2011年4月2日星期六

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Yahoo! News: Europe News

British couple busted with 100 heroin caps in Peru (AFP)

Posted: 02 Apr 2011 06:18 PM PDT

Customs officials are seen here at the Jorge Chavez International Airport in Lima. A British couple was arrested at Lima's international airport as they boarded a plane to London with over 11 kilograms of cocaine and 100 heroin capsules, according to police.(AFP/File/Ernesto Benavides)AFP - A British couple was arrested at Lima's international airport as they boarded a plane to London with over 11 kilograms of cocaine and 100 heroin capsules, according to police.

Smith rues missed Scottish title opportunity (AFP)

Posted: 02 Apr 2011 05:42 PM PDT

Coach Walter Smith (pictured in 2009) admitted Rangers had blown a major opportunity to gain an advantage in the Scottish Premier League title race as his side lost 3-2 to Dundee United at Ibrox on Saturday. The Gers twice gave away a lead in Glasgow as David Goodwillie raced clear to score a 90th minute winner for United, their first victory at Ibrox since April 2005.(AFP/File/Cristina Quicler)AFP - Coach Walter Smith admitted Rangers had blown a major opportunity to gain an advantage in the Scottish Premier League title race as his side lost 3-2 to Dundee United at Ibrox on Saturday.

Booby-trap bomb kills Northern Ireland policeman (AP)

Posted: 02 Apr 2011 05:32 PM PDT

Police Service of Northern Ireland officers secure the area close to where a police officer was killed in a under car bomb at his house in Omagh, Northern Ireland, Saturday, April, 2, 2011. (AP Photo/Peter Morrison)AP - A 25-year-old Catholic policeman who had just joined Northern Ireland's police force has been killed after a booby-trap bomb exploded as he got into his car, police and neighbors said.

Scots set for Lockerbie talks over Libyan defector (AFP)

Posted: 02 Apr 2011 04:19 PM PDT

Libyan Foreign Minister Mussa Kussa speaks during a press conference in Tripoli in March 2011. Scottish detectives and prosecutors are to meet with Foreign Office officials on Monday to discuss Kussa, who defected to Britain, as part of the Lockerbie bombing probe.(AFP/File/Mahmud Turkia)AFP - Scottish detectives and prosecutors are to meet with Foreign Office officials on Monday to discuss Libyan foreign minister Mussa Kussa, who defected to Britain, as part of the Lockerbie bombing probe.

Spain's PM, facing economic woes, won't run for re-election (AFP)

Posted: 02 Apr 2011 03:49 PM PDT

Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, plunging in popularity as he fights an economic crisis, pictured here in January 2011, announced Saturday he will not seek a third term in 2012 elections.(AFP/File/Pierre-Philippe Marcou)AFP - Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, plunging in popularity as he fights an economic crisis, announced Saturday he will not seek a third term in 2012 elections.

N. Ireland policeman killed in car bomb attack (AFP)

Posted: 02 Apr 2011 02:44 PM PDT

Forenic police officers walk from the scene of a bomb in Omagh, County Tyrone. A Catholic policeman was killed Saturday in Omagh, the scene of Northern Ireland's worst terror atrocity, in a car bomb attack at his home that will cause jitters about the delicate peace process.(AFP/Peter Muhly)AFP - A Northern Ireland policeman was killed in a car bomb attack Saturday which leaders on all sides vowed would not be allowed to derail the province's delicate peace process.

London boot camp held for pint-size 'princesses' (AP)

Posted: 02 Apr 2011 01:24 PM PDT

Maude Fisher, 7, sips a cup of tea, during the 'A Princess Tea Party' event, at a hotel in London, Saturday, April 2, 2011. A scene straight from 'My Fair Lady' played out at a posh London hotel Saturday as a dozen girls in frilly dresses attended a 'princess boot camp' ahead of this month's royal wedding. The pint-size wannabe princesses learned how to walk straight, eat with decorum and curtsy. Never mind that it's doubtful any of them will come within spitting distance of the royals at the April 29 wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton. (AP Photo/Akira Suemori)AP - With Britain's royal wedding around the corner, wannabe princesses gathered Saturday at a posh London hotel for a crash course on how to curtsy, what to say to the queen and how keep pesky crumbs off their lips when eating finger sandwiches.

Foden warned over taxi fracas (AFP)

Posted: 02 Apr 2011 01:10 PM PDT

England rugby star Ben Foden, pictured in action in March 2010, will not be charged over an altercation with a London taxi driver that led to his arrest, police confirmed on Saturday.(AFP/File/Adrian Dennis)AFP - England rugby star Ben Foden will not be charged over an altercation with a London taxi driver that led to his arrest, police confirmed on Saturday.

