Tuesday, December 2, 2008
World News
Rice plays piano for Queen
Outgoing US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice played the piano for Britain's Queen Elizabeth at Buckingham Palace yesterday as a farewell...
Canada opposition signs deal to defeat government
The leaders of Canada's three opposition parties on Monday signed a historic deal to bring down the minority Conservative government and then form...
Bomb kills one at Thai airport
A grenade killed an anti-government protester at Bangkok's blockaded Don Muang airport on Tuesday, hours before a vote fraud case that could...
Saturday, October 11, 2008
Stories from The Times
Financial crisis - Wall Street crawls back as G7 meets in Washington
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
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
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'
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
A "lost" type of deer has been found on a remote mountainside in Indonesia's Sumatra island 80 years after the last confirmed sighting,...
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