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Yahoo! News: Europe News

McIlroy meltdown stuns Masters (AFP)

Posted: 10 Apr 2011 05:02 PM PDT

Rory McIlroy of Northern Ireland putts on the 6th hole during the final round of the Masters golf tournament at Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Georgia. Maybe it was a portent of things to come, but McIlroy watched his Ulster rugby team lose their European Cup semi-final Sunday beforetaking a four-stroke lead into the Masters final round.(AFP/Don Emmert)AFP - Maybe it was a portent of things to come, but Rory McIlroy watched his Ulster rugby team lose their European Cup semi-final Sunday beforetaking a four-stroke lead into the Masters final round.

Tough transition in Tunisia after "Arab spring" (AP)

Posted: 10 Apr 2011 05:00 PM PDT

In this Friday, March 18, 2011 picture, a couple kisses underneath a Tunisian flag in Tunis, Tunisia. The Arab world's uprising against autocratic leaders began in Tunisia, after ousting Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali, their ruler of 23 years, and now the North African country is at the forefront of the transition to democracy, with elections set for the summer. But even in one of the region's most developed countries, where Islam has a largely moderate face and women enjoy more rights than their sisters elsewhere, activists fear things can still go wrong and they won't get the full-fledged democracy they want. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)AP - In the new Tunisia, a store window in the capital displays books that were banned under the former regime. Protesters shout for jobs or justice almost daily on tree-lined streets. And after half a century of one-man rule, Tunisians can choose from more than 50 political parties.

Schwartzel wins the Masters (AFP)

Posted: 10 Apr 2011 04:05 PM PDT

Charl Schwartzel from South Africa celebrates winning the Masters golf tournament at Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Georgia. Schwartzel of South Africa won the 75th Masters on Sunday carding a 66 for a 14-under par total of 274.(AFP/Timothy A. Clary)AFP - Charl Schwartzel of South Africa won the 75th Masters on Sunday carding a 66 for a 14-under par total of 274.

Berlin moves from capital of cool to start-up haven (AFP)

Posted: 10 Apr 2011 03:35 PM PDT

Bloggers and other participants use their computers at an event in Berlin in 2010. Already a magnet for tourists and young artists, Berlin is attracting a new generation of Internet start-ups, changing the ways scientists interact or musicians store and share music.(AFP/File/David Gannon)AFP - Already a magnet for tourists and young artists, Berlin is attracting a new generation of Internet start-ups, changing the ways scientists interact or musicians store and share music.

Man charged over nuclear submarine killing (AFP)

Posted: 10 Apr 2011 03:34 PM PDT

HMS Astute, pictured in 2009. Police on Sunday charged a Royal Navy officer with murder after a fellow officer was shot dead on a nuclear-powered submarine, the country's prosecution service confirmed.(AFP/File/Andy Buchanan)AFP - Police on Sunday charged a Royal Navy officer with murder after a fellow officer was shot dead on a nuclear-powered submarine, the country's prosecution service confirmed.

French full veil ban goes into force (Reuters)

Posted: 10 Apr 2011 03:28 PM PDT

Reuters - France's ban on full face veils, a first in Europe, went into force Monday, exposing anyone who wears the Muslim niqab or burqa in public to fines of 150 euros ($216).

Dutch mourn 6 shopping mall shooting victims (AP)

Posted: 10 Apr 2011 02:52 PM PDT

People attend a candlelight ceremony outside Ridderhof shopping mall in Alphen aan den Rijn, 15 miles (25 kilometers) southwest of Amsterdam, Netherlands, Sunday evening, April 10, 2011. Memorial services were held Sunday to mourn six people killed by a gunman, identified as 24-year-old Tristan van der Vlis, on Saturday, April 9, at a crowded mall. In addition to the fatalities, he wounded at least 17 others, including two children, and dozens more suffered minor injuries, including one infant. (AP Photo/Evert Elzinga)AP - Thousands of people, including the Dutch prime minister, gathered Sunday evening to lay flowers and mourn at a candlelit memorial service outside a mall in a quiet Amsterdam suburb where a mentally troubled young man shot six people dead a day earlier.

Dutch shooter had already been in trouble over weapons (AFP)

Posted: 10 Apr 2011 02:30 PM PDT

Flowers and candles and a sign with Why? WHY? are pictured at the scene of a shooting at De Ridderhof shopping mall in Alphen aan den Rijn. Thousands of people, many carrying candles, gathered late Sunday to pay their respects to the victims of the shooting spree in the Dutch town of Alphen aan de Rijn a day earlier.(AFP/ANP/Valerie Kuypers)AFP - Thousands of people, many carrying candles, gathered late Sunday to pay their respects to the victims of the shooting spree in the Dutch town of Alphen aan de Rijn a day earlier.

McLaren boss backs Hamilton for China (AFP)

Posted: 10 Apr 2011 01:49 PM PDT

McLaren-Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton of Britain powers his car during the Formula One's Malaysian Grand Prix in Sepang. McLaren boss Martin Whitmarsh backed luckless Hamilton to bounce back and challenge for victory in China and the world title this year, in the wake of Sunday's incident-packed Malaysian Grand Prix.(AFP/Saeed Khan)AFP - McLaren boss Martin Whitmarsh backed luckless Lewis Hamilton to bounce back and challenge for victory in China and the world title this year, in the wake of Sunday's incident-packed Malaysian Grand Prix.

