2011年3月26日星期六

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Yahoo! News: Europe News

For William and Kate, 2 cakes are better than 1 (AP)

Posted: 26 Mar 2011 05:25 PM PDT

AP - Royal wedding plans announced Sunday show an admirable spirit of compromise: The main cake will be a fruity, floral masterwork designed with input from Kate Middleton, but Prince William will get his childhood favorite chocolate biscuit cake too.

London's biggest protest since Iraq war in 2003 (AP)

Posted: 26 Mar 2011 04:58 PM PDT

Back-dropped by Big Ben, demonstrators against the coalition government's spending cuts march in London, Saturday, March 26, 2011. Tens of thousands of mostly peaceful demonstrators streamed into central London on Saturday to march against government budget cuts, with a small breakaway group smashing its way into a bank, breaking windows and spray painting logos on the walls . (AP Photo/Akira Suemori)AP - More than 250,000 people took to London's streets to protest the toughest spending cuts since World War II — one of the largest demonstrations since the Iraq war — as riot police clashed with a small groups. More than 200 people were arrested.

Rioters battle UK police after anti-cuts rally (Reuters)

Posted: 26 Mar 2011 04:20 PM PDT

Joe, an Italian man living in London prepares to join a protest march organised by the Trades Union Congress (TUC), in Hyde Park, central London March 26, 2011. REUTERS/Kevin CoombsReuters - Black-clad, masked youths battled riot police and attacked banks and luxury stores in central London on Saturday, overshadowing a protest by more than a quarter of a million Britons against government spending cuts.

Clashes hit massive British anti-cuts demo (AFP)

Posted: 26 Mar 2011 03:36 PM PDT

Police clash with protesters outside the Topshop store in central London, during a mass demonstration against government financial cuts. Several hundred masked protesters clashed with police, attacked shops and occupied a top store in London Saturday after hundreds of thousands of people rallied against government austerity measures.(AFP/Carl Court)AFP - Masked rogue protesters battled police and attacked landmark London shops and hotels Saturday, overshadowing a peaceful march by more than a quarter of a million Britons against government cuts.

Oxford cruise to Boat Race victory (AFP)

Posted: 26 Mar 2011 03:35 PM PDT

Moritz Hafner of Switzerland stands up to celebrate after Oxford beat Cambridge in the 157th Oxford and Cambridge University Boat Race at Mortlake, west London.(AFP/Leon Neal)AFP - Oxford University gave coach Sean Bowden his 10th success in the 157th Boat Race over Cambridge University here on Saturday with a superb display of oarsmanship.

Swiss police: 4 killed in avalanche; 1 missing (AP)

Posted: 26 Mar 2011 01:31 PM PDT

In this picture taken from a helicopter, rescue workers search for ten persons hit by an avalanche near Bourg-St-Pierre, southern Switzerland, Saturday, March 26, 2011. Ten people have been caught in an avalanche in southern Switzerland near the border with Italy, police said Saturday. An eleventh person who was able to free himself raised the alarm, and a major rescue operation is now underway, local police spokesman Jean-Marie Bornet told The Associated Press. Information about casualties wasn't immediately available, he said. The incident happened on the Mont Velan, a towering 12,200-feet (3,730-meter) peak that straddles Swiss-Italian border in the Pennine Alps, Bornet said. (AP Photo/Keystone/Jean-Christophe Bott)AP - An avalanche buried a group of French skiers in southern Switzerland Sunday, killing four people and leaving one missing, Swiss police said.

Anti-nuclear Germans protest on eve of state vote (Reuters)

Posted: 26 Mar 2011 01:10 PM PDT

Reuters - More than 200,000 people took part in anti-nuclear protests in Germany on Saturday on the eve of state elections where criticism of Chancellor Angela Merkel's nuclear policies has already given her opposition the edge.

More than 200,000 Germans march against nuclear power (AFP)

Posted: 26 Mar 2011 12:52 PM PDT

An anti-nuclear demonstrator with her face painted takes part in a protest march in the southern German city of Munich. An estimated 200,000 people took to the streets around Germany Saturday to protest against nuclear power, upping the pressure on Chancellor Angela Merkel on the eve of a critical state election.(AFP/Christof Stache)AFP - An estimated 200,000 people took to the streets around Germany Saturday to protest against nuclear power, upping the pressure on Chancellor Angela Merkel on the eve of a critical state election.

Ford to idle Belgian plant to conserve parts (Reuters)

Posted: 26 Mar 2011 12:31 PM PDT

Reuters - Ford Motor Co will idle its auto plant in Genk, Belgium, for five days starting April 4, to conserve parts following the earthquake and nuclear crisis in Japan that has disrupted supplies for numerous automakers.

