Euro banks get $639B loan
(CBS/AP) FRANKFURT, Germany — The European Central Bank loaned a massive 489 billion euro ($639 billion) to hundreds of banks for an exceptionally long period of three years to shore up a financial system...
(CBS/AP) FRANKFURT, Germany — The European Central Bank loaned a massive 489 billion euro ($639 billion) to hundreds of banks for an exceptionally long period of three years to shore up a financial system...
Italy’s economy shrank by 0.2% in the three months to the end of September, fuelling fears of a recession in the eurozone giant. The figures, released by the country’s official statistical agency, Istat, show...
Are your tax dollars helping hide global warming data from the public? Internal emails leaked as part of “Climategate 2.0” indicate the answer may be “Yes.” The original Climategate emails — correspondence stolen from...
(CBS/AP) PARIS – A French court has found former President Jacques Chirac guilty of embezzling public funds and other charges in a trial over illegal financing of the conservative party he long led. He’s the...
(multimedia) Explaining the proposal for a court system in which governments can be charged monetarily for global warming.
The European Union’s president said Friday that 26 of its 27 member countries are open to joining a new treaty tying their finances together to solve the euro crisis. Only Britain remains opposed, creating...
Amid rising clamor in Israel, the United States, and Europe to stop Iran’s nuclear program – possibly with military action – a brief but incendiary news item emerged in Iran. It purported to quote...
The French President, Nicolas Sarkozy, has said France and Germany must come together to ensure stability at the heart of Europe. In a major speech in the port of Toulon, Mr Sarkozy said he...
The UK intelligence agency GCHQ said Thursday that more than 50 people so far have cracked an online code launched in a bid to track down the spies of the future. The service, which...
The UK is to expel all Iranian diplomats following the storming of its embassy in Tehran, Foreign Secretary William Hague has announced. He said he had ordered the immediate closure of the Iranian embassy...