Articles
26/02/2010 |
A Nigerian court has ordered Norway's Statoil to deposit its share of income from a big offshore oilfield until a dispute is resolved with a local consultant who says he has not been paid Statoil rejects the claim by John Abebe, who seeks 1.5 percent net profit interest from the company's stake in the Agbam...
26/02/2010 |
Greece's oldest consumer group has called for a boycott of German products and stores to protest a magazine cover of Venus de Milo making an obscene finger gesture which has infuriated Greeks In its latest issue, German magazine Focus showed the famous armless classical statue now at the Louvre raising her midd...
26/02/2010 |
Japan's narrowest measure of consumer inflation matched a record annual fall in January in a sign weak demand will prolong deflation and may prompt the Bank of Japan to expand its supply of funds to the market by mid-year Analysts say that while the BOJ will want to save its ammunition for when sharp yen rises hurt a fragile economy, it may...
25/02/2010 |
Many Americans are skeptical about global warming and that makes it harder to get a bill through Congress "My personal leanings are that it's more cyclical than a permanent trend," said Jimmy Pritchard, a Southern Baptist past...
10/02/2010 |
Bulgaria's farm minister has announced that the government would not allow GM food in shops but stopped short of saying whether Sofia would declare the Balkan country GM-free Miroslav Naidenov told reporters that a five-year moratorium on cultivation of GM crops drafted by his ruling centre-rig...
08/02/2010 |
From southern Europe's debt crisis to US banking reform, politics has emerged as a driver of volatility in Western markets this year in a way normally more associated with emerging economies Politics has been at the heart of some of the sharpest market moves in early 2010, with much money to be made or lost as...
Endeavour ends space shuttle fleet's 130th mission