archive 27·08·2009

cinema

• Ordinary People released in France

  Ordinary People, a new film from Serbian director Vladimir Perisic, has just been released in… 27/08/09 17:44 CET

corporate

• Boeing confirms Dreamliner test flight

  Boeing has said the 787 Dreamliner will make its much delayed first test flight by the end of this… 27/08/09 20:20 CET

• Nissan part idles Spanish plants

  Responding to falling sales, Japanese carmaker Nissan is to temporarily lay off 70 percent of the… 27/08/09 20:19 CET

economy

• UK property prices pick up

  The price of houses and flats in Britain rose for the fourth month running in August. The… 27/08/09 20:16 CET

• German and Italian consumers more confident

  The latest survey of German consumer sentiment shows it to be at the highest level in fifteen… 27/08/09 20:16 CET

• Euro zone loans still weak

  Loans to euro zone households and businesses fell in July and hit their slowest annual growth ever… 27/08/09 20:16 CET

europa

• Ryanair gets behind Lisbon Treaty

  In Ireland, Europe’s biggest budget airline, Ryanair, has climbed on board the campaign to give the… 27/08/09 20:22 CET

• Barroso approaches parliament test

  Holidays over, Jose Manuel Barroso sets out to convince enough of the European Parliament’s members… 27/08/09 20:22 CET

europeans

• Intercultural Lyon, republican contortionism

  Creating the Europe of tomorrow through cultural diversity… a look at the French city of Lyon… 27/08/09 21:18 CET

le mag

• Telling Tales at the V&A

  The new exhibition at the V and A in London is called “Telling Tales: Fear and Fantasy in… 27/08/09 17:44 CET

science

• Emperor Vespasian’s villa unearthed

  In Italy, north-east of Rome, a team of Italian and British archeologists have unearthed the… 27/08/09 17:44 CET

world news

• Five dead in Turkish train crash

  Five people have been killed and 16 others injured after a train rammed into a mechanical digger on… 27/08/09 23:43 CET

• Three days of mourning for Ted Kennedy begin

  The body of Senator Edward Kennedy has left the family home in Cape Cod. The hearse carrying… 27/08/09 20:43 CET

• Fatal train crash in Turkey

  As many as five people have been killed after a Turkish express train crashed into a construction… 27/08/09 20:03 CET

• Netanyahu’s settlement dilemma

  The international pressure may be mounting on Benjamin Netanyahu to freeze settlements but pressure… 27/08/09 20:01 CET

• NATO chief calls for closer Greek/Turkish ties

  NATO chief, Denmark’s Anders Fogh Rasmussen, has held talks with Greek Prime Minister Costas… 27/08/09 19:15 CET

• French Socialists go for open primaries

  French Socialist leader Martine Aubry has jumped off the fence and come down in favour of open… 27/08/09 19:14 CET

• Report slams ‘bad, cruel’ treatment in UK hospitals

  National Health Service nurses in the UK have come under fire for their “cruel” and “demeaning“… 27/08/09 19:13 CET

• Netanyahu talks tougher sanctions on Iran in Berlin

  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Berlin for talks with his German counterpart Angela… 27/08/09 16:45 CET

• Poet behind Soviet anthem dies aged 96

  Sergei Mikhalov, the writer of the Soviet Union’s national anthem under Josef Stalin who later… 27/08/09 16:43 CET

• Pirates attack US helicopter

  Pirates off the Somali coast are getting bolder with this evidence of a patrol helicopter under… 27/08/09 15:03 CET

• Netanyahu in Berlin for Merkel talks

  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is in Berlin for talks with German Chancellor Angela… 27/08/09 14:03 CET

• Healthcare debate loses champion in Kennedy

  The death of US Senator Edward Kennedy has brought the American healthcare issue into sharp focus… 27/08/09 13:11 CET

• What now? As Iraqi Shi’ite leader is laid to rest

  The body of Abdul-Aziz al-Hakim the leader of Iraq’s largest Shi’ite political grouping begins its… 27/08/09 11:43 CET

• French Socialists to have open primaries in 2012

  The French Socialist Party is to opt for open primaries to select its candidate for the… 27/08/09 11:03 CET

• Japan opposition set for landslide victory

  Fifty years of almost unbroken rule seems certain to end with Japan’s main opposition democratic… 27/08/09 09:12 CET

• German poll hots up

  The German election campaign is starting to get spicy with a new row about members of parliament… 27/08/09 07:39 CET

• Climate protesters pitch camp in London

  Climate change protesters are gathering in London to call for an overhaul of the world economy to… 27/08/09 07:19 CET

• Kennedy mourned in Hyannis Port

  While Washington’s political elite mourned the passing of Ted Kennedy yesterday, local people at… 27/08/09 07:18 CET

• Russia vows to support breakaways

  Russia has vowed to defend the breakaway regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, a year after… 27/08/09 07:17 CET

• French “James Bond” escapes captors

  A French security agent kidnapped by Islamist insurgents in Somalia says he escaped his captors… 27/08/09 07:16 CET

• Israel PM optimistic of peace talks

  Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says his government is making progress towards opening… 27/08/09 07:15 CET

• Twilight of the Camelot dynasty

  The death of Ted Kennedy marks the end of one of America’s greatest political dynasties. His… 27/08/09 05:54 CET

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