Leicester dig deep to down Harlequins (AFP)

Posted: 02 Apr 2011 11:51 AM PDT

Leicester fought back from a 10-0 half-time deficit to maintained their Premiership charge with a hard-fought 17-13 over Harlequins on Saturday. The league leaders secured victory thanks to a second half try from Alesana Tuilagi, pictured in 2007, and a penalty try, England fly-half Toby Flood contributing the remainder of the points with the boot.(AFP/File/Franck Fife)AFP - Leicester fought back from a 10-0 half-time deficit to maintained their Premiership charge with a hard-fought 17-13 over Harlequins on Saturday.

Advantage United as Premiership title rivals slip up (AFP)

Posted: 02 Apr 2011 11:42 AM PDT

Manchester United's striker Wayne Rooney celebrates scoring his third goal from the penalty spot during their English Premier League football match against West Ham United at the Boleyn Ground, Upton Park, in East London. Rooney struck a second-half hat-trick as Manchester United came from two goals down to beat West Ham 4-2 and strengthen their position at the top of the English Premier League.(AFP)AFP - Wayne Rooney scored a hat-trick as Manchester United seized control of the Premier League title race with a 4-2 victory over West Ham while rivals Arsenal slipped up against Blackburn.

Highs winds leave migrants stranded on Lampedusa (AP)

Posted: 02 Apr 2011 11:20 AM PDT

Migrants run as they escape from a tent camp in Manduria, southern Italy, Friday, April 1, 2011. Scores of migrants have fled a tent camp in a southern Italian town where they had been transferred from the overcrowded island of Lampedusa. Since the start of the year, about 22,000 migrants, mostly Tunisian, have landed in Lampedusa, a tiny island closer to Africa than to mainland Italy, fleeing unrest across North Africa. Many have been transferred to other centers in Italy, including Manduria, a southeastern town where officials have readied a tent camp for some 4,000 migrants. (AP Photo/Lapresse) ITALY OUTAP - High winds blocked ferries from taking migrants away Saturday from a tiny Italian island in the Mediterranean, frustrating the mostly Tunisian refugees who have been protesting about a lack of food, water and shelter.

Thousands march for Basque party in Spain (AP)

Posted: 02 Apr 2011 11:12 AM PDT

Thousands Pro independence Basque supports display banners, as they march in Bilbao northern Spain, Saturday April 2, 2011, Tens of thousands of people have demonstrated in Spain's troubled Basque region, calling for the government to legalize a new pro-independence party that says it rejects violence by armed separatist group ETA. Banners read: ''Legalization''. (AP Photo/Alvaro Barrientos)AP - Tens of thousands of people demonstrated in Spain's troubled Basque region Saturday, calling for the government to legalize a new pro-independence party that says it rejects violence by armed separatist group ETA.

(AP)

Posted: 02 Apr 2011 10:06 AM PDT

AP - Northern Ireland police: 25-year-old officer killed by a booby-trap bomb

Lockerbie relative urges questioning of Libyan (AP)

Posted: 02 Apr 2011 10:02 AM PDT

AP - A British man whose daughter died in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over the Scottish town of Lockerbie says former Libyan Foreign Minister Moussa Koussa may be able to shed new light on the attack.

Dozens arrested demanding democracy in Azerbaijan (AP)

Posted: 02 Apr 2011 07:31 AM PDT

AP - Police in Azerbaijan arrested dozens of protesters who rallied Saturday for democratic reforms in the authoritarian republic.

Spain's prime minister won't seek 3rd term (AP)

Posted: 02 Apr 2011 04:18 AM PDT

FILE - In this March 15, 2011 file photo Spain's Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero waves in Brussels. Zapatero said Saturday April 2, 2011, that he will not run in next general elections in 2012. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert)AP - Spain's embattled prime minister announced Saturday he will not seek re-election at general elections in 2012 as his country grapples with debt, high unemployment and a faltering economy badly hit by the international financial crisis.

NATO strikes on Libya an echo of Serbia conflict (AP)

Posted: 02 Apr 2011 03:05 AM PDT

AP - NATO war planes hit tanks with deadly precision, with the aim of degrading a despot's army and leveling the playing field for a ragtag rebel force. In many ways, the air strikes on Libya mirror the Western alliance's Serbia campaign 12 years ago.

World court ends Georgia's case against Russia (AP)

Posted: 01 Apr 2011 05:56 PM PDT

Presiding judge Owada of Japan, center behind microphone, opens the session of International Court of Justice in The Hague, Friday April 1, 2011, as the court rules on Russia's preliminary objections to a case filed by Georgia stemming from the five-day war the two countries fought in 2008 over Georgia's breakaway provinces. Georgia complained to the International Court of Justice at the end of the brief war that Russian authorities and separatist militias murdered thousands of ethnic Georgians and displaced some 300,000 people in a two-decade campaign of discrimination in South Ossetia and Abkhazia. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)AP - The United Nations' highest court threw out Georgia's complaint accusing Russia and separatist militias of years of ethnic cleansing in two breakaway Georgian provinces.

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