Iran announces nuclear advances but offers new talks The Himalayan | Added At: 2012-02-16 10:42 AM | Last Updated At: 2012-02-16 10:45 AM | The Himalayan Times - Saved Articles(s) | The headlines has been added to your saved article(s) | To View your saved article(s)please | Close --> Share | Reuters | A group of scientists are ...
More Chinese cities halt Apple iPad orders -reports The Guardian HONG KONG, Feb 16 (Reuters) - Retailers in more Chinese cities have been told by authorities to take the popular iPad tablet PCs off their shelves this week, media reports said on Thursday, due to a legal battle between a Chinese technology firm and Apple Inc over trademark issues. Two major shoppin...
Barclays launches mobile phone money transfer app The Daily Telegraph Customers to be able to send and receive money using a new mobile phone app. | Barclays is launching money transfer app Photo: Alamy tag --> | 8:56AM GMT 16 Feb 2012 | Comments | A "revolutionary" app enabling people to send and receive money ju...
Australian jailed for assisting in suicide The Daily Telegraph An Australian man was jailed for three years on Thursday after helping an elderly friend kill himself by providing him with an animal anaesthetic he bought in Mexico. | Photo: ALAMY tag --> | 9:18AM GMT 16 Feb 2012 | Comments | Merin Nielsen, 50, was...
My 15 minutes of fame with Uggie, the canine film star The Daily Telegraph It's hard work to get an audience with the four-legged star of The Artist. Has success gone to his head? | Uggie has had his teeth whitened and has a make-up artist for him on the film set Photo: JEFF RAYNER/COLEMAN-RAYNER tag --> | By Celia Wal...
Moody's threatens 17 banks with downgrade News24 MOODY'S warned on Thursday it may cut the credit ratings of 17 global and 114 European financial institutions, in another sign the impact of the eurozone government debt crisis is spreading throughout the global financial system. | It was reviewing t...
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France's Sarkozy to launch presidential election campaign The Star | PARIS (Reuters) - French President Nicolas Sarkozy was set to formally declare his candidacy for a second term on television on Wednesday, hoping to overcome deep unpopularity wi...
Russian foreign minister to hold Syria talks Austin American Statesman | WASSENAAR, Netherlands — Russia's foreign minister says he will meet his French counterpart in Vienna on Thursday and discuss a plan to rework a U.N. Security Council resol...
Women workers bearing brunt of rising job losses as unemployment heads higher again The Daily Mail | Gender gap: Of the 48,000 extra people found jobless in the last quarter of 2011, two thirds are women | Normal 0 false false false EN-GB X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 | Women are bearing the brunt of the latest rise in unemployment, as ...
FTSE LIVE: Markets slump as war of words erupts over Greek bailout; BAE and Reed results The Daily Mail | 8.35: The FTSE 100 has dropped 57.6 points to 5,834.5 as rising eurozone tensions threaten Greece's bailout and raise the spectre of a disorderly default. | Germany's DAX has tumbled 87.7 points to 6,670.2 and France's CAC 40 has slid 23.4 points t...
Top US lawmakers agree tax cut deal France24 | AFP - US congressional leaders agreed early Thursday on a $100 billion deal to extend a middle class tax cut and unemployment benefits with a surprising lack of partisan bickering. | The deal, announced just after midnight on Thursday by Senate Fin...
China leader-in-waiting Xi woos and warns US Khaleej Times WASHINGTON - China's leader-in-waiting Xi Jinping on Wednesday offered deeper cooperation with the United States on trade and security, citing Iran and North Korea, but called on Washington to heed Beijing's demands on contentious 'core interests' such as Tibet. | Xi, who is almost sure to become China's next president in just over a year, laid out...
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno guests week of Feb 6-10 The Examiner | The guest lineup for The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, week of February 6-10, 2012, was announced by NBC Television Network in a February 3, 2012, press release. Leno's guests for the week include Dwayne Johnson, Miranda Cosgrove, Chelsea Handler, John Huntsman, Chris Pine, Lisa Lampanelli, Denzel Washington, Octavia Spencer, Rachel McAdams and Cee...
