Brussels, Dec 1 (DPA) After eight years of rows and soul-searching, the European Union finally managed to reform itself Tuesday as the Lisbon Treaty entered into force.
IANS Mon, 30 Nov 2009 21:00:02 -0500

London, Dec 1 (DPA) Britain is 'doing all it can' to resolve swiftly a crisis with Iran over the detention of five Britons whose racing yacht was stopped by the Iranian navy last week, Foreign Secretary David Miliband said here.
IANS Mon, 30 Nov 2009 18:10:01 -0500

London, Dec 1 (IANS) German supermodel Heidi Klum has revealed she is finding it tough having four children.
IANS Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:40:02 -0500

Hamburg, Dec 1 (DPA) Ten nations signed an accord in Hamburg to build a giant X-ray laser machine at a cost of more than 1 billion euros ($1.5 billion) to do scientific research.
IANS Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:40:02 -0500

London, Nov 30 (DPA) After years of near-anonymous labour in the top end of the tennis trenches, Nikolay Davydenko may just be ready to raise his low profile after winning the weekend title at the season-ending ATP World Tour Finals.
IANS Mon, 30 Nov 2009 11:50:12 -0500

London, Nov 30 (IANS) The use of antibiotic eye drops for conjunctivitis has increased by almost half since they became available over the counter in 2005, says new data.
IANS Mon, 30 Nov 2009 11:50:05 -0500

London, Nov 30 (IANS) Goggles, similar to those worn by comic book superhero Cyclops of the X-Men, may help drivers overcome their road phobias by transporting them to a 3-D virtual world, where they can tackle their biggest fears in a simulated setting.
IANS Mon, 30 Nov 2009 08:30:04 -0500

London, Nov 30 (IANS) Zoos and aquariums will become the last places on Earth to see species such as polar bears and coral if climate change negotiations fail at Copenhagen, the world's zoos warned Monday.
IANS Mon, 30 Nov 2009 08:30:03 -0500

London, Nov 30 (IANS) A British company has unveiled the world's most expensive mobile phone - a gold iPhone encrusted with nearly 200 diamonds that retails at a hefty 1.92 million pounds, or Rs.14.7 crore.
IANS Mon, 30 Nov 2009 06:40:02 -0500

London, November 30 : The European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) has said that the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), popularly known as the 'big bang machine', has set a world record by accelerating to energy levels that had never been previously reached.
ANI Mon, 30 Nov 2009 06:40:02 -0500

London, Nov 30 (IANS) Criminals are having a harder time hiding themselves, thanks to new software that helps witnesses recreate images and recognise suspects relying on principles borrowed from the fields of optics and genetics.
IANS Mon, 30 Nov 2009 05:50:01 -0500

Stockholm, November 30 : Archaeologists looking at the remains of human settlements in the north of Sweden have suggested that the Polar ice cap during the last Ice Age might not have been as extensive as previously thought.
ANI Mon, 30 Nov 2009 04:30:05 -0500

Port of Spain (Trinidad and Tobago), Nov.30 : Malaysia's freeze on the intake of Bangladeshi workers will stay despite a request from Dhaka for a review of the decision, said the country's Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak.
ANI Mon, 30 Nov 2009 03:40:08 -0500

London, November 30 : A team of scientists has discovered that a giant "super river" that carved its way through the chalky white hills connecting southern England to northern France about 450,000 years ago created the English Channel and made Britain into the island that it is today.
ANI Mon, 30 Nov 2009 03:40:06 -0500

Lisbon, Nov 30 (DPA) Portugal's qualification for the World Cup finals has been greeted with more relief than euphoria in Lisbon, which is a sign that expectations have lowered in this football-crazy country.
IANS Mon, 30 Nov 2009 03:30:02 -0500

Melbourne, Nov 30 (IANS) Fast bowler Jerome Taylor has been ruled out of the ongoing cricket series against Australia due to an injury, it was announced by the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) here Monday.
IANS Mon, 30 Nov 2009 03:00:03 -0500

