archive 24·05·2012

behindmarkets

• Deutsche Post delivers a higher share price

  Deutsche Post’s ambitious goals seduced investors on Thursday and the share price of Europe’s… 24/05/12 20:00 CET

cinema

• Me and You (Io e Te)

  After a 10-year hiatus, Bernardo Bertolucci is back with his new film “Me and You”. The director… 24/05/12 12:44 CET

• In Another Country

  Isabelle Huppert is in Cannes to promote her new film “In Another Country” which was directed and… 24/05/12 12:38 CET

corporate

• Nissan’s electric jobs promise for Spain

  It may only be a drop in the vast and deep ocean of Spanish unemployment, but Japanese carmaker… 24/05/12 16:53 CET

• Fees setback for MasterCard

  Europe’s second-highest court has rejected MasterCard’s challenge to a European Union ban on its… 24/05/12 15:03 CET

• Air France-KLM talks job cuts with unions

  Air France-KLM has started difficult negotiations with its unions over job cuts. The Franco-Dutch… 24/05/12 15:03 CET

economy

• Euro tumbles on German weakness

  The euro’s value against the dollar fell on Thursday to its lowest in nearly two years pushed down… 24/05/12 20:05 CET

• UK economy in worse state than feared

  Britain fell deeper into recession than initially thought in the first quarter of this year due to… 24/05/12 15:03 CET

europa

• MEPs ramp up pressure on Ukraine over Tymoshenko

  MEPs have issued a fourth resolution condemning the Ukrainian leadership over the jailing of the… 24/05/12 19:00 CET

hi-tech

• House moving the hard way

  One of Zurich’s landmarks, a 122-year-old industrial building called the “Maschinenfabrik Oerlikon“… 24/05/12 14:50 CET

innovation

• HIV vaccine on trial

  A team of French scientists has started clinical trials on humans for a potential HIV/AIDS vaccine… 24/05/12 09:13 CET

interview

• Beppe Grillo explains

  Comedian Beppe Grillo has shaken up Italian politics, with his 5 Star Movement party (Movimento 5… 24/05/12 19:53 CET

learningworld

• Inspiring the teachers

  Teachers and their teaching methods are central to a child’s educational experience. But in a… 24/05/12 17:41 CET

le mag

• Eurovision warms up

  The early heats of the Eurovision Song Contest have been held in Azerbaijan, this year’s host… 24/05/12 15:45 CET

newsplus

• Amnesty cites UN hypocrisy, EU scapegoating

  euronews London correspondent Ali Sheikholeslami spoke to Amnesty International’s secretary-general… 24/05/12 19:12 CET

pictureoftheday

• Canadian students tuition fee protests

  A police officer charges at a protester during a demonstration against tuition fee increases in… 24/05/12 10:55 CET

space

• Unveiling Venus

  It can be called the morning or evening star, depending on where you are or what time it is, but it… 24/05/12 12:27 CET

Sport

• EURO2012: Russia

  We continue our series of Euro2012 competing nations with Russia. Dick Advocaat’s men were drawn… 24/05/12 21:31 CET

• Euro 2012: Poland

  Co-hosts Poland will rely heavily on their trio of Borussia Dortmund players as they seek to make… 24/05/12 07:02 CET

• Euro 2012: Denmark

  Few teams would swap places with Denmark who have to take on the Netherlands, Germany and Portugal… 24/05/12 07:02 CET

thenetwork

• Common culture and European cinema

  A quote, commonly ascribed to one of the fathers of the European Union, Jean Monnet said: “If I had… 24/05/12 17:10 CET

world news

• Spotlight shines on Azerbaijan rights record

  Police in Azerbaijan arrested 35 pro-democracy protesters on Thursday as the focus remains on the… 24/05/12 23:15 CET

• Germany Hell’s Angels raided by police

  German police carried out a series of raids across the north of the country, targeting properties… 24/05/12 23:03 CET

• Tunisia graduates demand jobs

  A group of unemployed Tunisian graduates have held a protest to call on the government to do more… 24/05/12 21:53 CET