Sailor charged with murder in nuclear sub shooting (AP)

Posted: 10 Apr 2011 01:47 PM PDT

AP - Police charged a Royal Navy sailor on Sunday with murdering an officer aboard a British nuclear-powered submarine.

Poles mark anniversary of plane crash tragedy (AP)

Posted: 10 Apr 2011 01:12 PM PDT

Opposition leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski places a candle at the memorial dedicated to the 96 victims of the presidential plane crash, among them his twin brother President Lech Kaczynski, as he commemorates the first anniversary of the accident, at the Powazki cemetery in Warsaw, Poland, Sunday, April 10, 2011. On April 10, 2010 a plane with Polish President Lech Kaczynski, his wife and officials crashed in Russia, killing all on board. (AP Photo/Alik Keplicz)AP - Poland on Sunday relived the deep pain that engulfed the nation a year ago with a day of prayers and other ceremonies marking the anniversary of the plane crash in Russia that killed President Lech Kaczynski and many other prominent civilian and military leaders.

Free beer off the menu if Swiss gov't has its way (AP)

Posted: 10 Apr 2011 12:00 PM PDT

AP - Free beer will reportedly be verboten soon in Switzerland, if the government has its way.

French leader, on world stage, disappoints at home (AP)

Posted: 10 Apr 2011 10:43 AM PDT

AP - President Nicolas Sarkozy has flexed France's military muscle overseas, but his foreign forays have not seemed to help his troubled political fortunes as a possible re-election bid looms next year.

Royal wedding: the great and the good to gather (AP)

Posted: 10 Apr 2011 06:23 AM PDT

In this photo taken Tuesday, March 22, 2011, the Venerable Bogoda Seelawimala, head priest at London's Buddhist Vihara temple, speaks to The Associated Press in London. The guest list for the April 29 union of Prince William and Kate Middleton is still being kept secret, but details have begun to leak out. Some guests, like leading religious figures, have to be invited because of the magnitude of the event, even if they don't actually have a friendship with the royal family. Seelawimala, for example, has never met the couple, but has been invited primarily to show the royal family and the British government's respect for Buddhist tradition. (AP Photo/Sang Tan)AP - Soccer star David Beckham will be there with his pop star wife Victoria. Elton John is attending with partner David Furnish. And the Venerable Bogoda Seelawimala will be there too, probably one of the few guests at the wedding of the year wearing orange Buddhist robes.

Kurdish activist Zana to run in Turkey's elections (AP)

Posted: 10 Apr 2011 05:01 AM PDT

Sgt. Kenny Lyon (left) tells how Col. Paulette Schank (right) directly transfused her own blood into his in her successful attempt to save his life after a mortar attack in Iraq. Homes for Our Troops arranged for Col. Schank, seen here hugging Sgt. Lyon's mother, to surprise Sgt. Lyon on the day the organization presented him a new home. (Photo: Business Wire)AP - A Kurdish party says it will back former legislator Leyla Zana — who spent a decade in prison convicted of links to Kurdish rebels — in Turkey's June 12 elections.

French police arrest 2 ETA suspects after gunfight (AP)

Posted: 10 Apr 2011 04:07 AM PDT

AP - Police say officers in central France have arrested a man and a woman allegedly linked to the Basque separatist group ETA following a pair of weekend shooting incidents against officers that injured at least one.

Russian communist-era art form withers away (AP)

Posted: 10 Apr 2011 02:48 AM PDT

In this photo taken on Tuesday, Jan. 18, 2011, artist Vladimir Buldakov works on a tempera painting, in Palekh, Russia. A squirrel tail. Wolf teeth. Sheets of gold. Flax oil. These are the things Vladimir Buldakov uses to work a feat of modern-day alchemy: transforming an ordinary papier-mache box into a gilded miniature masterpiece that will tell the story of saints or heroes, fairies or dragons. Buldakov comes from Palekh, a 700-year-old Russian village where a church's lavender onion-domes overlook snow-clad houses, a frozen river and a distant birch forest. The town is famous for its beauty, but the rare outsiders who visit come for the varnished boxes that bear its name. (AP Photo/Misha Japaridze)AP - A squirrel tail. Wolf teeth. Sheets of gold. Flax oil.

First man in space: A 50-year-old feat remembered (AP)

Posted: 09 Apr 2011 09:41 PM PDT

FILE - In this July 15, 1961 picture, cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, stands in an open car outside the Russian embassy in London and waves to the crowd as he departs for home. It was the Soviet Union's own giant leap for mankind — one that would spur a humiliated America to race for the moon. It happened on Tuesday, April 12, 1961 when the air force pilot became the first human in space. (AP Photo/File)AP - It was the Soviet Union's own giant leap for mankind, one that would spur a humiliated America to race for the moon. It happened 50 years ago this Tuesday, when an air force pilot named Yuri Gagarin became the first human in space.

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