Rome, Nov 30 (DPA) The ability to stick together when things get serious, added to the country's proneness to believe in miracles, are Italy's best cards as the Azzurri squad look to retain their title at the 2010 World Cup.
IANS Mon, 30 Nov 2009 03:00:03 -0500

London, Nov.30 : Some of the world's most famous tennis players arrived in London last week to compete in the World Tour Finals at the O2 Arena, but one the least recognized of them - Russian Nikolay Davydenko - walked away with the title after eight days of gruelling combat.
ANI Mon, 30 Nov 2009 02:50:23 -0500

Port of Spain (Trinidad), Nov. 30 : British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has slammed Pakistan for not being able to capture Al Qaeda chief Osama Bin Laden.
ANI Mon, 30 Nov 2009 02:50:05 -0500

London, Nov 30 (IANS) Singer Beyonce Knowles has topped a new fan poll to find the world's greatest pop star.
IANS Mon, 30 Nov 2009 02:40:02 -0500

London, Nov 30 (IANS) Men and women respond differently to positive or negative situations, says a new study.
IANS Mon, 30 Nov 2009 02:30:02 -0500

London, Nov 30 (DPA) Chelsea captain John Terry called for his team to remain focussed and not get carried away after they restored their five-point cushion at the top of the English Premier League with a well-deserved 3-0 win at Arsenal.
IANS Mon, 30 Nov 2009 01:20:03 -0500

London, Nov 30 (IANS) Scottish singing sensation Susan Boyle is celebrating after her album 'I Dreamed A Dream' was named the best-selling debut in British history.
IANS Mon, 30 Nov 2009 01:20:02 -0500

London, Nov 30 (IANS) Pop star-turned-fashion designer Victoria Beckham is relaunching her denim clothing collection under her own name.
IANS Mon, 30 Nov 2009 01:20:02 -0500

Port of Spain (Trinidad), Nov. 30 : Fiji has been banned from participating in next year's Commonwealth Games in New Delhi, as it has failed to comply with fundamental Commonwealth values.
ANI Mon, 30 Nov 2009 01:10:05 -0500

Tegucigalpa, Nov 30 (DPA) At least two people were injured in northern Honduras when police used force against demonstrators during the country's disputed presidential election.
IANS Mon, 30 Nov 2009 00:20:01 -0500

Melbourne, Nov 30 (IANS) India and China would continue to drive the Australian economy for decades to come, Warren McKibbin, a member of Reserve Bank of Australia, has reiterated while addressing an economics conference in Sydney Monday.
IANS Sun, 29 Nov 2009 23:10:01 -0500

Cologne (Germany), Nov 30 (DPA) A healthy diet with lots of seasonal vegetables, fruit and high-fibre foods such as whole grain can often bring high blood-cholesterol levels back to normal, noted Richard Raedsch, a member of the Professional Association of German Internists (BDI).
IANS Sun, 29 Nov 2009 22:50:03 -0500

London, Nov 30 (IANS) Pioneering Grammy award winner Vishwa Mohan Bhatt is taking Indian classical music to new corners of the world through his innovative string instrument, mohan veena, a fusion of the guitar and the veena.
IANS Sun, 29 Nov 2009 22:50:01 -0500

Geneva, Nov 30 (DPA) The World Trade Organisation (WTO) begins its first ministerial meeting in four years Monday aimed at reviewing the work of the 153-member group.
IANS Sun, 29 Nov 2009 22:00:02 -0500

The reputation of modern art went on trial in the south of France yesterday. Two brothers are accused in a court in Grasse of faking sculptures, supposedly by the internationally celebrated French art...
The Independent Mon, 30 Nov 2009 20:12:25 -0500

He is alleged to be the last Nazi mass murderer ever likely to stand trial but John Demjanjuk cut a strange and pathetic figure as he was wheeled into a heavily guarded Munich courtroom on a hospital ...
The Independent Mon, 30 Nov 2009 20:12:21 -0500

A top Swiss official said yesterday that voter approval of a ban on minarets next to mosques could be struck down in court, as critics at home and abroad condemned the vote, saying it undermined the c...
The Independent Mon, 30 Nov 2009 20:12:18 -0500

