archive 19·12·2008

cinema

• Mann’s Buddenbrooks return to the big screen

  The long-awaited return of Thomas Mann’s Buddenbrook family to the big screen is one of the… 19/12/08 17:01 CET

corporate

• Natixis slims down

  French bank Natixis is to lay off 840 people as it scales back its investment banking activities… 19/12/08 19:47 CET

• Polaroid in Chapter 11

  Polaroid has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in order to restructure. Polaroid said the… 19/12/08 19:47 CET

economy

• OPEC cuts fail to boost oil prices

  Oil prices remain near their lowest in five years. Traders are trying to balance the effects of… 19/12/08 19:49 CET

• Japan latest to slash interest rates again

  Interest rates worldwide continue to tumble in the face of an ever-worsening outlook for the global… 19/12/08 19:47 CET

europa

• EU ponders Turkey’s place in Europe

  Talks aimed at allowing Turkey to join the European Union are underway in Brussels. Negotiations… 19/12/08 19:52 CET

• EU agrees new fishing quotas

  There is to be a 30 per cent increase in next year’s fishing quota for North Sea cod following a… 19/12/08 19:52 CET

europeans

• What does Jersey have to worry about?

  Rumblings from the US and Europe about cleaning up tax havens are sending a shiver across Jersey… 19/12/08 10:24 CET

le mag

• No surprises from new Enya album

  Irish singer Enya’s new album And Winter Came is vintage Enya. She has overdubbed her voice so she… 19/12/08 17:01 CET

• Moscow art show rejects shock tactics

  Daughter of a Russian millionaire and art collector, Maria Baibakova has opened a contemporary arts… 19/12/08 17:01 CET

markets

• Shares slip again in Europe

  European stocks ended the session down for a third straight day on Friday after some choppy… 19/12/08 19:49 CET

reporter

• Stemming illegal migration at source

  Do I stay or do I go? It’s a question young people in the Senegalese town of Podor have to ask… 19/12/08 10:24 CET

world news

• The fate of the Belgian government is now in the hands of the country’s monarch, King Albert II

  The king must decide whether to accept resignations offered by the Prime Minister, Yves Leterme… 19/12/08 22:16 CET

• Migrant workers at the heart of China’s ups and downs

  They number some 150 million. Chinese workers who have left their rural homes to take advantage of… 19/12/08 19:52 CET

• Gaza on alert as ceasefire ends

  Tension is high in Gaza after Hamas declared an end to its six-month truce with Israel. Hamas… 19/12/08 19:06 CET

• Youths and police clash in Sweden

  There were clashes for a second night running in Malmo, southern Sweden. Youths set fires and… 19/12/08 18:50 CET

• Zimbabwe ‘is mine’, declares Mugabe

  A defiant Robert Mugabe has made an impassioned speech at his ruling Zanu-PF party’s annual… 19/12/08 18:41 CET

• Leterme offers to dissolve government

  Belgium Prime Minister Yves Leterme has offered his government’s resignation after a court report… 19/12/08 18:23 CET

• Bush announces bail-out for car makers

  US president George Bush has announced a government bail-out equalling 12.5 billion euros in loans… 19/12/08 17:46 CET

• Germany deploys ships in battle against pirates

  German naval forces are to be sent to fight pirates off the coast of Somalia. Around 1,400 troops… 19/12/08 17:12 CET

• Chinese in street protest as financial crisis bites

  In a rare demonstration of public protest, workers in the Dongguan province of China have clashed… 19/12/08 17:02 CET

• Ex-Red Army Faction member freed

  A former member of the extreme left wing group the Red Army faction has been freed from jail in… 19/12/08 14:15 CET

• Leterme fights for political life

  The political future of Belgian Prime Minister Yves Leterme is hanging by a thread ahead of a… 19/12/08 13:27 CET

• Chrysler shuts factories as car crisis deepens

  Chrysler is shutting down its factories for one month from tonight, as it, and fellow American car… 19/12/08 13:27 CET

• Stormy seas – EU fishery chiefs try to strike deal

  European fishery chiefs are continuing their long drawn out yearly haggle over fishing quotas… 19/12/08 13:27 CET

• “Deep Throat” dies aged 95

  Mark Felt – known for decades only as Deep Throat in the Watergate Scandal – has died at the age of… 19/12/08 13:27 CET

• Rockets fired into Israel as Hamas ends truce

  Rockets have been fired from the Gaza Strip into southern Israel this morning – just as a six-month… 19/12/08 09:34 CET

• Greek riots head into third week

  There has been no let-up in the continuing violence between protestors and police in the Greek… 19/12/08 08:00 CET

• Gates’ team working to shut down Guantanamo

  The Pentagon is working on a plan to shut down the Guantanamo Bay prison camp. Defence… 19/12/08 08:00 CET

• EU says no to chlorine-treated chickens

  European governments have buried a project put forward by Brussels, to allow the importation and… 19/12/08 08:00 CET

• France pushes for UN gay rights declaration

  A bid to get gay rights recognised worldwide is being pushed through the UN by France, on behalf of… 19/12/08 08:00 CET

• Class Struggle in France against school reform

  There has been a big turnout on the streets of France to protest against plans to reform the… 19/12/08 07:59 CET

• Leterme could avoid resignation calls in Belgium

  There are signs that the Belgian Prime Minister Yves Leterme might be able to use a legal loophole… 19/12/08 06:35 CET

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