Kids should stay off trampolines at home and at the playground, U.S. pediatricians urged Monday, saying emergency departments across the country see nearly 100,000 injuries from the bouncy mats each year. The new statement from the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) updates recommendations from 1999, which caused manufacturers to add safety features to the products
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German business sentiment dropped for a fifth straight month in September to its lowest since early 2010, raising fears of recession and underlining that a bold bond-buying plan laid out by the European Central Bank is no economic elixir. Germany's relative resilience to the euro zone crisis has been steadily fraying as its firms see
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An Egyptian court on Monday sentenced 14 militant Islamists to death by hanging and four to life imprisonment over attacks on army and police forces in the Sinai Peninsula last year. The men, members of a militant group called Tawheed and Jihad, were charged by the prosecutor with killing three police officers, an army officer
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Cyprus intends to utilise the new opportunities so that the Southeastern Mediterranean Corridor evolves into an additional and trustworthy provider of energy for Europe, Cypriot Minister of Commerce, Industry and Tourism Neoclis Sylikiotis has said. Addressing the International Forum on "Creating a Competitive Integrated Regional Energy Market in the ΜΕΝΑ Region: The Contribution of the
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Some of the world's top financial regulators will answer questions in the European Parliament on Monday about market manipulation such as the rigging of benchmark interest rate Libor. The scandal over fixing the rate used as a reference for financial transactions worth more than $350 trillion globally has led to a fine for Britain's Barclays
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A Qatari man struck down with a previously unknown virus related to the deadly SARS virus and the common cold is critically ill in hospital in Britain, the World Health Organisation said on Monday. The United Nations health body said it is urgently seeking more information about the new virus, which comes from the same
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The European Union cannot afford to relax its economic reform programmes even as the 27-nation bloc makes progress building a framework to protect itself from financial shocks, European Council President Herman Van Rompuy said on Monday. "I see a tendency of losing the sense of urgency both on short-term policies and on (the) longer term.
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European shares and the euro followed a broad range of riskier assets lower on Monday as investors refocused attention from central bank stimulus schemes to weak economic fundamentals and the euro zone's yet-to-be-resolved debt crisis. This week will see another clutch of euro zone events. Spain, under pressure to submit to a rescue programme, will
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Cable network HBO took home the biggest haul at the television Emmy awards on Sunday with 23 trophies for shows like political film "Game Change" and White House comedy series "Veep." The CBS broadcast network finished second with 16, and cable channel Showtime, also owned by CBS Corp, scored big with major wins for new
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If confidence could be distilled and bottled, it would be worth as much to policymakers right now as the finest perfume or vintage Chateau Lafite. Unfortunately for them, central bankers can create unlimited liquidity but not unlimited confidence – as European and U.S. surveys are likely to show this week. Of late the Federal Reserve
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