corporate
UK insurer Aviva cuts workforce by 11%Aviva, Britain’s largest insurance company, is to lay off up to 4,000 people at its Norwich Union… 14/09/06 08:09 CET
Ford reportedly heading for seven billion euro loss this yearShares in carmaker Ford tumbled after a newspaper reported that its financial officers estimate it… 14/09/06 08:09 CET
IMF mostly optimistic about global growthAs the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank started their annual meetings in Singapore… 14/09/06 08:09 CET
europa
Madrid deflects blame over CIA flightsIn an atmosphere strongly critical of U.S. President George W. Bush and EU leaders, at a European… 14/09/06 08:09 CET
Frontex off Senegal heading off EU-bound immigrantsSpanish and Italian aircraft and boats working with the European External Border Control Agency… 14/09/06 08:09 CET
world news
Russia stunned by killing of bankerThe murder of a top Russian banker has stunned the country’s financial establishment and raised… 14/09/06 12:09 CET
Yanukovich in talks with EU/NATO leadersImproving relations between Ukraine and the EU tops the agenda today during a visit by Prime… 14/09/06 12:09 CET
NATO under pressure despite Polish troops offerPoland is to send 1,000 soldiers to Afghanistan. However the news is unlikely to ease pressure on… 14/09/06 12:09 CET
Montreal Police defend reponse to shootingMobile phone footage has been released of the inside of Dawson college in Montreal yesterday where… 14/09/06 12:09 CET
Afghan troop request not metPleas for more troops to be sent to Afghanistan have not been met by NATO. No member states have so… 14/09/06 07:09 CET
Polish reinforcements for AfghanistanPoland is to send 1,000 soldiers to Afghanistan in February, in the first offer since a Nato appeal… 14/09/06 07:09 CET
Close finish predicted in Swedish electionHe says he is inspired by Bill Clinton and Tony Blair. Now Sweden’s opposition leader Fredrik… 14/09/06 07:09 CET
Russian elite mourns murdered bankerThere has been a tribute from the highest level for a top Russian bank official whom police believe… 14/09/06 07:09 CET
Iran says nuclear talks are possible but without threatsThe UN’s atomic watchdog has been told that Iran is ready to discuss its nuclear programme – but… 14/09/06 07:09 CET
EU & Ukraine renew linksPutting Ukraine’s relations with the EU on a new footing, Ukrainian Prime Minister Viktor… 14/09/06 07:09 CET
First rabbis ordained in Germany since HolocaustIn what is being described as a milestone in post-war German history, rabbis have been ordained in… 14/09/06 07:09 CET
Moldovan vote thorn in region’s sideOne of Ukrainian Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovich’s problems will be what do about troubled… 14/09/06 07:09 CET
First rabbis ordained in Germany since HolocaustGermany will ordain its first rabbis since the Holocaust today. Three students from the Abraham… 14/09/06 07:09 CET
Search for missing Poles in Italian labour campsA desperate search is on for 120 missing Polish nationals, amid fears they may have been victims of… 14/09/06 07:09 CET
One dead, 20 injured in Canada shootingA 19-yea-old woman student has been shot dead and 20 people injured during a shooting rampage… 14/09/06 07:09 CET
Delegates await Castro at summitBack on his feet but not back at work. Cuban television has broadcast photographs of Fidel Castro… 14/09/06 07:09 CET
