Vienna - The takeover of Austrian Airlines AG by Deutsche Lufthansa AG is expected to be concluded by the end of the year, the Austrian state holding OeIAG announced Thursday.
Since Air France-KLM and Russian carrier S7 did not submits offers conforming to the specifications of the bidding process, OeIAG said, it would now enter into exclusive "closing talks" with Lufthansa about selling its 42.75-per-cent stake.
Vilnius - The Lithuanian foreign ministry said Thursday it backed a suggestion by Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin to abandon the Nord Stream gas pipeline project due to be built under the Baltic Sea.
On Wednesday Putin said Europe must decide whether it wants the 10-billion-dollar pipeline to link Russia and Germany or not.
Moscow - A sailor was charged with activating the locked-down fire safety system on a Russian nuclear submarine over the weekend accident that asphyxiated 20 people, investigators said on Thursday.
"The inquiry established that a sailor set off the anti-fire system on board the submarine without authorization and for no reason," news agency Itar-tass quoted Vladimir Markin, a spokesman for Russia's top investigative committee, as saying.
London - More than 100 men and women clad just in their underpants trooped on to the concourse of a central London train station Thursday hoping to set a new world record for a bizarre gathering of this kind.
The effort, entitled Pants to Poverty, was organized by the Fair Trade Organization to mark Guinness World Records Day.
A total of 116 men and women turned up for the event on a cold and rainy day at St Pancras train station in London, from where the Eurostar train also departs.
Hamburg - Germany cancelled the licences of two Turkish-language Islamic television stations Thursday, eight weeks after senior executives were sent to jail for embezzlement.
The stations, Kanal 7 INT and TVT, were linked to the Deniz Feneri charity, which collected alms for the poor from devout Muslims living in western Europe.
Vienna - The takeover of Austrian Airlines AG by Deutsche Lufthansa AG is expected to be concluded by the end of the year, the Austrian state holding OeIAG announced Thursday.
Vilnius - The Lithuanian foreign ministry said Thursday it backed a suggestion by Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin to abandon the Nord Stream gas pipeline project due to be built under the Baltic Sea.
Moscow - A sailor was charged with activating the locked-down fire safety system on a Russian nuclear submarine over the weekend accident that asphyxiated 20 people, investigators said on Thursday.
London - More than 100 men and women clad just in their underpants trooped on to the concourse of a central London train station Thursday hoping to set a new world record for a bizarre gathering of this kind.
Baghdad - A car bomb went of on Thursday in al-Hamidiya district in eastern Mosul injuring 11 people including Iraqi soldiers, security sources said.
Hamburg - Germany cancelled the licences of two Turkish-language Islamic television stations Thursday, eight weeks after senior executives were sent to jail for embezzlement.
