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Khodorkovsky to stay out of Russia, help jailed dissidents Russia's former oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky said Sunday after walking free from a decade in jail that he would stay away from his homeland but help to free Russian political prisoners still behind bars.
23 December 2013
EU banking union too complicated, too slow: analysts An EU system to prevent a repeat of the massive bank bailouts which crippled the economy is a major step but it is also too complicated when speed is absolutely essential, analysts said.
23 December 2013
Spain watchdog fines Google for privacy 'violations' Spain's data protection watchdog ordered US Internet giant Google on Thursday to pay a 900,000-euro fine for "serious violations" of users' privacy.
21 December 2013
Elena Schmidt. Photo courtesy if ruslife.eu Kazakhstan native becomes Miss Congeniality at Miss Intercontinental 2013 Kazakhstan-born Yelena Schmidt, 25, has won the Miss Congeniality title at the prestigious beauty pageants Miss Intercontinental 2013.
20 December 2013
EU finance ministers reach banking union deal EU finance ministers Wednesday reached a banking union accord which will hand Brussels unprecedented new powers to prevent failing banks from wrecking the economy, official sources said.
19 December 2013
Museum takes possession of long-lost Nazi diary The US Holocaust Memorial Museum took possession Tuesday of a Nazi war criminal's long-lost diary and posted it online to help researchers decipher the thinking behind Adolf Hitler's "final solution."
19 December 2013
Eurozone ministers make progress on Banking Union Eurozone finance ministers said early Wednesday they had made progress on a new bank regulatory system, especially on the funding of a mechanism to close failing banks before they damage the economy.
18 December 2013
Sculptures of German composer Richard Wagner. ©Reuters/Michaela Rehle Migraine secret of Wagner's opera Repetitive migraines lie at the heart of "Siegfried," the second part of Richard Wagner's "Ring" trilogy of operas, German neurologists suggest.
14 December 2013
Photo courtesy of fantom-xp.com 'Time to die,' German clock told hospital patient Doctors at a British hospital were startled when an upset patient told them that the clock in his ward had announced his time was up, the British Medical Journal (BMJ) reported on Thursday.
13 December 2013
German police build 'Nazi Shazam' to track banned music German police are touting a new high-tech tool to identify illegal neo-Nazi songs in seconds, dubbed "Nazi Shazam" after popular music identification software.
13 December 2013
Lenin monument toppled as pro-EU protests rage in Kiev Pro-EU Ukrainian protesters on Sunday toppled a statue of the Soviet Union's founder Vladimir Lenin in Kiev after hundreds of thousands massed for a new protest in an increasingly tense standoff with President Viktor Yanukovych's government.
09 December 2013
©Reuters/Stephen Ausmus Benefit of bees even bigger than thought: food study Bees have a much greater economic value than is widely known, according to a scientific probe into strawberry-growing published on Wednesday.
04 December 2013
Summit to spotlight EU-Russia row over Soviet-era states An EU summit designed to draw six ex-Soviet states to the West opens with its ambitions dented Thursday after Ukraine, the biggest of the six, caved into Moscow to hand Europe a mighty "Nyet".
28 November 2013
Angela Merkel sends friendly regards to Nursultan Nazarbayev German Chancellor Angela Merkel has sent her friendly regards to Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev.
26 November 2013
Spain's Economy Minister Luis de Guindos talks to European Union Economic and Monetary Affairs Commissioner Olli Rehn (R). ©Reuters/Francois Lenoir Eurozone warns Spain, Italy to deliver on commitments The eurozone Friday warned five countries led by Spain and Italy to deliver on promises to hit deficit and debt targets in national spending plans next year.
24 November 2013
Tokyo Motor Show focuses on eco-friendly cars Eco-friendly cars were in the spotlight as the Tokyo Motor Show opened Wednesday, with Toyota unveiling a new model and Nissan touting its aerodynamic BladeGlider for energy-conscious drivers.
20 November 2013
©Reuters/Seth Wenig German union plans Christmas strike at Amazon: report Germany's service-sector union Verdi is planning strike action at the online retail giant Amazon over the busy Christmas holiday period.
18 November 2013
Antennas of the former NSA. ©Reuters/Fabrizio Bensch Australia spied on Indonesia president: reports Australian spy agencies attempted to listen to the phone calls of Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and targeted his wife and senior ministers, reports said Monday, drawing a demand for answers from Jakarta.
18 November 2013
©Reuters Satellites to probe Earth's strange shield Europe next week will launch a trio of hi-tech satellites to explore something that may seem utterly mundane: Earth's magnetic field.
18 November 2013
Cross-country skiing: Alexey Poltoranin from Kazakhstan dominates Muonio lanes Kazakhstan skier Alexey Poltoranin, a three time winner of the World Cup, has won the 10 kilometer sprint in Muonio, Finland.
17 November 2013
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