2010年8月24日星期二

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Yahoo! News: Europe News

French synagogue receives death threats (AFP)

Posted: 24 Aug 2010 05:37 PM PDT

This picture shows the AFP - A letter containing bullets and death threats to Jews was sent to a synagogue in a northern Paris suburb, where an infamous transit camp for Jews was set up during World War II, sources said.

UK police: Suspect arrested in 1999 suitcase death (AP)

Posted: 24 Aug 2010 05:36 PM PDT

AP - Authorities in Bahrain arrested a suspect Tuesday in the case of a Canadian singer whose body was found stuffed inside a suitcase at London's Heathrow Airport in 1999, according to London's Scotland Yard.

Dons down Blackpool in League Cup (AFP)

Posted: 24 Aug 2010 04:01 PM PDT

MK Dons produced the upset of the English League Cup second round with a 4-3 victory over Premier League Blackpool. Sam Baldock gave the League One side a first-minute lead before an extraordinary burst of four goals in six minutes at the start of the second half. Brett Ormerod levelled in the 52nd minute, before Jermaine Easter, pictured in 2009, (55 and 57) gave the hosts a 3-1 lead.(AFP/File)AFP - MK Dons produced the upset of the English League Cup second round on Tuesday with a 4-3 victory over Premier League Blackpool.

S&P downgrades Irish government debt rating (AP)

Posted: 24 Aug 2010 03:38 PM PDT

AP - Standard & Poor's Ratings Services on Tuesday downgraded Irish government bonds by one notch, citing the high costs of supporting the nation's troubled financial system.

Bahrain arrests man over 1999 London suitcase murder: police (AFP)

Posted: 24 Aug 2010 02:39 PM PDT

A policeman keeps watch at Heathrow airport. Bahrain on Tuesday arrested a suspect in the murder of a Moroccan-born Canadian woman whose body was found inside a suitcase at London's Heathrow airport in 1999, police in the British capital said.(AFP/File/Shaun Curry)AFP - Bahrain on Tuesday arrested a suspect in the murder of a Moroccan-born Canadian woman whose body was found inside a suitcase at London's Heathrow airport in 1999, police in the British capital said.

Spanish firefighters hope to contain Ibiza blaze (AFP)

Posted: 24 Aug 2010 01:37 PM PDT

A burnt forest in Sant Joan de Labritja on Ibiza island. Despite wind and heat Spanish firefighters said they hoped to contain Tuesday a blaze on the resort island of Ibiza that has forced the evacuation of more than 1,000 partygoers and scorched hundreds of hectares.(AFP/German G. Lama)AFP - Despite wind and heat Spanish firefighters said they hoped to contain Tuesday a blaze on the resort island of Ibiza that has forced the evacuation of more than 1,000 partygoers and scorched hundreds of hectares.

RBS boss says reforms have cut chances of bank failures (AFP)

Posted: 24 Aug 2010 01:26 PM PDT

Group Chief Executive of the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) Stephen Hester speaks during an event at Glasgow University in Glasgow, Scotland. The boss of state-controlled lender Royal Bank of Scotland said Tuesday that global banking reforms will AFP - The boss of state-controlled lender Royal Bank of Scotland said Tuesday that global banking reforms will "significantly" lower the chances of more failures in the troubled sector.

Cairn discovers gas in offshore Greenland amid protests (AFP)

Posted: 24 Aug 2010 01:25 PM PDT

A boat with tourists sails on the ice fjord of Ilulissat in Greenland in 2009. Scottish exploration group Cairn Energy said Tuesday it has discovered gas in offshore Greenland, amid environmental protests by Greenpeace to stop its operations near the nation's fragile coast.(AFP/File/Slim Allagui)AFP - Scottish exploration group Cairn Energy said Tuesday it has discovered gas in offshore Greenland, amid environmental protests by Greenpeace to stop its operations near the nation's fragile coast.

Report: Cover-up in 1972 NIreland bombing (AP)

Posted: 24 Aug 2010 12:48 PM PDT

A journalist holds a copy of the new report into the 1972 Irish Republican Army bombing, in Claudy, Northern Ireland, Tuesday Aug. 24, 2010. The new report claimed that the British government and the Roman Catholic church colluded to cover up the involvement of a priest in a 1972 bombing that killed nine people and injured 30. The Northern Ireland police ombudsman's report said that Father James Chesney was the prime suspect in the blast in the village of Claudy, just outside of Londonderry. The explosion hit the village without the customary warnings that paramilitaries used to limit civilian casualties.(AP Photo/Julien Behal-pa) **UNITED KINGDOM OUT: NO SALES: NO ARCHIVE:**AP - The British government and the Roman Catholic church colluded to cover up the suspected involvement of a priest in a 1972 bombing that killed nine people and injured 30, a new report said Tuesday.

