Twenty years ago, the Foreign Secretary would not even have acknowledged the existence of MI6, still less made a speech about the organisation. So William Hague’s insight yesterday into the work of the Secret Intelligence Service was both a reflection of these more transparent times and an indication that greater openness brings its own challenges. ...
[unable to retrieve full-text content] Why is the democratic world faring so much worse in this crisis than its authoritarian rivals? It’s the austerity, stupid How will historians remember 2011, the year which, according to the satirists at the Onion, has already used up the next decade’s entire supply of news? Some wonder if the ...
[unable to retrieve full-text content] Debt crisis intensifies as the Netherlands and France come under pressure from rising cost of borrowing The prospect of a eurozone breakup intensified on Tuesday night as borrowing costs around the region soared and the Dutch prime minister said it should be possible to expel some members from the currency union. ...
[IMG=1]Today, Nokia’s Lumia 800 smartphone became available for purchase in France via Orange, marking the debut of the first ever handset from Nokia to run under Microsoft’s Windows Phone operating system. Users who would like to purchase the new device can find it available on wireless carrier’s website here with a price tag of €99 ...
Japanese-Swedish mobile phone maker Sony Ericsson has just announced that is selected PHD as its new global media agency. The leading mobile phone maker says that the collaboration with the company will begin on January 1st, 2012, and that the agreement involves all of the Sony Ericsson’s media investments for an initial period of two ...
The two politicians were Mustafa Alloush, seen with a blue tie a bald former MP and who is aligned with the anti-Syrian movement led by former Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri and the moustached Fayez Shukor, who was wearing a red tie the leader of the Lebanon branch of the ruling Ba’ath party in Syria. The ...
Nearly 50 years ago, Colonel Nasser of Egypt hailed “the people of Syria” who had, through war and struggle, “proved that they are the beating heart of Arabism”. If that is still true, then the country just went into cardiac arrest. The Arab League, largely a dysfunctional tyrants’ club, voted this week to suspend the ...
[unable to retrieve full-text content] German chancellor Angela Merkel says Europe is experiencing its worst period since the second world war Steve Bell ...
[unable to retrieve full-text content] The US Supreme Court is to hear challenges to Obama’s healthcare reform law – follow our live coverage of US politics Good morning: The US Supreme Court has announced it will hear a series of challenges to the constitutionality of the Obama administration’s flagship healthcare law, most notably the individual ...
One of the world’s largest technology distributor, Ingram Micro has just announced that it has teamed up with Sony Ericsson to bring several Xperia smartphones in the Unites States. Under agreement, Ingram Micro will distribute Sony Ericsson unlocked phones in the U.S starting later this month. Unfortunately, the only device that Sony Ericsson mentions in ...
