From Infogalactic: the planetary knowledge core
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- Armed conflicts and attacks
- Arts and culture
- U.S. artist LeRoy Neiman, one of the world's most commercially successful contemporary artists and an official painter of five Olympiads famed for his instant renditions of sporting action, dies in New York. (BBC)
- A Lucian Freud self-portrait painted on an egg shell is sold at auction to a private collector for £27,000. (BBC)
- Business and economics
- Vassilis Rapanos, chairman of Greece's largest private bank, is named finance minister. (RTE)
- Air France announces its decision to cut just under 10% of the total workforce (more than 5,000 jobs) by the end of next year in an attempt to restore profitability. (BBC)
- Moody's downgrades the credit rating of 15 major world banks: UK (The Royal Bank of Scotland, Barclays and HSBC), US (Bank of America, Citigroup, Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan), Rest of world (Credit Suisse, UBS, BNP Paribas, Crédit Agricole, Société Générale, Deutsche Bank, Royal Bank of Canada and Morgan Stanley). (CNBC) (BBC)
- Avianca, Copa Airlines and TACA Airlines join Star Alliance, becoming the 26th, 27th and 28th member airlines. This will prompt TAM Airlines to transfer to Oneworld in the foreseeable future (Fox Business)
- The US Dow Jones Industrial Average falls by 251 points on the back of weak economic data and poor news from the Eurozone. (CNBC)
- Disasters
- International relations
- Law and crime
- Politics and elections
- Sport
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