News for July 2010
AFP - The French mother who admitted killing eight of her newborn babies is relieved her secret is finally out, her lawyer said Friday, in a case that has stunned the country.
Relatives voiced disbelief that …
AFP – British sculptor Antony Gormley has stood 100 life-size human figures in the Austrian Alps in an new installation spread across kilometres that officially opened Saturday.
Gormley has placed the solid cast-iron figures, each weighing …
AFP – Cash-strapped British oil giant BP is looking to sell its German fuel station unit Aral for at least two billion euros (2.6 billion dollars), a German magazine reported on Saturday.
Wirtschaftswoche cited unnamed investment …
The discovery of eight dead newborns in a sleepy town in northern France has captured national and international headlines with its improbable and gruesome plot: an introverted mother admits she suffocated her babies …
AFP – Iraqi soldiers arrested two suspected insurgents behind a brazen series of attacks in Baghdad this week that killed 16 people and wounded 14 others, a security official said on Saturday.
The pair were arrested …
AFP – A region of mountainous forests in Sri Lanka and an isolated archipelago off Hawaii have been added to UNESCO’s World Heritage list, officials of the UN cultural and scientific body said Saturday.
The World …
AFP – A landmark visit by Syrian and Saudi leaders may have helped to ease tensions in Lebanon, but did little to address the crux of the problem in the long-run, analysts said on Saturday.
The …
AFP - The French mother who admitted killing eight of her newborn babies is relieved her secret is finally out, her lawyer said Friday, in a case that has stunned the country.
Relatives voiced disbelief that …
AFP – Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh on Saturday accused the northern Shiite rebels of rejecting a February truce, through repeated acts of aggression.
“In their latest acts of aggression, the Huthi rebels attacked the MP …
AFP – President Nicolas Sarkozy warned on Friday that France would strip foreign-born criminals of their French nationality if they use violence against police or public officials.
Struggling in the opinion polls after his government …
AFP – Cash-strapped British oil giant BP is looking to sell its German fuel station unit Aral for at least two billion euros (2.6 billion dollars), a German magazine reported on Saturday.
Wirtschaftswoche cited unnamed investment …
AFP – US President Barack Obama has warned Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas that failure to resume direct peace talks with Israel could undermine US-Palestinian ties, Palestinian officials said on Saturday.
Obama made the warning in a …
AFP – A region of mountainous forests in Sri Lanka and an isolated archipelago off Hawaii have been added to UNESCO’s World Heritage list, officials of the UN cultural and scientific body said Saturday.
The World …
AFP – Jari-Matti Latvala claimed a local victory in the Rally of Finland on Saturday, Ford’s Finnish driver holding off Citroen duo Sebastien Ogier and Sebastien Loeb.
Latvala had led the standings from special stage seven …
AFP - The French mother who admitted killing eight of her newborn babies is relieved her secret is finally out, her lawyer said Friday, in a case that has stunned the country.
Relatives voiced disbelief that …
AFP – Cash-strapped British oil giant BP is looking to sell its German fuel station unit Aral for at least two billion euros (2.6 billion dollars), a German magazine reported on Saturday.
Wirtschaftswoche cited unnamed investment …
