2011年4月19日星期二

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'Doctor Who' star Elisabeth Sladen dies at 63 (AP)

Posted: 19 Apr 2011 05:17 PM PDT

AP - Elisabeth Sladen, a star sidekick of the "Doctor Who" series and a popular children's show actress, has died of cancer Tuesday, the BBC said. She was 63.

Police: Parcel bombs sent to Celtic manager (AP)

Posted: 19 Apr 2011 03:59 PM PDT

AP - Police say that parcel bombs have been sent three times over the past several weeks to the manager of the Celtic soccer team and two of its high-profile fans.

Celtic football manager targetted by parcel bomb (AFP)

Posted: 19 Apr 2011 03:42 PM PDT

Celtic football club manager Neil Lennon, pictured in 2007, and two other well-known fans have been targeted by AFP - Celtic Football Club manager Neil Lennon and two other well-known fans have been targeted by "viable" parcel bombs designed to "kill or maim", Scottish police said Tuesday.

With eye to Japan, world pledges cash for Chernobyl (Reuters)

Posted: 19 Apr 2011 03:17 PM PDT

Ukrainian police detain an activist from the women's rights organisation Reuters - World powers, spurred by the nuclear crisis in Japan, pledged 550 million euros ($780 million) on Tuesday to help build a new containment shell at the site of the 1986 Chernobyl accident.

United stalemate with Newcastle keeps title race alive (AFP)

Posted: 19 Apr 2011 03:03 PM PDT

Referee Lee Probert speaks to Manchester United's English forward Wayne Rooney during the English Premier League football match between Newcastle United and Manchester United at St James' Park, in Newcastle. The match ended in a 0-0 draw.(AFP/Paul Ellis)AFP - Manchester United failed to score at St.James' Park for the first time in 11 seasons as a goalless draw with Newcastle United kept alive the race for the Barclays Premier League title.

Actress in cult 'Doctor Who' show dies (AFP)

Posted: 19 Apr 2011 02:26 PM PDT

Actress Elisabeth Sladen, best known for her role in cult science fiction television series AFP - Actress Elisabeth Sladen, best known for her role in cult science fiction television series "Doctor Who", died Tuesday aged 63 after a battle with cancer.

Killers of Italian activist die in Gaza raid: Hamas (Reuters)

Posted: 19 Apr 2011 02:16 PM PDT

Members of Hamas' security forces hold back Palestinians reacting after the coffin of Italian activist Vittorio Arrigoni was taken out of al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City April 18, 2011. REUTERS/Mohammed SalemReuters - Hamas security forces in Gaza stormed a building where killers of a pro-Palestinian Italian activist were hiding on Tuesday and two of the al Qaeda-inspired militants died in the raid, Hamas said.

Britain's Mann joins Indy 500 hopefuls list (AFP)

Posted: 19 Apr 2011 02:03 PM PDT

General view of the race track during the IRL IndyCar Series 93rd running of the Indianapolis 500 in 2009. Pippa Mann, who made her first test in an IndyCar just last month, became the first British woman to enter the Indianapolis 500 when was named Tuesday to drive a car for Conquest Racing.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Robert Laberge)AFP - Pippa Mann, who made her first test in an IndyCar just last month, became the first British woman to enter the Indianapolis 500 when was named Tuesday to drive a car for Conquest Racing.

NASA unaware of royal conflict with shuttle launch (AFP)

Posted: 19 Apr 2011 02:00 PM PDT

Britain's Prince William (R) and his fiancée Kate Middleton during a photocall to mark their engagement, in the State Rooms of St James's Palace, central London. NASA was unaware that the shuttle Endeavour's final mission to the International Space Station was in conflict with the royal wedding, a chief of the US space agency said Tuesday.(AFP/File/Ben Stansall)AFP - The US space agency was unaware that the shuttle Endeavour's final mission to the International Space Station was in conflict with the royal wedding, a NASA chief said Tuesday.

El Al bomb plotter could be released early (AP)

Posted: 19 Apr 2011 01:37 PM PDT

AP - An Arab terrorist jailed for duping his pregnant fiance into trying to sneak a bomb aboard an Israeli jumbo jet could be released early following a British court's ruling Tuesday.

Italy shelves nuclear plans after Japan quake (AP)

Posted: 19 Apr 2011 12:50 PM PDT

AP - Italy's government proposed on Tuesday to shelve indefinitely its nuclear plans following radiation leaks at Japan's nuclear plant.

