February 7, 2013
Les Miserables tops UK box office as takings break £30m
Les Miserables has topped the UK and Ireland box office for the fourth week running, becoming the first film to pass the £30m mark this year. Tom Hooper's musical took £2.78m - a drop of 31% from last week - for a cumulative total of £30.14m.…
February 7, 2013
EU leaders set for crucial budget summit
European Union leaders are due to begin a two-day summit in Brussels to try to strike a deal on the next seven years of EU spending. High EU expenditure at a time of cutbacks and austerity across the continent is the main issue dividing the 27…
February 7, 2013
Hamas and Fatah in unity talks, says Khaled Meshaal
Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal has told the BBC he is in talks with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas about forming a national unity government. Mr Meshaal also said preparations were being made for presidential and parliamentary elections. The split…
February 7, 2013
Teams start assessing tsunami-hit Solomon Islands
Aftershocks continued to rock the Solomon Islands, a day after a powerful earthquake triggered a tsunami that left at least six people dead. A metre-high wave swamped several villages on Santa Cruz island, in the far east of the Pacific nation,…
February 7, 2013
India child sex victims ‘humiliated’ – Human Rights Watch
Child victims of sexual abuse in India are often mistreated and humiliated by police, says the US-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) in a new report. Government systems to deal with the issue of abuse are inadequate, it says. The report says sexual…
February 7, 2013
Venezuelan politics heating up in Chavez’s absence
Corruption accusations and insults are flying between allies and opponents of President Hugo Chavez nearly two months after the Venezuelan leader disappeared from the political stage to undergo cancer surgery in Cuba. Analysts say the increasingly…
February 7, 2013
Prime Minister juggles national issues
Prime Minister Dean Barrow has been juggling enough balls on a number of national issues. Most recently, the dilemma has been keeping the unions at bay while trying to re-structure the five hundred and forty-four million U.S. dollar superbond. Going…
February 7, 2013
Three schoolboys arrested for Marijuana trafficking
Three 15-year-old schoolboys from two schools in east Trinidad have been arrested for marijuana trafficking. Two were arrested on Tuesday at their school while the other was held by police at his school in Rio Claro. Police went to the schools in…
February 7, 2013
Jamaica’s Budget slashed by $10 billion
THE Government cut the 2012/13 Budget by just under $10 billion yesterday, as it tabled its first supplementary estimates for the year, in an economic climate dictated by falling tax revenues, a declining dollar and the likelihood of failing to meet…
February 7, 2013
Australian sport rocked by doping inquiry
The use of banned drugs in Australian professional sport is "widespread", a year-long investigation has found. The Australian Crime Commission (ACC) said scientists, coaches and support staff were involved in the provision of drugs across multiple…