2011年4月5日星期二

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Yahoo! News: Europe News

Thames extravaganza planned for Queen's jubilee (AFP)

Posted: 05 Apr 2011 03:41 PM PDT

Queen Elizabeth II, pictured on April 1, will celebrate her diamond jubilee with a boat trip on the River Thames in a newly crafted barge, leading a flotilla of 1,000 ships, the event's organisers said Tuesday.(AFP/POOL/File/Christopher Furlong)AFP - Queen Elizabeth II will celebrate her diamond jubilee with a boat trip on the River Thames in a newly crafted barge, leading a flotilla of 1,000 ships, the event's organisers said Tuesday.

Louis Dreyfus chief to leave: report (AFP)

Posted: 05 Apr 2011 03:36 PM PDT

Jacques Veyrat, pictured in 2008, chief executive of leading French commodity trader Louis Dreyfus, plans to leave the group within months, according to an interview to be published Wednesday.(AFP/File/Eric Piermont)AFP - Jacques Veyrat, chief executive of leading French commodity trader Louis Dreyfus, plans to leave the group within months, according to an interview to be published Wednesday.

NY's rat problem damaging tourism - city official (Reuters)

Posted: 05 Apr 2011 03:16 PM PDT

Reuters - Absolutely no one likes a rat, a city official said on Tuesday, demanding $1.5 million (920 thousand pounds) be restored to the budget to be help control what he called Manhattan's horrific rat problem.

New York City to consider banning fast-food toys (Reuters)

Posted: 05 Apr 2011 03:15 PM PDT

Reuters - Several New York City council members unveiled a bid on Tuesday to ban toy giveaways in fast-food restaurant meals for children, emulating a San Francisco city law that will be enforced later this year.

Italy makes migrant deal with Tunisia (AP)

Posted: 05 Apr 2011 03:06 PM PDT

AP - Italy and Tunisia struck a deal Tuesday to choke off the flood of Tunisians heading to Italian shores, with Rome agreeing to give short-term residency papers to 20,000 illegal migrants but intent on deporting new arrivals.

Four-star Madrid rout 10-man Tottenham in Champions League (AFP)

Posted: 05 Apr 2011 02:40 PM PDT

Real Madrid's Portuguese forward Cristiano Ronaldo (R) celebrates after scoring during the Champions League quarter-final first leg football match Real Madrid against Tottenham Hotspur at the Santiago Bernabeu stadium in Madrid. Real Madrid won 4-0.(AFP/Pierre-Philippe Marcou)AFP - Real Madrid put a giant foot in the last four of the Champions League with a thumping 4-0 home win over 10-man Tottenham Hotspur in the quarter-final, first leg at the Santiago Bernabeu on Tuesday.

UK to release thousands of British Empire files (AP)

Posted: 05 Apr 2011 02:24 PM PDT

AP - The U.K. is to release thousands of files containing sensitive information about how its officials behaved in the waning years of The British Empire, the Foreign Office said Tuesday.

Friday most popular day for bank robberies - FBI (Reuters)

Posted: 05 Apr 2011 02:11 PM PDT

Reuters - Bank robberies in the United States take place most often in mid-morning, on Fridays and in southern and western states, according to government statistics released on Tuesday.

Ancelotti confident Chelsea can fulfil Euro dream (AFP)

Posted: 05 Apr 2011 01:00 PM PDT

Chelsea's Italian Manager Carlo Ancelotti(L) chats with Spanish player Fernando Torres during a training session in Cobham, southern England,. Ancelotti has warned Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson that Chelsea are finally ready to fulfil their dream of winning the Champions League.(AFP/Ian Kington)AFP - Carlo Ancelotti has warned Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson that Chelsea are finally ready to fulfil their dream of winning the Champions League.

Branson unveils 'flying' sub to plumb ocean depths (AFP)

Posted: 05 Apr 2011 01:00 PM PDT

Sir Richard Branson (R) and explorer Chris Welsh attend a press conference in Newport Beach, California to announce plans to take a solo piloted submarine to the deepest points in each of the world's five oceans.(AFP/Gabriel Bouys)AFP - British billionaire Richard Branson unveiled plans Tuesday to pilot a "flying" mini-submarine down to the furthest depths of the oceans, in his latest record-breaking adventure.

Group wants Austrian shop charged for Nazi cakes (AP)

Posted: 05 Apr 2011 12:17 PM PDT

AP - Owners of an Austrian pastry shop that showcases cakes decorated with Nazi themes should be prosecuted, a Holocaust awareness group urged Tuesday.

France makes big bets in Libya, Ivory Coast (AP)

Posted: 05 Apr 2011 12:09 PM PDT

AP - This year, in both Libya and Ivory Coast, one country has launched military strikes and dragged the international community into action against entrenched autocrats: France.

