Stories for March 13th 2006
Health and Vitality. The Commonwealth Challenge
“A message from Her Majesty The Queen Head of the Commonwealth”
There are few feelings more satisfying than waking to a new day with a sense of wellbeing. Good health is a
precious gift.
Queen arrives in Australia ahead of Commonwealth Games.
The Queen arrived in Australia on Sunday as organisers and athletes were busily putting the finishing touches to their preparations for the 18th Commonwealth Games.
Fox's call for action supported by Falklands councillor.
British Shadow Defence Secretary, Liam Fox, has announced that he will be asking Defence Secretary, John Reid, whether the British government proposes any action to prevent the harassment of Falkland Islands fishing vessels by Argentinean naval ships.
President Uribe posted for an easy re-election next May
The six coalition parties which support Colombian president Alvaro Uribe managed a comfortable majority in Sundays' congressional elections which forecasts a significant boost for the president's re-election bid next May and his promised fiscal and political reforms in his second four year mandate.
Antarctica loosing 36 cubic miles of ice annually
University of Colorado at Boulder researchers have used data from a pair of NASA satellites orbiting Earth in tandem to determine that the Antarctic ice sheet, which harbours 90% of Earth's ice, has lost significant mass in recent years.
“Good Ilex season” reports Argentine press
Jiggers operating in Argentina's EEZ are currently reporting significant Illex squid catches, with Puerto Deseado in Santa Cruz province, the main unloading port reports Diario de Madryn.
Brazilian Army outfoxed by favelas' drug dealers
The Brazilian Army withdrew Monday from several Rio de Janeiro favelas, shantytowns, after having failed in recovering sophisticated weapons stolen from the Armed Forces by drug dealers.
Brazil “exported” a billion US dollars in football players
Between 1994 and 2005 Brazil exported football players to foreign clubs valued in over a billion US dollars reported the Sunday edition of O Estado de Sao Paulo, one of Brazil's main newspapers.
Peru's next president could be a nationalist populist
Peruvian radical populist presidential candidate Ollanta Humala appears neck to neck with conservative candidate Lourdes Flores in the run up to April 9 presidential election, according to the latest public opinion poll.
Armored presidential airliner for Fidel Castro
Cuba is buying one of Russia's most up-to-date airliners, carefully crafted for President Fidel Castro's personal comfort. The purchase is part of an initial Cuban order for two brand new Ilyushin planes worth 110 million U S dollars which Russian officials say is a shot in the arm for their struggling airline industry.
