2009年2月11日星期三

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Ice Church in Swedish Lappland offers white winterland wedding (AFP)

Posted: 11 Feb 2009 02:09 AM CST

A couple pose for pictures in an ice hotel in Jukkasjaervi. Shivering more from excitement than cold, a bride clad in white silk and fur all but melts into the snowy background as she and her groom become one of around 150 couples to tie the knot at Sweden's Ice Church this year.(AFP/File/Olivier Morin)AFP - Shivering more from excitement than cold, a bride clad in white silk and fur all but melts into the snowy background as she and her groom become one of around 150 couples to tie the knot at Sweden's Ice Church this year.


Poster looted by Nazis to be given to Jewish heir (AP)

Posted: 10 Feb 2009 11:06 AM CST

In this May 16 2006 file picture, Peter Sachs holds up a book with some of his father, Hans Sachs' favorite posters at his home in Sarasota, Fla.  A Berlin court has ruled Tuesday Feb. 10, 2009, that  Hans Sachs never lost legal ownership to his poster collection when the Gestapo seized it. Sachs' son, Peter, a 71-year-old resident of Sarasota, Florida, is trying to reclaim 4,000 of his father's posters from the German Historical Museum in Berlin. The posters are worth around 4.5 million euros ( US dlrs 5.8 million). (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara)AP - A German court ruled Tuesday that a Jewish man from Florida is the rightful owner of a rare poster the Gestapo seized from his father in 1938.


UK diplomat arrested over alleged tirade at Israel (AP)

Posted: 10 Feb 2009 11:04 AM CST

AP - A senior British diplomat has been arrested after he allegedly launched an abusive tirade against Israel and Judaism at a London gym, police said Tuesday.

Archaeologists search for unbaptized babies' grave (AP)

Posted: 10 Feb 2009 11:04 AM CST

A Queens University archaeologist inspects the ground  were a mass grave of unbaptised babies close to Milltown Cemetery, West Belfast, Northern Ireland, Tuesday, Feb. 10, 2009. Northern Ireland archeologists began a search Tuesday for unmarked mass graves containing hundreds of stillborn babies and infants, whom the Catholic Church long buried in anonymous plots on the edge of a Belfast cemetery. (AP Photo/Peter Morrison)AP - Archaeologists began searching Tuesday for unmarked mass graves containing hundreds of unbaptized babies and infants buried by the Catholic Church on the edge of a Belfast cemetery.


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