Today in History for December 22nd Uprising topples Romania's Nicolae Ceausescu; Richard Reid tries ...

Published on Dec 21, 2011 by AssociatedPress

Uprising topples Romania's Nicolae Ceausescu; Richard Reid tries to set off explosives in his shoes on an American Airlines flight from Paris to Miami; French army officer Alfred Dreyfus is convicted of treason; Pop star Madonna marries film director

Japan - Tokyo Olympus buildings raided in accounting scandal that hid 1.3 billion euros of losses from shareholders

Published on Dec 21, 2011 by Euronews

http://www.euronews.net/ Dozens of investigators have raided buildings belonging to the Japanese company Olympus in Tokyo.

Their inquiry revolves around an accounting scandal that hid 1.3 billion euros of losses from shareholders and customers over the last two decades.

Investigators also headed to the luxury development where a former company president lives.

The inquiry is a joint effort by Tokyo's police, prosecutors and financial regulators.

Spain - Spanish prime minister Mariano Rajoy has chosen mostly close advisers to make up his cabinet

Published on Dec 21, 2011 by Euronews

http://www.euronews.net/ The new Spanish prime minister has chosen mostly close advisers to make up his cabinet, which has the unenviable task of reviving a floundering economy and keeping the country solvent.

Mariano Rajoy has already promised deep spending cuts across government departments to cut the deficit.

His enforcer will be Luis de Guindos at the head of the economy ministry. A former executive at the ruined bank Lehman Brothers, he will be seeking to sell more austerity to a country where one in five is jobless.

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