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Defiant Mladic calls genocide charges 'obnoxious' (AP)

Posted: 03 Jun 2011 05:31 PM PDT

Former Bosnian Serb General Ratko Mladic salutes in the court room during his initial appearance at the U.N.'s Yugoslav war crimes tribunal in The Hague, Netherlands, Friday, June 3, 2011.Mladic's appearance Friday at the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal in The Hague is his first public appearance since he went into hiding nearly 16 years ago, when he was indicted for genocide and war crimes committed in the 1992-95 Bosnian war. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner, Pool)AP - Last seen as a swaggering general in the Bosnia war, Ratko Mladic needed help rising from his chair for war-crimes judges Friday, his limp right hand too weak to put on earphones without assistance.

Pope heads to Balkans with pro-EU message (AP)

Posted: 03 Jun 2011 05:20 PM PDT

Pope Benedict XVI blesses the faithful during his weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Wednesday, June 1, 2011. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)AP - Pope Benedict XVI heads to the Balkans this weekend with a pro-European Union message for a region being forced to account for its bloody past to join the EU bloc.

Macedonia ends election campaign with EU in mind (AFP)

Posted: 03 Jun 2011 04:48 PM PDT

A woman walks past election posters of the ruling VMRO-DPMNE party showing Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski in downtown Skopje, ahead of the June 5 early Parliamentary elections. Macedonia stages a snap election Sunday to hand a new government the task of tackling a 30 percent unemployment rate and speed up its goal of European Union membership, stalled by a name row with Greece.(AFP/Robert Atanasovski)AFP - Macedonia's political parties wrapped up late Friday their campaigning for snap elections this weekend, promising voters a fast pace of reforms that would lead the tiny Balkan country into the European Union.

Liu won't run in Europe before worlds - coach (AFP)

Posted: 03 Jun 2011 04:36 PM PDT

Chinese athlete Liu Xiang competes in the 60 meters hundles event in the western German city of Duesseldorf in February 2011. With a 2012 Olympic challenge on the horizon and the spectre of injury hovering, Chinese hurdler Liu Xiang will take a softly-softly approach to this World Championships season.(AFP/DPA/File/Bernd Thissen)AFP - With a 2012 Olympic challenge on the horizon and the spectre of injury hovering, Chinese hurdler Liu Xiang will take a softly-softly approach to this World Championships season.

Portugal winds up campaign, opposition edges ahead (AFP)

Posted: 03 Jun 2011 03:20 PM PDT

The leader of the centre-right Social Democratic Party (PSD) Pedro Passos Coelho greets supporters during a campaign visit in Lisbon, ahead of the June 5 elections. The PSD have the backing of around 36 percent of voters against 31 percent for Prime Minister Jose Socrates's Socialists ahead of Sunday's elections, according to three polls released Friday.(AFP/Miguel Riopa)AFP - Portugal's centre-right opposition extended its poll lead over the ruling Socialists on the last day of campaigning Friday before an election to decide who will implement a 78-billion-euro bailout deal.

Vegetable scare hits Europe (AP)

Posted: 03 Jun 2011 02:34 PM PDT

AP - Schools have pulled raw vegetables from menus, piles of cucumbers sit untouched on shop shelves, and farmers say they're losing millions.

Singer Adele cancels US tour to heal throat (AFP)

Posted: 03 Jun 2011 02:16 PM PDT

Adele performs during the CMT Artists of the Year at The Factory in Franklin, Tennessee, 2010. Grammy-winning singer Adele said Friday she has canceled the rest of a north American tour to recover from laryngitis.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Rick Diamond)AFP - Grammy-winning singer Adele said Friday she has canceled the rest of a north American tour to recover from laryngitis.

Poland investigates newspaper in leak on CIA issue (AP)

Posted: 03 Jun 2011 01:37 PM PDT

AP - Polish prosecutors are investigating a newspaper for leaking state secrets from a probe into an alleged CIA prison that operated in Poland about eight years ago, an official said Friday.

Killer bug outbreak 'stabilises' as death toll hits 19 (AFP)

Posted: 03 Jun 2011 01:11 PM PDT

A picture taken shows cucumbers that will be destroyed at the Mechelse Veilingen - fruit and vegetable auctions, in Sint-Katelijne-Waver, near Mechelen. Some 112,000 cases of vegetables, mostly tomatoes and cucumbers had to be destroyed after prices dropped dramatically at the auctions this morning.(AFP/BELGA/Nicolas Maeterlinck)AFP - A puzzling outbreak of E. coli poisoning that has now spread to 12 countries appears to be stabilising, a senior German doctor said on Friday, as the death toll rose to 19.

Gvot. steps up calls for citizens to leave Yemen (AFP)

Posted: 03 Jun 2011 12:48 PM PDT

Tens of thousands of Yemeni anti-regime protesters shout slogans against President Ali Abdullah Saleh during a demonstration calling for his ouster. Britain on Friday intensified calls for its citizens to immediately leave Yemen and warned of an AFP - Britain on Friday intensified calls for its citizens to immediately leave Yemen and warned of an "extremely serious escalation of violence" as the country teetered on the brink of civil war.

