2011年5月13日星期五

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Yahoo! News: Europe News

Swiss solar-powered aircraft lands in Brussels (AFP)

Posted: 13 May 2011 03:10 PM PDT

Solar-powered airplane, the Solar Impulse, is pictured after landing at Brussels Airport in Zaventem. The plane, operating fully on solar energy, completed its first international flight, which departed at 6 a.m. this morning from the Payerne airfield in Switzerland.(AFP/John Thys)AFP - Pioneering Swiss solar-powered aircraft Solar Impulse landed in Brussels on Friday after completing its first international flight, 13 hours after it took off from Switzerland.

Summary Box: Stocks fall on worries over Europe (AP)

Posted: 13 May 2011 02:50 PM PDT

AP - EUROPE WORRIES: Signs that Europe's debt troubles are larger than originally forecast rattled financial markets Friday, sending the dollar up nearly 1 percent and erasing the week's gains in the stock market.

Nadal, Djokovic and Murray into Rome semis (AFP)

Posted: 13 May 2011 02:24 PM PDT

Spain's Rafael Nadal returns a ball to Marin Cilic of Croatia during their Rome Open tennis tournament quarter-final match in Rome's Foro Italico. Nadal showed no signs of the fever that has been afflicting him this week as he strolled into the Rome Masters semi-finals here with a 6-1, 6-3 demolition of Cilic.(AFP/Filippo Monteforte)AFP - Rafael Nadal showed no signs of the fever that has been troubling him this week as he strolled into the Rome Masters semi-finals with a 6-1, 6-3 demolition of Marin Cilic on Friday.

Stocks fall as European financial crisis expands (AP)

Posted: 13 May 2011 02:22 PM PDT

In this Thursday, May 12, 2011 photo, specialist Jim Ahrens, left, and trader Michael Urkonis work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Robust economic growth figures for the eurozone helped shore up stock markets in Europe Friday, May 13, 2011 and gave the euro some respite after a savage sell-off over the previous week. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)AP - Since when does the stock market take its cues from the market for silver, oil and pork bellies? When it's really the dollar that's driving the action.

Man beheads woman in Spanish island supermarket (AP)

Posted: 13 May 2011 01:50 PM PDT

In this video footage made available from Atlas TV, the scene of an attack, on the Canary Island of Tenerife, Friday, May 13, 2011. A man randomly attacked and beheaded a British woman in a supermarket on the Spanish resort island of Tenerife in the Canary Islands on Friday, officials said. The suspect, believed to be a homeless Bulgarian man with a police record, was detained by security guards after he ran out of the supermarket with the blood-soaked head in his hands. (AP Photo/Atlas TV) SPAIN OUTAP - A man beheaded a British woman in a random attack in a supermarket on the Spanish resort island of Tenerife in the Canary Islands on Friday, officials said.

Knifeman decapitates British woman in Spain (AFP)

Posted: 13 May 2011 01:34 PM PDT

Policemen secure the area where a man deposit the head of a British woman after decapitated her in a supermarket in Los Cristianos, on the Spanish resort island of Tenerife.(AFP/Desiree Martin)AFP - A deranged knifeman decapitated a British woman in a shop on the Spanish resort island of Tenerife on Friday and fled with her head, police said.

England flanker Armitage completes Toulon switch (AFP)

Posted: 13 May 2011 01:28 PM PDT

England international flanker Steffon Armitage, pictured in 2009, on Friday became the latest player to quit the English Premiership when the London Irish star completed his move to big-spending French side Toulon.(AFP/File/Juan Mabromata)AFP - England international flanker Steffon Armitage on Friday became the latest player to quit the English Premiership when the London Irish star completed his move to big-spending French side Toulon.

