2011年2月9日星期三

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Yahoo! News: Europe News

West Ham not won Olympic arena bid yet: organisers (AFP)

Posted: 09 Feb 2011 05:35 PM PST

The Olympic Stadium is pictured through a bus window as it drives through the Olympic Park in Stratford, in January. London Olympic 2012 organisers denied they had agreed to back West Ham's bid to use the Games' stadium, despite earlier reports suggesting a decision had been made.(AFP/File/Leon Neal)AFP - London Olympic 2012 organisers denied they had agreed to back Premier League club West Ham's bid to use the Games' stadium, despite earlier reports suggesting a decision had been made.

England manager faces dilemma as Danes downed 2-1 (AFP)

Posted: 09 Feb 2011 05:26 PM PST

England's Ashley Cole controls the ball during a friendly football match against Denmark at the Parken Stadium in Copenhagen. England won 2-1.(AFP/Paul Ellis)AFP - England manager Fabio Capello has admitted he faces tough decisions over his first-choice strikers after Ashley Young and Darren Bent scored the goals to beat Denmark 2-1 in a friendly international.

England come from behind to beat Denmark in friendly (AFP)

Posted: 09 Feb 2011 04:37 PM PST

England's Ashley Cole controls the ball during a friendly football match against Denmark at the Parken Stadium in Copenhagen. England won 2-1.(AFP/Paul Ellis)AFP - England manager Fabio Capello admits he faces some tough decisions over who to choose as his first-choice strikers after Ashley Young and Darren Bent scored the goals to beat Denmark 2-1 in Wednesday's friendly in Copenhagen.

Historic Gauguin painting fails to sell at London auction (AFP)

Posted: 09 Feb 2011 04:03 PM PST

A Christie's employee poses next to a painting entitled 'Nature morte a L'Esperance' by French artist Paul Gauguin at Christies auction house in central London, on February 4. The painting failed to sell at a London auction Wednesday despite being displayed for the first time in 15 years.(AFP/File/Carl Court)AFP - An historic painting by French post-Impressionist artist Paul Gauguin failed to sell at a London auction Wednesday despite being displayed for the first time in 15 years.

Mother of missing twins makes Italian TV appeal (AFP)

Posted: 09 Feb 2011 03:30 PM PST

Swiss children Alessia and Livia have been missing since January 30. The mother of missing six-year-old twins fought back tears Wednesday as she made an emotional plea on Italian television, hours after prosecutors revealed that witnesses had seen the girls on board a ferry.(AFP/Interpol/File/Police Cantonale Vaudoise)AFP - The mother of missing six-year-old twins fought back tears Wednesday as she made an emotional plea on Italian television, hours after prosecutors revealed that witnesses had seen the girls on board a ferry.

Global stock market operators gather forces (AFP)

Posted: 09 Feb 2011 03:29 PM PST

Traders work at the stock exchange in Frankfurt/Main, central Germany. Deutsche Boerse and NYSE Euronext said on Wednesday they are in AFP - Merger mania gripped financial markets Wednesday as the London and Toronto stock exchanges announced a tie-up and Deutsche Boerse and NYSE Euronext envisioned the world's largest bourse.

Berlusconi: Sex trial request is bid to topple him (AP)

Posted: 09 Feb 2011 01:42 PM PST

** CORRECTS YEAR ** Italian premier Silvio Berlusconi talks to journalists during a press conference following a cabinet meeting at Rome's Chigi palace, Wednesday, Feb. 9, 2011. Italian prosecutors requested Wednesday that Premier Silvio Berlusconi stand trial over accusations he paid for sex with a 17-year-old Moroccan and then used his influence to try to cover it up. He called the action against him 'disgusting'' and 'a farce.'' (AP Photo/Pier Paolo Cito)AP - Scandal-plagued Premier Silvio Berlusconi defiantly accused prosecutors Wednesday of trying to topple his government by seeking to put him on trial on charges he had sex with a 17-year-old girl and then tried to cover it up.

Murray crashes out in Rotterdam tennis first round (AFP)

Posted: 09 Feb 2011 12:52 PM PST

Andy Murray, pictured in January 2010, won three games in 12 minutes before a slow fade Wednesday at the ATP Rotterdam Open which left the Australian Open finalist a first-round loser to Marcos Baghdatis.(AFP/File/Greg Wood)AFP - Andy Murray won three games in 12 minutes before a slow fade Wednesday at the ATP Rotterdam Open which left the Australian Open finalist a first-round loser to Marcos Baghdatis.

Greek conservative politician Evert dies at age 71 (AP)

Posted: 09 Feb 2011 12:37 PM PST

FILE - In this undated file photo Conservative former opposition leader and Athens mayor Miltiades Evert attends a conference in Athens, Greece. Evert died Wednesday, Feb. 9, 2011 in a hospital in Athens. He was 71. Evert had been treated for weeks for breathing problems. (AP Photo/Eurokinissi/Yiorgos Kondarinis, file ) GREECE OUTAP - Miltiades Evert, a Conservative former opposition leader and Athens mayor, died in a hospital in the Greek capital Wednesday. He was 71.

Air France-KLM picks up, cautions on political tensions (AFP)

Posted: 09 Feb 2011 12:20 PM PST

An Air France plane gets ready to take off at Charles de Gaulle-Roissy airport. Air France-KLM said Wednesday it did much better in its third quarter, reducing losses, but cautioned that recent bad weather and now political tensions in Africa were a concern.(AFP/File/Bertrand Langlois)AFP - Air France-KLM said Wednesday it did much better in its third quarter, reducing losses, but cautioned that recent bad weather and now political tensions in Africa were a concern.