Envoys dangle financial offer to key Gadhafi aides (AP)

Posted: 05 Apr 2011 12:08 PM PDT

Anti-war protesters take part in a demonstration in front of the White House in Washington, DC in March 2011 urging an end to the war on Libya. The US Senate on Tuesday easily swept aside a symbolic but politically potent measure declaring that President Barack Obama's decision to intervene militarily in Libya violated the US Constitution.(AFP/File/Jewel Samad)AP - It's an offer that diplomats hope Moammar Gadhafi's family and top aides can't refuse: If they publicly withdraw support for the Libyan dictator's regime, the restrictions on their assets and travel plans could be made to vanish.

Intl court prosecutor wants Ivory Coast probe (AP)

Posted: 05 Apr 2011 11:55 AM PDT

A soldier loyal to Alassane Ouattara lies wounded in the road after a deadly car accident outside Abidjan, Ivory Coast, Tuesday, April 5, 2011. Doctors were unable to get him to a hospital in time to safe his life. Ivory Coast's entrenched strongman Laurent Gbagbo huddled in a bunker at his home and was exploring different options for his surrender, officials said Tuesday, as forces backing the country's democratically elected leader seized the residence.(AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)AP - The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court said Tuesday he is analyzing information on last week's massacre in the Ivory Coast and wants to open a formal investigation.

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Posted: 05 Apr 2011 11:34 AM PDT

AP - Ivory Coast's Laurent Gbagbo insists on French TV that he won presidential election.

Turkish ship evacuates wounded from Libya (AP)

Posted: 05 Apr 2011 11:25 AM PDT

Medics carry a Libyan woman after a Turkish ship evacuating hundreds of wounded from Libya arrived at Turkey's Aegean port of Cesme, where a field hospital scrambled to provide emergency treatment, Tuesday, April 5, 2011. The ferry-turned-hospital brought wounded residents from the besieged Libyan city of Misrata and from the rebel stronghold of Benghazi for treatment in hospitals around western Turkey. (AP Photo)AP - Hundreds of Libyans hurt during fierce fighting arrived Tuesday in Turkey, where medics wheeled the wounded out in stretchers for emergency care at a hastily assembled portside hospital.

France's governing party debates secularism (AP)

Posted: 05 Apr 2011 10:25 AM PDT

Head of France's UMP ruling party, Jean-Francois Cope, center, answers journalists as he arrives at a UMP meeting, in Paris, Tuesday, April, 5, 2011. The UMP party is to consider 26 ideas like banning the wear of religious symbols by day-care personnel and preventing Muslim mothers from wearing head scarves when accompanying school field trips. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)AP - President Nicolas Sarkozy's governing conservative party held a politically charged conference Tuesday on ways to strengthen secularism in French society, amid worries it would stigmatize France's millions of Muslims.

Berlusconi sex trial could end leader's career (AP)

Posted: 05 Apr 2011 10:04 AM PDT

Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi prepares for a press conference on his government's organization of the migrant situation in Italy, in Rome's Chigi Premier's Palace, Friday, April 1, 2011. Italy has shipped more than 2,000 migrants to detention camps on its mainland from the tiny clear-watered fishing and tourist island of Lampedusa, relieving pressure on the island off Sicily, southern Italy, which has been overwhelmed by a relentless stream of boats full of illegal arrivals from North African shores.(AP Photo/Mauro Scrobogna, LaPresse) ITALY OUTAP - Aspiring Italian starlets and Oscar-winning actor George Clooney are being called to make appearances in Premier Silvio Berlusconi's trial on charges he paid for sex with an underage prostitute, then tried to use his influence to cover it up.

Berlin Zoo mourns sudden death of young elephant (AP)

Posted: 05 Apr 2011 09:59 AM PDT

FILE - In this July 20, 2006 file picture Elephant 'Shaina Pali' enjoys a refreshing bath on a hot summer day in the Berlin Zoological Garden. The Berlin Zoo says another young animal has died unexpectedly, only two weeks after celebrity polar bear Knut passed away. Spokeswoman Claudia Bienek said six-year-old Indian elephant Shaina Pali died early Tuesday morning April 5, 2011. Elephants can live up to about 80 years in captivity. She says the zoo's veterinarian thinks the elephant died of an infection but tests will be performed to determine the exact cause of death. (AP Photo/Fritz Reiss,File)AP - A young elephant died unexpectedly at the Berlin Zoo on Tuesday, two weeks after celebrity polar bear Knut suddenly passed away in front of shocked onlookers.

Serb nationalists love Gadhafi on Facebook page (AP)

Posted: 05 Apr 2011 09:59 AM PDT

A sweeper cleans a poster showing Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi and reading 'Support for Gadhafi', in Belgrade, Serbia, Tuesday, April 5, 2011. Serb support for the Libyan leader grows amid an escalating war in the country that reminds them of their own suffering under NATO bombs.(AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)AP - Five years after their leader Slobodan Milosevic died while on trial for genocide, some Serb nationalists have found a new idol: Col. Moammar Gadhafi.

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