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For more headlines on Breaking, National, Business, Finance, Sports and World News, visit our home page Irish Sun.com http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/10/id/88176adfdf246af5/ en-us Thu, 09 Feb 2012 10:34:38 -0500 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 10:34:38 -0500 30 BERLIN - German exports have grown 11.4 per cent to top one trillion euros in 2011 but a sharp decline towards the end of the year has triggered fears in Europe's biggest economy, according to fresh f http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/88176adfdf246af5/id/203334192/cs/1/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 13:52:23 -0500 Irish Sun.com http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/88176adfdf246af5/id/203334192/cs/1/ SYDNEY - Australia's flag carrier Qantas Airways Ltd. said Wednesday it has pulled one of its A380 super jumbos out of service after cracks were discovered in its wings, despite Airbus assuring that t http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/88176adfdf246af5/id/203333763/cs/1/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 13:36:05 -0500 Irish Sun.com http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/88176adfdf246af5/id/203333763/cs/1/ Turkish Aerospace Industries Inc. (TUSAS) has delivered three modernized F-16 aircraft to Pakistani Air Forces. http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/88176adfdf246af5/id/203350891/cs/1/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 06:30:33 -0500 ANI http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/88176adfdf246af5/id/203350891/cs/1/ European Council President Herman Wan Rompuy and European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso will arrive here on a four-day visit beginning today to participate in the annual India-EU Summit sch http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/88176adfdf246af5/id/203350881/cs/1/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 06:30:11 -0500 ANI http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/88176adfdf246af5/id/203350881/cs/1/ The executive director of Football Against Racism in Europe (FARE), Piara Powar, has been branded a racist for calling an Asian fan a "coconut". http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/88176adfdf246af5/id/203348663/cs/1/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 03:00:06 -0500 ANI http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/88176adfdf246af5/id/203348663/cs/1/ One of the world's largest mobile phone makers, Nokia, is planning to cut 4000 factory jobs in Europe as it shifts the assembly of smartphones to Asia. http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/88176adfdf246af5/id/203345943/cs/1/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 00:30:16 -0500 ANI http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/88176adfdf246af5/id/203345943/cs/1/ The United States may get its first Mormon president this year, if Republican candidate Mitt Romney prevails in his bid. But in France, the Mormon faith is viewed with deep suspicion and a project to http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/88176adfdf246af5/id/203337299/cs/1/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:16:15 -0500 VoA - Europe http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/88176adfdf246af5/id/203337299/cs/1/ A defiant Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban is defending his financially troubled nation's new constitution and related laws, saying those criticizing it are motivated by greed and want to keep Hu http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/88176adfdf246af5/id/203337297/cs/1/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:16:07 -0500 VoA - Europe http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/88176adfdf246af5/id/203337297/cs/1/ A brutal cold front blamed for hundreds of deaths across Europe is threatening to linger even longer. http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/88176adfdf246af5/id/203337289/cs/1/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:15:24 -0500 VoA - News http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/88176adfdf246af5/id/203337289/cs/1/ Debt-ridden Greece is facing a final decision whether to adopt steep new austerity measures to ease its precarious financial state and avoid a default on its loans next month. http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/88176adfdf246af5/id/203337288/cs/1/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:15:21 -0500 VoA - News http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/88176adfdf246af5/id/203337288/cs/1/ Turkey is calling for renewed international efforts to end bloodshed in neighboring Syria, where a government assault on the city of Homs, a center of dissent, is intensifying. http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/88176adfdf246af5/id/203337284/cs/1/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:15:03 -0500 VoA - News http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/88176adfdf246af5/id/203337284/cs/1/ ATHENS, Greece (AP) -- Greek labor unions have called a two-day general strike starting Friday to protest new cutbacks decided to secure the country's vital rescue loan ... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/88176adfdf246af5/id/203352464/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 05:15:57 -0500 Richmond Times-Dispatch http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/88176adfdf246af5/id/203352464/ SL Benfica's Argentinian playmaker Pablo Aimar talks to Champions magazine about the joy of scoring, his pride at inspiring Lionel Messi and why, at 32, he has no thought of ... