Italy is one of the biggest gates for South American drugs entering Europe. Italian police is struggling to contain the traffic and sometimes the outcome is huge. In the latest drug bust, Italian police seized almost 43 tons of cannabis. It is one of the biggest drug hauls ever recorded in Europe. The contraband ... read entire article »
The warship deal between France and Russian goes on as scheduled. About 400 Russian sailors arrived today in France to start training and getting familiar with the warship. The 1.2 billion euro deal was highly criticized by US and EU. Despite NATO and US force ... read entire article »
BNP Paribas, France’s biggest bank, is about to receive the biggest penalty ever paid by a European bank over violations of sanctions. The bank will be fined with record $9 billion because it didn’t respect a US embargo on financial transactions with Iran ... read entire article »
Takata, the Japanese cart safety parts maker, is facing some serious costs and profit plunges following a massive vehicle recall related to faulty airbags. Chief Executive Shigehisa Takada officially apologized to shareholders, car-makers who were forced to ... read entire article »
Nowadays, thieves no longer need to come up with an ‘Ocean’s 11’-like plan to commit a crime. Robbery can be successfully performed from the comfort of your home, as one bank recently experienced first-hand. The Kaspersky Lab security firm discovered that ... read entire article »
The hand-written draft of Bob Dylan’s beloved song, ‘Like a Rolling Stone’ established a world record after it was sold for over $2 million in an auction. Sotheby’s auction house declared that it is the highest price anyone ever paid for a pop-music ... read entire article »
As a public figure, Adolf Hitler had always striven to present himself as a modest man and an honest citizen. He never drank alcohol and was a vegetarian. But, what happened behind the curtains of his public life may stand to tell a different story. Hitler ... read entire article »
Match.com, an online dating website will find you someone who resembles your ex as much as possible for the modest sum of $5,000. The price also includes services of a professional matchmaker who will go out on ‘pre-dates’ with the chosen people and pick out ... read entire article »
A particular group of people did exclusively well in 2013 and that group consists of the super-rich people around the world. Even though prices got higher, especially for luxury items which rose above inflation, their incomes also increased and, surprisingly, the ... read entire article »
Iraq’s oil business is being seriously threatened by the political turmoil and string of violent attacks the country has been facing lately. The International Energy Agency issued the warning, also stating that oil demand is increasing due to a stronger and ... read entire article »
145 million euros is the price paid by Vodafone to enter the car industry world. The British telecommunication company, Vodafone, has purchased the Italian-based Cobra Automotive Technologies. The Italian company provides security, communications and car ... read entire article »
$5.2 million is the amount of money Greenpeace lost due to one of its employees gambling on currency markets and failing to make the right predictions. The employee, who was fired after the story came out, made a wrong prediction regarding a weakening of the euro ... read entire article »
305 Chinese paid, collectively, well over $30 billion for a five-minute trip to outer space. The trip tickets were made available by the Dutch-based company, Space Expedition Corp, and were available for just a single day, June 12. Nonetheless, all the ticket ... read entire article »
Family members of passengers of the MH370 flight, the missing Malaysian airplane, have received the first part of their compensation payment, worth $50,000. Relatives of all the 239 jet passengers can claim as much as $175,000 each, as compensation for their ... read entire article »
The ISIS militant group that has been seeding terror in Iraq for the last week already had a reputation for being extremely ruthless. In fact, they were so ruthless that even al-Qaeda disowned them. Now , after looting the central bank in Mosul, they will also be ... read entire article »
A Jewish family finally found some closure after a court in Berlin, Germany ordered the state to pay 50 million euros representing compensation for a chain of stores confiscated by the Nazis before the second World War. During the “Aryanization” programme ... read entire article »
There were a few hundred unlucky ones at the Football World Cup opener. There were about 60,000 fans at last night's game, but not everyone that spent hundreds of dollars on the tickets managed to watch the game from their seats. Arena de Sao Paolo was not ready ... read entire article »
Portugal announced it will not take the final tranche of its bailout program, worth 2.6 billion euros, because it cannot comply with conditions requested by the lenders: the EU and the International Monetary Fund. After Portugal's Constitutional Court blocked any ... read entire article »
Excepting the pride of winning the Football World Cup, players, teams and nations fight also for a huge prize pool. FIFA confirmed a few days ago the participants at the Final Tournament will be rewarded with more than half a billion dollars. The official figure ... read entire article »
Hours before the Football World Cup debut, media made up a list containing all the coaches involved in the final tournament and their salaries. Turns out, Russia's Fabio Capello leads the chart, while at the bottom sits Mexico's Miguel Herrera. Britain's former ... read entire article »
