2010年9月21日星期二

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Yahoo! News: Europe News

Bees sting Everton in League Cup shock (AFP)

Posted: 21 Sep 2010 04:53 PM PDT

Everton's striker Jermaine Beckford, pictured in August 2010. Third tier Brentford knocked Premier League Everton out of the English Football League Cup on penalties in the shock result of the third round on Tuesday.(AFP/File/Paul Ellis)AFP - Third tier Brentford knocked Premier League Everton out of the English Football League Cup on penalties in the shock result of the third round on Tuesday.

Italian bank chief resigns over Libyan money row: reports (AFP)

Posted: 21 Sep 2010 03:25 PM PDT

The head of Italy's biggest bank Unicredit, Alessandro Profumo, pictured on September 6, resigned Tuesday in a row with shareholders over the influx of Libyan money in the company's capital, his wife told domestic news agencies.(AFP/File/Giuseppe Cacace)AFP - The head of Italy's biggest bank Unicredit, Alessandro Profumo, resigned Tuesday in a row with shareholders over the influx of Libyan money in the company's capital, his wife told domestic news agencies.

Head of Italy's biggest bank Unicredit resigns (AFP)

Posted: 21 Sep 2010 03:12 PM PDT

The head of Italy's biggest bank Unicredit, Alessandro Profumo, pictured on September 6, resigned Tuesday in a row with shareholders over the influx of Libyan money in the company's capital, his wife told domestic news agencies.(AFP/File/Giuseppe Cacace)AFP - The head of Italy's biggest bank Unicredit, Alessandro Profumo, has resigned in a row with shareholders over the influx of Libyan money in the company's capital, Italian agencies said Tuesday, quoting his wife.

Unicredit CEO Profumo reportedly resigns (AP)

Posted: 21 Sep 2010 02:41 PM PDT

FILE - In this June 12, 2005 file photo, Alessandro Profumo, CEO of Unicredit, gestures as he meets the media at the bank's headquarters following a board meeting, in Milan, Italy. Unicredit has called a board meeting for Tuesday, Sept. 21, 2010, following complaints about Libya's increased stake in Italy's largest bank. Some politicians of the Northern League, which is a key ally in Premier Silvio Berlusconi's government, have voiced concern about management decisions concerning the Libyans and have focused their criticism on CEO Alessandro Profumo. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno, files)AP - Italian news agency ANSA says Unicredit CEO Alessandro Profumo has resigned from the helm of Italy's largest bank.

Idowu set to skip Commonwealth Games as Ohuruogu exits (AFP)

Posted: 21 Sep 2010 02:27 PM PDT

World triple jump champion Phillips Idowu, pictured in August 2010, looked set to skip the defence of his Commonwealth Games title as he became the latest high-profile absentee from the crisis-stricken event on Tuesday.(AFP/File/Adrian Dennis)AFP - World triple jump champion Phillips Idowu looked set to skip the defence of his Commonwealth Games title as he became the latest high-profile absentee from the crisis-stricken event on Tuesday.

Al-Qaida claims kidnapping of 5 French in Niger (AP)

Posted: 21 Sep 2010 02:06 PM PDT

AP - Al-Qaida's North Africa branch has claimed responsibility for kidnapping five French nationals near a uranium mine deep in the desert of the African nation of Niger, an audio message broadcast Tuesday said.

Reclusive World War II heroine buried with honors (AP)

Posted: 21 Sep 2010 01:27 PM PDT

AP - Hundreds of Britons mourned a reclusive World War II heroine during her funeral Tuesday, remembering a woman who was tortured by the Nazis after she was caught behind enemy lines.

London Fashion Week ends with new confidence (AFP)

Posted: 21 Sep 2010 01:27 PM PDT

A model presents creations by Burberry Prorsum during the fashion show for the Spring/Summer collection on the fifth day of London Fashion Week.(AFP/Ben Stansall)AFP - London Fashion Week drew to a close Tuesday after five days of shows that commentators said marked a new maturity for the event -- despite a few catwalk tumbles and the odd naked model.

French train strike to disrupt high-speed TGV service: SNCF (AFP)

Posted: 21 Sep 2010 01:18 PM PDT

Passengers leave a TGV (High speed train) at the Gare de Lyon train station in Paris. France's high-speed TGV train service will be disrupted by a one-day national rail strike on Thursday that will also affect regional and local trains, the SNCF train operator said Tuesday.(AFP/File/Loic Venance)AFP - France's high-speed TGV train service will be disrupted by a one-day national rail strike on Thursday to protest a planned rise in the age of retirement, the SNCF train operator said Tuesday.

Bell says Trott clash can bolster England (AFP)

Posted: 21 Sep 2010 12:34 PM PDT

England's Ian Bell, seen here in July 2010, believes fellow England batsman Jonathan Trott's clash with Pakistan's Wahab Riaz will help forge the kind of spirit the team will need to sustain them on their upcoming tour of Australia.(AFP/File/Andrew Yates)AFP - Ian Bell believes fellow England batsman Jonathan Trott's clash with Pakistan's Wahab Riaz will help forge the kind of spirit the team will need to sustain them on their upcoming tour of Australia.