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/88176adfdf246af5/id/203352390/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 05:09:35 -0500 UEFA http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/88176adfdf246af5/id/203352390/ FC Barcelona will play Athletic Club in the Copa del Rey final after squeezing past Valencia CF while Juventus overcame AC Milan at San Siro in the Coppa Italia semi-final first ... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/88176adfdf246af5/id/203352389/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 05:09:32 -0500 UEFA http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/88176adfdf246af5/id/203352389/ DIYARBAKIR, Turkey (Reuters) - Turkish security forces killed 13 Kurdish militants in fighting in southeast Turkey overnight, security sources said, marking an escalation in violence at a time when ... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/88176adfdf246af5/id/203352412/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 05:08:50 -0500 West Australian http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/88176adfdf246af5/id/203352412/ THE RACT is recommending LPG users fill their tanks today if they can find it for about 80c a litre.The message comes after a sudden price hike across Tasmania.RACT price monitoring yesterday found ... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/88176adfdf246af5/id/203351983/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 05:07:30 -0500 The Mercury http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/88176adfdf246af5/id/203351983/ In 1953, novelist Thomas Mann appealed to an audience of students in Hamburg to strive for "not a German Europe but a European Germany." This stirring pledge was endlessly repeated at the ... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/88176adfdf246af5/id/203351992/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 05:07:25 -0500 Globe and Mail http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/88176adfdf246af5/id/203351992/ Moscow, Feb. 8 (AP): After more than two decades of drilling in Antarctica, Russian scientists have reached a gigantic freshwater lake hidden under kilometres of ice for some 20 million ... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/88176adfdf246af5/id/203352405/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 05:05:38 -0500 The Telegraph http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/88176adfdf246af5/id/203352405/ NEW YORK - Stocks staged an afternoon-long rally and closed higher Wednesday as Greece appeared to close in on the cost-cutting deal it needs to keep from defaulting on its national debt. The Dow ... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/88176adfdf246af5/id/203350066/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 05:02:44 -0500 Star Tribune http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/88176adfdf246af5/id/203350066/ The Associated Press BEIRUT -- The European Union will impose harsher sanctions on Syria, a senior EU official said Wednesday, as Russia tried to broker talks between Syria's vice ... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/88176adfdf246af5/id/203350365/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 05:02:28 -0500 Star-Telegram http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/88176adfdf246af5/id/203350365/ A newly declassified document from the German Foreign Ministry archive contains revealing new information about the failed 1981 coup in Spain. According to the report, Spanish King Juan Carlos ... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/88176adfdf246af5/id/203352455/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 05:01:57 -0500 Spiegel Online http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/88176adfdf246af5/id/203352455/ Next FRANKFURT, Germany - The European Central Bank and the Bank of England are preparing to offer more emergency support to the financial sector in the hope of softening the impact of a looming ... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/88176adfdf246af5/id/203350385/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 05:01:17 -0500 San Diego Union-Tribune http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/88176adfdf246af5/id/203350385/ 31/05/2011ATHENS, Greece -- Ports will be blocked for four hours Tuesday (May 31st) due to protests by workers against the government's privatisation plans. Port workers will gather outside of ... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/88176adfdf246af5/id/203352449/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 05:00:25 -0500 Southeast European Times http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/88176adfdf246af5/id/203352449/ 31/05/2011TIRANA, Albania -- Albania is home to the second largest number of smokers in Europe after Turkey, according to figures published by the Public Health Institute in Tirana to mark ... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/88176adfdf246af5/id/203351297/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 05:00:21 -0500 Southeast European Times http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/88176adfdf246af5/id/203351297/ Fabio Capello's reign as England coach ends today while Tottenham boss Harry Redknapp is cleared of tax evasion; Zambia reaches the Africa Cup finals and Australia pole vaulter Steve Hooker ... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/88176adfdf246af5/id/203351778/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:58:46 -0500 SBS http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/88176adfdf246af5/id/203351778/ He's a mysterious Russian street artist -- compared to Britain's Banksy whose graffiti stencils can sell for hundreds of thousands of ... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/88176adfdf246af5/id/203352427/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:58:37 -0500 SBS http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/88176adfdf246af5/id/203352427/ Russian scientists on Wednesday announced they had drilled deep through Antartica's icesheet to reach a pristine lake untouched for tens of thousands of ... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/88176adfdf246af5/id/203352426/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:58:34 -0500 SBS http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/88176adfdf246af5/id/203352426/ Thousands struggled without power, including around the historic city of Mostar, where some 15,000 homes lacked electricity. (Getty) At least four Balkan nations have suspended shipping on the ... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/88176adfdf246af5/id/203352428/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:58:27 -0500 SBS http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/88176adfdf246af5/id/203352428/ Prince Harry has qualified as an Apache helicopter pilot - and scooped a prize for his shooting skills, Britain's Ministry of Defence has ... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/88176adfdf246af5/id/203352429/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:58:17 -0500 SBS http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/88176adfdf246af5/id/203352429/ Fabio Capello arrived in London four years ago with a sparkling CV but for all his club success he departed still barely able to speak English and with his adopted country rent with division and ... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/88176adfdf246af5/id/203352430/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:58:09 -0500 SBS http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/88176adfdf246af5/id/203352430/ Meteorites hurtle across space, then blaze through the atmosphere like falling stars before they crash to the ground. A meteorite from Mars, recovered recently from the Moroccan desert shortly ... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/88176adfdf246af5/id/203352431/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:58:00 -0500 SBS http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/88176adfdf246af5/id/203352431/ Greek leaders have fallen short of striking a deal on austerity cuts ahead of crucial euro zone talks, jeopardising chances of winning a new bail-out package and averting a disastrous debt default. ... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/88176adfdf246af5/id/203350361/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:57:43 -0500 RTE http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/88176adfdf246af5/id/203350361/ Vodafone today posted third-quarter results slightly below forecasts as increasingly tough trading in Spain and Italy overshadowed solid performances in emerging markets and northern Europe at the ... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/88176adfdf246af5/id/203352414/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:57:35 -0500 RTE http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/88176adfdf246af5/id/203352414/ US President Barack Obama has said Europe must not flinch as its political leaders confront a debt crisis that he acknowledged could do real harm to America's economic recovery. In an ... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/88176adfdf246af5/id/203351947/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:57:33 -0500 RTE http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/88176adfdf246af5/id/203351947/ Zbigniew Brzezinski says that as American power declines relative to other countries, and China's influence grows, the United States can no longer dictate to the world, or be "the ... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/88176adfdf246af5/id/203350187/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:53:55 -0500 PBS http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/88176adfdf246af5/id/203350187/ As European debt crisis negotiations approach the 11th hour on yet another bailout for Greece, Margaret Warner reports on some of the people behind the economic success of Germany -- Europe's ... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/88176adfdf246af5/id/203350360/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:53:53 -0500 PBS http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/88176adfdf246af5/id/203350360/ The third largest faction in the European Parliament has called for a freeze on contacts with the Russian State Duma until Russia holds "free and fair parliamentary elections." The ... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/88176adfdf246af5/id/203350387/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:52:27 -0500 News.Az http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/88176adfdf246af5/id/203350387/ Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili said that he wanted to create one of Europe's best health care systems in Georgia. "I have an ambition that the health care system in Georgia would ... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/88176adfdf246af5/id/203351766/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:51:58 -0500 News.Az http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/88176adfdf246af5/id/203351766/ Russia would continue military-technical cooperation with Iran in domains not included in the UN Security Council June 2010 Resolution. Director of the Russian Federal Service for ... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/88176adfdf246af5/id/203352471/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:51:52 -0500 News.Az http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/88176adfdf246af5/id/203352471/ A MP from the Nationalist Movement Party, Sinan Ogan, has submitted a bill to the Turkish parliament on recognition of the Khojaly genocide. Ogan said the massacre in Khojaly fell under several ... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/88176adfdf246af5/id/203352472/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:51:40 -0500 News.Az http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/88176adfdf246af5/id/203352472/ The German national statistics office has reported that German trade reached an export surplus record which estimated of €158 billion. As the world's second-biggest exporter behind ... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/88176adfdf246af5/id/203350094/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:51:25 -0500 New Europe http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/88176adfdf246af5/id/203350094/ PARIS  — The Vega rocket will blast off from French Guiana on Monday, an inaugural flight aimed at giving Europe a vehicle for scientific satellite missions, the first new rocket Europe ... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/88176adfdf246af5/id/203351963/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:48:19 -0500 MSNBC http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/88176adfdf246af5/id/203351963/ (MENAFN) The Greek government said that in 2012, it would slash 15,000 jobs from the public sector, which employs around 750,000 people, reported Tehran Times.The Greek administrative reform ... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/88176adfdf246af5/id/203352453/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:48:08 -0500 MENAFN http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/88176adfdf246af5/id/203352453/ The first European Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPGs) for the diagnosis and management of Wilson's disease are published by the European Association for the Study of the Liver (EASL) on the ... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/88176adfdf246af5/id/203351725/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:44:28 -0500 Medical News Today http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/88176adfdf246af5/id/203351725/ The minister said, "This is conditioned by the role Russia plays on the international arena and by the fact that Russia is a traditional partner of the Republic of ... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/88176adfdf246af5/id/203352398/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:40:04 -0500 Itar Tass http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/88176adfdf246af5/id/203352398/ PARIS, February 9 (Itar-Tass) -- Paris calls on Moscow to support the plan of the League of Arab States /LAS/, which includes the transfer of power in ... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/88176adfdf246af5/id/203352400/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:40:01 -0500 Itar Tass http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/88176adfdf246af5/id/203352400/ VLADIVOSTOK, February 9 (Itar-Tass) - Frosts of 50 degrees Celsius below zero will remain in Russia's Far East for a few more days, according to meteorologists. On Thursday morning they ... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/88176adfdf246af5/id/203352399/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:39:57 -0500 Itar Tass http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/88176adfdf246af5/id/203352399/ MOSCOW, February 9 (Itar-Tass) - Russia and South Korea discussed prospects for resuming the six-party talks on the nuclear problem on the Korean Peninsula, the Russian Foreign Ministry ... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/88176adfdf246af5/id/203352237/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:39:50 -0500 Itar Tass http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/88176adfdf246af5/id/203352237/ On Tuesday, a soldier from strategic missile troops division in Krasnoyarsk died of pneumonia. The number of soldiers, serving at the division in the city of Uzhur /the Krasnoyarsk Territory/, who ... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/88176adfdf246af5/id/203352401/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:39:46 -0500 Itar Tass http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/88176adfdf246af5/id/203352401/ uring President Nursultan Nazarbayev’s visit to Germany t he economic ministers and heads of companies of Kazakhstan signed several agreements and concluded about 50 commercial contracts worth ... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/88176adfdf246af5/id/203352357/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:39:17 -0500 Itar Tass http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/88176adfdf246af5/id/203352357/ BEIJING, February 9 (Itar-Tass) - China and Russia should exert efforts to overcome the Syrian crisis and prevent the country from disintegration, the Huanqiu Shibao (Global Times) newspaper writes ... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/88176adfdf246af5/id/203352239/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:39:12 -0500 Itar Tass http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/88176adfdf246af5/id/203352239/ MOSCOW, February 9 (Itar-Tass) - Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia said Vladimir Putin played a crucial rule in leading Russia out of the crisis in the 1990s but said he disagreed with some ... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/88176adfdf246af5/id/203352402/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:38:57 -0500 Itar Tass http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/88176adfdf246af5/id/203352402/ All eyes will be on what the European Central Bank is willing to do to help Greece when it holds its monthly policy meeting on Thursday, with interest rates expected to stay on hold ahead of a major ... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/88176adfdf246af5/id/203352466/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:38:09 -0500 IOL http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/88176adfdf246af5/id/203352466/ Portsmouth FC , is a man who has made a habit of getting things right, although he has explained his arrival at a multibillion fortune established during ... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/88176adfdf246af5/id/203352441/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:37:41 -0500 Independent.ie http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/88176adfdf246af5/id/203352441/ As the situation across Syria continues to deteriorate, well-known Syrian-British activist Danny Abdul Dayim makes a plea for international help in this video, filmed February 7, from the Baba-Amr ... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/88176adfdf246af5/id/203352442/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:37:39 -0500 Independent.ie http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/88176adfdf246af5/id/203352442/ A PARIS court is to rule on whether sex toys are pornographic after religious groups argued that the sale of the items 100 yards from a school breaks French law.Catholic religious groups protested ... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/88176adfdf246af5/id/203352443/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:37:36 -0500 Independent.ie http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/88176adfdf246af5/id/203352443/ Lucian Freud show that gives a comprehensive overview of the work of one of the greatest figurative painters of the late 20th Century.The visit came as St James's Palace confirmed Ms Middleton ... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/88176adfdf246af5/id/203352444/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:37:34 -0500 Independent.ie http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/88176adfdf246af5/id/203352444/ THE "big man" who became an internet sensation when he threw a suspected fare dodger off a train will not face criminal proceedings. The Crown Office said it would not be in the public ... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/88176adfdf246af5/id/203352445/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:37:32 -0500 Independent.ie http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/88176adfdf246af5/id/203352445/ Afghanistan after qualifying yesterday as a front line Apache attack helicopter pilot. The 27 year-old, who spent 10 weeks as an infantry soldier in Helmand in 2008, will join a unit which has the ... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/88176adfdf246af5/id/203352446/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:37:30 -0500 Independent.ie http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/88176adfdf246af5/id/203352446/ News Corporation $87 million (€65m) in the final three months of last year, the media giant has revealed.The owner of the now defunct Sunday tabloid, which was shut down last summer in the wake ... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/88176adfdf246af5/id/203352440/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:37:28 -0500 Independent.ie http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/88176adfdf246af5/id/203352440/ AREAS of the UK could be blanketed by up to 3in (8cm) of snow today as the country continues to shiver in the Arctic freeze.Treacherous conditions on the roads are also set to get worse with ... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/88176adfdf246af5/id/203352439/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:37:26 -0500 Independent.ie http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/88176adfdf246af5/id/203352439/ THEY were planning the kind of boys' trip abroad that requires those involved to pledge: "What goes on tour stays on tour."Unfortunately for the group of City high-fliers, any hopes ... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/88176adfdf246af5/id/203352447/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:37:23 -0500 Independent.ie http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/88176adfdf246af5/id/203352447/ German Welt Online posted on its web-site yesterday."Germany was a strong ally of Armenians in 1915, so the Germans should open their archives and give documents to historians for ... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/88176adfdf246af5/id/203352406/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:36:22 -0500 Turkish Daily News http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/88176adfdf246af5/id/203352406/ Four rebels of the outlawed Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK) and one soldier of the Turkish security forces were killed in an armed clash in southeastern Turkey on Thursday, a high-ranking official ... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/88176adfdf246af5/id/203352468/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:33:57 -0500 Global Times http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/88176adfdf246af5/id/203352468/ After seven hours of negotiations, Greek leaders have agreed on almost all the austerity and reform measures in exchange for a bailout package. Yet one vital point remains unsettled, a statement ... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/88176adfdf246af5/id/203352469/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:33:52 -0500 Global Times http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/88176adfdf246af5/id/203352469/ A Dutch collector has paid EUR2,100 via an online auction for a first edition comic featuring the popular Belgian cartoon duo Suske and Wiske. The first ... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/88176adfdf246af5/id/203350382/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:25:14 -0500 Dutch News.nl http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/88176adfdf246af5/id/203350382/ Five years after they disappeared, jewels belonging to the wife of the former US ambassador to the Netherlands have turned up in the home of a hotel cleaner in The Hague. Dawn Arnall thought the ... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/88176adfdf246af5/id/203350381/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:25:09 -0500 Dutch News.nl http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/88176adfdf246af5/id/203350381/ A record 193 foreign firms established new operations or expanded existing ones in the Netherlands last year, creating over 4,300 jobs, according to new figures from the Netherlands' Foreign ... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/88176adfdf246af5/id/203352458/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:25:06 -0500 Dutch News.nl http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/88176adfdf246af5/id/203352458/ Feb. 9 (Bloomberg) -- Stocks in Europe were little changed before the European Central Bank and the Bank of England hold their policy meetings and as Greek leaders debated an austerity package. U.S. ... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/88176adfdf246af5/id/203350027/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:18:39 -0500 Business Week http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/88176adfdf246af5/id/203350027/ Feb. 9 (Bloomberg) -- UniCredit SpA’s $9.9 billion rights offer is leading Europe’s stock sales to the best start of the year since 2007, a sign that the region’s companies may ... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/88176adfdf246af5/id/203350029/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:18:36 -0500 Business Week http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/88176adfdf246af5/id/203350029/ Feb. 9 (Bloomberg) -- European stocks rose for the first time in four days and the euro reached a two-month high on speculation regional policy makers will approve a rescue package for Greece. ... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/88176adfdf246af5/id/203350030/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:18:30 -0500 Business Week http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/88176adfdf246af5/id/203350030/ Arms sales from China and Russia are fuelling serious human rights violations in Darfur, Amnesty International said today. These arms transfers highlight the urgent need to strengthen the existing ... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/88176adfdf246af5/id/203352099/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:13:30 -0500 Amnesty International http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/88176adfdf246af5/id/203352099/ Greece Greek government coalition leaders have ended a marathon session of talks on austerity measures with one remaining point of disagreement, the prime minister's office says. The three ... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/88176adfdf246af5/id/203350338/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:13:21 -0500 ABC Australia http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/88176adfdf246af5/id/203350338/ Australia The Australian share market is wavering in morning trade with profit reporting season in full swing and eurozone finance ministers set to meet to finalise a deal on another bailout for ... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/88176adfdf246af5/id/203352370/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:13:07 -0500 ABC Australia http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/88176adfdf246af5/id/203352370/ NZ dollar falls against euro Greece will be given one extra year, until 2015, to produce a primary surplus of 4.5 billion euros under the terms of a new bailout agreement with the European Union ... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/88176adfdf246af5/id/203352088/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:09:37 -0500 One News http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/88176adfdf246af5/id/203352088/ Russia is to pump another $12bln into the development of the GLONASS satellite navigation system slated to compete with America's GPS. The additions to the programme has been approved by the ... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/88176adfdf246af5/id/203352473/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:05:56 -0500 RT http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/88176adfdf246af5/id/203352473/ The head of Spain's Olympic committee stepped up to defend Spanish sport Wednesday in the wake of two-time Tour de France champion cyclist Alberto Contador's two-year ban for ... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/88176adfdf246af5/id/203352470/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:05:18 -0500 RTB News http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/88176adfdf246af5/id/203352470/ recession , which is commonly defined as two consecutive quarterly contractions.Business sentiment jumped to a five-month high in January and factory orders gained 1.7pc in December, driven by ... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/88176adfdf246af5/id/203350383/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:01:11 -0500 Independent.ie http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/88176adfdf246af5/id/203350383/ Anglo Irish Bank over €2.34bn loans made to Quinn group companies -- to allegedly support the bank's share price -- would be a mere slap on the wrist, the Commercial Court heard ... