Black-clad, masked youths battled riot police and attacked banks and luxury stores in central London on Saturday, overshadowing a protest by more than a quarter of a million Britons against government spending cuts. Police said they had arrested 125 people after anarchist groups splintered from the main union-led protest march and fought running skirmishes with
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French warplanes have destroyed five Libyan military planes and two helicopters at Misrata air base in the past 24 hours, France's armed forces said. Armed forces spokesman Thierry Burkhard said all seven Libyan aircraft were destroyed while on the ground at the base, near the insurgent-held town of Misrata, as they were preparing to carry
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Libyan rebels danced on wrecked government tanks and handed out bread and water to residents on Saturday after retaking Ajdabiyah, a gateway to the east that has been left a ghost town by days of fighting. Decomposing bodies of more than a dozen fighters loyal to Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi and ruins of artillery at
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Radiation levels have soared in seawater near Japan's crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, officials said on Saturday, as engineers struggled to stabilise the power station two weeks after it was hit by a massive earthquake and tsunami. Tests on Friday showed iodine 131 levels in seawater 30 km from the coastal nuclear complex had spiked
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Thousands of mourners at a funeral for a Syrian killed in anti-government protests burned a ruling Baath party building and a police station on Saturday as authorities freed 260 prisoners in a bid to placate reformists. Syrian President Bashar al-Assad was facing the deepest crisis of his 11 years in power after security forces fired
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Lights started going off around the world on Saturday in a show of support for renewable energy, given added poignancy by Japan's nuclear disaster, which raises doubts about nuclear power as a possible solution. Landmarks in thousands of cities, from Sydney Harbour Bridge to the world's tallest building, the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, will turn
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Thousands of Bulgarians rallying in the Bulgarian capital on Saturday urged the government to quit over economic crisis in the European Union's poorest nation. About 4,000 people joined a protest called by opposition socialists dubbed “Red Card for the Government.” Demonstrators chanted “Resign” and waved banners reading “Where are the reforms?” and “No to poverty”.
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Portugal's commitment to fiscal consolidation targets is essential to calm financial markets and both the Lisbon government and opposition must be clear on them, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Friday. Portuguese benchmark 10-year bond yields rose to new record highs above 8% on Friday, following the collapse of the government in Lisbon and downgrades
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February saw a drop in outbound tourism, with the number of residents of Cyprus returning from a trip abroad falling by 2.4% to 69,325 compared with 71,045 in February 2010. Among the main countries there was a large fall of 14.7% in the number of trips to Greece (24,807 in February 2011 compared with 29,068
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The turnover value index of wholesale and retail trade including repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles fell by 1.1% in January-December 2010 compared with the corresponding period of 2009 according to the Statistical Service. Excluding repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles, however, the index rose by 4.8%. In the fourth quarter alone, the index including
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