U.S. and NATO forces commander in Afghanistan U.S. Army General David Petraeus, left, at NATO headquarters in Brussels on Thursday, July 1, 2010. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)AP - NATO's secretary-general hopes the alliance can begin handing over control of some Afghan provinces to local authorities beginning in November.

Twin brother or acting leader? Poles to choose (AP)

Posted: 02 Jul 2010 02:41 AM PDT

A supporter looks at a poster of Jaroslaw Kaczynski, presidential candidate of the conservative Law and Justice party and twin brother of the late President Lech Kaczynski killed in a plane crash, after a pre election rally in city of Bialystok, Poland, Thursday, July 1, 2010. On Sunday July 4, a presidential runoff election will take place in Poland between Jaroslaw Kaczynski and his opponent Bronislaw Komorowski, speaker of the parliament and acting president. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)AP - Poland holds a presidential runoff Sunday between the former leader's charismatic twin brother and the country's dutiful acting president, men with similar anti-communist roots and Catholic backgrounds but sharply different outlooks.

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