2010年9月30日星期四

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Whale snot, bat sex win 2010 IgNobel spoof prizes (Reuters)

Posted: 30 Sep 2010 04:36 PM PDT

Reuters - Researchers who used a remote-controlled helicopter to collect whale snot, documented bats having oral sex and showed that swearing makes you feel better when you stub a toe were among the winners of spoof IgNobel prizes on Thursday.

WikiLeaks founder blasts Pentagon amid Afghan files row (AFP)

Posted: 30 Sep 2010 03:36 PM PDT

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, pictured in August 2010, said Thursday the Pentagon was intent on destroying the whistleblower website and denied it had endangered innocent people.(AFP/SCANPIX/File/Bertil Ericson)AFP - WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said Thursday the Pentagon was intent on destroying the whistleblower website and denied it had endangered innocent people.

WikiLeaks chief lashes out at media during debate (AP)

Posted: 30 Sep 2010 03:10 PM PDT

AP - WikiLeaks editor-in-chief Julian Assange lashed out at the mainstream media during a debate at a London university Thursday, fighting back at a string of unfavorable stories that have appeared since his organization's publication of a cache of U.S. intelligence documents.

Four big European oil firms stop investing in Iran: US (AFP)

Posted: 30 Sep 2010 02:36 PM PDT

A picture shows phase 5 of South Pars gas field development in the southern Iranian port town of Asaluyeh in July 2010. Under threat of US sanctions, European oil firms Total, Shell, Statoil and Eni have pledged to stop investing in Iran in what amounts to a AFP - Under threat of US sanctions, European oil firms Total, Shell, Statoil and Eni have pledged to stop investing in Iran in what amounts to a "significant setback" to Tehran, a US official said Thursday.

Man City test mettle against Juve in Europa draw (AFP)

Posted: 30 Sep 2010 02:35 PM PDT

Juventus' Czech defender Zdenek Grygera (R) vies with Manchester City's Argentinian forward Carlos Tevez during the UEFA Europa League Group A football match at The City of Manchester stadium. The match ended in a 1-1 draw.(AFP/Andrew Yates)AFP - Manchester City kept Juventus at arm's length in Europa League Group A after a 1-1 draw between the sides on Thursday, while Liverpool and holders Atletico Madrid also recorded draws.

US and Europe toil to save Israel-Palestinian peace talks (AFP)

Posted: 30 Sep 2010 01:55 PM PDT

Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas (R) meets with US Middle East envoy George Mitchell in the West Bank city of Ramallah. Mitchell held crucial talks with Abbas on Thursday and pledged to maintain intensive efforts to salvage peace talks with Israel.(AFP/POOL/Abbas Momani)AFP - US envoy George Mitchell held crucial talks with Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas on Thursday and pledged to maintain intensive efforts to salvage peace talks with Israel.

Qaeda posts picture of hostages seized in Niger (AFP)

Posted: 30 Sep 2010 01:35 PM PDT

This SITE image grab from a video shows hostages seized two weeks ago in Niger by Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, among whom are five French. The seven expatriates, including an Areva manager and his wife, both French, and five employees of the Satom subsidiary of construction firm Vinci, which works with Areva, were kidnapped in the northern mining town of Arlit on September 16.(AFP/SITE)AFP - Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) posted a photo on the Internet on Thursday of seven people, including five French, whom it kidnapped in Niger two weeks ago.

Nokia starts shipment of N8 model, shares up 2 pct (AP)

Posted: 30 Sep 2010 01:34 PM PDT

AP - Nokia Corp. said Thursday it has begun shipments of its N8 model, a handset that aims to challenge RIM's Blackberry and Apple's iPhone in the smart phone market.

BP sees no 'gross negligence' in Gulf oil spill: new chief (AFP)

Posted: 30 Sep 2010 01:17 PM PDT

BP does not expect the US Justice Department to accuse it of AFP - BP does not expect the US Justice Department to accuse it of "gross negligence" at the conclusion of its investigation into the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, incoming chief executive Bob Dudley said Friday.

Giggs rules himself out of Wales job (AFP)

Posted: 30 Sep 2010 01:17 PM PDT

Manchester United's Welsh midfielder Ryan Giggs, seen here in 2009, ended speculation he might become the next Wales manager on Thursday by insisting he intends to concentrate solely on his career as a footballer with Manchester United.(AFP/File/Adrian Dennis)AFP - Ryan Giggs ended speculation he might become the next Wales manager on Thursday by insisting he intends to concentrate solely on his career as a footballer with Manchester United.

