Libya to withdraw $7b assets in Swiss banks

At least this withdrawl is not directly related to financial meltdown, the politics of oil and diplomacy seems to be the basic reason of this latest development of withdrawl of money from swiss bank.How swiss...

New Positive Drug Tests from 2008 Tour de France

If I had to put money down on which riders were rumoured to have been caught, these two would have been at the top of my list. Piepoli, had already declared his guilt to the Saunier Duval team. Shortly after Ricardo...

Seven Central banks cut interest rates

Central banks from seven countries have cut the intrest rate in an combined effort to keep the money flow in the market. It seems countries across the world cooperating each other to save the world from financial...

UBS to Cut 2,000 More Investment Banking Jobs

" UBS said on Friday it is cutting another 2,000 jobs at its troubled investment bank and closing most of its commodities business but will remain a universal bank and will not quit investment banking completely. The news on Friday comes just a day after the world's...

GIVE ME THE RIGHT TO.. DIE...

One of the most debatable issue in the humanity is looking to gind a ethical and logical as well as legal solution." In a case which could affect the European Convention on Human Rights, a woman with multiple...

Donors pledge $6.1 billion to climate change funds:WB

" Industrialized countries pledged more than $6.1 billion on Friday to international investment funds aimed at helping developing countries adopt cleaner technologies and mitigate growth in greenhouse gas...

Obama Grant to Aide under Investigation

"A $100,000 grant that then-Illinois State Senator Barack Obama awarded in 2001 to a group headed by a one-time campaign volunteer is under investigation by the Illinois attorney general. The Chicago...

PETA wants Ben & Jerry's to make breast milk ice cream

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has asked Ben & Jerry's to make breast milk ice cream.  No, it isn't a flavour request, but a call for Ben and Jerry's to reformulate all of their ice...

PETA's Statement about Ben & Jerry's to use breast milk?

In a statement today Tracy Reiman told WVEC13 news that babies should drink breast milk. Ice cream and formula should be made from soy. That she had children and she breast fed her children. PETA's...

London's Ban on short-selling could drive Hedge funds to rival cities

Was it a good idea to limit short selling, speculating on falling stocks ?London is not sure, first HEDGE FUNDS go to other places in Europe and Dubai. " Britain's temporary ban on short-selling financial stocks...

Detecting Pollution with Living Biosensors

Microbes are our friends; genetically engineered to glow flourescently and provide cheap and fast detection of contaminants, from oil spills to food supplies. If they keep these things out of the food supply, we'll be fine; I like technology, but I don't want my organic...

Iraqi FM: SOFA draft text ready

Speaking from Switzerland, the Foreign Minister Hoshiyar Zebari informed there was agreement on the US-Iraqi draft of the Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA). This security pact has been negotiate for a long time now...

Last news BigBang Swiss, What happens, if anything goes wrong? (cnn)

Testing if the Beam goes round (27km)What happens, if anything goes wrong? now or years later ?US contributed $ 531 million to the experimentIf anything goes wrong, means the BigBang beam gets out of control, the...

BigBang Collision Live

"An Australian physicist says a science experiment which begins in Switzerland today is a major milestone in the history of scientific discovery. Scientists have built a 27-kilometre long underground circular tunnel that houses the Large Hadron Collider, which will allow...

As a massive atom smasher powers up, ‘Big Science’ moves away from the US

Science funding US unstable compared to europe: Moreover, researchers overseas point to a lack of stable funding in the US that is turning the country from widely courted partner to an “Ugly Betty” for some...

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