Japanese pensionados are in the rats. Their government pension fund, which is also the largest fund in the world, has probably suffered a record loss.
Actor Douglas Rain, best known as the calm voice of the murderous computer HAL 9000 in Stanley Kubrick's film 2001: A Space Odyssey, died on Sunday in the Canadian city of Stratford at the age of ninety. That is what Canadian media report.
The price of crude oil dropped further on Monday after the loss by more than 3% Friday. Russia and Saudi Arabia are increasing their production, while American producers are also expanding their shale exports.
Apple is expected to pay $ 100 billion to shareholders, making it the highest amount ever. Apple tries to win the favor of shareholders.
Tonia Rossington, a 49-year-old mother from the English Skegness, has removed her own breast implants with a stanleymetje, Dettol and with instructions she followed from a video on YouTube.
R. Lee Ermey, known from Full Metal Jacket, died at the age of 74. That made his manager known Sunday.
Snap, parent company of video app Snapchat, has been heavily banned on the American stock market on Tuesday afternoon.
The Netherlands threatens to miss 17,000 jobs and one billion euros with additional tax revenue due to strict rules on bonuses in the financial sector. Employers' organization VNO-NCW is talking about what is termed 'symbol legislation', now that the House of Representatives will shortly decide on any adaptation.
After almost forty years there with the conviction of a former warehouse worker brought an end to a mysterious disappearance case that helped the United States for years in its grip. A jury ruled Tuesday that the 56-year-old Pedro Hernandez is guilty of the kidnapping and murder of 6-year-old boy Etan Patz.
Investment banks have been reported in France unprecedentedly strong terms that Paris makes absolutely no chance to recruit personnel from the City of London as his labor not eased.
Which both investors and financial markets watching the speech from Donald Trump at five o'clock this afternoon. ' Does he really live up to its promises, how Trump protectionism undermines the US economy? '
Times New Roman is perhaps the best-known font in the world. It is widely used. In Russia, however, a shortage now the US supplier Monotype Imaging does not deliver more font. The company relies on the current US sanctions against Russia.
The American writer Michael Herr is deceased Thursday at the age of 76. He became world famous for his war book Dispatches from 1977 and his screenplay of the film Apocalypse Now in 1979, which he co-wrote with director Francis Ford Coppola and Joseph Conrad.
British Prime Minister David Cameron, who Friday announced his departure did for his Conservative Party what Tony Blair did earlier for Labour. He brought the party back to the center of power, while other parties did crumble their supporters. The Tories since then have been inaccessible to a civil war within the conservative ranks on British EU membership, the party nearly detonated and Cameron took the cup.
'It goes well with me.' So says the referee was attacked Saturday with a Stanley knife during a match between SV Den Hoorn and Haaglandia. 'It's quite an impact on me as a person and I'm impressed :, he told Omroep West.
The company behind the Asian popular chat application line, similar to WhatsApp, will for the summer at the fair in both Tokyo and New York. The aim is to raise up to $ 3 billion. Reported International Financing Review (IFR).
The streaming service Pandora is open to a possible takeover. That reports The New York Times.
The stock markets in New York were Monday in afternoon trading deep in the red. As in Europe, economic concerns were seized for a firm sale, which mainly financial companies and tech funds were hit hard.
Apple gets in 2016 for the first time with reduced sales of iPhones. Previously warned an analyst from investment bank Morgan Stanley.
A French cruise ship came to the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic in trouble by fire in the engine room. All 347 passengers were evacuated in an operation in which the British Navy came to the rescue, as British media reported Thursday.
Tomorrow is October 21, 2015 , the day when Doc Brown and Marty McFly in Back to the Future II visit the future. What has become of the predictions that the creators of this futuristic action comedy from 1989 took over us today ?
The Nobel committee in Sweden Wednesday announce who will receive this year's Nobel Prize for Chemistry. The award ceremony is on December 10 , the anniversary of Alfred Nobel. The winners will divide a sum of over € 850,000 .
