Month: November 2011

November 3, 2011

Italian Cabinet Fails to Reach Consensus On Financial reforms

Italy's cabinet has held an emergency meeting on ways to accelerate budget reforms and avert a major financial crisis. Italy's prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is expected to face intense pressure from G20 leaders to produce a set of concrete…

November 3, 2011

California protesters shut down Oakland port

Thousands of anti-corporate greed demonstrators have closed one of America's busiest ports. A spokesman for the Port of Oakland in California said maritime operations had effectively halted. The shutdown capped a day in which hundreds of city…

November 3, 2011

Third woman claims inappropriate behaviour from Cain

A third woman has reportedly accused leading Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain of inappropriate behaviour in the workplace. She alleges she received unwanted comments from Mr Cain during his tenure as head of a restaurant lobby group.…

November 3, 2011

Gaddafi son Saif al-Islam ‘may be trying to flee Libya’

The International Criminal Court's chief prosecutor says Muammar Gaddafi's son Saif al-Islam may be trying to flee Libya with help from mercenaries. In a statement to the UN Security Council, Luis Moreno-Ocampo called on other countries to disrupt…

November 2, 2011

Three masked subjects entered and robbed an establishment

The Royal Turks and Caicos Islands Police, Criminal Investigation…

November 2, 2011

Elections prep finally underway

DEFINITIVE preparations are finally underway to get the…

November 2, 2011

PNP pledges independence referendum

TRAMPLING of democracy, refusal to stage imminent elections, imposition of taxes without consent and the erosion of human rights under the new constitution. Just some of the claims levelled at London by the PNP which this week announced an active…

November 2, 2011

Darren Bravo bangs 195 as Windies go for win

West Indies’ bid for victory in the second Test against Bangladesh hit a snag yesterday,…

November 2, 2011

Conrad Murray decides not to give evidence

Dr Conrad Murray has told a judge he will not testify in his own defence in the trial over…

November 2, 2011

Second Expendables stuntman in ‘stable condition’

A stuntman seriously injured on the set of Expendables 2 is now in a stable condition, after a colleague died as a result of the same accident. Nuo Sun, who was hurt while filming a stunt sequence in Lake Ognyanova, Bulgaria last week, has been…