Saturday, March 03, 2012
Moody's warns of Greece default despite debt deal
Austerity measures have prompted mass demonstrations in Greece
Syrian authorities 'committed crimes' against civilians
The UN secretary general has described the assault
on the Syrian city of Homs as "atrocious", accusing the government of
systematically attacking its own people
US tornadoes kill six in Indiana as storms sweep in
Footage shot by Chad Hinton shows a tornado in the area of Deams Lake, Borden, Indiana
Hackers had 'full functional control' of Nasa computers
NASA said the loss of data did not affect the operations of the International Space Station
Friday, March 02, 2012
Three die in German air crash
BERLIN: At least people were killed in a plane crash in western Germany
Thursday, police said.The Cessna, which was believed to have six people
on board, plunged to the ground not far from the small airport of
Offenbach.Rescuers found three bodies but were continuing their search,
police said.Contact with the aircraft was lost shortly before 7:00 pm
(1800 GMT) and it caught fire before crashing for unknown reasons. (AFP)
Europe on right path, still fragile: ECB's Draghi
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Central Bank is "reasonably satisfied" with its offer of half a trillion euros of cheap funds to lenders and Europe is on a fragile path to recovery, in a much healthier position than three months ago, ECB President Mario Draghi said on Thursday.
"We are reasonably satisfied with our LTRO operation," Draghi said a day after the Frankfurt-based bank provided 530 billion euros to 800 banks under its special three-year loans programme to help avoid a credit freeze.
"The target of having small and medium size banks participating in these operations has been achieved," Draghi said as he left a summit of EU leaders in Brussels.
Ohio suspect TJ Lane faces juvenile murder charges
Students and parents honoured the victims at the school on Thursday
Thursday, March 01, 2012
Guantanamo detainee Majid Khan admits terror charges
Mr Khan denies having links to al-Qaeda or Islamist extremists
Syria forces assault Baba Amr quarter in besieged Homs
Homs has been subjected to heavy shelling for nearly a month
Cautious US welcome for North Korea nuclear moratorium Grab from North Korean TV on 28 December 2011 shows Kim Jong-Un saluting during his father Kim Jong-Il's funeral at Kumsusan Memorial Palace in Pyongyang The suspension comes two months after Kim Jong-un succeeded his father as North Korea's leader
The suspension comes two months after Kim Jong-un succeeded his father as North Korea's leader
Wednesday, February 29, 2012
Pentagon: 9/11 victims' remains went to landfill
A total of 184 people were killed at the Pentagon on 11 September 2001
Crew members of New Zealand reef ship plead guilty
Salvage operations are ongoing on the wreck of the Rena
Romney and Santorum in key test in Michigan and Arizona
Mitt Romney has emphasised his family ties to Michigan as part of his appeal to voters
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
Boat reaches Italian cruise ship adrift off Seychelles
The Costa Allegra has more than 1,000 people on board (file photo)
Japan retail sales boosted by surge in demand for cars
Japanese authorities have been trying to boost sales of energy efficient cars within the country
Chinese architect Wang Shu named Pritzker prizewinner
The roof of this complex at the China Academy of Art was covered with two million tiles salvaged from demolished houses
Melting Arctic causes snowier winters
WASHINGTON: Melting sea ice in the Arctic may be causing the snowier
winters the northern hemisphere has experienced in the last two seasons,
US and Chinese researchers reported on Monday.The level of Arctic sea
ice reached a new record low in 2007, said the study led by the Georgia
Institute of Technology and published in the Proceedings of the National
Academy of Sciences.Meanwhile, above-average snowfall has blanketed
large parts of the northern United States, northwestern and central
Europe, and northern and central China.The northern hemisphere has
recorded its second and third largest snow covers in documented history
in the last two seasons, spanning the winters of 2009-2010 and
2010-2011.Researchers believe the disappearing Arctic ice is sending
more water vapor into the air, and is interfering with atmospheric
currents and westerly winds that would typically have swept snowy
weather northward.Instead, more cold air is descending into the middle
and lower latitudes, 'leading to increased heavy snowfall in Europe and
the northeast and midwest regions of the United States,' said Jiping
Liu, a senior research scientist at Georgia Tech.The research included
scientists from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and New York s Columbia
University, and was supported by NASA and the National Science
Foundation. (AFP)
Monday, February 27, 2012
Afghan airport hit by Taliban 'revenge' car bombing
The BBC's Orla Guerin: "The blast he detonated was powerful enough to destroy four cars"
Ship's anchor slows down East African web connection
East Africa has enjoyed high-speed internet access since 2009
The Artist triumphs at the Oscars
The cast and crew of The Artist had good reason to celebrate with five awards
Syria army shells Homs and northern towns in Idlib
Binnish has for the past week been under the control of anti-Assad forces
Billy Crystal opens Oscars ceremony with film montage
Crystal sang a song about the nine best picture nominations
Afghan actors gear up for Shakespeare at London Olympics
KABUL (Reuters) - The odds were against them: Taliban suicide bombers laid siege to their rehearsal space and the search for actresses in ultra-conservative Afghanistan was long and arduous.
But come late May, a band of Afghan performers will be staging a play by William Shakespeare in their native Dari at London's Globe Theatre, part of a cultural festival designed to lead up to the Olympics.
"We took a comedy because the Afghans don't want to do tragedy, they have lived enough tragedy," German-Syrian director Corinne Jaber said of choosing "Comedy of Errors", Shakespeare's farcical, slapstick play of mistaken identity.
Sunday, February 26, 2012
Bad cocaine killed American TV producer in Uganda
Osama Bin Laden compound being demolished in Pakistan
The compound in Abbottabad served as the Al Qaeda leader's hideout for more than five years
Egypt set for trial of foreign pro-democracy activists
Computers and documents were seized by Egyptian authorities during December's raids
Syria votes on new constitution referendum amid unrest
The referendum takes place amid regular anti-Assad demonstrations
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