archive 02·03·2011

cinema

• Snow-mantic comedy on the slopes

  Take a working-class English girl who becomes a champion snowboarder, make her fall for an… 02/03/11 14:53 CET

corporate

• Bangladesh ousts Yunus

  Bangladesh’s central bank says it is removing Nobel peace prize winner Muhammad Yunus as boss of… 02/03/11 16:08 CET

• IATA predicts diving profits

  Global airline net profits will halve this year compared with 2010. That the latest prediction… 02/03/11 16:08 CET

economy

• Merkel still hoping for financial transactions tax

  Germany and Austria have said they want all the members of the euro zone to back a tax on financial… 02/03/11 18:59 CET

• Spain’s dole queues lengthen in February

  The number of people out of work in Spain rose in February to its highest level in 15 years… 02/03/11 16:08 CET

• Gold hits new records on Mideast turmoil

  Gold keeps hitting new record highs on an almost daily basis. On Wednesday it went above $1,440 an… 02/03/11 16:08 CET

europa

• EU triples aid for refugees fleeing Libya

  The EU has announced a trebling of aid for refugees fleeing Libya to 10 million euros. The extra… 02/03/11 19:32 CET

le mag

• Franco-Mexican spat proving costly to culture

  Organisers of France’s Mexican Year of Culture are warning that a diplomatic spat between the two… 02/03/11 14:49 CET

pictureoftheday

• Fleeing unrest in Libya

  Bangladeshi migrant workers wait near the Tunisian gate at the Libyan and Tunisian border crossing… 02/03/11 12:13 CET

science

• Study finds brain responds to mobile signals

  In 2009 the United Nations said around four-billion people had a mobile phone, that is more than… 02/03/11 14:40 CET

world news

• US airmen gunned down at German airport

  German police have launched a major investigation after two US servicemen were shot dead on an army… 02/03/11 23:53 CET

• Refugees greatest need is for transportation

  Shusha refugee camp is six kilometres from Ras Jedir on the Tunisian border. The rows of tents are… 02/03/11 22:45 CET

• ‘Berlusconi’s girl’ hits out at media coverage

  An 18-year-old dancer at the centre of a sex scandal plaguing Italian Prime Minister Silvio… 02/03/11 20:14 CET

• Libya’s rebels call for no-fly zone

  Anti-Gaddafi forces have called on the international community to impose a no-fly zone across… 02/03/11 20:13 CET

• New rebel recruits vow to overthrow Gaddafi

  As funerals were held in the city of Benghazi for those killed in recent violence, word began to… 02/03/11 19:52 CET

• Diplomacy with muscle for Libya?

  Two American amphibious assault ships passed through the Suez Canal on their way to waters off… 02/03/11 19:46 CET

• Gaddafi forces fight rebels for oil town

  Fighting between Gaddafi loyalists and rebel groups has been raging in the oil town of Brega… 02/03/11 18:04 CET

• Two GIs shot dead in Frankfurt

  Two American soldiers have been killed by a gunman on a bus at Frankfurt airport. The victims were… 02/03/11 17:35 CET

• Mikhail Gorbachev speaks out on his birthday

  He is the man so often credited with changing the course of history in the Soviet Union and on… 02/03/11 17:23 CET

• Merkel forced into cabinet reshuffle

  Germany has a new defence minister after Angela Merkel was forced to reshuffle her cabinet. Thomas… 02/03/11 17:16 CET

• Further protests against Iranian regime

  “Mubarak, Ben Ali and now Ayatollah Khamenei” – the slogan of protesters in the Iranian city of… 02/03/11 17:14 CET

• Taliban gunmen shoot dead Pakistan minister

  The Taliban said on Wednesday they carried out the fatal shooting of Pakistan’s minister for… 02/03/11 16:05 CET

• Libya: Arms, ethics and the EU

  As the body count mounts in Libya and the EU and allies apply diplomatic pressure to force Gaddafi… 02/03/11 15:19 CET

• Libyan disturbances in Malta

  Anti-Gaddafi protesters in Malta have raised the flag of independence on the roof of the Libyan… 02/03/11 15:14 CET

• Women wary of new Egypt constitution

  There are concerns in Egypt that the country’s post-revolution constitution will fail to fully… 02/03/11 14:50 CET

• Gaddafi warns of a ‘bloody war’

  It was a message to the world. Libya’s leader Muammar Gaddafi has appeared live on national… 02/03/11 13:33 CET

• World powers split over Libyan intervention

  An American and British proposal to set up a no-fly zone over Libya has triggered concern amongst… 02/03/11 12:04 CET

• Battle for Libya: Gaddafi counter-attacks in the east

  Reports from Libya suggest forces loyal to Colonel Gaddafi are stepping up counter-attacks in the… 02/03/11 12:03 CET

• Pakistani Christian minister shot dead amid blasphemy row

  In Islamabad gunmen have shot dead Pakistan’s Minister for Minorities. Shabaz Bhatti, the only… 02/03/11 10:33 CET

• Designer Galliano’s ‘odious’ behaviour

  The world of fashion has been reacting to the dismissal of star designer John Galliano from the… 02/03/11 09:03 CET

• Gaddafi fire power still feared by rebels

  The spreading revolt in Libya may be closing in on the embattled leader, Muammar Gaddafi, but the… 02/03/11 06:33 CET

• Diplomatic and military pressure builds against Gaddafi

  The international response to the Libyan crisis is becoming a two pronged attack – on one hand… 02/03/11 05:23 CET

• Asian workers join the exodus from Libya

  Hundreds of refugees – a mixture of Indian and Bangladeshi labourers who up until now have been… 02/03/11 04:14 CET

• International aid response vital for Libyan refugees

  On the border between Libya and Tunisia, thousands of refugees are desperate to escape the violence… 02/03/11 03:04 CET

• From Russia with kisses: police embrace reforms

  “We don’t need police”. It was not the most subtle – or clever – of slogans to parade anywhere… 02/03/11 01:33 CET

• Danish family seized by pirates in Indian Ocean

  A Danish family along with two crew members have been seized by pirates in the Indian Ocean… 02/03/11 01:03 CET

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