corporate
Thomson agrees to buy ReutersReuters and Canada’s Thomson have agreed terms for a 12.7 billion euro merger that will create the… 15/05/07 07:05 CET
Construction underway on Airbus assembly plant in ChinaAirbus has announced that work has started on building its factory in China. It is the first… 15/05/07 07:05 CET
world news
24 dead in Pakistani bomb blast, scores injuredA powerful bomb has exploded in a hotel near a historic mosque in the northwestern Pakistani city… 15/05/07 12:05 CET
Deadly flare-up in Gaza factional fightingAt least seven members of Mahmoud Abbas’s Presidential Guard have been killed by Hamas gunmen near… 15/05/07 12:05 CET
Jacques Chirac prepares for his final adieuThe outgoing French president is due to make a televised farewell to the country tonight, ahead of… 15/05/07 12:05 CET
Air traffic controllers tried over mid-air collisionEight air traffic controllers are due to go on trial for manslaughter and negligence over a mid-air… 15/05/07 12:05 CET
Thomson buys Reuters in multi-million euro dealCanadian publisher Thomson Corp has agreed to buy Reuters for about 12.7 billion euros, creating… 15/05/07 12:05 CET
Jacques Chirac bids his nation a moving farewellThe outgoing French President, Jacques Chirac, has made a moving farewell speech to the nation… 15/05/07 08:05 CET
Portugese police search Algarve homes over Maddie abductionThe search for evidence in the disappearance of the four year-old British girl in Portugal is… 15/05/07 08:05 CET
New plea for calm in Gaza ignoredPalestinian factions have renewed efforts to restore calm to the streets of Gaza after meeting late… 15/05/07 07:05 CET
World Bank chief “violated contract” – panelWorld Bank President Paul Wolfowitz’s handling of a promotion for his girlfriend violated the terms… 15/05/07 07:05 CET
Rice set for talks to ease tensions with MoscowThere is much to discuss on her agenda as US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice arrives in Moscow… 15/05/07 07:05 CET
US seeks more data on European flyersUS authorities are looking to increase the data European passengers must provide before being… 15/05/07 06:05 CET
Police question man in search for MadeleinePolice in Portugal investigating the abduction of the British four-year-old, Madeleine McCann, are… 15/05/07 06:05 CET
Sarkozy plans broad-based governmentNicolas Sarkozy has been tying up a few loose ends of his old life before starting anew and… 15/05/07 06:05 CET
French government resigns ahead of presidential handoverThe French Prime Minister, Dominique de Villepin, has presented the resignation of his government… 15/05/07 06:05 CET
- Portugese police conduct searches over Maddie abduction
Police in Portugal are continuing to search the home of a man deemed to be a suspect in the… 15/05/07 06:05 CET
White House argues Wolfowitz shouldn’t be sackedAs the World Bank president awaits news of his fate at the organisation, the White House has again… 15/05/07 06:05 CET
Suicide blast in Pakistan kills at least 25A suicide bomb attack has killed 25 people at Peshawar in northwestern Pakistan, adding to the… 15/05/07 06:05 CET
Eight Palestinian presidential guards killedIt is the deadliest factional fighting yet between Hamas and Fatah. Eight members of the… 15/05/07 06:05 CET
