2010年9月27日星期一

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Air threats create tricky balancing act (AP)

Posted: 27 Sep 2010 05:10 PM PDT

A Pakistan International Airlines Boeing 777 plane stands on the tarmac at Stockholm Arlanda International airport Saturday Sept. 25, 2010. The aircraft was en route from Toronto to Karachi, when Canadian authorities received a tip-off that a passenger could be carrying explosives and the plane was diverted to Stockholm. Swedish police detained a man described as a Canadian citizen of Pakistani origin aboard the plane, but a bomb squad that searched the Boeing 777 found nothing suspicious on board. (AP Photo/Fredrik Persson) SWEDEN OUTAP - An anonymous call from a Canadian phone booth forces a Pakistan-bound airliner to make a nine-hour stop in Stockholm.

Segway owner dies after falling off river cliff (AP)

Posted: 27 Sep 2010 03:17 PM PDT

This undated handout photo issued by Hesco Bastion on Sept. 27, 2010 shows Jimi Heselden, 62, a British businessman who last year bought the company that makes the two-wheeled Segway personal transporter, who has died in an accident on one of the vehicles. Police in West Yorkshire said Monday that James Heselden and a Segway were found in the River Wharfe near Boston Spa, in northern England. Police said a member of the public had reported seeing a man fall over a 30-foot (9-meter) drop into the river on Sunday. (AP Photo/Andy Paraskos/Hesco/PA Wire) ** MANDATORY CREDIT, UNITED KINGDOM OUT )AP - All police found at the bottom of a cliff was a man's body in a frigid river and a Segway, the two-wheeled electric device that was supposed to revolutionize personal transport.

Govt 'disappointed' at end to Israeli settlement freeze (AFP)

Posted: 27 Sep 2010 02:42 PM PDT

Israeli bulldozers begin to lay groundwork for 50 housing units in the West Bank settlement of Ariel. Britain expressed its AFP - The government expressed its "disappointment" Monday at Israel's refusal to extend a moratorium on settlement-building in the West Bank and warned that Middle East peace talks could founder on the issue.

Millionaire Segway owner dies in cliff fall (Reuters)

Posted: 27 Sep 2010 01:55 PM PDT

Tourists take part in a guided tour through the city on segways as they pass the Berlin cathedral in Berlin, September 23, 2010. REUTERS/Fabrizio BenschReuters - The British millionaire businessman who owns the firm Segway has been found dead at the bottom of a cliff with one of the two-wheeled electric scooters near his body, police said on Monday.

Forget 'soap opera' rivalry, says David Miliband (AFP)

Posted: 27 Sep 2010 01:01 PM PDT

Labour's David Miliband delivers his address to delegates on the second day of the annual Labour Party conference in Manchester. Miliband on Monday urged the Labour Party to get over the AFP - David Miliband on Monday urged the Labour Party to get over the "soap opera" of his sibling rivalry with younger brother Ed, who beat him to the party leadership.

Summary Box: Nestle makes medical nutrition splash (AP)

Posted: 27 Sep 2010 12:52 PM PDT

AP - PONYING UP TO SLIM DOWN: The company will expand its medical nutrition unit and start operating Nestle Health Science SA on Jan. 1. It will spend about $500 million over the next decade. The business will make foods that it says will help consumers prevent or treat diseases like obesity, diabetes, and heart disease.

Summary Box: Can Russia be China's gas supplier? (AP)

Posted: 27 Sep 2010 12:37 PM PDT

AP - BIG SUPPLY: Russia has massive stores of natural gas and its economy needs a cash infusion from sales to get it through the economic downturn that has crimped oil sales.

German criticises WikiLeaks chief as authoritarian (AFP)

Posted: 27 Sep 2010 12:31 PM PDT

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange attends a seminar in Stockholm, in August 2010. WikiLeaks' representative in Germany has quit the organisation, criticising the founder of the whistleblower website as being authoritarian, in an interview with Der Spiegel published Monday.(AFP/SCANPIX/File/Bertil Ericson)AFP - WikiLeaks' representative in Germany has quit the organisation, criticising the founder of the whistleblower website as being authoritarian, in an interview with Der Spiegel published Monday.

