musica Lohengrin opens La Scala's new season La Scala in Milan opened its new season with a production of Wagner’s Lohengrin, an opera the composer himself said was his saddest work. It is 20/12/2012
Business BNP Paribas bids farewell to Egypt BNP Paribas, France’s biggest bank, has agreed to sell its Egyptian arm to Emirates NBD. The price is 377 million euros. Emirates NBD wants to 20/12/2012
World EU-Russia: different views Russia in recent weeks has clashed with the European Union and the United States over international policies. Of key note are the civil war in Syria 20/12/2012
Sci-tech A machine which can read your mind “We have developed so called brain-computer interfaces which allow the user to control different devices and programmes without hands, by means of 20/12/2012