archive 04·09·2012

behindmarkets

• Lufthansa’s cabin fever

  The strike by Lufthansa’s cabin crew dragged its shares down on Tuesday in Frankfurt as flight… 04/09/12 20:02 CET

cinema

• Egypt’s Winter of Discontent at Venice Film Festival

  It is a film title to sum up events in Egypt, ‘Winter of Discontent’. As director Ibrahim el-Batout… 04/09/12 16:43 CET

economy

• Spanish unemployment rises for first time in 5 months

  With the end of Summer and the tourist season winding down Spain’s jobless rate jumped in August… 04/09/12 14:25 CET

europa

• Cracks in EU parliament open up single seat debate

  In Brussels, part of the EU Parliament has been shut because cracks have quite literally appeared… 04/09/12 18:11 CET

• EU parliament shows off art for the first time

  The European Parliament has unveiled some of its own private paintings to the public for the first… 04/09/12 17:32 CET

• EU Commission pushes banking union plan

  In Brussels, the EU’s economic and monetary chief Olli Rehn has said the European Commission is… 04/09/12 07:28 CET

hi-tech

• Television tunes in to the future

  IFA, the world‘s leading trade show for consumer electronics and home appliances opened in Berlin… 04/09/12 12:03 CET

le mag

• Madrid’s bright colours to counter economic gloom

  Bright colours and flowing lines were on show at the 56th Madrid Fashion Week, a pause to help… 04/09/12 16:40 CET

markets

• European markets at close: 04.09.2012

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pictureoftheday

• The whirlwind of the first day of school

  A schoolchild waits to enter a class in a primary school in Marseille on the start of the new… 04/09/12 12:13 CET

Sport

• The promised land

  Thirteen Nigerian footballers moved to the Ukraine after being promised contracts with clubs in the… 04/09/12 17:46 CET

• Zenit’s incredible Hulk deal

  Russian champions Zenit St Petersburg signed highly-sought after Brazilian international striker… 04/09/12 07:00 CET

• Downhill daredevils hit Calgary

  The 11th World Downhill Skateboarding & Street Luge Championships took place on the hills of… 04/09/12 07:00 CET

world news

• Obama must justify himself

  Presidential candidates must dominate with rhetoric, or suffer the consequences. Challenger Ronald… 04/09/12 19:41 CET

• US wades deeper into Asia diplomacy

  The United States is pursuing greater influence in the Asia-Pacific region. This is clearly a… 04/09/12 19:33 CET

• Obama attacks Romney over “secret” success plan

  Barack Obama will make his big convention speech on Thursday, but in the meantime he has not been… 04/09/12 22:34 CET

• Bahrain activists lose appeals against jail terms

  Twenty opposition activists in Bahrain have lost their appeals against their jail terms for their… 04/09/12 22:03 CET

• Brussels launches competition case against Gazprom

  The European Commission has begun an anti-trust investigation into Russian gas giant, Gazprom… 04/09/12 20:13 CET

• Syrian army continues attacks on Aleppo

  The Syrian army has continued to bombard Aleppo, the country’s biggest city. Opposition groups… 04/09/12 18:53 CET

• Cameron presents new cabinet line-up

  British Prime Minister David Cameron has shaken up his coalition government with a ministerial… 04/09/12 18:40 CET

• US first lady to kick-off Democratic Convention

  Michelle Obama takes centre stage tonight as the Democratic Convention gets underway in Charlotte… 04/09/12 18:24 CET

• Pressure mounts on ECB over bond buying

  France and Italy continue to pressure the European Central Bank to urgently agree measures to… 04/09/12 17:37 CET

• Lufthansa union calls new national strike for Friday

  Lufthansa’s main union has called a new national strike for Friday among the airline’s cabin crews… 04/09/12 17:06 CET

• EU court hears UK Christians’ religious discrimination cases

  The European Court of Human Rights is hearing the cases of four British Christians who claim to… 04/09/12 16:24 CET

• Portugal seeks help from EU to tackle fires

  Portugal has asked for EU help to tackle dozens of forest fires that are raging across the country… 04/09/12 16:01 CET

• More than 40 people die in Moroccan bus crash

  At least 42 people have died after a bus plunged into a ravine in southern Morocco.   The accident… 04/09/12 16:01 CET

• Bahrain court upholds activists’ jail terms

  An appeals court in Bahrain has upheld the convictions of 20 activists sentenced for their role in… 04/09/12 16:01 CET

• Iran opens nuclear site to Mongolian leader

  Iran has allowed a foreign leader to visit its main uranium enrichment site for the first time… 04/09/12 14:33 CET

• Spain and Morocco evict migrants from Spanish island

  Dozens of illegal migrants have been removed from a small Spanish island off the coast of Morocco… 04/09/12 14:03 CET

• Jewish settlers suspected of Jerusalem monastery vandalism

  A Christian monastery near Jerusalem has been vandalised in a suspected act of retaliation for the… 04/09/12 12:54 CET

• More disruption at Frankfurt in Lufthansa pay row

  Lufthansa has cancelled almost 200 hundred flights in and out of Frankfurt airport as the dispute… 04/09/12 12:24 CET

• Red Cross tackles Assad on Syria humanitarian crisis

  The new head of the International Committee of the Red Cross has met Syria’s President Assad to… 04/09/12 12:04 CET

• ‘Negative’ outlook for Europe as EU heads battle on

  The EU has had its rating outlook lowered from stable to negative by Moodys. The credit agency… 04/09/12 10:33 CET

• Colombia president aims for FARC peace talks in a week

  Negotiations with the government are fast-approaching and Colombia’s FARC rebels have released a… 04/09/12 08:43 CET

• Teenager given one-year sentence after ‘Facebook murder’

  In a case which has become known as the ‘Facebook Murder’, a 15-year old Dutch boy has been… 04/09/12 07:44 CET

• Democrats get set for the Obama roadshow

  Razzmatazz and singing in the sunshine – an up beat city of Charlotte prepared to host the… 04/09/12 05:23 CET

• The holidays are over and Moody’s looks negatively to Europe

  Credit rating agency Moody’s has lowered the European Union’s long-term issuer rating outlook from… 04/09/12 02:54 CET

• Lufthansa takes further strike action in pay dispute

  Cabin crews of the German airline Lufthansa are taking industrial action again today at both… 04/09/12 01:34 CET

• Marikana miners freed after being cleared of murder charges

  South African authorities have released around 50 miners previously charged with murdering… 04/09/12 00:54 CET

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