archive 30·12·2012

economy

• Egypt holds dollar auctions to avert currency crisis

  Egypt is taking urgent action to avoid a currency crisis and prevent a messy devaluation. After… 30/12/12 12:05 CET

pictureoftheday

• Kabul: the balloon seller

  An Afghan man rides on his motorcycle as he sells balloons along a street in Kabul in Afghanistan… 30/12/12 14:18 CET

Sport

• Jacobsen wins Four Hills at Oberstdorf

  Norway’s Anders Jacobsen kept his composure to clinch the 61st Four Hills ski jumping tournament at… 30/12/12 19:25 CET

• Zuzulova breaks World Cup duck

  After 13 podium finishes in 10 years of world cup skiing Veronika Velez Zuzulova finally etched her… 30/12/12 10:22 CET

world news

• 100,000 more could die in Syria – Brahimi

  Arab League and UN envoy to Syria Lakhdar Brahimi is warning another 100,000 people could be killed… 30/12/12 23:17 CET

• Obama accuses Republicans of protecting the rich as ‘fiscal cliff’ deadline approaches

  US President Barack Obama is addressing Congress in a bid to thrash out a last-minute deal to avoid… 30/12/12 18:34 CET

• Shop workers protest in Greece against Sunday opening

  Private sector shop employees in Greece have staged a one-day strike against having to work on… 30/12/12 18:04 CET

• Oldest Nobel winner Rita Levi-Montalcini dies at 103

  Rita Levi-Montalcini, an Italian neurologist who defied Fascist anti-Semitic persecution to conduct… 30/12/12 18:01 CET

• Italy: Priest’s letter draws women activists to Sunday Mass demo

  Women staged a protest at Sunday mass after a priest in Italy blamed violence against females… 30/12/12 17:36 CET

• Protests continue as dead India rape victim is cremated

  People in India have been paying their respects to the victim of gang rape on the day her body… 30/12/12 17:05 CET

• Pakistan: more than 30 die after taking cough syrup

  In eastern Pakistan more than 30 people have been killed apparently after drinking cough mixture… 30/12/12 17:00 CET

• Death toll rises and black boxes recovered in Russia plane crash

  The death toll has risen to five following Saturday’s crash at Moscow’s Vnukovo Airport. The… 30/12/12 15:46 CET

• New York subway murder ‘revenge for 9/11 attacks’

  New York prosecutors say a woman charged with murdering a man who was pushed in front of a subway… 30/12/12 10:35 CET

• Woman charged with murder for New York subway attack

  A woman arrested on suspicion of pushing a man to his death in front of an oncoming New York subway… 30/12/12 09:18 CET

• Former president George H W Bush’s health improves

  Former US President George H W Bush who was admitted to a Houston hospital last moth with… 30/12/12 09:18 CET

• Egypt transfers shipment of building materials to Gaza

  In a temporary easing of the six-year-old Israeli blockade on Gaza, thousands of tons of building… 30/12/12 09:18 CET

• Pakistan soldiers ‘executed’ by Taliban militants

  Twenty-one Pakistani soldiers have been executed by Taliban militants in the northwest of the… 30/12/12 09:06 CET

• Family holds private funeral for Indian gang-rape victim

  The body of a young Indian woman who died after being gang-raped on a bus, arrived back in New… 30/12/12 07:05 CET

• Investigators suspect pilot error for Russian jet crash

  Preliminary findings by investigators looking into what caused a Russian airliner to slide off a… 30/12/12 05:35 CET

• Airstrikes on rebel held areas in northern Syria claim more lives

  Locals scrambled to find survivors and to save any useful belongings after a second airstrike on… 30/12/12 01:45 CET

• Bolivia nationalises Spanish-owned energy companies

  Bolivia has brought two electricity supply companies owned by the Spanish utility Iberdrola under… 30/12/12 00:15 CET

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