cinema

• Copenhagen joins the international filmfest list

  Denmark’s new feature film festival has opened with national and international stars, and no less… 21/04/09 17:27 CET

corporate

• White House cash for Chrysler/GM

  America’s struggling car-giants are getting a hand out from the Obama administration. The… 21/04/09 19:46 CET

• Seven-country lifeline for Airbus A400M

  Seven countries have formally signed a deal which gives the plane-maker Airbus a breathing space to… 21/04/09 19:44 CET

• Tesco tills ring up record profits

  Shoppers have helped the world’s third biggest retailer cock-a-snook at the dismal global economic… 21/04/09 19:44 CET

• Deutsche Post positive on downturn

  Europe’s biggest mail carrier, Deutsche Post DHL, says the downturn in the industry may have hit… 21/04/09 19:43 CET

economy

• Swedes peel another half point off interest

  The world’s oldest central bank, Sweden’s Riksbank, has cut a key interest rate to a record low of… 21/04/09 19:42 CET

europa

• Turkey-EU horizon turbid

  The current Czech EU Presidency has been at work with Turkey’s representatives to try and unjam its… 21/04/09 19:47 CET

• New hardliners in Cyprus equation

  The Greek and Turkish communities of Cyprus have agreed to press ahead with talks on reuniting the… 21/04/09 19:47 CET

• Consumer focus close to elections

  A minute of silence in memory of the victims of the recent earthquake in Italy – That was how the… 21/04/09 19:42 CET

hi-tech

• Flying bell new way to clear slopes of avalanches

  As the skiing season comes to an end the cost of this exciting but dangerous passtime for some has… 21/04/09 17:27 CET

le mag

• Modigliani returns to Germany after 20 years

  Maybe one reason so many top models are skinny is that they are inspired by Amedeo Modigliani. Now… 21/04/09 17:27 CET

markets

• Telecoms and banks put brakes on European shares

  European stock markets all ended the day lower bar Frankfurt and Paris which were marginally up… 21/04/09 19:45 CET

questions for europe

• Fighting counterfeiting and piracy

  Twenty years ago, counterfeiting mainly used to focus on expansive handbags, nowadays, it has… 21/04/09 11:08 CET

• European Elections 2009: turnout forecast

  Since the first European elections by universal suffrage in 1979 the turnout has fallen constantly… 21/04/09 11:08 CET

world news

• UNESCO launches World Digital Library

  It is another milestone on the information highway. UNESCO has launched the World Digital… 21/04/09 22:04 CET

• End game in Sri Lanka?

  Made up of a population of around 20 percent Tamils and 75 percent Sinhalese, the current conflict… 21/04/09 19:48 CET

• Will South Africa’s next generation of voters break from the past?

  South Africa is gearing up for its fourth elections since the end of Apartheid. Billed by some as… 21/04/09 19:42 CET

• French police swoop on immigrants in Calais

  French police have arrested 150 illegal migrants near Calais, in an operation targeting a sprawling… 21/04/09 19:24 CET

• ANC expects “massive” election turnout

  The head of South Africa’s ruling party, the ANC, says he is expecting a massive turnout in the… 21/04/09 19:03 CET

• Yukos lawyer given parole

  In Moscow, parole has been granted to a lawyer for the disbanded Yukos oil company, jailed more… 21/04/09 18:54 CET

• War of words over racism conference

  As the Iranian President was welcomed home from the controversial UN conference on racism in… 21/04/09 18:18 CET

• Holocaust Day overshadowed by anti-Israel rhetoric

  Holocaust Remembrance Day has been marked around the world in memory of the 6 million Jews killed… 21/04/09 18:04 CET

• Refugees flee Sri Lankan conflict zone

  Tens of thousands of refugees have taken advantage of a Sri Lankan military advance against Tamil… 21/04/09 17:54 CET

• Recount in Moldova hands communists victory

  Moldova’s ruling communist party has been declared the winner in a disputed parliamentary election… 21/04/09 15:04 CET

• French police swoop on immigrants in Calais

  French police have arrested 150 illegal migrants near Calais, in an operation targeting a sprawling… 21/04/09 14:16 CET

• French police swoop on immigrants in Calais

  French police have arrested 150 illegal migrants near Calais, in an operation targeting a sprawling… 21/04/09 13:03 CET

• Racism conference resumes despite Iran speech

  All EU delegates apart from the Czech Republic’s have decided to stay on at a UN conference against… 21/04/09 12:50 CET

• Khodorkovsky pleads not guilty to new charges

  Imprisoned former oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky has pleaded not guilty to fresh charges of theft… 21/04/09 12:33 CET

• Israelis remember Holocaust survivors

  Israelis have been remembering the six million Jews killed by the Nazis in World War Two. At… 21/04/09 10:43 CET

• Physicist Hawking “very ill” in hospital

  The renowned physicist Stephen Hawking has been admitted to hospital. Cambridge University, where… 21/04/09 08:20 CET

• Israel marks Holocaust Remembrance Day

  Israel has marked the start of Holocaust Remembrance Day, with a ceremony for the six million Jews… 21/04/09 08:20 CET

• Ahmadinejad should be jailed, says Elie Wiesel

  “Vile and hateful.” “Extremist and unacceptable.” Those are just two of the… 21/04/09 08:20 CET

• Russia/NATO talks in jeopardy

  Hopes of improved relations between the West and Russia since the election of President Obama are… 21/04/09 08:20 CET

• Spain claims to have foiled ETA attack

  Spain says the arrest of a suspected Basque terror cell at the weekend may have foiled an attempted… 21/04/09 08:20 CET

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