French e-commerce struggles to catch up The Guardian * France lags Britain, Germany in online sales * Internet sales have grown at double-digit rates * Carrefour and other retailers need to invest more * The French like the taste and feel of shops and goods By Lionel Laurent PARIS, Dec 23 (Reuters) - French consumers may be keener than ever to shop on...
Banana wars: the fruits of world trade BBC News | Bananas are one of the world's favourite fruits, a staple of almost everyone's supermarket shopping. Europeans munched their way through 5.4 million of them in 2008. | Yet the way bananas are grown by often poor workers in hot places and sold to richer consumers in colder countries tells us a lot ...
The Wall came down 20 years ago, but nostalgia for communism lingers in Berlin Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | Twenty years ago, I was a bearded little Dorothy going through a "Wizard of Oz" moment, only in reverse. | In October 1989, I passed through Checkpoint Charlie and stepped from the Technicolor world of West Berlin, with all its blue neon theater si...
Hypo Real shareholders howl at Berlin's squeeze-out The Guardian * CEO says no alternative to complete state control * Won't fully repay liquidity support before 2015 -CEO * Does not expect to return to profit before 2012 -CEO (Adds shareholder comment, detail, background, shares) By Peter Maushagen MUNICH, Oct 5 ...
Bayer names Dekkers as next CEO Philadelphia Daily News | The Associated Press | BERLIN - German chemical and pharmaceutical company Bayer AG announced Tuesday that it has tapped Marijn Dekkers to take over as its chief executive in October 2010. | Dekkers, who has both Dutch and U.S. citizenship, is curr...
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Ford, Subaru, VW win insurance industry picks The Examiner Comments WASHINGTON (Map, News) - Ford, Subaru and Volkswagen lead the insurance industry's annual list of the safest new vehicles, according to a closely watched assessment used b...
Japan doomsday fears premature Asia Times | By R Taggart Murphy | Many people in the financial world - not all of them kooks - have managed to convince themselves that Japan is hurtling towards some kind of fiscal doomsday...
Abu Dhabi Tourism Authority plans measured expansion for 2010 TravelDailyNews Having earlier this week clinched the World Travel Award for the 'World's Best Tourist Board' Abu Dhabi Tourism Authority (ADTA) has now unveiled a plan of measured expansion for 2...
As 2009 takes a bow, still no music director Philadelphia Daily News | By Peter Dobrin | Inquirer Music Critic The many candidates have been heard, their qualities weighed and debated. Yet the Philadelphia Orchestra today isn't much closer to naming a music director than it was in 2006 when it confirmed that it would ...
A bit of socialism is good for you! The Salt Lake Tribune | By Llewellyn King | Hearst NewspapersUpdated: 12/19/2009 10:28:21 AM MST | MAASTRICHT, Netherlands -- The English like to say, from an old music hall song, "a little of what you fancy does you good." | Well, so does a smidgeon of socialism. | ...
Divide remains as Berlin celebrates Al Jazeera | Two decades after the Berlin Wall was toppled, few people remember the exact spot where it once; not much is left of one of the most infamous barriers in the world. | But if 13 per cent of Germans had their way, the wall that split the country for 28 years during the Cold War would be resurrected. | "I have nothing better to be proud of than the ...
