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Ancient house in Pompeii collapses (AP)

Posted: 06 Nov 2010 04:56 PM PDT

Workers stand among debris in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii, Italy, Saturday, Nov. 6, 2010. Officials say that a house in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii once used by gladiators to train before combat has collapsed. The site was closed at the time and nobody was injured. The office of Pompeii's archaeological superintendent said the collapse occurred Saturday at around 6 a.m. (0500 GMT). Attendants opening the site saw the collapse about an hour later. The 430-square-foot (40-square-meter) space was used by gladiators to train before going to fight in a nearby amphitheater. Pompeii was destroyed in A.D. 79 by an eruption of Mount Vesuvius that killed thousands of people and buried the city in 20 feet (six meters) of volcanic ash. (AP Photo/Salvatore Laporta)AP - A 2,000-year-old house in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii, which was once used by gladiators to train before combat, collapsed Saturday, officials said.

Giant Jesus statue completed in Polish town (AP)

Posted: 06 Nov 2010 03:13 PM PDT

A cyclist passes a new monument to Jesus in Swiebodzin, Poland, on Saturday Nov. 6, 2010. A local priest built what his town members claim is now the largest statue of Jesus Christ in the world. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)AP - A gigantic statue of Jesus that Poles claim is the world's largest rose majestically above a small town on Saturday, as the grandiose dream of a local priest finally came to pass.

German protesters mobilise against nuclear waste train (AFP)

Posted: 06 Nov 2010 02:54 PM PDT

A train carrying what activists claim is AFP - German police scuffled with protesters Saturday as tens of thousands of people gathered in Dannenberg, northern Germany, vowing to block a nuclear waste convoy arriving from France.

Portuguese government employees protest salary cuts (AFP)

Posted: 06 Nov 2010 02:53 PM PDT

A man holds flags featuring the logo of STAL trade union during a protest against the new budget policies in Lisbon. Tens of thousands of government employees marched in the capital of eurozone member Portugal on Saturday to protest an austerity budget that would slash their salaries.(AFP/Patricia de Melo Moreira)AFP - Tens of thousands of government employees marched in the capital of eurozone member Portugal on Saturday to protest an austerity budget that would slash their salaries.

French take to the streets again for fading pension protests (AFP)

Posted: 06 Nov 2010 02:49 PM PDT

Workers take part in a demonstration in Toulouse, southern France. Hundreds of thousands of French protesters again took to the streets Saturday for what may be the last in a recent series of marches against President Nicolas Sarkozy's pension reform.(AFP/Remy Gabalda)AFP - Hundreds of thousands of French protesters again took to the streets Saturday for what may be the last in a recent series of marches against President Nicolas Sarkozy's pension reform.

China's Hu calls for Portuguese cooperation on reform agenda (AFP)

Posted: 06 Nov 2010 02:04 PM PDT

China's President Hu Jintao and his Portuguese counterpart Anibal Cavaco Silva attend a press conference at Belem presidential palace in Lisbon. China wants to strengthen cooperation with Portugal on international issues such as reform of the United Nations, Hu said Saturday.(AFP/Francisco Leong)AFP - China wants to strengthen cooperation with Portugal on international issues such as reform of the United Nations, President Hu Jintao said Saturday.

China resolved to protect intellectual property: minister (AFP)

Posted: 06 Nov 2010 01:55 PM PDT

Chinese commerce minister Chen Deming addresses a business on November 5. China is determined to fully protect intellectual property, the country's trade minister said Saturday during an economic forum here with Portuguese and Chinese businessmen.(AFP/File/Eric Piermont)AFP - China is determined to fully protect intellectual property, the country's trade minister said Saturday during an economic forum here with Portuguese and Chinese businessmen.

Pope warns of 'aggressive' anti-priest culture in Spain (AFP)

Posted: 06 Nov 2010 01:41 PM PDT

Priests smile as they wait for the mass celebrated by Pope Benedict XVI on the Obradoiro Square, in front of Santiago de Compostela cathedral. Pope Benedict XVI warned Saturday of a return to 1930s-style AFP - Pope Benedict XVI warned Saturday of a return to 1930s-style "aggressive" anti-clericism in Spain and urged Europe to embrace God as he embarked on a two-day visit.

