businessweekly
Facebook – forging an empireLast week Twitter virtually exploded, when thousands of users shared their opinion on what was a… 13/04/12 17:00 CET
cinema
Diaz puts spotlight on police brutality‘Diaz Don’t Clean Up This Blood’ depicts the Italian police’s brutal assault on sleeping protesters… 13/04/12 16:42 CET
corporate
Bumper quarter for VolkswagenGerman car maker Volkswagen saw record gains in sales in the first three months of 2012. Demand… 13/04/12 14:57 CET
Google stock split to keep founders in controlGoogle is changing the structure of its shares to ensure that the company’s founders – Larry Page… 13/04/12 14:57 CET
economy
An unhappy Easter for GreeksThe economic crisis has overshadowed the Orthodox Easter celebrations in Greece. Food is normally… 13/04/12 19:42 CET
Chinese economic growth slowsChina’s economy grew at its slowest pace in nearly three years in the first three months of this… 13/04/12 15:33 CET
Italian industrial output still weakItalian industrial output was weaker than expected in February. It fell 0.7 percent from the… 13/04/12 14:57 CET
europeweekly
Europe Weekly: strikes, flights and websitesIn this week’s Europe Weekly we report on the four day strike that paralysed Brussels’ transport… 13/04/12 15:38 CET
le mag
Titanic sinking sets standards for modern, international journalismJournalists pulling the night shift in New York had little idea about the media storm that was… 13/04/12 16:41 CET
perspectives
Europe remembers the doomed liner, RMS TitanicOne hundred years after the tragedy the Titanic continues to fascinate. For many years the number… 13/04/12 17:11 CET
pictureoftheday
South Koreans protest against North Korea rocket launchSouth Korean Protesters burn an effigy of North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un bound on a mock North… 13/04/12 11:57 CET
reporter
French elections: what’s Y got to do with it?They are young, they are French and they are part of what is known as Generation Y. A generation… 13/04/12 10:15 CET
world news
North Korean rocket launch stokes tensionsNorth Korea defied international pressure from the United States, the UN and others when it went… 13/04/12 19:15 CET
Algeria’s first president buried in Martyrs’ CornerAlgerians have buried Ahmed Ben Bella, the country’s first president who died on Wednesday at the… 13/04/12 23:44 CET
Bahrain Grand Prix confirmed despite renewed clashesHundreds of mourners clashed with police in Bahrain on Friday after attending the funeral of a man… 13/04/12 23:43 CET
Rallies in Russia for hunger striking politicianRallies are due to take place on Saturday in support of a Russian politician who is on hunger… 13/04/12 23:33 CET
Thousands protest Suleiman’s bid for Egypt presidencyThousands of Egyptians rallied in Cairo’s Tahrir Square on Friday, in what they said was a show of… 13/04/12 20:24 CET
Condemnation following failed North Korea rocket launchSouth Korea remained on high alert on Friday despite the failure of the North’s latest rocket… 13/04/12 20:10 CET
EU pact sails through Portuguese parliamentPortugal has become the second EU country – after Greece - to ratify a European Union pact… 13/04/12 19:43 CET
Spain warns Argentina over energy nationalisationSpain is threatening Argentina with unspecified retaliation if it nationalises Spanish oil company… 13/04/12 18:04 CET
Portuguese military on alert after coup in Guinea-BissauThe Portuguese military was placed on high alert after an apparent coup in the tiny west African… 13/04/12 18:03 CET
Four go on trial over Danish newspaper plotFour men accused of plotting a shooting spree at the offices of the Jyllands-Posten newspaper have… 13/04/12 17:29 CET
Syria refugees in Turkey protest against killings despite ceasefireSyrians staying in Turkish refugee camps are protesting an outbreak of violence from the Syrian… 13/04/12 17:17 CET
Britain’s PM urges suspension of sanctions against MyanmarBritish Prime Minister David Cameron has said economic sanctions against Myanmar should be… 13/04/12 15:53 CET
High anxiety for Spiderman on Qatar towerAnother tower, another challenge. It took Frenchman Alain Robert under 90 minutes to conquer… 13/04/12 15:33 CET
Protest for Italy’s ‘dislocated workers’Thousands of Italians from the country’s main labour unions have gathered in the centre of Rome in… 13/04/12 14:24 CET
Controversial North Korean rocket launch ends in failureThe much anticipated launch of a rocket in North Korea failed on Friday, after it… 13/04/12 13:04 CET
North Korean rocket launch sparks condemnationReaction to North Korea’s failed rocket launch has been swift. Demonstrators ‘launched’ a mock… 13/04/12 13:03 CET
British PM arrives in Myanmar for landmark visitDavid Cameron has become the first British Prime Minister to visit Myanmar in more than 60 years… 13/04/12 10:44 CET
Clashes reported in Syria after ceasefireFighting is reported to have broken out in Syria, a day after a UN-backed ceasefire came into… 13/04/12 10:33 CET
Bahrain Grand Prix given green lightThe Formula One Grand Prix will go ahead in Bahrain next week, the motor sport’s governing body has… 13/04/12 08:43 CET
North Korea launch condemnedNorth Korea’s decision to go ahead with the launch of a long-range rocket has been almost… 13/04/12 06:33 CET
Syrian ceasefire strained by scattered violenceSyria’s fragile ceasefire is being tested with reports of scattered violence on both sides. State… 13/04/12 05:23 CET
Unrest in Guinea BissauSoldiers in Guinea Bissau are reported to have attacked the home of the front-runner in the African… 13/04/12 03:33 CET
North Korea’s rocket launch failsNorth Korea has attempted to launch a rocket – ostensibly to send a weather satellite into orbit -… 13/04/12 02:03 CET
Egypt bans former Mubarak officials from the presidencyThe Egyptian parliament has banned officials who worked under deposed leader Hosni Mubarak from… 13/04/12 00:43 CET
Spain’s stolen babies landmark trial gets underwayAn 80 year old nun has become the first person to appear in court in a scandal allegedly involving… 13/04/12 00:03 CET
