Friday, 28 February 2014
 




2014-02-27
Spain’s economy grew between October and December as domestic demand and investments improved, data showed, adding to signs that its recovery from recession is slowly gaining traction. Gross domestic...
2014-02-27
(Source: European Parliament) The European Commission must "immediately" set up a system to monitor member countries' compliance with EU values and accession criteria, says a resolution...
2014-02-27
Unemployment has fallen to 12.1 per cent, official figures have revealed. As the Government detailed its latest plans to drive job creation, the Central Statistics Office quarterly national household...
2014-02-27
Disclosing a AUD 235 million half- year loss, Australian national airlines Qantas today announced axing...
2014-02-27
Scientists with NASA's Kepler mission announced Wednesday that the number of verified planets beyond our solar system (also called exoplanets) has increased by 715. These newly confirmed exoplanets...
2014-02-26
Tweet Damascus, Feb 27 (IANS) A new shipment of Syria's stockpile of chemical weapons left its territory Wednesday, as a continued international effort to rid the war-torn country of its chemical...
2014-02-26
Brazil forced the withdrawal of a line of World Cup shirts bearing suggestive motifs seen as harming the country's image. Following a complaint by the state tourist board, official cup...
2014-02-26
A pair of al Qaeda-inspired extremists have been jailed for the murder of an off-duty British soldier who was hacked to death on a London street in front of horrified crowds. Self-described...
2014-02-26
MOSCOW, February 26 (RIA Novosti) – Russia is taking additional steps to ensure security at its naval facilities on the Crimean Peninsula amid the growing political unrest in Ukraine, Russian...
2014-02-26
KIEV, Ukraine For the past three months, tens of thousands of Ukrainians have been singing the Ukrainian national anthem on Kiev's central square, the Maidan, united in their dreams of change. In...
2014-02-26
The former editor of a Hong Kong newspaper whose ouster triggered protests over media freedom was hacked with a cleaver yesterday in an attack that drew condemnation from the US and press groups....
2014-02-26
BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian army troops killed 175 rebels in an ambush Wednesday south of Damascus, state media reported, a major attack targeting mostly al-Qaida-linked fighters as part of a government...
2014-02-26
Beirut - Hezbollah on Wednesday confirmed an Israeli air raid two days earlier on one of its positions in Lebanon and vowed to respond “at the appropriate time” to the “blatant...
2014-02-26
Almost exactly one year to the day since Benedict XVI stepped down as spiritual leader of the world's 1.2 billion Roman Catholics, the former pope has issued his first public comment on recurring...
2014-02-26
Nato's secretary general says that if Afghan leaders and the White House can't agree on a key security pact, the US-led alliance will pull all of its troops and equipment out of Afghanistan by...
2014-02-26
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Europe's antitrust regulator accepted on Wednesday Visa Europe's offer to cap its inter-bank credit card fees at 0.3 percent per transaction, the same level as rival MasterCard,...
2014-02-26
(Source: Amnesty International) Sri Lanka: Briefing exposes how activists brave retaliation before UN human rights session Sri Lanka: Briefing exposes how activists brave retaliation before UN human...
2014-02-26
Washington - President Barack Obama has told the Pentagon to prepare for the possibility that no US troops will be left in Afghanistan over President Hamad Karzai's refusal to sign a joint security...
2014-02-26
KIEV, Ukraine: Hoping to reach a consensus that would heal some of Ukraine’s wounds, the country’s acting president on Tuesday delayed the seating of an interim government for at least two...
2014-02-26
WASHINGTON (AP) — In a blunt warning to Afghan President Hamid Karzai, President Barack Obama threatened on Tuesday to withdraw all U.S. troops from Afghanistan by the end of this year if a crucial...
2014-02-26
WASHINGTON - Ukraine may well be the geopolitical prize nobody can afford to win. As the country begins the delicate climb out of the chaos that saw yet another political turnover, the US and the...
2014-02-26
Oklahoman congressmen with a role in U.S. defense budget blame President Barack Obama for the deep reductions, though Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said Congress had given the military less money than...