Stories for May 11th 2004

Tuesday, May 11th 2004 - 21:00 UTC

Falklands famous Hotel for sale.

The Upland Goose hotel, which accommodated senior Argentine Military officers in 1982, and then welcomed British journalists who accompanied Mrs Thatcher's Task Force which liberated the Islands, is on the market.

Tuesday, May 11th 2004 - 21:00 UTC

Latinamerican markets collapse.

Latinamerican financial markets and currencies this Monday kept sliding as they did towards the end of last week given investors fears of a rise in United States interest rates.

Tuesday, May 11th 2004 - 21:00 UTC

Ammoniac explosion leaves 67 injured in Montevideo

The explosion early Monday of an ammoniac tank in a Korean jigger moored in Montevideo left 67 people hospitalized of which five in pharmacological comma, 19 in intensive care units and the rest with different degrees of intoxication.

Tuesday, May 11th 2004 - 21:00 UTC

Ships return from South Atlantic.

Two Royal Navy ships returned to Portsmouth within hours of each other after long deployments to the South Atlantic.

Tuesday, May 11th 2004 - 21:00 UTC

Malvinas veterans planning to charter a ship.

Argentine Malvinas veterans are thinking of chartering a vessel to travel to the Falkland Islands for the inauguration of the recently finished Memorial in Darwin, “if the Islanders won't allow us to charter a flight”, reports Clarín from Buenos Aires.