Barclays struck a reassuring tone this morning as it told shareholders that it would not need to raise fresh capital to cover any losses from the euro crisis. Jill Treanor reports here, Barclays has made profits of £5bn for the first nine months of 2011, which sent its shares up 3%. That’s been wiped out [...]
Syria is due to respond Monday to an Arab League proposal for bringing more than seven months of violence to an end, Qatar’s prime minister said Sunday. A meeting between Arab League diplomats and Syrian officials Sunday was “clear and frank,” Qatar’s Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim said, using diplomatic code for contentious meetings. The proposals [...]
Russia has said it hopes to resolve soon all outstanding differences with Georgia concerning its entrance to the World Trade Organisation (WTO). President Dmitry Medvedev met with Swiss Foreign Minister Micheline Calmy-Rey, whose country is mediating talks between the two, on Sunday to discuss progress in accession talks. A presidential aide later said final agreement [...]
A “fatty apron” in the abdomen helps fuel the spread of ovarian cancer, research suggests. In 80% of cases, it has spread to this apron, called the omentum, by the time it is diagnosed. The Nature Medicine research found once ovarian cancer cells reach the omentum, they take it over. UK experts said the study [...]
Real Madrid won 1-0 away at a competitive Real Sociedad on Saturday, with an important goal from Gonzalo Higuain, his tenth in the league this season, to go top of La Liga for 24 hours at least, two points ahead of Levante, who go to Osasuna on Sunday. Earlier, Lionel Messi hit a first half [...]
Qantas will resume flights on Monday after an independent tribunal ordered a permanent end to the industrial dispute with its union members. Qantas chief executive Alan Joyce said the airline will resume flights by mid-afternoon on a limited schedule. The move comes after Fair Work Australia issued a ruling, after hearing evidence from the airline, [...]
The Haqqani network, which Washington has blamed for a series of attacks in Afghanistan, may have been involved in a weekend bombing in Kabul that was the deadliest ground attack against Western troops in 10 years of war, officials said on Monday. The suicide bombing on Saturday, which killed 13 foreigners, came just days before [...]
Selina Hayat Ivy has become the first mayor of Narayanganj. She beat her nearest rival Awami League-backed candidate Shamim Osman by a margin of 101,343 votes, returning officer Biswas Lutfar Rahman announced at 12.50am Monday. Awami League’s renegade candidate Ivy polled 180,048 votes, 66 percent of the total votes cast at 163 centres in the [...]
INNINGS BREAK WICKET! England 220 all out (Bresnan b Aaron 45) Aaron ends the innings with a fantastic leg-cutter that beats Bresnan and shaves the outside of off stump. He finishes with figures of 6.1-1-24-3 and looks a fine prospect. India need 221 to win, and should do so at a canter. 46th over: England [...]
Eastern Turkey has been hit by a 7.3 magnitude earthquake, the US Geological Survey reports. The quake struck at 13:41 (10:41 GMT), some 19km (12 miles) north-east of the city of Van, near to Iran. Reports are coming in of building collapses in Van and casualties elsewhere, although the extent of the damage is not [...]