The European Union says it is releasing another $9 million to help the victims of devastating floods in Pakistan. The funds will add to the nearly $135 million the EU has already donated. The additional assistance will be used to bring water and shelter, food and medical care to those affected by the monsoon floods. […]
EU Offers Additional Aid to Pakistan Flood Victims
Posted October 17th, 2011 at 11:40 am (UTC-5)
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US Industrial Production Rises
Posted October 17th, 2011 at 11:30 am (UTC-5)
U.S. industrial production grew in September, in part because of demand for autos and computers, easing fears the world’s largest economy might lurch back into recession. Monday’s report from the U.S. Federal Reserve said the output from factories, mines, and utilities incrreased two-tenths of a percent in September. Nationwide industrial production changed very little in […]
US Firm Pays $4 Billion in Oil Spill Damages
Posted October 17th, 2011 at 11:25 am (UTC-5)
A U.S. oil company that owned a 25 percent stake in the Gulf of Mexico oil well that exploded last year has agreed to pay $4 billion to victims of the worst American oil spill. Anadarko Petroleum had been feuding with BP, the oil well’s operator, over who was responsible for the explosion that killed […]
Germany Seeks More Women in Upper Management
Posted October 17th, 2011 at 11:25 am (UTC-5)
Germany’s top 30 public companies have unveiled plans to increase the number of women working in high-level management positions. The companies, which are all traded on the leading DAX index of blue-chip stocks, launched the initiative Monday. At a meeting in Berlin, each of the companies presented individual targets for increasing the number of women […]
Top UN Official to Probe Khmer Rouge Tribunal Allegations
Posted October 17th, 2011 at 11:15 am (UTC-5)
The United Nations says the world body’s top legal affairs official will visit Cambodia this week to discuss allegations of political interference from Phnom Penh in the ongoing Khmer Rouge trials. Tribunal spokesman Lars Olsen, speaking Monday in the Cambodian capital, said Under Secretary-General for Legal Affairs Patricia O’Brien will meet Thursday and Friday with […]
Turkey’s Unemployment Rate Falls
Posted October 17th, 2011 at 11:15 am (UTC-5)
Turkey’s unemployment rate has dropped to 9.1 percent, as the country’s economy continues to register stable growth. The Turkish Statistics Institute said Monday that its data show the unemployment rate fell to 9.1 percent in the three months ending in July, down from 10.6 percent in the same period last year. The data show the […]
Clashes Kill 8 in Yemeni Capital
Posted October 17th, 2011 at 10:50 am (UTC-5)
Clashes between troops loyal to Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh and opposition forces have killed at least eight people in the capital, Sana’a. Medical personnel said at least three of those killed in Monday’s fighting were in the city’s Change Square, which has served as a center of anti-government protests. The other victims were killed […]
Militants Kill 9 Pakistani Troops in Ambush
Posted October 17th, 2011 at 10:50 am (UTC-5)
Militants have ambushed Pakistani forces in the country’s northwest tribal region, killing at least nine soldiers. Monday’s attack took place in the Bara area of Khyber district along the Afghan border. Officials say at least 13 militants were killed when troops retaliated.
Sick US Woman Evacuated from South Pole
Posted October 17th, 2011 at 10:40 am (UTC-5)
A sick American woman working at a South Pole research facility has been evacuated to New Zealand after suffering what doctors believe was a stroke. Renee-Nicole Douceur, who worked as a research manager at the National Science Foundation’s facility in Antarctica, arrived in Christchurch early Monday. She requested the emergency evacuation in August after becoming […]
Google Earth Helping Nepal Track Typhoid
Posted October 17th, 2011 at 10:40 am (UTC-5)
Scientists are combining gene sequencing technology with Google Earth to help map the spread of typhoid and trace the source of the illness in Nepal. Typhoid fever is caused by bacteria and usually spread through food or water contaminated with fecal matter. Outbreaks of the illness have been difficult to track because the pathogen mutates, […]
