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Business and economy India and China help boost Asian shares outside Japan by 1.7%. (Livemint) Ambac Financial Group announces that it may have to declare bankruptcy, though it is still in talks with its senior bondholders about a consensual rescheduling of its debts. Before the 2008 financial crisis, Ambac was one of the two dominant bond insurance companies. (Reuters) An examiner appointed ...
Business and economy Officials from the International Monetary Fund, the European Central Bank and the European Union arrive in Dublin to discuss the Irish debt crisis with the Irish Government. (BBC) About 40 Rolls-Royce Trent 900 engines on Airbus A380 aircraft around the world will be replaced due to the engine failure on Qantas Flight 32 earlier this month. (News Limited) Auto maker ...
(AFP via Google News) Anwar al-Awlaki , a Yemeni cleric affiliated with al-Queda , tells Muslims in a new video posting that they are free to kill American at will, in retaliation for the killing of civilians in Iraq , Afghanistan and elsewhere.
November 14 – Sebastian Vettel became the youngest F1 Champion after a 4 way championship fight. November 17 – Researchers at CERN trap 38 antihydrogen atoms for a sixth of a second, marking the first time in history that humans have trapped antimatter. [108] November 20 – Participants of the 2010 NATO Lisbon summit issue the Lisbon ...
Business and economy The United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP-16) opens in the Mexican resort city of Cancún. (Xinhua) Students protest in Rome and other Italian cities as politicians threaten to cut funding for education and research. (BBC) Officials from multinational corporations Royal Dutch Shell and Halliburton are to be questioned in Nigeria in relation to bribery scandals and ...
Business and economy At least 25,000 students take to the streets of Dublin to protest against rising emigration, unemployment and an increase in university fees, in the largest such demonstration for a generation. (The Irish Times) (RTÉ) (BBC) (Irish Examiner) (University Observer) The Government of Canada announces that it will block a $38.6bn hostile takeover bid by BHP Billiton for Potash ...
Law and crime Ten Somalis go on trial in Germany for attacking a German ship in the country's first pirate trial in 400 years. (Deutsche Welle) (Al Jazeera) Former Vice President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Jean-Pierre Bemba, goes on trial for crimes against humanity and war crimes at the International Criminal Court in The Hague. (IOL) (CNN) Chinese authorities begin a search for ...
Business and economy Irish financial crisis: Fine Gael speaks out against the high interest rate imposed by the International Monetary Fund and the European Central Bank and their insistence that the country pay €17 billion out of its own national pension fund. (The Guardian) Major European stock markets record falls while the Euro suffers its biggest drop in 2 months against the US dollar ...