2010年9月10日星期五

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Yahoo! News: Europe News

'Big Brother' reality show calls time (AFP)

Posted: 10 Sep 2010 06:29 PM PDT

A view of the front of Elstree Studios in north London, the sight of the 'Big Brother House,' pictured in 2007. The reality TV show 'Big Brother,' which launched the career of Jade Goody and sparked an international row over the abuse of Indian film star Shilpa Shetty, has gone out with a bang.(AFP/File/Max Nash)AFP - Reality television show "Big Brother", which launched the career of Jade Goody and sparked an international row over the abuse of Indian film star Shilpa Shetty, has gone out with a bang.

Fergie expects Rio to 'shine for club and country' (AFP)

Posted: 10 Sep 2010 06:22 PM PDT

Sir Alex Ferguson has backed fit-again Rio Ferdinand (pictured in June) to erase his injury nightmare by becoming a leader for both club and country again. Ferdinand has been missed at both domestic and international level since damaging knee ligaments while on England duty ahead of the World Cup.(AFP/File/Paul Ellis)AFP - Sir Alex Ferguson has backed fit-again Rio Ferdinand to erase his injury nightmare by becoming a leader for both club and country again.

Germany's HRE bank gets 40 bln euros in guarantees (AFP)

Posted: 10 Sep 2010 06:19 PM PDT

The logo of German bank Hypo Real Estate (HRE) can be seen behind the speaker's desk during an extraordinary general meeting in Munich, southern Germany. Germany's troubled Hypo Real Estate bank, which last year narrowly avoided bankruptcy before being nationalised, will get another 40 billion euros in state guarantees, a state agency said Friday.(AFP/DDP/File/Joerg Koch)AFP - Germany's troubled Hypo Real Estate bank, which last year narrowly avoided bankruptcy before being nationalised, will get another 40 billion euros in state guarantees, a state agency said Friday.

European Union Condemns France's Expulsion of Roma (Time.com)

Posted: 10 Sep 2010 03:55 PM PDT

A Roma boy holds a banner reading 'Solidarity' in Serbian Latin letters during a protest in Belgrade, Serbia, Saturday, Sept. 4, 2010. Dozens of Roma held a protest march in support for the Roma in France in central Belgrade on Saturday. The protesters chanted anti-racist slogans and held banners calling for an end to expulsions of Roma in France. (AP Photo/Marko Drobnjakovic)Time.com - After weeks of watching from the sidelines, the European Union has finally condemned France's mass expulsion of Roma migrants. But does France care?

Danish police hold man after hotel blast (Reuters)

Posted: 10 Sep 2010 03:53 PM PDT

Police with sniffer dogs walk outside Hotel Jorgensen in Copenhagen, September 10, 2010. REUTERS/Jens Norgaard Larsen/ScanpixReuters - Danish police arrested a man who set off an explosion in a central Copenhagen hotel on Friday, the Danish security agency said Friday.

French lawmakers throw out retirement age at 60 (AFP)

Posted: 10 Sep 2010 03:01 PM PDT

France's Prime Minister Francois Fillon visits a French car maker PSA Peugeot Citroen factory in Sochaux. Fillon said Thursday, two days after over a million people took to the streets in protest, the pension reform was AFP - French lawmakers on Friday approved government plans to raise the retirement age from 60 to 62 by 2018, a key item on President Nicolas Sarkozy's agenda to overhaul the costly pension system.

London Mayor Johnson to run again in 2012 (AFP)

Posted: 10 Sep 2010 02:43 PM PDT

Mayor of London, Boris Johnson reacts during an event to celebrate the two year countdown to the London 2012 Paralympic Games, at Trafalgar Square in London on August 2010. Johnson confirmed Friday he will seek re-election, dashing rumours that he wanted to return to parliament to challenge Prime Minister David Cameron for his job.(AFP/File/Adrian Dennis)AFP - London Mayor Boris Johnson confirmed Friday he will seek re-election, dashing rumours that he wanted to return to parliament to challenge Prime Minister David Cameron for his job.

Iranian consular official in Finland defects (AP)

Posted: 10 Sep 2010 02:08 PM PDT

AP - A ranking diplomat at the Iranian Embassy in Finland said Friday he has quit his job to protest the Islamic Republic's treatment of its citizens.

Russians mourn bombing victims; 10 others killed (AP)

Posted: 10 Sep 2010 01:53 PM PDT

Investigators work at the site of a suicide car attack in a square outside a market in Vladikavkaz, North Caucasus, Russia, Friday, Sept. 10, 2010. Thursday's bombing near the central market of the capital of the North Ossetia republic was the most serious attack in Russia since the March subway bombings in Moscow that killed 40 people. (AP Photo/Sergey Ponomarev)AP - Clashes between police and alleged militants left 10 more people dead Friday in Russia's volatile North Caucasus, even as stunned residents laid flowers in a square where a suicide car bombing killed 17 people and wounded more than 140 a day earlier.

