2010年8月17日星期二

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Yahoo! News: Europe News

British travel firm collapse ruins plans for holidaymakers (AFP)

Posted: 17 Aug 2010 03:40 PM PDT

Budget travel firm Kiss Flights became the latest British holiday company to collapse on Tuesday, leaving plans for tens of thousands of holidaymakers in tatters.(Kiss Flights)AFP - Budget travel firm Kiss Flights became the latest British holiday company to collapse on Tuesday, leaving plans for tens of thousands of holidaymakers in tatters.

Spurs suffer Swiss scare in Champions League bid (AFP)

Posted: 17 Aug 2010 02:32 PM PDT

Bern's Young Boys' David Degen (L) controls the ball in front of Tottenham Hotspur's Gareth Bale during their Champions League Group Play-off first leg football match in Bern, Switzerland. Bern won 3-2.(AFP/Fabrice Coffrini)AFP - Tottenham Hotspur suffered a huge fright in their historic bid for a Champions League berth on Tuesday, losing 3-2 to Swiss side Young Boys in Berne in the first leg of their play off.

DNA tests on chess champion's corpse exclude paternity (Reuters)

Posted: 17 Aug 2010 02:17 PM PDT

Former world chess champion Bobby Fischer gestures during his match against his archrival Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union, in the Yugoslav resort of Sveti Stefan in this September 1992 file photo. REUTERS/Ivan MilutinovicReuters - DNA tests on former chess champion Bobby Fischer's corpse have shown that he was not the father of a Filipino girl, as claimed by his former lover, an attorney involved in the dispute said on Tuesday.

Lawyers: Chess icon Fischer didn't father girl (AP)

Posted: 17 Aug 2010 02:14 PM PDT

Former world chess champion Bobby Fischer at Narita airport, Japan, March 24, 2005. A DNA test on former chess champion Bobby Fischer's corpse has shown that he was not the father of a Filipino girl, as claimed by his former lover, an Icelandic paper reported on Tuesday. REUTERS/Yuriko Nakao/FilesAP - DNA tests have shown that chess genius Bobby Fischer was not the father of a 9-year-old girl from the Philippines, bringing a paternity claim against his estate to a close, two lawyers familiar with the case said Tuesday.

Train collides with lorry, 18 injured: rescuers (AFP)

Posted: 17 Aug 2010 01:12 PM PDT

AFP - A train derailed after colliding with a lorry at a level crossing in the village of Little Cornard on Tuesday, injuring 18 people, at least two of them critically, emergency services said.

50 years after Beatles' first gig, Hamburg pays tribute (AFP)

Posted: 17 Aug 2010 01:07 PM PDT

The Beatles' John Lennon(2nd from bottom), George Harrison(top), Ringo Starr(L), and Paul McCartney(bottom) in the 1960's. The club where the Beatles played their first gig 50 years ago in the German city of Hamburg is hosting four anniversary concerts featuring a tribute band starting from Tuesday, the organisers said.(AFP/File)AFP - The club where the Beatles played their first gig 50 years ago in the German city of Hamburg is hosting four anniversary concerts featuring a tribute band starting from Tuesday, the organisers said.

Heat probably killed thousands in Moscow: scientist (Reuters)

Posted: 17 Aug 2010 12:56 PM PDT

People covering their faces with cloth to protect themselves from the smell of heavy smog, caused by peat fires in nearby forests, walk in Moscow, August 9, 2010. REUTERS/Alex AminevReuters - Several thousand Muscovites are thought to have died in July alone from this year's unprecedented heatwave and August could add more fatalities, a Russian scientist said on Tuesday.

Romania orders tit-for-tat expulsion of Russian diplomat (AFP)

Posted: 17 Aug 2010 12:17 PM PDT

A diplomatic car leaves the Romanian embassy in Moscow. Romania ordered the tit-for-tat expulsion of a Russian diplomat on Tuesday, a day after a Romanian diplomat was told by Moscow to leave Russia for spying.(AFP/Alexey Sazonov)AFP - Romania ordered the tit-for-tat expulsion of a Russian diplomat on Tuesday, a day after a Romanian embassy official was told by Moscow to leave Russia for spying.

WikiLeaks gets new host -- Swedish pirates (AFP)

Posted: 17 Aug 2010 12:07 PM PDT

The homepage of the WikiLeaks.org website is seen on a computer. The whistleblower website WikiLeaks will place several new servers with the Swedish Pirate Party, the group which campaigns for more freedom on the Internet said Tuesday.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Joe Raedle)AFP - The whistleblower website WikiLeaks will place several new servers with the Swedish Pirate Party, the group which campaigns for more freedom on the Internet said Tuesday.

Car bombing wounds 23 in Russia's south (AP)

Posted: 17 Aug 2010 11:57 AM PDT

In this image made from television, Russia police officers and investigators work at the site of an explosion outside the cafe in downtown Pyatigorsk, a city in Russia's North Caucasus, Tuesday, Aug. 17, 2010. A parked car exploded outside a cafe in Pyatigorsk, southern Russia, on Tuesday, injuring at least 20 people, police said. (AP Photo/Rossiya 24 TV Channel) ** TV OUT **AP - A car bomb exploded outside a cafe in a restive region of southern Russia on Tuesday, injuring 23 people, police said.

