2011年2月24日星期四

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Wedding gift for royal couple from old university (Reuters)

Posted: 24 Feb 2011 04:49 PM PST

Reuters - Prince William and Kate Middleton will receive an early wedding gift on Friday when the Scottish university where their student romance first blossomed presents them with a scholarship created in their honor.

University creates William and Kate scholarship (AP)

Posted: 24 Feb 2011 04:02 PM PST

AP - The Scottish university where Prince William and Kate Middleton met and studied is giving the royal couple an early wedding gift — a scholarship in their honor.

High winds, rough seas hamper Libyan evacuations (AP)

Posted: 24 Feb 2011 02:53 PM PST

A Chinese worker, who was evacuated from Libya reacts with family members after arriving, at Beijing Capital International Airport in Beijing Friday, Feb. 25, 2011. The Chinese government sent chartered flights to collect Chinese people working in Libya. There are reportedly some 30,000 or more Chinese in Libya working building railways and other infrastructures and providing oilfield services. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian)AP - Two ships braved churning seas Thursday to whisk some 4,500 Chinese workers away from strife-torn Libya to the island of Crete, while rough weather further west in the Mediterranean left hundreds of Americans stranded on a ferry in Tripoli.

UK urges pressure on Gaddafi, EU weighs intervention (Reuters)

Posted: 24 Feb 2011 02:36 PM PST

Reuters - Britain urged the world to exert greater pressure on Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi on Thursday and the European Union said it was considering sending a humanitarian intervention force to the country.

Liverpool, Rangers edge their way into Europa last 16 (AFP)

Posted: 24 Feb 2011 02:21 PM PST

Liverpool's matchwinner Dirk Kuyt acknowledges the Liverpool fans after the game against Sparta Prague after the second leg of the Europa League, round of 32 at Anfield Stadium, Liverpool. Liverpool won 1-0.(AFP/Howard Walker)AFP - An 86th-minute header from Dirk Kuyt earned Liverpool a narrow 1-0 win over Sparta Prague on Thursday, on a night when all three British clubs in action reached the last 16.

Prada seeks innocence in her aviator school girl (AP)

Posted: 24 Feb 2011 01:56 PM PST

This creation was part of the Fendi Fall/Winter 2011 collection presented in Milan, Italy, Thursday, Feb. 24, 2011. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni)AP - Don't expect to be swathed in silk next fall and winter. Designers are reaching for fabrics of a sturdier nature.

Khodorkovsky's judge says sentence not harsh (AP)

Posted: 24 Feb 2011 01:20 PM PST

In this Dec. 27, 2010 file photo, Judge Viktor Danilkin reads a verdict at a court room in Moscow, Russia. A Russian judge who sentenced Mikhail Khodorkovsky to 14 years in jail says the tycoon's punishment could have been 'harsher.' Judge Viktor Danilkin found Khodorkovsky guilty in December of stealing oil from his own oil company and extended his prison term through 2017. Danilkin said Thursday, Feb. 24, 2011 in televised remarks that the embezzlement and money laundering charges against Khodorkovsky 'allowed a sentence harsher than 14 years' in jail. (AP Photo/Sergey Ponomarev, file)AP - A Russian judge who sentenced Mikhail Khodorkovsky to 14 years in jail said Thursday that the tycoon's punishment could have been worse.

WikiLeaks' Assange appeals against extradition (AFP)

Posted: 24 Feb 2011 12:49 PM PST

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange arrives at Belmarsh Magistrates' Court, in southeast London. Assange can be extradited to Sweden to face rape and sexual assault claims, a judge ruled after dismissing arguments that he would face an unfair trial.(AFP/Ben Stansall)AFP - WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange vowed Thursday he was ready to to fight a lengthy legal battle after a British judge ruled he should be extradited to Sweden to face allegations of rape.

Ireland transfers 12 bn euros from crisis-hit banks (AFP)

Posted: 24 Feb 2011 12:48 PM PST

Ireland on Thursday transferred more than 12 billion euros ($16.5 billion) of deposits from two of its crisis-hit banks to rival institutions, part of efforts to secure an international bailout. AFP - Ireland on Thursday transferred more than 12 billion euros ($16.5 billion) of deposits from two of its crisis-hit banks to rival institutions, part of efforts to secure an international bailout.

