2011年4月15日星期五

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Yahoo! News: Europe News

Ireland gets thumbs-up from EU/IMF (Reuters)

Posted: 15 Apr 2011 04:01 PM PDT

Pedestrians walk past a public house, in Dublin, January 24, 2011. REUTERS/Cathal McNaughtonReuters - A Moody's downgrade and growing speculation Greece may eventually restructure its debt took the shine off Ireland's thumbs-up from the EU and the IMF on Friday for its efforts to claw its way back from crisis.

Disgraced Galliano fired from own fashion label: report (Reuters)

Posted: 15 Apr 2011 03:03 PM PDT

Fashion designer John Galliano arrives for a hearing at a police station in Paris February 28, 2011. REUTERS/Gonzalo FuentesReuters - Scandal-tainted designer John Galliano has been fired from his own fashion label just weeks after an anti-Semitic outburst cost him his top job at Dior, Women's Wear Daily (WWD) reported on Friday.

Gay couples stage mass kiss in London pub protest (AFP)

Posted: 15 Apr 2011 02:45 PM PDT

Jonathan Williams (L) and James Bull (R) demonstrate during a protest outside the John Snow pub in Soho. Dozens of gay couples staged a mass kiss in London on Friday night in protest against a pub accused of booting out two men for their public displays of affection.(AFP/Carl de Souza)AFP - Dozens of gay couples staged a mass kiss in London on Friday night in protest against a pub accused of booting out two men for their public displays of affection.

ThyssenKrupp boss sentenced for Italian plant deaths (AFP)

Posted: 15 Apr 2011 02:15 PM PDT

German steelmaker Thyssenkrupp logo. An Italian court on Friday sentenced German steelmaker ThyssenKrupp's director-general in Italy to 16.5 years in jail for the deaths of seven workers after a fire at its Turin plant in December 2007.(AFP/DDP/File/Torsten Silz)AFP - An Italian court on Friday sentenced German steelmaker ThyssenKrupp's director-general in Italy to 16.5 years in jail for the deaths of seven workers after a fire at its Turin plant in December 2007.

Kate and best man Harry rehearse for royal wedding (AFP)

Posted: 15 Apr 2011 01:48 PM PDT

Prince Harry(R) with his brother's fiancee Kate Middleton in February 2011. Keen to make sure her wedding to Prince William passes off smoothly, Kate Middleton took part in a rehearsal on Friday with her maid of honour and the best man, Prince Harry, at Westminster Abbey.(AFP/File/Ben Stansall)AFP - Keen to make sure her wedding to Prince William passes off smoothly, Kate Middleton took part in a rehearsal on Friday with her maid of honour and the best man, Prince Harry, at Westminster Abbey.

Americans reluctant to share sex, work details on web (Reuters)

Posted: 15 Apr 2011 01:39 PM PDT

Reuters - Although many American workers have embraced social media sites such as Facebook or LinkedIn, they are uncomfortable about sharing information about their sex lives or salaries, according to a new survey.

Putin dons hockey skates in latest fitness stunt (Reuters)

Posted: 15 Apr 2011 01:35 PM PDT

Reuters - Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin donned skates for an ice hockey training session on Friday in the latest in a series of stunts which help to keep his approval ratings high.

German 'serial killer' admits murder of three boys (AFP)

Posted: 15 Apr 2011 01:29 PM PDT

A photo of murdered Dennis R. is on display during a press conference in the northern German city of Verden. A German AFP - A German "serial killer" confessed after nearly 20 years on the run to murdering three boys, police said Friday as they attempted to link him to further slayings in France and the Netherlands.

NATO says confident of more planes for Libya soon (AP)

Posted: 15 Apr 2011 01:20 PM PDT

NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, center, shares light moment with Denmark's Foreign Minister Lene Espersen and Greece's Foreign Minister Dimitris P. Droutsas, right, prior to a session of the informal meeting of the NATO foreign ministers in the Foreign Ministry in Berlin Friday, April 15, 2011. (AP Photo/Gero Breloer)AP - NATO's secretary-general said Friday that he soon expects member nations to provide extra ground-attack aircraft to strike Moammar Gadhafi's forces in Libya even though a two-meeting summit of the alliance led to no concrete commitments.

Clinton says Iran trying to hijack Mideast revolts (AP)

Posted: 15 Apr 2011 01:11 PM PDT

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton speaks during a press conference at the US Embassy in Berlin, Germany, Friday April 15, 2011, following a visit to the city for the NATO Foreign Ministers summit. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton warned Friday that rising intolerance toward women and religious minorities threatens to derail democratic transitions around the Arab world and spread violent extremism. (AP Photo/Saul Loeb, Pool)AP - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Friday accused Iran of trying to hijack democratic revolutions around the Mideast and warned Arab nations not to permit intolerance against women and religious minorities.

