Nollywood pulls in the dollars
Besides football, literary icons like Chinua Achebe and Wole Soyinka and, of course, the late musical megastar Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, there is no question that Nigerian movies have become one of...
Finland no winner in collateral deal: analysts
Finland has finally secured the right to demand collateral in exchange for new loans to Greece but the highly arcane deal with other euro zone countries achieved little beyond political...
Estonians put down roots in Finland
Only 28 percent of Estonians living in Finland want to return home, according to research from the University of Tartu. These findings support a survey from a couple of years...
Finland falls out of love with EU
HELSINKI (AP)  Once a timid and compliant member of the European Union, Finland has become one of its most rebellious. The Finns have made headlines recently by threatening to...
Fleeing Gadhafi bastion, bitter at the new Libya
SIRTE, Libya (AP)  Families flowed out of Moammar Gadhafi's besieged hometown Tuesday, exhausted and battered by weeks of hiding from shelling and gunbattles with no meat or vegetables or...
Libyan forces plan “final” attack on Gaddafi hometown
SIRTE, Libya (Reuters) - Libyan interim government forces have pledged to mount a final decisive attack on Muammar Gaddafi's hometown and one of his former lieutenants says he believes the...
China: US currency bill would have repercussions
BEIJING (CWN)  China stepped up its criticism Tuesday of a proposed U.S. law to punish countries with artificially low currencies, saying there would be serious repercussions for the world's...