Could we survive a trip to Mars? Nasa is about to find out with its first year-long human trip into space March 27, 2015 Nasa is about to send two men to the International Space Station for a whole year – the longest human mission it has ever launched. With space agencies around the world ramping up their research into the possibility of sending humans to Mars in the not-too-distant future, this experiment aims to determine how the body [...]
Jeremy Clarkson’s ousting, Britain enters “noflation”: What got us talking this week March 27, 2015 It was a week of departures: Jeremy Clarkson was finally ousted by the Beeb (he’s now 16/1 to stand for Ukip), Zayn Malik caused untold pain among teenage girls (and a certain amount of glee at Spotify, which capitalised from a “sadness spike”) when he announced his departure from One Direction, and ITV bosses revealed [...]
Healthy margins help Dreyfus to report profit rise March 26, 2015 GLOBAL trading group Louis Dreyfus Commodities yesterday reported a rise in full-year profit as increased volumes and healthy processing margins helped to offset lower market prices. Louis Dreyfus is one of the “ABCD” quartet – alongside Archer Daniels Midland (ADM), Bunge and Cargill – that dominates agricultural commodity trading. Net income, group share, reached $648m [...]
Budget, oil rig count and Nigerian GDP: Here’s our world view March 26, 2015 Rising debt, capital outflows and falling commodity prices – we highlight the numbers that matter from around the globe NORTH AMERICA 268 the number of rigs drilling for shale gas in the week ending 6 March 2015, down from 1,606 in the summer of 2008. And yet US gas production has continued to rise. Baker [...]
Russia proposes trans-Siberian super highway linking to the US March 25, 2015 RUSSIA has unveiled proposals for a superhighway rolling all the way from London across to the US. The Trans-Eurasian belt Development, proposed by Vladimir Yakunin who is head of the Russian Railways, would be the first modern route to run across Russia, linking to systems in Europe and Asia. This would mean Brits could be [...]
Russia plans superhighway linking Britain to the United States March 25, 2015 Russia has unveiled proposals for a superhighway rolling all the way from London across to the United States. The Trans-Eurasian belt Development, put forward by Vladimir Yakunin who is head of the Russian Railways, would be the first modern route to run across Russia, and then linking to systems in Western Europe and Asia. This would means Brits [...]
Kiev’s tough finance chief Natalie Jaresko puts her case to the world March 24, 2015 “I am facing very different challenges to those he faces,” says the Ukrainian finance minister hours after meeting George Osborne, the UK chancellor. Natalie Jaresko is in the middle of a whistlestop tour of London and New York, during which she hopes to put her case to her war-torn country’s creditors and also to enlist [...]
Greg Dyke hints David Gill could reignite England’s World Cup bid March 24, 2015 ENGLAND chiefs may lift their ban on bidding for the World Cup while Sepp Blatter remains president of Fifa following former Manchester United chief executive David Gill’s election to the governing body yesterday. Football Association (FA) chairman Greg Dyke warned that scepticism remained following England’s failed bid for the 2018 tournament, which was awarded to [...]
Why drug-resistant superbugs could wipe 6pc off the world economy by 2050 March 24, 2015 Tackling antibiotic resistance could become one of the biggest struggles of our time, according to new research by the UK All Party Parliamentary Group on Global Tuberculosis (APPG TB). An overuse and misuse of antimicrobials has allowed some of the planet's deadliest diseases to start winning the battle against man-made drugs, and the situation is [...]
Did Israel spy on the US’s private Iran talks? Here are the two sides of the story March 24, 2015 Senior White House officials have accused Israel of spying on talks between the US, Iran and other world powers over the Middle Eastern country's nuclear programme, but Israel denies the claims. The private meetings in question took place last year and involved the UK, Germany, France, China and Russia. The aim was to persuade Iran [...]