2010年7月28日星期三

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Yahoo! News: Europe News


Cameron lost hope of taking power during post-poll talks (AFP)

Posted: 28 Jul 2010 04:51 PM PDT

British Prime Minister David Cameron gives a speech at Infosys Campus in Bangalore. Cameron has revealed he lost all hope of ousting Gordon Brown in May's general election just 24 hours before taking power, in a documentary broadcast Thursday.(AFP/Dibyangshu Sarkar)AFP - Prime Minister David Cameron has revealed he lost all hope of ousting Gordon Brown in May's general election just 24 hours before taking power, in a documentary broadcast Thursday.


Murray hopes sacking of coach will energize his game (AFP)

Posted: 28 Jul 2010 04:24 PM PDT

Andy Murray, pictured on July 27, is hoping the sacking of coach Miles Maclagan will galvanize his game and help him reach his goal of winning a grand slam and achieving the No. 1 world ranking.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Jeff Gross)AFP - World number four Andy Murray is hoping the sacking of coach Miles Maclagan will galvanize his game and help him reach his goal of winning a grand slam and achieving the No. 1 world ranking.


Canada locates British ship lost 157 years ago (AFP)

Posted: 28 Jul 2010 03:45 PM PDT

Canada on Wednesday announced a stunning archaeological find: the wreck of a British ship lost in the Arctic 157 years ago that played a major role in 19th century exploration of the region.(Parks Canada)AFP - Canada on Wednesday announced a stunning archaeological find: the wreck of a British ship lost in the Arctic 157 years ago that played a major role in 19th century exploration of the region.


French police arrest couple after eight dead babies found (AFP)

Posted: 28 Jul 2010 03:41 PM PDT

French policemen wait in front of the house in Villers-au-Tertre, northern France, where the bodies of eight new-born babies were found in the house and in the garden of another home. French police detained a couple after the bodies of eight new-born babies were found in a house and in the garden of another home in a northern village, officials said Wednesday.(AFP/Denis Charlet)AFP - French police detained a couple after the bodies of eight new-born babies were found in a house and in the garden of another home in a northern village, officials said Wednesday.


A farewell to bullfights in northeastern Spain (AP)

Posted: 28 Jul 2010 02:42 PM PDT

Pro-bullfighting supporters shout at anti-bullfighting supporters in front of the Catalan Parliament in Barcelona, Spain, Wednesday, July 28, 2010. The parliament voted to outlaw bullfighting, making Catalonia Spain's first major region to do so after an impassioned debate that pitted the rights of animals against preserving a pillar of traditional culture. Cheers broke out in the local 135-seat legislature after the speaker announced the ban had passed 68-to-55 with nine abstentions. The ban in the northeastern coastal region whose capital is Barcelona will take effect in 2012.(AP Photo/David Ramos)AP - Lawmakers in the region of Catalonia thrust a sword deep into Spain's centuries-old tradition of bullfighting, banning the blood-soaked pageant that has fascinated artists and writers from Goya to Hemingway.


Lemaitre wins European 100m title (AFP)

Posted: 28 Jul 2010 02:33 PM PDT

France's Christophe Lemaitre celebrates after winning the men's 100m final at the 2010 European Athletics Championships at the Olympic Stadium in Barcelona.(AFP/Miguel Riopa)AFP - French sprinting prodigy Christophe Lemaitre was crowned European 100m champion on Wednesday as controversial British veteran Dwain Chambers struggled home in fifth place.


Sarkozy orders illegal Roma immigrants expelled (AP)

Posted: 28 Jul 2010 01:27 PM PDT

A member of a Romany association, Alice Januel, displays an official document which authorizes French Romanies to travel with their caravan, during a press conference with members of different French Roma associations in Saint Ouen north of Paris, Tuesday, July 27, 2010. French Roma associations have lashed out at the government for what they claim is racist treatment ahead of a meeting called by President Nicolas Sarkozy to deal with 'problems' among traveling folk. Members of Romany associations Renardo Loriers, left, and Emile Scheitz, right, in the background.(AP Photo/Michel Euler)AP - French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Wednesday ordered authorities to expel Gypsy illegal immigrants and dismantle their camps, amid accusations that his government is acting racist in its treatment of the group known as Roma.


Lemaitre wins European 100m title, Chambers fifth (AFP)

Posted: 28 Jul 2010 01:21 PM PDT

France's Christophe Lemaitre celebrates after winning the men's 100m final at the 2010 European Athletics Championships at the Olympic Stadium in Barcelona.(AFP/Miguel Riopa)AFP - France's Christophe Lemaitre won the European 100m title here on Wednesday.


