LONDON (AFP) - Britain and France are on Tuesday to announce an unprecedented partnership on defence in a bid to allow two medium-sized powers to remain global players, officials and diplomats say.
LONDON (AFP) - A minister in David Cameron's cabinet intervened on behalf of a cocoa company that gave his political campaign tens of thousands of pounds to help it overturn a trade ban in Ghana, the Sunday Times reported.
LONDON (AFP) - The leaders of Britain and Germany held "substantive" talks in London Sunday about the security alert over two plane bombs as well as the recent wrangle over the EU budget, officials said.
According to the Newspoll published in this morning's Australian, the Greens are set for a dramatic increase in support at the Victorian election on 27 November. (Click this link to visit the ABC's Victorian election site.) The poll shows the...
Nominations for the 2010 Victorian Election will open next Wednesday, 3 November. So far I have several hundred candidates for the election listed at http://www.abc.net.au/elections/vic/2010/. There's an alphabetic list of candidates at http://www.abc.net.au/elections/vic/2010/guide/candidateindex.htm. You can link to individual electorates from...
My ABC Election Calculator for the Victorian election is now live by following this link. It works as normal, allowing you to enter a state-wide swing between Labor and the Coalition. But we've modified it to include a second slider...
I've seen quite a lot of soccer in my time but never have I attended a match as crazy as Inter Milan v Tottenham Hotspur in the Champions League on Wednesday.
The Conservatives have pushed aggressively the notion that 'we're all in this together', but, as public service cuts bite and jobs are lost, fewer and fewer people may be convinced.
If Wayne Rooney leaves, Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson has a tough task in finding someone to take the mantle of being the pack leader in a team devoid of other big names
I have now published my guide to the 2010 Victorian election at http://www.abc.net.au/elections/vic/2010/. At this stage the site contains details of the contest for government in the Legislative Assembly. Details of the Legislative Council election will be added over the...
October 20th 2010 coalition government comprehensive spending review, good fiscal management or ideological led Tory changes to government spending? With government spending cuts expected to be as high as 40% in some government departments over the course of this parliament, are we looking at the Conservatives taking advantage of economic strife by pushing for ideological [...]
Union vote dates set for some Delta ground workers
MINNEAPOLIS — Passenger service workers at Delta Air Lines Inc. begin voting Nov. 2 on whether they want to be in a union.
The International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers represented that group of workers at Northwest Airlines. It’s hoping to represent the combined group now that .... Original article on Gaea Times at Union vote begins Nov. 2 for Delta Air Lines passenger service workers.
Jobs crisis extends to unemployed, lawmakers
WASHINGTON — There’s no relief from the jobs crisis — for everyday Americans or lawmakers facing the midterm elections.
The most rampant layoffs of teachers and other local government workers in nearly three decades more than offset weak hiring in the private sector in September, resulting in a net loss of ... Read more : Economy loses 95,000 jobs as government layoffs exceed private hires.
Japan Cabinet OKs 5 trillion yen economic stimulus
TOKYO — The Japanese Cabinet has approved 5.05 trillion yen ($61 billion) in new measures to stimulate the country’s economy.
The stimulus package approved Friday is aimed at halting the yen’s rise and battling deflation.
Recent economic indicators in Japan have shown deteriorating exports, industrial production and corporate sentiment.
The country .... Source Gaea News Network.