Bad news for Nokia fans living in Australia as the company decided not to bring its 808 PureView camera phone in the country. Australia is the second continent that won’t get the Nokia 808 PureView, after the Finnish company noted it wouldn’t launch the smartphone in North America either. While North American customers may be ...
Sony Xperia U is now available for pre-order in India and is expected to hit shelves sometime this week. Today, Sony has quietly made the Xperia U available in Hong Kong and Taiwan. In addition, the Japanese company introduced the Xperia sola in the same countries as well. According to XperiaBlog, customers who want to ...
“It is wrong to lock people up in prison because of political convictions,” Niebel, who is a member of the pro-business Free Democrats, a junior partner in the governing centre-right coalition, said. German President Joachim Gauck has rejected an invitation to a May 11-12 Yalta summit meeting while German Chancellor Angela Merkel is reportedly considering ...
“Throughout much of his political career, and more recently following his retirement as a Member of Parliament, Sir John has placed priority on nurturing relations with Japan and has played an important role in the steady development of closer bilateral relations in many fields,” the ministry said. Sir John will receive the award from the ...
[unable to retrieve full-text content] Schleswig-Holstein result caps a miserable night for Angela Merkel in her country as well as Europe Angela Merkel’s coalition of Christian Democrats and liberal Free Democrats lost a state election in northern Germany on Sunday, a week ahead of a much bigger regional ballot further west. The election, in the ...
[unable to retrieve full-text content] Parties that passed unpopular belt-tightening measures punished by electorate at ballot box A pivotal poll in Greece looked set to send tremors across the eurozone on Sunday as voters elected to overturn the country’s political landscape with a massive protest vote against EU-dictated austerity. Parties that had participated in an ...
The “silent majority” that Mr Sarkozy repeatedly swore would “submerge” his Socialist rival and all those who predicted he stood no chance, failed to speak up at the 11th hour. “The French people have made their choice … François Hollande is the president of France and he must be respected,” he said in a speech ...
Greece is potentially ungovernable as a minority government must try and pass a new raft of austerity measures next month which are a condition of an EU-IMF bailout and Greek membership of the euro. In France, while Hollande, the Socialist President-elect is a centrist, he is sitting on a powder keg of resentment at measures ...
[unable to retrieve full-text content] Leftist group could be the second biggest party as Greek voters rally to resist the terms of financial bailout Standing on the podium in his trademark open-neck shirt and dark suit, Alexis Tsipras clenched his fist and bellowed at the crowd. “For two years they have taken decisions without asking ...
[unable to retrieve full-text content] Forecasters predict snow and downpours in the coldest start to May in 70 years with grim effect on consumer spending It was not meant to be like this. A bank holiday weekend with the mere hint of sun sees streams of motorists queuing to enter the Kentish harbour town of ...