Veteran Italian politician Cossiga dies (AP)

Posted: 17 Aug 2010 11:45 AM PDT

FILE - In this April 10, 2006 file photo released by Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano, Pope Benedict XVI embraces former Italian Republic president Francesco Cossiga during an audience with youths of the conservative Roman Catholic movement Opus Dei, in the Paul VI hall at the Vatican. A Rome hospital says that Francesco Cossiga, a former president who as premier had helped lead the country's fight against domestic terrorism in the 1980s, has died. The veteran Christian Democrat was 82. Just a couple hours earlier on Tuesday, Aug. 17, 2010 the Gemelli Polyclinic said that Cossiga had taken a 'drastic' turn for the worse during the night with circulatory problems and had to be put back on life support apparatus. (AP Photo/L'Osservatore Romano) ** EDITORIAL USE ONLY **AP - Veteran politician Francesco Cossiga, who led Italy's fight against domestic terrorism in the 1970s and 1980s but resigned after failing to save the life of a politician kidnapped by the Red Brigades, died on Tuesday. He was 82.

Experts: Russia heat, smog trigger health problems (AP)

Posted: 17 Aug 2010 11:24 AM PDT

Firefighters battle 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 - Russian health experts warned Tuesday that unprecedented heat and suffocating smog from wildfires will lead to more suicides, higher rates of alcohol abuse and other problems, and they accused the government of failing to address the long-term health dangers.

Romania to expel Russian diplomat (AP)

Posted: 17 Aug 2010 09:56 AM PDT

AP - Romania's foreign ministry on Tuesday told Russia it would expel a top diplomat, a day after Moscow detained a Romanian diplomat accusing him of spying.

Train collides with truck in Germany, 15 injured (AP)

Posted: 17 Aug 2010 09:21 AM PDT

Passengers look out of a InterCityExpress train after an accident near Lambrecht, Germany Tuesday Aug. 17, 2010. Germany's national railway says a Frankfurt-Paris train collided with a garbage truck and two carriages derailed leaving one passenger seriously injured and other people slightly hurt. Federal police said the InterCityExpress high-speed train on Tuesday ran into the truck after it slid down a wet slope near Lambrecht, about 90 miles (140 kilometers) southwest of Frankfurt. (AP Photo/ddp/Horst Welke)AP - A Frankfurt to Paris train on Tuesday collided with a garbage truck in southwest Germany and two carriages derailed, leaving one man seriously injured and 14 other people slightly hurt, police said.

Briton will fight US extradition over Iran sale (AP)

Posted: 17 Aug 2010 08:53 AM PDT

Christopher Tappin is seen at a press conference in London, Tuesday, Aug. 17, 2010. The retired businessman is accused by the United States of exporting batteries to Iran for use in surface-to-air missiles, he faces an extradition hearing in two weeks time to decide if he must stand trial in the U.S. Tappin denies the allegations and believes he was unwittingly caught up in a US customs sting. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)AP - American authorities accuse him of plotting to sell missile components to Iran in a deal exposed in an undercover sting — but British retiree Christopher Tappin insisted Tuesday he is the innocent victim of entrapment by U.S. customs agents.

4th baby dies in Romanian hospital blaze (AP)

Posted: 17 Aug 2010 08:26 AM PDT

A baby is held as evacuated patients, pregnant women and relatives stand in the street following an explosion in the intensive care section of a hospital in Bucharest, Romania, Monday, Aug. 16, 2010. Officials say an explosion at a maternity hospital in Romania's capital has killed three babies, while two pregnant women and eight newborn infants sustained burns and other injuries. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)AP - A fourth baby died Tuesday and seven remained in critical condition following a fire at a Bucharest maternity hospital that the health minister called "one of the darkest tragedies" in Romania's health system.

American faces deportation from Turkey (AP)

Posted: 17 Aug 2010 08:23 AM PDT

AP - An American detained for allegedly collaborating with Kurdish militants said Tuesday he was being targeted because of his writings about the war between Turkey and the guerrillas.

3 more Cuban dissidents arrive in Spain (AP)

Posted: 17 Aug 2010 08:13 AM PDT

Laura Pollan, leader of the Cuban female dissident group Ladies in White, center, and other members leave mass before the group's weekly march in Havana, Cuba, Sunday Aug. 15, 2010. Cuba's Roman Catholic Church on Friday revealed the names of six more political prisoners to be released into exile in Spain under a sweeping agreement with President Raul Castro's government. (AP Photo/Javier Galeano)AP - Three more Cuban political prisoners arrived in Madrid on Tuesday, bringing to 23 the number who have been released into exile under Cuba's pledge to free dissidents jailed there since 2003.

Obama, EU leaders to meet Nov. 20 (AP)

Posted: 17 Aug 2010 07:55 AM PDT

AP - The EU says U.S. President Barack Obama and European Union leaders will meet on Nov. 20 in Lisbon to discuss how to boost global economic recovery.

3 die in floods in Spain (AP)

Posted: 17 Aug 2010 06:24 AM PDT

AP - Three people were killed and two injured in flash floods in towns close to the southern Spanish city of Cordoba, authorities said Tuesday.

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