ROME ? Two Tunisians who had been detained at Guantanamo arrived in Italy late Monday and will be tried on international terrorism charges for having allegedly recruited fighters for Afghanistan,...
Fox News Mon, 30 Nov 2009 20:10:45 -0500

By NEBI QENAASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER PRISTINA, Kosovo -- European Union police in Kosovo said Monday a man claiming to be a hit man for former ethnic Albanian rebels has been arrested on suspicion o...
Seattle Post-Intelligencer Mon, 30 Nov 2009 20:02:57 -0500

Scottish fishing leaders have warned a fair deal is vital as the second round of EU and Norwegian talks begin.Some of the initial process in November was described as "appalling" by Scottish...
BBC Mon, 30 Nov 2009 19:56:39 -0500

Artifacts from the Lower Danube Valley and the Balkan foothills are presented in an exhibition, “The Lost World of Old Europe,” at New York University’s Institute for the Study of th...
International Herald Tribune Mon, 30 Nov 2009 19:53:27 -0500

The European Investment Bank (EIB) is loaning €134m (£122m) to four projects in China that it estimates will remove 830,000 tons of CO2 emissions from the atmosphere. Although the EIB us...
Infomatics Mon, 30 Nov 2009 19:53:09 -0500

.The UK allows non-trading holding companies to enter a company's VAT group and recover VAT. But the European Commission want sto stop them joining a group.
Infomatics Mon, 30 Nov 2009 19:52:30 -0500

Axxon has opened a London office in Marylebone and is seeking integrator partners as part of its global expansion strategy. Evgenia Ostrosvskaya, global business development director at Axxon, said...
Infomatics Mon, 30 Nov 2009 19:52:16 -0500

Makhachkala - A bomb exploded under a train in Russia's troubled Dagestan on Monday but there were no fatalities, police said, just days after a similar blast killed 26 passengers on a train from Mosc...
IOL Mon, 30 Nov 2009 19:49:58 -0500

London - One of Britain's most powerful Muslim women was pelted with eggs on Monday by a group of men who accused her of not being a proper Muslim and of supporting the deaths of Muslims in Afghanista...
IOL Mon, 30 Nov 2009 19:49:31 -0500

London - George Bush first mentioned a link between Saddam Hussein and al-Qaeda to Tony Blair days after 9/11, but the British premier advised against pursuing the Iraqi dictator, an aide said on Mond...
IOL Mon, 30 Nov 2009 19:49:29 -0500

London - Britain is "doing all it can" to resolve swiftly a crisis with Iran over the detention of five Britons whose racing yacht was stopped by the Iranian navy last week, Foreign Secretary David Mi...
IOL Mon, 30 Nov 2009 19:49:26 -0500

UNITED NATIONS — Iran on Monday offered to give Russia priority in future nuclear generation projects — a move that could short-circuit Western-led efforts to impose new tough sanctions against th...
Canada.com Mon, 30 Nov 2009 19:46:20 -0500

WASHINGTON — The United Nations nuclear watchdog demanded Friday that Iran immediately freeze operations at a once secret uranium enrichment plant, a sharp rebuke that bore added weight because...
Gadsden Times Mon, 30 Nov 2009 19:29:41 -0500

Tony Abbott has emerged as the new leader of the Liberal Party after successfully facing off with former leader Malcolm Turnbull and Joe Hockey.
SBS Mon, 30 Nov 2009 19:20:19 -0500

The Johnston Press says it will require users to now pay approximately $9 for a three month subscription to read the full articles. It's the first regional publisher in the UK to implement a paymen...
SBS Mon, 30 Nov 2009 19:20:09 -0500

CHIGWELL, England (Reuters) - Tottenham Hotspur manager Harry Redknapp plans to bring in some fringe players in need of first-team action for Tuesday's League Cup quarter-final against Manchester Unit...
SBS Mon, 30 Nov 2009 19:19:58 -0500

LONDON (Reuters) - Wayne Rooney scored a two-penalty hat-trick as Manchester United won 4-1 at Portsmouth on Saturday to trim Chelsea's Premier League lead to two points.
SBS Mon, 30 Nov 2009 19:19:53 -0500

