Saturday, July 4, 2009

World News

Debris of Yemenia aircraft found - Yesterday, 17:44
Search crews have located a large piece of debris from a Yemeni jet that crashed into the Indian Ocean off the Comoros islands last week and are...

Massive demand for Jackson memorial tickets - Yesterday, 08:32
More than half a million fans from around the world applied for 17,500 free tickets to Michael Jackson's public memorial service next week,...

N. Korea fires missiles barrage - Yesterday, 08:14 - Reuters
North Korea fired seven ballistic missiles on Saturday, South Korea's defence ministry said, in an act of defiance towards the United States that...

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,...