Solar plane lands after 1st international flight (AP)

Posted: 13 May 2011 12:52 PM PDT

The experimental aircraft 'Solar Impulse' takes off for its first international flight to Brussels at the airbase in Payerne, Switzerland, Friday, May 13, 2011. The single-seater prototype took off Friday morning and is expected to reach Brussels airport by nightfall. The solar-powered plane with the wingspan of a Boeing 777 made its 2009 maiden flight in Switzerland and further tests have all taken place there. (AP Photo/Keystone, Laurent Gillieron) GERMANY OUT - AUSTRIA OUTAP - A solar-powered plane landed in Brussels on Friday evening after a 12-hour flight from Switzerland, the futuristic aircraft's first international sortie.

Italy: Gadhafi likely fled Tripoli, not Libya (AP)

Posted: 13 May 2011 12:30 PM PDT

AP - Moammar Gadhafi may have fled Tripoli and a top Catholic official in that city reports that the Libyan strongman has been hurt, the Italian foreign minister said Friday.

101-year-old fights for election in Spain (AFP)

Posted: 13 May 2011 12:28 PM PDT

Josefina Villaverde, 101 years-old candidate of the Socialist Party (PSOE) for the upcoming municipal elections, poses in the village of Cuntis, some 50 kms from Santiago de Compostela, in May 2011. Spain's ruling Socialist Party, battered by the economic crisis, is facing defeats in some of its traditional regional strongholds in elections to be held on May 22, 2011, an opinion poll said.(AFP/File/Miguel Riopa)AFP - At 101 years old, Josefina Villaverde is launching her political career.

Europe and bin Laden: No intel is good intel? (AP)

Posted: 13 May 2011 10:34 AM PDT

AP - European security officials have lots of questions about the intelligence being analyzed from Osama bin Laden's compound but so far they've seen very little of it.

Greek officials urge calm after racist attacks (AP)

Posted: 13 May 2011 10:33 AM PDT

AP - Government officials appealed for calm Friday after three days of attacks by ultranationalist mobs on dark-skinned foreigners in Athens, sparked by the fatal mugging of a Greek man in the capital's crime-infested center.

APNewsBreak: Global Fund to make losses public (AP)

Posted: 13 May 2011 09:36 AM PDT

AP - A multibillion-dollar fund that fights three killer diseases said Friday that it will make public more detailed information about money it has lost to corruption and mismanagement, but won't release other information critics have sought.

Terminally ill to get right to die faster in Spain (AP)

Posted: 13 May 2011 09:35 AM PDT

AP - The Spanish government has approved a law that gives terminally ill patients the right to hasten their deaths by halting medical treatment.

EU warns Denmark about instituting border checks (AP)

Posted: 13 May 2011 08:18 AM PDT

AP - The European Union is warning Denmark its plans for customs checks may violate EU law and the Schengen free travel agreement.

Demjanjuk released from German prison (AP)

Posted: 13 May 2011 08:14 AM PDT

John Demjanjuk leaves the court room in Munich, southern Germany, Thursday, May 12, 2011. The court has ordered John Demjanjuk released pending an appeal of his conviction as an accessory to murder at a Nazi death camp. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)AP - John Demjanjuk left prison in an unmarked vehicle on Friday for a nursing home after a judge ordered him released pending an appeal of his conviction for serving as a guard at a Nazi death camp.

London plans floating walkway on River Thanes (AP)

Posted: 13 May 2011 07:53 AM PDT

AP - London's mayor says the city could have a floating, kilometer-long walkway on the River Thames in time for the 2012 Olympic summer games.

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Posted: 13 May 2011 07:47 AM PDT

AP - John Demjanjuk leaves prison after judge orders him freed during appeal of conviction.

UK summons Syrian ambassador over violence (AP)

Posted: 13 May 2011 07:47 AM PDT

AP - Britain summoned Syria's ambassador Friday to warn that new sanctions will target the regime's hierarchy if President Bashar Assad does not halt the country's violent crackdown on protesters.

Vatican sets rules for Latin Mass (AP)

Posted: 13 May 2011 06:34 AM PDT

AP - The Vatican issued new instructions Friday asking bishops and priest to make the old Latin Mass accessible, but warned that Catholic faithful who follow the rite must not question the authority of the pope or the legitimacy of the new Mass.

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