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Tuesday, 02 December 2008 |
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MADRID, Spain -- The number of people filing jobless claims in Spain soared to almost 3 million following a 6 percent rise in unemployment registrations in November, further evidence of the country's... |
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Tuesday, 02 December 2008 |
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Euro zone nations on Monday ruled out slashing sales tax to boost their economies but backed a wide euro200 billion ($252 billion) economic stimulus package that aims to boost growth.Finance ministers... |
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Tuesday, 02 December 2008 |
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A babysitter murdered a toddler by repeatedly smashing his head against bannisters in her home, a court has heard. Kyle Fisher was two when he was attacked by his minder, Suzanne Holdsworth, (righ... |
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Tuesday, 02 December 2008 |
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Send good karma, post a photo, criticize the prime minister - all things you can do with the click of a mouse at Facebook. But in Croatia, the last one might be a click too far. A man who ... |
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Tuesday, 02 December 2008 |
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Elisra Group has won a $60 million contract to supply an airborne surveillance system to a European country. The system will be delivered over two years. Elisra CEO Yitzchak Gat said, "The Elisra sys... |
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Tuesday, 02 December 2008 |
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Politicians in Brussels may have promised help for Europe's ailing automakers, but the writing is on the wall for job cuts in the industry.With waning demand failing to mop up excess capacity, as demo... |
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Tuesday, 02 December 2008 |
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See Search Box lower down this column for searches of Finfacts news pages. Where there may be the odd special character missing from an older page, it's a problem that developed when Interactive To... |
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Tuesday, 02 December 2008 |
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News ) - European stocks were little changed Tuesday as hopes of a modest rebound on Wall Street - following the previous day's savage retreat - helped offset an overnight slump in Asian markets.The F... |
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Tuesday, 02 December 2008 |
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(BRUSSELS) - German and Swedish finance ministers blasted the European Commission on Tuesday for being too "bureaucratic" in assessing whether state bailouts of troubled banks are in line with EU r... |
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Tuesday, 02 December 2008 |
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Ankara - Turkish Airlines (THY) has decided to scrap plans to allow passengers to use mobile phones during flights saying that fights could break out between passengers due to a lack of a "culture of ... |
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Tuesday, 02 December 2008 |
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Mainz, Germany - A paedophile priest in Germany has applied to Pope Benedict XVI to resign from the priesthood after admitting that he molested boarding-school boys in the 1970s, his order said Tuesda... |
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Tuesday, 02 December 2008 |
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Brussels - The European Union's finance ministers were meeting in Brussels on Tuesday to discuss a 200-billion-euro (252-billion-dollar) recovery plan aimed at lifting their economies out of recession... |
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Tuesday, 02 December 2008 |
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Brussels, Dec 2 (RIA Novosti) Talks on a new partnership agreement between Russia and the European Union (EU) will resume Tuesday in the Belgian capital. |
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Tuesday, 02 December 2008 |
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Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) affects all those who survive harrowing experiences like rape, assault, war or terrorism, leaving them emotionally and mentally shattered. |
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Tuesday, 02 December 2008 |
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Turkey has made no effort to ease tensions with Greece despite Athens' attempts to defuse a long-running territorial dispute and other differences, Greece's foreign minister said in an interview. ... |
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Tuesday, 02 December 2008 |
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Karolinska Institute student Andrew Ketterer, left, faces a mannequin in 'body-swap' illusion test, a method whereby people can experience the illusion that either a mannequin or another person's body... |
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Tuesday, 02 December 2008 |
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Britain's Queen Elizabeth II, left, shakes hands with Condoleezza Rice, the US Secretary of State, as Louise Miliband, right, the wife of the British Foreign Secretary David Miliband, reacts, prior to... |
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Tuesday, 02 December 2008 |
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NEW YORK (Fortune) -- It's highly possible, if not inevitable, that Americans will soon live under a radically different tax system - one that the pundits and politicians aren't talking about.It's cal... |
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Tuesday, 02 December 2008 |
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A radical preacher, who has been dubbed Osama bin Laden's right-hand man in Europe, has been returned to jail after judges agreed he might abscond. Abu Qatada had been held on a 22-hour home curfew, ... |
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Tuesday, 02 December 2008 |
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Tough coalition talks to form a new government are expected in Romania after Sunday's inconclusive elections. With all the votes counted, rival opposition Social Democrats and Liberal Democrats were ... |
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