Day's Events
Meet Putin's softer side - his pet tiger cub Los Angeles Times Just weeks after he was shown shooting the big cats with a tranquiliser gun, the former KGB chief introduced a band of Russian journalists to the female - to be named Mashenka or Milashka - at a midnight press conference.
Wall Street swings widely as markets globally sell off over frozen credit markets Chicago Tribune Stock prices swung sharply on Wall Street, with investors still selling heavily but also scooping up stocks that have been decimated by more than a week of huge losses. The Dow Jones industrials, down nearly 700 points in the opening minutes of trading, recovered to an advance of more than 100 before turning lower again, and the other major indexes fluctuated sharply as well.
Entertainment
Lawrence and Sharon Tarantino Receive Wright Spirit Award ArtDaily.org Lawrence and Sharon Tarantino, principals of Tarantino Studios, have received a Wright Spirit Award in the private category from The Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy. The award, which “honors original or subsequent Wright homeowners who have rescued a building or have demonstrated outstanding stewardship in its conservation,” was presented on September 20 during the Conservancy’s 2008 conference in Western Pennsylvania.
Grace in Time, Mementos from the life of Grace Kelly go on show Moscow Times Two years ago, construction tycoon Vladimir Seminikhin was one of the first Russian art collectors to step forward and open up his own gallery space, The Yekaterina Foundation. Since then the gallery has become well known on the art circuit for holding quality exhibitions, ranging in style from Socialist Realism to Russian contemporary art. This week, a different type of exhibition opens to the public, showing clothes, films and photographs of Grace Kelly, movie star and princess. A larger version of the exhibition opened in Monaco last year and has since toured the world.
October 10, 2008
Deutsche Welle
"We should prepare for a rise of sea levels of one meter this century," said Joachim Schellnhuber, head of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), which advises the German government on environmental policy.
The melting rates of glaciers in the Himalayas and the Greenland ice-sheet have doubled or even tripled in recent years, due partly to increased greenhouse gas emissions by Chinese power stations, he said.
His findings used data which was unavailable to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) when it compiled its most recent global warming report.
In February 2007, in the first volume of a landmark report, the Nobel Prize-winning IPCC predicted the oceans would rise by between 18 and 59 centimeters by 2100.
October 10, 2008
Reuters
Producers of "Parmigiano Reggiano," the prized Italian Parmesan cheese grated over pasta or eaten in chunks, are pleading with the government to declare a state of crisis due to falling prices and soaring costs.
The price of the so-called "King of Cheese" has slid for four years in a row while the cost of raw materials like milk and energy has shot up, leaving 30 percent of producers on the verge of bankruptcy, says farm industry group CIA.
Comparing their woes to those of national airline Alitalia -- which the government rescued by rewriting bankruptcy law -- Parmesan producers want Rome to intervene to raise prices.
"The wholesale price of Parmiggiano Reggiano has now fallen below the cost of producing it," said Giorgio Apostoli of farmers group Coldiretti. "This is a prized product, there ought to be policies to safeguard those who produce it."
Politics
Palins Repeatedly Pressed Case Against Trooper New York Times The 2007 state fair was days away when Alaska’s public safety commissioner, Walt Monegan, took another call about one of his troopers, Michael Wooten. This time, the director of Gov. Sarah Palin’s Anchorage office was on the line.
PM urges Spain to reconsider nuclear moratorium Guardian Spain's socialist government should reconsider its moratorium on building more nuclear power plants, former socialist prime minister Felipe Gonzalez said on Thursday. Gonzalez, Spain's longest serving prime minister since its transition to democracy and a leading figure in the socialist party, was a staunch defender of Spain's moratorium on new nuclear capacity when he was in power from 1982 to 1996.
Sports
D-day for Domenech and France The South African Times For a team that has had precious little to laugh about recently this week’s night out at a popular Parisian comedy club will have come as welcome relief to Raymond Domenech’s France team. After France’s dismal Euro 2008 campaign when they returned home with one goal and one point, it looked as if Domenech’s time as coach was up.
German Bundesliga Seeks to Boost TV Revenues Abroad Deutsche Welle Die Welt daily, in a report made available ahead of publication on Thursday, Oct. 9, said the Deutsche Fussball Liga (DFL) aims to raise its income from television rights sold abroad from 20 million euros per year to 35 million euros over the next three years.
