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Former employees of privatized Olympic Airways stand behind barricades in front of Greece's General Accountants office in Athens March 10, 2010. REUTERS/Yiorgos Karahalis

Strike to paralyze Greece as anger at austerity builds

Reuters - Wed Mar 10, 6:59 PM

ATHENS (Reuters) - Angry public and private sector unions are expected to bring Greece to a standstill on Thursday in a second nationwide strike in as many weeks against tough government austerity plans.

  • Tin Oo, deputy leader of the detained pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy Party talks to journalists at the party's headquarters, in Yangon, Myanmar. Myanmar's military rulers have barred pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi from running in upcoming elections and may force her own political party to expel her under a new election law unveiled Wednesday. (THE ASSOCIATED PRESS/Khin Maung Win)
    New law bars Myanmar democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi from elections The Canadian Press - 46 minutes ago

    YANGON, Myanmar - A decision by Myanmar's military junta to bar pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi from upcoming elections drew sharp criticism from around the world, with one of the country's Southeast Asian allies Thursday calling it "a complete farce."

  • A Mumbai Fire Brigade employee tries on a helmet at the Colaba Fire station in Mumbai on March 8. In their plumed helmets, dark blue tunics with shiny brass buttons, trousers and rubber gumboots, Mumbai's firefighters cut a dash as they ride the streets on their ageing red engines. But the time has now come for them to hang up the uniforms and meet the demands of 21st century fire-fighting. Photo:Indranil Mukherjee/AFP
    Mumbai firefighters get new uniforms in 100 years AFP - 50 minutes ago

    MUMBAI (AFP) - In their plumed helmets, dark blue tunics with shiny brass buttons, trousers and rubber gumboots, Mumbai's firefighters cut a dash as they ride the streets on their ageing red engines.

  • In this photo released by Taronga Zoo, a young male Asian elephant calf born at 3:27 a.m. on Wednesday, March 10, 2010, is treated by zoo vets as his mother Porntip looks on at Taronga Zoo in Sydney, Australia. The calf, after being thought to be dead in the womb, was showing some early encouraging signs including attempting to suckle from its mother. (THE ASSOCIATED PRESS/Taronga Zoo, Ben Gibson)
    Newborn elephant feeding, standing after 9-day labour and surprise live birth at Sydney zoo The Canadian Press - 1 hour, 6 minutes ago

    SYDNEY, Australia - An elephant calf that was believed to have died during a nine-day labour is feeding itself and has earned the nickname "Mr. Shuffles" since learning to stand, Taronga Zoo officials said Thursday.

  • (From left) Air Asia CEO Lotus team Principle and Malaysian entrepreneur Tony Fernandes, Italian Formula One driver Jarno Trulli, Malaysian Formula One driver Fairuz Fauzy, and Finnish Formula One driver Heikki Kovalainen pose for the media as they unveil the new Lotus F1 car at the Royal Horticultural Halls in London, on February 12. Photo:Carl de Souza/AFP
    Lotus returns to F1 with dreams of world championship AFP - 1 hour, 8 minutes ago

    KUALA LUMPUR (AFP) - The iconic Lotus name returns to Formula One at the season-opening Bahrain Grand Prix this weekend, with modest ambitions for this year but big plans to seize a future world championship.

  • A row of newspapers report the story of Austria's Josef Fritzl who was jailed for life last year for holding his daughter as a sex slave for 24 years. Two women in Britain who were raped and abused by their father for over 25 years becoming pregnant 18 times, prompting comparisons with the Fritzl case, have won an apology from local authorities for failing to prevent the serial incest. Photo:William West/AFP
    'Britain's Fritzl' raped daughters for over 25yrs AFP - 2 hours, 1 minute ago

    LONDON (AFP) - Two British women who were raped and abused by their father for over 25 years, becoming pregnant 18 times, have won an apology from local authorities for failing to prevent the serial incest.


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