Asian Markets were trading positive during early trading session on Monday. US stock markets ended the week in positive. Indian Markets are expected to open slightly higher than Friday’s close.
Baghdad (Iraq), Dec. 15: Outgoing UD President George W. Bush was pelted with two shoes on Sunday during a press conference here, but managed to duck both.
According to The Sun, an Iraqi TV journalist hurled the shoes at Bush during a joint press briefing with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki after the signing of a troop withdrawal agreement.
Muntadar al-Zeidi, a TV reporter with an Iraqi-owned station based in Egypt, hurled the shoes, yelling in Arabic: "This is a farewell kiss, dog."
Sydney - Australia aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by at least 5 per cent from 2000 levels with a maximum target of 15 per cent by 2020 if an effective global climate-change pact is signed, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's government said Monday.
The target falls far short of the 25- to 40-per-cent emissions reduction scientists and conservationists have been calling for to avert a climate change catastrophe.
Tokyo - Stocks in Tokyo surged in Monday morning trading on speculation that US automakers would receive a government bail-out and on the rise of the dollar against the yen.
The developments outweighed the biggest drop in business confidence among Japan's largest manufacturers in 34 years because analysts said the drop was expected and the market had already factored it in.
The benchmark Nikkei 225 Stock Average gained 390.13 points, or 4.74 per cent, to trade at 8,626.
Kabul, Dec. 15 : Two days after British Prime Minister Gordon Brown''s visit to Afghanistan, US President George W Bush arrived in Kabul on a surprise visit to address American troops at the Bagram Air Force base and for talks with his Afghan counterpart, President Hamid Karzai.
Bush flew into Afghanistan from Iraq, where a news conference was disrupted when an Iraqi TV journalist threw his shoes and shouted insults at him.
Hamburg, Germany - A team of German scientists have come up with compelling, new proof that a huge, giant black hole of unimaginable dimensions is at the very heart and centre of our galaxy.
For decades, astronomers have speculated about the possibility of a black hole at the Milky Way galaxy's centre. But because of the billions of stars which lie between Earth and the hub of the galaxy, it has always been impossible to see what is actually at the centre.
Baghdad (Iraq), Dec. 15: Outgoing UD President George W. Bush was pelted with two shoes on Sunday during a press conference here, but managed to duck both.
Sydney - Australia aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by at least 5 per cent from 2000 levels with a maximum target of 15 per cent by 2020 if an effective global climate-change pact is signed, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's government said Monday.
Tokyo - Stocks in Tokyo surged in Monday morning trading on speculation that US automakers would receive a government bail-out and on the rise of the dollar against the yen.
Kabul, Dec. 15 : Two days after British Prime Minister Gordon Brown''s visit to Afghanistan, US President George W Bush arrived in Kabul on a surprise visit to address American troops at the Bagram Air Force base and for talks with his Afghan counterpart, President Hamid Karzai.
Hamburg, Germany - A team of German scientists have come up with compelling, new proof that a huge, giant black hole of unimaginable dimensions is at the very heart and centre of our galaxy.
