2010年10月12日星期二

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Yahoo! News: Europe News

Britain faces 'real and credible' cyber threat (AFP)

Posted: 12 Oct 2010 06:16 PM PDT

Commuters walk past an underground station in London. Britain faces the threat of cyber attacks from hostile states and criminals which could damage its critical infrastructure, the head of the country's electronic spying agency warned Wednesday.(AFP/File/Ben Stansall)AFP - Britain faces the threat of cyber attacks from hostile states and criminals which could damage its critical infrastructure, the head of the country's electronic spying agency warned Wednesday.

Grisly new footage revives horror of London bombings (AFP)

Posted: 12 Oct 2010 05:01 PM PDT

Hazel Webb (left) and Julia Nicholson, whose children were killed during the July 7 bombings in 2005, are pictured at the High Court in central London on October 11. Eerie video footage of the devastation wrought by the London bombings was shown to the public for the first time at the inquests into the deaths of 52 innocent passengers.(AFP/File/Carl Court)AFP - Chilling footage of the devastation wrought by the 2005 London bombings was shown in public for the first time Tuesday at the inquests into the deaths of 52 passengers.

British author Howard Jacobson in surprise Booker Prize win (AFP)

Posted: 12 Oct 2010 03:57 PM PDT

British writer Howard Jacobson, seen here on October 10 with his book 'The Finkler Question' at the Royal Festival Hall in London, won the prestigious Booker Prize for literature for his work AFP - British author Howard Jacobson was Tuesday named the surprise winner of this year's prestigious Booker Prize for literature for his comic novel about love, loss and Jewishness.

Photo shows apparent leak before Hungary spill (AP)

Posted: 12 Oct 2010 03:48 PM PDT

Picture taken in June 2010 by Hungarian air photo company Interspect and made available Tuesday Oct 12 2010 shows the dam of the reservoir in Kolontar, Hungary, with red stains that allegedly indicate red sludge leaking through - nearly four months before the wall broke on October 4 killing at least eight people - part of a growing body of evidence that inspectors who gave the pit a clean bill of health may have missed obvious warning signs. Zoltan Bakonyi, the managing director of the alumina plant, has been taken into custody by police, who say he neglected to prepare an emergency warning and rescue plan.(AP Photo/Interspect, Bako Gabor) ** MANDATORY CREDIT INTERSPECT, Bako Gabor' **AP - An aerial photo taken months before a gigantic reservoir unleashed torrents of toxic sludge shows a faint red trail trickling through the container wall — part of a growing body of evidence that inspectors who gave the pit a clean bill of health may have missed warning signs.

British media join forces against Murdoch buyout (AP)

Posted: 12 Oct 2010 03:42 PM PDT

A view of the Sky TV headquarters in west London, Tuesday Oct. 12, 2010. Media mogul Rupert Murdoch has dominated Britain's press for decades, shaking Fleet Street to its foundations and dueling with the BBC. But Murdoch's latest move, an attempt to consolidate his hold over the broadcaster British Sky Broadcasting Group PLC, may be a step too far. An unprecedented media coalition has appealed to the government to take a close look at the multibillion-pound (-dollar) buyout. Murdoch's News Corp. owns 39 percent of BSkyB and wants to buy the rest of it. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)AP - He's dominated Britain's media landscape for decades, shaking Fleet Street to its foundations and dueling with the venerable BBC.

Kuyt taken to hospital with ankle injury (AFP)

Posted: 12 Oct 2010 03:32 PM PDT

Liverpool's dire season continued on Tuesday as their Dutch international forward Dirk Kuyt, pictured in July 2010, was taken to hospital with a right ankle injury.(AFP/File/Thomas Coex)AFP - Liverpool's dire season continued on Tuesday as their Dutch international forward Dirk Kuyt was taken to hospital with a right ankle injury.

Llorente strikes as Spain see off battling Scots (AFP)

Posted: 12 Oct 2010 03:09 PM PDT

Spanish forward Fernando Llorente (R) celebrates after scoring the third goal during their Euro 2012 qualifying football match at Hampden Park, Glasgow, Scotland. Spain won 3-2.(AFP/Andrew Yates)AFP - A late goal from substitute Fernando Llorente helped world champions Spain preserve their flawless record Tuesday in Group I with a narrow 3-2 win over ten-man Scotland, who briefly threatened an upset at Hampden.

Lacklustre England held by minnows Montenegro (AFP)

Posted: 12 Oct 2010 03:03 PM PDT

England's Steven Gerrard reacts after missing an opportunity during the Euro 2012 Group G qualifying football match against Montenegro at Wembley Stadium in London. The match ended on a goalless draw.(AFP/Ian Kington)AFP - England's Euro 2012 qualifying campaign suffered an embarrassing setback here Tuesday as they were held to a lacklustre 0-0 draw by football minnows Montenegro.

UK's Hague seeks to improve relations with Russia (Reuters)

Posted: 12 Oct 2010 03:03 PM PDT

Reuters - Russia and Britain will seek to improve ties badly damaged by the murder in London of a Kremlin critic when British Foreign Secretary William Hague meets Russian leaders on Wednesday.

Llorente seals Spanish win over brave Scots (AFP)

Posted: 12 Oct 2010 02:26 PM PDT

Spanish forward Fernando Llorente (R) celebrates after scoring the third goal during their Euro 2012 qualifying football match at Hampden Park, Glasgow, Scotland. Spain won 3-2.(AFP/Andrew Yates)AFP - A late goal from substitute Fernando Llorente helped World champions Spain to the top of Group I with a narrow 3-2 win over ten-man Scotland, who briefly threatened an upset in their match at Hampden.

