Toyota cuts bonuses as recession bites TOKYO — Toyota Motor, the world’s second-largest vehicle maker, yesterday cut winter bonuses for the first time for about 8700 managers in Japan as a global recession cripples car demand... (photo: Creative Commons / bhringer friedrich) Business Day
Countries sign cluster bombs ban | SOME 100 nations put their names on Wednesday to a landmark treaty banning cluster bombs, amid calls for major arms producers such as China, Russia and the United States to join them. | Norway - whi... (photo: AP / Gunnar Mjaugedal/catchlight.no / SCANPIX / Ho) The Australian
NATO to shelve Georgia and Ukraine membership plans | NATO foreign ministers yesterday put an end to the dream of Georgia and Ukraine joining the alliance within the next few years. | Membership of NATO was kicked so far into the grass that Moscow must... (photo: AP / Virginia Mayo)The Australian GeorgiaNATOPhotosRussiaUkraine
Billionaire turns tiny club into German power The capacity of Allianz Arena in Munich is 66,000. It is where Bayern Munich will host TSG 1899 Hoffenheim on Friday in a showdown for first place in the famed Bundesliga soccer league as the season a... (photo: Public Domain / DaKaTotal)San Diego CultureDevelopmentPhotosSocialSport
Berlin's zoo may lose bear Knut | The warm feeling surrounding Germany's celebrity polar bear Knut is turning icy ahead of his second birthday on Friday - because Berlin may lose him. | Knut's father ca... (photo: WN / Denise Yong)BBC News AnimalsEuropeGermanyPhotosWildlife
Activists sue African presidents | Paris - French anti-corruption campaigners have filed a suit against three African heads of state, accusing them of buying properties in France that could not be financ... (photo: UN file / Michelle Poire)Independent online CampaignGovernmentParisPhotosPresident
Knut the bear searches for a new home | The world's most famous polar bear is to be banished from Berlin zoo because of lack of cash - the first ursine victim of the credit crunch. | Knut the polar bear, who ... (photo: GFDL / Aconcagua)The Independent AnimalsHomeNaturePhotosZoo
German soldiers deemed 'too fat to fight' | First they were accused of not wanting to fight. Then they were blamed for failing in their main mission to train the Afghan police. | Now Germany's battered military r... (photo: U.S. Army/SPC Joe Alger)The Times AfghanistanGermanyPhotosUSUk
Bear necessities | Remember cute, cuddly Knut, the fluffy snow-white polar bear in Berlin Zoo? The bear who won the world's hearts when we heard how he had been rescued and hand-reared by... (photo: AP Photo Jan Bauer)The Times AnimalGermanyPhotosSocietyZoo
