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Climate: Commonwealth leaders debate climate change

Commonwealth leaders debate climate change

The fate of tiny island states threatened by global warming is to be brought to the forefront of the “climate change” debate by Commonwealth leaders today. As fears over rising sea levels grow…

Climate

Controversy: Calls grow for Jung to quit over Afghan air strikeCalls grow for Jung to quit over Afghan air strike Justice: British hacker’s US extradition will go-aheadBritish hacker’s US extradition will go-ahead Scandal: Report: ‘Dublin Catholic Church hid abuse’Report: ‘Dublin Catholic Church hid abuse’
Pressure is mounting for Germany’s former defence minister, Franz Josef Jung to resign from the government over last September’s controversial Afghan…
The British government says it can do nothing to stop the extradition of a man wanted in the US for hacking into NASA and Pentagon computers…
The Catholic Church in Dublin has been accused of covering up years of widespread sexual abuse. One priest admitted abusing more than 100 children…
  1. China unveils emissions targets for Copenhagen
  2. German army chief quits over air strike cover up
  3. Iranian Nobel winner’s prize confiscated
  4. Student gunman kills and maims in Hungary
  5. Tunisian journalist jailed for assault
  6. Muslim pilgrims mark the end of the hajj

latest corporate news

Cars: Toyoto recall sparks improvement pledge

Toyoto recall sparks improvement pledge

Toyota has promised it will strive to make better cars following its biggest ever recall of four and a quarter million vehicles in the USA to fix faulty accelerator pedals. The world’s number…

Cars

Cars: Another year of losses for Porsche on the cardsAnother year of losses for Porsche on the cards Cars: GM present re-structuring plan for OpelGM present re-structuring plan for Opel Telephony: France Telecom expands into the Swiss marketFrance Telecom expands into the Swiss market
German car maker Porsche is expected to announce a second consecutive year of losses. The sports car company already posted their first full-year…
GM have announced they will be keeping all Opel plants in Germany open. The US car-maker has presented its restructuring plans for the ailing brand…
France Telecom are boosting their position in Switzerland, through a deal agreed with Denmark’s TDC. The deal will mean that France Telecom has…
  1. Lloyds to offer slashed price for shares
  2. A fifth of jobs could be cut at Opel
  3. Cadbury shares hit record high after rival bids
  4. Dexia could merge with Societe Generale
  5. Microsoft deal with News Corps may exclude Google
  6. Severstal’s surprise profit

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Unemployment: French unemployment in October, a two percent rise on September

French unemployment in October, a two percent rise on September

French unemployment has lurched further into the red with more than 57,000 people joining the dole queues in October, a two percent rise on September. It’s the strongest rise since April, and brings…

Unemployment

Markets: Boom turns to bust in DubaiBoom turns to bust in Dubai : UK water firms avoid soakingUK water firms avoid soaking Recession: German GDP up, but not consumer spendingGerman GDP up, but not consumer spending
Boom times are definitely over in Dubai it seems, with the news Dubai World, the nation’s flagship conglomerate, is seeking a debt standstill from…
Rare good news for consumers with Britain’s water regulator Ofwat ordering water companies to freeze prices for the next five years. A draft…
German GDP is up in the third quarter of the year, thanks mainly to a build-up in inventories and a rise in investment. It is up by 0.7 per cent…
  1. Smaller figures for third quarter in US economy
  2. French consumer spending beats expectations
  3. Euro zone’s service sector hits 2-year high
  4. Brown wants global trade strategy to fix economy
  5. A new model for the Mediterranean
  6. French special loan commission reports

latest europe news

Telecommunication: EU telecoms reforms enter force in December

EU telecoms reforms enter force in December

Broad new telecommunications rules for the European Union have finally been fully approved, carrying various customer benefits. When a customer chooses to change service providers, the company will…

Telecommunication

EU Presidency: EU to choose executive commissionEU to choose executive commission EU Presidency: EU gaining appreciation in WashingtonEU gaining appreciation in Washington EU Presidency: Chinese perceptions of EuropeChinese perceptions of Europe
The European Union has turned it’s attention to choosing an executive commission, after electing a new president and foreign affairs chief last…
For an outside look at Europe moving forward, euronews sought out an American expert in international relations who specialises in the EU: Dr…
Reinforcing Europe’s influence on the world stage is one of the big goals behind the EU’s streamlining of its highest positions. Europe wants to be…
  1. EU shortens its phone number
  2. Why Van Rompuy is EU President
  3. Why Ashton is EU Foreign Policy Chief
  4. Congratulations pour in for new EU president
  5. Pro-Europe Ashton gets to sit at EU high-table
  6. Citizens’ initiative, fleshing out the Lisbon Treaty

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Mafia: Anti-mafia MEP Crocetta still unguarded

