archive 17·04·2012

cinema

• Woody goes ‘To Rome with Love’

  Having produced several odes to London, a nod to Spain and a full scale love letter to Paris, the… 17/04/12 16:43 CET

corporate

• Fiat hit hardest by EU car sales slump

  European car sales fell for a sixth straight month in March with Fiat suffering most down 26… 17/04/12 14:16 CET

economy

• Oil price boosts eurozone inflation

  Inflation continues to rise in the eurozone even though the region’s economy is almost certainly in… 17/04/12 14:16 CET

europa

• Repsol-YPF nationalisation: what can the EU do?

  For more insight on the escalating row between Spain and Argentina over the nationalisation of… 17/04/12 21:02 CET

hi-tech

• Robots reveal Titanic secrets

  The wreck of the Titanic lay undisturbed for 73 years, at depths of up to 12,000 feet under water… 17/04/12 16:44 CET

le mag

• Birthday celebrations at ‘Balkan Trafik’

  The famous Bulgarian clarinetist Ivo Papasov showed his virtuosity at the sixth annual Brussels‘… 17/04/12 18:44 CET

• Tyson And Depp Are Branching Out

  Mike Tyson has opened a one-man show in Las Vegas. The former boxer talks about his life and his… 17/04/12 16:44 CET

newsplus

• IMF more upbeat, but cautious on growth

  The International Monetary Fund says the eurozone’s short term growth prospects have improved a… 17/04/12 20:01 CET

pictureoftheday

• Virginia Tech remembers five years after massacre

  Five years after a mentally ill student gunned down 32 people at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg… 17/04/12 11:43 CET

world news

• Argentina won’t pay seven billion euros for Spanish controlled oil firm

  Argentina says it will not pay the equivalent of around seven billion euros to buy a majority stake… 17/04/12 23:03 CET

• Italian tourist kidnapped in Algeria freed

  After more than 14 months in the hands of al-Qaeda affiliated Algerian rebels, Italian tourist… 17/04/12 22:43 CET

• Mixed Argentine reaction to YPF-Repsol row

  Argentina’s government is incurring the wrath of Spain with the nationalisation of YPF to reduce… 17/04/12 20:03 CET

• Space shuttle Discovery makes final voyage before retirement

  The space shuttle Discovery, one of three surviving shuttles, dispensed with a rocket propelled… 17/04/12 19:13 CET

• Breivik claims two other extremists at large

  Self-confessed killer Anders Breivik refused to be silenced on the second day of his trial. The… 17/04/12 18:23 CET

• YPF nationalisation sours relations between Spain and Argentina

  Political outcry in Spain continues after the Argentinean government’s decision to nationalise one… 17/04/12 18:06 CET

• Britain to deport radical Islamic cleric

  The UK re-arrested radical Islamic cleric Abu Qatada on Tuesday, resuming proceedings to have the… 17/04/12 17:13 CET

• Chechen scientists find dinosaur eggs

  Scientists in Chechnya have discovered a cache of fossilised dinosaur eggs. They made the… 17/04/12 16:05 CET

• Egypt football violence trial opens in Cairo

  Seventy-five men accused of involvement in a deadly stampede at an Egyptian football match appeared… 17/04/12 16:04 CET

• Rebel fighter elected East Timor president

  East Timor chose a new president on Monday: ex-independence fighter-turned-politician Taur Matan… 17/04/12 15:57 CET

• Hunger strikes and protests mark Palestinian Prisoners’ Day

  Palestinians have marked an annual day of solidarity with the thousands of their own people… 17/04/12 14:43 CET

• UN monitors continue despite more deaths in Syria

  April 17 traditionally marks Independence Day in Syria, commemorating the last withdrawal of French… 17/04/12 14:33 CET

• Diplomatic row between Argentina and Spain over YPF oil row

  Argentina’s decision to take control of Spanish firm Repsol’s shares in one of Argentina’s largest… 17/04/12 13:03 CET

• ‘I demand that I be freed,’ Breivik tells court

  Anders Behring Breivik asked an Oslo court to acquit him of terror and murder charges on Tuesday… 17/04/12 12:43 CET

• Iran’s president warns against foreign intervention

  Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has warned that the country’s armed forces will make the… 17/04/12 11:24 CET

• Celebrations in Buenos Aires over YPF nationalisation

  People happy about the decision by Argentina’s government to nationalise Spanish-run oil company… 17/04/12 11:23 CET

• Breivik trial adjourned amid questions over judge’s impartiality

  The trial of Anders Behring Breivik, the man who killed 77 people last July, was temporarily… 17/04/12 10:03 CET

• Australian PM Gillard spells out Afghan exit plan

  Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard on Tuesday announced plans to pull most of the country’s… 17/04/12 08:43 CET

• Norway’s mass murderer shows no pity for victims

  Smirking and showing no remorse Anders Behring Breivik pleaded not guilty to the massacre of 77… 17/04/12 03:33 CET

• Angry Madrid criticises Argentina’s move on YPF

  Argentina’s plans to seize control of its biggest oil company YPF has drawn howls of protest from… 17/04/12 01:43 CET

• US-Philippines play war in China’s backyard

  Despite noisy domestic protests the annual war games in the Philippines with the US and Philippine… 17/04/12 00:23 CET

• Berlusconi and his stripper nuns

  With Italians more concerned about the economy, former premier Silvio Berlusconi has been off the… 17/04/12 00:13 CET

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