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Philippine tourism promotion efforts suffered another blow Friday over claims its new slogan copied an old Swiss one, having already ditched an earlier campaign that allegedly plagiarised Poland’s. Hours after the government rolled out its “It’s more Fun in the Philippines” campaign, Internet pundits pointed to a 1951 Swiss National Tourist Office ad which proclaimed [...]
Cheeseburger and fries, hold the politicians. With Republican presidential hopefuls blitzing New Hampshire ahead of its critical January 10 primary, one small eatery in coastal Portsmouth has had it with gladhanding campaigners disrupting diners. So the hand-drawn, red-white-and-blue sign on the door of the 28-seat Colby’s Breakfast and Lunch restaurant declares “No Politicians No Exceptions.” [...]
British Prime Minister David Cameron has vowed to give shareholders the right to veto executive pay packages, amid mounting political pressure and public anger over huge salaries and bonuses. “The market for top people isn’t working, it needs to be sorted out,” he told The Sunday Telegraph newspaper. “Let’s empower the shareholders by having a straight, shareholder [...]
Former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi died of wounds suffered on Thursday as fighters battling to complete an eight-month-old uprising against his rule overran his hometown Sirte, Libya’s interim rulers said. His killing, which came swiftly after his capture near Sirte, is the most dramatic single development in the Arab Spring revolts that have unseated rulers [...]
British scientists used bacteria and DNA to build basic components for digital devices in a new research, according to media reports, suggesting biological computers come closer to reality. Digital devices are based on logic gates, fundamental building blocks in silicon circuitry, said Professor Richard Kitney, leading researcher of the research published in the journal Nature [...]
American Vice-President Joe Biden told China that his country will always honour its debt obligations, at the end of a five-day visit which aimed to calm fears aroused by the US’s downgrading by the Standard & Poor’s ratings agency. China is the largest foreign holder of US debt, and Biden has used his first official [...]
Heavy fighting continued on Monday near the Libyan capital Tripoli around the compound of embattled leader Moamer Kadhafi, one day after jubilant rebel forces surged into the heart of the capital. Fighting was also heard in the early hours in the south of the capital where there were exchanges of heavy weaponry and automatic rifle [...]
Prosecutors have asked a judge to drop a sexual assault case against former IMF director Dominique Strauss-Kahn. They told a New York judge they were “no longer convinced of the defendant’s guilt beyond a reasonable doubt”. The case – based on an accusation by hotel maid Nafissatou Diallo – crumbled in recent weeks over questions [...]
Egyptian authorities say the trial of deposed President Hosni Mubarak’s trial will be moved from a Cairo convention centre, for security reasons. The trial, due to open on Wednesday, will now be held at a police academy further from the city centre. Mr Mubarak, 83, has been under arrest at a hospital in the coastal [...]
With four days remaining until the United States hits its debt limit, President Barack Obama on Friday told deeply divided Republicans and Democrats to stop bickering and find a way “out of this mess.” Obama said a deficit-reduction plan being advanced by the top Republican in Congress would be defeated in the Democratic-led Senate and [...]