Anti-mafia MEP Crocetta still unguarded

Rosario Crocetta has lived under close police protection in Italy ever since 2003, when the mafia tried to murder him. He was mayor of the southern Sicilian city of Gela, population 100,000. He is…

Mafia

Diplomacy: Javier Solana talks about the Middle EastJavier Solana talks about the Middle East education: Emir of Qatar’s wife speaks exclusively to euronewsEmir of Qatar’s wife speaks exclusively to… Africa: Kenyan PM on Africa’s challengesKenyan PM on Africa’s challenges
Javier Solana has been the EU’s “Mr Diplomacy” for more than ten years.  But now he is handing the job over to Catherine Ashton, the recently-…
She is a member of an exclusive club – the world’s royal families – but she is also a hands-on public figure. Sheikha Mozah bint Nasser al-Missned…
Kenya’s current Prime Minister Raila Amolla Odinga was an opposition leader when he ran for president in the December 2007 elections. The…
  1. Interview with Brent Scowcroft, National security advisor in the George H.W. Bush Administration
  2. Mikhail Gorbachev, former USSR President :“Perestroika won, but politically I lost.”
  3. Interview with Walter Momper, former Mayor of West Berlin and Berlin
  4. Wojciech Jaruzelski, Poland’s last communist leader
  5. Jacques Delors: Former European Commission President
  6. Former Irish President Mary Robinson turns to climate change

latest futuris

Influenza A (H1N1): Flu vaccine: A race against time

Flu vaccine: A race against time

Each year hundreds of thousands die as a result of influenza, millions become infected and the loss to the economy runs into billions. Vaccines are available but they are manufactured using old…

Influenza A (H1N1)

Society: Making shipbreaking a safer craftMaking shipbreaking a safer craft technology: Where the virtual world and reality meetWhere the virtual world and reality meet Research: Exploring cold water coralsExploring cold water corals
Every day, hundreds of workers dismantle large vessels at Aliağa, Turkey, in the heart of ancient Aeolia. Ships are pulled ashore and cut…
Virtual reality is entering a new era of touch-sensitive tiles and immersive animations. Researchers in Barcelona have created a unique space at the…
Deep underwater lie mysterious worlds that scientists are only now beginning to explore. Steve W Ross is US coordinator, for the Traces…
  1. A faded past… but a bright future for stained glass
  2. Futuris: Noise pollution in The Mediterranean
  3. Europe experiments to preserve plastic art
  4. Mega threats, micro solutions
  5. Robots designed to roam city streets
  6. High-tech textiles for a material world

latest europeans

: Neukölln puts accent on integration

Neukölln puts accent on integration

Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, more than 38 per cent of the Berlin city district of Neukölln is made up of immigrant familes and the unemployment rate in the immigrant community is…

Society: Take the European Route of Roma Culture and Heritage!Take the European Route of Roma Culture and… : Two sides of the wallTwo sides of the wall Festival: Big deals are done at Europe’s Cartoon ForumBig deals are done at Europe’s Cartoon Forum
The story of Europe’s Roma people is a road movie, criss-crossing Europe since their arrival from India hundreds of years ago, but their story is…
Twenty years after the collapse of the Berlin Wall, two families reflect on the changes they have seen since the reinforced concrete that divided a…
A Cartoon Forum may sound like fun and games but big business was the order of the day as movers and shakers of the animation world got together in…
  1. Striving for a multicultural society
  2. Ireland’s Lisbon Treaty vote approaches
  3. German elections
  4. Norway crowns Oslo its intercultural capital
  5. europeans: Europe’s green footprint
  6. Intercultural Lyon, republican contortionism

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Controversy: Minaret debate angers Swiss muslims

Minaret debate angers Swiss muslims

In Switzerland populist right-wingers and Christian Fundamentalists say minarets are not Swiss and in the run-up to a referendum on whether or not to ban the construction of them, have wall-papered…

Controversy

Africa: Kenyans fight drought with stone-age technologyKenyans fight drought with stone-age technology Independence: Mitrovica: Kosovo’s divided cityMitrovica: Kosovo’s divided city Economy: Latvia blues, from military-political to economicLatvia blues, from military-political to economic
Kenya, and other Horn of Africa countries, have been suffering a drought of rare intensity. Now, urgent efforts are underway to save the people from…
The 2008 declaration of independent statehood in the Balkans has stoked tensions between Kosovan Serbs and Albanians in Mitrovica. What are the…
Twenty years after the collapse of the Iron Curtain, today Latvians are facing another battle… for economic survival.
  1. Zimbabwe: a long way from food security
  2. Velvet generations
  3. Hungary reflects on the fall of the Berlin Wall
  4. Training for Armenia
  5. Cyprus – digging up the past together
  6. The sex trade: the dark side of tourism in Brazil

terra-viva

Agriculture: Farmers in India convert to organic cotton

Farmers in India convert to organic cotton

Cotton is one of the most polluting industries in the world. India is the second largest producer after Turkey. Although cotton only occupies five percent of cultivated land in India, it…

