archive 17·03·2010

corporate

• BMW forecasts profit rise

  BMW has said it expects a significant rise in pretax profit this year. That would come from… 17/03/10 19:19 CET

economy

• Merkel raises euro expulsion for fiscal repeat offenders

  Criticism among the countries using the euro has climbed a notch. Following French-German sniping… 17/03/10 19:44 CET

• BOJ eases lending further

  Japan’s central bank has increased the amount of money it is making available for commercial banks… 17/03/10 19:19 CET

• IMF wants better economic cooperation

  The head of the International Monetary Fund has called on the world’s leading economies to… 17/03/10 19:19 CET

• Status quo for OPEC output

  OPEC oil ministers have agreed to keep the group’s production quotas unchanged at their meeting in… 17/03/10 19:19 CET

• Surprise fall in UK jobless claims

  Britain’s dole queues shrank in February by the biggest amount since 1997. The fall in… 17/03/10 19:19 CET

• Honda recalls 410,000 vehicles in US

  Honda is to recall more than 410,000 Odyssey minivans and Element small trucks in the US due to a… 17/03/10 07:31 CET

europa

• Merkel: Euro expulsion should be an option

  German Chancellor Angela Merkel has said kicking out a member of the euro should be an option… 17/03/10 13:14 CET

hi-tech

• The mini cancer treatment with maxi impact

  Doctors in Scotland are using a revolutionary new method of treating benign skin cancers. It comes… 17/03/10 18:39 CET

le mag

• Kapoor exhibits in Bilbao for first time in Spain

  An exhibition dedicated to the work of Anish Kapoor is on display at the Guggenheim Museum in… 17/03/10 18:41 CET

• Lifting the veil on women, Islam and sexuality

  Four actresses, 12 monologues, one play: “The Veiled Monologues” is by the Dutch writer and… 17/03/10 18:41 CET

science

• Breakthrough claimed in cot-death study

  Scientists in France believe they have made a crucial breakthrough in the study of cot-deaths that… 17/03/10 18:39 CET

world news

• Mustafa Al Barghouti: “Sanctions must be imposed on Israel”

  Mohammad Elhamy, euronews You are in Jerusalem and you have spoken to people there. Do you think… 17/03/10 19:47 CET

• Shlomo Ganor: “The government’s decision three months ago to freeze settlements only concerns the West Bank”

  Issam Badran, euronews Let’s begin talking about the crisis between the US and the Israeli… 17/03/10 19:47 CET

• EU’s Ashton calls for Middle East talks

  EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton has urged Israeli and Palestinians to reopen peace talks… 17/03/10 19:25 CET

• ETA blamed for French police killing

  Anti-terrorist police are looking for several suspected Basque separatists from ETA after a French… 17/03/10 19:12 CET

• Campaigners call for asbestos ban

  Anti-asbestos activists have gathered in Turin, Italy, to call for a worldwide ban on the deadly… 17/03/10 19:11 CET

• Pope urges ‘healing’ over Irish sex abuse

  Pope Benedict XVI will write a letter to Catholics in Ireland following revelations that priests… 17/03/10 19:11 CET

• ‘Electric shock’ game show shocks TV researchers

  How can TV turn people into torturers? A documentary broadcast on French television depicts a game… 17/03/10 19:10 CET

• Former Iraqi PM gains lead as counting nears end

  Iraq’s former prime minister Iyad Allawi has edged past his rival, the current PM Nuri al-Maliki as… 17/03/10 13:09 CET

• Tensions still high in Jerusalem

  Israeli security forces continue to remain on high alert in Jerusalem with fears of additional… 17/03/10 12:28 CET

• Thai protesters pour blood over PM’s home

  Red-shirted anti-government demonstrators in Thailand converged on the house of the prime minister… 17/03/10 12:27 CET

• ETA blamed for French police killing

  Basque separatists from ETA are suspected after a French policeman was shot and killed in a suburb… 17/03/10 11:04 CET

• Kremlin confident START-2 is on track

  Moscow has tried to calm fears that a long-awaited new nuclear arms reduction pact with Washington… 17/03/10 07:36 CET

• Israel and the US try to heal rift

  Violence in East Jerusalem has continued over Israeli plans to build settler homes there, but the… 17/03/10 07:27 CET

• Iraq election: Allawi leads Maliki for first time

  Former Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi has edged past the country’s current Prime Minister… 17/03/10 07:26 CET

• French policeman killed in suspected ETA attack

  A French policeman has been shot and killed after his patrol was fired upon by suspected Basque… 17/03/10 05:34 CET

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