French premier urges EU plan for illegal Roma (AP)

Posted: 21 Sep 2010 10:03 AM PDT

Roma Gypsies eat food received from volonteers at a new camp of Roma people after being resettled by an association a day after their deportation from another camp in Villeneuve-d'Ascq, northern France. The UN anti-racism panel on Friday called on France to avoid the collective expulsion of Roma Gypsies, but Paris dismissed its concerns and insisted its policy of repatriation was legal.(AFP/Philippe Huguen)AP - French Prime Minister Francois Fillon said Tuesday that the European Union needs a continent-wide plan for illegal Gypsy camps and children beggars that he described as plagues of the 19th century.

Swiss women poised to claim Cabinet majority (AP)

Posted: 21 Sep 2010 09:58 AM PDT

Swiss Social Democrat lawmaker Simonetta Sommaruga, left, talks to Erika Forster from the Free Democratic Party, during a session of the upper chamber of the Swiss parliament, on Tuesday, Sept. 21, 2010, in Bern, Switzerland. Swiss women look set to claim a majority of Cabinet seats, less than four decades after winning a long battle for the right to vote in national elections. A recent poll shows strong popular support for Sommaruga to gain one of two vacant places in the seven-member multiparty government. (AP Photo/Keystone, Peter Klaunzer)AP - Women were poised Tuesday to claim a majority of seats in Switzerland's Cabinet, less than four decades after the country became one of Europe's last to grant women the right to vote in national elections.

Police break up gay rally in Russian capital (AP)

Posted: 21 Sep 2010 09:17 AM PDT

Police officers detain Russian gay rights activist Nikolai Alexeyev during a rally near city hall in Moscow, Tuesday, Sept. 21, 2010. Moscow police has dispersed a gay rally and detained activists protesting homophobic policies of Moscow authorities. Mayor Yuri Luzhkov has called homosexuals 'satanic' and routinely thwarted their attempts to hold a gay pride in Moscow. Tuesday's rally was held without a required permit, and police detained most, if not all, the activists in a square near city hall after they displayed a papier-mache mummy resembling Luzhkov and unfurled posters ridiculing him. (AP Photo/Sergey Ponomarev)AP - Police dispersed a gay rally Tuesday and detained at least a dozen protesters in the Russian capital.

APNewsBreak: Poles urged to probe CIA prison acts (AP)

Posted: 21 Sep 2010 06:57 AM PDT

FILE - This Thursday, Nov. 3, 2005 file photo shows the control tower of the airport in Szymany, in northeastern Poland. Prosecutors are investigating possible abuse of power by Polish public officials in connection with the closed CIA black site near the secluded Szymany airport in northeast Poland. Flight logs trace several landings of planes linked to the CIA there. A human rights organization and lawyers for a Saudi man accused in the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole demanded Tuesday Sept. 21, 2010 that Polish prosecutors investigate the terror suspect's detention and treatment at a CIA prison once housed in Poland. Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri is the first detainee subjected to the CIA's detention and interrogation program who has taken legal action in Poland, said Amrit Singh, the Open Society Justice Initiative's senior legal officer. (AP Photo, File) ** POLAND OUT **AP - A human rights organization and lawyers for a Saudi man accused in the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole demanded Tuesday that Polish prosecutors investigate the terror suspect's detention and treatment at a CIA prison once housed in Poland.

UN agency: 40 youths murdered daily in Europe (AP)

Posted: 21 Sep 2010 06:51 AM PDT

AP - The World Health Organization says 40 young Europeans are murdered every day, with Russia, Albania and Kazakhstan having the highest homicide rates for people aged 10-29.

Vatican claims transparency amid laundering probe (AP)

Posted: 21 Sep 2010 06:17 AM PDT

AP - The Vatican says it is "perplexed and surprised" by a money laundering probe that resulted in the seizure of euro23 million ($30 million) from the Vatican bank and an investigation of the company's chairman.

Interpol worried about spike in extremist websites (AP)

Posted: 21 Sep 2010 04:12 AM PDT

AP - The chief of Interpol says the "skyrocketing" number of extremist websites is making it easier for terrorists to recruit middle class youth around the world.

US urges Iran to return to nuclear talks (AP)

Posted: 21 Sep 2010 04:10 AM PDT

Executive Secretary of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization, CTBTO, Tibor Toth, left, and US Secretary of Energy Steven Chu, right, stand in the control room of the CTBTO at the International Center in Vienna, Austria, on Tuesday, Sept. 21, 2010. Steven Chu said Tuesday that Washington is 'always interested in re-engaging Iran' on the so-called fuel swap but notes that Washington wants to make sure that Tehran is sincere. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak)AP - U.S. officials urged Iran on Tuesday to return to negotiations over its nuclear program.

Int'l court to launch cases in Kenya violence (AP)

Posted: 21 Sep 2010 03:58 AM PDT

AP - The International Criminal Court will launch cases against as many as six suspected instigators of postelection violence in Kenya that left more than 1,000 people dead in 2007-08, the chief prosecutor announced Tuesday.

Ireland sells $2B in bonds as debt fears ease (AP)

Posted: 21 Sep 2010 03:33 AM PDT

AP - Ireland sold euro1.5 billion ($2 billion) in government bonds Tuesday in a closely watched test of whether international investors would keep buying Irish treasuries despite the country's runaway deficit.

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