Provides the latest RSS feeds for Europe News. For more headlines on Breaking, National, Business, Finance, Sports and World News, visit our home page London Mercury.com http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/cat/88176adfdf246af5/ en-us Tue, 21 May 2013 09:14:21 -0400 Tue, 21 May 2013 09:14:21 -0400 30 Russian counter-terrorism agents have foiled a terrorist attack on Moscow, killing two of the plotters and arrested another. The National Anti-Terrorism Committee said the terrorist group was located in a house in the town of Orekhovo-Zuyevo, east of the capital. According to the BBC, the suspects are said to be Russian citizens who had undergone training in the Afghanistan-Pakistan region. ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214657387/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Tue, 21 May 2013 04:40:02 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214657387/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare Ghulam Nabi Azad and Minister of Health Switzerland Alain Berset held a bilateral meeting on the sidelines of World Health Assembly at Geneva with the aim of giving further impetus to cooperation in the field of healthcare. Speaking on the occasion, Azad said that friendship between India and Switzerland goes as back as Independence of India, strongly ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214655604/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Tue, 21 May 2013 02:30:03 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214655604/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Zach Sobiech, an 18-year-old whose battle with cancer became a global story, has died. The Minnesota native became famous when his song "Clouds,rdquo; which is about facing death, became a viral sensation on YouTube, topping 3 million views. The song was originally released in December of last year. The video was so popular that a group of celebrities were inspired to create a video ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214643754/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 18:15:07 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214643754/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Public diplomacy experts say a difference in perceptions dating back to the Cold War era could hamper U.S. and Russian efforts to deal with the ongoing civil war in Syria. Heritage Foundation senior fellow Helle Dale said there is a "love-hate" relationship between the United States and Russia that is "quite complicated." On VOA's Encounter program, Dale said she agrees with an ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214643753/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 18:15:06 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214643753/scat/88176adfdf246af5 U.S. President Barack Obama praised Burma's president on Monday for his leadership in pushing through political reforms, while warning that ethnic and communal violence targeting minority Muslims in Burma must stop. Mr. Obama spoke Monday at the White House, alongside Burmese President Thien Sein, the former general who in 2011 became president after Burma's first democratic polls in more than ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214643751/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 18:15:04 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214643751/scat/88176adfdf246af5 ISLAMABAD Pakistan's Nawaz Sharif, who is set to become prime minister for a third time after his party won recent parliamentary elections, on Monday called for peace talks with domestic Taliban extremists, saying "this is the best optionrdquo; to fight militancy. Addressing newly elected federal and provincial lawmakers of his Pakistan Muslim League-N (PML-N) party in Lahore, Sharif ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214643749/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 18:15:03 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214643749/scat/88176adfdf246af5 The White House says U.S. President Barack Obama will travel to Africa this summer, visiting three countries. In a statement Monday, the White House says President Obama along with his wife, Michelle, will travel to Senegal, South Africa and Tanzania in late June and early July. The administration says Obama will meet with government officials as well as leaders from business, civil ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214643750/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 18:15:03 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214643750/scat/88176adfdf246af5 "It's cool to see the city getting a buzz," said Gteborg FC midfielder Anita Asante with 50 days left until UEFA Women's EURO 2013 in Sweden where she has high hopes for ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214659768/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Tue, 21 May 2013 07:41:42 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214659768/scat/88176adfdf246af5 From exclusive interviews, expert analysis, live updates, and vibrant social communities, UEFA.com has all bases covered in the build-up to this year's UEFA Champions League ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214659767/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Tue, 21 May 2013 07:41:41 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214659767/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Difficult macroeconomic conditions in southern Europe have seen UK mobile giant Vodafone Group post a year-on-year decline in turnover in both reported and organic terms in the twelve months ended 31 March 2013. In the company's 2013 fiscal year it generated total revenues ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214659683/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Tue, 21 May 2013 07:40:21 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214659683/scat/88176adfdf246af5 The Lisbon Treaty clearly intends for the size of the European Commission to be reduced below its present size of 27 members. But EU leaders have reached unanimous agreement to sidestep the provision -- and even plan to add a seat to the table for the ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214659769/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Tue, 21 May 2013 07:39:10 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214659769/scat/88176adfdf246af5 BRUSSELS -; Lightning fast pigeon Bolt, with a name and pedigree to match, has become the world's most expensive racing bird with his Belgian breeder selling it for 310,000 euros ($400,000) to a Chinese ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214659467/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Tue, 21 May 2013 07:39:00 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214659467/scat/88176adfdf246af5 IDG News Service - The European Union may be trying to protect its telecom equipment industry with its recent threat to investigate China over networking equipment imports. But the move could end up hurting the chances of Western vendors intent on supplying technology to China's upcoming 4G services launch, according to analysts. Last week, the EU set off fears of a trade war with China ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214659745/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Tue, 21 May 2013 07:27:44 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214659745/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mally the Monkey was seized by German customs March 28 when Justin Bieber failed to produce required vaccination and import papers for the animal after landing in ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214659569/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Tue, 21 May 2013 07:20:11 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214659569/scat/88176adfdf246af5 news ) falls 0.5 pct * Market worries that U.S. central bank may trim QE programme * Most traders still positive on shares over longer term * Go short on Euro STOXX futures, says Nomura By Sudip Kar-Gupta LONDON, May 21 (Reuters) - European shares fell from multi-year highs on Tuesday on concerns the U.S. central bank could call an earlier-than-expected halt to the stimulus programme ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214659770/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Tue, 21 May 2013 07:18:47 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214659770/scat/88176adfdf246af5 The latest data on EU bathing water quality has been released, showing 93% of sites meet the minimum standards. However, the authors said storm-water run-off was still causing pollution problems in some areas. Compiled by the European Environment Agency (EEA), the report lists data from more than 22,000 sites within the EU, Croatia and Switzerland. An interactive website allows people ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214659772/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Tue, 21 May 2013 07:18:45 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214659772/scat/88176adfdf246af5 By David Lewis KOULIKORO, Mali (Reuters) - Under a blazing sun and the critical gaze of British and Irish instructors, a line of 11 Malian soldiers lie prone in the dust firing AK-47 rounds at targets, one-by-one. "One out of 10 - not very good," Captain Ibrahim Soumassa, commander of the Malian unit, tells one of the men. "We're at 25 metres. When we're at 100, ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214659771/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Tue, 21 May 2013 07:18:44 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214659771/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Russia has applied to Interpol to monitor the travel and whereabouts of a British hedge fund boss wanted by Moscow who is at the heart of a diplomatic stand-off over the alleged killing of whistle-blowing lawyer Sergei ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214659773/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Tue, 21 May 2013 07:17:38 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214659773/scat/88176adfdf246af5 The question has been swirling ever since Francis laid his hands Sunday on the head of a young man after celebrating Mass in St. Peter's Square. The young man heaved deeply a half-dozen times, convulsed and shook, and then slumped in his wheelchair as Francis prayed over ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214659713/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Tue, 21 May 2013 07:16:33 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214659713/scat/88176adfdf246af5 HUSBY, Sweden (AP) -- Police have arrested four people after a second night of escalating riots in a Stockholm suburb, during which some 200 youths hurled rocks at police and set cars ablaze in anger over the police shooting death of an elderly ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214659774/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Tue, 21 May 2013 07:16:16 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214659774/scat/88176adfdf246af5 The FX markets remain on hold ahead of FOMC Chair Bernanke's testimony due tomorrow. Over the past two weeks, the speculations on Fed's tapering of bond purchases have been the key topic across all major currencies. Today, the USD weakness is in game due to position adjustments before hearing what Bernanke has to say. Released this morning, the UK inflation in April greatly surprised to ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214659484/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Tue, 21 May 2013 07:12:09 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214659484/scat/88176adfdf246af5 From Denmark with Love , a 007/Hamlet comedy mash-up, seems born out of one of those late-night conversations that veers into the delusional and nonsensical, where you find yourself riffing on improbable scenarios, that begin with questions