cinema

• Wild Field scoops Marrakech film award

  The 8th Marrakech Film Festival has drawn to a close, leaving all those involved the impression… 24/11/08 17:18 CET

corporate

• Jaguar pounces on UK govt for help – report

  The luxury car-maker Jaguar Land Rover is reported to be asking the British government for help to… 24/11/08 19:52 CET

economy

• Washington’s biggest bank bail-out yet

  The US government has made its biggest move yet to rescue an American bank. For Citigroup, it means… 24/11/08 19:53 CET

• Gloomy confidence outlook in German business

  Confidence among business leaders in Germany has slumped to its lowest level for sixteen years… 24/11/08 19:52 CET

• Financial crisis spurs Gulf States into action

  Oil-rich Gulf states are having to act to counter the global financial crisis. The world’s biggest… 24/11/08 19:52 CET

europa

• Greenpeace sows seeds of concern

  A giant image of genetically modified corn, portrayed as in a nightmare, hangs from … 24/11/08 19:55 CET

• Judges ‘Czeching’ treaty constitutionality

  The Constitutional Court of the Czech Republic is due to rule whether the European Union’s Lisbon… 24/11/08 19:55 CET

hi-tech

• Paris science fair unveils Extremely Large Telescope

  Visitors to the Ville Européennes des Sciences, or European City of Sciences, in Paris were able to… 24/11/08 18:12 CET

• Education & business find uses for Serious Games

  Computer games are beginning to break out from their console and entertainment world, and finding… 24/11/08 17:18 CET

le mag

• Turner exhibition defies diplomatic differences

  One of Britain’s most celebrated artists, J.M.W. Turner, is on show in Moscow’s Pushkin Museum… 24/11/08 18:12 CET

markets

• European markets up sharply

  European share prices benefited from news of the American government’s biggest bank bailout to date… 24/11/08 19:53 CET

world news

• The murderous past of the Red Army Faction

  In 1972, four years after the Red Army Faction was founded, the police thought they had made a… 24/11/08 19:59 CET

• Chavez acknowledges opposition advance

  The left-wing party of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez may have been victorious overall in local… 24/11/08 19:59 CET

• Opposition keeps Chavez on his toes

  This is the second time in a year that the opposition has made ground against Chavez. Last year the… 24/11/08 19:58 CET

• Obama names his financial heavyweights

  US President-elect Barack Obama has officially named Tim Geithner as his Treasury Secretary and… 24/11/08 19:23 CET

• UK government borrows to boost economy

  The British government has announced plans to borrow billions to boost the economy and ward off… 24/11/08 19:16 CET

• Austria unveils new government

  Conservative figures have secured important posts in the new left-right coalition in Austria… 24/11/08 19:01 CET

• Parole for German terrorist angers victims

  Victims of German leftist terror group the Red Army Faction have reacted angrily to the news that… 24/11/08 18:56 CET

• 18 dead in Iraqi bomb attacks

  Terrorists have killed at least 18 people in two bomb attacks in Baghdad. Thirteen women died when… 24/11/08 18:00 CET

• Paris and Berlin gloss over differences on recovery

  The leaders of the eurozone’s two biggest economies have put on a united front on tackling Europe’s… 24/11/08 17:49 CET

• “Casa Pia” child sex abuse trial draws to a close

  The trial in Portugal of the six men and a woman accused of the sexual abuse of children while in… 24/11/08 17:35 CET

• Brown’s borrowing billions to bail-out Britain

  The British Prime Minister will try to kickstart his failing economy by borrowing nearly 24-billion… 24/11/08 14:24 CET

• France and Germany not keen on VAT cuts

  The French and German leaders have agreed on the need for urgent and coordinated action to lift… 24/11/08 14:04 CET

• Red Army Faction’s Christian Klar gets parole after 26 years in jail

  Christian Klar, a former member of the Red Army Faction, is to be released on parole. Klar has… 24/11/08 13:35 CET

• Chavez wins ballot but Caracas votes other way

  It was party time for Venezuela’s opposition after taking the capital Caracas and the populous… 24/11/08 12:57 CET

• US government bail out for Citigroup

  The US government is to inject some 16 billion euros into Citigroup Inc and back up to 243 billion… 24/11/08 11:06 CET

• France hopes for German backing for EU rescue plan

  With the Eurozone officially in recession for the first time in history, it is expected today’s… 24/11/08 07:32 CET

• Obama to name economic task force

  Barack Obama will announce his top economic team today, two months before he enters the White… 24/11/08 07:32 CET

• Shots fired near Georgian, Polish leaders’ convoy

  Both Tbilisi and Moscow have accused each other of provocation after gunfire broke out near a… 24/11/08 07:32 CET

• UK cash injection expected, as recession looms

  Shoppers will be encouraged to hit the High Street to boost Britain’s ailing economy, according to… 24/11/08 07:32 CET

• Mixed results for Chavez in regional poll

  There has been a mixed bag of results for the left-wing party of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez… 24/11/08 06:35 CET

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