Hackers attacked the websites of the Czech central bank, several top commercial banks and the Prague Stock Exchange on Wednesday, slowing or shutting down online services in the latest in a series of such attacks across Europe in recent weeks. The attacks, caused by flooding systems with digital requests that overwhelm servers, followed a wave
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British director Sam Mendes will not direct the next James Bond movie, despite impressing critics and breaking box office records with "Skyfall", the 23rd movie in the spy series. Speaking to Empire magazine in an interview published on Wednesday, the Oscar-winning filmmaker said he would be focusing on his theatre projects for the foreseeable future.
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A dancer at Russia's Bolshoi ballet who made his name playing villains has confessed to ordering the acid attack that nearly blinded its director, angry that his lover was being kept out of leading roles. Pavel Dmitrichenko, who has danced the crazed monarch in Ivan the Terrible and the villain in Swan Lake, was detained
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Falling investment and consumers' reluctance to spend even at Christmas were behind the euro zone's slide deep into recession in the last three months of 2012, according to a second official estimate on Wednesday. Economic output from the 17 nations sharing the euro fell 0.6 percent in the fourth quarter of 2012, EU statistics agency
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Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy has given his strongest hint yet that he might make a comeback bid in 2017, telling a magazine a sense of duty to fix the economy might oblige him to run. Sarkozy's remarks in the right-leaning weekly Valeurs Actuelles, due out on Thursday, will increase speculation he could return to
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The European Union fined Microsoft Corp 561 million euros ($731 million) on Wednesday for failing to offer users a choice of web browser, an unprecedented sanction that will act as a warning to other firms involved in EU antitrust disputes. It said the U.S. software company had broken a legally binding commitment made in 2009
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Travel firm Thomas Cook said it would cut 2,500 UK jobs and close 195 stores in Britain as the euro crisis, high fuel costs and unrest in key destinations like Egypt and Greece take their toll on the holiday business. The 172-year-old group has struggled over the last two years with a slump in sales
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Although some computer users may actively seek pirated software in hopes of saving money, the chances of infection by unexpected malware are one in three for consumers and three in ten for businesses, according to a new study commissioned by Microsoft Corp. and conducted by IDC. As a result of these infections, the research shows
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Unit for Combating Money Laundering (MOKAS) Head Eva Papakyriakou has said that an evaluation of Cyprus’ legal framework on combating money laundering and its implementation is expected to begin in mid March, noting that the evaluation concerns only the financial system. Papakyriakou and Central Bank of Cyprus Supervision Department Assistant Director met Wednesday with Troika
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In the gloom of Europe's bottomless auto slump shines a relative bright spot, the mini-SUV – and beleaguered mass-market carmakers are piling in like excited joyriders. PSA Peugeot Citroen, Ford and Renault joined the stampede on Tuesday, showing new subcompact crossovers at the Geneva car show, with Fiat and others close on their heels. Despite
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