Key Events And Market Issues In The Coming Week

In the absence of major data releases, the focal point of the week for markets becomes the release of the minutes of the May FOMC meeting. The most notable change in the statement was the inclusion of the new language: “the Committee is prepared to increase or reduce the pace of its purchases to maintain appropriate...

zerohedge.com (7 hours ago)

Ryanair profits soar to record €650 million

Ryanair today reported record full-year profits and continues to gain market share, overtaking Alitalia and LOT in Italy and Poland....

thetimes.co.uk (12 hours ago)

Stilphen, 14, is youngest driver to win Oxford Championship race

OXFORD, Maine – Fourteen-year-old Tommy Stilphen of Arundel became the youngest Oxford Championship Series race winner ever, posting his first career Oxford Plains Speedway main event victory in the 40-lap Pro Late Model feature Friday night. Tyson Jordan of Poland, Justin Larsen of Peru and Corey Morgan of Lewiston...

bangordailynews.com (21 hours ago)

StoryCorps booth allows Chicagoans to make history into a microphone

StoryCorps sets up recording booth in Cultural CenterSitting across from his son Peter in a warmly lit booth at the Chicago Cultural Center earlier this month, Chester Konopacki gave slow, careful answers about his childhood on his family's farm in Eastern Poland. He recalled he was tending horses one night with his...

chicagotribune.com (1 day ago)

Roch Modrzejewski: Opera's guitar hero

With his virtuosic new recording of opera tunes, Poland's Roch Modrzejewski has revived a much-neglected corner of the guitar repertoire, says John Allison.    

telegraph.co.uk (1 day ago)

Fracking threatens bonds of land, life, well-being

Can one spirit be chronically broken? My eastern Pennsylvania, my native western Pennsylvania, now my Polish roots. Kudos to The Intelligencer for telling the story of Poland and fracking. It is but o

phillyburbs.com (1 day ago)

Republican Warns Of Modern-Day Hitler Invasion

Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) is known for his unusual Twitter feed, and he took to the website again on Saturday with more unique posts. Grassley sounded a warning early Saturday on one area where he thinks America is suffering: US has no foreign policy. We shld remember what happened th last time we had no foreign...

huffingtonpost.com (1 day ago)

Observer writer wins Ryszard Kapuściński award 2013

Ed Vulliamy, the Observer writer, has won the 2013 Kapuściński award in Poland for his book Amexica: War Along the Borderline. Amexica describes the extraordinary horror of the drug war unfolding on the US-Mexican frontier. Vulliamy travelled across the border on and off for 30 years. His reporting included a 2008...

guardian.co.uk (2 days ago)

Polish conservative opposition leads opinion poll

WARSAW (Reuters) - Poland's opposition Law and Justice (PiS) party has overtaken the ruling Civic Platform in an opinion poll released on Saturday, showing the government may be increasingly vulnerable to the economic downturn.

reuters.com (2 days ago)

Polish conservative opposition leads opinion poll

WARSAW (Reuters) - Poland's opposition Law and Justice (PiS) party has overtaken the ruling Civic Platform in an opinion poll released on Saturday, showing the government may be increasingly vulnerable to the economic downturn. The center-right Civic Platform, led by Prime Minister Donald Tusk won 40 percent of the...

yahoo.com (2 days ago)

Cass canine officer retires

WALKER - Portos, a seven-and-a-half year veteran of the Cass County Sheriff’s Office, retired at the end of last year. In April of 2005, the Cass County Sheriff’s Office purchased the dog, a 2-year-old German Shepherd from Poland, with donations received from citizens, businesses and organizations of Cass County....

brainerddispatch.com (2 days ago)

Surprising Number Of LGBT Couples Afraid To Hold Hands In Europe

France may have taken a big step forward with parliament's decision to legalize gay marriage, but according to the results of a European Union survey, discrimination against the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community is still widespread in Europe. Released Friday, the online survey of more than...

huffingtonpost.com (3 days ago)

Poland Softball at Old Orchard Beach (Awaiting score)

bangordailynews.com (3 days ago)

The flight paths of Britain and Poland diverge in a disunited Europe | Timothy Garton Ash

Like two Spitfires tipping their wings in the sky, Britain and Poland are beginning to fly in different directions. The Polish pilot is heading for Berlin, not to strafe it but to join it. The British pilot is steering out into the Atlantic. Their old friendship is strained. Each country's choice is influenced as...

guardian.co.uk (3 days ago)

