2010年10月23日星期六

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Yahoo! News: Europe News

Ex-Pompey owner says will secure club's future (AFP)

Posted: 23 Oct 2010 03:45 PM PDT

Portsmouth fans wave flags during a match in 2008. Former Portsmouth owner Sacha Gaydamak indicated on Saturday he was willing to sign a new agreement with the club to secure its financial future a day after the second tier outfit said they could go out of existence.(AFP/File/Carl de Souza)AFP - Ex Portsmouth owner Sacha Gaydamak said Saturday he would sign a new deal with the club to secure its financial future a day after the English second tier outfit said they could go out of existence.

French president blasts 'scandal' over Africa's place at UN (AFP)

Posted: 23 Oct 2010 03:27 PM PDT

French President Nicolas Sarkozy said that it was a AFP - French President Nicolas Sarkozy said on Saturday that it was a "scandal" that Africa was not given a permanent seat on the UN Security Council as he outlined his aims for France's presidency of the G20 and G8 nations.

Snoring Ecuadorean wins Spanish siesta contest (AP)

Posted: 23 Oct 2010 02:06 PM PDT

File - People sleep a siesta on couches during the first Siesta Championship in Madrid in this Wednesday Oct. 14, 2010 file photo. A 62-year-old Ecuadorean has snored long enough to win Spain's first siesta championship which ended Saturday Oct. 23 2010. Unemployed security worker Pedro Soria Lopez took the top prize of €1,000 ($1,400) after sleeping for 17 minutes amid the uproar of a teeming Madrid shopping center. Organizers said he not only slept soundly but his snoring on Tuesday registered 70 decibels — roughly the equivalent of the noise of someone talking — and earned him extra points. (AP Photo/Paul White, file)AP - A 62-year-old Ecuadorean man managed to ignore the uproar of a teeming Madrid shopping center and snore long enough to win what was billed as Spain's first siesta championship.

Italian police arrest top mafia boss (Reuters)

Posted: 23 Oct 2010 01:37 PM PDT

Reuters - Italian police said Saturday they had arrested a top mafia boss who had been on the run since 1999 and was on the list of Italy's 30 most wanted fugitives.

Top Mafia fugitive nabbed in Sicily (AP)

Posted: 23 Oct 2010 01:19 PM PDT

AP - Police in Sicily have arrested one of Italy's 30 most dangerous Mafia fugitives.

EU to Italy: Clean up Naples trash or face fines (AP)

Posted: 23 Oct 2010 01:17 PM PDT

Police officers take cover as demonstrators aim fireworks at them in Terzigno, near Naples, during clashes in the early hours of Saturday, Oct. 23, 2010. People demonstrating against plans to build a garbage dump near Naples hurled stones and firecrackers at police and set vehicles ablaze, as the confrontation continued during most of the night. The residents were protesting the stench and poor conditions of the local dump, as well as plans to open a new one in the Vesuvio National Park. (AP Photo/Salvatore Laporta)AP - The European Commission warned Italy on Saturday it may face sanctions if it doesn't remove the 2,400 tons of trash that have piled up in the streets of Naples in the country's latest garbage crisis.

Irish go top after Exeter downed (AFP)

Posted: 23 Oct 2010 01:11 PM PDT

London Irish overcame ferocious resistance from Premiership newcomers Exeter on Saturday to regain top spot in the league standings with a gritty 12-9 victory. Four penalties from Ryan Lamb, pictured in 2008, sealed the points for the Exiles, who fought back from 9-6 down going into the final 10 minutes to score a vital win against the newly promoted Chiefs.(AFP/Getty Images/File)AFP - London Irish overcame ferocious resistance from Premiership newcomers Exeter on Saturday to regain top spot in the league standings with a gritty 12-9 victory.

