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Stories for April 17th 2001

• Tuesday, April 17th 2001 - 21:00 UTC

  Too few Falklands female reindeer

  The reindeers transported from South Georgia to the Falkland Islands at a cost of £154,000 (230-thousand dollars) will not reproduce as rapidly as hoped as too few of them are females.

• Tuesday, April 17th 2001 - 21:00 UTC

  Foot-and-Mouth forces UK Commandos to train in United States

  British Royal Marines are being forced to utilise United States training areas because their own traditional training grounds on Dartmoor , Southern England, have been closed by restrictions to combat the foot-and-mouth disease epidemic among farm animals.

• Tuesday, April 17th 2001 - 21:00 UTC

  FIDF building over budget ? unfair comment

• Tuesday, April 17th 2001 - 21:00 UTC

  Peso as strong as the Euro and the dollar

  Argentina's super Economy minister Domingo Cavallo has once again shaken financial markets with his latest initiative: changing the current convertibility system of one Argentine peso-one US dollar, by making it extensive to one Euro.