Telling jokes: Have you heard the one…

Groucho Marx liked a good one No Joke: Making Jewish Humour. By Ruth Wisse. Princeton University Press; 292 pages; $24.95 and £16.95. Buy from Amazon.com, Amazon.co.ukTHIS sharp and thoughtful study presents a reviewer with an unusual challenge: which joke do you quote? One cannot tell them all, both because space...

economist.com (4 days ago)

Banker to chair struggling Mecom

Amid an ongoing crisis for the ailing pan-European newspaper publisher, Mecom, a new chairman has been appointed - veteran investment banker Rory Macnamara. The former mergers and acquisitions banker at Deutsche Morgan Grenfell and Lehman Brothers will be expected to oversee the disposal of assets on behalf of...

guardian.co.uk (4 days ago)

Polish exports of meat for Jews, Muslims in limbo

WARSAW, Poland-For some, it was a barbaric way to treat animals. For others, it was great business.

denverpost.com (4 days ago)

Polish exports of meat for Jews, Muslims in limbo

WARSAW, Poland (AP) - For some, it was a barbaric way to treat animals. For others, it was great business.    

boston.com (4 days ago)

Polish exports of meat for Jews, Muslims in limbo

WARSAW, Poland (AP) -- For some, it was a barbaric way to treat animals. For others, it was great business....

ap.org (4 days ago)

Polish exports of meat for Jews, Muslims in limbo

For some, it was a barbaric way to treat animals. For others, it was great business. Until January, slaughterhouses across Poland — a deeply Catholic nation — were the unlikely venues for the Islamic and Jewish slaughter of animals, which in both religions involves a swift cut to the throat of a conscious animal and...

foxnews.com (4 days ago)

Polish Exports of Meat for Jews, Muslims in Limbo

Poland's role as producer of meat for Jews, Muslims in limbo as country awaits new law    

abcnews.com (4 days ago)

Polish exports of meat for Jews, Muslims in limbo

WARSAW, Poland (AP) - For some, it was a barbaric way to treat animals. For others, it was great business.

yahoo.com (4 days ago)

Eurozone Recession Is Now Longest in Currency Bloc

(PARIS) - The eurozone is now in its longest ever recession - a stubborn slump that has surpassed even the calamity that hit the region in the financial crisis of 2008-2009. The European Union statistics office said Wednesday that nine of the 17 EU countries that use the euro are in recession, with France a notable...

time.com (4 days ago)

The reason France has gone into double-dip recession | Ann Pettifor

Today's BBC headline fairly trumpets the news: "French economy returns to recession". Funny how we Brits seem happy if our trans-Manche neighbours are doing a wee bit worse than we are. Especially if you can add that it is the fault of their government for being, well, a bit too left of centre. True, the French have...

guardian.co.uk (5 days ago)

Polish walkway named for woman who saved Jews

Polish officials have honored Irena Sendler, a Polish woman credited with saving 2,500 Jewish children from the Holocaust, by naming a walkway in a symbolically important spot after her. Sendler was a social worker who smuggled Jewish children out of the Warsaw ghetto during World War II, when Poland was occupied by...

foxnews.com (5 days ago)

Polish walkway named for woman who saved Jews

WARSAW, Poland (AP) - Polish officials have honored Irena Sendler, a Polish woman credited with saving 2,500 Jewish children from the Holocaust, by naming a walkway in a symbolically important spot after her.    

boston.com (5 days ago)

Polish Walkway Named for Woman Who Saved Jews

Poland names walkway after woman credited with saving 2,500 Jewish children from Holocaust    

abcnews.com (5 days ago)

Eurozone Recession Now Longest In Currency's History

PARIS -- The recession across the economy of the 17 European Union countries that use the euro extended into its sixth quarter – longer than the calamitous slump that hit the region in the financial crisis of 2008-9. Eurostat, the EU's statistics office, said Wednesday that nine of the 17 eurozone countries are in...

huffingtonpost.com (5 days ago)

In search of Schindler's children: An emotional journey to Poland

Jessica Mellor heads to Poland in a trip to mark the 20th anniversary of Steven Spielberg’s Schindler’s List

mirror.co.uk (5 days ago)

Eurozone Recession Extends into 6th Quarter

PARIS (AP) - The recession across the economy of the 17 European Union countries that use the euro extended into its sixth quarter - longer than the calamitous slump that hit the region in the financial crisis of 2008-9. Eurostat, the EU’s statistics office, said Wednesday that nine of the 17 eurozone countries are...

time.com (5 days ago)