like, "What would happen if …?"Local playwright John J. King’s show falls into that line of entertaining and meandering musings. It ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214659777/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Tue, 21 May 2013 07:09:57 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214659777/scat/88176adfdf246af5 BERLIN Justin Bieber's pet monkey is set to become the property of Germany. Mally the Monkey was seized by German customs March 28 when Bieber failed to produce required vaccination and import papers for the animal after landing in Munich. He had until midnight Friday to produce those ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214659440/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Tue, 21 May 2013 07:09:21 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214659440/scat/88176adfdf246af5 An Irish MEP has ripped up his property tax return in the European Parliament. Dublin Socialist Party MEP Paul Murphy posted a picture of the torn up document on twitter this morning. He was reacting to the news that Apple avails of a 2% corporation tax rate in Ireland.In a statement, Paul Murphy said that while major corporations are getting tax deals "the Irish government is engaged in a ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214659571/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Tue, 21 May 2013 07:09:09 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214659571/scat/88176adfdf246af5 FRANKFURT: Germany, the euro zone's largest economy, is on track for a solid recovery thanks to a pick-up in demand for its products from abroad, ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214659517/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Tue, 21 May 2013 07:07:00 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214659517/scat/88176adfdf246af5 * Biggest ever fall in organic service revenue* FY earnings down 3.1 percent, just beating market view* CEO refuses to comment on sale of Verizon stake* Will keep hold of latest Verizon payout* Shares flatBy Kate Holton and Paul SandleLONDON, May 21 (Reuters) - Vodafone will reinvest ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214659700/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Tue, 21 May 2013 07:02:16 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214659700/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Two years after the scandal with the poisoning of Russian citizens in Turkey, a Turkish court announced the verdict on the case. Four defendants, who produced and sold low-quality alcohol, were sentenced to 90 years in prison. In addition, two owners of the yacht, where the poisoning occurred, and their employee, were sentenced to a seven years in prison. The news message about ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214659778/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Tue, 21 May 2013 06:54:43 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214659778/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Tue May 21, 2013 6:52am EDT * Biggest ever fall in organic service revenue * FY earnings down 3.1 percent, just beating market view * CEO refuses to comment on sale of Verizon stake * Will keep hold of latest Verizon payout * Shares flat By Kate Holton and Paul Sandle LONDON, May 21 (Reuters) - Vodafone will reinvest a $3.2 billion dividend from its healthy U.S. arm to counter weakness in ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214659775/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Tue, 21 May 2013 06:52:54 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214659775/scat/88176adfdf246af5 A court in Burma has convicted seven Muslims for the killing of a Buddhist monk during deadly sectarian riots in a central town earlier this ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214658655/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Tue, 21 May 2013 06:34:31 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214658655/scat/88176adfdf246af5 New attacks in three Iraqi cities have killed at least seven people and wounded more than 60 others. Officials say a suicide bombing followed by clashes between militants and Iraqi troops left three soldiers dead Tuesday in Tarmiyah, north of the capital, Baghdad. Farther north, two car bombs exploded in Tuz Khormato, killing three people, while car bombs in Kirkuk killed at least one ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214658621/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Tue, 21 May 2013 06:34:31 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214658621/scat/88176adfdf246af5 British mobile phone giant Vodafone says annual net profits tumbled 90 per cent after it took a vast STG7.7 billion ($A11.97 billion) impairment charge relating to its businesses in debt-laden eurozone nations Italy and Spain.Earnings after taxation nosedived to STG673 million in the group's financial year to the end of March, compared with STG7 billion in 2011-2012, Vodafone said in a ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214658447/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Tue, 21 May 2013 06:30:16 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214658447/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Unionists employees of Arkema Kem One chemical company and employees of other petrochemical sites, burn flares as they block the Arkema plant in Marseille, southern France, Tuesday, May 14 , 2013. Kem One, the maker of vinyl products announced last July it may cuts jobs. CGT stands for General Work Confederation. (AP Photo/Claude ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214658424/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Tue, 21 May 2013 06:30:10 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214658424/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Both Azerbaijan and Armenia are our neighbours and stability in the Caucasus is a priority of the foreign policy of Russia. This was announced in Moscow by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov during a joint press conference with his Azerbaijani counterpart Elmar ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214658719/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Tue, 21 May 2013 06:27:50 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214658719/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Azerbaijani FM explained the way SMS for Russia given by Azerbaijan in Eurovision were distributed. During a joint press conference with his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov, Azerbaijani FM Elmar Mammadyarov answered the journalists’ questions regarding the incident related to the zero points from Azerbaijan to Russia during Eurovision 2013. According to Mammadyarov, when the points ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214658720/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Tue, 21 May 2013 06:27:43 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214658720/scat/88176adfdf246af5 In Italy, the youth jobless rate is nudging 40 percent, a record high in postwar history. Demographer Stefano Rosina says the Italian welfare system has always been skewed toward the middle-aged and elderly, leaving Italian youths with no political or trade union ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214658721/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Tue, 21 May 2013 06:27:37 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214658721/scat/88176adfdf246af5 PARIS -- Here's how the struggling French economy stacks up compared to Germany's and Britain's.GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT (2012)France: 2 trillion euros ($2.7 trillion) Germany: 2.6 trillion euros ($3.3 trillion)Britain: 1.9 trillion euros ($2.4 trillion)MANUFACTURING AS A PERCENT OF GDP (2009)France: 10.7 percentGermany: 19.3 percentBritain: 11.0 percentGROWTH RATE (2012)France: ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214658429/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Tue, 21 May 2013 06:26:40 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214658429/scat/88176adfdf246af5 The use of genome-wide analysis (GWA), where the entirety of an individual's DNA is examined to look for the genomic mutations or variants which can cause health problems is a massively useful technology for diagnosing disease. However, it can also pose major ethical problems if used incorrectly, say new recommendations from the European Society of Human Genetics (ESHG) published on line in ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214658583/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Tue, 21 May 2013 06:26:24 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214658583/scat/88176adfdf246af5 MOSCOW, May 21 (Itar-Tass) - The dynamics of trade and economic relations between Russia and Azerbaijan is positive, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said after the negotiations with his Azerbaijani counterpart Elmar Mamedyarov here on ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214658717/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Tue, 21 May 2013 06:24:48 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214658717/scat/88176adfdf246af5 The astonishing footage, taken immediately after Pentecostal mass last Sunday, shows the Pontiff approach the second of two wheelchair bound people, whose face is pixelled out.After a priest leans across the boy or young man to tell Francis something, the Pope's expression becomes more serious, the voice-over notes. He then grips the top of the subject's head firmly and is seen pushing ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214658722/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Tue, 21 May 2013 06:23:56 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214658722/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Tue May 21, 2013 6:18am EDT * Russian state bank raising $3.3 bln * Share sale to close by weekend * Loan book to grow 15-20 pct - CEO * Sees 2013 net profit at over 100 bln rbls LONDON, May 21 (Reuters) - Russia's second-largest bank VTB expects to close its $3.3 billion offering of new shares by the end of the week, with three sovereign wealth funds investing about $500 million each, Chief ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214659776/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Tue, 21 May 2013 06:18:48 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214659776/scat/88176adfdf246af5 MOSCOW has reacted angrily as its neighbour Azerbaijan admitted its vote at the Eurovision Song Contest awarding no points to Russia's song appears to have been falsified. The scandal topped the agenda at a televised briefing between the countries' foreign ministers in Moscow, as Azerbaijan's top diplomat admitted that the votes submitted for Russia via mobile phone had somehow been ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214659653/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Tue, 21 May 2013 06:18:14 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214659653/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Turkish Airlines has apologised to an American couple after they were flown to the wrong city - on different continents - when it mixed up the airport ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214658475/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Tue, 21 May 2013 06:16:57 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214658475/scat/88176adfdf246af5 FRANKFURT | Tue May 21, 2013 6:10am EDT FRANKFURT May 21 (Reuters) - German banks borrowed less money from the Bundesbank as part of the European Central Bank's liquidity operations in April than ever before during the 13-year history of the euro, Bundesbank data showed on Tuesday. The Bundesbank's balance sheet, published in its May monthly report, showed that German banks took ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214659483/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Tue, 21 May 2013 06:10:50 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214659483/scat/88176adfdf246af5 European Union 's best in the latest EU bathing report published on Tuesday. In contrast, Belgium, Britain and the Netherlands had the highest percentages of bathing sites that failed to meet EU standards in 2012, in part because torrential rains washed sewage into them. The trend overall was positive as 94 percent of beaches, lakes and rivers ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214658723/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Tue, 21 May 2013 06:10:28 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214658723/scat/88176adfdf246af5 (1 hr 6 mins ago) Spain's press bid a caustic farewell Tuesday to self-anointed Special One Jose Mourinho, jeering his divisive three-tear reign at Real Madrid and his failure to win more silverware. "The Special End'' ran the front page headline of top-selling sports paper Marca, superimposed on a photograph of a football shirt being held up by Mourinho and club president ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214658724/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Tue, 21 May 2013 06:08:21 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214658724/scat/88176adfdf246af5 NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) -- In a story April 27 marking the 10th anniversary of the breaching of the barriers carving up Cyprus, The Associated Press erroneously reported that Yiannis Maratheftis had written a book detailing his experiences. The book was about Maratheftis' experiences, but not written by him. It was written by Panikos ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214658725/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Tue, 21 May 2013 06:08:06 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214658725/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Europe saw its takings there fall by almost 17%.With its finances under pressure, the British mobile phone giant said it would reinvest next month's 2.1bn dividend from US subsidiary Verizon Wireless in the business, rather than returning cash to shareholders.Overall revenues at the British mobile phone company fell by 4.2% to 44.4bn, marking the first such contraction in the company's ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214658633/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Tue, 21 May 2013 06:04:16 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214658633/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Tue May 21, 2013 6:02am EDT * Central bank cash fuels index gains despite weak data * Rally defies earning downgrades, nasty data surprises * Market tolerance seen unlikely to last past year-end By Simon Jessop LONDON, May 21 (Reuters) - Central bank cash may not be enough to keep European stocks rising beyond the end of the year in the face of the region's weak company and economic ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214659477/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Tue, 21 May 2013 06:02:40 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214659477/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Vodafone the biggest losers. In the first three months of the year more than 1.8 million consumers moved to another mobile company, data from telecoms regulator CMT showed on ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214658728/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Tue, 21 May 2013 05:59:06 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214658728/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Tue May 21, 2013 5:41am EDT May 21(Reuters) -Following are terms and conditions of a bond priced on Tuesday. Borrower Robert Bosch Issue Amount 250 million ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214658451/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Tue, 21 May 2013 05:41:06 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214658451/scat/88176adfdf246af5 VIENNA | Tue May 21, 2013 5:30am EDT VIENNA May 21 (Reuters) - The Austrian government adopted a draft bank insolvency law on Tuesday that would give the state more powers to intervene early at struggling lenders and head off worse problems that could prompt taxpayer support. The draft legislation being sent to parliament would let regulators force ailing banks to sell assets, cut risks ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214658727/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Tue, 21 May 2013 05:30:42 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214658727/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Oliver Kahn, hero of the hour the last time FC Bayern Mnchen won the UEFA Champions League, speaks to UEFA.com ahead of Saturday's final against Borussia Dortmund at ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214657798/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Tue, 21 May 2013 05:27:06 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214657798/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Olympique Lyonnais will go into Thursday's UEFA Women's Champions League final without Latitia Tonazzi due to a calf injury but they are confident Lara Dickenmann will be ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214657797/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Tue, 21 May 2013 05:27:06 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214657797/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Ukraine and Italy, champions in 2009 and 2003 respectively, are targeting a place in the finals, as are Turkey when the sides meet in Russia to contest Group ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214657799/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Tue, 21 May 2013 05:27:05 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214657799/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Europe's main stock markets weakened in opening deals on Tuesday, with London's benchmark FTSE 100 index down 0.11 per cent at 6,748.02 points.Elsewhere, Frankfurt's DAX 30 also fell 0.11 per cent to 8,446.78 points and in Paris the CAC 40 shed 0.37 per cent to ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214657487/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Tue, 21 May 2013 05:24:20 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214657487/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Australia's gardeners have created history at the Chelsea Flower Show by claiming the prestigious event's top prize for the first time.In his ninth and final year entering the competition, Wes Fleming, head of Fleming's Nurseries, bowed out a winner on Tuesday after he and his crew were awarded the Best in Show for their landscape-style design encompassing desert, wildflower and ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214657800/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Tue, 21 May 2013 05:24:19 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214657800/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Thank you Commissioner Damanki. I hope it is not too late that you come to save us! You see, the traditional small scale fishery is almost dead. It seems that EU funding and other factors have helped in breeding a new kind of 'shark' that feeds on the small scale fisherman. The two fishermen co-ops that once used to speak up went down their belly. A few 'sharks' now control ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214657801/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Tue, 21 May 2013 05:20:32 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214657801/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Head of the Civil Initiatives Committee, former Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin stated at a session of Open Tribune on Monday that the government and United Russia should bear responsibility for the present stagnation in the economy. United Russia retaliated by accusing him of poor performance when he was in civil ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214657802/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Tue, 21 May 2013 05:18:42 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214657802/scat/88176adfdf246af5 The daredevil, Franois Gissy, used a Swedish designed hydrogen peroxide powered rocket on the back of his mountain bike, to help him reach the record speed.The previous motor-paced land speed record was set back in 1995 by Fred Rompelberg on an old French military base in Mulhouse.This video doesn't disappoint, to achieve this kind of speed on a mountain bike is ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214657804/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Tue, 21 May 2013 05:17:44 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214657804/scat/88176adfdf246af5 The number of men who are diagnosed by the GPs with eating problems increased by 27pc between 2000 and 2009, the study found.The authors, who looked at data from 400 GP practices, identified 9,000 new cases of eating disorders.Many of the new cases in the UK were "eating disorders not otherwise specified" (Ednos) - which meet most, but not, all of the criteria associated with anorexia ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214657805/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Tue, 21 May 2013 05:17:43 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214657805/scat/88176adfdf246af5 21 May 2013 A divorced British father with a history of drunkenness and domestic violence was formally accused yesterday of the murder of his two children, who were found with their throats cut in his apartment in southern ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214657803/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Tue, 21 May 2013 05:17:42 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214657803/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Justin Bieber's pet monkey is set to become property of Germany after the Canadian pop star failed to produce the correct vaccination and import papers for the ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214657806/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Tue, 21 May 2013 05:17:30 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214657806/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Each medalist in the upcoming Kazan World Summer Universiade will be awarded a cash prize, the Russian government said Tuesday. Gold medal winners will be awarded with 168,000 rubles (about 5,400 U.S. dollars). Silver medalists will get some 2,600 dollars and bronze medalists will earn 1,600 dollars, according to a decree signed by Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev. Coaches and other sports staff ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214657807/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Tue, 21 May 2013 05:16:00 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214657807/scat/88176adfdf246af5 The astonishing footage, taken immediately after Pentecostal mass on Sunday 19th May, shows the Pontiff approach the second of two wheelchair bound people, whose face is pixelled out. After a priest leans across the boy or young man to tell Francis something, the Pope's expression becomes more serious, the voice-over notes. He then grips the top of the subject's head firmly and is seen ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214657472/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Tue, 21 May 2013 05:05:56 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214657472/scat/88176adfdf246af5 * FTSEurofirst 300 down 0.1 pct, Euro STOXX falls 0.2 pct * Concerns over end to QE halts equity market rally * Traders remain bullish on long-term By Sudip Kar-Gupta LONDON, May 21 (Reuters) - European shares fell from multi-year highs on Tuesday, with the UK market having