2010年8月15日星期日

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Yahoo! News: Europe News

Murray defies Federer, rain for second Toronto title (AFP)

Posted: 15 Aug 2010 04:08 PM PDT

Andy Murray of Great Britain returns a shot to Roger Federer of Switzerland in the first set during the final of the Rogers Cup at the Rexall Centre in Toronto, Canada. Murray became the first man since Andre Agassi in 1995 to win back-to-back ATP Toronto Masters titles, defeating Federer 7-5, 7-5, after withstanding multiple rain delays.(AFP/Getty Images/Matthew Stockman)AFP - Scotsman Andy Murray showed steely nerve to shatter a career finals jinx against Roger Federer, defeating the stylish Swiss 7-5, 7-5 Sunday to defend his title at the ATP Toronto Masters.

Talks with N. Ireland dissidents no betrayal: police chief (AFP)

Posted: 15 Aug 2010 03:12 PM PDT

Northern Ireland's police chief said that opening talks with armed groups would not amount to a betrayal, despite recent bomb attacks that have targeted members of the police and army. Chief Constable Matt Baggott, pictured in 2009, said dissident republicans, who are seeking to derail the province's peace process and have been blamed for the attacks, had to be confronted.(AFP/File/Peter Muhly)AFP - Northern Ireland's police chief said on Sunday that opening talks with armed groups would not amount to a betrayal, despite recent bomb attacks that have targeted members of the police and army.

Cardiff eye Bellamy swoop - report (AFP)

Posted: 15 Aug 2010 03:06 PM PDT

Manchester City's Welsh international striker Craig Bellamy, pictured in 2009, has been linked with a switch to Championship side Cardiff City, the club he supported as a boy, reports suggested on Sunday.(AFP/File)AFP - Manchester City's Welsh international striker Craig Bellamy has been linked with a switch to Championship side Cardiff City, the club he supported as a boy, reports suggested on Sunday.

Thousands evacuated in Lourdes hoax bomb scare (AFP)

Posted: 15 Aug 2010 12:53 PM PDT

Bomb disposal experts take control of the Roman Catholic sanctuaries in Lourdes, southern France. A bomb threat forced the temporary evacuation of the Roman Catholic sanctuaries in the French pilgrimage town, as 30,000 worshippers celebrated the Assumption.(AFP/Pascal Pavani)AFP - A bomb threat forced the temporary evacuation of the Roman Catholic sanctuaries in the French pilgrimage town of Lourdes on Sunday, as 30,000 worshippers celebrated the Assumption.

French Gypsy protest blocks major highway (AFP)

Posted: 15 Aug 2010 12:44 PM PDT

Members of traveller minorities block the access with cars and caravans to the Aquitaine bridge which leads to a major highway outside Bordeaux after hundreds of them were kicked out of an illegal campground.(AFP/Jean-Pierre Muller)AFP - Members of France's Roma, Gypsy and traveller minorities blocked a major highway outside Bordeaux on Sunday after hundreds of them were kicked out of an illegal campsite.

Lockerbie families raise new questions over bomber (AP)

Posted: 15 Aug 2010 12:01 PM PDT

FILE - In this Aug. 20, 2009 file photo, Lockerbie bomber Abdel Baset al-Megrahi holds his prisoner release papers as he boards an aeroplane at Glasgow International Airport, Glasgow, Scotland, bound for Tripoli. Al-Megrahi was released on compassionate grounds from a Scottish prison in August 2009, and allowed to return home to Libya, where a year later he continues to be treated for prostate cancer, although the cancer expert Prof. Karol Sikora, who said al-Megrahi had only three months to live before his release from prison is quoted in news reports Sunday Aug. 15, 2010, as saying he should have been more cautious about the prisoner's chances of survival. (AP Photo/Danny Lawson, File)AP - The regrets of a cancer expert who assessed the only man ever convicted of the 1988 Lockerbie jetliner bombing have intensified the anger felt by victims' relatives over Scotland's decision to release the Libyan on compassionate grounds.

Pilgrims evacuated after bomb threat at Lourdes (AP)

Posted: 15 Aug 2010 11:31 AM PDT

AP - Thousands of people, many disabled or ailing, were evacuated Sunday from the shrine at Lourdes in southern France after a bomb threat on the Catholic holy day of Assumption. The pilgrims returned after explosives experts scoured the area.

