Tuesday, May 21, 2013   

BBC fined for deceiving audiences
07-31 21:54 (World)
The publicly funded British Broadcasting Corporation has been fined 400,000 pounds (HK$6.17 million) for deceiving viewers and listeners in TV and radio com...
Doping scandal sees six Russian women banned
07-31 21:47 (Sports)
The International Association of Athletics Federations have banned six leading Russian women after being suspected of manipulating drug samples, Russ...
Shell profits rocket
07-31 21:09 (Business)
Anglo-Dutch energy giant Royal Dutch Shell said that high oil prices helped push its net profit up by a third to US$11.556 billion (HK$90.13 billion) i...
Russia must stop 'terrifying' business: Medvedev
07-31 21:03 (Business)
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has told officials the state must stop "terrifying'' business, following controversies over British-Russian oil firm TN...
Bulls still on the run
07-31 20:52 (World)
Horseback cattle-herders and gendarmes have been hunting escaped bulls in a sunflower field in southern France with orders to bring them in dead or alive. ...
Proteas pair frustrate England batsmen
07-31 20:32 (Sports)
South Africa opening batsman Neil McKenzie and nightwatchman Paul Harris frustrated the England bowlers on a rain-shortened second morning of the thir...
British and Aussie WWI dead to get French reburial
07-31 20:23 (World)
Hundreds of British and Australian World War I soldiers are to be given a proper burial after their remains were discovered in a mass grave, the British Min...
Messi leaving for Beijing after Fifa order
07-31 20:18 (Sports)
Lionel Messi will leave for Beijing today to join up with Argentina's Olympic squad after world football governing body Fifa ordered Barcelona to rel...
Suzuki net increases
07-31 20:03 (Business)
Japan's Suzuki Motor Corp said its first-quarter net profit increased 6.9 percent on robust demand in Europe and Asia, which offset the impact of soaring s...
Karadzic photos emerge of first court appearance
07-31 19:53 (World)
Photos of a thin, seemingly relaxed Radovan Karadzic, minus the beard and long hair he used to avoid detection, emerged hours before his first appearance in a ...
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