http://news.icm.ac.uk ICM Commercial & Business News | Breaking news, video, events, features, jobs and careers Fri, 21 Jan 2011 11:39:25 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The largest rocket ever launched from the West Coast blasted off Thursday with a classified defense satellite on board. NYT > Space & Cosmos http://news.icm.ac.uk/aerospace-and-defence/national-briefing-west-california-rocket-launches-with-secret-payload-2/14664/ Business sentiment of 7,000 companies confounds forecasts of a flat reading to hit highest level since post-reunification records began in January 1991 FT.com - World, Europe http://news.icm.ac.uk/europe/german-ifo-survey-hits-20-year-high/14663/ Time.com - Stardust's Valentine's Day meeting with comet Tempel 1 will be not only a scientific achievement but a clever administrative one, as NASA shows its ability to find multiple uses for its probes, flying two or more missions for the price of one Yahoo! News: Space/Astronomy http://news.icm.ac.uk/aerospace-and-defence/nasas-stardust-probe-readies-for-date-with-comet-tempel-1-timecom/14662/ What's new at HSE http://news.icm.ac.uk/construction/general-safety-notice-%e2%80%93-powered-perimeter-gates/14661/ Don't pack your bags just yet for Gliese 581g, the potentially habitable extrasolar planet that was announced in September. [More] Scientific American - Space http://news.icm.ac.uk/aerospace-and-defence/habitable-exoplanet-claim-gets-another-challenge/14658/ French Foreign Minister Michele Alliot-Marie is mobbed on arrival in Gaza by Palestinians angry about remarks she reportedly made about Gilad Shalit. BBC News - Europe http://news.icm.ac.uk/europe/french-minister-mobbed-in-gaza/14659/ Don't pack your bags just yet for Gliese 581g, the potentially habitable extrasolar planet that was announced in September. [More] Scientific American - Space http://news.icm.ac.uk/aerospace-and-defence/habitable-exoplanet-claim-gets-another-challenge/14660/ If a union clearly forged in such good faith can flounder, what hope is there for the rest of us?This week, Lost in Showbiz has been forced to drag itself to its laptop from the floor, where it has lain all week, prone and inconsolable. Like the rest of the country, it has ... http://news.icm.ac.uk/science/stop-all-the-clocks/14657/ The largest rocket ever launched from the West Coast blasted off Thursday with a classified defense satellite on board. NYT > Space & Cosmos http://news.icm.ac.uk/aerospace-and-defence/national-briefing-west-california-rocket-launches-with-secret-payload/14656/ The Mouchel board is “actively reviewing” Costain’s latest offer to buy the company. Construction News - Latest national news http://news.icm.ac.uk/construction/mouchel-actively-reviewing-costain-takeover-bid-2/14655/