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House Republicans accused the White House on Thursday of stonewalling a congressional probe into the failed $535 million loan guarantee to bankrupt solar panel maker Solyndra LLC and threatened to issue subpoenas later this month to secure interviews with “key administration staff.”

По некоторым сведениям, сотрудникам CERN, работающим с Большим адронным коллайдером (БАК), удалось обнаружить бозон Хиггса, пишет The Daily Mail. 

As engy ministers from around the country gather in Kananaskis this week, it’s starting to look like the Alberta government is engaging in an old-fashioned game of bait and switch.

A bipartisan group of House lawmakers went to court Wednesday to try to stop President Obama’s troop deployment to Libya, saying it violates the law, but the White House submitted a report to Congress arguing that it is adhering to the War Powers Resolution because it is not actually engaged in “hostilities.”

Emerging markets are starting to resemble pole-vaulters who, no matter how high the bar is raised, jump over it effortlessly. Back in April, the Institute of International Finance - a global club of banks - had predicted private capital inflows to emerging markets would total $709bn this year; it now recognises emerging markets will pass that level with ease. So the IIF has raised the bar: its new estimate is $825bn - that’s $116bn higher.

A spoof television report that President Mikheil Saakashvili had been assassinated in a new Russian invasion of Georgia led to mass panic and furious opposition protests yesterday.

Twenty four of the largest phone operators have banded together to challenge the dominance of mobile app stores, such as that operated by Apple. The Wholesale Applications Community, as it is known, aims to make it easier for developers to build and sell apps "irrespective of device or technology".

What a difference 30 years makes — in sports, and in politics. Now, as the United States team prepares for the 2010 Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver, do we really care if we beat Russia?

Iranian security forces clashed with opposition supporters on Thursday when huge crowds flocked to central Tehran to mark the 31st anniversary of the Islamic revolution.

Germany is considering a plan with its European Union partners to offer Greece and other troubled euro-zone members loan guarantees in an effort to calm fears of a government default and prevent a widening of the credit woes, people familiar with the matter said.

The U.S. dollar continued its six-month slide Tuesday amid a growing international chorus that wants the dollar replaced - or at least supplemented - as the world's reserve currency, a move that would end the greenback's six decades of global dominance.

PARIS — Russia’s appetite for joining the World Trade Organization appears to have evaporated, even though the trade group has been proving its mettle in discouraging protectionist reactions during the recent financial upheaval, the head of the W.T.O. said Friday.

In late September, Russia’s prime minister Vladimir Putin summoned chief executives from 10 global energy companies to meet inside the Arctic Circle, on the gas-rich peninsula of Yamal.

After Ireland finally backs European reform, a campaign is under way to prevent the ascent of the former PM to the top job (salary: £247,000 per annum)

Gas suppliers are making bigger profit margins than at any time in the past decade because of a plunge in wholesale prices that has not been matched by a fall in household bills, a leading consultancy has ­calculated.

Competition for resources in the Arctic Circle could provoke conflict between Russia and Nato, a newly appointed commander at the alliance warned yesterday.