hit a near 13-year peak this week, as concerns over a possible end to central bank stimulus measures halted the ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214657808/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Tue, 21 May 2013 05:03:34 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214657808/scat/88176adfdf246af5 European Capital Invests 4 Million Euros In Mezzanine Bonds To Support The Acquisition Of A Controlling Stake In Precisium Group By Alliance Industrie's ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214657809/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Tue, 21 May 2013 05:03:32 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214657809/scat/88176adfdf246af5 With just a month to go before entries close in the 2013/14 European Business Awards, this year's competition is attracting entries from some of Europe's most dynamic and successful companies, each with a story to tell and good news to share despite difficult trading ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214657810/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Tue, 21 May 2013 05:03:29 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214657810/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Europe saw its takings there fall by almost 17%.With its finances under pressure, the British mobile phone giant said it would reinvest next month's 2.1bn dividend from US subsidiary Verizon Wireless in the business, rather than returning cash to shareholders.Overall revenues at the British mobile phone company fell by 4.2% to 44.4bn, marking the first such contraction in the company's ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214657743/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Tue, 21 May 2013 04:56:59 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214657743/scat/88176adfdf246af5 The economic crisis in Southern Europe has been laid bare by Vodafone this morning. It warned shareholders that it has been scorched by the ongoing slump in demand in Spain, Italy, Portugal and Greece, blaming "severe macroeconomic weakness" across the ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214657513/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Tue, 21 May 2013 04:56:58 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214657513/scat/88176adfdf246af5 LONDON – European stock markets dropped on Tuesday, taking a breather after climbing to multiyear highs in the prior day's session.The Stoxx Europe 600 index lost 0.3% to 308.79, retreating from the highest closing level since June 2008, reached on Monday.Shares of cruise-ship operator Carnival PLC (CCL) sank 14%, after the firm late Monday slashed its full-year guidance, saying ticket ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214657496/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Tue, 21 May 2013 04:56:52 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214657496/scat/88176adfdf246af5 ANKARA, Turkey - Officials say another Brazilian tourist has died of wounds sustained after a hot air balloon crashed to the ground, raising the number of tourists killed to 3. The balloon collided with another balloon mid-air and crashed during a sightseeing tour of volcanic rock formations in Turkey's Cappadocia region on Monday. The governor's office for Nevsehir province said ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214657815/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Tue, 21 May 2013 04:54:56 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214657815/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Justin Bieber's pet monkey is set to become the property of Germany.Mally the Monkey was seized by German customs on March 28 when the pop star failed to produce required vaccination and import papers for the animal after landing in Munich.He had until midnight on Friday to produce those documents.Customs spokesman Thomas Meister said after offices opened following a holiday weekend that ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214657628/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Tue, 21 May 2013 04:54:24 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214657628/scat/88176adfdf246af5 LONDON (AP) -- The chief executive of security firm G4S is to retire after a tumultuous year that saw the company fail to fulfill its Olympic ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214657730/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Tue, 21 May 2013 04:42:05 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214657730/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Tue May 21, 2013 4:30am EDT (Removes incorrect profit and revenue figures in paragraph 5 and replaces them with FY expectations) * Fall in like-for-like revenues in three months ended April * Darty France outperformed the market for the quarter * Profit before tax for the year in line with expectations LONDON, May 21 (Reuters) - Darty Plc reported a fall in like-for-like revenues in the three ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214657814/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Tue, 21 May 2013 04:30:57 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214657814/scat/88176adfdf246af5 The UEFA European Under-19 Championship elite round kicks off on Wednesday, with 28 teams aiming to join hosts Lithuania in this summer's eight-team final ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214656781/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Tue, 21 May 2013 04:18:05 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214656781/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Borussia Dortmund are in Saturday's final and winger Jakub Blaszczykowski told UEFA.com he is "surprised, as are many people," as he reflected on their season ahead of his Wembley ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214656782/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Tue, 21 May 2013 04:18:04 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214656782/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Newly settled at the heart of Sweden's defence, Nilla Fischer says life under Pia Sundhage is "intense" and, as she nears 100 caps, she predicts the hosts will win all three group ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214656783/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Tue, 21 May 2013 04:18:04 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214656783/scat/88176adfdf246af5 ? ????????????, ?????????????, ????????????, ??????????, ?????????? ????? ?????? ? ????. - ??????????? ????? ???????? ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214656785/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Tue, 21 May 2013 04:10:15 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214656785/scat/88176adfdf246af5 The murder of her husband by al-Qa'ida shocked the world. But the bereavement inspired her work for peace and justice, she tells Simon ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214657360/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Tue, 21 May 2013 04:09:14 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214657360/scat/88176adfdf246af5 The Netherlands has been ranked as the fifth best Western European country to invest in, according to the "Global Best to Invest ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214656786/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Tue, 21 May 2013 04:09:09 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214656786/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Insurance group Nationale Nederlanden faces a possible €2.7bn claim for miss-selling of its investment-based savings scheme. Website Follow the money has obtained a copy of a report by financial services complaints institute Kifid which says Nationale Nederlanden charged a client undisclosed costs on an investment-based savings scheme and must repay these together with the unrealised ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214656592/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Tue, 21 May 2013 04:06:36 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214656592/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Tue May 21, 2013 3:59am EDT * Bwin.party to focus on fewer European markets * Online gambling company looks to U.S. liberalisation * Shares fall as revenues slide in first quarter By Keith Weir LONDON, May 21 (Reuters) - Bwin.party has targeted cost savings of 70 million euros ($90 million) this year as it joins other online gambling companies pulling back from markets where regulations are not ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214657721/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Tue, 21 May 2013 03:59:53 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214657721/scat/88176adfdf246af5 MOSCOW, May 21 (R-Sport) – Russia’s federal government will pay out roughly $5,400 to Russian gold medalists at this summer’s University Games in the Russian city of Kazan, according to a decree signed Tuesday by Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev. Silver medalists, meanwhile, will receive a bonus of just over $2,600, while bronze medalists will earn about $1,600, as Russia looks ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214656788/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Tue, 21 May 2013 03:59:42 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214656788/scat/88176adfdf246af5 LONDON, May 21 (Reuters) - European shares edged back on Tuesday from five-year highs, with some traders citing concerns over a possible end to central bank stimulus measures which have led a global equity market rally this year. The pan-European FTSEurofirst 300 index fell 0.3 percent to 1,248.87 points, while the euro zone's blue-chip Euro STOXX 50 index declined 0.4 percent to ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214656789/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Tue, 21 May 2013 03:57:29 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214656789/scat/88176adfdf246af5 LONDON (MarketWatch) -- European stock markets nudged lower in early trade on Tuesday, taking a breather after climbing to multiyear highs in the prior day's session. The Stoxx Europe 600 ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214656790/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Tue, 21 May 2013 03:57:26 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214656790/scat/88176adfdf246af5 European equity indices are expected to open slightly lower on Tuesday, following in the footsteps of their US counterparts which ended slightly lower, despite both the S&P and Dow hitting new all time highs earlier in the session. US equities shed earlier gains following comments from Chicago Fed President Charles Evans, who appeared to support the need for ultra-loose monetary policy from ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214656795/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Tue, 21 May 2013 03:51:20 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214656795/scat/88176adfdf246af5 European film studio facility operators in such places as Germany and Eastern Europe feel positioned to take advantage of a shortage of free studio space in London and attract big Hollywood productions in the second half of the year and ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214656595/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Tue, 21 May 2013 03:50:45 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214656595/scat/88176adfdf246af5 MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian security forces killed two suspected militants in the North Caucasus during a night-time sweep in the region plagued by an Islamist insurgency, investigators said on ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214656550/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Tue, 21 May 2013 03:50:26 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214656550/scat/88176adfdf246af5 