Toyota President Akio Toyoda has apologised. He has bowed. He has written an Op-Ed in the Wall Street Journal. But some feel that, in relation to Japanese business tradition, he hasn't done nearly enough.
Lufthansa pilots began a four-day strike on Monday - the German flagship carrier's biggest walkout in nine years - in a dispute over job security, with an anticipated two-thirds of its 800 daily flights grounded.
US author J.D Salinger died at the age of 91 Thursday, at his home in New Hampshire. Salinger's "The Catcher in the Rye", and its hostile protagonist Holden Caulfield, brought him worldwide literary acclaim.
Labour Minister Franz Josef Jung resigned on Friday over a German-ordered NATO bombing in Afghanistan in which dozens of civilians are believed to have died. Jung was serving as defence minister at the time of the Sept. 4 strike.
Out of the ashes of WWII, the authors of the German constitution in 1949 crafted one of the most complicated electoral systems in Europe. Some call it unfair. Whatever your view point, its eccentricities will play a huge role in this election.
Even though Angela Merkel’s continued rule as chancellor is being taken for granted, a complex electoral system and a shifting German political climate mean that every party will count in this election.
The French daily Liberation reported on Wednesday that BNP Paribas had allocated a billion euros for end of year executive bonuses - a charge the bank did not deny. BNP had previously been approved for a government bailout.
A Stockholm court has found the four founders of The Pirate Bay - one of the world's top websites for illegal file-sharing - guilty of promoting copyright infringement. The four men were each sentenced to a year in prison.
