Armageddon! All animal and plant life may vanish from the Earth within the next one billion years, a new study has predicted. However, ironically the end of the world is going to arrive as a result of too little carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, rather …
Ironically Armageddon is going to arrive as a result of too little, rather than too much, carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Currently experts are trying to find ways to cut levels of the greenhouse gas to prevent global warming running out of control …
Justice Minister Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger accused the US of using ‘Cold War’ methods against its allies after it emerged they tap half a billion communications in Germany every month.
France will pursue 14 billion euros in spending cuts next year as it attempts to reduce the public deficit to 3 percent of economic output by 2015, Le Monde reported. France’s Socialist government aims …
Iceland's lenders have forgiven household debt equal to about 12.4 percent of gross domestic product since the island's 2008 financial collapse. Lenders had written off 212.2 billion kronur ($1.7 billion) in household debt through the end of 2012, the …
Japan’s Suntory Beverage and Food Ltd will raise 388 billion yen after it set its IPO price near the bottom of its marketing range, hurt by concerns about its valuation and weak appetite amid market volatility. …
Vodafone has agreed to buy Germany’s largest cable operator Kabel Deutschland for 7.7 billion euros , betting on TV and fixed-line services in its biggest deal since 2007. Announcing its second major acquisition …
Nationwide , Britain’s biggest customer-owned financial services group, is drawing up plans to raise at least 1 billion pounds to fill a hole in its balance sheet, the Sunday Times said. Nationwide must …
The Oregon Republican Party cites a report that "estimates that the annual cost to Oregon taxpayers for government services to illegal aliens, after any income tax revenue from them, is $1 billion."
By Siemond Chan and Chris Nichols NSA “whistle-blower” Edward Snowden might have changed for once and for all the way we view our privacy online and over the airwaves. But even if this is so, he almost certainly hasn’t altered … Continue reading →