UN: 150 people drown after boat wreck off Tunisia (AP)

Posted: 03 Jun 2011 12:18 PM PDT

AP - Many women and children are among 150 people that drowned after a ship carrying some 850 migrants fleeing the conflict in Libya capsized off Tunisia's coast, the United Nations refugee agency said Friday.

Shipwreck Champagne sold to anonymous bidder (AP)

Posted: 03 Jun 2011 11:15 AM PDT

Director of Operations Truly Hardy from Acker Merrall & Condit speaks to a telephone bidder during the auction in Mariehamn, Finland, Friday June 3, 2011. Finnish officials say an Internet bidder has paid 54,000 euro ($78,235) for two bottles of 200-year-old champagne found in a shipwreck at the bottom of the Baltic Sea. Auctioneers in Mariehamn say that an anonymous buyer from Singapore paid a world-record price of 30,000 euro for a bottle of Veuve Clicquot and 24,000 euro for a bottle of Juglar. Both bottles are believed to be the oldest preserved examples of their respective brands. (AP Photo/Lehtikuva, Sari Gustafsson) FINLAND OUT NO SALESAP - An anonymous Internet bidder on Friday paid euro54,000 ($78,200) for two bottles of 200-year-old Champagne salvaged from a shipwreck at the bottom of the Baltic Sea, auction organizers said.

2 Danes launch home-built rocket over Baltic sea (AP)

Posted: 03 Jun 2011 10:55 AM PDT

AP - Two Danish space enthusiasts on Friday successfully launched a homemade unmanned 30-foot (9-meter) rocket over the Baltic Sea.

Arsenal fire, blasts shake Russian region (AP)

Posted: 03 Jun 2011 10:45 AM PDT

A fire engulfs an ammunition depot in Pugachyovo in the central Russian region of Udmurtia, Friday, June 3, 2011. The fire that raged all day prompted evacuation of more than 28,000 people were evacuated from their homes. (AP Photo/Komsomolskaya Pravda, Tatyana Lapiner)AP - Fire tore through an ammunition depot in the central Russian region of Udmurtia, causing shells to explode all day Friday. More than 28,000 people were evacuated from their homes.

Spain's king undergoes knee operation (AP)

Posted: 03 Jun 2011 10:11 AM PDT

Spain's King Juan Carlos is seen during a visit to an art exhibition with Poland's President Bronislaw Komorowski, not seen, at the Royal Palace in Madrid, Wednesday June 1, 2011. Spain's King Juan Carlos has shown that he has a sarcastic side, berating reporters Tuesday who queried him about his health and saying he feels 'terrible, terrible, seeing that you like killing me.'The palace earlier announced that Juan Carlos will have corrective knee surgery. The monarch had a benign tumor removed from his right lung last year. (AP Photo/Daniel Ochoa de Olza)AP - Spain's King Juan Carlos successfully underwent knee replacement surgery Friday that sparked alarm about his overall health, irking the monarch.

Sobibor exhibition hall closed for lack of funds (AP)

Posted: 03 Jun 2011 09:56 AM PDT

AP - An exhibition hall at the former Nazi death camp of Sobibor has been closed because of a lack of funds, a Polish official said Friday.

US VP Biden meets with pope (AP)

Posted: 03 Jun 2011 08:42 AM PDT

AP - U.S. Vice President Joseph Biden, a pro-abortion rights Roman Catholic, met with Pope Benedict XVI in an unannounced visit at the Vatican on Friday.

Pope meets Abbas, Palestinian state 'soon' (AP)

Posted: 03 Jun 2011 08:17 AM PDT

Pope Benedict XVI greets Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, also known as Abu Mazen as he arrives for a private audience at the Vatican, Friday, June 3, 2011. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini, Pool)AP - The Vatican says a Palestinian state must "soon" live side by side in peace and security with Israel.

Rare white rhino dies in Czech zoo (AP)

Posted: 03 Jun 2011 08:09 AM PDT

AP - A 39-year-old northern white rhinoceros has died at a Czech zoo, further reducing the world's dwindling population of the endangered animal, an official said Friday.

Olympic cops to get counseling after Games duties (AP)

Posted: 03 Jun 2011 07:50 AM PDT

FILE - In this April 6, 2008 file photo, British police officers apprehend an anti-China, pro-Tibet demonstrator,as he tried to interrupt the Olympic torch parade over Tower Bridge in central London. It sounds like a plum assignment: forget your regular duties for 70 days and travel throughout the British Isles on a 8,000-mile journey with the Olympic Torch in the run-up to the 2012 London games. But Scotland Yard officers hand-picked for the once-in-a-lifetime assignment will receive psychological counseling afterward, police officials said in a statement Friday, June 3, 2011. The officers will consult with psychologists, doctors and physiotherapists in a series of debriefings to help them cope with the readjustment back to their normal lives, officials said. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis, File)AP - Guarding the Olympic torch for 70 days on its journey through the British Isles sounds like a plum assignment, but experts warn it will carry serious stress and Scotland Yard plans to offer psychological counseling when the 8,000-mile trip is completed.

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