cinema
Istanbul film festival boosts Turkish cinemaThe 30th edition of the Istanbul Film Festival featured the usual mix of home-grown and foreign… 19/04/11 15:18 CET
corporate
Luxury brands continue strong growthStrong demand for luxury brands from developing markets drove a 33 percent rise in quarterly sales… 19/04/11 17:05 CET
Apple tells Samsung to ‘stop copying’Apple is suing Samsung over its Galaxy line of mobile phones and tablets. In court papers it… 19/04/11 17:05 CET
economy
Obama warns over budget deficitPresident Barack Obama is warning a failure to sort out the US budget deficit will seriously damage… 19/04/11 19:16 CET
Shanghai motor show opensThe top motor show in the world’s largest car market has opened in Shanghai. Underlining how… 19/04/11 17:05 CET
europa
EU states fail education benchmarks‘Please don’t close our school!’ It has become common to see Europeans petitioning against the… 19/04/11 20:32 CET
hi-tech
Meet the man behind high-speed internetIn 1987, French inventor Emmanuel Desurvire along with colleagues Randy Giles and David Payne came… 19/04/11 16:10 CET
le mag
Lady Gaga-inspired royal parody tops internet chartsAmong the innumerable parodies, creations and merchandising products derived from the upcoming… 19/04/11 16:33 CET
musica
Bonus: Sir John Eliot Gardiner & Dan JemmettThe ‘Musica’ bonus includes a few excerpts from our interview with conductor Sir John Eliot… 19/04/11 22:31 CET
Sir John Eliot Gardiner takes Weber to ParisDer Freischütz – ‘The Freeshooter’ - is Carl Maria von Weber’s masterpiece and is considered the… 19/04/11 22:31 CET
pictureoftheday
Police detain a ‘Femen’ activistUkrainian police detain an activist from the women’s rights organisation “Femen” during a protest… 19/04/11 13:09 CET
world news
UK gears up for wedding with dogs, dolls and dancing princesPolice in London say discussions are ongoing over whether to allow demonstrations at locations… 19/04/11 19:14 CET
Cuba embraces economic reform to revive growthMore than 50 years after the Cuban revolution, the founding fathers of the Carribean island’s… 19/04/11 17:23 CET
Back in the Day: meet the SimpsonsApril 19, 1987: The Simpsons is broadcast for the first time as a one-minute short animation on The… 19/04/11 06:31 CET
Nigeria: scale of killing becomes clearerAt least 33 people have been killed in post-election violence in Nigeria’s major cities alone… 19/04/11 23:43 CET
Cuban emotion as Fidel Castro says ‘no more’Fidel Castro has formally taken a bow out of Cuban politics before an emotional gathering of the… 19/04/11 22:45 CET
Rome bans street drinkingIn Rome the authorities have banned the consumption of alcohol on the famous Campo dei Fiori after… 19/04/11 22:44 CET
Holy smoke! Barcelona basilica burnedPart of the renowned Sagrada Familia basilica in Barcelona has been damaged by fire. Police suspect… 19/04/11 20:06 CET
Brit expelled from Australia after 41 yearsAustralia has sent a British man back to the UK because of his criminal record after he had lived… 19/04/11 20:06 CET
Chernobyl’s steel arch shelterWhen the Chernobyl nuclear power station exploded 25 years ago, authorities encased the damaged… 19/04/11 19:33 CET
Security forces fire on protesters in YemenIn Yemen there have been more violent clashes as protesters took to the streets demanding that… 19/04/11 19:26 CET
Turkey: Violent clashes follow election rowIn Turkey there have been violent clashes between security forces and Kurdish demonstrators in… 19/04/11 19:04 CET
Warm welcome for Fidel Castro at party congressCuba’s Communist Party has held a congress in Havana that has been as emotional as it was historic… 19/04/11 18:00 CET
Syria lifts emergency but warns against protestsThe Syrian government under President Assad has passed a bill lifting the country’s longstanding… 19/04/11 17:34 CET
Libyan rebels urge more NATO attacksNATO continues its bombardment of Libya, launching strikes against targets in Tripoli and Sirte… 19/04/11 17:33 CET
Chernobyl donor conference falls short of targetA donor conference set up to raise money to make the Chernobyl nuclear disaster site safe has… 19/04/11 16:43 CET
UK referendum presents hurdle for coalitionA referendum to reform the way members of parliament are elected in the UK is threatening to shake… 19/04/11 16:39 CET
Young girl detained in Baku police crackdownOnce again the speed of the internet makes it difficult for governments to hide their actions… 19/04/11 16:16 CET
Kurdish party threaten election boycottTurkey’s leading Kurdish political party is threatening to boycott the country’s parliamentary… 19/04/11 14:53 CET
Back in the Day: Pasteur makes a name for himselfApril 20, 1862. French chemist Louis Pasteur (pictured), along with Claude Bernard, completes the… 19/04/11 14:41 CET
Italy promotes Libyan oil sales moveThe question of how to get Libyan oil from rebel areas back on world markets is to be explored at… 19/04/11 13:53 CET
Post-election violence erupts in NigeriaMany people are reported dead in post-election violence in the north of Nigeria, the homeland of… 19/04/11 13:03 CET
Cameron rebuffs Brown’s IMF boss bidBritish Prime Minister David Cameron has indicated that his predecessor Gordon Brown is not the… 19/04/11 12:53 CET
Syria vows to clamp down on ‘armed insurrection’Human rights groups say Syrian security forces used “heavy fire” against anti-government protesters… 19/04/11 12:33 CET
Male whales change tune to stay hip, study showsGroups of humpback whales copy and remix each others’ songs in a human-like attempt to be… 19/04/11 11:48 CET
Kiev gets cash to construct new Chernobyl shellEU leaders and the G8 are meeting in Kiev, Ukraine, to mark the 25th anniversary of the Chernobyl… 19/04/11 11:33 CET
Fukushima operators begin pumping out radioactive waterOperators of the Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan have begun pumping out thousands of tonnes of… 19/04/11 11:23 CET
Nordic noshery Noma wins best eatery prizeThe Danish restaurant Noma has been voted the world’s best eatery for the second year in a row… 19/04/11 10:13 CET
Fidel quits Communist Party leadership as Cuba looks to reformFidel Castro has stepped down as head of Cuba’s Communist Party. The move comes as the party… 19/04/11 08:43 CET
Syria vows to clamp down on ‘armed insurrection‘ Human rights groups say Syrian security forces used “heavy fire” against anti-government protesters… 19/04/11 06:03 CET
Republicans and Democrats on the attack after credit warningBoth the White House and Congress have seized on Standard and Poor’s revised US credit outlook as… 19/04/11 05:23 CET
Aid agencies step up Misrata evacuationA chartered ship carrying nearly 1,000 foreign workers and wounded Libyans from Misrata docked… 19/04/11 03:13 CET
Violence follows Nigerian presidentialAnger over the result of Nigeria’s presidential election triggered riots that killed several people… 19/04/11 00:43 CET
Hungary’s Socialists angry over new constitutionParliamentary approval of Hungary’s new constitution has angered opposition Socialists and even the… 19/04/11 00:33 CET
