Articles
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...
08/02/2010 |
The space shuttle Endeavour bolted off its seaside launch pad on Monday on a voyage to install the last two main pieces ...
08/02/2010 |
Japan needs to set numerical targets to rein in its huge public debt or face fiscal ruin, but ruling party leaders are wary of taking the political risk, a member of a government panel now discussing the topic has announced Bond investors are worried about Japan's bulging debt, already nearing 200 percent of GDP, and fear the Democratic Party...
22/01/2010 |
Scientists have found a way to track minutely-differing strains of MRSA as they spread between people, a finding that could aid efforts to control the bacteria. An international team lead by researchers from Britain's Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute used very high-throughput gene ...
20/01/2010 |
Surrounded by forest, a white granite pillar topped by a ring of golden stars near the village of Purnuskes marks "the geographical centre of Europe". Things are looking bleak.
The Baltic state of Lithuania - sandwiched
between Latvia and the Russian exclave Kalingrad - faces an econo...
18/12/2009 |
By Rana Kapoor, Founder/Managing Director & CEO, YES BANK. While India has witnessed unprecedented economic growth in the recent past, its development has been lopsided and inequi...
Russia, once a scientific powerhouse, loses standing