LONDON (Reuters) - England striker Jermain Defoe scored five second-half goals as an irresistible Tottenham Hotspur demolished Wigan Athletic 9-1 to go fourth in the Premier League on Sunday.
SBS Mon, 30 Nov 2009 19:19:47 -0500

Footballer Didier Drogba and musician Bono unite for an AIDS initiative on World AIDS day. (Getty Images) LONDON (Reuters) - Chelsea striker Didier Drogba teamed up with U2 frontman Bono on Monday t...
SBS Mon, 30 Nov 2009 19:19:33 -0500

Serena Williams has been fined over her outburst at the US Open. LONDON (Reuters) - Serena Williams has been fined $175,000 (106,153 pounds) and put on probation for two years for her foul-mouthed t...
SBS Mon, 30 Nov 2009 19:19:28 -0500

Fury as French steal march on €4bn Areva buy By Peggy Hollinger in Paris and Justin Baer in New York Published: November 30 2009 22:28 | Last updated: November 30 2009 23:37...
Financial Times Mon, 30 Nov 2009 19:18:50 -0500

ROME (AP) - Two Tunisians who had been detained at Guantanamo arrived in Italy late Monday and will be tried on international terrorism charges for having allegedly recruited fighters for Afghanistan,...
Find Law Mon, 30 Nov 2009 19:18:41 -0500

ROME, Nov. 30 (Xinhua) -- The Italian Health Ministry on Monday reported the first case of mutation of the A/H1N1 flu string. The ministry said the mutation was identified in a patient with a serious...
SINA Mon, 30 Nov 2009 19:17:27 -0500

MOSCOW, Dec. 1 (Xinhua) -- Russia launched a Zenit carrier rocket carrying a U.S. telecommunications satellite from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan early Tuesday. The Zenit-3SLB carrier rocke...
SINA Mon, 30 Nov 2009 19:17:26 -0500

Chinese Medical Association in Sweden has been formed in Karolinska University Hospital in Stockholm.About 40 Chinese and overseas Chinese doctors, medical researchers and scholars from Sweden attende...
People's Daily Mon, 30 Nov 2009 19:17:10 -0500

Tuesday, December 01, 2009 MOSCOW: Russia late on Sunday published its proposal for a new Euro-Atlantic security treaty that would restrict its ability to use military force unilaterally if the Unite...
The News Mon, 30 Nov 2009 18:40:26 -0500

The world's first real-time carbon counter which displays greenhouse gas amounts in the atmosphere, erected in New York, USA. Photo by BGNES...
Novinite Mon, 30 Nov 2009 18:35:00 -0500

From New Europe www.neurope.eu Rumiana Jeleva has in the past year been a Member of the European Parliament for Bulgaria as a member of the European Peoples Party –EPP, has then been appointed...
Novinite Mon, 30 Nov 2009 18:34:59 -0500

Cancer mortality in Europe has declined at a steady pace over recent years. New figures now published online in the journal Annals of Oncology show a drop of 9% between the first half of the 1990s a...
EU Business Mon, 30 Nov 2009 18:27:30 -0500

The little-known Vienna Initiative helped stave off a bank meltdown in Central and Eastern Europe. But the region isn't out of the woods yet...
Business Week Mon, 30 Nov 2009 18:13:50 -0500

The little-known Vienna Initiative helped stave off a bank meltdown in Central and Eastern Europe. But the region isn't out of the woods yet...
Business Week Mon, 30 Nov 2009 18:13:48 -0500

Artifacts from the Lower Danube Valley and the Balkan foothills are presented in an exhibition, “The Lost World of Old Europe,” at New York University’s Institute for the Study of th...
International Herald Tribune Mon, 30 Nov 2009 18:10:22 -0500

The European Union is alarmed the Obama administration is lobbying on behalf of the entertainment industry as part of the United States’ negotiations for an new international copyright accord, a...
Wired News Mon, 30 Nov 2009 18:09:51 -0500

