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Dec. 10 (Bloomberg) -- German Chancellor Angela Merkel said today that Germany prefers a financial markets transaction tax. She spoke to fellow political leaders in Bonn, Germany.
(AP:BRUSSELS) European leaders ganged up against fat bonuses to bailed-out bankers Thursday, hoping to create a groundswell of support from around the globe.
German scientists say early tests show an ingredient in beer may ward off prostate cancer.
Microsoft has cleared the air on a poorly translated quote by confirming that people have always been able to, and are still allowed to, use Apple products at their events. The source of the misinformation was supposedly a representative at a Windows Mobile 6.5 demonstration in Munich, Germany and the statements resulted in stories saying Microsoft does not allow the mention or use of Apple ...
Dec. 10 (Bloomberg) -- The following companies’ shares may be active in European trading. Stock symbols are in parentheses and share prices are from the last close.
(AP:GLENVIEW, Ill.) Illinois Tool Works Inc. said Thursday its revenue fell 13 percent in the fourth quarter but it raised its earnings forecast for the period due to a $75 million gain from a tax audit settlement in Germany.
A Panama City native has died of injuries suffered at war in Afghanistan, the Army said Thursday. Staff Sgt. Dennis J. Hansen died Monday at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany, military officials said. The 31-year-old sergeant was a husband...
(AP:NEW YORK) Better to be a banker in New York than Europe this bonus season. The leaders of Britain and France are embracing a one-time tax on fat bonuses paid by bailed-out banks _ a restriction that goes far beyond what's being considered in the United States.
EMBL scientists uncover the gene responsible for keeping females femaleIs it a boy or a girl? Expecting parents may be accustomed to this question, but contrary to what they may think, the answer doesn't depend solely on their child's sex chromosomes. Scientists at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg, Germany and the Medical Research Council's National Institute for ...
EU leaders say they have failed to agree on how much money to commit to a fund to help poor countries cope with global warming and will keep working through the night.
A Fort Drum soldier has died of wounds suffered December 3rd when insurgents attacked his unit with an IED in Logar Province, Afghanistan. Sgt. Dennis J. Hansen, 31, of Panama City, Florida, died December 7th at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany. Sgt. Hansen deployed in January with the 3rd Brigade Combat Team. His previous deployments included 16 months in Afghanistan and four months ...
A soldier from Panama City has died from wounds he suffered in Afghanistan, the military reported Thursday. Staff Sgt. Dennis J. Hansen, 31, died Dec. 7 at the Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Landstuhl, Germany, of wounds sustained when...
A German Christmas tradition is back for another year in Union County.
Following a call for applications in July (see In Sequence 7/21/2009 ), the German federal government and the charity German Cancer Aid have awarded €15 million ($22 million) in funding to a consortium of researchers from seven institutions in Germany to participate in the International Cancer Genome Project.
(AP:BRUSSELS) Western European nations struggled to convince their poorer eastern neighbors Thursday to present a united front on climate change by helping pay developing nations to cut emissions and adapt to climate change.
Conservative Congregation B’nai Emunah will mark its 60th anniversary this weekend. The synagogue was founded in 1949 in San Francisco by 23 German Jewish wartime refugees who arrived via Shanghai, China.
Following the successful launches of Twitter in Spanish and Twitter in French , the service has announced native support for another new language today: Italian. This means that of the initial " FIGS " languages (that is French, Italian, German, and Spanish) that Twitter wanted to get done, only German remains. Given that Twitter is crowd-sourcing much of the work for these translations, the ...
[Dow Jones] Solar-power demand in southern Europe, particularly Italy and France, is keeping the European solar market "moving forward," picking up some of the slack from Spain's shrinking market, says Emerging Energy Research analyst Reese Tisdale; says southern Europe to account for 25% of 2009 solar installations in Europe behind Germany's No. 1 market, which will account for 67%; sees Italy ...
Brussels - Germany is to pledge the highest single contribution to a European Union fund aimed at helping poor nations cope with climate change, the German Press Agency has learned. EU governments have so far vowed to provide a total of 3 billion eur...
France has agreed to join Britain in levying a supertax on banking bonuses in a combined assault intended to step up pressure on other nations — including the United States — to follow suit, The New York Times’s Stephen Castle, Katrin Bennhold and Steven Erlanger report.
German microarray company Febit plans to launch a dedicated instrument next year for targeted enrichment of DNA for sequencing, In Sequence has learned.
