Dubai: Dubai government-owned airlineEmirates [EMIRA.UL] said on Tuesday it planned to recruit 2,000 cabin crew in 2010 as it expands its fleet and routes. The Arab world's largest airline has hired around 660 cabin crew and...
London: The iconic London Eye, the largest Ferris wheel across Europe, has turned a decade old today. As part of the celebrations today, all visitors to the observation wheel will enjoy a free champagne glass and a light show,...
London: Reports indicate that a series of 12 flybys by Europe's Mars Express spacecraft might reveal the deepest secrets of the Martian moon Phobos. According to a report in New Scientist, the flights will probe...
TOKYO: Japanese carmakers are considering following Toyota Motor's lead in adopting a brake override system that would potentially address all sources of unintended acceleration, including driver error. Under fire after recalling more than 8 million vehicles...
Amsterdam: An auction at Sotheby's ofmore than 160 works of post-war and contemporary art from the Peter Stuyvesant Collection exceeded all expectations on Monday, raising a record €13.6 million ($18.6 million). The works on offer in Amsterdam were the property...
Singapore: It may have hammered many a company's balance sheet, but the global financial crisis has made more than two out of five employees feel totally committed to their employer, a global survey showed. The survey, conducted by international employment firm...
The building that burned on West Carson Street last week illuminated more than the night sky. It's also shedding light on a little known and long-forgotten piece of the city's industrial past -- the wholesale grain businesses that supplied the region's feed stores,...
Los Angeles: The Internet was built on freedom of expression. Society wants someone held accountable when that freedom is abused. And major Internet companies like Google and Facebook are finding themselves caught between those ideals. Although Google, Facebook and...
New Delhi: Cloud services, or software/hardware services delivered remotely through the Internet, may be to Indian information technology companies what outsourcing was to the US IT industry, an official of Microsoft, the world’s largest software company, said....
Mumbai: BHP Billiton, the world’s top coking coal producer, has signed a coking coal deal with Indian steelmakers at $200 per tonne, up 55% from last year’s prices. Last year’s benchmark prices were $129 per tonne and were yearly contracts. However,...
