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(...) Barroso has turned into a tragicomic figure. Hardly anyone thinks highly of him anymore. In fact, many are now criticizing Barroso and spreading malicious gossip about his desperate attempts to solicit the support of his old backers. One of them, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who once helped him secure the appointment, now derides him for calling her so often. Staff members in the office of Swedish Minister for European Affairs Cecilia Malmström have said similarly deprecating things about Barroso.
(...) Ban Ki-moon, the former South Korean foreign minister, has been UN secretary general for the past two-and-a-half years. At the organization's New York headquarters, and elsewhere, he is seen as a disappointment, and as the wrong man to assume a prominent role and lead the global community at a time when the world's political axis is shifting from America to Asia. It has always been said that Ban is more interested in being secretary than general, which is precisely what he is today.
(...) The man who will be applauded next Friday as the new secretary general of the alliance, former Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen, 56, is a conservative politician who promoted an anti-immigration policy in an otherwise liberal country. He was the lowest common denominator that everyone could agree on. No one seems to be troubled by the fact that Rasmussen, an economist, is not a military expert.
(...) De acordo com os dados apresentados, em 2007 havia 3 bancos entre as 5 empresas com mais gastos em I&D em Portugal (em 2005 havia apenas 1). O sistema financeiro representa hoje 14% dos gastos em I&D empresarial (apenas 5% em 2005), quase tanto como o total da indústria transformadora. Como explicá-lo?
É relativamente simples: primeiro, o governo reintroduziu o sistema de incentivos à I&D empresarial (SIFIDE), um dispositivo fiscal que permite às empresas deduzir aquele tipo de despesas no imposto a pagar (se isto levou a que muitas empresas passassem a declarar despesas de I&D que já realizavam, levou a que muitas outras se esforçassem por mascarar de I&D despesas com pouco de inovador - e é sabido que os bancos são bons em gestão fiscal); segundo, o conjunto de despesas qualificáveis enquanto I&D é suficiente abrangente para incluir «a análise de risco financeiro, os modelos de risco de crédito e seguros e técnicas relativas ao consumidor»; finalmente, a vontade de mostrar resultados sobre a transformação tecnológica do país muito provavelmente terá levado as autoridades fiscais a adoptar critérios pouco exigentes no controlo das declarações de despesas em I&D por parte das empresas.
O zeppelin, preparado pelo PND para sobrevoar o Chão da Lagoa, na Madeira, foi hoje abatido a tiro, quando estava a ser preparada a sua partida a mil metros de distância da festa do PSD.
Com as inscrições “PND voa mais alto” e “olho à ladroagem” nas duas faces, o dirigível rígido foi perfurado por quatro balas de carabina antes de atravessar o planalto. No local, durante o enchimento de gás não pressurizado para prover a elevação, os dirigentes do PND foram interceptados por agentes policiais e guardas florestais que, face à exibição das prévias autorizações pelos dirigentes da Nova Democracia, não conseguiram impedir a elevação do zeppelin, pouco depois inviabilizada pelos tiros.
The President of Turkmenistan has opened a new cancer hospital in the Central Asian country by performing the clinic's first operation himself.
Kurbanguly Berdymukhamedov, a trained dentist, reportedly removed a benign tumour from behind a patient's ear.
He was assisted during the operation by German and local doctors, state-controlled media report.
The main toilet has broken down on the International Space Station (ISS), currently home to a record 13 astronauts, Nasa said.
Mission Control told the crew to hang an "out of service" sign until the toilet can be fixed.
The crew of the shuttle Endeavour is confined to using the craft's loo. ISS residents are using a back-up toilet in the Russian part of the station.
If repairs fails, Apollo-era urine collection bags are on hand, Nasa said.
Professional snipers have been brought in to guard a vulnerable colony of penguins in Australia.
The deployment follows the mysterious deaths of nine of the flightless birds over the last two weeks.
The mutilated bodies of the animals, known as fairy penguins, were found in a national park near Sydney harbour.
The main suspects are dogs and foxes. At 40cm tall, the world's smallest penguin species is clearly no match for such aggressive enemies.
O relatório da OCDE, feito a pedido do Ministério da Educação, defende a necessidade de alteração no sistema de avaliação dos professores em Portugal. A organização estudou o modelo de avaliação de desempenho dos professores, adoptado pelo Governo, considerando que este causa focos de tensão e deve funcionar como futura base de trabalho.
No entanto, a OCDE defende que a avaliação de professores deve continuar, mas que as preocupações e dificuldades dos professores devem ser tidas em conta. O relatório revela que existem vários elementos problemáticos no actual modelo de avaliação e, por isso, são necessários ajustamentos.
A man inadvertently blew up his apartment while he was attempting to repair a leaky airbed. The 45-year-old, who lives in the western German city of Düsseldorf, saw his DIY attempt end in disaster on Tuesday, leaving both him and a three-year-old girl with burns.
