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Yahoo! News: Europe News

UK central banker warns of second financial crisis (AP)

Posted: 04 Mar 2011 04:31 PM PST

AP - The Governor of the Bank of England has warned that Britain could face another financial crisis if the banking sector is not reformed.

EU conservatives want strong euro, open on Irish rates (AFP)

Posted: 04 Mar 2011 04:24 PM PST

German Chancellor Angela Merkel (L) meets with Finland's Finance Minister Jyrki Katainen (R) in Helsinki. Merkel said on Friday that the European Union's conservative heads of state and government were committed to hashing out a proposal they hope will strengthen the euro.(AFP/LEHTIKUVA/Martti Kainulainen)AFP - The European Union's conservative leaders said Friday they were set on strict rules to beef up the eurozone's stability and competitiveness, as Ireland sought relief from a massive bailout package.

Britain prepares for nationwide royal wedding bash (Reuters)

Posted: 04 Mar 2011 04:03 PM PST

Reuters - Thousands of Britons are planning to get out the bunting, balloons and fold-up tables and hold street parties across the country to celebrate next month's wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton.

Fashionistas lament end of Galliano's Dior (AP)

Posted: 04 Mar 2011 02:38 PM PST

Dior fashion house chief executive officer Sidney Toledano delivers his speech before the presentation of the last Fall-Winter ready-to-wear 2012 collection designed by John Galliano, in Paris, Friday March 4, 2011. Sidney Toledano made a statement before the show lamenting the 'very painful' situation in the wake of an uproar over Galliano's alleged anti-Semitism. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)AP - The fashion world shed a tear for an icon fallen from grace as a somber Dior show went on Friday without star designer John Galliano — sacked by the luxury group earlier this week amid allegations he hurled anti-Semitic insults during a barroom altercation.

Queen Elizabeth to make historic Ireland visit (AFP)

Posted: 04 Mar 2011 02:24 PM PST

Queen Elizabeth II(L), seen here greeting wellwishers in Leamington Spa, will visit Ireland this year, her office announced Friday, making her the first British monarch to visit the country since independence.(AFP/POOL/Jane Mingay)AFP - Queen Elizabeth II will visit Ireland this year, her office announced Friday, in a first state visit by a British monarch since the republic gained independence in 1922.

Irish coalition talks set to conclude on Saturday (Reuters)

Posted: 04 Mar 2011 02:16 PM PST

Reuters - Ireland's two largest parties are likely to conclude coalition talks on Saturday in time to meet a weekend deadline to form a new government, the Labour party said on Friday.

US warships arrive at Crete in Libya buildup (AP)

Posted: 04 Mar 2011 01:32 PM PST

AP - Two vessels carrying 1,300 U.S. Marines docked Friday at an American base on Crete as part of a military build up around Libya, the U.S. Navy said.

UK's Queen Elizabeth to make historic Irish visit (Reuters)

Posted: 04 Mar 2011 01:02 PM PST

Britain's Queen Elizabeth smiles during her visit to the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon, central England March 4, 2011. REUTERS/Darren StaplesReuters - Britain's Queen Elizabeth is to travel to Ireland this year in the first official visit by a British monarch since before the Irish state gained independence from Britain in 1921.

Fashion world bids adieu to Galliano's Dior reign (AP)

Posted: 04 Mar 2011 12:49 PM PST

A model shows a creation from British designer John Galliano as part of Dior's Fall-Winter ready-to-wear 2012 fashion collection, presented in Paris, Friday, March 4, 2011. Dior fashion house chief executive officer Sidney Toledano made a statement on the catwalk before the show lamenting the 'very painful' situation in the wake of an uproar over Galliano's alleged anti-Semitism. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)AP - Fashionistas turned the page Friday on one of the most extraordinary chapters in fashion history, paying their respects to John Galliano's phenomenal 15-year tenure at the House of Dior — which came to an abrupt and shocking end earlier this week when the luxury label fired the British designer amid allegations he hurled anti-Semitic insults.

Historians want Hungary communist files protected (AP)

Posted: 04 Mar 2011 11:59 AM PST

FILE - The Jan. 7, 2005 file photo shows Hungarian State Security Archives researcher Laszlo Farkas archiving files containing documents from Hungary's communist past in Budapest, Hungary. People spied on by Hungary's communist-era secret police would gain the right to pull reports on the surveillance out of the state archives under an unprecedented government proposal that historians say would damage to the country's ability to know about its past. (AP Photo/Bela Szandelszky)AP - People spied on by Hungary's communist-era secret police will have the right to destroy their surveillance reports under a government proposal historians say would damage the country's ability to acknowledge its past.

