World
DUBLIN - THE collapse of the housing bubble in the US is mutating into a global phenomenon, with real estate prices swooning from the Irish countryside and the Spanish coast to Baltic seaports and even parts of northern India.
Britain: Halifax, a mortgage lender, said recently that March house prices had dropped 2.5 per cent, the sharpest fall in nearly 16 years.
SYDNEY - BOSSES will be able to spy on the e-mail messages of their workers without consent under new anti-terror laws being considered in Australia, Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard said yesterday.
