TOYKO: Shares in Japan dropped 3.55 pc on Tuesday due mainly to the strength of the Japanese Yen which is affecting Japanese exports. The stock market is at 8,824.06 a 16-month low and the lowest since April 2009. The Bank of Japan is introducing measures to counteract the affect of weakening exports as well as [...]
LONDON: Rio Tinto and BHP Billiton are awaiting competition clearance in order to develop up an open-cut iron ore mine in Australia. The Hopes Downs iron ore mine will be able to produce 15 million tonnes of high-quality iron ore by 2013 according to Rio Tinto in a recent statement. An investment of $1.6 billion [...]
BIRMINGHAM: The Midlands football club Aston Villa are increasing their efforts to secure a new manager with Premiership experience after the departure of Martin O’Neill in the first week of the season. A number of well known football managers have shown interest such as Bob Bradley, the USA coach and Ronald Koeman, the former Benfica [...]
BRASILIA: The Worlds 3rd largest Hydro Electric Dam is to be built on a tributary of the river Amazon at Belo Monte near the town Altimira in Northern Brazil. The authority to build the dam was signed by the Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva which allows the consortium Norte Energia and the state [...]
AMSTERDAM: Prescribing patients who have heart disease with omega-3 oils such as margarine or fish oils did not significantly reduced heart disease claims new research from Holland. Daan Kromhout of Wageningen University was the Scientist who led the 40 month study on 4800 patients who previously had heart attacks in the last 4 years. The [...]
LONDON: Personal finance lessons, money management, investing in the future is probably one subject that should have been placed at the top of the schools curriculum years ago and this may have prevented the mass consumer debt that is prevalent in today. Knowledge of finance, an essential skill to have is being introduced into math [...]
NEW YORK: A new type of Burger is about to be unveiled at the Whopper Bar Restaurant, New York. It is called the Pizza Burger and has been estimated to contain 2,500 calories, the recommended daily calorific intake for the average man and consists of 144g of fat of which 59g is saturated and 3,780mg [...]
NEW YORK: Apple Inc’s iPad is set to be a success for another year with very little competition. Possible rivals in the iPad market will not have anything ready too match Apple’s iPad for at least 1 year and according to the market research firm iSuppli will not be in contention with Apple due to [...]
NEW YORK: The famous and highly played golfer Tiger Woods admits that it was his own actions that caused the end of his marriage to Elin Noregren, the former Swedish Model. Tiger Woods is preparing for his first US PGA playoff event and wants to return to playing the standard of golf he has become [...]
LONDON: A cat that was thrown into a refuse bin by a woman from Coventry has created a storm around the world since video footage from a CCTV camera was placed on Utube and Facebook. Millions around the world as far as Australia witnessed the cat sat on a wall being befriended by Mary Bale [...]
