2010年7月28日星期三

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Yahoo! News: World News


152 die as plane crashes in rainy Pakistan hills (AP)

Posted: 28 Jul 2010 04:34 PM PDT

A video grab shows debris from a commercial Pakistani passenger plane lying scattered amid shrubbery in hills near the capital, Islamabad, July 28, 2010.  Rescue workers have recovered the bodies of at least 20 people from the wreckage of a Pakistani passenger plane which crashed near the capital on Wednesday, an official said.  The Airblue jet was carrying 146 passengers and six crewmen. REUTERS/via Reuters TV  (PAKISTAN - Tags: TRANSPORT DISASTER)AP - A passenger jet that officials suspect veered off course in monsoon rains and thick clouds crashed into hills overlooking Pakistan's capital Wednesday, killing all 152 people on board and scattering body parts and twisted metal far and wide.


BP's waning Britishness causes few ripples in UK (AP)

Posted: 28 Jul 2010 11:57 AM PDT

File - In this June 16, 2010 file photo, BP Chief Executive Officer Tony Hayward, left, and BP Managing Director Bob Dudley arrive with other BP executives at the White House in Washington DC. The appointment of American oilman Robert Dudley to replace luckless Briton Tony Hayward as CEO is the latest milestone in the waning Britishness of the company once known as British Petroleum. (AP Photo / Susan Walsh, file)AP - Its chairman is Swedish, a growing chunk of its revenue comes from Russia and its incoming chief executive speaks with an American accent. So goes the Britishness in the company once known as British Petroleum.


Rare 3D film shows Warsaw devastated after WWII (AP)

Posted: 28 Jul 2010 11:29 AM PDT

In this still from the film 'City of Ruins', provided by The Warsaw Uprising Museum and Platige Image, the ruins of the Royal Castle and the Old town are seen in Warsaw after World War II. Polish historians have created an unusual 3D film that documents the shocking sea of rubble that Warsaw was reduced to during World War II. (AP Photo/Warsaw Uprising Museum and Platige ImageAP - The plane slowly descends from white clouds and sweeps over a panorama of a city destroyed by the Nazis: the skeletons of bombed bridges jutting from a quiet river, the empty walls of burned-out houses, the Jewish ghetto totally flattened.


Worst floods in a decade in China, 30,000 trapped (AP)

Posted: 28 Jul 2010 08:15 AM PDT

In this photo provided by China's Xinhua News Agency, flood water gushes from the Xiaolangdi Reservoir in Jiyuan, central China's Henan Province, Tuesday, July 27, 2010. The Xiaolangdi Reservoir on the Yellow River launched a sluice with the water outflux monitored at 15,000 cubic meters per second on Tuesday, Xinhua reported. (AP Photo/Xinhua, Miao Qiunao) ** NO SALES **AP - Floods caused by heavy rains in northeastern China stranded tens of thousands of residents without power Wednesday, as the worst flooding in more than a decade continued to besiege many areas of the country.


Sarkozy orders illegal Roma immigrants expelled (AP)

Posted: 28 Jul 2010 01:27 PM PDT

A member of a Romany association, Alice Januel, displays an official document which authorizes French Romanies to travel with their caravan, during a press conference with members of different French Roma associations in Saint Ouen north of Paris, Tuesday, July 27, 2010. French Roma associations have lashed out at the government for what they claim is racist treatment ahead of a meeting called by President Nicolas Sarkozy to deal with 'problems' among traveling folk. Members of Romany associations Renardo Loriers, left, and Emile Scheitz, right, in the background.(AP Photo/Michel Euler)AP - French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Wednesday ordered authorities to expel Gypsy illegal immigrants and dismantle their camps, amid accusations that his government is acting racist in its treatment of the group known as Roma.