Gay couple say kiss got them kicked out of pub (AP)

Posted: 15 Apr 2011 12:41 PM PDT

Members of the Lesbian and Gay community kiss outside the John Snow pub in the SoHo district of central London, Friday, April, 15, 2011. Sometimes a kiss is just a kiss, or is it? A gay couple say they were thrown out of a pub in London's gay district for kissing on their first date, a move that has social networking sites abuzz with supporters of the men threatening a 'kiss-in' at the local watering hole. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)AP - Two gay men say their first-date kiss got them thrown out of a London pub — and turned them into a Twitter sensation.

Russia's Putin on ice, playing hockey (AP)

Posted: 15 Apr 2011 12:33 PM PDT

AP - Vladimir Putin has put on a pair of skates for a hockey training session with teenage players at an ice rink in the Russian capital.

Child-abusing ex-bishop's tell-all shocks Belgium (AP)

Posted: 15 Apr 2011 11:39 AM PDT

In this Feb. 15, 2007 file photo, Roger Vangheluwe, former Bishop of Bruges is pictured in Bruges, Belgium. Former Belgian bishop Roger Vangheluwe, at the center of one of the Roman Catholic church's biggest pedophile scandals, said Thursday, April 14, 2011, that he had abused two nephews and insisted he had no plans to abandon the priesthood. In his first television interview since the scandal broke a year ago, Roger Vangheluwe claimed he paid one nephew he abused for years tens of thousands of euros in support, but denied it was meant to keep him silent. (AP Photo/Peter Maenhoudt, file)AP - A former bishop's televised admission that he sexually abused two of his nephews caused an uproar in Belgium on Friday, with the prime minister, senior clergy and a prosecutor expressing shock at the way the ex-prelate made light of his offenses.

Northern Ireland police seize 3 dissident IRA guns (AP)

Posted: 15 Apr 2011 11:26 AM PDT

AP - Northern Ireland police say they have seized two handguns, a shotgun and ammunition during house searches in a dissident IRA power base.

Belarus authorities reprimand independent dailies (AP)

Posted: 15 Apr 2011 11:15 AM PDT

People react as they stand at an entrance to the Oktyabrskaya station of the Minsk subway, Thursday, April 14, 2011. Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said Wednesday two suspects have confessed to carrying out the deadly bombing of the subway system in the country's capital. Lukashenko said, however, that he still does not know who ordered the bombing, and he asked the country's prosecutor general to interrogate opposition activists in connection with the blast 'regardless of democracy, and cries and wailing of foreign sufferers.' (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)AP - Belarusian authorities have reprimanded two leading independent newspapers for their coverage of a subway bombing that killed 13, officials said Friday, raising fears the government could use the attack to muzzle a few remaining independent media outlets.

German suspected of abusing boys in Haiti (AP)

Posted: 15 Apr 2011 10:29 AM PDT

AP - German police have detained the head of a Berlin-based aid organization on suspicion of sexually abusing children and attempting to smuggle an 11-year-old boy from Haiti into the country.

Violence spikes in Greek rebel town (AP)

Posted: 15 Apr 2011 10:10 AM PDT

A riot policeman uses tear gas against protesters during clashes in the town of Keratea, about 50 kilometers (31 miles) southeast of Athens, Thursday, April 14, 2011. Greek protesters have used excavators to cut a shoulder-high trench on a busy road near a proposed new landfill, cutting off traffic outside Athens. Youths clashed later Thursday at the site with riot police, who responded with tear gas. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)AP - As explosions boom, the town's loudspeakers blare: "Attention! Attention! We are under attack!" Air raid sirens wail through the streets, mingling with the frantic clanging of church bells. Clouds of tear gas waft between houses as helmeted riot police move in to push back the rebels.

US servicemen play key roles aboard French carrier (AP)

Posted: 15 Apr 2011 09:45 AM PDT

AP - U.S. Navy Lt. Patrick Salmon is getting ready for another day at work, strapping himself into the cockpit of his strike jet and roaring off this French aircraft carrier for his daily attack mission against Moammar Gadhafi's ground forces.

UN court convicts Balkan wartime hero to Croatians (AP)

Posted: 15 Apr 2011 09:10 AM PDT

People react as they watch a live broadcast of the verdict from the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal in The Hague in Zagreb, Croatia, Friday, April 15, 2011. A U.N. court has convicted a key wartime Croatian commander, Gen. Ante Gotovina, of committing atrocities in a campaign of shelling, murder and persecution aimed at driving Serbs out of Croatia's Krajina border region in 1995. (AP Photo/Darko Bandic)AP - A general hailed as a hero in Croatia was branded a war criminal by a U.N. court Friday in a verdict that dealt a blow to the country's self-image as a victim of atrocities, not a perpetrator, during the Balkan wars of the early 1990s.

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