One in four Germans would be ready to vote in September's federal election for a party that wants to quit the euro, according to an opinion poll published on Monday that highlights German unease over the costs of the euro zone crisis. Germany's mainstream parties remain solidly pro-euro despite grumbling over bailouts of countries such
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Etihad Airways, the national airline of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), is to expand significantly its reach across Africa after signing a strategic commercial partnership agreement with Kenya Airways, the national flag carrier of Kenya. Etihad Airways will place its EY code on Kenya Airways flights from Nairobi to 27 destinations across Kenya Airways’ network
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Confirmation drilling by Houston based Noble Energy, in block 12 of Cyprus’ Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ), is a top priority, Energy Minister George Lakkotrypis has pointed out. Asked to comment on the fact that Cyprus’ international lenders refuse to take into account the country’s earnings from natural gas reserves in their estimate of the amount
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Autumn is the time of year most associated with bumper crops of new babies, and according to an Israeli study there may be a scientific reason for it: human sperm are generally at their healthiest in winter and early spring. Based on samples from more than 6,000 men treated for infertility, researchers writing in American
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Britain should force all banks to split routine retail operations from riskier investment activities if a single lender abuses new rules designed to protect taxpayers, an influential panel of lawmakers said. The Parliamentary Commission on Banking Standards, which has been asked to find ways to reform banks, also said on Monday that Britain's financial regulator
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Britain's finance minister may have to apply shock treatment to the country's economy, including the controversial option of new borrowing to fund investment, if there is no sign of growth in six months' time, a business leader has said. This month's budget announcement by George Osborne must include several measures to boost the economy which
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The dollar held near multi-year highs against the yen on Monday after surprisingly strong U.S. labour data, but demand for riskier assets was curbed by a mixed bag of Chinese data which pointed to a patchy recovery in the world's second-largest economy. Commodities prices were caught between growing optimism about more solid demand as the
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Last spring, the future for Viddy, a video-sharing Facebook app, seemed as sunny as southern California's skies. Based a block away from Venice Beach, the 30-person startup impressed prospective investors with skyrocketing user growth figures and won funding from them at a $370 million valuation. The tech press hailed it as the "Instagram for video,"
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Germany's trade surplus narrowed in January with imports rebounding after two weak months to rise at their fastest pace since last May, data from the Federal Statistics Office showed on Monday. The figures showed a pickup in exports as well, but may raise questions about how much trade, the traditional driver of Europe's largest economy,
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Japan honours the victims of its worst disaster since World War Two on Monday: the March 11, 2011 earthquake, tsunami and nuclear crisis that killed almost 19,000 people and stranded 315,000 evacuees, including refugees who fled radiation from the devastated Fukushima atomic plant. The 9.0 magnitude earthquake struck northeast Japan at 2:46 p.m., triggering tsunami
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