2010年12月17日星期五

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Yahoo! News: Europe News

Celtic ready to turn up the heat (AFP)

Posted: 17 Dec 2010 06:31 PM PST

Celtics' Ki Sung Yueng (right) is congratulated by team-mates after scoring the opening goal of their Scottish Premier League match between vs Inverness Caledonian Thistle at Celtic Park, Glasgow, on November 27. Celtic will be looking to turn up the heat in the league on Saturday by beating Hamilton at New Douglas Park and move top of the table despite having not played a game in 3 weeks.(AFP/File/Andy Buchanan)AFP - Celtic will be looking to turn up the heat in the Scottish Premier League on Saturday by beating Hamilton at New Douglas Park and move top of the table despite having not played a game in three weeks.

Russian whistle-blowing doctor fears dismissal (AP)

Posted: 17 Dec 2010 06:20 PM PST

Russia's Prime Minister Vladimir Putin gestures during a call-in session broadcast live Thursday, Dec. 16, 2010, on Russian state television and radio in Moscow. Violent rampages outside the Kremlin have highlighted the need to strengthen public order and raise police prestige, Putin said Thursday. (AP photo/RIA Novosti, Alexei Druzhinin, Pool)AP - A Russian cardiologist said he feared dismissal and beating after phoning Vladimir Putin to say that an impressive hospital display for the premier was faked. And then, Putin called him back.

WikiLeaks chief says US preparing to indict him (AP)

Posted: 17 Dec 2010 06:20 PM PST

Julian Assange head of WikiLeaks poses for photographers at the home of Frontline Club founding member Vaughan Smith, at Bungay, England, Friday, Dec. 17, 2010. Assange said he feared that the United States is getting ready to indict him, saying Friday that he believed that a grand jury was meeting to consider charges against him. He has repeatedly voiced concerns that American authorities were getting ready to press charges over WikiLeaks' release of some 250,000 secret State Department cables, which have angered and embarrassed officials in Washington. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)AP - The founder of WikiLeaks said Friday he fears the United States is preparing to indict him, but insisted that the government secret-spilling site would continue its work despite what he calls a dirty tricks campaign against him.

WikiLeaks chief Assange fears US charges (AFP)

Posted: 17 Dec 2010 06:16 PM PST

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange gives the thumbs up after a visit to Beccles police station in Suffolk. Assange said Friday it was AFP - WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said Friday it was "increasingly likely" the US would try to extradite him on charges related to leaked cables as he savoured his first day on bail.

Court to rule on Knox DNA in Italy sex-murder trial (AFP)

Posted: 17 Dec 2010 05:30 PM PST

US citizen Amanda Knox, seen here talking with her lawyer Carlo Dalla Vedova before the start of the second hearing of her appeal trial in Perugia's courthouse, on December 11. The young American woman was sentenced in 2009 to 26 years for murdering Leeds University student Meredith Kercher in the cottage they shared in Perugia.(AFP/File/Filippo Monteforte)AFP - Lawyers for Amanda Knox, the American convicted with two others of murdering a British student in Italy, are hoping her appeal trial will order new tests on DNA linking her to the crime.

BorgWarner to expand in Europe (Investor's Business Daily)

Posted: 17 Dec 2010 03:43 PM PST

Investor's Business Daily - The car supplier agreed to buy the traction systems unit of Sweden's Haldex for $205 mil to add all-wheel drive equipment sales in Europe. The transaction is expected to close in Q1. BorgWarner , with its energy-efficient engine and drivetrain components, has received a lift from carmakers shifting to higher mileage and lower emissions. It's gained from emerging markets; developed markets are rebounding as well. It rose 0.4%.

European Court: Irish Antiabortion Law Violates Human Rights (Time.com)

Posted: 17 Dec 2010 03:35 PM PST

Time.com - The European Court of Human Rights' ruling that Ireland's antiabortion law is a violation of human rights forces the country to finally clarify when -- and whether -- a woman is allowed to terminate her pregnancy

Summary Box: Europe's woes help support Treasurys (AP)

Posted: 17 Dec 2010 02:59 PM PST

AP - A BREATHER: The recent Treasury market rout took a pause Friday, as Europe's lingering debt problems returned investors to the relative safety of U.S. government bonds. Longer-dated Treasurys got a boost from the Federal Reserve buying $2 billion in bonds.

Treasurys prices edge up as Europe worries return (AP)

Posted: 17 Dec 2010 02:58 PM PST

AP - The recent drop in Treasurys took a pause on Friday as Europe's ongoing debt troubles had investors returning to the safety of U.S. government bonds.

