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Stories for February 17th 2006

• Friday, February 17th 2006 - 20:00 UTC

  Penguin News Update.

  Headlines:
  Smoke-free debate begins; On your marks, get set... bounce! Low take up of illex licences; Three ships this week; First cross-sound ferry today.

• Friday, February 17th 2006 - 20:00 UTC

  Luxury ocean liner secrets revealed

  A museum, a 6,000-book library and a conservatory will feature on Cunard's new 90,000-tonne liner Queen Victoria, it has been revealed.

• Friday, February 17th 2006 - 20:00 UTC

  Venezuela puts pressure on Opec to cut its output

  The next meeting of oil ministers from the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries may be more than two weeks away but Venezuela has fired the first salvo. It has stated that the oil cartel should cut its output by up to 1m barrels a day.

• Friday, February 17th 2006 - 20:00 UTC

  Greenland ice-loss doubles in past decade

  The loss of ice from Greenland doubled between 1996 and 2005, as its glaciers flowed faster into the ocean in response to a generally warmer climate, according to a NASA/University of Kansas study in the journal Science.

• Friday, February 17th 2006 - 20:00 UTC

  Malvinas veterans win compensations claim

  An Argentine court ruled that a group of Malvinas war veterans, all belonging to the conscripts class 1962 have the right to collect retroactively from April 2, 1982, pensions and compensations which had since been denied, reported the Buenos Aires press.