News Headlines - 19 March 2015
▽EU moves towards extending Russia sanctions - FT.com
EU leaders took the first step towards extending their sweeping economic sanctions against Russia on Thursday night, agreeing that the measures would be maintained unless last month’s ceasefire agreement reached in Minsk was fully implemented by Moscow.
▽Two killed and more than 10 injured in Swedish pub shooting | World news | The Guardian
Two men have been killed and more than 10 wounded after gunmen opened fire in a pub, in a suspected gang-related attack in the Swedish city of Gothenburg, police have said.
▽Japan's Sharp to cut 6,000 jobs in global restructuring: source | Reuters
Japan's loss-making Sharp Corp intends to cut 12 percent of its workforce in a global restructuring expected to cost more than $1.7 billion, a person familiar with the plan said on Thursday.
Watch out Apple: Swiss company Tag Heuer is developing its own smartwatch with tech rivals Google and Intel... Tag Heuer's version is expected to be ready at the end of the year. The companies did not say what it will look like or how much it will cost, but watches from the luxury timepiece maker typically cost $1,000 and up.
We like to think of ourselves as being different from our European neighbours.
But the English owe a lot to the French and a fair amount to the Germans – at least as far as our genes are concerned.
