archive 18·06·2010

cinema

• Grint and Nighy team up in hitman comedy

  Rupert Grint, Bill Nighy and Martin Freeman talk about their new comedy “Wild Target”, a British… 18/06/10 16:39 CET

corporate

• Santander bids for RBS branches

  Spanish bank Santander has confirmed that it has made an offer for around 300 British branches of… 18/06/10 18:38 CET

• Second strike at Toyota supplier

  More problems for Japanese carmakers in China. A parts supplier for Toyota said workers at its… 18/06/10 18:38 CET

• Danone expands into Russia

  France’s Danone and Russia’s Unimilk are to merge their fresh dairy products businesses in Russia… 18/06/10 18:38 CET

economy

• Greek strikers protest austerity measures

  Underground workers in Athens were on strike for a third day on Friday, part of public transport… 18/06/10 18:38 CET

interview

• Moldova’s PM looks to the future

  Moldova became independent from the Soviet Union in 1991, but Russian forces remain on Moldovan… 18/06/10 19:44 CET

le mag

• 41st Basel Art Fair

  The international art world is having its annual summer reunion in Switzerland. This is the 41st… 18/06/10 16:39 CET

reporter

• Humanitarian crisis in Somalia

  Torn by conflict and poverty, Somalia continues to suffer one of the worst humanitarian crises in… 18/06/10 12:44 CET

sawa

• Gaza: surviving the blockade

  For more than three years the people of Gaza have been surviving on a trickle of humanitarian aid… 18/06/10 21:16 CET

world news

• South Africa weighs up the World Cup effect

  World Cup business is booming at the street market in the Newton district of Johannesburg. Fans are… 18/06/10 23:16 CET

• BP boss to hand over oil spill responsibility

  BP’s chief executive Tony Hayward – who emerged from a grilling by US lawmakers this week – is to… 18/06/10 22:54 CET

• France and UK remember de Gaulle broadcast

  The British and French leaders led the commemorations in London on the 70th anniversary of Charles… 18/06/10 21:35 CET

• Fears of up to 2,000 dead in Kyrgyz violence

  As ethnic Uzbeks continue to seek refuge from strife-torn Kyrgyzstan, its interim leader says up to… 18/06/10 20:44 CET

• Convicted murderer executed by US firing squad

  After 25 years on death row, twice-convicted murderer Ronnie Lee Gardner has been executed by… 18/06/10 20:26 CET

• South Africans focus on the positive

  One week after the start of the World Cup, many are asking whether South Africans’ expectations are… 18/06/10 20:14 CET

• Obituary: José Saramago

  One of the highlights of José Saramago’s career was at the age of 76, when he received the Nobel… 18/06/10 15:22 CET

• Nobel Prize winning author Saramago dead at 87

  Portuguese Nobel-prize winning author Jose Saramago has died at his home in Lanzarote at the age of… 18/06/10 15:15 CET

• Sarkozy in UK to mark de Gaulle’s wartime appeal

  President Nicolas Sarkozy has honoured war veterans in London, 70 years after Charles de Gaulle’s… 18/06/10 15:14 CET

• Spotlight on BP shares after Congress grilling

  Despite negative headlines after the grilling of the BP chief by US lawmakers, shares in the… 18/06/10 14:34 CET

• Kyrgyz leader on reconciliation mission

  It is a mission to try to ease tension in southern Kyrgyzstan. The country’s interim leader has… 18/06/10 13:23 CET

• Assault cases shock experts in Osh

  Complaints of rape and other brutal violence are emerging after the unrest in Osh. On one street… 18/06/10 13:04 CET

• Utah firing squad executes murderer

  Twice-convicted murderer Ronnie Lee Gardner has been shot dead in Utah’s first firing squad… 18/06/10 12:05 CET

• Utah firing squad executes murderer

  Convicted murderer Ronnie Lee Gardner has been shot dead in Utah’s first firing squad execution for… 18/06/10 10:07 CET

• EU sets out new series of money measures

  The EU has agreed to carry out transparency checks on the financial health of it’s top banks as… 18/06/10 07:51 CET

• Osh tense after ethnic violence

  More evidence has emerged of the violence in Kyrgyzstan that has forced hundreds of thousands of… 18/06/10 07:48 CET

• Sarkozy to mark anniversary of WWII broadcasts

  A specially-chartered train is heading to London for a major anniversary tribute to French wartime… 18/06/10 07:47 CET

• BP chief grilled by US lawmakers over oil spill

  BP’s chief executive has been berated by US lawmakers at a congressional hearing into the Gulf oil… 18/06/10 07:46 CET

• 70 feared dead in Colombian mine blast

  More than 70 Colombian miners are feared dead after they were trapped by an explosion that tore… 18/06/10 07:33 CET

• Clean up underway as France counts flood cost

  The clean up operation from the worst flooding in south-eastern France in more than 180 years is… 18/06/10 06:04 CET

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