LONDON | Tue May 21, 2013 3:45am EDT LONDON May 21 (Reuters) - VTB, Russia's No.2 bank, sees 2013 net profit at above 100 billion roubles ($3.2 billion), Chief Executive Andrei Kostin told Reuters TV. In 2012, state-controlled VTB posted 90.6 billion roubles in net profit, flat on the previous year but beating a consensus analyst forecast. Kostin also said that the bank plans to ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214657812/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Tue, 21 May 2013 03:45:09 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214657812/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Sweden seeks partnership with Ethiopia to build its relation with Africa on a new foundation, Swedish Ministers said on Monday. The remark came up while Sweden's Minister of Finance Anders Borg and Minister for International Development Cooperation Gunilla Carlsson held discussion with Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn in Addis Ababa. The Ministers said the economic growth of Africa and ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214656744/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Tue, 21 May 2013 03:44:33 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214656744/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Germany will further strengthen ongoing support through knowledge and technology transfer towards growth of Ethiopia's agricultural productivity, the Federal Minister of Agriculture of Germany, llse Aigner has said. A German-Ethiopian advanced training center with the Kulumsa Agricultural Research Center was inaugurated by Aigner and Agriculture State Minister Wondyirad Mandefro. The ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214656602/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Tue, 21 May 2013 03:44:31 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214656602/scat/88176adfdf246af5 MOSCOW | Tue May 21, 2013 3:16am EDT MOSCOW May 21 (Reuters) - Russian state-controlled telecoms operator Rostelecom reported on Tuesday a 49 percent fall in first-quarter net income due to one-off gains in the year-ago period and higher interest expenses. The company said its net profit fell to 6.4 billion roubles ($205 million) in the first three months of 2013, which was below the 6.5 ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214656791/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Tue, 21 May 2013 03:16:26 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214656791/scat/88176adfdf246af5 A huge tornado with 320 kilometers-per-hour winds has torn through the central U.S. state of Oklahoma, destroying homes for the second day in a row ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214655855/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Tue, 21 May 2013 03:16:21 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214655855/scat/88176adfdf246af5 U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry meets Tuesday with the sultan of Oman, on his latest stop in a campaign to help arrange a Syrian peace ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214655854/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Tue, 21 May 2013 03:16:21 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214655854/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Kellermann ready for Lyon Of the two, Rapinoe has made the bigger immediate impact scoring in their UEFA Women's Champions League quarter-final against FC Malm and again in their last-four defeat of FCF Juvisy Essonne. As the final with VfL Wolfsburg at Stamford Bridge on Thursday approaches, the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup finalist and 2012 Olympic gold medallist talked to UEFA.com ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214655886/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Tue, 21 May 2013 03:14:51 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214655886/scat/88176adfdf246af5 European stocks are set to edge lower on Tuesday as investors await the release of the FOMC minutes and a speech from Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke before the Joint Economic Committee of Congress on Wednesday for cues on the Fed's stance on continuing its easy monetary policy. The dollar retreated from a six-week high against the euro amid speculation that Bernanke would not hint at tapering ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214655674/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Tue, 21 May 2013 03:10:51 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214655674/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Celestial Halo will return to France for a crack at the French Champion Hurdle at Auteuil in three weeks after his thrilling victory in the Prix La Barka at the weekend. Trainer Paul Nicholls is quite happy to keep last season's World Hurdle runner-up on the go in a bid to repeat the feat of Thousand Stars, who won both French races last year but could finish only fourth on Sunday. ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214655887/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Tue, 21 May 2013 03:10:51 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214655887/scat/88176adfdf246af5 On 18 May, ambassador Elin Suleymanov and Azerbaijani MP Ganira Pashayeva attended 32nd Turkish Day Parade, the greatest cultural event of the Turkish world, that took place in New York. The parade held in downtown New York brought together thousands of people including Turkic-speaking nations living in the U.S. The parade participants watched a concert in Dag Hammarskjold, one of the major ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214655885/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Tue, 21 May 2013 03:08:33 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214655885/scat/88176adfdf246af5 TRKSAV, Writers and Artists Foundation of Turkish World, has presented Turkish World Service -2012 award to an Azerbaijani diplomat. On 17 May, during a ceremony dedicated to Turkish Day Parade TÜRKSAV President Yahya Akengin presented Turkish World Service Award 2012 to Azerbaijani ambassador to the U.S Elin Suleymanov for supporting lobbying efforts of the Turkish world against unfounded ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214655682/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Tue, 21 May 2013 03:08:33 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214655682/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Developing countries are missing out on some €460m a year in income because big companies use letterbox firms to avoid paying tax there, according to Dutch aid group Oxfam Novib. Brewers, oil firms and mining companies are happy to do business in Africa but use complicated constructions to reduce their tax bills, the organisation’s research, quoted by RTL news, shows. This is a ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214655709/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Tue, 21 May 2013 03:02:16 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214655709/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Moscow, May 21 (BNA) - Four people were killed and almost 40 wounded by twin car bomb blasts in Makhachkala, the capital of Russia's republic of Dagestan, the Russian Health Ministry said. "A total of 39 people are casualties as a result of the blasts, including four people who were killed at the scene," the ministry said in a statement. "Currently, 35 people remain in ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214656480/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Tue, 21 May 2013 02:59:59 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214656480/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Tokyo, May 21 (BNA) - Japan's Crown Prince Naruhito will make an official visit to Spain next month, to mark the 400th anniversary of bilateral ties between the two nations, Japan's (NHK World) reported. A Japanese mission was sent to Spain in 1613 from what is now Sendai City, by powerful feudal war lord Date Masamune. Various commemorative events are scheduled in both countries ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214655875/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Tue, 21 May 2013 02:59:59 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214655875/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Tue May 21, 2013 2:57am EDT The following factors could affect Italian markets on Tuesday. Reuters has not verified the newspaper reports, and cannot vouch for their accuracy. New items are marked with (*). * TELECOM ITALIA Franco Bernabe, the chairman of Telecom Italia, met Italian Prime Minister Enrico Letta on Monday to discuss plans to spin off the group's domestic fixed-line network, a ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214657813/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Tue, 21 May 2013 02:57:09 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214657813/scat/88176adfdf246af5 of the continent's victorious Ryder Cup team competing in this week's BMW PGA Championship at Wentworth. Despite the usual absence of big-name Americans, the Tour's flagship event has drawn a field worthy of its status. Seven of the world's top 20 are on show in a line-up headed by world number two Rory McIlroy. Not since the Abu Dhabi Championship, which featured ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214655889/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Tue, 21 May 2013 02:52:57 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214655889/scat/88176adfdf246af5 stock futures were little changed, after the Stoxx Europe 600 Index rose to a near-five-year high, as companies from Vodafone Group Plc to Sonova Holding AG posted earnings. U.S. futures and Asian stocks were also little changed. Vodafone, the world's second-largest mobile-phone company, and Sonova, the biggest hearing-aid maker, may move. United Internet AG may be active after ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214655888/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Tue, 21 May 2013 02:52:55 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214655888/scat/88176adfdf246af5 07/02/2013 11:01 CET The smiles may be slightly forced when Germany’s Angela Merkel and Hungary’s Viktor Orban meet at Wednesday’s EU summit following a spat between their governments over comments littered with military – and Nazi – analogies. In response to criticism of his government, Hungary’s prime minister said on Friday he hoped Germany would not send ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214655852/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Tue, 21 May 2013 02:45:19 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214655852/scat/88176adfdf246af5 JAPANESE star chef Miki Nozawa was killed on the German holiday island of Sylt following an alleged dispute with two disgruntled guests about a dish of fried noodles. The 57-year-old died on Monday as a result of his injuries in the intensive care unit of a local hospital, said Ulrike Stahlmann-Liebelt, the senior public prosecutor from the nearby town of Flensburg. The results of the autopsy ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214655013/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Tue, 21 May 2013 02:12:32 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214655013/scat/88176adfdf246af5 MOSCOW, May 21 (Itar-Tass) - Russia’s Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has no plans to return seasonal ‘standard’ and ‘daylight saving’ times in the ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214655015/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Tue, 21 May 2013 02:03:22 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214655015/scat/88176adfdf246af5 SOCHI, May 21 (Itar-Tass) - The state of and prospects for the development of bilateral relations, as