Palash Ghosh

We have ceased all contact between the UK's financial system and the Iranian financial system,” Osborne said.

Complicating matters is the high exposure that major French banks have to the distressed debt of other Eurozone nations like Greece and Italy.

The buses were returning from the holy Islamic pilgrimage site of Mecca in Saudi Arabia and later arrived safely in Turkey.

The PP won 44.6 percent of the popular vote, versus only 28.7 percent for the Socialists.

However, the UK government appears committed to upgrading and expanding wind power.

Half of the country’s population is Christian, although some of them incorporate the practice of Vodun (voodoo) in their rituals.

The suspect, a 32-year old man, has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder and remains in custody at a West London police station.

Rising sovereign yields in Europe added to negative pressure for global equities during the week

The group is also urging that governments and courts treat drug addiction as a “medical” problem, instead of a criminal violation.

The US is seeking to boost its influence in Southeast Asia, putting it at direct loggerheads with an ascendant China.

This is clearly an austerity budget, as most member states are in the midst of a serious financial crisis, said EU budget commissioner Janusz Lewandowski.

In honor of D’Oliveira, South African and Australian cricketers stood in silence for one minute.

Unrest and anger run deep against the ruling leftist Socialist Workers Party, which is almost guaranteed to lose the election.

While German Chancellor Angela Merkel and British Prime Minister David Cameron have tried to put a happy face on their Friday meeting in Berlin, the two prominent European leaders differ sharply on ways to resolve the Eurozone debt crisis.

Georgios Karatzaferis has repeatedly made derogatory comments about the Jews and denied the Holocaust.

Former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi also gave Monti tacit support.

Papademos’ government also promised that it will not have to enact any further austerity cuts.

The new austerity measures are expected to be opposed by the country’s powerful trade unions.

Monti has also already vowed to crack down on tax evasion and reform the country’s pension plans in an effort to ease Italy’s massive debt

There is controversy over the very existence of the memo.

The upper House of Parliament gave its endorsement to the new administration by a vote of 281 to 25.

Cassava is crucial to the health of Africans, providing much-needed carbohydrates for around 200 million people on the continent.

Guildford Shapo was later taken to WS Knobel Hospital where he died.

The job cull would slash the number of bankers to 16,000.

For over two decades, India has maintained hundreds of thousands of armed forces in this border state where a violent insurgency, partially fueled by training and funds from Pakistan, raged for several years.

Chinese vice-president Xi Jinping praised Mugabe as an old friend of China.

Monti has vowed to reduce debt, while seeking to maintain economic growth and social equity.

The Madrid government 3.56 billion euros of new bonds, short of the maximum target of four billion euros.

George Harrison inadvertently became the greatest promoter of Indian culture and Hinduism to the Western world during the 20th century.