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Portuguese go to polls as country grapples with bailout (Reuters)

Posted: 04 Jun 2011 04:32 PM PDT

Portugal's Socialist candidate and caretaker Prime Minister Jose Socrates is welcomed by supporters during his last electoral campaign rally in Lisbon June 3, 2011. REUTERS/Jose Manuel RibeiroReuters - Portugal will elect a new government on Sunday which will lead the country through a period of deep austerity and recession after it received a 78-billion-euro ($114 billion) bailout from the European Union and IMF.

Jai McDowall wins 'Britain's Got Talent' (AFP)

Posted: 04 Jun 2011 03:18 PM PDT

Scottish singer Jai McDowall triumphed in the final of TV show AFP - Scottish singer Jai McDowall triumphed in the final of TV show "Britain's Got Talent" on Saturday, in an upset that saw favourite Ronan Parke pushed into second place.

Sloppy England scramble Swiss draw (AFP)

Posted: 04 Jun 2011 02:07 PM PDT

England's midfielder Frank Lampard scores a penalty during their Euro 2012 qualifying football match against Switzerland at Wembley Stadium, in London. The match ended in a 2-2 draw.(AFP/Glyn Kirk)AFP - England fought back to snatch a 2-2 draw in their Euro 2012 qualifier with Switzerland here Saturday after two goalkeeping errors from Joe Hart threatened to send Fabio Capello's side spinning to defeat.

Pope urges Europe to respect Christian values (AFP)

Posted: 04 Jun 2011 01:49 PM PDT

Pope Benedict XVI (C) blesses the crowd at the end of an open air gathering in central Zagreb. The Pope warned Saturday of challenges to Europe's Christian values and said staunchly Catholic Croatia could serve as an example to other EU nations threatened by individualism.(AFP/Vincenzo Pinto)AFP - Pope Benedict XVI warned Saturday of challenges to Europe's Christian values and said staunchly Catholic Croatia could serve as an example to other EU nations threatened by individualism.

Portugal prepares to vote with centre-right opposition ahead (AFP)

Posted: 04 Jun 2011 01:47 PM PDT

Caretaker Prime Minister and secretary general of the Socialist Party (PS) Jose Socrates makes a speech in Lisbon, on June 3. Portugal's centre-right opposition looks set to oust the Socialists from power in an early general election that will decide who will implement a demanding 78-billion-euro bailout deal.(AFP/Patricia de Melo Moreira)AFP - Portugal goes to the polls Sunday in an early general election to decide who will implement a 78 billion euro bailout deal, with the centre-right opposition leading the ruling Socialists in surveys.

Mystery deepens over E. coli poisoning (AFP)

Posted: 04 Jun 2011 01:29 PM PDT

Pedestrians walk through the center of Luebeck, northern Germany. Reports say police are checking two restaurants in Lubeck, one in which 17 diners fell ill and another in which eight women became sick and one of whom died in the deadly outbreak of an e-coli virus.(AFP/DPA/Jens Buettner)AFP - Scientists have yet to trace the source of an E. coli outbreak that has spread to 12 countries and killed at least 19 people, mainly in Germany, as experts on Saturday ruled out links to a Hamburg festival.

Female couple flout French same-sex marriage ban (AFP)

Posted: 04 Jun 2011 12:55 PM PDT

Stephanie Nicot (L) wed partner Elise in a town hall ceremony in Nancy in eastern France in what is said to be the first marriage of its kind in the country. The two women succeeded in dodging France's same-sex marriage ban to say AFP - Two women succeeded in dodging France's same-sex marriage ban to say "I do" on Saturday -- because one of the happy couple is still, legally, a man.

Britain deploys top diplomat, helicopters to Libya (AFP)

Posted: 04 Jun 2011 12:19 PM PDT

British Foreign Secretary William Hague (C) tours Revolution Square in the Libyan rebel stronghold of Benghazi. Hague flew to Benghazi on Saturday to meet rebels fighting to oust Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi after NATO deployed attack choppers for the first time.(AFP/Gianluigi Guercia)AFP - British Foreign Minister William Hague on Saturday met leaders of rebels fighting to oust Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi after NATO deployed attack helicopters for the first time.

Obama: Japan, Europe and fuel pose economic risks (Reuters)

Posted: 04 Jun 2011 12:14 PM PDT

President Barack Obama walks on the South Lawn before he departs the White House for a trip to Toledo, Ohio, June 3, 2011. REUTERS/Larry DowningReuters - President Barack Obama is pointing to problems in Japan and Europe as challenges for the U.S. economy, placing some blame on events abroad for a domestic recovery that is showing signs of slowing down.

Sri Lanka skipper Dilshan defies England (AFP)

Posted: 04 Jun 2011 12:13 PM PDT

Captain of Sri Lanka Tillakaratne Dilshan (R) acknowledges the crowd after reaching 100 runs not out against England during Day 2 of the 2nd Test cricket match at Lord's Cricket ground in London. Sri Lanka were 231 for one, 255 runs behind England's first innings 486.(AFP/Ian Kington)AFP - Sri Lanka captain Tillakaratne Dilshan led from the front with an unbeaten century as the tourists fought back against England on the second day of the second Test at Lord's here Saturday.

