Whether or not money can buy happiness, people worldwide seem to think it can, at least according to a new poll that canvassed respondents in two dozen countries. Nearly two-thirds of about 20,000 people surveyed said they "need to live better," the survey by market research company Ipsos showed, while one-third said their life was
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The Italian government on Tuesday called a confidence vote in the lower house of parliament to speed the final passage of measures to deregulate the service sector that Prime Minister Mario Monti says are vital to boosting growth. After passing a 33-billion-euro austerity package last year, Monti pushed through a deregulation decree in January to
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** Public sector grows as percent of employment ** The number of civil servants rose in 2011 according to the latest data from the Statistical Service, despite a former finance minister’s declarations to the contrary. Overall public-sector workers stagnated but only because of a cut in publicly owned enterprises. The total number of civil servants in
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Cyprus and Greece have submitted a joint proposal for a new Convention which would safeguard the integrity of sport. The proposal was tabled during a Council of Europe (CoE) Sports Ministers’ Conference in Belgrade, on March 13-14, entitled ''The promotion of the integrity of sport against match-fixing.” Speaking during the discussion, Cyprus Sport Organisation President
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Lionel Messi needs one goal to equal the Barcelona scoring record after Cesar Rodriguez's total was revised to 232 from 235, the La Liga club said. Barca's Documentation and Studies Centre and La Vanguardia newspaper conducted a joint study to verify the number of official goals scored by Rodriguez in the 1950s. The study showed
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Mario Monti will walk into a meeting with Italy's trade union bosses on Tuesday, knowing it can help make, or break, his brief tenure as prime minister and his attempts to drag the economy out of the mire. Four months after he was summoned from an academic semi-retirement to rescue Italy from a Greek-style debt
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Gross Domestic Product (G.D.P.) for the year 2011 is provisionally estimated at 17.761,4 million euro, at current prices, compared to 17.333,6 million in 2010, marking an increase of 2,5%, the Statistical Services of the Republic of Cyprus announced here today. According to a press release, on the first estimate of the National Accounts, issued by
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Scientists have discovered how electroconvulsive or electric shock therapy – a controversial but effective treatment – acts on the brains of severely depressed people and say the finding could help improve diagnosis and treatment of mental illness. Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) involves first anaesthetising the patient and then electrically inducing a seizure. It has a controversial
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A senior executive at Sun Hung Kai Properties Ltd, Asia's largest property developer by market value, has been arrested by Hong Kong's anti-graft body over suspected bribery, in a rare case for a major property company in the city. Thomas Chan Kui-yuen, executive director responsible for project planning and land acquisitions, was arrested by the
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Shares slipped on Tuesday, led by losses in Hong Kong and Shanghai on underwhelming corporate earnings, while the euro held near its highest level in a week on easing fears about wider damage to the financial system from Greece's debt crisis. Commodities were broadly weaker, with base and precious metals both edging down, while crude
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