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Banca Intesa merger with Sanpaolo proposedItalian bank Sanpaolo may be bought by Italy’s second-biggest lender, Banca Intesa, to create the… 24/08/06 06:08 CET
Venezuela looks to boost oil exports to ChinaVenezuela’s President Hugo Chavez, on a visit to Beijing, has said he hopes to massively increase… 24/08/06 06:08 CET
Swatch winds up profitsSwiss watch maker Swatch has produced a better than expected first half year of growth and said… 24/08/06 06:08 CET
world news
Second German train bomb suspect arrestedThe second suspect in an alleged plot to blow up trains in Germany is in custody – in his native… 24/08/06 12:08 CET
American becomes first female space touristA US woman is set to become the first female space tourist. Anoushe Ansari, 38, was originally an… 24/08/06 12:08 CET
Villagers reclaim their dead from mass grave in LebanonVillagers from the south of Lebanon have arrived in Tyre for the grim task of retrieving the bodies… 24/08/06 12:08 CET
Russia remembers plane crash victimsRussia is observing a day of mourning in memory of at least 170 people who died in a plane crash on… 24/08/06 12:08 CET
Girl reappears after eight-year abductionPale, in shock but still alive; an Austrian teenager’s eight-year kidnap ordeal is at last over. In… 24/08/06 12:08 CET
Syria threatens to close border with LebanonSyria has warned it will close its border with Lebanon if UN peacekeepers are stationed along it… 24/08/06 12:08 CET
Austrian teenager found after eight years in captivity“My name is Natascha Kampusch”. With these words, the eight-year kidnap ordeal of an Austrian… 24/08/06 07:08 CET
US says no to Palestinian kidnappers’ demandsWashington has rejected demands made by the Palestinian kidnappers of two journalists in the Gaza… 24/08/06 07:08 CET
Grieving families taken to site of Ukraine plane crashRelatives of the 170 passengers and crew killed in a plane crash in Ukraine have been flown to the… 24/08/06 07:08 CET
Talks continue over UNIFIL force for LebanonEU member states have agreed that their troops must make up a major part of the UN peacekeeping… 24/08/06 07:08 CET
Dutch police question passengers taken off flightDutch police are to question 12 passengers taken off a US Northwest Airlines plane bound for India… 24/08/06 07:08 CET
Low turnout for Dutch Naturalisation ceremonyDutch Immigration Minister Rita Verdonk wanted it to be a “dignified ritual which the participants… 24/08/06 06:08 CET
Bush gives nod to Italian command of UN forceVery little is still standing in the southern suburbs of Beirut after days of constant bombing by… 24/08/06 06:08 CET
German train bomb suspect arrested in LebanonGermany has welcomed the detention of a second man wanted in connection with an alleged plot to… 24/08/06 06:08 CET
Victims of the Ukraine plane crash are rememberedMourners have been gathering on a hillside in Ukraine, the site of Tuesday’s plane crash which… 24/08/06 06:08 CET
Austrian girl’s eight-year captivity probedDetails are gradually surfacing about Austria’s longest-held kidnap captive, now free, who lived… 24/08/06 06:08 CET
Wonky orbit and size see Pluto redefinedName the 9th planet from the sun. Members of the general public who said “Pluto” will have to… 24/08/06 06:08 CET
