2010年11月12日星期五

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Yahoo! News: Europe News

Britain launches fresh drive on tax havens (AFP)

Posted: 12 Nov 2010 04:43 PM PST

Britain is holding talks aimed at striking deals with three more countries where its residents deposit money in banks in a bid to avoid paying tax, finance minister George Osborne, pictured here on October 2010, said Saturday.(AFP/File/Max Nash)AFP - Britain is holding talks aimed at striking deals with three more countries where its residents deposit money in banks in a bid to avoid paying tax, finance minister George Osborne said Saturday.

Police arrest key suspect in student riot (AFP)

Posted: 12 Nov 2010 03:29 PM PST

Demonstrators clash with police as they try to gain entry to the headquarters of the Conservative Party on November 10. Police on Friday arrested a man suspected of throwing a fire extinguisher off the roof at officers during a student protest that besieged the prime minister's party headquarters.(AFP/File/Carl Court)AFP - British police arrested a man Friday suspected of throwing a fire extinguisher off the roof at officers during a student riot targeting Prime Minister David Cameron's party headquarters.

Eastern Europe's first science centre wows in Poland (AFP)

Posted: 12 Nov 2010 02:52 PM PST

A boy tests a display at the Copernicus Science Centre in Warsaw. Eastern Europe can finally boast its first ultra-modern, multi-million dollar science museum in the Polish capital Warsaw.(AFP/Janek Skarzynski)AFP - Eastern Europe can finally boast its first ultra-modern, multi-million dollar science museum in the Polish capital Warsaw, a city already drawing tens of thousands to Europe's biggest annual outdoor science fair.

Iraqis injured in church attack airlifted to Rome (AP)

Posted: 12 Nov 2010 01:42 PM PST

AP - Twenty-six Iraqis who were injured in a militant attack on one of Baghdad's main Catholic churches arrived in Rome for treatment Friday, airlifted by the Italian military at the request of the Vatican.

Teenage sailor Laura Dekker resumes solo voyage (AP)

Posted: 12 Nov 2010 01:35 PM PST

FILE - Laura Dekker listens to questions from the media in Den Osse, southwest Netherlands, in this Wednesday, Aug. 4, 2010 file photo. Dekker, 15, who is attempting to become the youngest person to sail solo around the world, has resumed her voyage. Writing on her blog Friday, Dekker said she has already sailed 240 nautical miles (276 statute miles) since leaving Spain's Canary Islands on Wednesday and has 540 nautical miles (621 statute miles) to go to her next port of call, the Cape Verde islands, off west Africa. (AP Photo/Bas Czerwinski, file)AP - Teenage Dutch sailor Laura Dekker, who is attempting to become the youngest person to sail solo around the world, has resumed her voyage.

French rail firm SNCF regrets shipping Jews to Holocaust (AFP)

Posted: 12 Nov 2010 01:34 PM PST

SNCF trains are pictured in Villetaneuse. France's state-owned rail company SNCF has expressed remorse for hauling thousands of Jews to their deaths in Nazi camps, after US lawmakers threatened its chances of winning lucrative contracts.(AFP/File/Mehdi Fedouach)AFP - France's state-owned rail company SNCF has expressed remorse for hauling thousands of Jews to their deaths in Nazi camps, after US lawmakers threatened its chances of winning lucrative contracts.

Police file new evidence on phone-hacking scandal (AFP)

Posted: 12 Nov 2010 01:24 PM PST

Police said they had sent new evidence to prosecutors Friday over claims of phone-hacking at a newspaper when it was edited by Andy Coulson, the man seen here in September 2010 who is now Prime Minister David Cameron's media chief.(AFP/File/Ben Stansall)AFP - Police on Friday said they had sent new evidence to prosecutors over phone-hacking claims at a newspaper when it was edited by the man now employed as Prime Minister David Cameron's media chief.

Pot o' Gold: Family's old vase fetches $83 million (AP)

Posted: 12 Nov 2010 01:09 PM PST

This undated photo released by Bainbridge Auctioneers shows a Chinese vase which was sold for 43 million pounds ($69.3 million) in London Thursday, Nov. 11, 2010. The vase is decorated with a fish motif and is 16 inches high. Auctioneers Bainbridges said the vase is believed to have been acquired by an English family during the 1930s or earlier. (AP Photo / Bainbridge Auctioneers ho, via PA) ** UNITED KINGDOM OUT **AP - A Chinese vase that sat, little-noticed, in a suburban London home has become one of the most expensive artworks ever sold, evidence that China's sizzling art market shows no signs of cooling down.