Man shot in head, but notices only 5 years later (AP)

Posted: 24 Aug 2010 12:11 PM PDT

The X-ray photo released by German police in Herne Tuesday, Aug 24, 2010 shows the skull of a man with a bullet in the back of his head. Police said a Polish man living in Germany was shot in the back of his head, but that it took him five years to realize it. Police said Tuesday that the 35-year-old men was hit by a .22-caliber bullet in the western town of Herne as he was out in the street partying drunk on New Year's Eve five years ago. They say the man recalled receiving a blow to the head, but told them he didn't seek medical assistance at the time. (AP Photo/Polizei Herne)AP - Police say a man living in Germany was shot in the back of his head, but that it took him five years to realize it. Police said Tuesday that the 35-year-old man was hit by a .22-caliber bullet in the western town of Herne as he was out in the street partying and drunk on New Year's Eve five years ago.

Woman seen on camera dumping cat in trash in UK (AP)

Posted: 24 Aug 2010 10:27 AM PDT

AP - The gray-haired woman gently pets the cat, occasionally glancing furtively at a garbage bin. Then she strikes, casually grabbing it by the scruff, tossing it in, popping the lid closed, and quickly strolling away.

Romanian nurse arrested after maternity fire (AP)

Posted: 24 Aug 2010 09:25 AM PDT

AP - A court in Romania ruled Tuesday to imprison a nurse, following a blaze that killed five newborns and injured six others at a maternity hospital in Bucharest.

Small shoot to give Anne Frank tree new life (AP)

Posted: 24 Aug 2010 08:32 AM PDT

A photographer and a cameraman climb on the monumental chestnut tree, which comforted Anne Frank while she hid from the Nazis during World War II, after it had fallen over, at the Anne Frank Museum Monday, Aug. 23, 2010, in Amsterdam, Netherlands. The tree's trunk snapped close to the ground and it toppled into neighboring gardens, damaging several sheds. No one was hurt. The 150-year-old tree suffered from fungus and moths that had caused more than half its trunk to rot. Two years ago the 27-ton tree was encased in a steel tripod as a precaution of the danger it might fall, but that failed under windy weather Monday. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)AP - A shoot growing from the splintered trunk of a chestnut that cheered Anne Frank during her time in hiding could give the tree a new lease of life after a storm toppled it, a spokeswoman for a group that campaigned to save the tree said Tuesday.

UK prime minister announces birth of baby girl (AP)

Posted: 24 Aug 2010 07:52 AM PDT

British Prime Minister David Cameron, right, with his wife Samantha, pose on the coastal path, at Daymer Bay beach in Cornwall, England, Sunday, Aug. 22, 2010, where the family are on holiday. (AP Photo/ Ben Birchall,PA) ** UNITED KINGDOM OUT **AP - British Prime Minister David Cameron's wife gave birth to a baby girl Tuesday, while the couple were away from London on their summer vacation.

Rights panel chides Paris on Roma (AP)

Posted: 24 Aug 2010 07:27 AM PDT

AP - Europe's top human rights watchdog accused France on Tuesday of stigmatizing Roma people by blaming them for crime and expelling them from the country.

How cute! Panda cub born in Austria (AP)

Posted: 24 Aug 2010 04:28 AM PDT

HANDOUT - In this photo taken with a surveillance camera and provided by the Schoenbrunn Zoo, female giant panda Yang Yang holds her newborn cub in her mouth in an enclosed compound in Vienna, on Monday, Aug. 23, 2010. Yang Yang gave birth to her second cub on the third birthday of her first baby — called Fu Long — who has since left for China. (AP Photo/Schoenbrunn Zoo, Handout)AP - A giant panda has given birth to a healthy cub in Austria — the second in just three years.

Catholic priest charged with rape of 14-year-old (AP)

Posted: 24 Aug 2010 04:11 AM PDT

AP - German prosecutors say a Roman Catholic priest has been charged with twice raping a 14-year-old girl 20 years ago.

Al-Qaida group says hostage demands were met (AP)

Posted: 24 Aug 2010 03:21 AM PDT

AP - An Al-Qaida affiliate in North Africa says it released two Spanish aid workers held for nearly nine months after some of its demands were met.

Swiss campaigners hope to revive death penalty (AP)

Posted: 24 Aug 2010 03:16 AM PDT

AP - Swiss death penalty advocates can start collecting signatures for a referendum on whether to restore capital punishment in the Alpine republic after almost 70 years, the government said Tuesday.

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