Death toll hits 53 as storms lash Europe
The New Straits Times Sun, 28 Feb 2010 18:17 PM PST
PARIS: Hurricane-force winds, surging seas and driving rain lashed western Europe on Sunday, leaving at least 53 people dead and more than a million households without power. |
Md. state agency racks up $200K in travel expenses
The Washington DC Examiner Sun, 28 Feb 2010 18:06 PM PST
A dozen state employees spent nearly $200,000 in taxpayer dollars last year flying across the country and beyond to distant cities including Hong Kong, Tokyo, Paris, Frankfurt and Athens to size up investment managers interested in the state's ailing pension system. |
Bustling Bandung
thewest.com.au Sun, 28 Feb 2010 17:56 PM PST
Bandung, Indonesia's fourth biggest city and the capital of West Java, goes by many names - Paris of Java, shopping city, jeans city, textile city, shoe city, flower city, student city and Africa-Asia city. |
Fierce Storms In Europe Kill 51, Mostly In France
WJXT Jacksonville Sun, 28 Feb 2010 17:52 PM PST
PARIS -- A violent late winter storm with fierce rain and hurricane-strength winds ripped across western Europe on Sunday, battering France and four other countries, leaving at least 51 people dead. |
Climate Change: Uduaghan, World Leaders to Meet in Paris
This Day Sun, 28 Feb 2010 17:42 PM PST
Delta state Governor and co-founder of R20, a coalition of 50 sub-regional leaders and governors from across the world, Emmanuel Uduaghan, will on March 4, participate in a summit to chart the way forward, after the Copenhagen Summit in Denmark. |
Weaver on AVATAR 2
Mania Sun, 28 Feb 2010 17:41 PM PST
While at the Cesar Awards in Paris late last week, Sigourney Weaver had a surprising revelation about her possible involvement in the confirmed sequel to Avatar . While movie goers will remember the fate of Weaver's character in the sci-fi blockbuster, this latest reveal comes from CineTVBuzz ... |
Take a Bowe Ireland, it is not over yet
Belfast Telegraph Sun, 28 Feb 2010 17:23 PM PST
Was Paris, as Stephen Ferris suggested last week, just a blip? Who can say with total conviction? Related Stories Cockerill blasts sloppy Tigers Thomas inspires Leeds win Somerville setback for Gloucester Bath resurgence continues Quins pay dearly for ill-discipline |
'They have tried to destroy me' says rising star of Parisian art world
Independent Sun, 28 Feb 2010 17:15 PM PST
Paris, you might think, is the most art-saturated city in the world. Setting up a private exhibition hall to compete with the Grand Palais, the Louvre, the Musée d'Orsay, the Centre Pompidou and the rest would be an exercise in futility: like offering Australian wines, or, worse, Burgundy, to one of the leading Bordeaux chateaux. |
Death toll mounts as storms lash Europe
AsiaOne Sun, 28 Feb 2010 17:02 PM PST
PARIS - Hurricane-force winds, surging seas and driving rain lashed western Europe on Sunday, leaving at least 13 people dead and more than a million households without power. |
City & Country: Foreign briefs
The Edge Sun, 28 Feb 2010 16:21 PM PST
London’s West End is world’s most expensive office location London’s West End has leapt four spots to take the title of the world’s most expensive office location for 2010, displacing Tokyo and overtaking Paris, Dubai and Hong Kong. DTZ, which released this survey, says West End’s performance was because of a rebound from a “short, sharp rental correction†that took place in 2008. |
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