Europe / Russia

Fixing Airbus A380 wing cracks to 'cost ?100mn'

Tiny cracks detected in January in the wings of some Airbus A380s will cost around 100 million euros to fix, the German weekly Der Spiegel reports in its edition to appear on Monday.Experts and intern

Sunday, February 12, 2012 (France24)

Spanish minister defends labour reforms

Spanish Labour Minister Fatima Banez defended the conservative government's labour reforms on Sunday, following a call by unions for mass protests over the measures."These are reforms that will increa

Sunday, February 12, 2012 (France24)

Chile social network shatters shyness barrier

You're madly in love but you just can't work up the nerve to let him or her know? Chile's social network Huntcha is out to blast through that great wall of shyness and hook people up.It's been around

Sunday, February 12, 2012 (France24)

Boeing to ramp up Dreamliner production

Boeing aims to ramp up production of its much-delayed 787 Dreamliner to 10 planes a month by the end of 2013, up from the current two to three, a top company executive said on Sunday.Mark Jenks, vice

Sunday, February 12, 2012 (France24)

Indonesia's car market takes the fast lane

Automakers from Japan to India are eyeing a bonanza in Indonesia, Southeast Asia's largest economy where a newly wealthy middle class are splashing out on cars like never before.With the economy growi

Sunday, February 12, 2012 (France24)

BHP mulls production cuts as prices fluctuate

Global mining giant BHP Billiton warned that it could scale back production at unprofitable operations as commodity prices softened due to economic uncertainty.But BHP chief Marius Kloppers on Sunday

Sunday, February 12, 2012 (France24)

Vietnam battles 'gold fever' as price soars

Stashing gold at home rather than having cash in the bank is a generations-old habit in communist Vietnam, but a recent surge in prices has sparked government attempts to bring the yellow metal to hee

Sunday, February 12, 2012 (France24)

Love a click away in Indonesia's Twitter Republic

He was a geeky kid from Yogyakarta, she a glamorous city girl in Jakarta. In a country with one of the world's most vibrant social networking scenes they fell in love on Twitter.The storyline of "Repu

Saturday, February 11, 2012 (France24)

Thousands protest in Lisbon against austerity measures

Thousands of people massed in Lisbon on Saturday in a protest against austerity measures ahead of next week's talks with international creditors, unions said.Demonstrators arrived from across the coun

Saturday, February 11, 2012 (France24)

Areva-UraMin deal followed suspicious trading: report

French nuclear power group Areva's purchase of Canadian uranium producer UraMin in 2007 for a high price was preceded by suspicious stock trades indicative of insider trading, a report said Saturday.T

Saturday, February 11, 2012 (France24)

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