archive 16·10·2009

cinema

• Fantastic Mr Fox London premiere

  Fantastic Mr Fox, as everyone knows by now, is an animated film version of Roald Dahl’s classic… 16/10/09 15:02 CET

corporate

• Mattel’s sales decline

  Tough times continue in the toy world. Mattel, the world’s biggest toymaker,said its latest… 16/10/09 20:26 CET

• Pfizer completes Wyeth takeover

  Pfizer has completed its takeover of rival Wyeth making the world’s largest drugmaker even bigger… 16/10/09 20:26 CET

• Sony Ericsson losses not as bad as feared

  Mobile phone maker Sony Ericsson has posted a smaller than expected quarterly loss thanks to big… 16/10/09 20:26 CET

• VW to sell new shares

  Volkswagen is to seek between eight and 10 billion euros from its investors through the sale of new… 16/10/09 20:26 CET

economy

• Bank of America losses a billion

  Bank of America has posted a quarterly loss for the second time in less than a year. This time it… 16/10/09 20:26 CET

europa

• Blair faces a battle in his bid for EU presidency

  Tony Blair’s bid to become the president of a post-Lisbon Treaty European Council has run into… 16/10/09 17:26 CET

• Cash but no quota cut for struggling milk farmers

  European dairy farmers will be offered a 300 million euro aid package to help them through a crisis… 16/10/09 16:50 CET

• Fish quotas set for cut as cod stocks suffer

  Cod fishermen have been battered by some more bad news by the European Commission as it looks to… 16/10/09 15:46 CET

interview

• UN asks for $44 billion to fight global hunger

  Each year, we spend $1348 billion on arms, while famine destroys the life of more than a billion… 16/10/09 18:29 CET

• Lukoil looks to the future

  Russia’s largest private oil producer Lukoil is working on expanding its presence in Western… 16/10/09 17:19 CET

• ‘Racing to the FIA Presidency’

  24.10.09: Jean Todt was elected new President of the International Automobile Federation on October… 16/10/09 15:02 CET

le mag

• Angrajazz grooves on

  Angrajazz, the international jazz festival which is held annually in the Azores, this year welcomed… 16/10/09 15:02 CET

markets

• Markets: 16th October

  European shares finished down 1.5 percent after having earlier hit a one-year high thanks to better… 16/10/09 20:26 CET

parlamento

• EU is seeking for Council President

  After the Irish ‘Yes’ on the Lisbon Treaty, the European Union is creeping closer to having a… 16/10/09 15:02 CET

world news

• Billions needed to feed the world’s starving

  A combination of food shortages and the global economic downturn has pushed more than one billion… 16/10/09 19:25 CET

• Nefertiti’s new Berlin home open to the public

  Berlin’s bomb damaged Neues Museum has opened its doors after a 212 million euro refit… 16/10/09 19:05 CET

• Tsvangiral boycotts “unity government”

  Zimbabwe’s MDC Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai says his party is to boycott the country’s troubled… 16/10/09 19:04 CET

• 2 weeks of Kazakh wargames end with a bang

  Russia and four former Soviet republics have been shooting up the Kazakh steppe to showcase a new… 16/10/09 19:03 CET

• Wilders sees visit as victory for freedom of speech

  Dutch MP Geert Wilders has arrived in Britain and described his visit to the country as a victory… 16/10/09 19:02 CET

• Ground offensive “imminent” says Islamabad

  Another Pakistani police station has been attacked, this time in the northwestern provincial… 16/10/09 19:02 CET

• UN backs alleged Israeli-Hamas war crimes probe

  The United Nations Human Rights Council has voted to endorse a report into Israel’s recent assault… 16/10/09 19:01 CET

• French farmers stage nationwide protests

  All over France thousands of farmers have been staging protests against the plummeting price of… 16/10/09 18:13 CET

• Run-off vote ‘likely’ says Afghan ambassador

  A run-off vote to settle Afghanistan’s disputed election result is now “likely” according to the… 16/10/09 14:20 CET

• Palestinians win UN Human Rights vote

  Richard Goldstone’s potentially explosive human rights report for the UN on Israel and the… 16/10/09 14:09 CET

• Catalonia raises the price of fun

  The flights had better stay cheap to one of Europe’s favourite weekend break destinations… 16/10/09 14:09 CET

• Global hunger getting worse says UN

  More than a billion people – a sixth of the world’s population – are undernourished and global… 16/10/09 14:09 CET

• French farmers take to the streets over falling prices

  French farmers today blocked the Champs Elysees in Paris with barricades of burning tyres, hay and… 16/10/09 12:47 CET

• Pakistani police hold frontline as army prepares

  The Pakistani police have again come under fire today after yesterday’s deadly wave of attacks… 16/10/09 11:33 CET

• Socialists to rule Portugal without coalition

  It is back to business for Portugal’s new Parliament, holding its first session after a general… 16/10/09 08:07 CET

• Colorado ‘balloon boy’ found safe

  A six-year-old American boy feared trapped in an out-of-control balloon has been found alive and… 16/10/09 08:07 CET

• UN body set to endorse report slamming Israel’s Gaza offensive

  The UN Human Rights Council is set to vote on a report into the Israeli offensive in Gaza last… 16/10/09 08:07 CET

• Times defends Taliban ‘bribes’ story

  A leading newspaper in Britain has defended its claim that Taliban fighters were paid not to attack… 16/10/09 08:07 CET

• New suicide hits France Telecom

  The French telecoms giant France Telecom has suffered a new tragedy, with a 25th worker committing… 16/10/09 08:07 CET

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