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Oil rises to $142 for the first time
LONDON : Crude oil rose to a record above $142 a barrel in New York on Friday and gold advanced as falling stock markets spurred investment in commodities.
Swiss Foreign Minister Arriving In Armenia June 26
From : Sebouh Z Tashjian Date : Thu, 26 Jun 2008 14:06:54 +0500 SWISS FOREIGN MINISTER ARRIVING IN ARMENIA JUNE 26 PanARMENIAN.Net 25.06.2008 Head Switzerland's Federal Department of Foreign Affairs, Ms.
SWITZERLAND: No Takers for Ex-Dictator's Money
A Swiss court has ordered eight million Swiss francs to be unblocked in favour of the heirs of Mobutu Sese Seko, the former dictator of Zaire.
Nymex Oil Futures Price Averaged Over 200 Days Exceeds $100 for First Time
Oil prices averaged over 200 days surpassed $100 a barrel for the first time on the New York Mercantile Exchange, an indication of the durability of a rally threatening global economic growth.
Xstrata Increases Indophil Bid to Match Rival's $515 Million Buyout Offer
Xstrata Plc , the world's fourth- largest copper producer, will raise its hostile cash offer for Indophil Resources NL to match an A$540 million management buyout bid.
Handel with care: Zurich `Rinaldo' set in airport
More... TV Online Handel with care: Zurich `Rinaldo' set in airport By RONALD BLUM ZURICH, Switzerland - The new jet-set production of Handel's "Rinaldo" at the Zurich Opera left a large segment of the audience ...
Anjelica Huston - Huston to Be Honoured at Locarno
Caption: Anjelica Huston TIME's 100 Most Influential People in the World gala dinner New York City, USA - 08.05.08.... Hollywood star ANJELICA HUSTON will be honoured at this year's Locarno Film Festival in ...
Swiss to return $74 million to Mexico
BERN, Switzerland - Swiss authorities will hand over $74 million to the Mexican government from bank accounts linked to the brother of former Mexican President Carlos Salinas de Gortari, the Justice Ministry ...
ZURICH, Switzerland, June 12: Italy coach Roberto Donadoni is counting on history repeating itself as his embattled squad fight for Euro 2008 survival against Romania here on Friday.
Magnetic resonance studies find clear differences between the structures of infectious and non-infectious prions Infectious proteins known as prions have been identified as the cause of "mad cow" disease .
United Connects IPods, IPhones on Int'l Flights
United Airlines on Monday announced plans to offer a new in-flight entertainment system on some of its aircraft that will enable iPod and iPhone users to connect their devices.
Sydney again Cracks Top 10 of World's Best Cities
Sydney, Australia. Rated as 10th place in the Mercer's Worldwide Quality of Living Survey 2008.
MS sufferer wins suicide challenge
A multiple sclerosis sufferer has won permission to bring a High Court challenge to clarify the law on assisted suicide.
Switzerland plans first nuclear power station in 20 years
GENEVA. June 11. KAZINFORM A Swiss energy enterprise plans to build the country's first nuclear power station in over 20 years, in a bid to secure energy supplies over the coming decades.
Signal generator delivers low phase noise
Zurich, Switzerland-AnaPico has released the APSIN3000 low-noise CW signal generator line.
Ballmer Egg Incident Celebrated In Online Game
BLOGS The Channel Wire June 03, 2008 It has been said that the real measure of a meaningful news event is when someone makes an online game that pokes fun at what happened.
Stack 'Em Up: IBM Demos New Way to Cool Chips
Just blocks from the bright lights of Times Square, Everything Channel honored 16 standout solution providers at the 2008 VARBusiness 500 Awards.
Thomas Dietsch and Martin Kraler won the 120km fourth stage from Oberhof to Bad Steben with a time of 4:22:45 and took over the general classification lead.
The Internet giant worked with a psychologist and design team to interview all 350 employees and incorporated their ideas into a new workspace _ yet insisted the new design should not cost more than an ordinary ...
Bloomingdale's Named Best in Class
Bloomingdale's, the New York-based division of Macy's Inc. was named "Department Store of the Year" at the first annual Global Department Store Summit in London.