corporate
Sweden increases cost of borrowSweden’s central bank has raised its key interest rate by 0.25% on the basis that the country’s… 20/01/06 08:01 CET
Euronext shareholders push for merger with Deutsche BörseThe Pan-European stock market group Euronext, is reportedly under pressure from some of its major… 20/01/06 08:01 CET
world news
Sanctions threat over blocking of Ivorian peace planThe UN Security Council has renewed a threat of sanctions against rebels and government leaders in… 20/01/06 08:01 CET
Tension raised in run-up to Palestinian electionsA suicide bomb attack in Tel Aviv has raised tensions in the region only days before the… 20/01/06 08:01 CET
Bin Laden reappears after long silenceThe voice of Osama Bin Laden is ringing out across radio and television stations after more than a… 20/01/06 08:01 CET
Peacekeepers die as plane crashes onto Hungarian mountainsideThe Hungarian authorities have confirmed that 44 people have died and only one person has survived… 20/01/06 08:01 CET
Official poll results trigger Iraqi talksThere were celebrations in Najaf as the Shi’ite-led United Iraqi Alliance was confirmed as the… 20/01/06 08:01 CET
Pope attempted assassin Ali Agca re-arrestedThe man who tried to assassinate Pope John Paul II is being sent back to jail. It comes after the… 20/01/06 08:01 CET
Portuguese expats vote in presidential pollPortuguese citizens living abroad have begun voting in their country’s presidential elections… 20/01/06 08:01 CET
Israel claims bomb blast masterminded by Iran and SyriaIsrael has accused Iran and Syria of being behind Thursday’s suicide bombing in Tel Aviv. Defence… 20/01/06 08:01 CET
Portugal’s left hopes for a second round in presidential pollThe centre-right candidate in Portugal’s presidential election has been boosted by the divisions on… 20/01/06 08:01 CET
US defiant after bin Laden tapeThe US government is damping down speculation that terrorists are preparing an attack on American… 20/01/06 02:01 CET
US journalist’s father appeals to kidnappersThe father of an American woman held hostage in Iraq has made an appeal for her release as a… 20/01/06 02:01 CET
‘Soul Man’ Pickett dies aged 64One of the legends of soul music, Wilson Pickett, has died of a heart attack at the age of 64… 20/01/06 01:01 CET
One survivor in Slovak military plane crashInvestigators in Hungary are trying to establish the cause of a plane crash which killed 42 Slovak… 20/01/06 01:01 CET
Arctic weather kills more in RussiaIt has been described as Russia’s coldest winter in a generation and it is continuing to take a… 20/01/06 01:01 CET
