Published on May,24 2012 - by Reuters
PARIS (Reuters) - The shock of Nicolas Sarkozy's failure to win re-election as French president has triggered a power struggle in his centre-right UMP party that could hurt its showing in next month's parliamentary ...
Published on May,24 2012 - by Bloomberg
(For more on Europe’s debt crisis, see EXT4.) May 24 (Bloomberg) -- European leaders tied their next steps on the financial crisis to the outcome of a bitterly contested election in Greece that may determine whether t ...
Published on May,24 2012 - by Agence France Presse
Nearly 700 people were arrested overnight in rowdy demonstrations in Montreal and Quebec over a planned hike in student tuition fees with rocks being hurled at police, a spokesman said Thursday.Police in Montreal had ...
Published on May,24 2012 - by Reuters
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - A power struggle between Germany, France and Spain is set to leave a seat vacant on the European Central Bank's six-member board in the middle of a potentially devastating crisis for the currency ...
Published on May,24 2012 - by Forbes
...r a stronger, cheaper substitute for steel between now and 2017. If, however, the company makes, say, designer jeans or smart phones, the estimates get a little fuzzier, given how finicky consumers can be. If the company...
Published on May,24 2012 - by The Daily Telegraph
Angelin Preljocaj's ballet version of Snow White is one of uninvolving storytelling and corny characterisation Once upon a time, I tried my hand at a Snow White novella. It was rejected (“treatment too dark for the s ...
Published on May,24 2012 - by The Daily Telegraph
Marvel's X-Men series has published a comic featuring the first same-sex wedding in a mainstream superhero comic book. In the Astonishing X-Men #50, Jean-Paul Beaubier, aka Northstar, a Canadian with piercing blue eyes ...
Published on May,24 2012 - by Bloomberg
May 24 (Bloomberg) -- The euro fell to the weakest level since July 2010 against the dollar as German business confidence slid and manufacturing shrank, stoking concern fallout from the debt crisis is spreading. Europe ...
Published on May,24 2012 - by Reuters
PARIS (Reuters) - With respected French designer Jean Paul Gaultier a member of the Cannes jury this year, celebrities at the swanky film festival on the French Riviera knew they had to step up their fashion game. They ...
Published on May,24 2012 - by The Daily Telegraph
Ferrari's Fernando Alonso showed his mastery of Monaco on with the fastest lap in a first free practice session cut short in a cloud of smoke. The Spaniard, twice a winner in the Mediterranean principality with Renault ...