Nuclear waste shipment faces German protests (AP)

Posted: 06 Nov 2010 01:28 PM PDT

Anti-nuclear protestors demonstrate against the nuclear waste shipment in Dannenberg, northern Germany, on Saturday, Nov. 6, 2010. Tens of thousands of people demonstrated Saturday against a shipment of nuclear waste traveling to a storage site in northern Germany, and some tried to block railway tracks in a protest fueled by a government move to extend the country's use of atomic energy. (AP Photo/Jens Meyer)AP - Tens of thousands of people demonstrated Saturday against a shipment of nuclear waste traveling to a storage site in northern Germany, and some tried to block railway tracks in a protest fueled by a government move to extend the country's use of atomic energy.

Interpol publicizes details of Yemen mail bombs (AP)

Posted: 06 Nov 2010 01:22 PM PDT

AP - Interpol released on Saturday details and photographs of two U.S.-bound mail bombs intercepted by authorities in Dubai and United Kingdom, to help police and the public look out for such devices in the future.

Nazi war criminal Seifert dead at 86 in Italy (AP)

Posted: 06 Nov 2010 12:33 PM PDT

FILE -- This picture made available by Verona Military Prosecutor's office, northern Italy, shows Michael Seifert when he was an SS prison guard during World War II. Michael Seifert, a former Nazi SS prison guard known as 'the beast of Bolzano' for his cruelty, died Saturday in an Italian hospital at age 86, officials said.The Ukrainian-born Seifert was serving a life sentence at the Santa Maria Capua Vetere prison in southern Italy. He died in the nearby Caserta hospital, according to officials at the hospital and at the prison. Seifert, tried in absentia by a military tribunal in Verona, was convicted in 2000 of nine counts of murder committed while he was an SS guard at a prison transit camp in Bolzano, in Italy's Alpine South Tyrol area. (AP Photo/Courtesy of Verony Military Prosecutor's office, ho) ** EDITORIAL USE ONLY NO SALES **AP - Michael Seifert, a former Nazi SS prison guard known as "the beast of Bolzano" for his cruelty, died Saturday in an Italian hospital at age 86, officials said.

Pope blasts Spain's "aggressive" anti-church ways (AP)

Posted: 06 Nov 2010 11:17 AM PDT

Pope Benedict XVI waves to the crowd the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela, northern Spain, on Saturday, Nov. 6, 2010. The Pope visits the pilgrimage city of Santiago de Compostela to celebrate its Holy year as part of a two-day trip to Spain. (AP Photo/Lavandeira Jr, Pool)AP - Pope Benedict XVI criticized an "aggressive" anti-church sentiment in Spain that he said was reminiscent of the country's bloody civil war era as he began a two-day visit Saturday to rekindle the faith.

Sweden says US has carried out secret surveillance (AP)

Posted: 06 Nov 2010 09:23 AM PDT

AP - People linked with the U.S. Embassy in Stockholm have performed surveillance activities in Sweden without the knowledge of the host nation's authorities, a government officials said Saturday.

Belgium's embattled archbishop hit by a pie (AP)

Posted: 06 Nov 2010 09:12 AM PDT

FILE - In this April 23, 2010 file photo, Belgium's Archbishop Andre-Joseph Leonard addresses the media in Brussels. On Tuesday, Nov. 2, 2010 the spokesman for Andre Leonard, Juergen Mettepenningen, quit his post saying that he could no longer speak for a ''loose canon'' who has shocked Catholics with his apparent defense of priests accused of pedophilia and condemnation of homosexuals. (AP Photo/Yves Logghe, file)AP - Belgian media says the country's ultraconservative Roman Catholic archbishop was hit by a pie in the face during an All Saints Day service.

Report: German minister sees threat of attacks (AP)

Posted: 06 Nov 2010 08:58 AM PDT

AP - Germany's top security official says there are serious indications of possible terror attacks in the United States and Europe.

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Posted: 06 Nov 2010 08:38 AM PDT

AP - Prison official says Nazi war criminal Michael Seifert has died in Italy.

Crisis-hit Greece votes under threat of snap poll (AP)

Posted: 06 Nov 2010 04:28 AM PDT

AP - In a major test of support for austerity measures, voters in crisis-hit Greece will cast ballots in local elections Sunday that could force the Socialist government to call a snap general election.

Russian reporter in coma after attack (AP)

Posted: 06 Nov 2010 03:25 AM PDT

AP - A reporter for a major Russian newspaper has been badly beaten in a brutal attack that prosecutors say may have been linked to his journalistic work.

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