Global corporate tax plan wins Swiss approval
Business G20 comments Readers Recommend Image Caption: Switzerland was represented for the first time at a G20 meeting (Keystone) by Matthew Allen, swissinfo.ch July 19, 2013 - 18:36 Switzerland, home...
View ArticleThousands take to U.S. streets to protest Trayvon Martin verdict
Reuters July 21, 2013 - 02:47 By Edward Upright and Zachary Faginson NEW YORK/MIAMI (Reuters) - Demonstrators took to the streets in dozens of U.S. cities on Saturday to vent their anger over the...
View ArticleItaly bus crash kills at least 36 people
Bodies of victims of the bus crash near on the Naples-Bari highway in Italy. Photo: AFP Updated 11.16am AEST Rome: At least 36 people died when a bus ploughed into several cars before breaking through...
View ArticleExclusive - EU questions data in solar dispute with China
Reuters July 29, 2013 - 18:58 By Ethan Bilby BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The EU is investigating a German company it used to help make its case in a solar panel dumping dispute with China, following...
View ArticleChina rattled by spate of random violence
Police officers survey the scene after a man in a wheelchair set off a homemade bomb at Beijing Airport.. BEIJING - A man buys a knife in a Beijing supermarket and randomly attacks customers with it,...
View ArticleInside Ariel Castro's house: pictures reveal horrific ordeal endured by...
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View ArticleDirector-General urges Philippine authorities to investigate double...
(Source: UN - United Nations) Director-General urges Philippine authorities to investigate double journalist murder in Manila UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova today condemned the murder of...
View ArticleThousands take to U.S. streets to protest Trayvon Martin verdict
Reuters July 21, 2013 - 02:47 By Edward Upright and Zachary Faginson NEW YORK/MIAMI (Reuters) - Demonstrators took to the streets in dozens of U.S. cities on Saturday to vent their anger over the...
View ArticleDirector-General condemns murder of Colombian journalist Jose Gomez Naudin...
(Source: UN - United Nations) Director-General condemns murder of Colombian journalist Jose Gomez Naudin UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova today denounced the murder of Colombian radio journalist...
View ArticleBotulism threat to infant milk formula
A potentially fatal baby formula ingredient has been imported to Australia and New Zealand, dairy producer Fonterra warned today. Fonterra, the world’s largest dairy exporter,  warned on Saturday its...
View ArticleRolf Harris rearrested on new sex abuse allegations, reports claim
Rearrested: Rolf Harris. Photo: Supplied Embattled entertainer Rolf Harris has been rearrested and bailed again in England following "further allegations" of historical sex abuse, according to...
View ArticleDirector-General voices alarm at murder of Mario Sy, third journalist killed...
(Source: UN - United Nations) Director-General voices alarm at murder of Mario Sy, third journalist killed in the Philippines in two days The Director-General of UNESCO, Irina Bokova, today condemned...
View ArticleHigh-level conference on water cooperation in Tajikistan (UN - United Nations)
(Source: UN - United Nations) High-level conference on water cooperation in Tajikistan A high-level conference on water cooperation will take place from 20 to 22 August in Dushanbe, Tajikistan....
View ArticleFive people sentenced to jail for Costa Concordia disaster
Reuters July 20, 2013 - 12:03 ROME (Reuters) - Four Costa Concordia crew members and a company official were sentenced to jail in Italy on Saturday for their part in the 2012 cruise ship disaster that...
View ArticleOprah claims racist slur after Swiss shop says handbag "too expensive"
Oprah: Claims she was told a handbag was "too expensive". Photo: Reuters Oprah Winfrey wasn't the victim of racism when she asked to be shown a 35,000 Swiss franc ($38,000) crocodile handbag in Zurich...
View ArticleTaliban-style edict for women spreads alarm in Afghan district
Reuters July 20, 2013 - 06:45 By Rob Taylor and Folad Hamdard KABUL/DEH SALAH, Afghanistan (Reuters) - One of Afghan President Hamid Karzai's main religious advisers will not overturn a decree issued...
View ArticleGunmen kill eight at graduation party in Venezuela
Reuters July 22, 2013 - 00:44 CARACAS (Reuters) - Gunmen stormed a graduation party at a home in Venezuela's central Bolivar state and killed eight people, including six teenagers, the country's...
View ArticleJames 'Whitey' Bulger found guilty of murder, racketeering
James "Whitey" Bulger listens to the verdict in his murder and racketeering trial as seen in this courtroom drawing in Boston. Photo: Reuters Boston: James "Whitey" Bulger, the mobster who terrorised...
View ArticleHannah Anderson, 16-year-old abduction survivor, 'a victim in every sense',...
Mary Young, Mark John and Mike Young all from Sweet, Idaho, speak with the media during a news conference at the Ada County Sheriff's Office in Boise, Idaho. Photo: Reuters San Diego: Law enforcement...
View ArticleNobel Peace Prize for Bradley Manning? 100,000 people say yes
US rights group RootsAction co-founder Norman Solomon (centre) delivers boxes of over 100,000 signatures urging the Nobel Peace Prize to be awarded to Bradley...
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