well as current issues of Russian assistance to socioeconomic development of the Republic of South Ossetia will be discussed here on Tuesday by Russian President Vladimir Putin and his South Ossetian counterpart Leonid Tibilov, the Kremlin press service ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214655014/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Tue, 21 May 2013 02:03:22 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214655014/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Screengrab from http://earthquake.usgs.gov MOSCOW- A 6.0-magnitude earthquake struck Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula early Tuesday, followed by a series of strong after-shocks, the US Geological Survey reported. The first quake struck at a depth of 33 kilometers (20 miles) at 0155 GMT, 136 kilometres east-southeast of the Russian city of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, the USGS reported. It was ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214655016/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Tue, 21 May 2013 02:02:44 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214655016/scat/88176adfdf246af5 The receipt received by Tumblr blogger Casual Cynic's waitress mother, showing the $1,000 tip a first-time customer left her. (Casual ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214655018/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Tue, 21 May 2013 02:01:33 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214655018/scat/88176adfdf246af5 inflation data for April on Tuesday at 9:30a.m. London time. Last week, the Bank of England's outgoing governor Mervyn King said inflation would be close to 2 percent (the central bank's target) in two years' time but it was last measured at 2.8 percent in March. Germany is drawing up plans for treaty changes ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214655020/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Tue, 21 May 2013 01:50:20 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214655020/scat/88176adfdf246af5 The longest decline in Treasuries this year has left U.S. government debt the cheapest since March 2011 when measured by real yields and the best relative value compared with German bunds in more than two decades. After inflation, 10-year U.S. notes yielded 0.91 percent last week, or 1.77 percentage points more than real yields on U.K. gilts, the widest spread in 25 months. Versus Germany, the ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214654855/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Tue, 21 May 2013 01:44:04 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214654855/scat/88176adfdf246af5 12/03/2013 17:15 CET Spring in the Pyrenees ';arrives early and quickly feels like the summer';, according to one tourist website. Not this year. Tourists usually come to cycle, hike, and marvel at wildflowers in the meadows. On Monday at the Col du Tourmalet (altitude 2,115 metres) they contemplated 10 metres of snow. France and much of western Europe are experiencing the coolest ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214654973/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Tue, 21 May 2013 01:42:24 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214654973/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Ed Miliband . Miliband agreed to have Labor members of Parliament vote against an amendment that would have extended civil unions to heterosexual couples, The Guardian reported. The amendment, backed by opponents of gay marriage, would have reduced the bill's chance of parliamentary approval, and Miliband had been planning to abstain. Cameron has also been trying to damp down a story that ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214655046/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Tue, 21 May 2013 01:33:48 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214655046/scat/88176adfdf246af5 LONDON, May 21 (Reuters) - European shares were likely to retreat on Tuesday, with concerns that the U.S. Federal Reserve might begin slowing its bond purchases seen prompting investors to take some profits from the market's rally to five ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214655477/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Tue, 21 May 2013 01:29:13 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214655477/scat/88176adfdf246af5 The official Xinhua news agency reported the development Tuesday, quoting a Chinese consular official in Pyongyang who spoke with the owner of the fishing boat. The official said the men were safe and on their way home, but he gave no other details. The owner of the boat says North Korea was demanding nearly $100,000 for the return of the boat and crew, which were taken May 6 in the waters ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214654123/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Tue, 21 May 2013 01:08:01 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214654123/scat/88176adfdf246af5 The parliamentary committee of enquiry into the National Socialist Underground (NSU) terrorist gang has accused Germany's security authorities of a "total failure". At the same time, it excluded the possibility that government agencies covered up the operations of the far-right terror cell or enabled them to commit their murders. These were the two main conclusions drawn following ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214654166/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Tue, 21 May 2013 01:07:55 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214654166/scat/88176adfdf246af5 , who insist on a no-politics perspective. Nevertheless, a social explosion is brewing in Spain. There have been at least 27 demonstrations since the beginning of 2013, according to data compiled ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214654167/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Tue, 21 May 2013 01:07:52 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214654167/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Brussels, May 21 (Prensa Latina) Losses worth millions caused every year by the tax evasion in the European Union (EU) are among the main topics to be discussed in the Summit of leaders from this bloc, planned for this week. That issue gained strength during a scandal in France related to a secret 600 000 euros bank account the former Budget minister Jerome Cahuzac had in Switzerland. This ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214654168/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Tue, 21 May 2013 01:02:13 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214654168/scat/88176adfdf246af5 gay marriage , the leadership and the party enjoy "a deep and lasting friendship".Mr Cameron's email was his first comment since newspapers revealed that a member of his inner circle had described Conservative association members as "mad, swivel-eyed loons".He did not explicitly refer to the row over the "loons" comment, but insisted that he admired and ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214654169/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Tue, 21 May 2013 00:57:30 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214654169/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Hungary and the Nazi occupation of his country. The diplomatic spat will add pressure to the at-times fraught relationship between the two ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214654170/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Tue, 21 May 2013 00:57:29 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214654170/scat/88176adfdf246af5 A 6.5-magnitude earthquake jolted the sea area off the eastern coast of the Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia at 9:55 am Tuesday Beijing Time, according to the China Earthquake Networks Center. The epicenter, with a depth of 30 km, was monitored at 52.5 degrees north latitude and 160.5 degrees east longitude, the center said in a ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214654171/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Tue, 21 May 2013 00:56:31 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214654171/scat/88176adfdf246af5 The Ark Royal, the aircraft carrier that was for many years the flagship of the British navy, left Portsmouth for the last time Monday for a Turkish scrap yard. Former members of the vessel's crew, some wearing black armbands, joined a crowd of onlookers who watched as the Ark Royal was towed out of the harbor, the Daily Mirror reported. Towing the ship to Turkey saves money on fuel. The ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214654172/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Tue, 21 May 2013 00:30:23 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214654172/scat/88176adfdf246af5 France is continuing a crackdown on suspected Islamic radicals with the expulsion of a 24-year-old Moroccan man who allegedly called for "acts of murder." French Interior Minister Manuel Valls announced Friday the man, living in La Rochelle, France, had been deported for "repeated acts and calls for murder" posted in French on a "jihadist website." Valls said the ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214654173/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Tue, 21 May 2013 00:30:22 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214654173/scat/88176adfdf246af5 © 2013 United Press International, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Any reproduction, republication, redistribution and/or modification of any UPI content is expressly prohibited without UPI's prior written ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214654743/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Tue, 21 May 2013 00:30:19 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214654743/scat/88176adfdf246af5 BOR, SOUTH SUDAN -- The South Sudanese Army (SPLA) has recaptured the town of Boma in Jonglei state after a brief battle with rebels led by David Yau Yau, SPLA officials said Monday. "The SPLA yesterday restored law and order to Boma and chased away the militia from Boma town," army spokesman Philip Aguer said. Four SPLA soldiers died in the fighting and 12 were wounded, Aguer ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214653202/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Tue, 21 May 2013 00:04:39 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214653202/scat/88176adfdf246af5 As austerity bites harder in Greece, the far right Golden Dawn party is gaining in popularity, and drawing increasing comparison with the ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214653239/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Tue, 21 May 2013 00:00:06 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214653239/scat/88176adfdf246af5 LOS ANGELES -- A longstanding health problem in California's Central Valley has worsened in recent years, leading health officials to order the relocation of 3,000 prisoners from two state prisons. But the disease affects much of the population in some rural communities and, while it often goes unnoticed, it sometimes can be devastating for patients. Dale Pulde is selling his California ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214652313/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 23:00:29 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214652313/scat/88176adfdf246af5 HONG KONG - The Obama administration and the European Union have each decided to negotiate settlements with China in the world's largest anti-dumping and anti-subsidy trade cases involving China's roughly $30 billion a year in solar panel shipments to the West, officials and trade advisers in Beijing, Brussels and Washington said. The plan that is starting to take shape would ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214652160/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 