UBS France placed under investigation Paris investigators placed the French branch of Swiss bank UBS under formal investigation Friday on suspicion it helped try to persuade rich French clients to open undeclared accounts in Switzerland.
01 June 2013
Eureka! Unique exhibition in Rome honours Archimedes The great inventor of Antiquity, Archimedes, is the star of an unprecedented exhibition opening in Rome which includes modern applications of some of his best known discoveries.
Iraq to restore ancient arch to woo back tourists Iraqi authorities have contracted a Czech firm to carry out a 10-month restoration of the ancient Arch of Ctesiphon as part of a plan to boost tourism to the once-popular site.
US fines Total $398 mn over bribes in Iran French oil giant Total agreed Wednesday to pay US authorities $398.2 million to settle charges that it bribed officials in Iran to secure oil and gas concessions.
30 May 2013
British police charge suspect with soldier's murder British police on Wednesday charged with murder one of the two chief suspects in last week's brutal suspected Islamist attack against a British soldier on a London street.
UN call to financial arms for new war on poverty Hundreds of billions of dollars have been spent battling extreme poverty and disease since 2000 and now the United Nations is lining up a new war on the social distress still suffered by huge numbers around the world.
Think twice about surgery on the weekend: study People who undergo weekend non-emergency surgery in English public hospitals have an 82 percent higher chance of dying within a month than those treated on a Monday.
29 May 2013
UK soldier murder suspect leaves hospital, now in custody Police have begun questioning one of the prime suspects in the brutal murder of a British soldier in London, six days after the Islamist attack, following his release from hospital.
Almaty to host French luxury exhibitionFrench luxury exhibition Vitrine du Luxe Français au Kazakhstan 2013 will be held in Almaty’s Rixos hotel on June 5-6.
Kazakhstan has lowest gas prices in EuropeAverage gas price in Kazakhstan is 2.1 rubles ($0.07) per cubic meter while it makes 59.9 rubles ($1.924) per cubic meter in Sweden.
28 May 2013
Electric cars slow to gain traction in Germany Germany plans to have one million electric vehicles on its roads by 2020, but so far that goal seems remote as the nation's motorists have shown little love for the quietly humming vehicles.