Jun 24 2009
To many on the outside, Germany looks like a big, rich country enjoying the benefits of being Europe’s largest economy. Inside, Germans know that looks can be deceiving. As in any nation, parts of Germany suffer from poverty, and Germans have...
Jun 13 2009
Let down by their much-vaunted top order, defending champions India flunked their first Super Eight test and sunk to a seven-wicket Dwayne Bravo More Pictures defeat against the West Indies in the Twenty20 World Cup on Friday. Scorecard | Points Table...
Jun 11 2009
The recession was declared over by the country’s leading economics think-tank yesterday after it released upbeat estimates showing that growth in GDP resumed in April and May. The upbeat verdict that Britain’s slump is at an end came from the...
Jun 10 2009
Russia will rebuild its Soviet-era network of polar stations and use its icebreaker fleet to help support its claim to the vast resources of the Arctic, the man who led a mission to plant a Russian flag on the Arctic seabed said Wednesday. Artur...
Jun 1 2009
With polls showing support for the ruling Labour party at historic lows amid revelations about parliamentarians’ expenses, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown vowed to establish a code of conduct to “clean up” behavior. An ICM Ltd. poll...
May 27 2009
In 1982 it was a war in the South Atlantic. In 2009 it has been moats, manure and the flipping of houses. Different mechanism, same outcome: the economy has been taken off the front pages. Unlike the liberation of the Falklands, this is not unalloyed...
May 22 2009
China and Brazil’s proposal to abandon the dollar for bilateral trade and use yuan and reais instead is “pure idle talk,” former Brazilian central bank President Gustavo Franco said. “Replacing the dollar as an invoicing currency for...
Dec 19 2008
“I screamed at him, ‘You’re an animal!’ ” said Shaimaa Abdel Rahman Aref, 28, a graduate business student. “I felt as if he was striking at my pride. I wish he had beaten me instead. It would have been much less...
Oct 22 2008
When the dot-com and housing bubbles burst, it was easy to see what types of jobs would disappear. But these days as nervous lenders cower and credit contracts, virtually every industry is likely to be scathed in the widely predicted downturn starting...
Oct 17 2008
A team of researchers from Penn State and the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center has discovered a way to use light to control certain proteins that catalyze biochemical reactions.