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| Internet leak reveals support for far-right party in Britain |
The extent of support in Britain for the far-right British National Party (BNP) was revealed Wednesday with the publication of the personal details of more than 12,000 members and supporters on an internet site.
The list, published on the website Wikileak, gave the names, addresses, and in some cases the professions, of members who include serving and former... |
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It will take some time to recover from the current economic slowdown, and many industrial nations will eventually plunge into recession, chief OECD economist Klaus Schmidt-Hebbel said in an interview made public on Friday.
"Our base scenario is built on the premise that the current freeze in short-term financial markets will be...
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Giant German carmaker Daimler AG became the first of the country's top auto groups Thursday to report its third-quarter results, reducing its earnings forecast again in face of deepening economic gloom and falling demand for luxury vehicles.
The manufacturer of premium Mercedes-Benz brand cars said it now expected to post full-year...
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The European Parliament on Thursday criticized the use of virtual strip-search machines in Europe's airports, saying they could violate citizens' privacy.
Body scanners use radio waves to display full-body images that reveal whether passengers are concealing weapons or explosives under their clothes.
These machines are already...
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Two employees of Norway's largest banking group as well as the DnB NOR group itself were Thursday suspected of insider- trading, the Norwegian Financial Supervisory Authority said.
The Norwegian National Authority for Investigation and Prosecution of Economic and Environmental Crime raided the bank Thursday over suspicions that the...
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Croatia's government has agreed to pay 78 million euros (101 million dollars) in damages to firms from Italy and Austria for claims arising from a cancelled highway project and a bank privatization, a local media report said Thursday.
The Croatian news portal business.hr, quoting a government source, said the settlements involve 44.3...
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The Swedish government Thursday formally decided to halt an adoption programme with Vietnam over fears of irregularities.
Health and Social Affairs Minister Goran Hagglund said the decision hinged on the government's concern that "the rights of the individual child and biological parents are taken into...
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The French government will establish an investment fund to support the country's strategic enterprises affected by the economic crisis, President Nicolas Sarkozy said on Thursday in the city of Annecy.
The fund will make available loans to struggling companies in exchange for shares, which will be sold, presumably at a profit, once...
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DHL, a unit of the Deutsche Post transport group, said Thursday it had chartered air-cargo capacity between Asian and US destinations with US air-freight operator Polar Air Cargo.
The connections to eight cities using six Boeing air-freighters provided by Polar would begin soon, German-owned parcels and courier company DHL said in...
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The reserves of Dutch pension funds have dropped dramatically due to investment losses in the ongoing financial crisis, Dutch media reported on Thursday.
The "cover factor" of many funds (a percentage that determines to what extent the funds can meet their obligations to pay pensions) have dropped dramatically in the third...
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Portsmouth manager Harry Redknapp said Thursday that he would be interested in signing David Beckham on loan if a proposed deal to take the England midfielder to AC Milan falls through.
Beckham, who plays in the MLS for Los Angeles Galaxy, is in talks with Milan over a possible three-month deal from January to March, that would allow...
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Today is Thursday, June 5
the 157th day of 2008 with 209 to follow. The moon is waxing. The morning stars are Venus, Jupiter, Neptune and Uranus. The evening stars are Mercury, Mars and...
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 General Petraeus Set for Central Command
It appears that U. S. President George W. Bush’s favorite
general has been handed the task of winning the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan
as well as confronting the...
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 A culinary journey through Crete
Almost as soon as you set foot on the southern Mediterranean island of Crete the poignant smell of oregano, wild flowers and wild teas tickles your senses while the...
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