EU police crack down on human smuggling network (AP)

Posted: 19 Apr 2011 12:22 PM PDT

FILE - The June 25, 2008 file photo shows illegal immigrants on a night vision monitor screen of the Hungarian border police on the country's southern border with Serbia near Roeszke, Hungary. British and Hungarian police said Tuesday, April 19, 2011 they have cracked down on a people smuggling network that brought thousands of Vietnamese into Europe. Ninety-eight smugglers and other members of the network have been arrested since the project began in 2009, said Andre Baker, deputy director of Britain's Serious Organized Crime Agency. (AP Photo/Bela Szandelszky, files)AP - Some paid tens of thousands for a dream ticket to Europe, but ended up working in slave-like conditions on marijuana plantations. Their traffickers acting with such impunity that they even set up travel agencies to get them into airports off the beaten track.

Security teams gear up for UK royal wedding (AP)

Posted: 19 Apr 2011 11:08 AM PDT

AP - British police have rejected a request by a small band of radical Islamists to stage a protest outside Prince William and Kate Middleton's royal wedding venue on April 29, Scotland Yard said Tuesday.

Grete Waitz, NY Marathon legend, dies at 57 (AP)

Posted: 19 Apr 2011 10:37 AM PDT

FILE -0- In a Nov. 3, 1994 file photo nine-time winner of the New York City Marathon Grete Waitz adjusts her wreath during a 25th anniversary reunion of past winners of the race in New York. Waitz died Tuesday April 19, 2011 after a six-year battle with cancer, Norway's athletics federation said. She was 57. (AP Photo/Marty Lederhandler)AP - Grete Waitz had never run a marathon before the New York City race in October 1978. After it, her name and New York would be forever linked.

UK to send military advisers to help Libya rebels (AP)

Posted: 19 Apr 2011 09:26 AM PDT

FILE - In this Thursday, April 14, 2011 file photo, Libyan rebel fighters belonging to a battalion commanded by Abdel-Moneim Mokhtar, seen through the empty windshield of a rebel pickup truck, make noon prayers in the desert on the outskirts of Ajdabiya, Libya. Libyan rebel fighter and military commander in the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, Abdel-Moneim Mokhtar, was ambushed and killed by Moammar Gadhafi's troops last week on a dusty road in eastern Libya - the end of a journey that saw him fight as a jihadi in Afghanistan and then return home where he died alongside NATO-backed rebels trying to oust the longtime authoritarian leader. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)AP - Britain said Tuesday it will send about a dozen senior soldiers to Libya to help organize the country's haphazard rebel forces, as international allies seek to aid the opposition's attempts to break the military stalemate.

UN agency expects little new radiation release (AP)

Posted: 19 Apr 2011 08:46 AM PDT

AP - A senior official at the U.N. nuclear agency is suggesting the worst may be over as far as radiation leaks at Japan's stricken reactor complex are concerned.

Turkish-Armenian monument faces demolition (AP)

Posted: 19 Apr 2011 08:16 AM PDT

FILE - Undated but recent file photo of the monument, rear-center, sculpted by Turkish artist Mehmet Aksoy in Kars, Turkey. The hulking sculpture meant to promote reconciliation between Turkey and Armenia became an accidental emblem of their historic enmity after workers erected scaffolding towers and began to demolish it this week. Then, the mood soured further: a Turkish artist was stabbed. Painter Bedri Baykam, a prominent critic of Turkey's government, was hospitalized after the assault Monday April 18, 2011 in Istanbul, which followed a speech in which he condemned plans to tear down the monument near the Armenian border.(AP Photo/Hurriyet, File)AP - A hulking sculpture meant to promote reconciliation between Turkey and Armenia became an accidental emblem of their historic enmity after workers erected scaffolding towers and began to demolish it this week.

Survivors, officials remember Warsaw Ghetto revolt (AP)

Posted: 19 Apr 2011 07:31 AM PDT

AP - Holocaust survivors and city officials have laid wreaths in ceremonies marking 68 years since Jewish insurgents in the Warsaw Ghetto began an armed resistance against the Nazis.

Kurds angry after candidates barred from election (AP)

Posted: 19 Apr 2011 07:02 AM PDT

Map of Iraq showing the location of the northern oil city of Kirkuk. Gunmen stormed a house in Kirkuk and killed a woman and her two nieces in an early morning attack, while a roadside bomb killed an education ministry official in Baghdad on Tuesday.(AFP/Graphic)AP - Armed with firebombs and slings, Kurdish protesters clashed with Turkish police in two cities Tuesday and the main Kurdish party threatened to boycott the upcoming election because of a decision to bar some Kurdish candidates.

UK's Cameron dashes Brown's IMF prospects (AP)

Posted: 19 Apr 2011 05:55 AM PDT

AP - Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron insisted Tuesday that his predecessor Gordon Brown shouldn't become a candidate to lead the International Monetary Fund, and suggested the next chief should be the first from outside of Europe.

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