Envoys seek UN rights probe into violence in Libya (AP)

Posted: 24 Feb 2011 12:25 PM PST

A protester holds a placard portraying Libyan Leader Moammar Gadhafi as a pitbull dog held on a chain by a youth, with writing in arabic reading 'Dog for sale' and on arm of youth 'Youth of Free Libya', in Benghazi, Libya Wednesday, Feb. 23, 2011. Militiamen loyal to Moammar Gadhafi clamped down in Tripoli Wednesday, but cracks in his regime spread elsewhere across the nation, as the protest-fueled rebellion controlling much of eastern Libya claimed new gains closer to the capital. (AP Photo/Alaguri)AP - Diplomats will be pressing Friday for a human rights investigation into Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi's violent crackdown on protesters and for the suspension of Libya from the U.N.'s top human rights body.

New UK website cracks down on PR-driven journalism (AP)

Posted: 24 Feb 2011 11:11 AM PST

AP - Hoax articles and lazy journalists are being pushed into the spotlight by a new website that aims to expose news outslets that regurgitate press releases — a practice known as "churnalism."

AP Exclusive: Iran hunts for uranium (AP)

Posted: 24 Feb 2011 10:03 AM PST

EDITORS' NOTE: Reuters and other foreign media are subject to Iranian restrictions on leaving the office to report, film or take pictures in Tehran. Women hold up posters of Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah (L) and U.S. President Barack Obama during a gathering to show solidarity for Libyan protesters in front of the United Nations office in Tehran February 24, 2011. REUTERS/Raheb Homavandi (IRAN - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST)AP - Iran is expanding its covert global search for the uranium it needs for its nuclear activities and a key focus is Zimbabwe, says a new intelligence report acquired by The Associated Press.

Neighbors bid to save 'Oliver Twist' workhouse (AP)

Posted: 24 Feb 2011 09:55 AM PST

People walk by a dilapidated brick building in central London, where historians believe its neighbor and author Charles Dickens used the building, was once a workhouse, as inspiration for his novel Oliver Twist, Thursday, Feb. 24, 2011. Campaigners in London are fighting to save the building from demolition which, two centuries ago, was a workhouse where the city's destitute labored for rations of gruel and their plight inspired social reformers and a neighbor Charles Dickens. (AP Photo/Sang Tan)AP - It's a battered brick building behind a high wall in London — austere, overlooked and slated for demolition.

Prince William, Kate dedicate lifeboat in Wales (AP)

Posted: 24 Feb 2011 08:56 AM PST

Britain's Prince William applaudes, as Kate Middleton holds uo a champagne bottle after naming a new lifeboat at the Trearddur Bay Lifeboat Station on the island of Anglesey, Wales, Thursday, Feb. 24, 2011. The visit had been highly anticipated because the couple have kept such a low profile since announcing their engagement in November, making only one other prior appearance at a charity event. They plan to marry April 29 at Westminster Abbey with just under 2,000 guests attending.(AP Photo/Jon Super).AP - It was only a lifeboat. But it gave hundreds of people a chance to cheer Thursday as Prince William and fiancee Kate Middleton made a rare public appearance to dedicate the new vessel.

Spain: 5 dead, 3 injured in military academy blast (AP)

Posted: 24 Feb 2011 08:29 AM PST

AP - A powerful explosion at a Spanish military academy killed five soldiers and wounded three others on Thursday when a bomb disposal drill went awry, the Defense Ministry said.

In gloomy times, Irish voters ripe for change (AP)

Posted: 24 Feb 2011 08:08 AM PST

A Sinn Fein Election poster on a telegraph pole near the village of Dungloe, county Donegal, Ireland, Wednesday, Feb. 23, 2011. Voters in Ireland are due to go to the polls Friday in a General Election. (AP Photo/Peter Morrison)AP - Unemployment is above 13 percent, Irish taxpayers have reluctantly become bank owners, the value of the family home has plummeted and the nation is in hock to the European Union and the International Monetary Fund.

Report: Chechnya's leader looking for 2nd wife (AP)

Posted: 24 Feb 2011 07:09 AM PST

AP - The bullnecked and bearded leader of Russia's predominantly Muslim republic of Chechnya revealed on Thursday that he is on the hunt for a second wife.

NATO vows to stay out of Libyan conflict (AP)

Posted: 24 Feb 2011 05:06 AM PST

NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen speak during a news conference in Kiev, Ukraine, Thursday, Feb. 24, 2011.(AP Photo/Konstantin Chernichkin, Pool)AP - NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen says the Western military alliance will not intervene in the Libyan conflict.

(AP)

Posted: 24 Feb 2011 04:56 AM PST

AP - NATO secretary general says the alliance will not intervene in Libyan conflict

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