British jets destroy Libyan armoured vehicles: military (AFP)

Posted: 26 Mar 2011 12:20 PM PDT

A British Royal Air Force Tornado aircraft taxies at RAF Marham base in Norfolk on March 19. British warplanes destroyed five Libyan armoured vehicles in air strikes against Moamer Kadhafi's forces in two towns where rebels were battling the regime, the defence ministry said Saturday.(AFP/File/Gavin Fogg)AFP - British warplanes destroyed five Libyan armoured vehicles in air strikes against Moamer Kadhafi's forces in two towns where rebels were battling the regime, the defence ministry said Saturday.

Pilots give first description of Libya air assault (AP)

Posted: 26 Mar 2011 11:38 AM PDT

United States Air Force pilot Ryan Thulin, of the 31st Fighter Wing, who has flown as part of 'Operation Odyssey Dawn' talks to reporters at the Aviano NATO airbase, in Aviano, Italy, Friday, March 25, 2011. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)AP - U.S. fighter jet pilots, in first accounts of their sorties over Libya in the U.S.-led airstrikes, say teamwork with other nations has minimized the threat from the anti-aircraft weaponry of forces loyal to Moammar Gadhafi's regime.

German woman devoted to removing Nazi graffiti (AP)

Posted: 26 Mar 2011 09:32 AM PDT

Picture taken Thursday March 24, 2011 showing Irmela Mensah-Schramm (65) from Berlin painting over a swastika sign on a street in Berlin's Schoeneweide district. For about the last 25 years Irmela Mensah-Schramm has walked through the streets of Berlin and other cities to paint over or remove paintings, stickers or slogans from neo-nazis from walls, street lamps and other places. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)AP - Irmela Mensah-Schramm stopped abruptly at the crudely sprayed swastika on the wall of a pedestrian underpass. Whipping out a can of spray paint from her cotton tote bag, she quickly made short work of it, turning the neo-Nazi symbol into a nondescript black splotch.

Knox trial: witness gives conflicting testimony (AP)

Posted: 26 Mar 2011 08:44 AM PDT

Amanda Knox looks up at a police officer as she sits in court in Perugia, central Italy, Saturday, March 26, 2011, during her appeals trial. Knox was convicted of murdering her British roommate in Perugia, Meredith Kercher, and sentenced to 26 years in prison. Her co-defendant and ex-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito was also convicted and sentenced to 25 years. They both deny wrongdoing and have appealed the 2009 verdict. (AP Photo/Stefano Medici)AP - A key prosecution witness testifying in Amanda Knox's appeals trial gave conflicting reports Saturday about whether he saw the American near the crime scene the night her British roommate was murdered.

Spanish dictator's summer house opens to public (AP)

Posted: 26 Mar 2011 08:36 AM PDT

AP - General Francisco Franco's palatial summer residence is open to the public after a lengthy legal battle between the government and the late Spanish dictator's family.

Some 200,000 in Germany protest nuclear power (AP)

Posted: 26 Mar 2011 07:57 AM PDT

Anti nuclear demonstrators march in Cologne, western Germany Saturday March 26, 2011 to protest against nuclear power. Poster in front reads: Fukushima warns: Pull the Plug on all Nuclear Power Plants. White banner behind reads : 'Solidarity with the people in Japan'. Some 200,000 people turned out in Germany's largest cities on Saturday to protest against the use of nuclear power in the wake of Japan's Fukushima reactor disaster, police and organizers said. In Berlin alone more than 100,000 took to the capital's streets to urge Germany's leaders to immediately abolish nuclear energy, police spokesman Jens Berger said. Organizers said some 210,000 people marched at the rallies in the countries four largest cities. 'We can no longer afford bearing the risk of a nuclear catastrophe,' Germany's environmental lobby group BUND said. (AP Photo/dapd/Roberto Pfeil)AP - Some 200,000 people on Saturday turned out in Germany's largest cities to protest against the use of nuclear power in the wake of Japan's Fukushima reactor disaster, police and organizers said.

Local elections to take luster off Sarkozy's shine (AP)

Posted: 26 Mar 2011 07:46 AM PDT

French President Nicolas Sarkozy, right, arrives for an EU summit in Brussels on Friday, March 25, 2011. EU leaders wrap up a two day summit on Friday focusing on the situation in Libya, the recent earthquake and tsunami in Japan, and new financial measures they hope will contain the debt crisis that has rocked the continent for more than a year. (AP Photo/Elisa Day)AP - French President Nicolas Sarkozy spent the week in his favored role as global statesman, leading the international effort to enforce a U.N. resolution for a no-fly zone over Libya.

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