EU official calls Roma's situation in Europe 'scandalous' (AFP)

Posted: 12 Nov 2010 12:50 PM PST

EU justice commissioner Viviane Reding gives a speech before the Jean Monnet Foundation for Europe at the University of Lausanne. Reding, who clashed with France over its treatment of Roma, described their situation in Europe on Friday as a AFP - European Justice Commissioner Viviane Reding, who clashed with France over its treatment of Roma, described their situation in Europe on Friday as a "scandalous matter".

United plane from London diverted to Iceland (AP)

Posted: 12 Nov 2010 12:19 PM PST

AP - A passenger plane flying from London to San Francisco has been diverted to Iceland after a passenger became sick on board.

AP Exclusive: Egypt worries about IAEA probe (AP)

Posted: 12 Nov 2010 10:07 AM PST

AP - Egypt fears being grouped with the likes of Iran and Syria if a U.N. investigation into traces of highly enriched uranium found in the country isn't brought to a swift end, according to what officials describe as a confidential report from the country's nuclear agency.

White powder, threats sent to French mosque (AP)

Posted: 12 Nov 2010 09:51 AM PST

AP - An official at Strasbourg City Hall says an area mosque has received an envelope containing a suspicious white powder and anti-Muslim threats.

Berlusconi at risk with no-confidence motion (AP)

Posted: 12 Nov 2010 09:43 AM PST

In this photo made available Friday Nov. 12, 2010 Moroccan girl nicknamed Ruby attends a party in a disco in Genoa, Italy, Thursday Nov. 11, 2010. The 74-year-old Italian leader Silvio Berlusconi has been engulfed in a scandal over his ties to Ruby, whom he helped free from police custody months ago. The girl, who turned 18 just days ago, said she visited Berlusconi's villa on at least one occasion, though she said she never had sex with the premier. Some have alleged that Berlusconi's intervention with police to free her could be considered an abuse of power. (AP Photo/str)AP - Italy's opposition presented a no-confidence motion against Premier Silvio Berlusconi on Friday, setting the stage for a showdown in parliament that could spell the end of the government.

EU offers Dec. 5 meeting with Iran (AP)

Posted: 12 Nov 2010 09:36 AM PST

EDITORS' NOTE: Reuters and other foreign media are subject to Iranian restrictions on their ability to film or take pictures in Tehran. Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad speaks in Qazvin, northwest of Tehran, November 10, 2010. REUTERS/President.ir/HandoutAP - The European Union offered Friday to meet with Iran on Dec. 5 to discuss Tehran's nuclear program.

APNewsBreak: EU in Kosovo probes organ trafficking (AP)

Posted: 12 Nov 2010 09:33 AM PST

A sign shows indicates the Medicus polyclinic in Kosovo's capital Pristina, Friday, Nov. 12, 2010. At least seven people, including a former senior health ministry official, are suspected of involvement in an international network that falsely promised poor people payment for their kidneys and then sold the organs for as much as euro 100,000 ($137,000), according to an indictment obtained by The Associated Press. (AP Photo/Visar Kryeziu)AP - At least nine people, including a former senior Health Ministry official, are suspected of involvement in an international network that falsely promised poor people payment for their kidneys, then sold the organs for as much as euro100,000 ($137,000), according to an indictment obtained by The Associated Press.

Prosecutors get new info on UK phone hacking (AP)

Posted: 12 Nov 2010 09:24 AM PST

AP - British police say they've given prosecutors new information on a phone hacking scandal that threatens to engulf the British prime minister's top media aide.

Online outrage follows UK's 'Twitter Joke Trial' (AP)

Posted: 12 Nov 2010 09:18 AM PST

AP - He missed the plane. Now thousands of annoyed Internet users says authorities missed the joke.

Intellectual Ernst von Glasersfeld dies (AP)

Posted: 12 Nov 2010 08:23 AM PST

AP - A friend says intellectual Ernst von Glasersfeld, known for developing the theory of radical constructivism, has died. He was 93.

(AP)

Posted: 12 Nov 2010 08:04 AM PST

AP - The European Union has agreed to meet with Iran Dec. 5 to discuss Tehran's nuclear program.

Vatican probing Irish church response to scandal (AP)

Posted: 12 Nov 2010 06:12 AM PST

AP - The Vatican said Friday it is moving ahead with its own investigation of how the Catholic church in Ireland is responding to its massive sex abuse scandal, promising it will be sweeping but will not interfere with ongoing probes by magistrates or a parliamentary commission.

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