British queen to make 1st state visit to Ireland (AP)

Posted: 04 Mar 2011 11:58 AM PST

Britain's Queen Elizabeth II greets the crowds after visiting the Warwickshire Justice Centre in Leamington Spa, England, Friday March, 4, 2011. (AP Photo/Jane Mingay)AP - Queen Elizabeth II will make her first-ever visit to the Republic of Ireland — the first ruling British monarch to go there in a century marked by Ireland's brutal war of independence from Britain and the grueling conflict in Northern Ireland.

Attacker's gun jammed in Germany, sparing airman (AP)

Posted: 04 Mar 2011 10:27 AM PST

German police stand at the federal court in Karlsruhne, Germany, on Thursday, March 3, 2011, where the suspect in the slaying of two U.S. airmen at Frankfurt airport was brought. German federal prosecutors said Wednesday's attack on a busload of U.S. airmen that killed two and wounded two others at the Frankfurt airport appears to have been motivated by Islamic extremism. (AP Photo/dapd, Thomas Lohnes)AP - U.S. Senior Airman Nicholas J. Alden was standing outside of a bus at Frankfurt airport when a young man first asked him for a cigarette, then whether he was bound for Afghanistan.

(AP)

Posted: 04 Mar 2011 09:17 AM PST

AP - Buckingham Palace: Queen has accepted an invitation to visit Ireland this year

Libyan TV shows 1 captured Dutch marine is woman (AP)

Posted: 04 Mar 2011 09:13 AM PST

AP - Libyan state television images appear to show that at least one of three Dutch marines captured in Libya after a botched evacuation mission is a woman.

AP Interview: Money transfer to Gadhafi son denied (AP)

Posted: 04 Mar 2011 09:02 AM PST

AP - A key associate of Seif al-Islam Gadhafi, a son of Libya's leader, has denied funneling huge amounts of cash to him.

Interpol issues alert for Gadhafi, 15 others (AP)

Posted: 04 Mar 2011 08:21 AM PST

AP - Interpol has issued an international alert for Moammar Gadhafi and 15 other family members and close associates to help enforce international sanctions against the Libyan strongman and his regime.

Turkish journalists protest crackdown (AP)

Posted: 04 Mar 2011 05:53 AM PST

AP - Several thousand demonstrators, some covering their mouths with black ribbons, protested Friday against the detention of eight journalists in a case that has drawn expressions of concern from Western governments and international media rights groups.

Austria detains ex-Bosnian general on Serb warrant (AP)

Posted: 04 Mar 2011 05:42 AM PST

FILE, In this June 23, 2010 photo, former General of the Army of Bosnia-Herzegovina Jovan Divjak, in Sarajevo, Bosnia. Austrian officials say police have detained a former Bosnian general sought by Serbia for alleged war crimes. The Interior Ministry says Jovan Divjak was arrested on a Serbian warrant accusing him of participating in an attack that killed dozens of Yugoslav soldiers withdrawing from Sarajevo at the start of Bosnia's 1992-95 war. (AP Photo/Sulejman Omerbasic, File)AP - A Serbian colonel who defected to Bosnia's army at the start of the conflict between the two sides has been detained on a Serbian warrant and is awaiting a hearing on whether he should be extradited on suspicion of war crimes, Austrian officials said Friday.

Galliano label scraps plan for Paris show (AP)

Posted: 04 Mar 2011 05:41 AM PST

FILE - In this July 5, 2010 file photo, showing British fashion designer John Galliano at the end of the presentation of his Fall-Winter 2010-2011 Haute Couture collection, for French fashion house Christian Dior in Paris. Christian Dior said Tuesday, March 1, 2011, that Galliano has been immediately laid off, just days after he was suspended as its creative director pending an investigation into an alleged anti-Semitic incident in a Paris cafe last week. (AP Photo/Remy de la Mauviniere)AP - A spokesman for the John Galliano fashion line says the label will not hold a runway show in Paris Fashion Week as originally planned, but instead will host a simple presentation of its latest collection.

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