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02 Dec 16 : 35 | EU reaches compromise deal on car emission caps European leaders have agreed a deal relaxing new rules to cut car pollution and reduce the penalties for the automotive industry if their vehicles continue to spew out high levels of carbon dioxide, while setting a more ambitious longer-term target for slashing emissions from new cars.Under the deal... Source : Latest news, sport, business, comment and reviews from the... 40 hours ago |
03 Dec 01 : 07 | BA in talks with Qantas to create 'global airline' British Airways chief executive Willie Walsh signalled the creation of a "truly global" airline yesterday as the carrier announced £3.5bn merger talks with Australian rival Qantas.BA is already in talks to combine its services with American Airlines and Spain's Iberia but it took shareholders... Source : Latest news, sport, business, comment and reviews from the... 32 hours ago |
21 Nov 14 : 30 | Universal eyes Bourne supremacy with Ludlum deal Studio secures exclusive rights to the Robert Ludlum character that is already rivalling James Bond for title of top movie spy Source : Latest news, sport, business, comment and reviews from the... |
01 Dec 22 : 34 | Credit crunch: Markets sink as recession in US is confirmed Confirmation that the US is in recession shook Wall Street tonight and set the Dow Jones industrial average on course to end a five-day winning streak.The Dow fell 445 points to 8384 by the afternoon, a drop of 5%. Shareholders balked at an announcement by the National Bureau of Economic Research... Source : Latest news, sport, business, comment and reviews from the... |
20 Nov 01 : 04 | Joe the Plumber becomes Joe the Writer after signing book deal American values set to be the subject of book by man who challenged Barack Obama's tax proposals Source : Latest news, sport, business, comment and reviews from the... |
01 Dec 01 : 06 | Pakistan warns west: we cannot fight al-Qaida if crisis escalates Senior Pakistani intelligence officials have threatened to end military operations against Islamist militants along the country's Afghan border if India deploys troops on their eastern frontier.In a rare briefing to senior local journalists, intelligence officials said the coming days would be... Source : Latest news, sport, business, comment and reviews from the... |
01 Dec 01 : 06 | After Savanna: The child protection case that rocked the Netherlands In the very early morning of Tuesday September 21 2004, a police car on patrol through the wooded outskirts of Holten, in eastern Holland, noticed a vehicle travelling down a road closed to traffic and pulled it over. A search of the boot revealed not the contraband that might have been expected -... Source : Latest news, sport, business, comment and reviews from the... |
30 Nov 01 : 26 | Viv Groskop meets Olga Rodionova, the Russian wife who aims to please The moment Olga Rodionova enters Moscow's Vogue Café there is a change in the atmosphere. All the men shift in their seats, their heads raised appreciatively, almost inhaling her. Several make as if to stand up as this six-foot Amazonian redhead sweeps through the room.Olga Rodionova, 34, is a TV... Source : Latest news, sport, business, comment and reviews from the... |
06 Nov 16 : 44 | Gordon Brown to push for world trade deal before George Bush leaves office Gordon Brown has won the agreement of senior aides to Barack Obama to try to secure a world trade deal before President Bush quits the White House in January. Brown is to raise the issue at a meeting of world leaders being convened by Bush on the economic crisis in Washington next Saturday. The... Source : Latest news, sport, business, comment and reviews from the... |
04 Nov 01 : 12 | UN appoints Nigerian to mediate peace deal The United Nations last night appointed one of Africa's elder statesmen as a peace envoy to the Democratic Republic of Congo to mediate a deal between regional antagonists, as fears grew for the fate of tens of thousands of civilians driven into the bush by the latest upsurge in fighting.According... Source : Latest news, sport, business, comment and reviews from the... |
29 Nov 01 : 01 | Season's readings: writers and politicians pick the best reads of 2008 Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieSet during and after the Lebanese civil war, Rawi Hage's extraordinary De Niro's Game (Old Street) is about the bravado and betrayal of two friends. Hage bends the English language to his will, mixes poetry and history, and never forgets the humanity of his characters. José... Source : Latest news, sport, business, comment and reviews from the... |
28 Nov 12 : 43 | FSA warns lenders to review repossessions process The City watchdog has written to the head of every mortgage lender asking them to review the way they treat borrowers who have fallen behind with their repayments.The Financial Services Authority (FSA) said the letter was a second warning to lenders that customers who are in arrears must be treated... Source : Latest news, sport, business, comment and reviews from the... |
28 Nov 10 : 53 | Theatre review: In a Dark Dark House / Almeida, London American families are certainly being put through the wringer this week. After the epic revelations of August: Osage County, we have this new 105-minute play by Neil LaBute about psychologically damaged siblings. But, for all its intensity, it feels too much like a piece of confessional theatre in... Source : Latest news, sport, business, comment and reviews from the... |
