Oil ministers of the Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries (OAPEC) said Saturday that international investment in petroleum has shrank 20 percent due to the global financial crisis. They made the remarks at the 83rd OAPEC ministerial meeting, during which a chorus of satisfaction over the current oil prices and production quota, set one year ago by Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries...
Never one to be backwards in coming forwards, folk godhead Andrew Bird returns with a new tour and EP, taken from last month's criterati-tickling Noble Beast .
In the courtyard of an ancient convent here, the Wall of the Disappeared lists the names of about 2,700 "pieds noirs" - black feet, as the white French colonists in Algeria were called.
Words by: Lauren Palmor Perhaps the decreasing confidence in the art market can be salvaged—at least Sotheby’s clearly hopes so. In a decision which has many people buzzing, the auction house has introduced a new sales category: Contemporary Turkish Art. This new category was tested in an inaugural sale today at Sotheby’s in London. Seventy-three works [...]
A man in the Algerian city of Oran has said he wants to buy the English girl Jade Goody and he has offered to pay two camels in compensation to her new husband Jack Twede. Mr Tweed is a felon and has agreed the price. Kazim Haddad who is a rich...
OPEC, which pumps more than 40 percent of the world’s oil, cut output by 2.7 percent in February as producers tried to stem price declines, a Bloomberg News survey showed.
MEDIATION TALKS have failed to resolve a dispute between the six adult children of the late Judge Noel Ryan over the management of some €15 million in property assets acquired by their parents and themselves, the Commercial Court heard yesterday.
Joss Stone has a particular habit that's either sweetly endearing or hugely annoying, depending on your point of view. When she's onstage and she addresses her crowd, straightforward conversational sentences come out as song, all hollers and whoops and emoting hands, as if life was one big X Factor audition. Although it's entirely fair to point out that Stone is many, many times more talented than...
July 15, 1945. Dark and distended with potential, the A-bomb hangs like an anti-moon in the desert night. Alone and chain-smoking, its trilby-hatted creator rages against fate in the words of a poet who knew more than most about doubt and compromise. Somewhere nearby is a sympathetic woman who likes a drink, knows her place, and can quote verse too. Then there's the wise-ass side-kick, the dumb-ass...
Kent four-piece It Hugs Back have confirmed they'll be the main support for naughtily-named Holy F**k on their forthcoming European tour in April and May.
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