archive 06·12·2012

behindmarkets

• GDF Suez powers down profits

  As the Cac40 was reaching its year’s peak on Thursday, GDF Suez spoiled the party in Paris, when it… 06/12/12 19:30 CET

cinema

• A master class in Marrakesh

  This year’s President of the Jury at the Marrakesh Film Festival was John Boorman, the British… 06/12/12 15:23 CET

economy

• Starbucks forced into tax offer

  Public anger and calls for boycotts have forced Starbucks to offer to pay more tax in Britain… 06/12/12 18:40 CET

• ECB predicts bleak 2013, keeps rates unchanged

  The European Central Bank has issued a bleak forecast for the eurozone economy. The experts there… 06/12/12 17:20 CET

• French jobless total still rising

  France’s unemployment rate has risen again, with the picture particularly bleak for young people… 06/12/12 15:53 CET

• ECB holds interest rates, forecasts grim 2013

  As expected, the European Central Bank kept its main interest rate unchanged on Thursday at a… 06/12/12 14:09 CET

europa

• EU wants to crack down on tax dodgers

  Tax dodgers cost the coffers of EU governments as much as one trillion euros a year. That’s… 06/12/12 19:40 CET

innovation

• Bags of water

  A waterbag is a flexible container system for freshwater transport. Engineer Samuele Ambrosetti… 06/12/12 11:43 CET

le mag

• Moscow exhibition asks how you perceive women in the world

  Women in the world, at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art. It is a major exhibition that depicts the… 06/12/12 18:01 CET

• American singer is, “A Girl on Fire”

  American singer songwriter, Alicia Keys is a girl on fire. She is back with her first album for… 06/12/12 17:59 CET

markets

• European markets at close: 06.12.2012

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newsplus

• EU urged to take tougher stance in Doha

  At least 200 people were killed by superstorm Sandy in the US, Haiti and Cuba in October. Damage… 06/12/12 19:40 CET

pictureoftheday

• NASA satellite picture of Europe, Africa, and the Middle East by night

  This NASA Earth Observatory image was made possible by filtering techniques focusing on dim signals… 06/12/12 10:56 CET

science

• Cell transplant gives hope to Nazdana Jan

  Baby Nazdana Jan was born with a urea cycle disorder, a rare genetic disease that causes a build up… 06/12/12 12:47 CET

• The Internet of Things: hanging out at LeWeb2012

  You meet plenty of interesting people as you wander around the various rooms of the LeWeb… 06/12/12 11:20 CET

• The Internet of Things: hanging out at LeWeb2012, part II

  Day two of LeWeb2012 brought a good mix of people to the Google+ Hangouts: a fighter jet pilot, a… 06/12/12 11:16 CET

Sport

• Euro 2020 to be held across the continent

  Euro 2020 will have a truely continental feel to it after UEFA chiefs decided to stage their… 06/12/12 18:50 CET

• Euro 2020 to be staged in cities across Europe

  The European Championship in 2020 will be staged in cities across the continent to spread the… 06/12/12 17:46 CET

• Holders Chelsea eliminated from Champions League

  Chelsea became the first holders to be eliminated at the group stage of the Champions League on… 06/12/12 09:41 CET

world news

• Niemeyer, icon of architecture, dies

  The legendary Oscar Niemeyer has died, just shy of his 105th birthday. Even in the last few days of… 06/12/12 18:19 CET

• Berlusconi withdraws support for Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti

  Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti lost substantial parliamentary support on Thursday over a raft… 06/12/12 20:16 CET

• Georgia: retrials possible for jailed Saakashvili opponents

  Georgia’s parliament has provisionally approved a plan to grant more than 200 people, who were… 06/12/12 20:12 CET

• Violence over but tensions still high between supporters and opponents of President Mursi

  The streets of Cairo look quiet for the moment but the tense political standoff between supporters… 06/12/12 18:24 CET

• Taliban bomber wounds Afghan intelligence chief

  A Taliban suicide bomber has wounded Afghanistan’s intelligence chief, Asadullah Khalid, in Kabul… 06/12/12 18:21 CET

