archive 09·12·2011

businessweekly

• Euro crisis: No big bazooka

  European leaders have made new big efforts during the last few days to tackle the debt crisis… 09/12/11 20:15 CET

cinema

• New freedoms revealed at Marrakech Film Festival

  The Marrakech Film Festival is an important event for the Moroccan cinema industry, which nowadays… 09/12/11 15:22 CET

corporate

• Floods and strong yen sink Toyota’s profits

  Toyota has more than halved its annual profit forecast. It has been cut to the equivalent of less… 09/12/11 14:20 CET

• Moody’s downgrades three French banks

  Moody’s has downgraded the debt of BNP Paribas, Societe Generale, and Credit Agricole. The ratings… 09/12/11 14:10 CET

economy

• Portugal’s recession deepens

  Portugal’s economy is in an even worse state than was previously thought. The latest revised… 09/12/11 17:35 CET

• Summit boosts ECB’s role

  The role of the European Central Bank is key to curbing the threat from the debt crisis. To… 09/12/11 17:35 CET

• Summit outcome sparks rally

  After a bit of uncertainty earlier in Friday’s session, the financial markets decided they did like… 09/12/11 14:34 CET

europa

• Britain and the rest of the EU poles apart

  While not a total divorce the decision by Britain to go its own separate way clearly marks a… 09/12/11 19:10 CET

futuris

• Invisible faults, digital solutions

  This is the mock-up of a noozle, a particularly sensitive component of a nuclear plant. This is an… 09/12/11 12:21 CET

learningworld

• 20 years after the USSR

  The fall of the Soviet Union resulted in huge changes – in all aspects of life. Education changed… 09/12/11 18:08 CET

le mag

• Lyon in lights

  The Fete des Lumieres in Lyon, France, has turned the city into a magical wonderland. Nearly three… 09/12/11 16:33 CET

perspectives

• Money: The root of the EU’s evils

  Standard and Poor’s have caused an uproar in Europe this week after reviewing 15 of the 17 eurozone… 09/12/11 23:32 CET

pictureoftheday

• Bowing down to the King of Thailand on his birthday

  Thailand’s Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra pays her respects to Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn… 09/12/11 11:31 CET

Sport

• Girls go green in the Amazon

  The Amazon Green Tree Raid is the only adventure raid in the world reserved exclusively for women… 09/12/11 20:40 CET

• UEFA: No betting irregularities in Champions League

  Following Lyon’s dramatic 7-1 win over Croatian champions Dinamo Zagreb which saw the French club… 09/12/11 17:27 CET

u talk

• European Parliament electoral reform

  Alessandro, an Italian living in Brussels asks Andrew Duff, MEP from the Group of the Alliance of… 09/12/11 12:14 CET

world news

• Rival rejects re-election of Congo’s Kabila

  Two men believe they are President of the Democratic Republic of Congo. In power for a decade… 09/12/11 23:14 CET

• Climate change talks suspended in Durban

  Global climate change talks in Durban have been suspended on the last day after a number of… 09/12/11 22:53 CET

• Moscow prepares for protest day over elections

  In Moscow, security is being stepped up ahead of a protest rally on Saturday. Demonstrators… 09/12/11 20:14 CET

• Estonian politicians accused of selling residence permits

  Estonia’s Citizenship and Migration Department is investigating accusations that some politicians… 09/12/11 19:44 CET

• Anarchist group responsible for Italian letter bomb

  An Italian anarchist group calling itself the Informal Ararchist Federation has claimed… 09/12/11 19:44 CET

• Panama’s ex-dictator Noriega to be sent home

  It is reported that former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega will soon be extradited to… 09/12/11 19:44 CET

• UK leaves the euro’s last-chance saloon

  The summit billed as the last chance to save the eurozone has ended with all-but-one EU leaders… 09/12/11 18:43 CET

• Congo’s Kabila re-elected as opposition cries foul

  Joseph Kabila has won re-election in the Democratic Republic of Congo in provisional results… 09/12/11 18:35 CET

