cinema

• Getting animated about ‘Mia and the Migou’

  French film maker Jacques-Rémy Girerd’s second full-length feature, “Mia et le Migou” provides… 05/12/08 18:09 CET

corporate

• Lufthansa soars to new heights

  German flag-carrier Lufthansa is set to become Europe’s biggest airline after signing a deal to buy… 05/12/08 19:49 CET

• BMW sales hit the brakes

  BMW has announced that its global sales plunged by a quarter for the month of November. It is a… 05/12/08 19:47 CET

• Airbus plans capital increase

  European plane-maker Airbus says it needs a capital increase of more than two billion euros for its… 05/12/08 19:47 CET

economy

• Crude hits four-year low

  With the US unemployment figures pointing to less production and less demand for oil, the price of… 05/12/08 19:48 CET

• US jobless tops 10 million

  US Government figures show that more American jobs were cut in November than in any single month… 05/12/08 19:47 CET

europa

• Foreign beasty policy in the works

  If creatures from foreign eco-sytems are hard to beat, the countries of Europe should gang up on… 05/12/08 19:53 CET

• Czech! One-two! Is this on?!

  The President of the European Parliament has told Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek in Prague that the… 05/12/08 19:52 CET

europeans

• Internet privacy protection measures

  Ever get the feeling you’re being watched? As more of our lives are spent online, our personal… 05/12/08 11:50 CET

le mag

• Bolshoi season opens with a step back in time

  Moscow’s Bolshoi ballet has launched it’s current season with a retrospective of three centuries of… 05/12/08 18:09 CET

reporter

• French wonder about micro credit

  Europe, slinking into financial uncertainty with the rest of the world might harness micro-credit… 05/12/08 11:42 CET

world news

• Alexiy – portrait of a leader

  Alexiy II was born Alexei Ridiguer in 1929 to a German family living in Estonia. His father was a… 05/12/08 20:07 CET

• Russia pays tribute to Patriarch

  Seen as a champion of Russia’s orthodox church after decades of Soviet atheism, the death of… 05/12/08 19:52 CET

• India and Russia sign nuclear deal

  Dmitry Medvedev has signed agreements for Russia to develop four new nuclear plants in India. New… 05/12/08 19:36 CET

• Russian Orthodox Church leader dies

  Tributes are being paid to Patriarch Alexiy II, the leader of the 100-million strong Russian… 05/12/08 19:22 CET

• Security high for haj pilgrimage in Mecca

  More than two million Muslims have gathered in the holy city of Mecca for the annual haj… 05/12/08 19:19 CET

• Car bomb attack rocks Pakistan city

  A deadly car bomb in the Pakistani city of Peshawar has killed at least 20 people and wounded… 05/12/08 19:06 CET

• Thieves pull off Paris jewellery heist

  It is said lightening does not strike twice, but for one unfortunate jewellery store in Paris that… 05/12/08 17:34 CET

• Europe’s markets open down despite bank rate cuts

  Europe’s major indexes have all opened down despite record rate cuts by the ECB and central banks… 05/12/08 13:25 CET

• Economic tensions loom over US China talks.

  China and the US have pledged around 15 Billion euros to boost global trade. The announcement came… 05/12/08 13:25 CET

• Thailand tries to woo back tourists

  Dancers, puppets and Miss Thailand are just some of the ploys being used by Thai authorities to win… 05/12/08 13:25 CET

• Russian primate dies

  The leader of Russia’s Orthodox church, Primate Alexiy II has died. A spokesman for the church… 05/12/08 13:23 CET

• Northern League pushes mosque debate in Italy

  Italian coalition partner the Northern League has followed up comments by its interior minister in… 05/12/08 08:10 CET

• Big 3 carmakers return to beg in Washington

  The three men who run America’s car giants are among the most powerful in the country, but they are… 05/12/08 08:10 CET

• Scores begin to die of cholera in Zimbabwe

  After denying it needed help the Zimbabwean government is now appealing for aid as cholera begins… 05/12/08 08:10 CET

• Central banks take big knife to lending rates

  We should be feeling lucky now that the ECB and central banks around Europe have made lending its… 05/12/08 08:10 CET

• Antarctic snow joke for shipwrecked

  Antarctic tourism has multiplied by five in a little over the last decade, and there has been a… 05/12/08 08:10 CET

zoom

• Raising a glass to Ukraine’s world-class wines

  Yalta on the Crimean peninsula is home to Ukraine’s oldest and most famous wine-making regions… 05/12/08 15:11 CET

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