Al-Qaida group releases tape of French hostages (AP)

Posted: 30 Sep 2010 01:12 PM PDT

This image taken from video and provided by U.S.-based SITE Intelligence Group Thursday Sept. 30, 2010 shows the first images of a group of foreign hostages working for a French energy company who were seized in Niger two weeks ago by an al-Qaida offshoot, according to the group that monitors terrorism. The hostages were grabbed in the middle of the night on Sept. 16 from their guarded villas in the uranium mining town of Arlit in Niger where they worked for French nuclear giant Areva. Five are French citizens, the other two are from Togo and Madagascar. (AP Photo/SITE) ** EDITORIAL USE ONLY **AP - A tape released Thursday on a jihadist forum shows the first images of a group of hostages including five French citizens since they were seized two weeks ago in Niger by an al-Qaida offshoot and taken into the desert.

UN tones down Congo 'genocide' report (AP)

Posted: 30 Sep 2010 01:03 PM PDT

AP - The United Nations has toned down a report detailing hundreds of gruesome attacks against civilians in Congo over a 10-year period but left intact the suggestion that Rwanda's army may have committed genocide there in the 1990s.

Relief agency: Morocco abandons migrants (AP)

Posted: 30 Sep 2010 12:45 PM PDT

AP - Doctors Without Borders says Morocco has expelled hundreds of illegal immigrants, including women and children, to a no-man's-land without food or water after violent raids in several cities in the North African kingdom.

AP Interview: Interpol head warns of Somali threat (AP)

Posted: 30 Sep 2010 12:39 PM PDT

Interpol Secretary General Ronald K. Noble listens during an Interpol - EU Symposium entitled 'The External Dimension of EU Police Co-operation in West African Countries. Towards Global and Integrated International Policing.' held at the Solvay Library in Brussels Thursday Sept. 30, 2010. (AP Photo/ Thierry Charlier)AP - Somalia and other African nations could soon pose more of a terrorist threat than Afghanistan, Interpol's secretary general warned Thursday.

New Dutch govt wants to tighten immigration laws (AP)

Posted: 30 Sep 2010 11:45 AM PDT

FILE- Geert Wilders poses during an interview with The Associated Press in The Hague, Netherlands, in this file photo dated Thursday, July 15, 2010. According to anti-Islam lawmaker Geert Wilders, on Thursday Sept. 30, 2010, a new Dutch minority government may rely on the support of the 24 seats held by Wilders and his Freedom Party to hold power in a government coalition which could be formed as early as next week. (AP Photo/Cynthia Boll, file)AP - A new Dutch minority government that could be formed as early as next week is planning to ban face-covering burqas and slash immigration, anti-Islam lawmaker Geert Wilders said Thursday.

UN creates investigator on freedom of assembly (AP)

Posted: 30 Sep 2010 11:41 AM PDT

AP - The United Nations has created a special investigator to examine the right to freedom of assembly around the world.

French lawmakers: yes on stripping nationality (AP)

Posted: 30 Sep 2010 11:34 AM PDT

AP - French lawmakers adopted Thursday an amendment to a bill toughening immigration law that would strip naturalized citizens of their nationality if they are convicted of murdering a police officer — a measure critics say creates a category of second-class French.

German police hit protesters with water cannons (AP)

Posted: 30 Sep 2010 11:24 AM PDT

A demonstrator faces police at protest against a disputed railway project in Stuttgart, Thursday Sept. 30, 2010. Police in southwestern Germany have hit protesters with water cannons and pepper spray as they demonstrated against a disputed railway project. Police spokesman Fritz Erlach said 1,500 to 2,000 protesters were at the Stuttgart protest, and several hundred officers were on hand. Erlach had no information about whether anybody was injured, but German news agency DAPD reported clashes with police left dozens slightly hurt. (AP Photo/dapd/ Daniel Maurer)AP - Police in southwestern Germany hit protesters with water cannons and pepper spray Thursday as they demonstrated against a railway project.

Search for missing US balloon pilots intensifies (AP)

Posted: 30 Sep 2010 10:53 AM PDT

View of the start of the Gordon Bennett Gas Balloon Race, at Easter Compton, near Bristol, England Saturday Sept. 25, 2010. Italian Coastguards are hunting for a pair of missing American balloonists last detected piloting their craft over the Adriatic Sea in rough weather while competing in the event, in which teams of balloonists try to see who can fly the farthest from a set point , officials said Wednesday Sept 29 2010.(AP Photo/Rod Minchin/PA )** UNITED KINGDOM OUT **AP - U.S. and Croatian search and rescue teams joined an expanded Italian coast guard search Thursday for two American balloonists who disappeared in rough weather over the Adriatic.

Hungary's Supreme Court OKs anti-Gypsy ad (AP)

Posted: 30 Sep 2010 10:32 AM PDT

AP - Hungary's Supreme Court upheld Thursday a decision by the National Election Committee forcing state radio and television to run a far-right party's election advertisement that refers to "Gypsy criminals."

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