World bids adieu to a tough year
Manitowoc Herald Times Reporter Sun, 01 Jan 2012 02:17 AM PST
PARIS Fireworks glittered and boomed early today as revelers in Australia and Asia welcomed 2012 and others around the world looked forward to bidding adieu to a year marred by natural disasters and economic turmoil. |
Euro could become world's leading currency: Noyer
AsiaOne Sun, 01 Jan 2012 02:09 AM PST
PARIS - The euro could become the world's leading currency in the next decade if leaders of the single-currency bloc succeed in tightening fiscal integration, European Central Bank policymaker Christian Noyer said in an article to be published in the Journal du Dimanche. |
The parenting gap: why French mothers prefer to use the firm smack of authority
Guardian Unlimited Sun, 01 Jan 2012 01:54 AM PST
As a new book asks why French children don't have tantrums, Kim Willsher, who has raised her own children in Paris, looks at contrasting views of family life First British women came under attack for being chubbier and less chic than their stylish Gallic sisters. Now another critical salvo has been fired across the Channel, this time over our ability to bring up well-behaved children. Forget the ... |
Sarkozy: Financial Crisis to Remain in 2012
TheStreet.com Sun, 01 Jan 2012 01:46 AM PST
PARIS -- French President Nicolas Sarkozy used his traditional New Year's televised address to warn voters that the financial crisis that has wracked Europe for most of the last two years is not finished. Speaking in a taped televised address broadcast on French TV Saturday, Sarkozy warned that 2012 will be "a year full of risks, but also of possibilities." It was Sarkozy's final such address ... |
Zelig; Hannah and Her Sisters â€" review
Guardian Unlimited Sun, 01 Jan 2012 01:45 AM PST
Woody Allen was back on form in 2011 with Midnight in Paris , and this week sees the welcome return to the big screen (though initially only at BFI South Bank) of two of the five masterpieces he made in consecutive years during the mid-1980s. Zelig (1983) is a brilliant riff on America's permanent identity crisis, the national belief in the ability to reinvent the self, and it takes the form of ... |
World rings in 2012, bids adieu to a tough year
The Jamaica Observer Sun, 01 Jan 2012 01:07 AM PST
PARIS, France (AP) â€" Fireworks glittered and boomed early this morning as revellers in Australia and Asia welcomed 2012 and others around the world looked forward to bidding adieu to a year marred by natural disasters and economic turmoil. |
WOMEN IN POLITICS
The Daily News Sun, 01 Jan 2012 00:19 AM PST
Politics in Washington Parish may not be a female-dominated game, but there are a number of examples of woman who have achieved success in that area. To name a few, Paris Sumrall has served for 11 years as mayor of Varnado, Florence Manning 13 years ago became the first woman to serve on the Franklinton Board of Aldermen, and Wendy O’Quin-Perrette and Oneita Graham are part of a Bogalusa City ... |
Partygoers bid adieu to 2011
Tallahassee Democrat Sat, 31 Dec 2011 23:05 PM PST
By Paul de Revere Democrat staff writer -- Hotel Duval was flecked with bits of French decadence and Parisian flair Saturday night for its New Year's Eve in Paris celebration. |
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