Police find corpses of 8 newborns in French home (AP)

Posted: 28 Jul 2010 01:07 PM PDT

AP - A French couple was in custody Wednesday after police found the corpses of eight newborn babies in a village in northern France, a judicial official said.

France to dismantle Roma camps, expel offenders (Reuters)

Posted: 28 Jul 2010 12:57 PM PDT

Reuters - President Nicholas Sarkozy on Wednesday ordered the dismantling of 300 illegal camps of travelers and Roma across France as part of a fight against crime and urban violence that has alarmed some rights groups.

Third most-wanted Nazi suspect charged in Germany (AP)

Posted: 28 Jul 2010 12:22 PM PDT

This photo made available by Yad Vashem Photo Archive in Jerusalem shows Nazi guards at Belzec death camp in occupied Poland in 1942. A former Nazi death camp guard has been charged with participating in the murder of 430,000 Jews and other crimes during the Third Reich, German prosecutors said Wednesday, July 28, 2010. Samuel Kunz, 90, was informed last week of his indictment on charges including participation in the murder of 430,000 Jews at the Belzec death camp in occupied Poland, where he served as a guard from January 1942 to July 1943, prosecutor Christoph Goeke in Dortmund said.(AP Photo/Yad Vashem Photo Archive)AP - The world's third most-wanted Nazi suspect, who lived undisturbed for decades after World War II, has been charged in Germany with participating in the murder of 430,000 Jews while serving as a low-ranking guard at a death camp.


Pilgrims must pay to attend 2 pope events in UK (AP)

Posted: 28 Jul 2010 12:16 PM PDT

AP - Pilgrims will have to pay as much as 25 pounds ($39) to attend one of the two public events in England to be led by Pope Benedict XVI during his visit in September, church officials said Wednesday.

Winston Churchill's false teeth go on sale (AP)

Posted: 28 Jul 2010 10:54 AM PDT

AP - Part of a set of dentures used by Winston Churchill to disguise a lisp is going on sale.

WWF apologizes for incident against Saudi Arabia (AP)

Posted: 28 Jul 2010 10:35 AM PDT

AP - The environmental group WWF has apologized for an incident at a recent climate conference involving an employee who vandalized Saudi Arabia's nameplate.

Official: Ukraine church blast kills 1, wounds 8 (AP)

Posted: 28 Jul 2010 10:13 AM PDT

AP - A bomb blast Wednesday at a southern Orthodox church in Ukraine has killed one person and wounded eight, officials said

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Posted: 28 Jul 2010 10:11 AM PDT

AP - Judicial official says police find corpses of 8 newborns in northern French village.

Sizzling Moscow shrouded in polluting smog (AP)

Posted: 28 Jul 2010 09:15 AM PDT

Moscow's Christ the Saviour Cathedral , background center, is slightly seen through a smog covering Moscow, Wednesday, July 28, 2010. A heat wave has  hit central Russia breaking temperature records going higher than 30 C (86 F) for four weeks breaking all records for the last 130 years and  smoke from burning forests around Moscow has reached the city. (AP Photo/Sergey Ponomarev)AP - A cloud of harmful smog has enveloped Moscow, raising airborne pollutants to four times the norm, officials said Wednesday, and prompting doctors to urge residents to stay indoors as the city swelters in a record heat wave.


Ex-Bosnian leader arrives home after legal battle (AP)

Posted: 28 Jul 2010 07:53 AM PDT

Former Bosnian Vice President  Ejup Ganic arrives at Westminster Magistrates' Court  in London Tuesday July 27, 2010. The court has thwarted a Serb attempt to extradite a former Bosnian leader accused of war crimes. Serbian authorities want Ganic to stand trial for his alleged role in a 1992 attack on Serb soldiers and have sought his extradition from Britain, where he was arrested in March.  (AP Photo/Tim Ireland/PA)   **  UNITED KINGDOM OUT   **AP - Former Bosnian Vice President Ejup Ganic returned to Sarajevo Wednesday and was greeted by hundreds of supporters a day after a British judge declared him a free man and rejected Serbia's request for his extradition to face war crimes charges.


Former Nazi SS officer Steidtmann dead at 95 (AP)

Posted: 28 Jul 2010 06:05 AM PDT

AP - A German newspaper says that former Nazi SS officer Erich Steidtmann, suspected but never convicted of involvement in World War II massacres, has died at age 95.

UK set to pay compensation over house arrest plan (AP)

Posted: 28 Jul 2010 05:43 AM PDT

AP - Alleged terrorism suspects held under a house arrest-style program but never put on trial are likely to win compensation payments, Britain's government said Wednesday after losing a legal case.
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