archive 30·03·2012

businessweekly

• Euro crisis over – confidence back?

  The European economy that has been hibernating for such a long time is finally waking up – or so it… 30/03/12 13:32 CET

cinema

• The Pirates! 7,000 mouths, 320 people, 18 months

  Aardman’s old school stop-motion technique film The Pirates! Band of Misfits took over a year and a… 30/03/12 15:04 CET

economy

• Austerity bites deeper in Spain

  Spain’s government has announced further deep budget cuts for this year in its increasingly… 30/03/12 18:22 CET

europeweekly

• Europe Weekly: Spain feels the pain

  Spain is once again in the frontline of the eurozone’s debt crisis. Despite some 5 million jobless… 30/03/12 13:03 CET

interview

• President Emomali Rahmon: There is no short-cut to democracy

  Tajikistan, a former Soviet republic, is one of the poorest countries in Central Asia. On Norouz… 30/03/12 16:10 CET

le mag

• Strunz and Farah: world music pioneers

  They came from opposite ends of the earth but 33 years later Costa Rican Jorge Strunz and Ardeshir… 30/03/12 15:03 CET

pictureoftheday

• Spanish protesters scuffle with police

  Picketers scuffle with police as they try to block the entrance of a regional government building… 30/03/12 11:48 CET

reporter

• Support builds for Kosovo at London 2012

  The European Parliament has just voted to ask the International Olympic Committee to allow Kosovan… 30/03/12 16:23 CET

Sport

• Anti-Dow campaigners continue Olympic protest

  It is considered one of the world’s worst industrial catastrophes of all time.   The 1984 Bhopal… 30/03/12 17:36 CET

• Europa League: Athletic Bilbao down Schalke

  Spanish international Fernando Llorente scored a brace of goals to hand Athletic Bilbao an emphatic… 30/03/12 07:05 CET

u talk

• Football diplomacy

  With == ISEG== In this edition of U Talk, Sarah, from Lyon, France, asks: “Why can Israel… 30/03/12 14:30 CET

world news

• Panic amid UK fuel dispute but Easter strike off

  The threat of a fuel delivery strike over Easter in the UK has been averted – but there were… 30/03/12 23:53 CET

• Hungary’s Schmitt won’t quit over plagarism

  Hungarian President Pal Schmitt has refused to resign over a plagiarism scandal. The 69-year-old… 30/03/12 23:44 CET

• EU-Ukraine edge close to free trade deal

  European companies could be looking forward to a boost in business with Ukraine after Kiev and… 30/03/12 20:14 CET

• ‘Hellfighters’ help tackle Total North Sea gas leak

  In an effort to stop the gas leak in the North Sea, Total has engaged the services of the… 30/03/12 19:33 CET

• Italy scientist gets Einstein sums wrong and quits

  An Italian professor who thought he had disproved Einstein’s Theory of Relativity has resigned… 30/03/12 19:19 CET

• Dozens held in Italian anti-mafia swoop

  Dozens of suspected members of the Calabrian mafia, the ‘Ndrangheta, have been arrested in a wave… 30/03/12 19:12 CET

• Crews battle to contain 300 Portuguese wildfires

  Firefighters in Portugal have been battling to contain more than 300 wildfires in the north of the… 30/03/12 19:00 CET

• Diamonds not forever for honest Russian

  Diamonds could have been forever for a 34-year-old Russian woman – if she’d decided to keep them… 30/03/12 18:56 CET

• Suu Kyi cautious over Myanmar election

  Ahead of elections in Myanmar this weekend, opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi is not optimistic… 30/03/12 18:33 CET

• Suspected Islamist radicals held in French raid

  A dawn raid by French special forces on suspected Islamist radicals has resulted in the arrest of… 30/03/12 18:03 CET

• Mali coup leader wants foreign help to fight rebels

  The leader of Mali’s coup has appealed for foreign help to fight insurgents in the north of the… 30/03/12 17:23 CET

• Scores of Palestinians injured in Land Day protests

  Israeli security forces clashed with a crowd of Palestinians at a West Bank checkpoint on Friday… 30/03/12 15:34 CET

• Chavez threatens to seize banks and firms that back opposition

  The Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has threatened to nationalise banks and companies that back… 30/03/12 15:24 CET

• Greeks who cannot pay for children’s vaccinations

  Perama, on the fringes of the Athens port of Piraeus, is a community on the rocks, as unemployment… 30/03/12 15:22 CET

• Ministers increase Eurozone firewall

  Eurozone finance ministers have agreed to boost their crisis rescue fund to 800 billion euros to… 30/03/12 14:33 CET

• Polish pension plans spark protest

  The wave of protests over government measures to tackle the financial crisis around Europe has also… 30/03/12 13:43 CET

• Israeli forces on alert for Land Day protests

  Israel shut crossings into the occupied West Bank on Friday ahead of pro-Palestinian rallies around… 30/03/12 12:04 CET

• Japan responds to North Korea missile threat

  Japan says it will shoot down a missile North Korea is preparing to launch next month should it… 30/03/12 12:03 CET

• Suspected Islamist radicals arrested in French raid

  Police in France arrested around 20 suspected radical Islamists in early morning raids on Friday in… 30/03/12 10:43 CET

• Mali’s military junta given 72 hours to hand back power

  Clashes broke out between rival groups in Mali’s capital Bamako on Thursday as its west African… 30/03/12 09:03 CET

• Hungarian president quits over plagarism

  Hungarian President Pal Schmitt has been stripped of his doctorate, after an investigation revealed… 30/03/12 07:05 CET

• Honduras prison hit by deadly riot

  At least 18 people were killed during a prison fight in northern Honduras on Friday. Rioting… 30/03/12 07:05 CET

• Palestinian woman ends hunger strike after 43 days

  A Palestinian woman held in detention in Israel has ended a 43-day hunger strike and agreed to be… 30/03/12 07:05 CET

• Satellite images show North Korea ‘rocket site’

  New satellite images emerged on Friday that appeared to show preparations beginning for North… 30/03/12 06:04 CET

• Clashes as Spanish unions protest further austerity

  Spain counted the cost of nationwide protests against the government’s planned austerity measures… 30/03/12 04:54 CET

• Trayvon Martin’s killer acted in self-defence, says his father

  The father of the man who shot Trayvon Martin dead said on Friday that his son acted in… 30/03/12 02:53 CET

• Russian MPs mull ban on ‘gay propaganda’

  Russian MPs are mulling new legislation which has been accused of discriminating against the… 30/03/12 01:34 CET

• Assad’s actions fail to match rhetoric as violence continues

  Whilst the Arab League was discussing peace in Syria, with President Bashar al-Assad agreeing to… 30/03/12 01:03 CET

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