MyDD (Free subscription) | yesterday
A report out this week finds that the proportion of US homeowners who owe more on their mortgages than the properties are worth has swelled to about 23 percent nationwide. Some 10.7 million households households had negative equity in their homes as of the end of the third quarter of 2009. Homeowners in Nevada, Arizona, Florida and California are more likely to be deeply under water, according to...
Complete and Utter Zebu (Free subscription) | yesterday
Farming Today’s series on the problems of misleading food labelling continued today with a look at cheese, and in particular cheddar. It seems that more cheddar now comes into the UK from Latvia than is produced in the Cheddar Gorge itself. Other so-called cheddar comes from Ireland, New Zealand, Canada and Australia, as well as [...]
Ria Novosti (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
Herman van Rompuy, recently elected the first European Union president, will visit Latvia December 2 as incumbent Belgian prime minister.
Global Security (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
The Latvian foreign minister said on Monday that the country's military drills with NATO scheduled for next summer are not a response to Russia-Belarus exercises held in September this year.
Ria Novosti (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
"Some may try to link these drills to those held by Russia and Belarus. But these exercises are not a retaliation. They shouldn't be linked, but I'm sure we can't stop parallels being drawn," Maris Riekstins told RIA Novosti.
UK airports information blog (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
Ryanair is to expand services from Glasgow Prestwick airport with the launch of new flights to Carcassonne in France. The airline will also add extra flights on its services to Dublin, Riga, Barcelona Girona, Alicante, Palma and Tenerife. Flights to Carcassonne will start on 31 March and will operate twice a week on Sundays and Wednesdays. For up-to-date [...]
Martin Kelly (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
A person named Vaira Vike-Freiberga, apparently a former president of Latvia, has written that , "The European Union’s founding fathers knew that it had to be built brick by brick if it was to be accepted". One must have some sympathy for those who bear names that sound like leg infections; but Tim Worstall has, quite rightly, stuck both boots into this woman's arrogance and insolence...
rsseurope.net | Published News (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
Carlo Tancredi posted a photo: Melngalvju Nams (The Blackheads' House), Riga. Please don't use this image on websites, blogs or other media without my explicit permission. © All rights reserved My travel in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania ... 18 Vote(s)
rsseurope.net | Published News (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
Not yet heavily edited, but here it is! And so I began my journey home with the Brothers of the Latvian Revolution. We possessed no money for trains, and it was not until we had nearly reached Latvia that we were able to purchase horses ... 5 Vote(s)
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Neither side stands out as probable winners of this contest if recent form is anything to go by. Bolton have won one of their six home matches while Blackburn have lost all five away from Ewood Park. Both encounters between these sides ended level last season and a repeat result is far from inconceivable. Bolton will almost certainly be without joint top-scorer Tamir Cohen, who is unlikely to overcome...
Football.co.uk (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Bolton are likely to be without Tamir Cohen (groin), but Dan Shittu and Mustapha Riga (both hamstring) are close to returning...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
They will be cheering in the bars of Riga and stomping their feet in the pubs of Rotherham. Europe's dynamic duo is... Herman van Rompuy and Baroness Ashton.
Riga Daily Photo (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Traditional Lāpu gājiens ( Torchlight Procession ) took place yesterday late evening in Riga and was devoted to the 91st anniversary of independence of Latvia. Usually it begins next to Karlis Ulmanis , then heads to Occupation museum and ends at Freedom monument . Hundreds of patriots carrying a torch are led by Latvian nationalists' party.
Riga Daily Photo (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Military parade of Latvian Army at Riga embankment . It seems that recently Latvia has visibly improved its armed forces with new equipment. I wonder why... Also I always wonder why forested country has army wearing desert camouflage uniform :)
HerbZone (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
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