Samsung loses to Apple in US court, injunction looming
Saturday, 25 August 2012 20:50
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Samsung phone (up) and an Iphone 4. (AFP Photo / Damien Meyer)

A dramatic patent battle in a US court has wrapped up with Samsung found to have copied critical features of the iPhone and iPad. The $1 billion verdict in Apple’s favor is a red flag for the smartphone industry and might push prices higher.

­A Californian jury has found the South Korean ...

 
Garry Kasparov cleared of protesting at Pussy Riot trial
Saturday, 25 August 2012 01:28

Opposition leader and former world chess champion says he plans to file a libel case against policeman who detained him

Former world chess champion turned Kremlin critic Garry Kasparov has unexpectedly been cleared of taking part in an unsanctioned protest against the conviction of the Russian feminist punk band Pussy Riot.

Kasparov, an opposition...

 
Greenpeace storms Arctic oil platform
Friday, 24 August 2012 20:16

Greenpeace activists board Kremlin state-owned oil platform in Arctic in protest at rate of ice melting

Greenpeace has signalled its determination to try to halt the Kremlin's march into the Arctic with activists led by its executive director boarding an oil platform belonging to state-owned Gazprom.

It is the first time that the green group has...

 
Banks, brokers slam Nasdaq's Facebook compensation plan as 'inadequate'
Friday, 24 August 2012 18:39
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People walk past the Nasdaq exchange in Time Square on June 7, 2012 in New York City. The Nasdaq announced that they plan to set aside $40 million to handle legal proceedings surrounding the recent Facebook IPO. (Andrew Burton/Getty Images/AFP)

Market-players who lost millions of dollars in Facebook's botched IPO call Nasdaq’s $62 million c...

 
Rusal says claims on its Guinea plant have no legal basis
Friday, 24 August 2012 18:34
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Rusal's central office on Nikoloyamskaya Street, Moscow. (RIA Novosti/Ramil Sitdikov)

Labour unions in Guinea have called on the government to cancel Russia's Rusal’s 2006 contract for the purchase of the country’s Friguia bauxite and alumina complex. Rusal says the demands have no legal ground.

­The world's largest aluminium producer said on ...

 
Boris Yeltsin's monument desecrated with blue paint in Russia
Friday, 24 August 2012 16:29
Unidentified individuals doused the monument to the first Russian President Boris Yeltsin with blue paint at night on August 23. Judging by the scale, height and density of the blue paint attack (the memorial is a 10-meter stele of white marble with the full-length bas-relief of Boris Yeltsin), the act was committed by several people...
 
‘We are not asking for more money, we are looking for growth’ – Greek PM
Friday, 24 August 2012 15:12

German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Greece's prime minister Antonis Samaras shake hands after a press conference on August 24, 2012 at the Chancellery in Berlin. (AFP Photo/David Gannon)

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German Chancellor Angela Merkel says any changes to the Greek bailout deal should be made after the Troika report on progress of reforms. After...

 
Russia plans to build a new airliner bigger than the Sukhoi Superjet
Friday, 24 August 2012 14:31
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AVIASTAR-SP workshop. (RIA Novosti/Ruslan Krivobok)

Russia's United Aircraft Corporation (UAC), the maker of Sukhoi Superjet has announced plans to build a new airliner by 2016, which will bridge the gap between the Superjet and the larger MS-21 airliner currently in development.

The company’s CEO Mikhail Pogosyan says, “We are considering an a...

 
The time is right for Conservative Friends of Russia | Richard Royal
Friday, 24 August 2012 14:17

I helped launch the new friendship group because it would be rash to ignore a vital member of the international community

This week I helped launch the Conservative Friends of Russia, a group for those with an interest in Russian politics, history, business and culture. Our aim is to improve relations between the two countries, provide a forum for...

 
Greenpeace activists occupy Gazprom Arctic oil platform ‎
Friday, 24 August 2012 11:10

Six campaigners board Russian offshore oil rig in protest over plans to drill for gas and oil in environmentally sensitive area

Activists climbed Gazprom's oil platform in the Arctic overnight to protest against plans by the Russian energy giant to drill in the environmentally important zone, Greenpeace said on Friday.

The activists "have taken up...

 
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