| Fri, 3 Sep 2010 France booed off after Belarus rain on Laurent Blanc's new dawn Euro 2012 Qual Group D | France 0 Belarus 1 Laurent Blanc had hoped France would put the embarrassment of the World Cup behind them against Belarus. Photograph: Charles Platiau/Reuters | France, under their new coach Laurent Blanc, failed to shrug off their old ways as ... | The business on...Stuart Gulliver, HSBC Chairman, Europe / Middle East | The man who would be king? | Maybe one day. HSBC boss Michael Geoghegan isn't going anywhere for a while, but Mr Gulliver, head of investment banking globally, and the whole bank in Europe and Middle East, is now widely seen as his most likely successor. | A big playe... | U.S. grasp of Russia nukes may weaken, official warns | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - American knowledge of Russia's nuclear capabilities will dwindle if a new nuclear arms treaty with Moscow is not ratified, the chief U.S. negotiator argued as a Senate panel on Friday scheduled a vote on the document. | The new START treaty with... | Opposition website head found dead in Belarus | MINSK (Reuters) - The director of a prominent Belarus opposition website which has faced pressure from the government was found dead on Friday, a colleague said. | Relatives found Oleg Bebenin, 36, at his weekend house outside the capital Minsk, said Natalya Radina, a... | Russia's grain-export ban extension not a crisis - FAO | Saturday, September 04, 2010 | - Powered by | --> | Svetlana Kovalyova | Reuters | MILAN: Russia’s plan to extend its grain-export ban destabilizes markets but does not bring closer a repeat of the 2007-08 food crisis, a senior UN economist said on Friday after ... | Serbia meet Croatia in Basketball Championship | Istanbul : The World Championship first knockout round is poised to produce a pair of classics after Serbia beat Argentina 84-82 in an enthralling Group A match on Thursday to set up a meeting with Balkan neighbours Croatia. | There will also be no love los... | New bushfires kill five in Russia | MOSCOW: Five people have died as forest and brush fires flared up again in Russia's southern farmlands, burning down 532 homes and buildings. | "The bodies of five people were found in the fire," Mikhail Murzayev, head of the investigative committee in ... | | |
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