Source: TOI on line ROME/ATHENS: German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Monday that Europe could be living through its toughest hour since World War II as new leaders in Italy and Greece rushed to form governments and limit the damage from the euro zone debt crisis. Complete Story:
It’s been darkly amusing watching European leaders continue to increase the size of their “bazooka” over the past two years, only to see the markets return fire, and render it useless. The solution: The ECB needs to declare an interest rate cap for various countries, and tell the market that […]
A dead pig and four pig heads were buried on the site of a future mosque in an anonymous anti-Islam attack, police said. The attackers sent anonymous letters to the media in the region near the mosque site in the town of Grenchen in canton Solothurn. In the letter they […]
By REUTERS ZURICH: Swatch Group SA will cut supplies of watch movements to competitors to force them to invest in their own production and choke off exports to Asia where they may be used to make fake Swiss products, its Chief Executive Nick Hayek said. His comments are the latest […]
There is a 65 percent chance of a banking crisis between November 23-26 following a Greek default and a run on the Italian banking system, according to analysts at Exclusive Analysis, a research firm which focuses on global risks. http://www.cnbc.com/id/45218531
Source / Courtesy: Yahoo News LONDON (AP) — A journalist at Rupert Murdoch’s The Sun tabloid has been arrested on suspicion of police corruption, British media reported Friday, a development that spreads the taint of scandal to the country’s biggest-selling newspaper. U.K. broadcasters and newspapers identified the journalist as award-winning […]
The UK Is Stepping Up Preparations For War With Iran The UK is considering all options after growing increasingly concerned with Iran’s nuclear program, reports the Guardian. Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/uk-iran-war-2011-11#ixzz1cdxnnOoT
Source: Times of India Two recent events have brought home some ugly truths. A Sri Lankan-origin Australian tried (unsuccessfully) to lay charges against the president of Sri Lanka, visiting Perth to attend the Commonwealth summit, for alleged war crimes in the war against the Tamil Tigers. Another former head of […]
Forbes has just published its annual list of the world’s most powerful people which is sure to cause no little debate. There’s sure to be plenty of arguments over who did and didn’t make the list. Maybe, just maybe, there might be one or two eyebrows raised at Barak Obama’s resurgence […]
Baby Loup lawyer Richard Malka (L) with director Natalia Baleato By RFI France – Article published the Thursday 27 October 2011 A French court has ruled that a private nursery had the right to fire an employee for wearing Islamic head-cover, leading its lawyer to hail an advance for […]
By RFI The offices of French satirical paper Charlie Hebdo were hit by an apparent arson attack overnight just ahead of the publication of an edition carrying a front-page cartoon of the prophet Mohammed. Charlie Hebdo’s issue this week renamed itself Charia Hebdo and featured a cartoon of the prophet Mohammed threatening […]
Editor’s Note: Jeffrey D. Sachs is Professor of Economics and Director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University. He is also Special Adviser to United Nations Secretary-General on the Millennium Development Goals. For more from Sachs, visit Project Syndicate or follow it on Facebook and Twitter. By Jeffrey D. Sachs, […]
Source: Reuters (Reuters) – If the world follows the demographic habits of Europe — and that’s a big if — by the year 2200 it could be home to a population of less than half its current level, living in housing built for almost three times that number. With the […]
Imagine all the people sharing all the world. When Lennon wrote the lyrics in 1971, the world population was 3.8 billion. In the coming days it will hit seven billion. swissinfo.ch spoke to demographics expert Philippe Wanner about the rise and rise of the global population and asked whether we […]
RFI The Brussels meeting agreed to unlock eight billion euros in aid to Greece with finance ministers saying that banks and private investors must take a greater share of the costs. The French proposal on the European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF) was at the heart of disagreement between French President Nicolas Sarkozy and […]
By RFI New Zealand beat France in Sunday’s Rugby World Cup final but their 8-7 win was the result of a better-then-expected showing by les Bleus. The victory is the All Blacks’ first since they won the inaugural tournament in 1987. More: http://www.english.rfi.fr/ sports/20111023-all-blacks-beat-france-rugby-world-cup-only-just
As the world marked the 10th anniversary of 9/11, a leading Muslim group took the issue of the rise of religious extremism. The debate was hosted by Dr Tannock and organised in conjunction with the UK All-Party Parliamentary Group for the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community and the South Asia Democratic Forum. It took place on Tuesday 20 […]
Source: Spiegel International It is years behind schedule. But on Friday, two satellites belonging to the European navigation system Galileo are heading into orbit. The system promises to be more precise than anything currently available. But Europe has paid dearly for its autonomy. There are some, of course, who might […]
Metro France: The case of Carlton has put the spotlight on prostitution rings installed on the other side of the border. A few kilometers from Lille, several hundred brothels host of young northerners, including many students who need money again in this academic year. Julie, 25 years, law degree, attended the “hostess bars” for several months: “I really need money to pay for my studies and if I wanted to succeed, I could not allow me to work every evening, she says. with these amounts bars, I could earn […]
by CLARISSA ROHRBACH The Mahmud Mosque invites on the weekend Swiss of any belief to discover Islam at a lecture at the Zurich Volkshaus. Imam Sadaqat Ahmed explains why this enlightement is necessary. Tagblatt of the City of Zurich: Sadaqat Ahmed, what do you want to achieve with this function? […]