Brand, Perry wed in Hindu ceremony in India (AFP)

Posted: 23 Oct 2010 01:04 PM PDT

British comic-turned-Hollywood star Russell Brand takes a jungle-safari ride in Ranthambore National Park, around 200 kms from Jaipur on October 22. Brand and US pop star Katy Perry married Saturday in a Hindu ceremony replete with elephants and camels at a locked-down luxury resort in western India.(AFP/File/Manan Vatsyayana)AFP - British comedian Russell Brand and US pop star Katy Perry married Saturday in a Hindu ceremony replete with elephants and camels at a locked-down luxury resort in western India.

France: Baby dies, 10 injured in fall from window (AP)

Posted: 23 Oct 2010 12:50 PM PDT

AP - A 4-month-old baby died after he and 10 other people fell from the third-story window of a suburban Paris apartment building on Saturday, an official said.

Jane Austen's novels heavily polished by editor: expert (AFP)

Posted: 23 Oct 2010 12:49 PM PDT

AFP - Jane Austen, one of the greatest novelists in English literature, had her work heavily edited to fix original manuscripts littered with spelling and grammatical mistakes, an expert said Saturday.

Opposition takes control of Czech Senate (AP)

Posted: 23 Oct 2010 10:43 AM PDT

AP - The Czech Republic's opposition Social Democrats won control of the Senate for the first time on Saturday, giving them the power to stop sending more Czech troops to Afghanistan and to delay unpopular spending cuts.

6 killed in Russia's North Caucasus (AP)

Posted: 23 Oct 2010 09:10 AM PDT

A security officer stands guard inside the parliament building in Grozny October 19, 2010. Islamist rebels killed at least four people on Tuesday as they tried to seize Chechnya's parliament in a brazen suicide attack that showed Russia has failed to quell insurgency on its southern flank. REUTERS/Kazbek Basayev (RUSSIA - Tags: POLITICS CRIME LAW CIVIL UNREST IMAGES OF THE DAY)AP - A car bomb and two police raids killed six people and wounded seven in Russia's volatile North Caucasus region on Saturday, authorities said.

Far-right parties oppose EU membership for Turkey (AP)

Posted: 23 Oct 2010 08:23 AM PDT

Member of the European parliament of the Austrian right-wing Freedom Party, FPOE, Andreas Moelzer and the party's leader Heinz Christian Strache, from left, attend a press conference after a meeting with European right wing parties in Vienna, Austria, on Saturday, Oct. 23, 2010. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak)AP - Several far-right parties that oppose Turkish membership in the European Union said Saturday they will push for an EU referendum on the subject.

Vatican meeting demands Israel end occupation (AP)

Posted: 23 Oct 2010 06:55 AM PDT

In this photo taken with a fish eye lens and provided by the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano, Pope Benedict XVI, background center, presides over the last day of the synod of bishops from the Middle East, at the Vatican, Saturday, Oct. 23, 2010. (AP Photo/L'Osservatore Romano) ** EDITORIAL USE ONLY **AP - Bishops from the Middle East who were summoned to Rome by the pope demanded Saturday that Israel accept U.N. resolutions calling for an end to its "occupation" of Arab lands.

500 rally in Moscow demanding Putin's resignation (AP)

Posted: 23 Oct 2010 06:52 AM PDT

Opposition activists from left-wing and liberal groups hold flags and a poster depicting the road sign with a portrait of Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin in Moscow , Russia, Saturday, Oct. 23. 2010. Some five hundred people have rallied in central Moscow to demand the resignation of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. (AP Photo/Mikhail Metzel)AP - Some 500 people rallied in central Moscow on Saturday to demand the resignation of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and political reform.

WikiLeaks to publish 15,000 more Afghan war papers (AP)

Posted: 23 Oct 2010 02:57 AM PDT

US soldiers take cover behind a wall as a cloud of smoke rises from an explosion of ordinances while on patrol in the Diyala province, northeast of Baghdad in 2008. Al-Jazeera on Friday released what it called AP - Whistleblowing organization WikiLeaks says it will soon publish 15,000 more secret Afghan war documents.

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