La Serna del Monte, Spain - In the night of August 14, 1936, Jose, Juan, Nicolas and Francisco Gutierrez were asleep in their parents' house in La Serna del Monte, a village north of Madrid.
Spain was through living turbulent times. A month earlier, a military uprising instigated by right-wing General Francisco Franco against the leftist republican government had unleashed a civil war.
Buenos Aires - Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said it best for how much of Latin America holds sees the US presidential elections on November 4.
He was upbeat about a victory for centre-left Democrat Barack Obama, the 47-year-old US senator.
"This (financial) crisis, among other benefits it will cause, will get Obama elected as president of the United States. It will get a black man elected, which is no small matter," Lula said bluntly.
San Francisco - Microsoft on Thursday reported first-quarter results that exceeded analysts' expectations, with profits up 2 per cent to 4.37 billion dollars.
Sales rose 9.4 percent to 15.1 billion dollars in the quarter that ended September 30, the company said in a statement, spurred by the demand for Office programmes and the Xbox video game console.
The world's largest software maker said sales for the full fiscal year, ending June 30, 2009, would be between 64.9 billion dollars to 66.4 billion dollars.
Brasilia - Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Thursday called for "urgent" reform in international financial institutions as the ongoing credit crisis has put developing countries at risk.
"The progress that our countries have made is at risk. The global financial crisis can affect developing countries in an unfair and particularly harsh way," he said.
La Serna del Monte, Spain - In the night of August 14, 1936, Jose, Juan, Nicolas and Francisco Gutierrez were asleep in their parents' house in La Serna del Monte, a village north of Madrid.
Buenos Aires - Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said it best for how much of Latin America holds sees the US presidential elections on November 4.
Tokyo - Japan markets continued their losing streak Friday with the key Nikkei index dropping nearly 3 per cent.
San Francisco - Microsoft on Thursday reported first-quarter results that exceeded analysts' expectations, with profits up 2 per cent to 4.37 billion dollars.
Brasilia - Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Thursday called for "urgent" reform in international financial institutions as the ongoing credit crisis has put developing countries at risk.
