2009年3月3日星期二

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Yahoo! News: World News

Pakistan: Gunmen in rickshaws attack cricket team (AP)

Posted: 03 Mar 2009 04:05 PM PST

Rescue workers and relatives gather next to bodies of the police officers who died in the shooting incident, at a local hospital in Lahore, Pakistan on Tuesday, March, 3, 2009. A dozen men attacked Sri Lanka's cricket team with rifles, grenades and rocket launchers ahead of a match in Pakistan, wounding several players and killing six police officers and civilian in a brazen attack on South Asia's most beloved sport. (AP Photo)AP - A team of heavily armed gunmen, some traveling in rickshaws, ambushed Sri Lanka's national cricket team Tuesday as it arrived for a match, killing six police guards and wounding seven players. The brazen attack heightened fears that Pakistan is becoming increasingly unstable.


Cologne building collapses; 3 missing, many escape (AP)

Posted: 03 Mar 2009 02:14 PM PST

The scene of a collapsed building in downtown Cologne, western Germany, Tuesday March 3, 2009. Cologne's six-storey city archive building rumbled and then collapsed into a pile of rubble Tuesday. Many people inside were able to flee to safety, but rescue workers said they were searching for nine people missing from nearby buildings. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein)AP - Cologne's six-story city archive building groaned then collapsed in a pile of rubble Tuesday as people inside fled in panic. All managed to escape safely but police said three people were feared missing in other damaged buildings nearby.


Afghan tech boom: Mullah embraces iPhone (AP)

Posted: 03 Mar 2009 12:24 PM PST

Mullah Abdul Salaam Zaeef, a former Taliban ambassador to Pakistan ,looks at his iPhone during an interview with Associated Press  at his residence in Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, Feb. 25, 2009. Zaeef spent almost four years in Guantanamo. He is a huge fan of Apple's iPhone.'It's easy and modern and I love it,' Zaeef said  while he pinched and pulled his fingers across the device's touch screen to show off photos. 'I'm using the Internet with it. Sometimes I use it for the GPS to find locations.'(AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)AP - Mullah Abdul Salaam Zaeef is a former Taliban ambassador to Pakistan. He spent almost four years in Guantanamo. He wears a black turban, has a thick beard — and is never without his Apple iPhone.


Russian oil tycoon's motions rejected at new trial (AP)

Posted: 03 Mar 2009 12:53 PM PST

Former Yukos natural gas giant CEO Mikhail Khodorkovsky, center, is escorted to a court room in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, March 3, 2009. Khodorkovsky is to appear Tuesday in a Moscow courtroom to face charges that he and his partners embezzled and laundered $25 billion from Yukos and related companies over a six year period. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)AP - Lawyers for Mikhail Khodorkovsky protested court actions Tuesday on the first day of a new trial that could keep the imprisoned former oil tycoon behind bars for decades.


Global new deal 'possible' in months : Brown (AFP)

Posted: 03 Mar 2009 03:27 PM PST

US President Barack Obama and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown (R) walk through the Colonnade following a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC. Brown raised the prospect of a global AFP - Prime Minister Gordon Brown raised the prospect of a global "new deal" to fix the finance industry within months, setting the stage for April's G-20 economic summit with President Barack Obama.


US soldier killed in attack on base in Iraq (AP)

Posted: 03 Mar 2009 01:50 PM PST

U.S. service members take an oath of citizenship during their naturalization ceremony at al-Faw Palace at Camp Victory in Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, March 3, 2009. 251 troops from 65 countries became U.S. citizens at the ceremony. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)AP - Insurgents attacked a main U.S.-Iraqi base Tuesday in the northern city of Mosul, killing one American soldier and striking directly at the Iraqi command center for an offensive against the militants.


PR gov: 30,000 workers could be fired amid crisis (AP)

Posted: 03 Mar 2009 04:19 PM PST

AP - More than 30,000 government employees — about 14 percent of the public work force — could lose their jobs and new taxes will be introduced as Puerto Rico attempts to shore up its ailing economy, the governor of the U.S. island territory announced Tuesday.

Matt Damon moved by plight of Zimbabwean refugees (AP)

Posted: 03 Mar 2009 03:39 PM PST

U.S. actor Matt Damon speaks with sister Tinotenda, from Zimbabwe, who is showing him a 10 billion Zimbabwean dollars banknote, at the catholic church in the South African border town with Zimbabwe of Musina, Tuesday, March 3, 2009. Damon, in South Africa shooting a movie, visited the border town to draw attention to the plight on those fleeing from economic collapse and dire humanitarian situation. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)AP - Matt Damon listened emotionally Tuesday as a Zimbabwean woman described how she was raped while pregnant during a perilous journey to cross into South Africa from her troubled homeland.


NZealand won't tour Pakistan after attack: cricket chief (AFP)

Posted: 03 Mar 2009 04:28 PM PST

A Pakistani policemen guard a bullet-ridden bus which was carrying the Sri Lankan cricket team, parked outside the Gaddafi Stadium in Lahore. New Zealand have cancelled their cricket tour of Pakistan after the deadly attack targeting Sri Lanka's team there, New Zealand Cricket chief executive Justin Vaughan said Wednesday.(AFP/File/Aamir Qureshi)AFP - New Zealand have cancelled their tour of Pakistan after the deadly attack against Sri Lanka's team, New Zealand's top cricket official said on Wednesday amid increasing doubts over the future of international cricket in the troubled Asian country.


Australian firefighters win reprieve from extreme conditions (AFP)

Posted: 02 Mar 2009 11:34 PM PST

New South Wales and Victorian volunteer firefighters take a break during operations to extinguish smouldering embers left after wildfire burnt through the Lysterfield State Park east of Melbourne. Firefighters battling Australia's worst wildfire outbreak had a reprieve Tuesday when predicted extreme conditions gave way to light rain and mild temperatures.(AFP/Paul Crock)AFP - Firefighters battling Australia's worst wildfire outbreak had a reprieve Tuesday when predicted extreme conditions gave way to light rain and mild temperatures.


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