archive 26·08·2009

cinema

• Glorious release for Inglourious Basterds

  Inglourious Basterds is Quentin Tarentino’s latest box office hit. Starring Brad Pitt and a host… 26/08/09 17:28 CET

corporate

• Swiss Life plans job and cost cuts

  Swiss Life, Switzerland’s largest life insurer, has posted first-half profits that were better than… 26/08/09 19:56 CET

• Toyota to cut production

  Toyota, the world’s biggest carmaker, is to make fewer vehicles in an attempt to return to… 26/08/09 19:56 CET

• Sony takes on Kindle

  Sony has unveiled its first wireless electronic reader challenging Amazon’s digital book, the… 26/08/09 19:56 CET

economy

• French competitiveness commission starts work

  Two former French prime ministers, Michel Rocard and Alain Juppe, have been tapped to head a… 26/08/09 19:56 CET

• German business confidence jumps

  There has been a big jump in German business confidence. The latest Ifo economic think tank… 26/08/09 19:56 CET

futuris

• Europe experiments to preserve plastic art

  We live in the age of synthetic materials, but we are paying a price. Thousands of sculptures… 26/08/09 17:50 CET

hi-tech

• Hubble documentary unveiled

  The Hubble telescope will have been beaming back spectacular images of faraway galaxies for 20… 26/08/09 17:28 CET

le mag

• Underwear photography

  “For Your Eyes Only” are portrait photographers with a difference. They take soft-focus… 26/08/09 17:28 CET

markets

• Wednesday 26th August

  European shares finished the day down as investors shrugging off better-than-expected German… 26/08/09 19:56 CET

world news

• Kennedy clan – a dynasty in US politics

  The Kennedy clan, lovingly thought of by some as America’s royal family, seemed destined for… 26/08/09 20:13 CET

• French find more ETA arms

  Another cache of buried weapons linked to the Basque separatist group ETA is dug up by French… 26/08/09 19:59 CET

• Slovak embassy attacked in Hungary

  The Slovak embassy in Hungary has been attacked but got off lightly when two supposed Molotov… 26/08/09 19:07 CET

• Russia wants recognition for breakaway regions

  Russia has called on the international community to recognise the breakaway Georgian regions of… 26/08/09 19:05 CET

• Ted Kennedy the lion who prowled the Senate

  Since his election to the Senate in 1962 to take up the seat vacated by his brother Jack, who was… 26/08/09 18:58 CET

• The mini car that made a maxi impact

  Fifty years ago this month a tiny car was launched that would have a huge effect on the motor… 26/08/09 18:23 CET

• Al-Hakim’s death fuels political crisis in Iraq

  The leader of one of Iraq’s most powerful Shi’ite Muslim political groups and most important… 26/08/09 17:43 CET

• Obama praises Kennedy’s contribution to America

  It feels like the end of an era in American politics with the passing of Edward Kennedy… 26/08/09 16:49 CET

• Amercian left mourns leader who never was

  Defiant as ever, Teddy Kennedy took on failing health and Washington’s bitter January weather to… 26/08/09 13:50 CET

• Leading Iraqi Shi’ite loses lung cancer battle

  One of Iraq’s most poweful Shi’ite leaders has died in hospital in Iran. Abdul Aziz al-Hakim… 26/08/09 13:23 CET

• Far-right NPD on the campaign trail

  Germany’s far-right NPD party has launched a drive to win more seats in Saxony’s regional elections… 26/08/09 13:16 CET

• Chavez to sever links with Colombia

  Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez says he is ready to break off diplomatic relations with… 26/08/09 11:34 CET

• Senator Edward Kennedy dies aged 77

  Veteran US Senator Edward Kennedy, the brother of ex-President John F Kennedy has died of brain… 26/08/09 09:33 CET

• Key talks on Opel future

  The future of thousands of jobs in the German car industry are hanging in the balance today… 26/08/09 07:18 CET

• After the fires in Greece: red hot anger

  The Greek wildfires which roared around outskirts of the capital Athens devoured more than 30,000… 26/08/09 07:17 CET

• Spain’s Rubalcaba to visit Paris for talks on ETA

  Spain’s interior minister Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba heads to Paris today for further talks in… 26/08/09 07:16 CET

• Italy’s famous Blue Grotto shut down by stench

  One of Italy’s top tourist attractions is off-limits because of a vile smell coming from its… 26/08/09 07:15 CET

• Truck bomb kills 40 in Afghanistan

  While Afghanistan waits in a political limbo over who has won the Presidential race, a massive… 26/08/09 07:14 CET

• Greek wildfires: Suspicion falls on greedy builders

  Large areas on the outskirts of Athens have been reduced to ashes, leading to accusations greedy… 26/08/09 03:53 CET

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