The 2022 World Cup in Qatar could be held at the beginning of the year or the end of it, FIFA president Sepp Blatter said on Tuesday. "For FIFA, if there's the will to change something for the international calendar for one year, it's possible to do, because if there's a will, there's also a
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– Ban to tell leaders he wants Cyprus breakthrough – Impatience rising ahead of Geneva meeting on Wednesday U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon is likely to demand a breakthrough in the chronic Cyprus conflict by March when he meets its rival leaders on Wednesday, in a growing sign of impatience with dragging peace negotiations. Sources close to
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– Personalized subscription news service Ongo launched – Subscriptions start at $6.99 A personalized news service funded by New York Times Co, Washington Post Co, and Gannett Co launched on Tuesday in an attempt to get readers to pay for online news. Ongo, which received $12 million in funding from the three newspaper publishers,
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More than 200 illegal immigrants started a hunger strike in Athens on Tuesday to seek legal residence status, in the latest sign of a growing crisis in the recession-hit EU frontier state. Nine in ten illegal immigrants use Greece as a gateway to the European Union. The country, long-criticised for its poor handling of asylum
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U.S. single-family home prices fell for a fifth straight month in November and a double-dip in home prices could be confirmed by spring, a closely watched survey said on Tuesday. The Standard & Poor's/Case-Shiller composite index of 20 metropolitan areas declined 0.5 percent in November from October on a seasonally adjusted basis, though it was
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The industrial turnover index for October 2010 reached 128.4 (base 2005=100), recording an increase of 1.3% compared with October 2009. For index for the manufacturing subsector, reached 115.2, recording a decrease of 3.0% compared with October 2009. For the period January-October 2010, the turnover index recorded an increase of 3.5% compared with the same period
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Construction prices rose by 2.73% over the year earlier in 2010 according to the latest figures from the Statistical Service. There was a wide variety among various materials, however. Among the highest increases were bitumen asphalt (29.83%), copper pipes (26.31%), asphalt concrete (premix), which rose by 24.94% and building iron, which rose by 19.00%. Moderate
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While tourists coming to Cyprus rose by only 1.5% in 2010, the number of people travelling abroad rose by a much higher 6.3%, to 1,246,378 compared with 1,172,268 in 2009. There was an increase of 2.6% in the number of trips of residents to Greece (from 417,710 in 2009 to 428,686 in 2010), while there
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Hundreds of supporters of caretaker Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri protested in north Lebanon on Tuesday against the expected nomination of Hezbollah-backed Najib Mikati to form the next government. Hariri loyalists have called for a "day of anger" after Hezbollah and its allies, who toppled Hariri's government two weeks ago in a dispute about indictments in
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On the basis of the results of the Passenger Survey, revenue from tourism rose by 2.3% to reach EUR 62.4 mln in November 2010 compared with EUR 61.0 mln in the corresponding month of the previous year. For the period January – November 2010 revenue from tourism is estimated to have risen by 4.0% to
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