Burma's Than Shwe Visits India to Talk Energy, Security (Time.com)

Posted: 28 Jul 2010 02:40 PM PDT

Time.com - General Than Shwe, leader of the junta that has ruled Burma since 1988, arrived in New Delhi on Tuesday as part of a five-day state visit to discuss energy and insurgents

Cameron lost hope of taking power during post-poll talks (AFP)

Posted: 28 Jul 2010 04:51 PM PDT

British Prime Minister David Cameron gives a speech at Infosys Campus in Bangalore. Cameron has revealed he lost all hope of ousting Gordon Brown in May's general election just 24 hours before taking power, in a documentary broadcast Thursday.(AFP/Dibyangshu Sarkar)AFP - Prime Minister David Cameron has revealed he lost all hope of ousting Gordon Brown in May's general election just 24 hours before taking power, in a documentary broadcast Thursday.


Egypt: US assurances may boost direct peace talks (AP)

Posted: 28 Jul 2010 01:56 PM PDT

AP - Egypt said Wednesday it has received U.S. assurances that may help in restarting direct peace talks between the Palestinians and Israel.

Parents mourn 2 boys killed by storm in Haiti camp (AP)

Posted: 28 Jul 2010 05:00 PM PDT

FILE - In this Jan. 19, 2010 file photo, Haitian Orphans arrive for medical care at Children's Hospital in Pittsburgh Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2010. The children were not orphaned by January's massive earthquake, but their orphanage was destroyed. Six months after a chaotic airlift to the United States, 12 Haitian children remain in a Roman Catholic institution near Pittsburgh, their fate in limbo while U.S. and Haitian authorities struggle to determine which nation should be their future home. (AP Photo/John Heller, File)AP - Distraught parents mourned the loss of two children in a camp for Haitian earthquake survivors Wednesday, a day after rains caused a wall to collapse on top of a row of tarp homes.


Ulster-bound rugby player Pienaar agrees Sharks release (AFP)

Posted: 28 Jul 2010 01:46 PM PDT

South Africa fly-half Ruan Pienaar, pictured in June 2010, has agreed his release from Natal Sharks and will join Ulster at the start of September, it was announced on Wednesday.(AFP/File/Glyn Kirk)AFP - South Africa fly-half Ruan Pienaar has agreed his release from Natal Sharks and will join Ulster at the start of September, it was announced on Wednesday.


Men in burqas hide in east Afghanistan: US general (AFP)

Posted: 28 Jul 2010 03:39 PM PDT

A woman wearing a burqa walks down an alleyway in the old town area of Kabul in June 2010. Male insurgents are hiding among villagers in eastern Afghanistan dressed in burqas in an attempt to avoid detection, the US regional military commander said Wednesday.(AFP/File/Ed Jones)AFP - Male insurgents are hiding among villagers in eastern Afghanistan dressed in burqas in an attempt to avoid detection, the US regional military commander said Wednesday.


Japan wants US Marines to move to Guam (AFP)

Posted: 28 Jul 2010 07:35 AM PDT

The US Marine airbase in Okinawa, Japan. Tokyo says it has no plan to delay transferring some 8,000 US Marines based on the southern island of Okinawa to the US Pacific territory of Guam by 2014.(AFP/File/Toshifumi Kitamura)AFP - Japan's government said Wednesday it had no plan to delay transferring some 8,000 US marines based on the southern island of Okinawa to the US Pacific territory of Guam by 2014.


2 Americans among 152 dead in Pakistan plane crash (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 28 Jul 2010 07:48 AM PDT

McClatchy Newspapers - ISLAMABAD — Two Americans were among the 152 passengers and crew members who died Wednesday when an Airbus A321 operated by a private Pakistani carrier crashed amid heavy rain into the hills that surround the capital of Islamabad. It was the worst air crash in Pakistani aviation history.

Catalonia Bullfighting Ban: Divisive Vote Stirs Politics (Time.com)

Posted: 28 Jul 2010 01:40 PM PDT

Time.com - Catalonia is the first region in mainland Spain to ban bullfighting, but opposition parties accuse Catalan politicians of using the vote to push a nationalist agenda

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