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/88176adfdf246af5/id/203350384/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:00:24 -0500 Independent.ie http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/88176adfdf246af5/id/203350384/ Greece hopes the EU will grant a second bailout worth 130 billion euros despite the government's failure to secure agreement on pension cuts at a marathon meeting that ended early on Thursday ... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/88176adfdf246af5/id/203352448/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:00:13 -0500 RIA Novosti http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/88176adfdf246af5/id/203352448/ RUADHÁN Mac CORMAIC in ParisOPPOSITION CLAIMS that the French president is holding back austerity measures until after the spring election have been strengthened after the country’s ... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/88176adfdf246af5/id/203352078/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 03:59:35 -0500 Irish Times http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/88176adfdf246af5/id/203352078/ Dutch troops were racing yesterday to prepare iced-over canals and waterways for a legendary 125-mile ice-skating race that could be staged for the first time in 15 ... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/88176adfdf246af5/id/203348765/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 03:57:51 -0500 The Independent http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/88176adfdf246af5/id/203348765/ European air safety authorities ordered that checks, announced last month on microscopic cracks inside the wings of the A380, should be extended to all 68 aircraft. Earlier, the Australian airline, ... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/88176adfdf246af5/id/203352417/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 03:57:49 -0500 The Independent http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/88176adfdf246af5/id/203352417/ The bill, which passed a key second reading yesterday, now only needs to go through the formality of a third reading before becoming law. The legislation sets fines for those who violate it of up to ... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/88176adfdf246af5/id/203352419/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 03:57:36 -0500 The Independent http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/88176adfdf246af5/id/203352419/ During the half-hour conversation, Mr Lavrov - according to senior diplomatic sources - stated that Mr Assad had assured him he was not using heavy weapons in urban conflict zones like Homs and had ... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/88176adfdf246af5/id/203348767/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 03:57:30 -0500 The Independent http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/88176adfdf246af5/id/203348767/ But yesterday Margot Honecker, the 84-year-old widow of former leader Erich Honecker, revealed from exile in Chile - where she fled with her husband in 1992 after the collapse of the communist state ... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/88176adfdf246af5/id/203352420/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 03:57:29 -0500 The Independent http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/88176adfdf246af5/id/203352420/ Russia vetoed Arab League call for sanctions on Syria; China went along George Lopez: The veto is effort to keep U.N. from imposing sanctions, period Russia believes the U.N. must be limited in ... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/88176adfdf246af5/id/203352182/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 03:56:46 -0500 CNN Asia http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/88176adfdf246af5/id/203352182/ Renovation on a 19th-century, seven-floor building with more than 6,000 square meters (64,600 square feet) of floor space on Madrid’s central Puerta del Sol square is under way to house ... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/88176adfdf246af5/id/203352392/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 03:50:23 -0500 BusinessWeek http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/88176adfdf246af5/id/203352392/ Feb. 8 (Bloomberg) -- Spanish smokers, squeezed by higher taxes and a deepening recession, are increasingly relying on smugglers to feed their ... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/88176adfdf246af5/id/203350344/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 03:50:11 -0500 Business Week http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/88176adfdf246af5/id/203350344/ The deep freeze blamed for hundreds of deaths in Europe so far showed no signs of loosening its grip Wednesday, officials said. The cold has killed more than 300 people, mostly in Eastern Europe, ... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/88176adfdf246af5/id/203352459/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 03:49:58 -0500 UPI http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/88176adfdf246af5/id/203352459/ A Turkish court Wednesday began hearing the case of a mother and father accused of sexually assaulting their two teenage daughters. The couple are also accused of forcing their daughters' ... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/88176adfdf246af5/id/203352460/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 03:49:42 -0500 UPI http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/88176adfdf246af5/id/203352460/ LONDON (Reuters) - Revenue at Europe's 20 leading clubs has increased again despite the economic crisis shaking many countries across the continent, business advisory ... http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/88176adfdf246af5/id/203352381/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 03:45:52 -0500 Yahoo http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/88176adfdf246af5/id/203352381/