Contested French immigration bill passes hurdle (AP)

Posted: 12 Oct 2010 11:50 AM PDT

AP - France's lower house of parliament has passed an immigration bill that would strip naturalized citizens of their citizenship if convicted of murdering a police officer, judge or other representative of the state.

Carnage footage shown at London bombings inquest (AP)

Posted: 12 Oct 2010 10:48 AM PDT

FILE -- In this Thursday July 7, 2005 file photo, a forensic officer walks next to the wreckage of a double decker bus with its top blown off and damaged cars scattered on the road at Tavistock Square in central London. A long-delayed inquest into the July 7, 2005, suicide bombings that killed 52 people on London's transit network opened in London Monday, Oct. 11, 2010, with a minute's silence in memory of the victims. The coroner, lawyers, members of the public and relatives of the victims stood in silent tribute as hearings opened at London's Royal Courts of Justice into one of Britain's deadliest terrorist attacks. Lawyer Hugo Keith read out the names of all those who died when four suicide bombers detonated devices hidden in knapsacks aboard three subway trains and a double-decker bus (AP Photo/Sang Tan, file)AP - Graphic video of mangled and bloodied subway train carriages were shown Tuesday at an inquiry into the 2005 London suicide bombings, as families of the victims heard harrowing details of the carnage immediately after one of Britain's deadliest attacks.

Clinton calls for Serbian talks with Kosovo (AP)

Posted: 12 Oct 2010 10:45 AM PDT

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton speaks during town hall meeting at the National Theater, Tuesday Oct. 12, 2010 in Sarajevo. Secretary Clinton arrived late on Monday, in the capital of ethnically divided Bosnia-Herzegovina, which just held elections, to urge the country's new leadership to make EU membership a priority (AP Photo/Mandel Ngan, Pool)AP - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Tuesday urged Serbia and its former province of Kosovo to settle their differences, more than a decade after NATO launched airstrikes on Serbia to halt violence against Kosovo's ethnic Albanians.

Clinton praises Serb police for gay parade (AP)

Posted: 12 Oct 2010 10:33 AM PDT

Serbian riot gather as the gay parade goes moves along a street in Belgrade, Serbia, Sunday, Oct. 10, 2010. Riot police in Serbia clashed with some hundreds of far-right protesters who tried to disrupt the gay pride march in Belgrade on Sunday, with more than a dozen people reported injured, officials said.(AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)AP - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Tuesday praised Serbian police for protecting a weekend gay pride march from attacks, as prosecutors opened a criminal investigation against the leader of a far-right group for orchestrating the violent anti-gay protests.

Turkey extends mandate to attack Kurds in Iraq (AP)

Posted: 12 Oct 2010 10:17 AM PDT

FILE - In this May 30, 2009 file photo, former Lt. Dan Choi, an Iraq combat veteran who was discharged under the U.S. military's 'don't ask, don't tell' policy, appears at an equality rally in Fresno, Calif. A federal judge issued a worldwide injunction Tuesday stopping enforcement of the 'don't ask, don't tell' policy, ending the military's 17-year-old ban on openly gay troops. U.S. District Judge Virginia Phillips declared the law unconstitutional after a two-week nonjury trial on the case in federal court in Riverside. U.S. Department of Justice attorneys have 60 days to appeal. Legal experts say they are under no legal obligation to do so and could let Phillips' ruling stand. (AP Photo/Gary Kazanjian, File)AP - Turkey's parliament has extended by a year the military's mandate to carry out operations against Kurdish rebel bases in northern Iraq after a closed-door debate about the fight against the separatist guerrillas.

Italy appeals trial of CIA kidnapping case begins (AP)

Posted: 12 Oct 2010 10:09 AM PDT

AP - The appeals trial in the CIA-led kidnapping of an Egyptian terrorism suspect from the streets of Milan opened Tuesday with the prosecution seeking to incriminate Italian secret service agents acquitted in the initial trial.

Russian claims to uncover "Caucasian Stonehenge" (AP)

Posted: 12 Oct 2010 09:34 AM PDT

AP - A Russian archaeologist claimed Tuesday to have found the well-preserved ruins of a "Caucasian Stonehenge" built by a previously unknown Bronze Age civilization in southern Russia.

Ukraine: 43 killed in bus, train collision (AP)

Posted: 12 Oct 2010 09:16 AM PDT

The remains of a bus lay next to a railway train at the site of an accident outside the town of Marhanets, Ukraine, Tuesday, Oct. 12, 2010. The crowded passenger bus collided with a train in eastern Ukraine Tuesday, killing 40 people and leaving 11 in critical condition, police said. The Interior Ministry said that the collision occurred outside the town of Marhanets in the Dnipropetrovsk region after the bus attempted to cross the track, ignoring a siren that indicated an oncoming train.Thirty-seven people from the bus died on the spot and another person died later in the hospital. There were no injuries reported on the train..(AP Photo/Emergency Situations Ministry)AP - A train locomotive rammed through a stalled passenger bus on a railroad crossing in eastern Ukraine on Tuesday, killing 43 people and injuring eight others as the bus was pushed 300 meters (yards) down the tracks.

28 Roma children rescued in London police raids (AP)

Posted: 12 Oct 2010 08:40 AM PDT

AP - British police took more than two dozen Roma children as young as 3 into protection Tuesday after raiding houses in London as part of a joint child trafficking investigation with Romanian authorities.

4 IRA dissidents arrested, gun seized in Ulster (AP)

Posted: 12 Oct 2010 08:40 AM PDT

AP - Northern Ireland police say they have arrested four suspected IRA dissidents and seized a handgun in their car, while Irish army explosives experts pored through the contents of a dissident arms bunker south of the border.

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