The International Monetary Fund, IMF, has delayed disbursing an aid tranche to Romania originally scheduled for next month and will resume talks on a standby loan agreement only when the country has a government. You can read the rest online...
Superintendent Mike Dean of Strathclyde Police, who was helping to co-ordinate security at Unirea Urziceni's, Steaua Stadium, agrees with Rangers explanation for the crowd disturbances. read more
The Bucovina region in the far north wrote the scholar Silviu Sanie, is “one of those blessed realms where sacred and secular monuments have enriched the enchanting natural landscape.”
Romania's central bank governor says the International Monetary Fund will delay access to a euro1.5 billion ($2.2 billion) loan while the country struggles to set up a new government.
But can it be that 163 police forces have committed to help find Madeleine McCann? And if police in South African, Canada, Chile, Japan and Romania are looking then why not the Portuguese? There are 192 coutries in the UN. This means that 19 countries are not helping find Our Maddie. Which is shocking...
Starting with a bit more "Stake Land" news tonight... dread central has a couple more stills here . Vampire Cafe has some New Moon clips and behind-the-scenes footage here . Dread central has a first set picture from " let me in " here. Big news of the night... Lost Boys 4 ! There is news of a new book titled "Dracula is Dead", which looks at Romania here . There is a...
With an estimated $10 billion inflow of foreign exchange from its citizens abroad this year, Nigeria yesterday emerged the sixth highest destination of remittances from citizens of developing nations in the Diaspora.The World Bank, which gave the figure in its Migration and Develop-ment Brief released at the weekend said in the updated remittance flow table, India, China and Mexico retained the top...
One week of house sitting completed with the Orange Wing Parrot and the large Bulgaria sheep dog. Another week an a half of house sitting and then I decided to visit Romania for a few days, then head back to Sofia and get another three month visa. The first time a non-EU resident applies for the long term visa for Bulgaria, they want the person to head out of the country and attain the visa at an 19...
I'm feeling bored and have nothing to write about, I wish there was another incredibly stupid article by Beatrix Campbell OBE to mock. Hooray! She applauds a move to punish men who pay for sex with prostitutes who have been coerced, even if they were unaware of the fact. The incidence of trafficking has been vastly and systematically exaggerated as Nick Davies demonstrated last month. Bea dismisses...
Good Champions League results on the road are being overshadowed by trouble This season's vicissitudes suggest Sod's Law may have been framed specifically to victimise Walter Smith. How else to explain the Rangers manager producing a team whose most impressive Champions League performances are achieved on foreign fields, only to be soured by a travelling support whose tendency towards delinquency...
The teaser trailer for the upcoming series 14 of Top Gear is out! Once again featuring mini-Hammond, mini-May, mini-Clarkson & mini-Stig. The S13 trailers can be found here . - Airport Vehicles - South America special (like the previous US, Botswana & Vietnam specials) - Electric Car - Roadster challenge in Romania (the Carpathian mountains) – Ferrari California, Aston Martin DBS Volante...
The Board of Directors of the Bulgarian Energy Holding decided Friday to deposit EUR 1,345 M for increasing the capital of the Nabucco Gas Pipeline International company. The sum reflects the proportional share of the Bulgarian participant in the company, BEH’s subsidiary Bulgargaz. Each of the six companies participating in the project - OMV (Austria), MOL (Hungary), Transgaz (Romania), Bulgargaz...
My friend Chuck Spinney writes in from Turkey this morning riffing off a recent op-ed in the Times. I can't quibble with what either of them have to say. Chuck says: As someone who has lived in Turkey for most of the last two years, I have watched the development of her foreign policy with great interest, not to mention a good deal of confusion. It is hard to make sense out this rapidly-emerging,...