archive 03·07·2007

corporate

• Dollar takes a pounding

  Stirling has soared to a 26-year-high against the dollar. That is partly because UK interest rates… 03/07/07 07:07 CET

• Mexican tycoon is said to be world’s richest man

  Bringing new meaning to the saying “You can never be too rich or too slim,” the world reportedly… 03/07/07 07:07 CET

• Danone selling biscuits division to Kraft

  The head of French food group Danone, Franck Riboud, and Irene Rosenfeld, his counterpart from … 03/07/07 07:07 CET

europa

• EU vineyard destruction in a good cause, says Boel

  Europe’s wine growers have a hangover even before Brussels’ proposals on radical reform of their… 03/07/07 07:07 CET

• Luxembourg vintners balk at EU wine reform plans

  Tearing up wine growers’ life work was never guaranteed to make the European Commission more… 03/07/07 07:07 CET

interview

• Barzani fears Turkish intervention in Iraq

  Massoud Barzani the leader of the Kurdistan Democratic Party in Iraq has warned of a potential… 03/07/07 12:07 CET

world news

• President Bush accused of being “above the law”.

  The American President George W Bush has been accused of abuse of power, after sparing the former… 03/07/07 12:07 CET

• Japan’s government reeling from new blow

  Japan’s struggling Liberal Democrat government has suffered a new blow with the resignation of the… 03/07/07 12:07 CET

• Another foreign doctor seized over UK car bombs

  The investigation into a suspected plot to detonate car bombs in Britain has widened after police… 03/07/07 12:07 CET

• ETA suspects arrested in France

  Two suspected members of the Basque armed separatist group ETA have been arrested near Paris in a… 03/07/07 12:07 CET

• Bush “doesn’t rule out” pardon for Libby

  US President George W Bush has said he doesn’t rule out a pardon for a White House aide a day after… 03/07/07 08:07 CET

• Suicide bomber kills tourists in Yemen

  Little remains of a 4X4 vehicle after it was rammed by what is suspected to have been an al-Qaeda… 03/07/07 07:07 CET

• Friends again but little to show in US/Russia summit

  The American and Russian presidents engaged in water sports off Kennebunkport at the Bush family… 03/07/07 07:07 CET

• UK bomb hunt reaches Australia

  The enquiry into the latest bombing attacks in Britain has gone global with the arrest in Brisbane… 03/07/07 07:07 CET

• Commuters angry at German strike

  Rail workers in Germany have said they plan to extend a series of strikes in support of higher… 03/07/07 07:07 CET

• Violence in Pakistan, in clashes at a radical mosque.

  At least nine people, including a Pakistani soldier, a television cameraman, and innocent… 03/07/07 07:07 CET

• Afganistan conference focusses on civilian deaths

  The rising number of civilian casualties has been the focus of a second day of talks at a Rome… 03/07/07 07:07 CET

• Ex-president Taylor makes surprise court appearance

  The former Liberian president Charles Taylor has made a surprise appearance at the special UN court… 03/07/07 07:07 CET

• Britain in shock over NHS ‘terror’ arrests

  The claims of a terrorist conspiracy at the centre of Britain’s National Health Service has sent… 03/07/07 07:07 CET

• Bush saves Libby’s bacon

  The President of the United States has intervened to prevent Lewis Libby, a convicted former… 03/07/07 07:07 CET

• Britain’s state of alert becomes ever more obvious

  The critical state of alert in Britain – following attempted terrorist attacks in Glasgow and… 03/07/07 07:07 CET

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