Agriculture

Environment: Lighting the wayLighting the way Food: British wine wins prizesBritish wine wins prizes Environment: China: a step into the greenChina: a step into the green
Old style light bulbs – incandescent or filament bulbs – are disappearing from the shelves. In France, bulbs like that of more than 100 watts have…
The sene almost looks like France or even Italy – vineyards rolling almost as far as the eye can see – but in fact these 265 acres of vineyards are…
The University of Nottingham in Ningbo is one of the most advanced centres in China for research and teaching of sustainable energy technologies…
  1. Hjortshoj the eco-village
  2. Terra Viva: a future for the past
  3. A green challenge in the Red Sea
  4. Wind turbine blows in good fortune
  5. Zero waste in Tuscany
  6. Dutch opt for living on water rather than fight it

latest science news

Medicine: Antibiotic resistance is “everybody’s problem”

Antibiotic resistance is “everybody’s problem”

The discovery of antibiotics revolutionised medical care in the 20th century. Today, however, the wonder drugs are losing their effectiveness at an alarming rate as more bacteria become resistant to…

Medicine

Archaeology: Scientists uncover evidence of new dinosaurScientists uncover evidence of new dinosaur Research: AIDS cells as therapyAIDS cells as therapy Agriculture: Spuds UpSpuds Up
Gigantic dinosaurs like these once roamed across parts of Africa. Scientists have found bones from what they believe is a completely new species -…
Andres is a little boy with ALD which is a form of leukodystrophy, a rare genetic disorder which can destroy the brain. Left untreated, within…
In Peru, at the International Potato Centre, researchers have developed aeroponics, meaning they can grow grow potato seeds with only air, water and…
  1. Maternal stress can harm unborn child
  2. Could worm therapy be answer to allergies?
  3. Giant web-spinning spider found
  4. Himalayan glaciers shrinking
  5. Galileo at the Vatican: from heretic to hero
  6. Noah’s Ark of plants reaches first milestone

latest le mag news

Music: Danish band Volbeat to tour with Metallica

Danish band Volbeat to tour with Metallica

Danish rockers Volbeat are causing a stir on both sides of the Atlantic. US heavy metal legends Metallica have chosen the band as their opening act on their US tour.

Music

Music: Four valve trumpeter blows a different tuneFour valve trumpeter blows a different tune Transport: Italy’s first ever ship museum on the waterItaly’s first ever ship museum on the water Music: Slovenian guitarist Anze PalkaSlovenian guitarist Anze Palka
French-Lebanese trumpet player Ibrahim Maalouf has released a new album ‘Diachronism’. His music is an ecletic mix of Arab, electro and jazz music…
The S518 Nazario Sauro has made a final journey from La Spezia in Northern Italy to Genoa. There it will become a museum and opens it’s doors to the…
Slovenian guitarist Anze Palka has developed a style all of his own – a mix of Spanish flamenco and classical guitar. He says: “The most…
  1. Britain swings to African street rhythms
  2. Westwood presents Anglomania
  3. Botticelli and Rubens on show in Germany
  4. Shakira’s She Wolf goes platinum
  5. Kate Voegele/Alejandro Sanz
  6. Miles Davis expo in Paris

latest cinema news

Comedy: From Germany the chick with two ears!

From Germany the chick with two ears!

Zweiohrkueken, the latest comedy from Germany -in English ‘The chick with two ears.’ The film follows a couple once madly in love, now struggling as routine and boredom kick in. It is the sequel of…

Comedy

Festival: 70,000 flock to Thessaloniki for film festival70,000 flock to Thessaloniki for film festival thriller: Ninja AssassinNinja Assassin Animation: Planet 51 Animated fun for all the familyPlanet 51 Animated fun for all the family
With the motto “Why cinema now?” the Greek city of Thessaloniki celebrated its 50th International Film Festival. It was an occasion to think about…
‘Fear not the weapon, but the hand that wields it’ That’s the message from new film Ninja Assassin, starring Korean pop star Rain. It can be seen in…
When American astronaut Chuck Baker lands on Planet 51, he thinks he is the first person to step foot on it. But to Chuck’s surprise, he finds a…
  1. Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
  2. Petrol-heads will ‘Love the Beast’ movie
  3. Transit 89 looks back at ‘year of the miracle’
  4. Andy Garcia stars in Georgia “anti-war” film
  5. The Twilight Saga: New Moon – out soon
  6. Harry Brown hits the street