The man had applied tire repair solvent to a hole in the mattress and left it overnight. When he went to inflate it the next day, a spark from the electric air pump ignited it, the local fire brigade told reporters.
The blast was so strong that it pushed the living-room wall into the building's stairwell and caused extensive damage to the apartment, blowing out windows and wrecking furniture.
Citizens of Serbia, Macedonia and Montenegro should be allowed to travel to most EU nations without visas, the European Commission has proposed.
"This is a historic moment in our relations with countries of the Western Balkans," said EU Justice and Home Affairs Commissioner Jacques Barrot.
The changes, if approved by all 27 EU members and the parliament, would apply from 1 January 2010.
The Hamburg Finance Court must now decide whether Soda-Club devices made in Maale Adumim can be imported into the European Union duty-free, like all other Israeli industrial products. Brussels doesn't want the company's products to fall into this category because they are manufactured in Israeli settlements located in the occupied territories.
The real question revolves around whether Maale Adumim is part of Israel. The EU has not formally recognized Israel's claim to Maale Adumim and other settlements. But, in practice, it has done little to stand in the way of Israeli settlement activities.
But that could now change. The Hamburg court has consulted with the European Court of Justice about obtaining a "preliminary ruling" that would settle the issue in a binding manner for all 27 EU member states. The decision is expected to come down in the coming months. If the court decides that a customs duty can be assessed, it will be tantamount to handing down a decision against Israel's settlement policy. The delicate question at hand is whether Germany and the EU should accept how Israel handles the occupied territories or should wield their sharpest sword -- economic sanctions.
MOSCOW, July 13 (RIA Novosti) - The tradition of the bride throwing the wedding bouquet led to a plane crash in Livorno on Italy's western coast, Corriere della Sera said.
The centuries old tradition of the bride throwing the wedding bouquet to a group of single women turned into a tragedy after the happy couple hired a light plane in an effort to add some novelty to the custom.
The light aircraft was supposed to fly over a line of single women and a passenger on the aircraft, Isidoro Pensieri, was supposed to throw the bouquet out. However it all went horribly wrong when the bouquet was sucked into the plane's engine, which caught fire and exploded.
The aircraft went into a nosedive and hit a nearby hostel where some 50 people were accommodated. Fortunately no one was hurt.
A man has died after falling into a vat of hot chocolate at a factory in the US state of New Jersey.
Vincent Smith Jr, 29, was emptying pieces of solid chocolate into the melting vat when he slipped from a platform into the 2.5m (8ft) deep unit.
A spokesman for the local prosecutor's office said the man appeared to have died instantly from a blow to his head by a paddle mixing the chocolate.
His colleagues at the factory tried to shut down the mixer, but were too late.
A cerveja pode ser uma eficaz bebida re-hidratante após a prática de exercício físico, revela um estudo científico realizado pela universidade de Barcelona, citado pela agência Lusa.
«A alta presença de elementos antioxidantes» ajuda a reduzir os efeitos produzidos pelo exercício físico, como a fadiga ou a falta de ar, defende o professor de Fisiologia do Exercício, Joan Ramón Barbany na apresentação do estudo «A Idoneidade da Cerveja na Dieta Equilibrada dos Desportistas».
«A cerveja tem uma alta presença de elementos oxidantes, derivados da sua origem vegetal, que combatem a presença de radicais livres» que ajudam a reduzir os efeitos do exercício físico, «como as dores musculares ou a fadiga». Contém componentes vitamínicos, minerais e hidratos de carbono, pelo que a sua ingestão em «doses moderadas» por adultos pode desempenhar um papel na «recuperação do metabolismo normal e imunológico dos desportistas depois do exercício físico», adianta.
Jamie Waylett, 19, who plays bully Vincent Crabbe in the film series, allegedly grew 10 cannabis plants at his home in Kilburn, north London.
(...) He has been in all the Harry Potter films as the right-hand man to character Draco Malfoy.
A ideia, de acordo com a agência Efe, é justificada pela necessidade de praticar preços ainda mais baixos e aumentar as vendas, embora a promoção só possa ser aplicável em viagens com duração inferior a 90 minutos.
O director de comunicação da empresa, Stepgen McNamara, referiu que a Ryanair já abordou a questão com a Boeing para poder viabilizar o projecto.
Algo que passaria pela necessidade de modificar a parte traseira dos aviões para criar uma zona de «assentos verticais», semelhantes aos bancos de um balcão de um bar.
A U.S. Airways plane en route to Los Angeles was forced to land at an airport in Albuquerque after a passenger stripped off his clothes and began running around the plane naked, U.S. media said.
"He removed his clothing during the flight and refused to put them back on," the Los Angeles Times quoted FBI spokesman Darrin Jones as saying.