Man arrested after small blast in Copenhagen (AP)

Posted: 10 Sep 2010 01:44 PM PDT

Police guard a cordon in central Copenhagen, Friday, Sept. 10, 2010, after it was suspected that the man tried to detonate a small bomb in Hotel Joergensen in central Copenhagen. The man received minor injuries in his face and on his arms. The hotel was evacuated and there were no reports of other injuries. (AP Photo/Polfoto, Kenneth Meyer) ** DENMARK OUT **AP - Police detained a man and sealed off central parts of the Danish capital Friday after a minor explosion in a Copenhagen hotel, a police spokesman said.

Lawyer: UN court rejects release of Kosovo's ex-PM (AP)

Posted: 10 Sep 2010 01:05 PM PDT

AP - The lawyer for Kosovo's former Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj says the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal rejected his provisional release during his retrial on murder and torture charges.

Kissinger urges regional engagement in Afghanistan (AP)

Posted: 10 Sep 2010 12:59 PM PDT

AP - Former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger said Friday that Afghanistan's neighbors need to be engaged in order to find a long-term solution to the conflict there.

100 Swiss police can't catch retiree with gun (AP)

Posted: 10 Sep 2010 10:12 AM PDT

AP - Swiss police say they may have to change tactics in their hunt for a fugitive gunman who shot and seriously wounded one officer in the western city of Biel.

Rescuers fear whale stuck in Scottish waters dead (AP)

Posted: 10 Sep 2010 10:02 AM PDT

In this undated image provided by The Scottish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, issued Thursday Sept. 9, 2010, showing a humpback whale which is caught in creel fishing buoys as it flounders in the sea off the coast of the Shetland Islands, a remote archipelago off northeast Scotland. Animal safety officials are consulting with various international animal experts to find a way of rescuing the 40-feet (12-meter) long whale, but rough wether is making the operation more difficult.(AP Photo/SPCA)AP - A humpback whale entangled in ropes near a remote Scottish island was feared dead on Friday, rescuers said.

Priest sex abuse linked to 13 suicides in Belgium (AP)

Posted: 10 Sep 2010 09:13 AM PDT

File - In this Sunday, April 3, 2005 file photo Belgian Cardinal Godfried Danneels leans on his staff while leading a memorial Mass for Pope John Paul II, at the St. Michael church in Brussels. On Friday, Sept. 10, 2010 a Belgian commission looking into sexual abuse by Catholic clergy says it has received testimony from hundreds of victims and that witnesses say widespread abuse over decades led to at least 13 suicides. Cardinal Godfried Danneels, acknowledged Wednesday that damage control often took precedence over concerns for victims in sexual abuse cases involving clergy. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo, File)AP - Hundreds of sex abuse victims have come forward in Belgium with harrowing accounts of molestation by Catholic clergy that reportedly led to at least 13 suicides and affected children as young as two, a special commission said Friday.

Greece pledges to overhaul loss-making state rail (AP)

Posted: 10 Sep 2010 09:08 AM PDT

Coast guards lock the gate of the harbor as riot police take positions during a protest in Thessaloniki, Greece Friday Sept. 10, 2010. Unions are staging protests in Thessaloniki ahead of an annual weekend speech on the state of the economy by Prime Minister George Papandreou. Unions are angry at plans by Papandreou's Socialist government to sell-off and reform loss-making state enterprises and relax labor rules as part of an effort deal with Greece's acute debt crisis. (AP Photo/Dimitri Messinis)AP - The Greek government pledged Friday to radically overhaul loss-making state rail company OSE, as official data showed efforts to cut the country's bloated budget deficit remained on track, if slightly asthmatic.

UK promises to tackle health and safety madness (AP)

Posted: 10 Sep 2010 09:04 AM PDT

In this image taken Friday, Aug. 27, 2010. shows long grass at Carlisle Castle, Carlisle, England. Carlisle Castle is under siege. Not from rampaging Vikings or insurgent Scots or Parliamentary rebels, but from tall scraggly blades of grass. For months now, the castle's caretakers have refrained from trimming the verges around the venerable Norman fortress, saying that it was too risky to run a lawnmower over its steep slopes. (AP Photo/Scott Heppell)AP - Carlisle Castle is under siege. Not from rampaging Vikings, insurgent Scots or Parliamentary rebels, but from tall scraggly blades of grass.

Mudslide hits village on Italy's Amalfi Coast (AP)

Posted: 10 Sep 2010 08:24 AM PDT

AP - A river of mud unleashed by heavy rains has flooded a tiny village on Italy's Amalfi Coast, and at least one person was reported missing.

Medvedev rejects claims of Russia authoritarianism (AP)

Posted: 10 Sep 2010 07:44 AM PDT

AP - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Friday hotly rejected criticism of his country as authoritarian, calling it a young democracy, but indicated authorities won't ease up on opposition movements whose attempts to rally are often broken up harshly by police.

French prosecutor seeks to drop 2005 riots case (AP)

Posted: 10 Sep 2010 07:20 AM PDT

AP - French prosecutors want to drop a highly charged case against two police officers in the electrocution deaths of two teens that sparked fiery nationwide riots in 2005, a judicial official said Friday.

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