28 Nov 01 : 18 | Smugglers run rife in Transdniestra on the new frontline between Russia and... Imagine a country where every man, woman and child eats nothing but chicken. For breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Every day.On paper, at least, that "country" is Transdniestra, the Russia-backed breakaway strip of Moldova that meanders down to the Black Sea and the Ukrainian port of Odessa, where the... Source : Latest news, sport, business, comment and reviews from the... |
24 Nov 16 : 26 | Barclays shaken by shareholder revolt over fundraising plan The extent of investor fury at Barclays' £7bn fundraising was demonstrated today when almost a quarter of shareholders failed to support the controversial plan.At an extraordinary meeting called to endorse the fundraising, shareholders accused Barclays of a "clear and egregious" breach of their... Source : Latest news, sport, business, comment and reviews from the... |
24 Nov 01 : 03 | Miliband makes diplomacy pledge to Iran in nuclear dispute Britain is to assure Iran that it is "100% committed to diplomacy" to end the impasse over Tehran's nuclear ambitions and is signalling that it expects Barack Obama's administration to follow the same approach.The foreign secretary, David Miliband, will warn in a speech today that "the prospect of a... Source : Latest news, sport, business, comment and reviews from the... |
23 Nov 01 : 04 | Somalia sinks deeper into a state of total disintegration Zam Zam Abdi fled Mogadishu after being threatened with death by the hardline Islamist militia - the Shabab. The message from the armed group once allied to the Union of Islamic Courts, the coalition that briefly seized power in 2006, was simple: if she continued working for her women's rights... Source : Latest news, sport, business, comment and reviews from the... |
21 Nov 01 : 12 | Supertanker pirates demand $25m within 10 days Pirates holding a Saudi supertanker off the coast of Somalia have reportedly told the ship's owners to pay a $25m (£16.9m) ransom within 10 days or face "disastrous" consequences. The Sirius Star, which is carrying 2m barrels of oil worth £68m, was captured on Saturday and is being held near the... Source : Latest news, sport, business, comment and reviews from the... |
20 Nov 01 : 04 | Syria to share intelligence on terrorism after Miliband visit Deal breaks years of isolation following accusations of involvement in assassination of Lebanese premier Source : Latest news, sport, business, comment and reviews from the... |
19 Nov 12 : 20 | Charlotte Higgins: £10m boost for Diana and Actaeon campaign fund The good news is that the Heritage Memorial Lottery Fund, after a meeting yesterday, has committed £10m to the National Gallery and National Galleries of Scotland campaign to purchase Titian's Diana and Actaeon, which is being sold for £50m. OK, the only other pledge announced so far is £1m from... Source : Latest news, sport, business, comment and reviews from the... |
17 Nov 01 : 02 | All US forces will leave by 2011, Baghdad cabinet agrees The US and Iraq will formally commit to a pact that withdraws all American forces from the country within three years, and pulls all combat troops out of most provinces by mid-2009, the Iraqi cabinet announced yesterday. The deal for the first time prescribes a timeline for an American departure... Source : Latest news, sport, business, comment and reviews from the... |
15 Nov 01 : 06 | Rwanda president accuses UN of betrayal and denies backing Tutsi rebels in... Rwanda's president, Paul Kagame, has accused the United Nations of betraying a pledge to combat Hutu extremists in eastern Congo and then blaming his country for the failure of a costly peacekeeping mission to end years of conflict. In an interview with the Guardian, Kagame dismissed accusations... Source : Latest news, sport, business, comment and reviews from the... |
13 Nov 16 : 53 | UK Coal to build wind farms on old collieries Over a dozen of the UK's former coalmining sites are to be redeveloped as wind farms under a revolutionary energy scheme to turn old energy into new.UK Coal, once the main part of the National Coal Board, has unveiled a joint venture with Peel Energy that would see 14 old colliery locations used to... Source : Latest news, sport, business, comment and reviews from the... |
10 Nov 17 : 35 | Radical preacher Abu Qatada to face court over alleged bid to flee Britain The radical preacher, Abu Qatada, will appear before immigration judges on Wednesday accused of breaching his strict bail conditions in an attempt to flee Britain.Qatada, who was once described by a Spanish judge as Osama bin Laden's spiritual leader in Europe, was arrested at his west London home... Source : Latest news, sport, business, comment and reviews from the... |
06 Nov 18 : 56 | Labour MP reveals party pessimism over Glenrothes byelection A Labour MP said today he did not know any of his parliamentary colleagues who expected his party to win the Glenrothes byelection.With voting still going on in the Fife constituency, Nick Palmer made his comments in a contributor to a discussion on the PoliticalBetting website.The MP said: "I don't... Source : Latest news, sport, business, comment and reviews from the... |
03 Nov 22 : 21 | Formula one: Lewis Hamilton's father reveals hurt at racists Lewis Hamilton may have been crowned world champion on Sunday but that has not dispelled the bad feeling left from a week that had seen him racially abused on a Spanish website, insulted by two Brazilian comedians and handed a toy black cat - a symbol of bad luck in Brazil - at a sponsor's... Source : Latest news, sport, business, comment and reviews from the... |
