Boris Johnson was tonight declared the new Mayor of London after a nail-biting finish to the historic race. He won his second term after a hard-fought contest against Labour rival Ken Livingstone. The battle for City Hall came down to the wire as the final tens of thousands of votes were counted. Mr Johnson’s comfortable lead [...]
Confessed mass killer Anders Behring Breivik testified Thursday that he had planned to capture and decapitate former Norwegian Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland during his shooting massacre on Utoya island. On the fourth day of his trial in Oslo, Breivik said his plan was to film the beheading of former Norwegian Prime Minister Gro Harlem [...]
Are there really global transport possibilities for living dolphins, and if so, who participates in it? Because of this reason the German dolphin and whale protection organisation ProWal concerned itself with this question and now, after one year of research there is an amazing result for the animal welfarists. Andreas Morlok, CEO of ProWal: “In [...]
British Prime Minister David Cameron has arrived in the United States for his three day official visit, media reported on Tuesday. According to reports Obama and Cameron will attend a match-up in Dayton, Ohio, between Mississippi Valley State University and Western Kentucky University on Tuesday night, a gesture of goodwill during Cameron’s official visit to the [...]
Away from the markets’ fixation with the debts of Greece and other governments, concern is growing at the painfully slow progress Europe is making in tackling a much bigger mountain of corporate and household debt. With austerity pointing to weak growth if not outright recession, the risk is that the burden of servicing the debt [...]
Pressure had been building on a number of fronts, but the issue which finally destroyed her was the yet-to-be-born euro. In the last weekend of October 1990, she travelled to a European summit in Rome, where Jacques Delors’ dream of European Monetary Union was high on the agenda. But while Mrs. Thatcher was fighting her [...]
After 168 years of print, the UK’s most widely read weekly newspaper News of the World published its latest issue on Sunday, after a phone-hacking scandal forced its owner, Rupert Murdoch, to close the tabloid. The tabloid of the United Kingdom sensationalist yellow press admitted in its last edition that phones were really intercepted. Continuing [...]
Nothing has been reported butfive hundred flights could be cancelled in Northern Ireland, Scotland and parts of Scandinavia on Tuesday if clouds of volcanic ash continue to drift toward commercial airports. The recent eruption of Iceland’s Grimsvotn volcano has sent clouds of volcanic ash towards parts of Scandinavia and western Europe, which has drawn the attention [...]
An explosion and feared meltdown at a Japanese nuclear plant Saturday exposed the scale of the disaster facing the country after a massive quake and tsunami left more than 1,000 dead. The Japanese government says an explosion Saturday blew off the roof and walls of the building containing a nuclear reactor, but did not damage [...]
Four people were killed in Bahrain as riot police unleashed rubber bullets and tear gas to drive panicked protesters out of a square in the capital, Manama, the opposition said yesterday. ”They attacked the square, where hundreds of people were spending the night in tents,” said one witness, Fadel Ahmad. The protesters, including women and children, [...]
The pound has risen this afternoon (February 15th) following further speculation the interest rate could rise. According to Reuters, sterling moved up 0.5 per cent against the dollar at $1.6120 following information that revealed UK inflation remains high. Forex traders might be interested to note the news provider pointed out the Bank of England’s (BoE) inflation [...]
Police in Britain say they are investigating the deaths of four people, believed to be from the same family, found in two locations in Leicester, England. The body of a 32-year-old man was found Friday night at Watermead Country Park, followed by the discovery of the bodies of a 24-year-old woman, a 3-year-old boy and a [...]
The Tel Aviv district court yesterday convicted former soldier Anat Kam of leaking some 2,000 classified military documents, but under a plea bargain the most serious charges of “harming state security” were dropped. The plea bargain reduces the maximum prison term faced by Kam (24) when sentencing takes place in April, from life to 15 years. [...]
Turkey’s vocal support for a regime change in Egypt reflects the country’s quest for leadership in the Middle East, where it is often lauded as an example that Islam and democracy can co-exist. Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Wednesday Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak’s pledge to stand down in September is not enough and he [...]
Home Secretary Theresa May ought to ban tomorrow’s so-called “homecoming” demonstration in Luton planned by the English Defence League. Whatever the weasel words of its spokesmen, EDL leaders know that the group’s events are always accompanied by racist abuse and attacks on places of worship and of minority ethnic communities. The EDL may insist that its [...]
With everyone curious about how Turkey would react to public demonstrations taking place in Egypt seeking the resignation of long-entrenched President Hosni Mubarak, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan took sides with the Egyptian public, calling on Mubarak to heed the call of the Egyptian people. Speaking at his party’s parliamentary group meeting earlier this week, [...]