• Royal baby: Kate leaves hospital

  Prince William’s pregnant wife, Kate, has left the King Edward VII hospital in central London where… 06/12/12 18:21 CET

• Greece: students clash with police

  There were violent clashes between police and students in Athens on Thursday. The Greek… 06/12/12 18:21 CET

• Northern Ireland violence overshadows Clinton visit

  Successive nights of rioting by pro-British loyalists in Northern Ireland have overshadowed the… 06/12/12 18:15 CET

• Philippines Typhoon Bopha: nearly 400 dead

  The death toll now stands at nearly 400, two days after Typhoon Bopha raged across the Southern… 06/12/12 17:46 CET

• Jordan king in Palestinian morale boost visit to West Bank

  King Abdullah II of Jordan has become the first foreign dignitary of his kind to visit the West… 06/12/12 16:46 CET

• Journalist killed in southern Russia

  Another journalist in Russia has paid the ultimate price for digging into the truth with their… 06/12/12 16:05 CET

• Balctic Ace wreck: coastguard ends search for survivors

  The Dutch coastguard has halted its search for six crew members who went missing after two vessels… 06/12/12 15:36 CET

• Berlusconi hints strongly at comeback

  After months of teasing the press and public alike with the possibility of making a political… 06/12/12 15:15 CET

• Merkel and Netanyahu ‘agree to disagree’ over settlements

  There has been no meeting of minds on the Israeli settlement issue as Benjamin Netanyahu’s met… 06/12/12 14:46 CET

• Seoul sanction threat over North Korea rocket launch

  South Korea is warning its communist northern neighbour that its plans to launch a long-range… 06/12/12 12:45 CET

• Philippines struggles in wake of Typhoon Bopha

  At least 500 people are now reported killed in Typhoon Bopha, the most violent to hit the… 06/12/12 11:35 CET

• Wanted McAfee ‘on way back’ to Belize from Guatemala

  Authorities in Guatemala say they are sending the American software entrepreneur John McAfee back… 06/12/12 11:35 CET

• Egyptian army parks tanks near Presidential palace

  The Egyptian army brought in armour this morning along with troop reinforcements to relieve the… 06/12/12 09:45 CET

• Creator of Brasilia Oscar Niemeyer dies aged 104

  A giant equal to any football star, even his compatriot Pele, architect Oscar Niemeyer has died a… 06/12/12 09:06 CET

• French sperm count drops

  French men are not what they used to be – a new study has recorded a decline in the sperm count of… 06/12/12 08:33 CET

• Snow chaos hits Sweden

  Sudden snowstorms in Sweden caused transport chaos on Wednesday just as winners of this year’s… 06/12/12 08:26 CET

• Berlin marks 100 years of Nefertiti find

  Berlin is marking the centenary of the discovery of its famous 3,400 year old bust of Egypt’s Queen… 06/12/12 08:24 CET

• Celebrated architect Oscar Niemeyer dies 104

  Oscar Niemeyer, the celebrated architect who shaped the look of modern Brazil has died at the age… 06/12/12 08:22 CET

• Teams search for survivors after Typhoon Bopha

  Typhoon Bopha has left a trail of destruction in its wake after pounding the southern Philippines… 06/12/12 06:05 CET

• Dialogue called for to end Egyptian violence

  Egypt’s opposition leaders have blamed Islamist President Mohamed Mursi for the current unrest… 06/12/12 05:36 CET

• Rival demonstrators clash in their battle over Egypt’s constitution

  Violent clashes between rival groups have raged through much of the night in central Cairo as the… 06/12/12 04:36 CET

• Obama: Compromise remains the key to protracted fiscal talks

  “Dont play brinkmanship with me” warned Barack Obama as he called on Republicans to compromise in… 06/12/12 01:15 CET

• German and Dutch writers take European Book Prize

  This year’s European Book Prize winners are Dutch writer Luuk van Middelaar and Germany’s Rolf… 06/12/12 00:45 CET

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