Stockholm bomber denounced by father-in-law (AP)

Posted: 17 Dec 2010 02:06 PM PST

This undated image provided by SITE Intelligence Group and taken from a jihadist web site purports to show Taimour Abdulwahab, a 28 year-old an Iraqi-born Swede who spent much of the past decade in Britain, and the man whom Swedish authorities say blew himself up in a botched suicide bombing in Stockholm Saturday Dec. 11, 2010. (AP Photo/SITE Intelligence Group) MANDATORY CREDIT; NO SALESAP - The father-in-law of the Stockholm suicide bomber on Friday denounced the 28-year-old attacker as a brainwashed terrorist who rejected "all the good" that Sweden gave him.

Paris Vogue editor to leave after 10-year tenure (AP)

Posted: 17 Dec 2010 01:57 PM PST

In this Saturday, May 23, 2009 photo, Carine Roitfeld arrives for the Dolce & Gabbana party, during the 62nd International film festival in Cannes, southern France. Paris Vogue says its editor-in-chief, Carine Roitfeld, has decided to leave after a 10-year tenure in which the French fashion monthly became 'a worldwide reference and indispensable magazine.' (AP Photo/Matt Sayles)AP - Paris Vogue says its editor-in-chief, Carine Roitfeld, has decided to leave after a 10-year tenure in which the French fashion monthly became "a worldwide reference and indispensable magazine."

Versailles to lease nearby building as a hotel (AP)

Posted: 17 Dec 2010 01:36 PM PST

File - Tourists walk in the gardens of the Palace of Versailles, west of Paris, in this Thursday, Dec. 2, 2010 file photo. Administrators of France's Versailles Palace say they have agreed to lease an adjacent building to King Louis XIV's 17th-century chateau as a hotel. The Hotel du Grand Controle, which was the home for financial advisers to French kings for decades, is set to get a euro5.5-million ($7.29-million), yearlong facelift by Belgian company Ivy International as part of the deal. (AP Photo/Michel Euler, file)AP - Administrators of France's Versailles Palace said Friday that they have agreed to lease an adjacent building to King Louis XIV's 17th-century chateau for use as a hotel.

Court sentences 16 over murder of French Jew (AP)

Posted: 17 Dec 2010 12:30 PM PST

AP - A French appeals court on Friday upheld the convictions of 16 people for their roles in the 2006 kidnapping, torture and murder of a young French Jew, handing down sentences of up to 18 years in prison.

Towering Christmas fir lit up in St Peter's Square (AP)

Posted: 17 Dec 2010 11:36 AM PST

People walk past the Christmas tree in St. Peter's square, at the Vatican, that was lit for the first time Friday, Dec. 17, 2010. The 30-meter-high (100-foot) tree comes from the woods on the slopes of a valley in the South Tyrol, Italy's German-Italian speaking region in the north. Rows of gold and white lights drape the tree like elegant necklaces. (AP Photo/Pier Paolo Cito)AP - The Vatican has turned the lights on a towering fir tree for Christmas in St. Peter's Square.

British bomb expert honored by Prince Charles (AP)

Posted: 17 Dec 2010 10:31 AM PST

AP - A British soldier who defused a record 139 bombs on a six-month tour in Afghanistan says receiving a medal from Prince Charles was even more nerve-racking than his dangerous work.

Snow grounds 800 flights across Europe (AP)

Posted: 17 Dec 2010 10:29 AM PST

A snow-plow clears a snow-covered sidewalk in Berlin. Fresh snowfalls swept northern Europe Thursday, causing misery for travellers as airports remain closed, roads were blocked and Eurostar international rail services were cancelled.(AFP/John MacDougall)AP - Heavy overnight snowfall disrupted air travel across western Europe Friday, forcing more than 800 flight cancellations and leading to major delays in Germany, the Netherlands and Switzerland.

UK judges: Temporary immigration cap is unlawful (AP)

Posted: 17 Dec 2010 09:55 AM PST

AP - Britain's government says it could appeal a High Court decision that ruled a temporary limit on the number of non-Europeans allowed to work in the U.K is unlawful.

French court convicts 13 Pinochet-era officials (AP)

Posted: 17 Dec 2010 09:49 AM PST

AP - Thirteen officials who served under Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet were convicted in a French court on Friday of kidnapping and torturing four French nationals. Two were sentenced to life in prison.

EU leaders bid farewell to euro's horrible year (AP)

Posted: 17 Dec 2010 09:15 AM PST

German Chancellor Angela Merkel, right, speaks with the media as she arrives for an EU summit in Brussels, Friday, Dec. 17, 2010. European Union leaders are changing the treaty that underpins the bloc to make room for a huge new rescue system for countries that get into debt trouble in the long term. (AP Photo/Thierry Charlier)AP - European Union leaders capped the euro's year of pain with renewed resolve to protect their battered common currency. But even after their seventh summit in a chaotic year, markets failed to take heed, leaving the leaders baffled. Again.

Vatican tried to keep Irish child rapist as priest (AP)

Posted: 17 Dec 2010 08:50 AM PST

AP - The Vatican tried to stop Dublin church leaders from defrocking a particularly dangerous pedophile priest and relented only after he raped a boy in a pub restroom, an investigation reported Friday.

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