WikiLeaks chief says no one harmed by site's leaks (AP)

Posted: 04 Jun 2011 09:39 AM PDT

AP - No one has come to harm as a result of WikiLeaks' publication of thousands of classified documents, the site's founder said Saturday, accusing his critics of opposing the revelations because of "middle-class squeamishness."

Russia says arsenal fire extinguished (AP)

Posted: 04 Jun 2011 07:03 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 - Russian officials say a fire that blazed at a munitions depot for more than a day and a half has been extinguished.

(AP)

Posted: 04 Jun 2011 06:12 AM PDT

AP - UK Foreign Secretary William Hague visits rebels in Libya.

Serb prosecutors want to interview Mladic (AP)

Posted: 04 Jun 2011 05:59 AM PDT

Former Bosnian Serb Gen. Ratko Mladic removes his hat 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 told a United Nations war crimes court Friday he is 'a gravely ill man' as he was arraigned on an 11-count indictment charging him with orchestrating the worst atrocities of a war that claimed 100,000 lives. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner, Pool)AP - Serbia's war crimes prosecutor will seek permission from a U.N. tribunal to question former Bosnian Serb army commander Ratko Mladic as part of its own investigation into wartime atrocities against Serbs.

Portugal mulls way out of recession in elections (AP)

Posted: 04 Jun 2011 05:54 AM PDT

Portugal's interim Prime Minister and Socialist Party leader Jose Socrates reacts during a political rally in Lisbon on the last day of election campaigning, Friday June 3, 2011. Portugal's elections for a new government on June 5 risk delivering a messy political stalemate that could delay urgent economic reforms and aggravate Europe's debt troubles. (AP Photo/Paulo Duarte)AP - Portuguese voters elect a new government Sunday amid a steep decline in living standards as the deeply indebted country enacts painful austerity measures in return for a euro78 billion ($114 billion) international bailout.

AP Exclusive: Boy in Mladic video looks back (AP)

Posted: 04 Jun 2011 05:21 AM PDT

**CORRECTS REFERENCE TO IZUDIN ALIC AS A BOSNIAN MUSLIM, NOT A BOSNIAN SERB** FILE - This image from file video shows Bosnian Muslim boy Izudin Alic, center foreground, standing in front of Ratko Mladic, partially obscured at left, in 1995 as Mladic assures him and other young Bosnian Muslims standing around that everyone in Srebrenica, Bosnia, would be safe, just hours before overseeing the murder of some 8,000 men and boys. But Izudin Alic escaped with his life to bear witness to the incident. Sitting in his home in Srebrenica, Bosnia, on Tuesday May 31, 2011, 24-year-old Alic recalls the sunny day in 1995 when he met with the Bosnian Serb military commander Mladic, who gave him chocolate, even as soldiers were killing his father in the nearby woods. The fugitive Mladic has been arrested on charges relating to alleged war crimes during the Bosnian 1992-95 war. (AP Photo, File)AP - The video horrified the world: a grinning Ratko Mladic patting a young Muslim boy on the head and assuring him everyone in the Srebrenica area would be safe — just hours before overseeing the murder of 8,000 Muslim men and boys.

Srebrenica survivor visits Bosnian killing field (AP)

Posted: 04 Jun 2011 05:17 AM PDT

In this photo taken Thursday, June 2, 2011, Bosnian Muslim Mevludin Oric speaks to The Associated Press at his house in the village of Podlugovi near Sarajevo. Oric, a Bosnian Muslim soldier captured by Serbs as he fled through the woods, is one of four men known to have survived the Srebrenica massacre. Oric lay for nine hours in the Srebrenica killing field where Bosnian Serb commander Ratko Mladic's troops executed 8,000 Muslim men and boys in July 1995.  On Thursday, Oric returned for the first time to the execution ground with Associated Press journalists to share his feelings about the capture of the man who orchestrated Europe's worst carnage since World War II. (AP Photo/Amel Emric)AP - The hardest part was the ants. They crawled over his arms and legs, over his face and into his mouth, hour by hour as he pretended to be dead in a pile of corpses slowly turning stiff.

Bosnian war survivors battle to overcome trauma (AP)

Posted: 04 Jun 2011 05:15 AM PDT

In this photo taken Thursday, June 2, 2011, Bosnian Muslim Mevludin Oric speaks to The Associated Press at his house in the village of Podlugovi near Sarajevo. Oric, a Bosnian Muslim soldier captured by Serbs as he fled through the woods, is one of four men known to have survived the Srebrenica massacre. Oric lay for nine hours in the Srebrenica killing field where Bosnian Serb commander Ratko Mladic's troops executed 8,000 Muslim men and boys in July 1995.  On Thursday, Oric returned for the first time to the execution ground with Associated Press journalists to share his feelings about the capture of the man who orchestrated Europe's worst carnage since World War II. (AP Photo/Amel Emric)AP - The capture of fugitive Bosnian Serb commander Ratko Mladic has brought the horrors of the 1992-95 Bosnian war back into the headlines — and The Associated Press has set out to tell the stories of three survivors who are still battling to overcome their trauma.

18 Greenpeace activists climb Greenland oil rig (AP)

Posted: 04 Jun 2011 02:47 AM PDT

AP - Greenpeace says 18 of its members have climbed a 53,000-ton oil rig in the Arctic waters off Greenland to protest deepwater drilling by a Scottish oil company there.

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