22:56:54 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214652160/scat/88176adfdf246af5 , Evan Williams reports from Athens on the party’s rise to become the third biggest force in Greek politics, but also the stark similarities with the German Nazis. As well as winning seats in parliament, they’ve also started handing out food aid and donating blood… but only to people who can prove their Greek citizenship. "The life of the Greeks has changed ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214652338/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 22:56:31 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214652338/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Montenegrin President-elect Filip Vujanovic was sworn in on Monday, after wining his third consecutive term in May, local media reported.The ceremony was held in Cetinje, the old royal capital of Montenegro and the official residence of the president.Mr. Vujanovic said that he would perform his duty as president of Montenegro diligently and responsibly, to serve the best interest of all citizens ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214652340/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 22:49:18 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214652340/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Three people were killed and two were seriously injured as the result of an explosion on Monday in the military base of Alvarez de Sotomayor in the locality of Viator, close to the city of Almeria in southeast Spain.The base is home to a unit of the Spanish Legion and the explosion occurred at 14:20 local time (GMT 1220), although the cause has not yet been revealed.The Spanish Military have ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214652339/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 22:49:18 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214652339/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Knicks point guard Pablo Prigioni could leave the team and return to Spain. (Ron Hoskins/Getty Images) New York Knicks point guard Pablo Prigioni could leave the team this offseason and return to Spain, ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214652341/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 22:40:21 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214652341/scat/88176adfdf246af5 The former Giro ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214653240/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 22:37:32 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214653240/scat/88176adfdf246af5 SOCHI, Russia -- The mountains of Sochi are now home to Potanin's slope, Gazprom's gondola lift and Sberbank's ski jump. The nicknames used by locals and an army of construction workers leave no doubt about who is paying for the 2014 Winter Games: Russia's business ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214652172/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 22:29:27 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214652172/scat/88176adfdf246af5 To get best possible experience using our website we recommend that you upgrade to a newer version or other web browser. A list of the most popular web browsers can be found ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214651366/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 21:55:06 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214651366/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Sergey Lavrov said Monday it was crucial for Syrian opposition envoys to engage in peace talks without setting preconditions, apparently referring to demands for President Bashar Assad’s removal. Lavrov also reiterated ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214651383/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 21:41:38 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214651383/scat/88176adfdf246af5 MOSCOW, May 21 (RIA Novosti) - Russia "has all chances" to avoid economic recession, and the Russian government is doing its best to prevent it, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said in an interview published on Tuesday. The Russian prime minister said in an interview with the Komsomolskaya Pravda daily that the global economy was on the verge of recession at the moment, so ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214651263/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 21:34:51 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214651263/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Ombudsman Emily O'Reilly, who received the backing of 80 MEPs from across Europe's political spectrum - the written support of 40 was required to qualify. Photograph: Julien Behal/PA ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214651354/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 21:34:45 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214651354/scat/88176adfdf246af5 European Union has denounced a violent attack by thousands of Georgians - with Orthodox priests in the vanguard - on a few dozen gay rights campaigners in the capital ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214651356/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 21:34:43 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214651356/scat/88176adfdf246af5 A 48-year-old British man has appeared in a French court today after allegedly confessing to killing his two children by slitting their ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214651140/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 21:34:23 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214651140/scat/88176adfdf246af5 By Vincent RyanBusiness Reporter Ryanair has accused the EU of acting bizarrely and making decisions on a political and not a commercial basis.In its annual report, the no-frills airline declared that it had offered a more comprehensive remedies package for Aer Lingus than the package offered by British Airways for British Midlands. "It is bizarre that the EU can wave through BA's offer ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214651403/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 21:32:34 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214651403/scat/88176adfdf246af5 China to settle a dispute over trade in solar-energy equipment and avoid a conflict among the world's largest economies, according to people familiar with the discussions. The preliminary negotiations focus on setting a quota on Chinese exports and a minimum price for solar-energy equipment, in exchange for suspending U.S. duties on the goods, according to two people familiar with the ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214651404/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 21:32:14 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214651404/scat/88176adfdf246af5 The slim hope generated two weeks ago when the United States and Russia announced plans for an international conference aimed at ending ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214656784/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 21:28:54 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214656784/scat/88176adfdf246af5 May 20 Oklahoman staff tornadoes/storms gallery View photos of the May 20, 2013, tornado and severe weather damage... 41 ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214651732/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 21:24:46 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214651732/scat/88176adfdf246af5 LOS ANGELES, Calif. - Crystal Cruises is expanding its uber-exclusive collection of intimate "Boutique Adventures" during summer Northern Europe cruises with two new experiences in Belfast and Berlin. The shoreside outings - none of which are available on any other cruise line - offer intimate access to Northern Ireland's political leadership and Germany's Soho -- Soho House, ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214651338/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 21:23:59 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214651338/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Scientists believe they have found a key that could help lead to an earlier diagnosis of neurological disorders such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's.Scientists at Cambridge University's Department of Chemistry have attempted to map the pathway which creates the "aberrant" proteins at the root of such conditions.They hope it could be a much-needed breakthrough to help ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214650311/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 20:44:38 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214650311/scat/88176adfdf246af5 MOSCOW ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214651126/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 20:36:27 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214651126/scat/88176adfdf246af5 City tourism forms the backbone of new optimism for European destination visitor arrivals growth, according to new research. The new data has been pulled from the latest European City Tourism Monitor by European Cities Marketing (ECM). 66 percent of participants forecast an increase during the second quarter of 2013 and an overall increase in bed-nights for the whole year. The Portuguese ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214650312/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 20:36:25 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214650312/scat/88176adfdf246af5 At least four people were killed and 35 others injured when twin blasts hit Russia's Dagestan republic, local law enforcement authorities said ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214650497/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 20:34:50 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214650497/scat/88176adfdf246af5 MOSCOW, May 21 (RIA Novosti) - The Russian Foreign Ministry on Monday urged the European Union to abstain from "ideology-based" remarks on the issue of non-governmental organizations in Russia. The statement, posted on the ministry’s website, was made in the wake of the May 17 meeting between the Foreign Ministry's Special Representative for Human Rights, Democracy and the ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214650313/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 20:29:22 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214650313/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Its citizens aren't particularly receptive to being lectured by big and wealthy businesses, or their trade bodies, at the best of times. Now is not the best of times, with a flatlining economy, a national mood of profound discontent and the perception that big business equals tax cheat.All the same, its intervention is necessary. The Europhobic populists are putting across an argument that ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214650109/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 20:28:45 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214650109/scat/88176adfdf246af5 The 14th Annual BioEquity Europe Conference Features 96 Innovator Companies With Differentiated Products, Upcoming Milestones and Partner-Ready ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214650315/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 20:26:48 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214650315/scat/88176adfdf246af5 European stock markets rose to fresh highs in muted holiday trading on Monday despite weak Italian economic data following strong start to the new week for Asian equity prices. London's FTSE 100 index of leading shares added 0.48 per cent to hit a 13-year closing high of 6,755.63 points. Meanwhile in Frankfurt the DAX 30 index set a fresh record high close after climbing 0.69 per cent to ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214650314/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 20:26:48 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214650314/scat/88176adfdf246af5 news ) has warned in a note. Kevin Daly, part of the investment bank's economic team, has concluded that a British departure from the EU would result in a "loss/loss scenario" in which both the UK and the rest of the bloc would be damaged. But in a note to investors, Mr Daly added that Goldman does not expect an in/out referendum because the Tories first need to win an ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214650317/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 20:26:46 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214650317/scat/88176adfdf246af5 The European Parliament is due to meet to debate ways to tackle tax evasion, ahead of an EU summit on the issue. The EU says 1tn euros ($1.3tn; 0.85tn) a year are lost in member states via tax evasion, seven times the EU budget. There is anger over revelations about Greek and French politicians holding secret Swiss bank accounts. MEPs are expected to call for a Europe-wide blacklist of tax ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214650316/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 20:26:44 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214650316/scat/88176adfdf246af5 India will mandate that all firms offering internet telephony, including Skype owned by software giant Microsoft, must set up a server in the ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214650323/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 20:14:51 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214650323/scat/88176adfdf246af5 LONDON ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214650321/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 19:51:51 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214650321/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Lothar Schmid, a German chess grandmaster who was the referee for three of the most contentious World Chess Championship matches ever played, including the volatile 1972 contest between Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky, which he may have saved by negotiating a truce just as it seemed they were both about to quit, died Saturday in Bamberg, Germany. He was 85. His death was confirmed on ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214650320/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 19:29:34 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214650320/scat/88176adfdf246af5 /enpproperty--> Sweden battled back from a goal down to grab its ninth world ice hockey title on Sunday with a 5-1 win over unfancied Switzerland. Vancouver Canucks center Henrik Sedin collected two goals and an assist, while goalkeeper Jhonas Enroth made 26 saves to avenge a 3-2 defeat in the preliminary round. The win has also ended the home-ice curse that prevented the ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214648906/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 19:22:11 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214648906/scat/88176adfdf246af5 /enpproperty--> French food giant Groupe Danone SA has invested in two joint projects with China Mengniu Dairy Co Ltd, a move that will help improve Danone's sliding market share in China and restore consumers' confidence in the country's dairy market. Danone will invest about 325 million euros ($417.17 million) in the projects. Through the deals, Mengniu will likely ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214649128/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 19:21:52 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214649128/scat/88176adfdf246af5 The hotel has been adapted to the needs of demanding Chinese travellers and with the standards of a modern international hotel.Both companies continue to make progress in a partnership which will see the growth of ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214648966/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 19:19:09 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214648966/scat/88176adfdf246af5 A British man has died during a dive on a wreck in Italy, coastguard officials have confirmed. The man was in a group of six divers taking part in a week-long programme involving several deep water explorations on ships that had been sunk during World War Two. Coastguard officials said the man had been diving at a depth of around 300 feet when he got into difficulty and died shortly after ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214649023/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 19:13:22 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214649023/scat/88176adfdf246af5 The European Space Agency says a former army helicopter pilot is to be Britain's first official astronaut to go to the International Space Station. Major Tim Peake, 41, is set for a five-month mission to the ISS in 2015 in a move being called a major boost for Britain's space industry, The Daily Telegraph reported Monday. Peake has been awaiting a mission assignment since graduating ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214649129/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 19:12:47 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214649129/scat/88176adfdf246af5 A human rights association in Spain has denounced five NATO commanders of the US-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan for committing war crimes in the war-torn ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214649130/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 19:09:46 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214649130/scat/88176adfdf246af5 In ordinary circumstances, broken campaign promises might be given grudging latitude by the public, the track record of Italy's politicians being what it is. But Parma is the first major city whose administration is being run by the Five Star Movement, which has presented itself as a nearly revolutionary alternative to a political system it dismisses as ossified and out of ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214649131/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 19:07:43 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214649131/scat/88176adfdf246af5 THE euro has rebounded against the dollar after sharp losses last week, while the yen also pushed higher after Japan's economy minister said it may have fallen far ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214649132/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 19:07:05 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214649132/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Euro Outlook and Levels This is an important week for the euro. For the past month, investors have been selling euros and buying dollars on the premise that the Eurozone is in recession, U.S. is in recovery and the ECB is considering more stimulus at a time when the Fed is considering less. All of these assumptions will be tested this week with key event risks on both sides of the Atlantic. For ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214649134/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 19:05:33 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214649134/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Two US holidaymakers found themselves a long way from their intended destination after an airline confused two airport codes. Sandy Valdiviseo and her husband Triet Vo were intending to fly from Los Angeles to Dakar in Senegal with Turkish Airlines. However, instead they ended up about 11,000km away - on an entirely different continent - in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, after the airport ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214648943/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 19:03:44 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214648943/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Boruch Spiegel, one of the last surviving fighters of the Warsaw ghetto uprising of 1943, in which a vastly outgunned band of 750 young Jews held off German soldiers for more than a month with crude arms and Molotov cocktails, died on May 9 in Montreal. He was 93. His death was confirmed by his son, Julius, a retired parks commissioner of Brooklyn. Mr Spiegel lived in ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214650319/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 18:58:15 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214650319/scat/88176adfdf246af5 New law foresees establishment of Turkish Railways Corporation ANKARA - Turkish President Abdullah Gul on Tuesday approved a draft law on the liberalization of Turkish railways.The new law foresees the establishment of Turkish Railways Corporation.President Gul sent the law to the Turkish Prime Ministry for publication in the Official Gazette. Tuesday, April 30, ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214649135/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 18:56:59 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214649135/scat/88176adfdf246af5 The Federal Security Service of Russia (FSB, former KGB) arrested in the early hours of Tuesday (14th) U.S. diplomat Ryan Christopher Fogle, accused of trying to recruit a counterterrorism officer of the Russian security services, in a new episode of the war of spies between Moscow and Washington. The U.S. agent was attached to the American ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214649137/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 18:48:37 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214649137/scat/88176adfdf246af5 RCD Mallorca climbed off the foot of the Liga table as Tomer Hemed's first-half goal rewarded an enterprising performance againstReal Betis Balompi with the ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214644064/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 18:27:30 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214644064/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Divisions over plans to legalise gay marriage have been exposed in Britain, as MPs voted to scupper the government's proposals by allowing straight couples to take up civil partnerships.Faced with a possible House of Commons defeat, ministers on Monday adopted a Labour amendment to immediately review allowing heterosexual couples to tie the knot in civil partnerships.The government ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214644065/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 18:24:43 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214644065/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Senior members of the Church of Scotland have voted to let some congregations choose ministers who are in same-sex relationships - an important compromise that must still pass further hurdles before it can become church law.The church's General Assembly on Monday backed a motion affirming a traditional conservative view on homosexuality, but permitted liberal congregations to ordain openly ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214644066/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 18:24:39 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214644066/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Something monumental has been happening, by stealthy stages, to art in New York. On May 23rd, it will stand fully revealed: the architectural renovation and wholesale rehanging of the Metropolitan Museum’s core collections of pre-modern European art, enlarged by the annexation of galleries formerly devoted to temporary exhibitions. The revamp has added or moved hundreds of paintings. New, ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214644067/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 18:22:10 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214644067/scat/88176adfdf246af5