cinema
Lights, camera, animation at London’s BarbicanLondon’s annual International Animation Festival is underway with 288 films being shown at the… 29/08/11 16:43 CET
corporate
LG cuts spending as tablet boom hits LCD TVsBooming sales of mobile devices, such as tablet computers and smartphones, are hitting makers of… 29/08/11 13:57 CET
economy
US counts material cost of IreneFor the insurance industry this year has already been the most expensive for natural disasters in… 29/08/11 19:48 CET
Obama names jobs expert as top White House economistPresident Barack Obama has said he will unveil proposals next week aimed at spurring job growth in… 29/08/11 19:43 CET
Big Greek bank merger announcedThe boards of Greece’s EFG Eurobank and Alpha Bank have approved a merger deal reportedly with a… 29/08/11 18:23 CET
europa
Trichet calls for rapid implementation of Greek bailoutEuropean Central Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet has urged eurozone governments to quickly… 29/08/11 20:54 CET
le mag
The Venetian art of Burano and MuranoVenice is renowned across the globe for the lace of Burano and the glass of Murano. Murano’s… 29/08/11 16:43 CET
pictureoftheday
An NYC car park in the wake of Hurricane IreneThe sun sets over a flooded parking lot as the sky clears from Hurricane Irene in Long Beach, New… 29/08/11 11:00 CET
science
Ancient mummy hands over secretsOne has to be extra careful when one is dealing with a 3,000-year-old mummy. Researchers in… 29/08/11 14:22 CET
world news
Russia to vote on December 4With the announcement of the date for Russia’s parliamentary elections, campaigning can now get… 29/08/11 22:44 CET
Berlusconi drops tax hike for the richEarlier this month he said his “heart bled” at the thought of asking Italians to put their hands in… 29/08/11 22:43 CET
Gaddafi family members in Algeria – APS agencyClose members of Muammar Gaddafi’s family have crossed into Algeria, according to the country’s… 29/08/11 20:03 CET
Syrian army defections ‘on the rise’Syrians living in a small town in the centre of the country claim an armoured column of government… 29/08/11 20:03 CET
Carry on, NATO! says Abdel Jalil in DohaMustafa Abdel Jalil, head of Libya’s National Transition Council has been visiting Qatar and the… 29/08/11 19:23 CET
Aerospace foundations tremble after Progress crashAerospace industries around the world are going through a shake-up after last week’s loss of the… 29/08/11 18:58 CET
Italy’s leaders struggle with austere changesSilvio Berlusconi’s villa in Milan is best known for the parties hosted there. But the… 29/08/11 18:44 CET
Back in the Day: Lenin survives Kaplan’s assassination attempt*August 30, 1918.* After delivering a speech at a factory in Moscow, Vladimir Illyich Lenin is shot… 29/08/11 17:46 CET
Medvedev sets parliamentary election dateRussia’s President Medvedev has named the day for parliamentary elections. As expected, they will… 29/08/11 17:32 CET
Estonia re-elects presidentEstonia’s parliament has overwhelmingly re-elected the president Toomas Hendrik Ilves for a second… 29/08/11 17:32 CET
Arrests made in Mexican casino murder huntMexican police say they have arrested five men they believe are members of the Zetas drugs cartel… 29/08/11 17:23 CET
Correspondent: wounded Gaddafi loyalist calls for peaceMany Gaddafi loyalists wounded in the battle for Tripoli are now in the same hospital in the Libyan… 29/08/11 16:33 CET
Dozens arrested in Iran over lake protestMore than two dozen ethnic Azeris have been arrested after environmental protests in north-western… 29/08/11 16:03 CET
Libya: timeline of the conflict*February 15 & 16:* The arrest of lawyer and human rights activist Fethi Tarbel sparks a riot in… 29/08/11 15:14 CET
Water shortage takes toll on war-battered TripoliIn Tripoli efforts to get back to some kind of normality are being hampered by the on-going lack of… 29/08/11 14:45 CET
Libyan rebels turn towards Gaddafi’s home cityLibyan rebels are amassing on the road to Sirte, Muammar Gaddafi’s home city and one of his last… 29/08/11 14:04 CET
Plucky German woman crowned Air Guitar ChampionA 26-year-old German woman has won this year’s World Air Guitar Championships in Finland. Aline… 29/08/11 12:48 CET
Lockerbie bomber will not be extradited – NTCA representative of Libya’s National Transitional Council has said the man convicted of the 1988… 29/08/11 12:45 CET
EU’s Ashton in mideast push for talksThe EU’s foreign policy chief, Catherine Ashton, on a visit to the middle east, has stressed the… 29/08/11 12:44 CET
Back in the Day: Katrina wreaks havoc on the Gulf coast*August 29, 2005.* Hurricane Katrina slams into the coast of Louisiana, USA, in what was to become… 29/08/11 11:57 CET
Baghdad mosque victims buriedVictims of a suicide bomb attack at Baghdad’s biggest Sunni mosque have been buried. The… 29/08/11 10:55 CET
Female stars feature at MTV’s VMA ceremonyPop star Katy Perry has picked up three awards, including the night’s top prize of video of the… 29/08/11 10:03 CET
Noda is surprise choice to lead JapanAgainst all the predictions, Yoshihiko Noda has become the leader of Japan’s governing Democratic… 29/08/11 08:43 CET
Palestinian injures eight in Tel AvivA 20-year-old Palestinian from the West Bank has injured eight people in an attack in Tel Aviv… 29/08/11 07:16 CET
Maoist becomes Nepal’s new PMMaoist leader Baburam Bhattarai has been elected by Nepal’s parliament as prime minister after… 29/08/11 07:16 CET
Rebels close in on Gaddafi hometownLibyan rebel forces are closing in on Muammar Gaddafi’s home base of Sirte after capturing the… 29/08/11 06:33 CET
London carnival has a trouble free first dayDay one of Europe’s biggest street party went off successfully with the majority of the million… 29/08/11 02:34 CET
Tropical Storm Irene: ‘the worst is over’High winds and flooding have hit New England as a weakening Tropical Storm Irene struck the US East… 29/08/11 02:03 CET
Al Qaeda claims Algerian bomb blastsAl Qaeda’s North African wing has said it carried out Friday night’s bombing outside a military… 29/08/11 00:03 CET
