2010年9月24日星期五

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Yahoo! News: Europe News

Queen tried to get UK poverty fund to heat palace (AP)

Posted: 24 Sep 2010 02:19 PM PDT

FILE - This is a Tuesday, May. 17, 2005 file photo of Buckingham Palace in London. A government fund intended to provide subsidized heating to low-income Britons got an application from an unexpected citizen: Queen Elizabeth II, who wanted help paying the heating bills at Buckingham Palace. The official response, according to documents unearthed by a British newspaper, Friday Sept. 24, 2010, was that the handout might prove to be an embarrassment if word ever got out. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham, File)AP - Even a monarch needs a little help from time to time — especially when the cost of heating those drafty old palaces spirals past $1.5 million a year.

Plane off runway in Sicily, 20 slightly injured (Reuters)

Posted: 24 Sep 2010 01:32 PM PDT

Reuters - At least 20 people were slightly injured on Friday when an Airbus A300 of the Italian airline Wind Jet swerved off the runway while landing at Palermo airport in bad weather, firefighters said.

Prosecutors: Skydiving love triangle led to murder (AP)

Posted: 24 Sep 2010 01:27 PM PDT

Belgian Els Clottemans , center, arrives at the courthouse in Tongeren, Belgium, Friday, Sept. 24, 2010. Friday, the trial into the death of a skydiver who crashed to earth because of a faulty parachute started. Clottemans, a lone suspect, faces murder charges and accusations that jealousy pushed her four years ago to sabotage the parachute of her close friend and rival Els Van Doren with whom she shared a passion for skydiving and a lover. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert)AP - The two women shared the same first name and were close friends. They both had a passion for skydiving. And they both loved the same man.

Arab move to censure Israel stymied at UN meeting (AP)

Posted: 24 Sep 2010 01:19 PM PDT

Reza Pourmand Tehrani deputy permanent representative to the UN from Iran delivers a speech at the general conference of International Atomic Energy Agency, IAEA, in Vienna, Austria, on Friday, Sept. 24, 2010. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak)AP - A 151-nation meeting of the U.N. nuclear agency narrowly defeated an Arab push Friday to censure Israel for shielding its nuclear programs from inspection in a closely watched result that the U.S. said was a positive signal for ongoing Mideast peace talks.

Europe's top bank HSBC unveils boardroom shake-up (AFP)

Posted: 24 Sep 2010 12:53 PM PDT

HSBC, Europe's largest bank, said Friday that Stuart Gulliver, head of its investment arm, would replace Michael Geoghegan, seen here in March 2010, as chief executive and chose finance director Douglas Flint as its new chairman.(AFP/File/Mike Clarke)AFP - HSBC unveiled a huge boardroom shake-up on Friday as Europe's biggest bank looks to build on its recovery after the financial crisis as well as profiting from strong growth in Asia.

London seeks to reassure US on military cutbacks (AFP)

Posted: 24 Sep 2010 12:51 PM PDT

Defense Secretary Liam Fox(L), seen here with his US counterpart Robert Gates at the Pentagon on September 22, told Gates that British plans for major defense cuts will not undermine its status as Washington's most important military ally, officials said Friday.(AFP/Paul J. Richards)AFP - London has sought to reassure anxious US officials that plans for major defense cuts will not undermine its status as Washington's most important military ally, officials said Friday.

UK says IRA dissident attack in England likely (AP)

Posted: 24 Sep 2010 12:46 PM PDT

FILE - This Saturday, Aug. 15, 1998 file photo shows Royal Ulster Constabulary Police officers as they stand on Market Street, the scene of a car bombing in the centre of Omagh, Co Tyrone, 72 miles west of Belfast, Northern Ireland. Britain raised the terror threat level from groups in Northern Ireland on Friday Sept, 24, 2010, the first such change since a wave of new attacks in the territory and fresh threats from groups who say they plan to attack England. The August 1998 car-bomb attack on the town of Omagh that killed 29 people, mostly women and children, was the deadliest attack of the entire Northern Ireland conflict, .(AP Photo / Paul McErlane, File)AP - Britain raised the terror threat level Friday posed by Irish Republican Army dissidents, who have mounted repeated attacks in Northern Ireland and recently threatened to start targeting London bankers.

UK warns of 'massive dangers' if Yemen collapses (AFP)

Posted: 24 Sep 2010 12:43 PM PDT

Supporters of Yemen's Southern Movement ride atop a van covered by a huge flag of former South Yemen during a protest rally on September 23. London on Friday Friday warned at the United Nations of AFP - London on Friday warned of "massive dangers" to world security should Yemen, the Arab world's poorest country and an increasing stronghold of Al-Qaeda, become a failed state.

Lehman Bros sign, artworks auctioned off in UK (AP)

Posted: 24 Sep 2010 11:56 AM PDT

The Lehman Brothers corporate sign in polished metal is taken into an auction house in London, Friday, Sept. 24, 2010.The sign estimated to sell for 2,000-3,000 pounds ( 3,140-4,710 US Dollar) will go on sale in the Christie's auction of Lehman Brothers Artwork and Ephemera on Sept. 29. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)AP - For sale: a sign of the times.

Swiss minister's giggling fit an online hit (AP)

Posted: 24 Sep 2010 11:30 AM PDT

AP - Switzerland's finance minister has sparked hilarity in the Alpine nation by collapsing into giggles while answering a parliamentary question about imports of cured meats.

Key witness in Rwandan genocide-linked case dies (AP)

Posted: 24 Sep 2010 09:59 AM PDT

AP - Abdul Ruzibiza, a former captain of a Tutsi rebel group and key witness in a French judge's investigation into a 1994 attack that triggered the Rwandan genocide, has died, Norwegian police said Friday. He was 40.

Vatican bank chief laments damaged image (AP)

Posted: 24 Sep 2010 09:54 AM PDT

AP - The chairman of the Vatican bank is questioning why Italian prosecutors seized euro23 million ($30 million) from a Vatican bank account for alleged violations of Italy's anti-money laundering laws.

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Posted: 24 Sep 2010 08:12 AM PDT

AP - Britain raises threat from Irish terrorism to substantial, meaning attack strong possibility.

Slovakia plans to withdraw troops from Kosovo (AP)

Posted: 24 Sep 2010 06:06 AM PDT

AP - The Defense Ministry says it has proposed to completely withdraw Slovak troops from Kosovo.

Irish premier's majority narrows as lawmaker quits (AP)

Posted: 24 Sep 2010 04:53 AM PDT

AP - An Irish lawmaker has withdrawn support from Prime Minister Brian Cowen's government, diminishing his ability to win parliamentary votes and increasing the prospect of an early election in recession-battered Ireland.

Soviet coup plotter Yanayev dies at 73 (AP)

Posted: 24 Sep 2010 04:20 AM PDT

FILE - Gennedy Yanayev answers reporters questions during his first news conference after being elected to the post of Soviet vice-president in this Dec. 27, 1990 file photo taken at the Kremlin in Moscow. Russia's Communist Party says Gennady Yanayev, a coup plotter who briefly declared himself president of the Soviet Union, replacing Mikhail Gorbachev, died Friday Sept. 24, 2010 at age 73. (AP Photo/Boris Yurchenko, File)AP - Gennady Yanayev, a leader of the abortive 1991 Soviet coup who briefly declared himself president replacing Mikhail Gorbachev, has died at age 73, Russia's Communist Party announced Friday.

France: no military plan to free Niger hostages (AP)

Posted: 24 Sep 2010 01:55 AM PDT

AP - The head of the French military says a possible military operation to free seven hostages abducted last week in Niger is not under consideration for the moment.

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