Thursday 19 March '09
China has rejected a plan by Coca-Cola to acquire the nation’s top juice maker Huiyuan over fears that it would damage competition...Monday 16 March '09
President Barack Obama has said that China could have “absolute confidence” in the American economy...Sunday
15 March '09US president Barack Obama’s aides scrambled to assure China that its hundreds of billions of dollars in US bonds were safe...Sunday
15 March '09Court documents show that Bernard Madoff and his wife Ruth lived a life of high luxury, with exclusive homes...Saturday
14 March '09An Internet warning ascribed to a German teenage gunman, who killed 15 people in a bloody rampage before dying in a shootout with the police...Friday
13 March '09Bowing to international pressure, Belgium, Andorra and Liechtenstein...Sunday
8 March '09South Africa’s batting crumbled after Australia pacer Mitchell Johnson struck hard at their top order on the second day of the second Test at Kingsmead...Saturday
7 March '09Phil Hughes played a thrilling innings as he and fellow opener Simon Katich hit centuries for Australia on the first day of the second Test against South Africa...Thursday
5 March '09Chinese businesses hunted for takeover targets in Europe and bargain hunters pushed up flagging stock markets today...Monday
2 March '09New UBS chief executive Oswald Gruebel said it could take years to return the troubled Swiss bank to sustained profitability.Sunday
1 March '09Australia built a 297-run lead in their second innings when bad light stopped play on Day Three of the first Test against South Africa at Wanderers Stadium...Wednesday
18 February '09Leading mobile phone manufacturers announced on Tuesday they had agreed to produce a standardised charger for the industry...Wednesday
18 February '09He was once the raging, wild-haired, enfant terrible of men’s tennis who blew like a hurricane into the All England Club...Tuesday
17 February '09Former world number one Amelie Mauresmo led a chorus of condemnation after Israel’s Shahar Peer was controversially denied a visa...Monday
16 February '09Norah Al-Fayez, the first woman to be named to a ministerial post in Saudi Arabia, has put a crack in the thick glass ceiling...Sunday
15 February '09The world’s richest nations called on Saturday for urgent reform of global finance to save the world from the economic devastation...Thursday
12 February '09ArcelorMittal steel reported a huge loss in the last quarter of 2008, and announced on Wednesday that job cuts could exceed a planned total of 9,000.Thursday
12 February '09Taliban militants launched suicide bomb and gun attacks on Wednesday on three Afghan Government buildings...Monday
26 January '09The leader of the House of Lords said on Sunday she would probe allegations that some its members expressed readiness...Monday
26 January '09A Franco-Mexican child bullfighter killed six young bulls in a controversial spectacle that child protection and anti-bullfighting campaigners had hoped to stop.Sunday
25 January '09At least 22 civilians were killed on Saturday in Mogadishu by a suicide car bomb, targeting African Union peackeepers and the ensuing gunfight...Sunday
25 January '09Marat Safin berated a line judge, fumed at the chair umpire and then bade a fond farewell as he exited his last Australian Open...Thursday
22 January '09The ethnic tensions that have plagued recent Australian Opens simmered just below the surface...Monday
19 January '09Frenchman Lluis Colet broke the world record for the longest speech after rambling nonstop for 124 hours about Spanish painter Salvador Dali...Saturday
17 January '09Kumar Sangakkara cracked a solid 59 and Muttiah Muralitharan hammered 33 off 16 balls as Sri Lanka clinched a thrilling two-wicket win over Bangladesh...
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