G20 finance ministers and central bankers are meeting in Moscow to tackle emerging threats to growth. Their agenda includes the jobs crisis in Europe, currency fears in emerging nations and corporate tax avoidance. The two-day...
A special lab that allows test subjects to live and be observed in altered conditions recently opened in Cologne. It’s an ideal testing ground both for spaceflight and medicine. Envihab – a combination of “environment”...
The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) believes unemployment in the eurozone will reach a new record by the end of 2014. In other industrialized countries job creation will be picking up slowly. Mass...
Greenpeace has occupied a French nuclear plant. Arresting the activists turned out to be slow-going for the police, as many of the infiltrators had chained themselves to structures inside the plant. Twenty-nine activists from the...
A UK newspaper has reported that Microsoft worked with US intelligence services to allow users’ communications to be intercepted. The newspaper cited top-secret documents provided by whistle-blower Edward Snowden. The Guardian has reported that the...
Measles have has been stamped out in some countries – but not in Germany. A new wave of infection has rolled through Germany, prompting renewed discussion about compulsory vaccinations. A brownish-pink rash is the typical...
A US judge has ruled that electronic giant Apple conspired with five publishers to raise the retail prices of e-books. The anti-trust ruling sought by the US Department of Justice could expose Apple to damage...
The ratings agency Standard & Poor’s has downgraded Italy’s credit score by one place. S&P noted that the country’s creditworthiness might well take a further hit in the not-too-distant future. The New York-based agency announced...
Nestle has said it will cut infant formula prices in China in response to an investigation into alleged price-fixing by several foreign companies. China is the world’s largest market for baby formula. Nestle’s Wyeth Nutrition...
Tomatoes and fish are being farmed together in the same environment. Dirty water from the fish tanks is used for providing mineral nutrients that are essential for plant growth. The fish are very hungry. When...
The Spanish government has said unemployment in the crisis-stricken southern European nation has gone down markedly over the past four weeks. The main reason was a strong tourist season. The number of officially registered job...
Deutsche Börse Group, the operator of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange, has presented plans for a new electronic market place. It will specialize in the trading of cloud computing capacity to the benefit of companies. Deutsche...