Recent safety incidents for Boeing's new 787 Japan's two leading airlines grounded their fleets of Boeing 787s on Wednesday after one of the Dreamliner passenger jets made an emergency landing, the latest and most serious in a series of incidents to heighten safety concerns over a plane many see as the future of commercial aviation.
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The number of building permits issues in January – October 2012, fell by 3.1% over the year earlier to 6,147 according to the Statistical Service. The total value of these permits fell by a much bigger 21.5% in the same period and the total area by 32.9%. Τhe number of dwelling units authorised in January-October
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Total imports / arrivals in November reached EUR 454.4 mln according to preliminary data, of which EUR 287.0 mln were arrivals from other Member States of the EU and EUR 167,4 mln imports from third countries. Total exports/dispatches in November amounted to EUR 113.7 mln, of which EUR 62.0 mln were dispatches to other Member
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Facebook shares opened on Monday above $32 for the first time since July as anticipation about upcoming products and financial results underscored Wall Street's renewed confidence in the online social network. Facebook will on Tuesday host its first major press event at its headquarters in Menlo Park, California, since its troubled initial public offering in
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British women with a family history of breast cancer could be offered two drugs to try to prevent the disease under draft guidelines published by the country's healthcare cost watchdog. Tamoxifen and raloxifene are already approved in the United States and other countries for preventing breast cancer in high-risk patients, but they have not so
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The baby of Britain's Prince William and his wife Kate is expected in July, the prince's office said on Monday. The pregnancy of the Duchess of Cambridge, 31, was revealed in December when she was admitted to hospital for three days, suffering from severe morning sickness. "Their Royal Highnesses The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge
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Apple has cut orders for LCD screens and other parts for the iPhone 5 due to weak demand, the Nikkei reported on Monday, in a further sign the U.S. giant is losing ground to Asian smartphone rivals. Apple has asked Japan Display, Sharp and South Korea's LG Display Co to roughly halve supplies of LCD
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United Parcel Service Inc said it would drop its 5.2 billion euro ($7 billion) bid for Dutch delivery firm TNT Express on the expectation of an EU veto, a sharp blow that halved the value of TNT's shares within minutes. U.S.-based UPS, the world's No. 1 package delivery company, had sought to buy the Dutch
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The consumer-linked value-added tax (VAT) has gone up by one percentage point to 18% from Monday, the second hike in ten months, with a further increase expected in 2014, in a desperate effort to raise funds for the bankrupt Cyprus economy. Moody's slashed Cyprus by three notches to Caa3 last week, taking it further into
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Cyprus appeared to win conditional support for its bailout bid from EU paymaster Germany on Friday, hours after a savage credit ratings cut intensified the indebted island's economic misery. Rating agency Moody's slashed Cyprus by three notches to Caa3 late on Wednesday, taking it further into "junk" territory, and warned it could be downgraded again.
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