The EU is lifting visa requirements for the people of Montenegro, Macedonia and Serbia in time for them to visit friends and family in the bloc this Christmas. It comes after the Balkan states fulfill...
Euro News Mon, 30 Nov 2009 18:04:40 -0500

Two Tunisians who had been detained at Guantanamo arrived in Italy late Monday and will be tried on international terrorism charges for having allegedly recruited fighters for Afghanistan, officials s...
CBS 5 Mon, 30 Nov 2009 18:00:38 -0500

Two Tunisians who had been detained at Guantanamo arrived in Italy late Monday and will be tried on international terrorism charges for having allegedly recruited fighters for Afghanistan, officials s...
CBS 4 Mon, 30 Nov 2009 18:00:35 -0500

11/30/2009, 2:17 p.m. EST (AP) ? SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Til death do us part? The vow would really hold true in California if a Sacramento Web designer gets his way.
New Jersey Online Mon, 30 Nov 2009 17:53:38 -0500

11/30/2009, 1:57 p.m. EST (AP) ? CHICAGO - A hearing to determine whether one of two Chicago men charged with planning a terrorist attack on a Danish newspaper may be released on bail has been ...
New Jersey Online Mon, 30 Nov 2009 17:53:18 -0500

11/30/2009, 1:18 p.m. EST (AP) ? ATLANTA - A new government report says swine flu infections seem to be dropping, but the number of children who died with the illness rose by about 30.
New Jersey Online Mon, 30 Nov 2009 17:53:07 -0500

Police officers and medical assistants escort defendant John Demjanjuk, who sits in a wheelchair, during a trial break in the country court in Munich, southern Germany, on Monday.
Christian Science Monitor Mon, 30 Nov 2009 17:39:32 -0500

ROME (AP) - Two Tunisians who had been detained at Guantanamo arrived in Italy late Monday and will be tried on international terrorism charges for having allegedly recruited fighters for Afghanistan,...
Find Law Mon, 30 Nov 2009 17:32:23 -0500

Russia to Build Petrochemical Plants in Iran News number: 880909141417:01 | 2009-11-30Economy http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.php?nn=8809091414 TEHRAN (FNA)- Russia's largest petrochemical com...
IMRA Mon, 30 Nov 2009 17:31:39 -0500

MOSCOW, Nov. 30 (Xinhua) -- Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said Monday that Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's visit to Minsk was eloquent support of Belarus in the international ar...
SINA Mon, 30 Nov 2009 17:30:59 -0500

"As long as the Afghan-Pakistan border areas are the location of choice for al-Qaida and are the epicenter of global terrorism, it is the government's judgment that we must address the terrorist threa...
VOA Mon, 30 Nov 2009 17:06:38 -0500

Three volunteers, Albert Vilalta, Roque Pascual and Alicia Gamez of a Spanish aid group, Barcelona Accion Solidaria were kidnapped while traveling from the capital city Nouakchott to the town of Nouad...
VOA Mon, 30 Nov 2009 17:06:37 -0500

MetoKote Corporation, the industry leader in the application of protective coatings, broke ground in Germany on a new 38,000 square foot facility. The $9.8 million investment is MetoKote’s first...
PR Web Mon, 30 Nov 2009 16:59:30 -0500

Iran has refused to comply with a United Nations demand to halt enrichment at one of its nuclear facilities, and escalated the specter of new sanctions by declaring it would build 10 more plants.
PBS Mon, 30 Nov 2009 16:59:00 -0500

FRANKFURT: The German industrial conglomerate MAN could face up to 300 million euros ($450 million) in fines, costs and fiscal sanctions stemming from a corruption affair. A MAN spokesman told AFP Mon...
The Daily Star Mon, 30 Nov 2009 16:49:30 -0500

Durst Fototechnik Digital Technology GmbH . Foster City-based EFI (NASDAQ:EFII) said the litigation involved its VUTEk QS series printers with white ink technology. Durst brought the lawsuit in the ...
Business Journal Mon, 30 Nov 2009 16:46:55 -0500

