Sunday, November 22, 2009

World News

Houston, we have a baby - Yesterday, 15:38
Shuttle Atlantis astronaut Randy Bresnik awoke early today to a much-anticipated call that his new daughter had been born. Bresnik's wife,...

Iran launches war games - Yesterday, 12:47
Iran's armed forces launched large-scale air defence war games on Sunday to show off the country's deterrence capabilities in the face of pressure...

Gunmen ambush N. Irish police - Yesterday, 11:24 - Reuters
Gunmen ambushed and shot at police in Northern Ireland overnight and officers returned fire in a further incident of increasing violence in the...

Pirates hijack Greek-owned bulk carrier - Yesterday, 11:25
Pirates hijacked a Greek-owned bulk carrier on Thursday in the Gulf of Aden near Yemen, a Kenyan maritime official said today. "Red Sea Spirit...

Saturday, October 11, 2008

Stories from The Times

Financial crisis - Wall Street crawls back as G7 meets in Washington - Reuters
Wall Street titans buckled under the weight of a global stock market panic yesterday as the finance chiefs of the world's major economies gathered...

Oil drops to $77.70 a barrel - Matthew Robinson, Reuters
Oil prices dropped 10 per cent yesterday and touched 13-month lows in a flight from risk amid concerns of a worldwide recession and further signs...

Libya to withdraw $7 billion assets from Swiss banks - Reuters
Libya will withdraw $7 billion of assets in Swiss banks, cut economic ties with Switzerland and stop supplying it with oil to protest against poor...

'Russia only partly fulfils Georgia ceasefire' - Reuters
Russia has not fully complied with the terms of a ceasefire in Georgia, France's Foreign Minister said yesterday, casting fresh doubt on whether...

EU tries to avoid 'Sinatra doctrine' in crisis - Paul Taylor, Reuters
As the Soviet empire began to crumble in 1989, Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev's spokesman coined the phrase "the Sinatra doctrine"...

Iraq war fades from US election - Ed Stoddard, Reuters
Many Americans seem to have forgotten the Iraq war in this election cycle. Joe Luccioni is not one of them. "You can't forget them," he...

Baltic states hope Georgia conflict boosts energy case - Patrick Lannin, Reuters
Ulo Kikas, harbour captain at the port of Muuga, stands at the top of the multi-storey harbour building near Estonia's capital and points down to...

IEA cuts 2008 demand growth forecast on weak economy - Reuters
The International Energy Agency (IEA) yesterday cut its oil demand growth forecast for this year to its lowest rate in percentage terms since...

Crash investigation - Report blames faulty flaps, alarm for Madrid crash - Reuters
A Spanair jet which crashed at Madrid airport last month, killing 154 people, had faulty wing flaps and a warning system that failed to sound, an...

Virgin shark got pregnant in Virginia aquarium - Will Dunham, Reuters
Scientists using DNA testing have confirmed the second-known instance of 'virgin birth' in a shark - a female Atlantic blacktip shark named Tidbit...

New products in 'biomimic' study - Alister Doyle, Reuters
The Alpine edelweiss flower may hold clues to making better suncreams, while oyster shells could give hints about storing greenhouse gases in an...

World Briefs - Reuters
A "lost" type of deer has been found on a remote mountainside in Indonesia's Sumatra island 80 years after the last confirmed sighting,...