Paris - French Prime Minister Francois Fillon has threatened to nationalize any French bank receiving emergency government aid that does not extend loans to businesses, the online edition of the daily Le Figaro reported on Monday.
Interviewed for a television program to be broadcast late Monday, Fillon said, "If we feel that the banks are not doing the necessary work ... we will take back the credits we have given them."
Without this government aid, Fillon said, the banks will find themselves in difficulty.
"The next question is if we will then take over the bank's capital, possibly to change their leadership, to oversee their strategy," he said.
London, Nov 3 : A novel imaging programme for facial surgery called DI3D system, which could produce life-like 3-D images on a computer from photographs, has been chosen for a top innovation award.
The DI3D system could help transform the treatment of facial surgery, burns, and orthodontics.
The Gannochy Trust innovation award of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE) will be given to Dr. Colin Urquhart, of Glasgow-based Dimensional Imaging on November
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New York, November 3 : Jennifer Hudson has not been able to step into her Chicago residence that had bared the slain bodies of her mother and brother, according to her friends.
The Oscar winning-actress’ family was found shot dead on October 24 in their home, while the body of the singer’s nephew was discovered three days later in an abandoned car in Chicago.
“I believe she went back just once, to the gate, but didn’t go inside,” the New York Daily News quoted Hudon’s friend and mentor Andre Leon Talley as telling them.
Tehran - Thousands of Iranian students chanted anti-American slogans in front of the former US embassy Monday, vowing to keep up their resistance to what they called "United States colonialism."
Young demonstrators, mainly schoolchildren, burned US flags outside the abandoned diplomatic compound in downtown Tehran, which radical students stormed November 4, 1979, taking 52 Americans hostage for 444 days.
Tehran and Washington have had no diplomatic relations since then.