french cosmetics company l'oreal has been at the center of the attention this summer. profits are up. demand for mascara was reportedly very strong. the company said it is managing to cut costs, and sales of luxury items were also stronger. loral says it expects profit growth to continue in the second half. >> thanks. most of the survivors of monday's bus hostage drama in manila have flown home to hong kong, along with the bodies of the eight tourists who did not make it. ceremony was held with victims' families and survivors. there is growing anger about the botched rescue operation, and a policemen demanding his job back, hijack the bus on monday, shooting se of the passengers, fore a liceniperkied him. engineers in chile pldn to start drilling a 700-meter-deep shaft to rescue miners trapped for three weeks. the drill large enough has not arrived at the copper and gold mine. relatives desperate for contact are writing letters to the minors. the men have not yet been told that they might be trapped underground for up to four months. >> the extra-large drill will bore

. -- l'oreal. name and age will play no part in the applicant procedure. they want fresh faces. it is still unclear how other patients can best be rendered anonymous. employers' associations are already criticizing the scheme, claiming it is not viable. >> of a want to go about this with the kind of thoroughness we're used to in germany, then we would needo bring an tsidservice provider to make the applications anonymous. and that means extra cost. also, so much information would have to be removed from the application forms to make them óeally anonymous, like school grades are language skills, which could point to certain eticities. that would cost a lot of time, ever, and money. >> the employer association also says that parents can be important when recruiting. for example, for these ads. in many cases, photographs would give an impression of how committed an applicant is to the job, liing professional qualifications is often not enough. >> especially when small companies are recruiting. they're looking for someone who will have the right personality to fit into the team. qua

on the dax has swung into the black composite of corporate news corp cosmetics giant l'oreal has posted a twenty one percent jump in first half net profit pushing its shares four percent higher but the world's largest whiskey producer has slumped of one of the hoff percent in london after worse than expected income the south's. profits at russia's x. five retail group plummeted eighty one percent year on year in the second quarter to twenty five million dollars worse than analysts forecast the country's biggest grocer by sales took a seventy two million dollar hit on foreign exchange due to significant ruble depreciation but the headline figure only tells part of the story ex-wife was one of the first retailers to cut prices during the downturn to win a budget conscious customers it says it's now reaping some of the benefits of the recovery and margins are improving. russia's second largest airline trans aero increased passenger traffic by more than a bird in the first seven months of the year compared to the same period last year cargo turnover also jumped helping lift sales revenue to

and swung into the black in the last hour on positive corporate news because metals joined l'oreal posted a twenty one percent jump in first half net pushing its shares over four percent higher but the world's largest whiskey producer slumped over two percent of the worse than expected in congress or. russia's biggest banks burbank has reported a ten fold rise in first half earnings to just under two point one billion dollars the figures are slightly below. provision for bad loans fill nearly fifty percent compared to the first half of two thousand and nine when a state run company was feeling the force of the financial crisis but net profit in the second quarter was nearly fifty percent below the first three months of the year. russia second largest airline transit increased passenger traffic by more than a third for the seven months to july compared to the same period last year coco turnover also jumped. revenues two hundred million dollars trans aros net profit increased five to. times to over twenty six million that's by russian accounting standards. the thing with the industry russia