cinema

• Death row – through a chaplain’s eyes

  At The Death House Door is a personal look at the death penalty in Texas seen through the eyes of a… 19/06/08 18:28 CET

corporate

• Banks and technology pull down European markets

  European shares finished the session down on Thursday after having earlier been boosted by… 19/06/08 21:42 CET

• Italian windfall oil tax announced

  Shares in several of Italy’s oil refiners dropped on Thursday, one day after the Rome government… 19/06/08 21:42 CET

• Imperial slashes jobs after Altadis purchase

  Britain’s Imperial Tobacco Group is to cut around 2,440 jobs – 6% of its workforce – following its… 19/06/08 21:42 CET

• EADS refuelling contract up in the air

  A 22 billion euro contract to supply refuelling planes to the US Air Force is up in the air after… 19/06/08 21:42 CET

europeans

• Financial exclusion in Europe

  An estimated half of all adults in some EU countries don’t have a bank account. This week Europeans… 19/06/08 22:02 CET

hi-tech

• Filling up at the tap – car that runs on water

  It has long been the holy grail for car manufacturers, but now a Japanese company has recently… 19/06/08 20:53 CET

le mag

• Arabic music takes centre stage in Paris

  One of the highlights of the four-day long Arabic Music Festival in Paris was a concert of Nouba… 19/06/08 20:46 CET

science

• Mammoth potential of elephant grass

  As the world wrestles with questions about biofuels versus food, researchers in Brazil are… 19/06/08 23:08 CET

world news

• EU treaty up on blocks, leaders earnest but jovial

  Ireland’s foreign minister has said do not count on his country to propose swift solutions to its… 19/06/08 21:57 CET

• EU soldiers killed in Bosnia helicopter crash

  Two Spanish pilots and two German officers with the EU peacekeeping mission in Bosnia have been… 19/06/08 21:03 CET

• Scepticism greets Israel/Hamas truce in Gaza

  Scepticism has greeted the Israel/Hamas ceasefire among resident in the Israeli town of Sderot… 19/06/08 19:49 CET

• Afghan officials claim success in anti-Taliban strike

  Afghan officials are claiming success in their offensive against suspected Taliban militants in the… 19/06/08 19:47 CET

• Mobsters’ sentences upheld after Italy’s biggest trial

  An Italian appeals court has upheld life sentences against 16 members of the most powerful and… 19/06/08 19:47 CET

• African leaders: Zimbabwe vote “not free nor fair”

  The Secretary General of Zimbabwe’s opposition MDC party, Tendai Biti, has been charged with… 19/06/08 19:47 CET

• Uneasy truce holds in Gaza

  The uneasy truce between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas continues to hold in the… 19/06/08 19:47 CET

• Russia warns Georgia over soldiers’ arrest

  Russia has issued a stern warning to Georgia over the brief detention of four Russian soldiers… 19/06/08 19:47 CET

• House of Lords ratifies Lisbon treaty

  The UK parliament has ratified the Lisbon reform treaty, the first country to do so since the Irish… 19/06/08 07:36 CET

• Israel and Hamas call halt to fighting

  As of this morning a ceasefire is now in place in Gaza after Israel and Hamas called a halt to any… 19/06/08 07:33 CET

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