corporate
Markets happy with Turkish election outcomeTurkey’s main stock market index surged after the elections in which the pro-business AK Party… 23/07/07 07:07 CET
Barclays turns to Asia for ABN helpBarclays – which is competing with a consortium led by Royal Bank of Scotland in a takeover battle… 23/07/07 07:07 CET
Big rig mergerThe world’s two biggest offshore drilling companies Transocean and GlobalSantaFe are merging. Both… 23/07/07 07:07 CET
europa
Talks begin on final treatyEurope’s foreign ministers, with Portugal’s Luis Amado in the chair, have begun meetings that will… 23/07/07 07:07 CET
Europe gets tough on Chinese qualityFood was in the firing line on the latest day of the EU Consumer Protection Commissioner’s visit to… 23/07/07 07:07 CET
world news
Evacuations as river threatens to overflow in the UKMore people are being evacuated in south-west England as a major river threatens to burst its banks… 23/07/07 12:07 CET
Turkey’s ruling party returned to power“A victory for democracy”. That was the verdict of the Turkish press today after the ruling … 23/07/07 12:07 CET
Afghanistan’s ex-King and “Father of the Nation” diesThe last king of Afghanistan has died in Kabul. 92 year-old Mohammed Zahir Shah ruled his nation… 23/07/07 12:07 CET
Erdogan: A muslim leader in a secular countryThey called him Imam Beckenbauer in school – the man who has just won a second term in office in… 23/07/07 08:07 CET
Polish pilgrim relatives relive coach crash horrorFamilies of the Polish pilgrims killed and injured in a bus crash in France have arrived in the… 23/07/07 08:07 CET
Barcelona suffers power failureA major part of Spain’s second city Barcelona was left without electricity after a chain reaction… 23/07/07 08:07 CET
A victory for democracy, but Turkey faces new hallenges.That is the verdict of the newspapers after Turkey’s ruling AK Party won the election and increased… 23/07/07 07:07 CET
Unofficial Turkish election results issuedThe final official results will be published in a few days but Turkish media have issued… 23/07/07 07:07 CET
Turkish opposition comes to terms with defeatThere was disappointment outside the headquarters of the Turkey’s right-wing MHP despite a vast… 23/07/07 07:07 CET
South-west England submerged; flood waters still risingThe British government has promised to spend more than a billion euros a year on flood defences by… 23/07/07 07:07 CET
Polish and French presidents visit coach crash siteThe French and Polish presidents have visited the site of a coach accident in south-east France… 23/07/07 07:07 CET
Ferrero-Waldner and Mme. Sarkozy visit Libya in HIV prisoner release bidThe EU’s External Relations chief and France’s first lady have travelled to Libya to press for the… 23/07/07 07:07 CET
First Pro-Kurdish MPs in Ankara for 16 yearsThere was jubilation too in the mainly Kurdish city of Diyarbakir in the south east of Turkey… 23/07/07 07:07 CET
Flood woes continue in UK as fresh water runs outDrinking water has begun to run out in areas of the UK already cut off by some of the worst… 23/07/07 07:07 CET
Turkey’s AK party to fall shy of parliamentary majorityUnofficial results give the AK Party 46.7 percent of the vote. But the opposition’s showing means… 23/07/07 01:07 CET
Polish relatives of coach crash victims gather in FranceThe families of the Polish pilgrims who died in a coach crash in France have arrived in the country… 23/07/07 01:07 CET