• Egypt presidential candidate: “elections free from violence and fraud”

  At the end of the second day of voting in Egypt’s first free presidential election, the ballot has… 24/05/12 20:23 CET

• Ashton: Iran has right to nuclear enrichment

  Delegates from the five permanent UN Security Council members, (United States, Russia, China… 24/05/12 20:03 CET

• EU summit: Draghi calls for ‘courageous leap’

  European leaders ended their informal summit in Brussels with a message of support for Greece and a… 24/05/12 19:28 CET

• Launderette prank goes wrong

  Security cameras in New Jersey caught the moment a toddler got taken for a spin. One-year-old… 24/05/12 18:16 CET

• Rome doctors fit baby with ‘world’s smallest artificial heart’

  Doctors in Rome saved the life of a 16-month-old boy by implanting the world’s smallest artificial… 24/05/12 18:14 CET

• Breivik will not appeal against verdict

  Norwegian killer Anders Breivik, on trial for killing 77 people during a bomb and shooting attack… 24/05/12 18:14 CET

• Egypt Coptic Christians fear Islamist presidential win

  A large number of Egypt’s Coptic Christian minority are backing presidential front-runner Ahmed… 24/05/12 18:03 CET

• Spanish miners strike to save industry

  Spanish miners are on strike amid fears their entire industry is about to go to the wall. About 40… 24/05/12 15:53 CET

• Azeri police break up opposition rallies ahead of Eurovision

  For Azerbaijan, hosting the glitz and glamour of the Eurovision Song Contest was part of a charm… 24/05/12 15:44 CET

• Solar Impulse Morocco-bound

  A plane fuelled by the sun has begun its first intercontinental flight – from Switzerland to… 24/05/12 15:03 CET

• Russian opposition leaders freed

  Russian opposition leaders Alexei Navalny and Sergei Udaltsov have both been freed after more than… 24/05/12 14:25 CET

• Nuclear talks with Iran falter

  An official from the Iranian delegation said on Thursday that world powers are creating a… 24/05/12 13:20 CET

• Greece gets mixed EU message

  Papers in Athens break the news to Greeks that European leaders have made no concrete moves to ease… 24/05/12 12:13 CET

• Fire cripples US nuclear submarine

  A fire has swept through a nuclear-powered submarine at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Maine… 24/05/12 11:53 CET

• Egypt: A step closer to democracy

  Voting has resumed on the second of Egypt’s two day presidential vote, a crucial stage in the… 24/05/12 11:43 CET

• Amnesty: UN Security Council ‘unfit for purpose’

  Human rights watchdog Amnesty International, in its annual State of the World Human Rights… 24/05/12 10:33 CET

• Lebanese army battles gunmen in Beirut

  Daylight in Beirut saw the Lebanese army in action as the sound of gunfire contiued to send shivers… 24/05/12 08:33 CET

• Three cities left to contest 2020 Olympic bid

  The race to host the 2020 Summer Olympic games has become a three-way battle between Madrid… 24/05/12 06:56 CET

• Polish taxi drivers threaten to disrupt Euro tournament

  Polish taxi drivers brought traffic to a standstill in several cities as they protested over… 24/05/12 06:55 CET

• Hewlett Packard to lay-off 27,000

  The world’s number one computer maker Hewlett Parkard plans to lay off a massive 27,000 employees… 24/05/12 06:55 CET

• EU leaders back Greece while planning for its euro exit

  European leaders ended their informal summit in Brussels with a message of support for Greece and a… 24/05/12 05:34 CET

• ‘Bin Laden doctor’ jailed for treason in Pakistan

  A Pakistani surgeon recruited by the CIA to help find Osama bin Laden has been sentenced to 33… 24/05/12 01:13 CET

• Comic Grillo rings political alarm bells in Italy

  Italy has a new rising star on the political scene in the shape of comedian Beppe Grillo. Together… 24/05/12 01:04 CET

• Muslim Brotherhood face stiff challenge from independent candidate

  Independent candidate Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh could split the Islamist vote in Egypt’s… 24/05/12 01:04 CET

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