Sat, 28 Jan 2012 11:10:01 +0100 (Reuters) - Spanair passengers make their claims at an Spanair ticket office as other passengers sleep at Madrid's Barajas airport January 28, 2012. Loss-making Spanish airline Spanair ceased operations on Friday night, grounding all its airplanes after its owner, citing the country's economic crisis, said it would not sink any more money into the company. REUTERS/Susana Vera (SPAIN - Tags: TRANSPORT BUSINESS)
Arctic ice melt lifts hopes for Russian maritime trade
Fri, 27 Jan 2012 17:30:09 +0100 SEVERODVINSK, Russia (Reuters) - When severe snowstorms prevented life-sustaining fuel supplies from reaching the frozen Alaskan town of Nome, U.S. officials turned to a Russian company for help. The relief mission through perilous, ice-choked seas was the first mid-winter fuel delivery to western Alaska, capping a year of pioneering shipping as oil and gas development and climate change increase traffic along northern trade routes sought by centuries of Arctic explorers. ... (Source: Reuters)
Holocaust-survivor and Germany's famous literature critic ...
Fri, 27 Jan 2012 11:00:02 +0100 (Reuters) - Holocaust-survivor and Germany's famous literature critic Marcel Reich-Ranicki (L-R) Chancellor Angela Merkel and President of the Bundesstag Norbert Lammert arrive for a commemoration service for the victims of national socialism on International Holocaust Memorial Day at the Reichstag, seat of the German lower house of Parliament Bundestag, in Berlin, January 27, 2012. REUTERS/Tobias Schwarz (GERMANY - Tags: POLITICS)
Indigenous people walk outside the Supreme Court of Justice ...
Fri, 27 Jan 2012 07:50:02 +0100 (Reuters) - Indigenous people walk outside the Supreme Court of Justice in front of graffiti that reads: "Exigimos Justicia" (We demand justice), in Guatemala City January 26, 2012. Former Guatemalan dictator Efrain Rios Montt will face trial on charges of genocide and crimes against humanity as the Central American nation seeks to close files on a brutal 36-year civil war. A judge found sufficient evidence that linked Rios Montt, who ruled during a particularly bloody period in 1982 and 1983, to the killing of more than 1,700 indigenous people in one counterinsurgency effort. REUTERS/Jorge Dan Lopez (GUATEMALA - Tags: POLITICS CRIME LAW)
Participants in the Frisian Shorttrack Championships, wearing ...
Thu, 26 Jan 2012 23:30:02 +0100 (Reuters) - Participants in the Frisian Shorttrack Championships, wearing traditional wooden skates, wait for the race to begin in Techendorf, Austria's southern Carinthia province, January 26, 2012. Techendorf is hosting the Alternatieve Elfstedentocht Weissensee (Alternative Eleven City Races Weissensee), a traditional Dutch series of speed skating events for both professionals and amateurs with some 6,000 participants, from January 23 to February 4. REUTERS/Heinz-Peter Bader (AUSTRIA - Tags: SPORT SPEED SKATING TRAVEL SOCIETY)
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