Durst Fototechnik Digital Technology GmbH . Foster City-based EFI (NASDAQ:EFII) said the litigation involved its VUTEk QS series printers with white ink technology. Durst brought the lawsuit in the ...
Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal Mon, 30 Nov 2009 16:46:35 -0500

Copenhagen is hoping cyclists will ensure the city has one of the most environmentally-friendly Christmas trees in the world this year.Volunteers must use pedal power to produce enough electricity to ...
BBC Mon, 30 Nov 2009 16:36:23 -0500

More than 60 years after the end of World War II, an 89-year-old retired auto worker from Ohio went on trial in Germany on Monday in what many are calling the country's last Nazi war crimes proceeding...
Time Mon, 30 Nov 2009 16:19:14 -0500

(AP) ? FRANKFURT - The father of a 22-year-old American man who went missing in Germany more than a week ago said Monday he is "terrified" by his son's disappearance. "Unfortunately, still no ...
New Jersey Online Mon, 30 Nov 2009 16:15:57 -0500

Olandason WanyamaTHE Karamoja Co-operative Gum Arabic Association has signed a contract with a French firm, Colloides Natural International (CNI), to supply 40 tonnes of gum arabica next year.Abdel Ra...
The New Vision Mon, 30 Nov 2009 16:15:46 -0500

All evidence points to a sole killer in the sex murder of British student Meredith Kercher, excluding American accused Amanda Knox and her Italian boyfriend, a top defence lawyer says.
SBS Mon, 30 Nov 2009 15:58:15 -0500

Despite safe sex campaigns, about a thousand Australians still contract the potentially deadly virus every year, warns professor of sexual health Basil Donovan.Modern antiretroviral treatments enable ...
SBS Mon, 30 Nov 2009 15:58:10 -0500

The imam at Switzerland's biggest mosque on Monday urged the Islamic world to respect a decision to ban minarets in the country, saying any backlash would harm the Muslim community.
SBS Mon, 30 Nov 2009 15:58:00 -0500

China and Russia face pressure on Iran By Daniel Dombey in Washington, James Blitz in London and Harvey Morris at the United Nations Published: November 30 2009 20:40 | Last updated: November 30 2009...
Financial Times Mon, 30 Nov 2009 15:57:26 -0500

ROME (AP) - Two Tunisians who had been detained at the U.S. base at Guantanamo Bay arrived in Italy late Monday and will be tried here on unspecified charges, the justice minister said. Adel Ben Mabro...
Find Law Mon, 30 Nov 2009 15:57:12 -0500

PRAGUE (AP) - Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein's regime planned to use an anti-tank rocket to attack the U.S.-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty in Prague, the Czech Republic's counterintelligence se...
Find Law Mon, 30 Nov 2009 15:57:10 -0500

MADRID (AP) - A Spanish judge has ordered the widow of Augusto Pinochet, his former lawyer and two bankers to post a $77 million (euro51 million) bond while he probes allegations they laundered money ...
Find Law Mon, 30 Nov 2009 15:57:10 -0500

PARIS (AP) -- Online auction site eBay Inc. was fined euro1.7 million ($2.5 million) by a Paris court on Monday for failing to stop the sale of famous perfume brands like Christian Dior, Guerlain, Giv...
Tampa Bay Online Mon, 30 Nov 2009 15:56:22 -0500

PARIS (AP) -- Online auction site eBay Inc. was fined euro1.7 million ($2.5 million) by a Paris court on Monday for failing to stop the sale of famous perfume brands like Christian Dior, Guerlain, Giv...
Tampa Bay Online Mon, 30 Nov 2009 15:56:12 -0500

PARIS, Nov. 30 (Xinhua) -- French President Nicolas Sarkozy demanded Monday nationwide vaccination centers to keep open on Sundays, a further step after mobilizing army's healthy service as back-up to...
SINA Mon, 30 Nov 2009 15:55:47 -0500

(RTTNews) - U.S. President Barack Obama will brief leaders of allied European nations about his new Afghan war strategy before announcing his final decision on deployment of additional troops to the ...
Quote.com Mon, 30 Nov 2009 15:55:46 -0500