Moscow airport bomber named, his siblings arrested (AP)

Posted: 09 Feb 2011 11:14 AM PST

This image taken from video received late Monday, Feb. 7, 2011 by The Kavkaz Center, a website affiliated with Chechen rebels, shows insurgent leader Doku Umarov speaking in a video in which he claims responsibility for last month's deadly suicide bombing at Russia's largest airport. It was not clear when or where the video was recorded. (AP Photo/The Kavkaz Center) NO SALESAP - Russian authorities have named the suspected suicide bomber of Moscow's airport and arrested his teenage brother and sister, officials said Wednesday.

Prosecutor: Missing Swiss twins sailed to Corsica (AP)

Posted: 09 Feb 2011 10:53 AM PST

Firefighters and forestry police search an area for two 6-year-old twin girls who disappeared after their father died in an apparent suicide, in Cerignola, near Bari, Italy, Monday, Feb. 7, 2011. The twins disappeared after the body of their father Matthias Kaspar Schepp, 43, a Canadian-born resident of Switzerland, was found by a railway station near the southern Italian port city Bari shortly before 11 p.m. on Thursday, according to Swiss police in the canton (state) of Vaud. (AP Photo/Donato Fasano)AP - The search for missing Swiss twins spread to Corsica and southern Italy on Wednesday, after authorities confirmed the 6-year-old girls were on a ferry to the French island four days before their father apparently killed himself in Italy.

Basque separatist party presents papers in Madrid (AP)

Posted: 09 Feb 2011 10:42 AM PST

Sinn Fein member Alex Maskey, centre left speaks alongside spokesman Inaki Zabaleta, centre right during a news conference to promote the new Basque political party Sortu in Madrid, Wednesday Feb. 9, 2011. Basque separatists have launched a new political party they say rejects violence by the armed group ETA, an unprecedented step designed to move the troubled region toward peace. (AP Photo/Paul White)AP - A new Basque separatist party concluded years of intense debate among ETA-linked groups on Wednesday, becoming the first party linked to the Basque pro-independence group to officially reject violence in an effort to enter local elections.

Court orders Charles Taylor lawyer to end boycott (AP)

Posted: 09 Feb 2011 10:23 AM PST

Former Liberian President Charles Taylor argues with a photographer as he awaits the start of the prosecution's closing arguments during his trial at the U.N.-backed Special Court for Sierra Leone in Leidschendam February 8, 2011. Taylor's lawyer stormed out of court Tuesday after judges refused to accept a written summary of the former Liberian president's defense case at the end of his war crimes trial. British attorney Courtenay Griffiths ignored judges at the Special Tribunal for Sierra Leone who ordered him to stay in court after unprecedented angry exchanges erupted before closing arguments in the three-year case. 'How will posterity judge the credibility of this court if, at this 11th hour, they prevented Mr. Taylor from presenting ... 90 percent of his closing arguments?' Griffiths said outside court. He said he refused to 'lend legitimacy to proceedings' by staying. (AP Photo/Jerry Lampen, Pool)AP - International justices ordered Charles Taylor's lawyer to apologize and end his boycott of the final stages of the former Liberian president's war crimes trial after the attorney accused the judges of putting their egos ahead of justice.

Demjanjuk's daughter appears at trial (AP)

Posted: 09 Feb 2011 10:04 AM PST

AP - John Demjanjuk's daughter appeared Wednesday at his trial in Munich on charges he was a guard at a Nazi death camp, the first family member to attend since it started more than a year ago.

Russia's Medvedev speaks tough on disputed islands (AP)

Posted: 09 Feb 2011 09:57 AM PST

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, background right, heads a meeting on economic issues at the Gorki presidential residence outside Moscow on Wednesday, Feb. 9, 2011. (AP Photo/ RIA Novosti, Dmitry Astakhov, Presidential Press Service)AP - Russia will send more weapons to its islands in north Pacific, President Dmitry Medvedev announced Wednesday — a mere two days after Japan again demanded that Russia return several islands it has held since the end of World War II.

Sarkozy to ministers: Take vacations in France (AP)

Posted: 09 Feb 2011 09:38 AM PST

AP - President Nicolas Sarkozy is awkwardly trying to stamp out a controversy over his ministers taking sun-and-sea holidays paid for by the Egyptian government and a Tunisian businessman.

Key events in Berlusconi politica carreer (AP)

Posted: 09 Feb 2011 09:02 AM PST

AP - Key events in Premier Silvio Berlusconi's political career.

Swiss gun culture under fire in Sunday referendum (AP)

Posted: 09 Feb 2011 08:17 AM PST

TO GO WITH STORY BY FRANK JORDANS - FILE - In this Jan. 11, 2011 file picture a woman passes a poster reading: 'Weapons Monopoly for Criminals? No' in Zurich, Switzerland. Swiss gun culture meets grassroots democracy Sunday, Feb 13, 2011 in a referendum dividing those who hope to cut the country's high rate of firearms suicides and those who fear tighter rules may kill off village shooting clubs and even cripple Switzerland's legendary citizen militia. (AP Photo/Keystone/Walter Bieri,File )AP - The neutral Swiss do love their guns and their frequent, citizen-inspired referendums. Those two deeply cherished rights collide this weekend as Swiss voters decide whether to impose far-reaching restrictions on firearms.

Turkish woman acquitted of bombing charge — again (AP)

Posted: 09 Feb 2011 07:50 AM PST

AP - A Turkish woman was acquitted for a third time on Wednesday of being involved in a 1998 explosion that killed seven people and wounded more than 120 in Istanbul's 17th-century spice bazaar.

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