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When you need something done, ask a busy person. It defies logic, but then so do Eric and Heather McAndrews of Bradley. The couple have barely a minute to spare with nine children and her in-home daycare center. Still, they are determined to make Christmas...
Tags: Latvia, Rīga, Child welfare, Orphanage, Orphan
Dermot O'Rourke, Keredern House, Naas, Co Kildare, for the repayment of €16.5m arising from unpaid loans advanced for a property company. The bank claims it was agreed that the loan would be repayable in full by August 27 last but Mr O'Rourke had failed...
Tags: negative equity, loans advanced, Latvia, Rīga, Refinancing, Debt, Mortgage, Credit, Loan, Business Finance
Moving Beyond Earth," Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum Two instruments used to repair the Hubble Space Telescope are the big draw in the National Air and Space Museum's "Moving Beyond Earth" gallery, which opened last week.
Tags: hyperbolic planes, Latvia, Rīga, Crochet, Hyperbolic geometry, Hyperbolic space, Institute For Figuring, Geometry, Daina Taimina, Year of birth missing
The European Union may have inched out of its sharpest recession since the global slump of the 1930s, but green shoots are not emerging uniformly across the 27-nation bloc's eastern member states. Contrasts are sharp among the 10 ex-communist countries...
Tags: Europe, Latvia, Lithuania, Slovakia, Baltics, percent compared, Czech Republic, Hungary, Belgium, Brussels, Recessions, Baltic states, Central and Eastern Europe, Eastern Bloc, European Union member states, Liberal democracies, Republics, Business Finance
Instead of Zatlers' independence day message, the president.lv site displayed a message reading, "Greetings on this 91st anniversary...In response, official technicians took the site down completely...Presidential staff told the Latvian news agency Leta...
Tags: Latvian, Latvia, Rīga, Baltic states, Latvian presidential election, Valdis Zatlers, LETA
Europhobes and Europhiles may rarely agree but they are conspiring – not for the first time – to foist a grand illusion on the European public. Tomorrow night, we are told, European Union leaders will meet in Brussels to choose the first president of...
Tags: Latvian Vaira Vike-Freiberga, Herman van Rompuy, European Council, Brussels, eu presidency, European Commission, European Union, Belgium, Prime minister, Van Rompuy I Government, Belgian government formation, Tony Blair, President of the European Council, European Parliament, Treaty of Lisbon, Politics of the European Union, Vaira Vᅣᆱᅣᄋe-Freiberga, Trimdon, David Miliband, Angela Merkel, Sedgefield, Politics, Gordon Brown, Miguel ᅢチngel Moratinos, Josᅢᄅ Luis Rodrᅢᆳguez Zapatero, Fredrik Reinfeldt, Latvian language, Latvia, Kosovo¬タモLatvia relations, Military history of Latvia during World War II, Latvian Legion
In the posters, the heart, which is meant to symbolize tourists leaving their hearts in Latvia, is shown wandering about the city’s significant sights. In one it is shown with an opera singer dressed up as a valkyrie (a reference to Richard Wagner’s two-year...
Tags: Latvian, Riga, Burkina Faso, Lon, Latvia
Swedbank has boosted the reserves of its Estonian unit to cover investments made in its branches in the struggling Baltic economies of Latvia and Lithuania, the Swedish bank said on Friday. It is boosting the unit's share capital by 400 million euros...
Tags: Swedbank AS Estonia, share capital, Latvian, Swedbank Group, Estonia, Tallinn, Northern Europe, Republics, Swedbank, Latvia, Baltic states, European Union member states, Liberal democracies, Business Finance
At the beginning of November was registered the first H1N1 death case in Stradina hospital in Riga. The women, that died, was undergoing the treatment at home for a week before she was placed in the hospital. Her condition doctors described as serious....
According to Latvian local television, the first reaction to Mazsalacas Meteorite hoax was State Fire and Rescue Department asking the police to initiate criminal proceedings against Tele2 (Swedish mobile phone operator). The internal structure...