2008年11月3日星期一

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Ryanair shares rise despite profit drop (AP)

Posted: 03 Nov 2008 04:35 AM CST

AP - Budget airline Ryanair reported a 77 percent fall in first-half profits, citing high fuel costs and fare-slashing to keep planes full — but forecast a strong rebound if oil prices stay low. The company's shares rose.

Heathrow terminal opening was 'national embarrassment': MPs (AFP)

Posted: 03 Nov 2008 04:28 AM CST

Passengers queue at check-in counters in the departures lounge of Terminal 5 at London's Heathrow airport on March 2008. The shambolic opening of Terminal 5 was a AFP - The shambolic opening of London Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5 was a "national embarrassment", British lawmakers said in a report published Monday.

German industrial union broadens walkouts (AP)

Posted: 03 Nov 2008 04:24 AM CST

AP - Germany's biggest industrial union on Monday expanded a campaign of brief strikes to underline its demand for a hefty pay hike, while employers stuck to their insistence on a moderate increase.

Lloyds and HBOS raising $28 billion in new capital (AP)

Posted: 03 Nov 2008 04:23 AM CST

AP - British banks Lloyds and HBOS said Monday they are raising 17 billion pounds ($27.7 billion) of new capital, backed by the government, and confirmed that Lloyds is going ahead with its planned takeover of HBOS.

Half England's schools break admissions code: report (AFP)

Posted: 03 Nov 2008 04:22 AM CST

Prince Charles talks with schoolchildren from Kingston upon Thames Fern Hill Primary School in London, 2007. Almost half England's school authorities are breaking the rules on school admissions, a government-commissioned report is expected to say.(AFP/File/Lefteris Pitarakis)AFP - Almost half England's school authorities are breaking the rules on school admissions, a government-commissioned report is expected to say on Monday.

Drugs smugglers break down outside Kenya police base (Reuters)

Posted: 03 Nov 2008 04:17 AM CST

Reuters - Elite Kenyan police who went to help a luxury 4x4 that broke down outside their base were surprised when the occupants took off on foot -- until officers took a closer look and found the vehicle loaded with marijuana.

Cameron attacks "out of touch" BBC (AFP)

Posted: 03 Nov 2008 04:17 AM CST

David Cameron, seen here addressing delegates at the Conservative Party conference at the International Conference Centre in Birmingham, has launched a stinging attack on the BBC, saying it was oversized and bloated, losing touch with viewers and paying excessive salaries to its management.(AFP/File/Leon Neal)AFP - Conservative leader David Cameron on Monday launched a stinging attack on the BBC, saying it was oversized and bloated, losing touch with viewers and paying excessive salaries to its management.

Brown visits giant gas plant in Gulf tour to top up IMF (AFP)

Posted: 03 Nov 2008 04:14 AM CST

Prime Minister Gordon Brown talks during a news conference following a meeting with his Qatari counterpart Sheikh Hamad bin Jassem bin Jabr al-Than in Doha, Novemer 2. Brown has seen first hand the extent of Qatar's vast natural resources when he visited a giant gas plant on his Gulf tour which aims to raise extra cash for the IMF.(AFP/File/Khalid Muftah)AFP - Prime Minister Gordon Brown saw first hand the extent of Qatar's vast natural resources on Monday when he visited a giant gas plant on his Gulf tour which aims to raise extra cash for the IMF.

Ryanair profits collapse on soaring fuel bill (AFP)

Posted: 03 Nov 2008 03:57 AM CST

Ryanair flight attendants close the airplane door of a Boeing 737-800 at Altenburg-Nobitz airport in eastern Germany. Irish low-cost airline Ryanair, which did much to pioneer the boom of cheap air travel, has said that net profits nosedived by 76 percent in the first half when it was hammered by soaring jet fuel costs amid record high oil prices.(DDP/AFP/File/Jens-Ulrich Koch)AFP - Irish low-cost airline Ryanair, which did much to pioneer the boom of cheap air travel, said on Monday that net profits nosedived by 76 percent in the first half when it was hammered by soaring jet fuel costs amid record high oil prices.

European banks suffer, stimulus measures planned (Reuters)

Posted: 03 Nov 2008 03:46 AM CST

A man walks past screens showing stock price indexes at the Korea Exchange in Seoul October 30, 2008. (Jo Yong-Hak/Reuters)Reuters - Profits evaporated at top European banks on Monday and authorities worldwide pressed on with efforts to bolster weakening economies as data from Europe and China suggested a sharp global downturn was gathering pace.

Libya's Gadhafi visits Belarus after Russia trip (AP)

Posted: 02 Nov 2008 09:44 PM CST

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi seen in Gadhafi's tent placed in the Kremlin's Tainitsky Park in Moscow, late Saturday, Nov. 1, 2008. (AP Photo/RIA-Novosti, Alexei Druzhinin, Pool)AP - Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko greeted visiting Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi Sunday and said he hopes to boost ties between their countries.

Armenia, Azerbaijan agree to intensify talks (AP)

Posted: 02 Nov 2008 07:14 PM CST

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, right, seen with Armenian President Serge Sarkisian, center, and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliev, as they shake hands , during a meeting at Meiendorf Castle outside Moscow, Sunday, Nov. 2, 2008. Russia's president is hosting the leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan for talks on their 20-year conflict over the disputed territory of Nagorno-Karabakh. (AP Photo/RIA-Novosti, Dmitry Astakhov, Presidential Press Service)AP - The leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan agreed Sunday to intensify talks to end a 20-year conflict over the disputed territory of Nagorno-Karabakh.

1,000 call for freedom, remember purges in Belarus (AP)

Posted: 02 Nov 2008 02:40 PM CST

Opposition activists carry wooden crosses and flags as they walk to the Kuropaty mass grave site of Soviet-era mass executions in the Belarus capital Minsk, Sunday, Nov. 2, 2008, to commemorate victims of Soviet-era political repression. Belarus' united opposition prefer the colors of the nation's post-Soviet flag, which Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko replaced with an old Soviet one after his first election. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)AP - Hundreds of people marched through Belarus' capital on Sunday to remember the victims of Stalinist purges and call for an end to repression in a country that still has many of the trappings of the former Soviet Union.

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