April 6, 2012
The reactor of the nuclear Penly, Seine-Maritime, did not escape unscathed from two outbreaks of fire that led to his arrest early Thursday afternoon. EDF said the evening had detected "a default on a joint of one of the four cooling pumps the coolant in the reactor building of ...
March 30, 2012
The clothing giant Hennes & Mauritz (H & M) has, once again, makes investors wince and smile fashionistas. The chain has indeed saw its stock fall by 4% in session Thursday after yet displayed, for the first quarter, sales growth (+13%), to 3.14 billion euros and net income up ...
March 27, 2012
"Violations unacceptable." Constable of the London Stock Exchange, the Financial Services Authority (FSA), a verdict without pity Coutts, a financial institution of the most prestigious yet. Founded in the late seventeenth century, the asset management company is famous for hosting the assets of many aristocrats, including Queen Elizabeth, as ...
March 18, 2012
TO LOSE WEIGHT IS 1. Freeze the salaries of officials With € 285 billion, salaries and pensions of the public are the first state budget. Although the "index points" (which is the reference to general increases) is frozen this year for the second consecutive year, the remuneration ...
March 10, 2012
The Little Shop Becquerel Center is nestled in the popular district of Tokyo Ueno, in the shadow of one of the countless train lines overhead. Since December, people in Tokyo may be measuring the radioactivity of their products, self-service. Two tables out of sight of prying neighbors ...
November 26, 2011
Laughed a few years ago for its old image, the Citroën is taking the risk to compete with the German champions "premium". His weapon: the DS line. After the small DS3, then exit in May of the DS4, Citroen attacks from that weekend with his DS5, a preserve of ...
October 9, 2011
This may be the end of the old carriage with us for fifty years at the supermarket. Carrefour tests from Monday at five stores in France, Spain and Belgium a new model. Exit the metal cage. Place one on which will be suspended for reusable shopping bags. In France, ...
September 27, 2011
Vigil at the refinery of the American French LyondellBasell at Berre, near Marseilles. Employees are called Tuesday morning to a works great. "We believe that we will announce the closure of the refinery," alarmed Fabien Astier, CGT secretary of the works. The refinery employs 350 people but the whole ...
September 6, 2011
MPs begin on Tuesday the review of the proposed supplementary budget, which includes measures of anti-deficit plan presented in late August. It's a risky time for the government, some measures of the plan is hotly contested in the majority. After the removal last week of raising VAT on ...