Arsenal grab freak point to draw 1-1 at Liverpool (AFP)

Posted: 15 Aug 2010 10:59 AM PDT

Arsenal's Marouane Chamakh (L) pulls away from Liverpool's Martin Skrtel during their English Premier League football match at Anfield in Liverpool. Arsenal grabbed a point with a freak late goal in a 1-1 draw at Liverpool at Anfield on Sunday in a Premier League clash which saw both sides finish the game with 10 players.(AFP/Paul Ellis)AFP - A late Pepe Reina own goal helped Arsenal salvage a point in a 1-1 draw at Anfield after David Ngog had put Liverpool in front in a match that saw both sides finish with 10 men on Sunday.

Poisonous smog returns to Moscow (AP)

Posted: 15 Aug 2010 08:53 AM PDT

A firefighter speaks while battling a forest fire near the village of Velino, some 140 km (87 miles) east of Moscow, Saturday, Aug. 14, 2010. Russia has been battling the fires for nearly three weeks. The fires have destroyed provincial towns and villages, and together with the drought have cost Russia a third of its wheat crop. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)AP - The poisonous smog that contributed to a higher death rate in Moscow last week returned to Russia's capital Sunday, officials said.

Veterans mark WWII victory over Japan (AFP)

Posted: 15 Aug 2010 08:43 AM PDT

British Prime Minister David Cameron lays a wreath during a service to commemorate the 65th anniversary of victory against Japanese forces during the Second World War, in London. War veterans marked the anniversary in a solemn ceremony attended by Prince Charles.(AFP/Carl de Souza)AFP - Veterans of World War II marked the 65th anniversary of the Allies' victory over Japan on Sunday in a solemn ceremony attended by Prince Charles and Prime Minister David Cameron.

APNewsBreak: Arabs lobby US on anti-Israel vote (AP)

Posted: 15 Aug 2010 08:19 AM PDT

FILE - In this file photo made from a video which aired Friday, Jan. 7, 2005 by Israeli television station Channel 10, shows Israel's top secret nuclear facility in the southern Israeli town of Dimona, according to the broadcaster. Diplomats say Arab nations are urging Washington and other powers to end their support of Israel's nuclear secrecy and to push the Jewish state to allow international inspections of its program. (AP Photo/Channel 10, File) ** ISRAEL OUT, TV OUT, NO SALES **AP - Ignoring a U.S. warning, Arab nations are urging Washington and other powers to end support of Israel's nuclear secrecy and to push the Jewish state to allow international inspections of its program, diplomats told The Associated Press Sunday.

Bosnian lab helps Iraq unearth war secrets (AP)

Posted: 15 Aug 2010 07:41 AM PDT

AP - One of the cleaning ladies in the building won't enter the room where the vials are stored because she can feel the restless souls inside them.

Two Iraqis to stand trial for killing 6 UK troops (AP)

Posted: 15 Aug 2010 07:21 AM PDT

Senior forensic anthropologist of the Bosnia-based International Commission for Missing Persons, Cheryl Katzmarzyk, shows a group of Iraqi experts how victims whose bones were found in several mass graves are put back together at the Commission's department in the northern Bosnian town of Lukavac, 72 kms north of Bosnian capital of Sarajevo, on Tuesday,Oct.6, 2009. In Bosnia the killers excavated the mass graves in which they originally threw their victims and reburied them elsewhere to hide the crime. They used bulldozers which cut the remains in two or three parts so experts now keep finding a mix of bones in graves and have to send almost each for DNA processing in order to put skeletons together like jigsaw puzzles. Officials in Baghdad estimate that 350,000 human remains are hidden in mass graves throughout the country. Human rights groups say it could be close to a million.(AP Photo/Amel Emric)AP - Britain's defense ministry says two suspects will stand trial in Iraq for the killing of six military policemen in 2003.

Turkey: patriarch holds historic Mass at monastery (AP)

Posted: 15 Aug 2010 06:26 AM PDT

Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, spiritual leader of the world's Orthodox Christians, conducts a service at the Sumela Monastery in Trabzon, northeastern Turkey, Sunday, Aug. 15, 2010. The mass conducted by Patriarch Bartholomew I, religious leader of all Orthodox Christians, marks the first official religious service carried out at the ancient monastery since the foundation of the modern Turkish Republic. (AP Photo/Ibrahim Usta)AP - Orthodox Christians held the first Mass in almost 90 years at an ancient monastery on the side of a Turkish mountain Sunday, after the government allowed worship there in a gesture toward religious minorities.

Poland's new president takes command of army (AP)

Posted: 15 Aug 2010 04:03 AM PDT

AP - Poland's new president has formally taken control of the nation's military and unveiled a new plaque to the victims of the plane crash that killed his predecessor and 95 others.

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