• Merkel hails Brussels ‘breakthrough’

  German Chancellor, Angela Merkel brushed aside the rift in the bloc from Britain’s veto and focused… 09/12/11 18:34 CET

• Social media unites Moscow’s youth

  An unidentified man has set the internet ablaze after posting a video which appears to uncover vote… 09/12/11 18:02 CET

• Cameron: Britain’s better off outside the euro

  David Cameron has pledged Britain will remain a “full and very influential” member of the European… 09/12/11 17:53 CET

• Russia prepares for opposition protest in Moscow

  Security is being stepped up ahead of an opposition rally in Moscow on Saturday expected to draw… 09/12/11 16:03 CET

• Croatia to join EU in 2013

  Croatia is set to become the 28th member of the European union in July 2013. The ex-Yugoslav… 09/12/11 15:04 CET

• Is it a two speed Europe after the summit?

  How will history view the family photograph of Europe’s leaders gathering for the so-called… 09/12/11 14:53 CET

• Tahrir Square: Behind the Scene

  By Aissa Boukanoun As Egyptians took part in their first free parliamentary elections, the… 09/12/11 14:38 CET

• Protesters attack French troops in Lebanon

  At least five French peacekeepers have been wounded in a bomb attack in southern Lebanon. The… 09/12/11 14:34 CET

• Hospital fire in India leaves over 70 dead

  Over 70 people have perished in a fire which swept through a private hospital in Calcutta… 09/12/11 12:33 CET

• Back in the Day: stolen Mona Lisa found

  *December 12, 1913* Leonardo da Vinci’s masterpiece, the _Mona Lisa_ is found in a hotel room in… 09/12/11 11:53 CET

• Germany makes concessions for closer eurozone fiscal policy

  German Chancellor Angela Merkel is hoping an agreement between the eurozone countries to tighten… 09/12/11 11:23 CET

• Sarkozy stops short of criticising British ‘friends’

  There was little to suggest any seething anger from the French President, Nicolas Sarkozy on David… 09/12/11 11:07 CET

• Britain puts brakes on EU treaty changes

  Britain has rejected proposed amendments to the EU treaty, making an agreement by all 27 member… 09/12/11 10:13 CET

• Failure of EU treaty deal brings a new ‘two-speed Europe’

  There will be no changes to the Lisbon Treaty after the failure of all 27 members states to agree… 09/12/11 08:53 CET

• Tymoshenko ‘re-arrested’ in Ukraine prison cell

  A Ukrainian court has held a hearing inside Yulia Tymoshenko’s prison cell, where the opposition… 09/12/11 07:11 CET

• RD Congo presidential election result delayed again

  The announcement of a winner in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s presidential election has been… 09/12/11 07:11 CET

• Tear gas in the forest amid Italy rail protest

  Italian police have clashed with protesters trying to reach the construction site of a… 09/12/11 07:11 CET

• Van Rompuy announces new fiscal pact for euro zone

  The president of the European Council, Herman Van Rompuy, announced a new budgetary pact for the… 09/12/11 07:03 CET

• Failure to reach EU-wide accord on treaty change

  Attempts among EU leaders to forge agreement among all 27 states on changing treaties to strengthen… 09/12/11 06:13 CET

• Lyon lights extravaganza gets underway

  Four million visitors are expected to attend this year’s ‘Fete des Lumieres’, the annual lights… 09/12/11 05:13 CET

• Putin condemns protesters’ ‘mercenary agenda’

  Tens of thousands of Russians have pledged to join fresh protests against Vladimir Putin and his… 09/12/11 04:04 CET

• Deadly double shooting at Virginia Tech campus

  Bloodshed has returned to Virginia Tech, four years after the university suffered one of the worst… 09/12/11 01:04 CET

• Video proves Strauss-Kahn hotel maid ‘told truth’

  Surveillance video from the New York hotel where former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn was… 09/12/11 00:13 CET

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