economy
Fed pledges low rates for two yearsFederal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and his fellow policymakers have kept interest rates… 09/08/11 20:57 CET
US shares rebound on hope for Fed helpAfter Monday’s massive nosedive in share prices they started buying again on Wall Street on Tuesday… 09/08/11 16:56 CET
Gold rush and oil slick as shares tumbleAs investors dumped shares worldwide they have been using the money raised to buy gold the price of… 09/08/11 15:26 CET
musica
Opera’s upcoming talent goes to Moscow==In partnership with: == It is the most important classical voice competition of contemporary… 09/08/11 21:01 CET
pictureoftheday
Day after riots in West LondonA man clears up in a supermarket in Ealing in west London. Prime Minister David Cameron will today… 09/08/11 13:09 CET
Sport
England’s friendly called offEngland’s friendly international against the Netherlands at Wembley on Wednesday has been called… 09/08/11 20:06 CET
Paris Saint Germain welcome PastoreArgentina’s Javier Pastore was officially unveiled as a Paris Saint-Germain player at a press… 09/08/11 07:23 CET
world news
A view from the streets of LondonThe riots have certainly succeeded in bringing at least one thing: shock. I have spoken to… 09/08/11 18:02 CET
Japan accused of ignorance over radiation levelsAn investigation has revealed that although Japan’s hi-tech radiation forecasting system was… 09/08/11 22:13 CET
Rumsfeld may be sued for Iraq tortureFor the second time in a month a US court has ruled former Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld can… 09/08/11 20:47 CET
Medvedev and Aliyev meet in SochiRussian President Dmitri Medvedev has hosted talks with his Azeri counterpart Ilham Aliyev on the… 09/08/11 20:05 CET
Kohl gets wall for his gardenThe man who led Germany into reunification, former Chancellor Helmut Kohl, has been presented with… 09/08/11 20:04 CET
European shares end sell-offEurope’s stock markets had another extremely volatile day on Tuesday, see-sawing between gains and… 09/08/11 19:56 CET
ECB asked Italy for more austerity: TrichetThe European Central Bank asked the Italian government to implement further austerity measures in… 09/08/11 19:28 CET
Scores dead after Comoros boat capsizesAt least 50 people have died in rough seas when a passenger boat sunk off the Comoros… 09/08/11 18:35 CET
Somalia to Dadaab: Mimouna’s journeyMimouna, an elderly Somali woman, fled famine and civil war back home for the world’s largest… 09/08/11 18:14 CET
Assad talks as his tanks continue to pound protestersSyria’s leader Bashar al-Assad has been meeting with the visiting Turkish foreign minister, but… 09/08/11 18:04 CET
Volunteers clean-up in England’s riot citiesThe rioting has brought a different kind of people out onto the streets, other than the rioters… 09/08/11 17:54 CET
UK police prepare for fourth night of violenceA massive policing operation is being mounted across England in preparation for another possible… 09/08/11 17:04 CET
UK authorities vow to clamp down on violenceBritish prime minister David Cameron has visited Croydon in south London, hit by Monday night’s… 09/08/11 17:04 CET
UK businesses feel full force of riotsThe financial damage will be enormous but so too will be the emotional stress caused to businesses… 09/08/11 16:34 CET
Behind the London riots a multitude of causesOn Saturday a small crowd including Mark Duggan’s mother and fiance gathered outside a Tottenham… 09/08/11 16:04 CET
Cameron: rioters ‘will feel full force of the law’British prime minister David Cameron says parliament will be recalled for a one-day session on… 09/08/11 14:13 CET
Cameron recalls UK parliament to debate riotsBritish prime minister David Cameron says parliament will be recalled on Thursday following the… 09/08/11 13:03 CET
European markets fall for 13th consecutive dayShares are again volatile on the European stock exchanges. They fell sharply at the start of the… 09/08/11 12:53 CET
Japan remembers Nagasaki and pledges to cut nuclear energyJapan remembered the the victims of the Nagasaki atomic bomb at the end of the Second World War on… 09/08/11 11:53 CET
First UN relief airlift to Mogadishu for five yearsThe United Nations’ refugee agency has airlifted supplies into the Somali capital for the first… 09/08/11 11:03 CET
European traders cautious after Asian fallsEuropean stock markets opened on Tuesday amidst continuing nervousness. Paris, Milan and Madrid… 09/08/11 09:43 CET
Strike called off at German airportsA planned strike by air traffic controllers in Germany has been averted after the employers, the… 09/08/11 08:23 CET
Asian markets continue the global plungeAsian markets have tumbled once again on fears that the US is heading for recession after… 09/08/11 05:33 CET
London riots spread to other UK citiesRioting and looting has spread across London and on to several other cities in Britain’s worst… 09/08/11 04:34 CET
Wall Street plunges after US credit downgradeUS stocks plunged in one of the worst panic-sell offs since 2008 as Wall Street got its chance to… 09/08/11 02:34 CET
Ukraine keeps ex-PM Tymoshenko in custodyUkraine’s former prime minister is to remain in police custody. Yulia Tymoshenko was detained on… 09/08/11 01:15 CET
Strauss-Kahn hit with civil lawsuit by maidThe chamber-maid at the centre of rape accusations against the former IMF chief has filed a civil… 09/08/11 01:13 CET
London riots trigger mixed reactionsThe level of destruction left as youths ran riot on the streets of London have left many shocked… 09/08/11 00:13 CET
