Stories for November 5th 2006
Largest container vessel made her fist trip
A ship said to be the world's largest container vessel has arrived in a Suffolk port to unload 45,000 tonnes of Christmas goods from China.
Panama wins backing for UN seat
The UN Latin American and Caribbean Group has endorsed Panama to take its non-permanent seat on the Security Council, diplomats said.
President Fox slams U.S. migration policy
Mexico's president criticized Washington's plans to build a fence along the nations' shared border during a summit on migration Saturday in Ururugay
Nicaragua votes today
Ortega, 60, who spent nearly a decade fighting US-backed Contra rebels, is the frontrunner in the race with four other candidates.
Saddam Hussein sentenced to death. Worldwide reactions.
Former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein has been sentenced to death by hanging.
St. Helena flights now expected in 2011/12
Following concerns raised by consortia tendering for the construction of an airport on British Overseas Territory St Helena in the mid Atlantic, the building process has been delayed “with flights commencing 2011/12”.
UK Army Ad is filmed in Chile
Cash-strapped military bosses “borrowed” aircraft from South America to make TV adverts for the British Army.
Chilean skies open to foreign airlines
Chilean Sky Airlines effort to thwart the advance of competing Aerolineas del Sur suffered a major defeat this week when a Santiago court ruled that Aerolineas has the right to fly in and operate out of Chile.
Enhanced TriStars will remain fit into next decade
Royal Air Force Lockheed TriStar some of which for years covered the air bridge to the Falkland Islands will be undergoing flight management and communications systems improvements following the award of a £22 million contract to Marshall of Cambridge Aerospace.
US Governors' elections, a glimpse of 2008
Next Tuesday's mid term elections in United States are not only a close fight for control of Congress with Democrats better placed than the battered Republicans but will also see voters in 36 of the 50 states choose governors.