France balks at automatic budget sanctions (AP)

Posted: 27 Sep 2010 12:16 PM PDT

AP - France clashed with Germany and the European Central bank on Monday, rejecting any proposal that would punish European Union nations with near-automatic sanctions if they fail to keep their debt and budget deficits within limits.

France arrests 9 for mobile-phone codes fraud (Reuters)

Posted: 27 Sep 2010 11:56 AM PDT

Reuters - French authorities have dismantled a cybercrime network and arrested nine people suspected of being involved in the illegal sale of codes used to unlock mobile phones, police said on Monday.

British Library posts Greek manuscripts to Web (AP)

Posted: 27 Sep 2010 10:00 AM PDT

A late 12th century illuminated gospels manuscript in Greek, which has been digitized, is seen at the British Library in London, Friday, Sept. 24, 2010. British Library has digitized over a quarter of its Greek manuscripts (284 volumes) for the first time and made them freely available online. (AP Photo/Sang Tan)AP - One of the world's most important caches of Greek manuscripts is going online, part of a growing number of ancient documents to hit the Web in recent years.

Serb pleads guilty in NY student beating case (AP)

Posted: 27 Sep 2010 08:45 AM PDT

Miladin Kovacevic, a former college basketball player charged with beating an American student into a coma, right, reads a leaflet about the new amendments to the Serbian judiciary system with his attorney Borivoje Borovic in the court building, in Belgrade, Serbia, Monday, Sept. 27, 2010. Kovacevic has pleaded guilty to the charges that he has beaten an American student into a coma as a part of a plea bargain under which he would serve about two years in prison in his homeland. Under the agreement, 23-year-old Miladin Kovacevic could be sentenced to two years and three months for the brutal beating of Bryan Steinhauer in May 2008 near Binghamton University in upstate New York — with three months of that having been served already in the U.S. and Serbia. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)AP - A Serb basketball player pleaded guilty on Monday to beating a fellow American student into a coma in the case that has strained relations between the United States and Serbia.

Prosecutors investigating Polish bus crash (AP)

Posted: 27 Sep 2010 06:54 AM PDT

The wreckage of a bus that carried Polish tourists stands on the highway after it crashed in Schoenefeld east of Berlin, Germany, on Sunday, Sept. 26, 2010. German police say at least 10 people were killed and dozens injured in the accident. (AP Photo/dapd, Timur Emek)AP - Prosecutors on Monday opened an investigation of a German woman whose car hit a Polish tourist bus, triggering a crash that left 13 people dead and another 38 injured.

95 people on trial for corruption in Spain (AP)

Posted: 27 Sep 2010 06:15 AM PDT

AP - Ninety-five defendants, including two former mayors, are packing a court in the southern Spanish city of Malaga for the first day of one of Spain's biggest corruption's trials ever.

UK's Ed Miliband: Time to bury Tony Blair era (AP)

Posted: 27 Sep 2010 05:31 AM PDT

Ed Miliband, left, newly-elected leader of Britain's opposition Labour Party, shakes hands with his brother David Miliband, following David's speech on foreign policy during the party's annual conference, in Manchester, England, Monday Sept. 27, 2010. Labour elected young lawmaker Ed Miliband as its new leader Saturday after he narrowly defeated his older and better-known brother David in a contest to replace former prime minister Gordon Brown. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)AP - Britain's surprise new Labour Party leader Ed Miliband on Monday pledged to bury the era of Tony Blair, promising to guide to power a generation of lawmakers untainted by divisive decisions over the Iraq war and the global financial crisis.

Pakistan becomes chair of nuclear agency board (AP)

Posted: 27 Sep 2010 05:13 AM PDT

AP - Pakistan has been chosen to head the U.N. atomic agency's governing body, despite its refusal to accept the nonproliferation treaty and its link to the nuclear black marketeer who supplied Iran and North Korea.

France, Germany, Russia to discuss joint security (AP)

Posted: 27 Sep 2010 05:05 AM PDT

AP - The leaders of France, Germany and Russia will meet next month at a luxury French beach resort to discuss joint security concerns.

Romanian govt in uproar amid austerity protests (AP)

Posted: 27 Sep 2010 03:11 AM PDT

AP - The Romanian government is in an uproar — the interior minister has resigned, the opposition is demanding that the prime minister join him and top police officials are holding emergency talks with the president.

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