archive 22·05·2012

behindmarkets

• Boost for STMicroelectronics

  STMicroelectronics got a boost on the markets from a smartphone contract and the French-Italian… 22/05/12 19:19 CET

cinema

• Cannes: Festival visit for French culture minister

  France’s new Minister of Culture Aurélie Filipetti is in Cannes, meeting industry professionals… 22/05/12 16:53 CET

• Cannes: Lion of French cinema Alain Resnais

  Veteran French director Alain Resnais’ latest film Vous N’Avez Encore Rien Vu – You Ain’t Seen… 22/05/12 16:53 CET

• Cannes: Polluting Paradise

  Award-winning Turkish-German director Fatih Akin has brought his latest film Müll Im Garten Eden or… 22/05/12 16:47 CET

economy

• IMF tells Britain ‘must try harder’

  The IMF has said Britain’s struggling economy needs the Bank of England to pump in more money and… 22/05/12 17:52 CET

• Eurozone is biggest threat to growth: OECD

  The eurozone heads the list of potential threats to the fragile economic recovery among developed… 22/05/12 16:13 CET

• UK inflation eases

  Annual inflation in Britain fell to its lowest in more than two years in April. It dropped to 3.0… 22/05/12 14:02 CET

• Troika checks Portugal’s progress

  Portugal’s international lenders are in Lisbon to check progress on the country’s 78 billion euro… 22/05/12 14:02 CET

• China ‘targets infrastructure to lift economy’

  China is reportedly to speed up approvals for spending on infrastructure in response to a slowdown… 22/05/12 14:02 CET

hi-tech

• Dutch inventor cleans up water treatment

  Water, water everywhere… but most of it is not fit to drink. Around one billion people do not… 22/05/12 15:22 CET

le mag

• New Order: new again

  By combining New Wave and electronic music, New Order became one of the most critically acclaimed… 22/05/12 18:30 CET

• Eurovision in Azerbaijan human rights pledge

  Preparations are intensifying in Azerbaijan ahead of Saturday’s Eurovision Song Contest. As… 22/05/12 15:59 CET

newsplus

• MEPs consider Greece and growth ahead of informal summit

  With EU leaders due to meet for an informal summit in Brussels on Wednesday – the dominating topics… 22/05/12 19:51 CET

• Egyptian election frontrunners

  Egyptians vote in their historic first round of real presidential elections this week, after recent… 22/05/12 09:32 CET

pictureoftheday

• Tokyo Sky Tree opens to the public

  The Tokyo Sky Tree, the world’s tallest broadcasting tower at 634 meters, opened to the public on… 22/05/12 12:12 CET

roadtoeuro2012

• 1942 – ‘Death match’

  The aftermath of the so-called ‘death match’ between the Kiev football team ‘Start’ and a team of… 22/05/12 17:12 CET

Sport

• Drogba confirms Chelsea exit

  Chelsea striker Didier Drogba has confirmed he will quit the club in June less than a week after… 22/05/12 17:33 CET

• Mourinho signs new Real deal

  Portugal’s Jose Mourinho has agreed a two-year contract extension with Real Madrid, after taking… 22/05/12 17:33 CET

• Euro 2012: Loew fears negative preparations

  With less than a month to go before the European championships get underway in Poland and Ukraine… 22/05/12 07:16 CET

u talk

• U-talk – the European Health Insurance Card

  The summer holiday season is almost upon us and many will be taking to the roads, seas and skies… 22/05/12 13:22 CET

• U-talk – Serbia on the road to the EU?

  The European enlargement project remains unfinished as long as the Balkan jigsaw has missing… 22/05/12 13:22 CET

world news

• Can Italy’s Beppe Grillo hold it together?

  Italians have given their country’s main political parties a disgusted kick in the ballot box in… 22/05/12 19:29 CET

• Kidnapping reports spark unrest

  Hezbollah has called for calm after 13 Lebanese pilgrims were reportedly seized by Syrian rebels… 22/05/12 23:03 CET

• Tspiras wants to save the euro

  Greek radical left politician and frontrunner in the upcoming elections, Alexis Tsipras continued… 22/05/12 21:53 CET

• Pakistan supply route is crucial to NATO’s Afghan exit

  So NATO is fixed on pulling its combat troops out of Afghanistan by the end of 2014. However the… 22/05/12 20:23 CET

• Hezbollah calls for calm after Syrian rebels kidnap Lebanese

  Hezbollah ha called for calm after 13 Lebanese men were seized by Syrian rebels. The kidnappings… 22/05/12 20:14 CET

• Baptism of a princess

  The gliterrati descended on Stockholm for the baptism of Swedish Princess Estelle Silvia Ewa Mary… 22/05/12 18:50 CET

• Guilty verdict in Terre’Blanche trial

  A South African court has found black farmhand Chris Mahlangu guilty of the murder of white… 22/05/12 18:50 CET

• Controversial Zuma painting vandalised

  A controversial painting depicting South African president Jacob Zuma with his genitals out has… 22/05/12 18:06 CET

• Ex-Libyan PM to be extradited

  Tunisia has announced it will extradite former Libyan Prime Minister Al Baghdadi Ali Al-Mahmoudi to… 22/05/12 18:06 CET

• Egypt in first post-Mubarak presidential poll

  Egypt holds its first really democratic presidential election on Wednesday and Thursday, and the… 22/05/12 18:04 CET

• Italy PM Monti booed as he visits earthquake zone

  He came to show solidarity with Italy’s earthquake victims but not everyone in the disaster zone… 22/05/12 17:44 CET

• Deal with Iran soon says UN nuclear watchdog

  The head of the UN nuclear watchdog, Yukiya Amano, expects to sign a deal with Iran soon. The… 22/05/12 16:23 CET

• School’s out in Spain as teachers strike over cuts

  From kindergarten to university, Spain’s education system came to a standstill on Tuesday as… 22/05/12 16:05 CET

• Canadian student protesters defy emergency law

  Student protesters in Canada turned out in their thousands to defy a new law which effectively bans… 22/05/12 14:43 CET

• Russia: Anti-Putin protesters set to face huge fines

  Demonstrators taking a stand against President Vladimir Putin may have to check their wallets… 22/05/12 14:24 CET

• Afghan exit is ‘fraught with peril for NATO’

  US President Barack Obama and his partners want their war-weary voters to know that the end is in… 22/05/12 12:04 CET

• Somalis go on trial in Paris accused of piracy

  The trial has opened in Paris of six Somalis accused of taking a French yacht crew hostage in the… 22/05/12 12:03 CET

• Yemenis condemn al Qaeda suicide blast

  Hundreds of Yemenis have held a rally in the capital Sanaa to condemn Monday’s suicide bombing that… 22/05/12 08:43 CET

• Italian PM joins mourners at bomb victim’s funeral

  Family members, friends and government ministers all turned out to pay their respects to the… 22/05/12 06:03 CET

• Protesters attack Mali’s caretaker president

  Mali’s caretaker president needed hospital treatment after being beaten by protesters when they… 22/05/12 04:33 CET

• Yemen told to expect more al Qaeda attacks

  Al Qaeda has threatened more attacks in Yemen after it claimed one of its suicide bombers killed… 22/05/12 03:33 CET

• Fewer protesters turn out as Nato summit ends

  There was almost a party atmosphere among anti-Nato protesters who turned out in central Chicago as… 22/05/12 02:23 CET

• Nato plans Afghan pullout but Pakistan problem remains

  A two-day Nato summit in Chicago has concluded with a landmark agreement on handing control of… 22/05/12 01:04 CET

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