* €200 mln project at Larnaca airport to lure Russians, Israelis * Nicos Shacolas, one of the smartest entrepreneurs in Cyprus who is known to turn everything he touches to gold, is keen to operate the island’s first casino within the leisure complex he wants to develop at Larnaca airport. The only problem, according to
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Turkey's Air Force Academy commander was jailed early on Friday with three other officers charged with seeking to overthrow the government in a 2003 plot in which more than 200 officers are accused. Their detention further exacerbates long-running strains between the country's once all-powerful secularist military and a religiously conservative ruling party, which some critics
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The prospect of a second bailout for debt-stricken Greece assuaged market fears of default on Friday as the country's prime minister flew to Luxembourg to present plans for deeper austerity measures. Prime Minister George Papandreou will outline a medium-term budget plan for deeper spending cuts, increased revenue and a faster sell-off of state assets to
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Lowry's lonely people, Tracey Emin's scrawlings and a mysterious portrait of Elizabeth I are just a few of the gems from the British government's art collection unveiled to the public for the first time this week. The exhibition, at London's Whitechapel Gallery and picked by top government officials old and new from offices scattered across
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* Brent crude falls more than $1 on U.S. growth jitters * European shares and U.S. debt yields slipped while the euro hovered near one-month highs against the dollar on Friday before non-farm payrolls data that could stoke concerns about a slowdown in the U.S. economy. Oil prices also edged lower as a protracted slowdown
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* Lockheed Martin, Google also victims of cyber war * Hackers broke into Sony Corp's computer networks and accessed the information of more than 1 mln customers to show the vulnerability of the electronic giant's systems, the latest of several security breaches undermining confidence in the company. LulzSec, a group that claims attacks on U.S.
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Former Bosnian Serb army commander Ratko Mladic faces judges at the United Nations war crimes tribunal in The Hague on Friday to answer charges of genocide in the Bosnia war. Once a burly and intimidating figure on the battlefield, Mladic now looks frail and older than his 69 years. Mladic faces the special court's gravest
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Four people were killed and one was seriously injured in an explosion at an oil refinery in southwest Wales, the plant's owner Chevron Corp said on Friday. The blast occurred at the 220,000 barrel per day Pembroke refinery on Thursday. Chevron did not provide any details on the operational status of the refinery. Police said
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Firefighters battled a blaze raging through an arms depot on Friday, forcing a halt to oil pipeline flows from Russia's largest crude producer and causing 28,000 residents to be moved out of the area. The fire, the second at a munitions store in less than a week, injured at least 28 people, an Emergencies Ministry
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China must master cyber-warfare as the Internet emerges as a crucial battleground for opinion and intelligence, two military officers said on Friday, two days after Google revealed hacking attacks it said came from China. The researchers from the People's Liberation Army's Academy of Military Sciences did not mention Google's statement that hackers apparently based in
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