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  • Saturday, May 2nd 2015 - 10:46 UTC

    “World closer than ever to wipe out polio, but no victory declaration yet”

    Latest global data show just 23 polio cases reported so far in 2015. That compares to a year-to-date total of 54 cases worldwide in 2014

    The world is closer than ever to being able to wipe out polio, international experts said, with zero cases of the crippling disease recorded across all of Africa this year and fewer than 25 globally.

  • Friday, May 1st 2015 - 07:06 UTC

    Chilean universities establish closer links with their UK counterparts

    The Newton-Picarte fund for science and innovation with a contribution of £12m from the UK, aims to support the economic development of Chile

    A group of the main Chilean universities travelled to the United Kingdom on an invitation from UK Universities, with the purpose of deepening links and greater opportunities for collaboration in areas such as research and innovation. This was a follow up mission to the 12 British universities that visited Chile last year to establish links with their counterparts.

  • Friday, May 1st 2015 - 06:22 UTC

    Euro zone scrapes out of deflation in April; unemployment remains above 11%

    Energy prices in the Euro zone fell by 5.8% in April - a slightly slower pace than the 6% decline recorded in March.

    Consumer prices in the Euro zone scraped out of deflation in April after four months, official data has shown, boosting hopes of economic recovery in Europe. The inflation rate in the 19 nations that use the Euro stood at 0% in April, up from a rate of -0.1% in March. Eurostat said that low energy costs were continuing to cut living costs.

  • Thursday, April 30th 2015 - 10:08 UTC

    Only 34 countries with plans to fight threat of antibiotic resistance, says WHO

    “This is the single greatest challenge in infectious diseases today,” said Keiji Fukuda, the WHO's assistant director-general for health security

    Only 34 countries have national plans to fight the global threat of antibiotic resistance, meaning few are prepared to tackle “superbug” infections which put even basic healthcare at risk, the WHO has said. In a survey of government plans to tackle the issue, the World Health Organization said only a quarter of the 133 countries that responded were addressing the problem.

  • Thursday, April 30th 2015 - 07:46 UTC

    “Best brains of Gibraltar” will work together in a Consultative Council

    “This is a seminal piece of legislation; I believe that the UK Privy Council model is a good one for us to follow in establishing such a body” said CM Picardo

    The ‘best brains in Gibraltar’ will work together for the common good under plans for a proposed Gibraltar Consultative Council. The aim is to set up a permanent forum that will work along the same lines as the UK’s Privy Council, providing non-partisan advice to the Chief Minister of the day on issues of national importance, reports the Gibraltar Chronicle.

  • Thursday, April 30th 2015 - 07:29 UTC

    Beware: China announces plan to seven-fold increase Antarctic krill catches

    “We will increase our investment in the Antarctic area in terms of krill fishing,” said Liu Shenli, from China National Agricultural Development Group

    Conservation groups and scientists worry that China’s push to boost its harvest of krill -- a shrimp-like creature used for aquaculture feed and human supplements -- may leave Antarctica’s whales, seals and penguins struggling to survive. China’s leaders say they want a seven-fold increase in krill production, according to a recent report in the state-owned China Daily newspaper.

  • Wednesday, April 29th 2015 - 09:33 UTC

    Kathmandu is estimated to have moved 3 meters to the south, because of Nepal tremor

    An area of about 150 kilometers long and 50 km wide in a fault running underneath the Kathmandu valley, gave in after decades of pressure

    The tremor which struck Nepal on Saturday, April 25, killing more than 5,500 people so far, may have caused a land area around the capital Kathmandu to budge by several meters, experts say. The estimate is about 3 meters southward, according to initial analysis of seismological data obtained from sound waves which travel through Earth after an earthquake, said University of Cambridge tectonics expert James Jackson.

  • Wednesday, April 29th 2015 - 08:40 UTC

    “Being Argentine, they thought I would call myself Jesus II” and not Francis

    President Correa met on Tuesday with the Pope and UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon

    After meeting Pope Francis at the Vatican on Tuesday, the president of Ecuador, Rafael Correa, told his two million Twitter followers that the pontiff had spoken enthusiastically about his coming visit to the country and had even told him a self-deprecating joke about the Argentines.

  • Wednesday, April 29th 2015 - 08:24 UTC

    Australia and Brazil angry at Indonesia for execution of drug-traffickers

    “We respect Indonesia's sovereignty but we do deplore what's been done and this cannot be simply business as usual” said Australian PM Tony Abbott

    An Indonesian firing squad executed eight convicted drug-traffickers from several countries on Tuesday, prompting Australia to recall its envoy to Jakarta and bringing an angry reaction from Brazil.

  • Wednesday, April 29th 2015 - 08:12 UTC

    Falklands/Malvinas: Unasur message in support of Argentina's claims

    The letter from Samper to Timerman is dated 5 April but was only released on Tuesday both in Quito and Argentina

    Unasur and Argentina made public on Tuesday a letter dated last 5 April in which the regional group' Secretary General and former Colombian president Ernesto Samper, strongly supports Argentina's sovereignty claims over the Falklands/Malvinas and other South Atlantic Islands plus the adjoining maritime spaces.