Archive for January 2010
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Sri Lankan shares rose 0.94 percent to a new record high on Friday as investors stepped up buying of hotel shares on hopes of better profits due to peaking post-war tourist arrivals to the island
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Investors head into next week having had a small taste of what lies ahead this year, monetary tightening in a major economy - and, frankly, they didn't like it. They also had to deal with
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Flood warnings were in place across much of Britain on Sunday as heavy rain and melting snow ran off frozen and waterlogged ground, swelling rivers. The Environment Agency issued 23 flood warnings for England and
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Heavily armed gang members who once ran Haiti's largest slum like warlords have returned with a vengeance since Tuesday's earthquake damaged the National Penitentiary allowing 3,000 inmates to break out. The pacification of Cite Soleil
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Some 180 billion euros ($260 billion) is lost globally every year to fraud and error in healthcare - enough to quadruple the World Health Organisation's and UNICEF's budgets and control malaria in Africa, experts said
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The government of China's restive frontier region of Xinjiang has restored text messaging services, more than six months after bloody riots in its ethnically divided capital, Urumqi. Text messages, as well as Internet access and
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Yemen has boosted security at energy installations to guard against militant attacks, a government official said on Sunday, as Sanaa escalated its war against al Qaeda. Yemen, a small oil producer with output of around
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Secretary of State Hillary Clinton assured Haiti's quake-ravaged people on Saturday the United States would work with their government to ensure the country emerged "stronger and better" after this week's disaster. "We will be here
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World leaders pledged massive aid programs to rebuild Haiti but desperate earthquake survivors were still waiting on Sunday for food, water and medicine. Five days after a 7.0 magnitude quake killed up to 200,000 people,
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A 6.3 magnitude earthquake struck off the southern coast of Argentina on Sunday, the US Geological Survey said, but there were no reports of injuries or damages. The quake was centered about 220 miles (355
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