behindmarkets
TUI keeps tourists and investors happyTUI AG does not plan to pay a dividend to shareholders for its fiscal year that ended in September… 19/12/12 19:01 CET
cinema
Tarantino unchains DjangoQuentin Tarantino’s latest film Django Unchained is a Western-style tale of revenge starring Jamie… 19/12/12 15:32 CET
corporate
Renault plant for Algeria after 33-year absenceFrench President Francois Hollande started his two-day state visit to Algeria with a big commercial… 19/12/12 19:00 CET
economy
Upgrade good news for GreeceGreece’s borrowing costs have fallen after Standard & Poor’s lifted its assessment of the country’s… 19/12/12 16:10 CET
Solid growth seen in AsiaThe World Bank has upped its forecasts for next year for China and the developing countries of East… 19/12/12 16:10 CET
hi-tech
The eyes have it: text to a contact lensIt sounds like science fiction but researchers in Belgium are working on contact lenses on which it… 19/12/12 13:36 CET
italk
Is Europe’s monarchy anachronistic?In this edition of I-talk we consider the role of Europe’s kings and queens. *Presenter Alex… 19/12/12 12:13 CET
le mag
DSK play opens in ParisThe Daunou Theatre in Paris is staging a play called Suite 2806, inspired by former IMF chief… 19/12/12 15:35 CET
newsplus
EU seeks bigger health warnings for cigarettesThe EU’s health chief wants bigger warnings on cigarette packets and bans on flavours such as… 19/12/12 17:35 CET
Al Qaeda’s rise in SyriaIt has become a challenge to define who are the fighting forces in Syria. Syrian Armed Forces… 19/12/12 17:33 CET
pictureoftheday
South Korea elects its first woman presidentSouth Korea’s Park Geun-hye won a tight presidential election against her left-wing challenger… 19/12/12 11:37 CET
space
Flying Zero-GIf you fly any plane in the right way at the right speed, you can go weightless, at least for a few… 19/12/12 19:30 CET
Sport
High Court order new Hillsborough inquestA new inquest into the deaths of the 96 Liverpool fans during the Hillsborough disaster has been… 19/12/12 18:12 CET
world news
French president refuses to apologise for Algeria colonial pastFrench President Francois Hollande had his eyes firmly fixed on the future – not the past – as he… 19/12/12 23:36 CET
Funerals continue to take place in ConnecticutThe funerals of a further six victims including four children and the principal of Sandy Hook… 19/12/12 22:45 CET
Moscow nuclear bunker becomes ‘end of the world’ party venueA Soviet-era nuclear bunker in Moscow is being turned from a museum into a VIP ‘end of the world‘… 19/12/12 22:16 CET
Apocalypse Correspondent arrives in ToulouseThe Apocalypse Correspondent has taken his first real test: he woke up at the crack of dawn to make… 19/12/12 20:57 CET
Barack Obama wants changes in the gun lawsUS President Barack Obama has said that he wants a new White House-led effort on gun policies to… 19/12/12 20:36 CET
UN requests 1.1 billion euros aid for Syria refugeesUnited Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon has made the organisation’s largest ever short-term… 19/12/12 19:38 CET
Obama wants changes in gun lawsUS President Barack Obama has said that changes need to be made regarding the policies currently in… 19/12/12 19:07 CET
Park Geun-hye is S Korea’s woman at the topSouth Korea has its first ever woman in the top job. The electoral commission has confirmed that… 19/12/12 18:35 CET
Striking Greek workers hang out their dirty washingA washing line of underwear was hung out at an anti-austerity rally in the Greek capital Athens on… 19/12/12 17:36 CET
The Apocalypse correspondent: no mass influx to Bugarach so farIt’s been a smooth drive on the French highways from Toulouse to Limoux where I had lunch. The toll… 19/12/12 17:24 CET
Russian MPs approve US adoption banThirty demonstrators were arrested in Moscow during protests outside the Russian parliament as a… 19/12/12 17:15 CET
Obama named Time magazine’s Person of 2012Hot on the heels of winning a second term in the Oval Office, US President Barack Obama has been… 19/12/12 16:14 CET
More astronauts leave for International Space StationThree astronauts set off for the International Space Station on a Soyuz spacecraft that lifted off… 19/12/12 16:14 CET
DSK fails to freeze French sex probeThe sex scandals continue for Dominique Strauss-Kahn after a French court rejected his request to… 19/12/12 16:14 CET
EU plans larger anti-smoking warnings on cigarette packsFollowing the introduction of brandless cigarette packaging in Australia, the EU is proposing its… 19/12/12 15:05 CET
Anti-polio campaign suspended in PakistanThe World Health Organisation and UNICEF have suspended a polio vaccination campaign throughout the… 19/12/12 13:55 CET
Calls for US gun control grow as Newtown buries its deadThere are signs in the United States that gun sales have gone up since the Sandy Hook school… 19/12/12 12:55 CET
Greece government given a boost but workers remain unhappyIt has become cheaper for Greece to borrow money, with bond yields falling to their lowest level… 19/12/12 12:45 CET
S Korea puts a woman in the Blue House – exit pollsSouth Korea has its first female president if TV exit polls prove to be accurate. Research by… 19/12/12 11:05 CET
Swiss bank UBS fined for libor rate fraudSwiss bank UBS has agreed to pay a fine of 1.5 billion US dollars after admitting libor fraud… 19/12/12 11:05 CET
Ireland allows limited access to abortionsIreland’s government is tackling the controversial issue of abortion, allowing them under strict… 19/12/12 09:45 CET
US State Department criticised over BenghaziThe US state department has been heavily criticised in an official report into the deadly attack on… 19/12/12 06:05 CET
South Korean conservatives set to win in general electionSouth Korea may be set to elect its first woman president, the daughter of the country’s former… 19/12/12 05:06 CET
Egyptians protest at referendum processEgyptians gather to march on the Presidential Palace and Tahrir Square in Cairo.They are angry at… 19/12/12 04:09 CET
Palestinians flee settlement camp in DamascusHastily-shot footage shows Palestinian refugees streaming out of the Yarmouk refugee camp in… 19/12/12 02:35 CET
Agreement in Catalonia on date of independence referendumThe two main Catalan seperatist parties have agreed to stage a referendum on the independence of… 19/12/12 00:46 CET
Ratings agency hands Greece an upgradeThere is some much-needed good news for Greece. Ratings agency Standard and Poors has raised the… 19/12/12 00:35 CET
