UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, in a farewell address to global leaders yesterday, depicted a world divided by an unjust economy, contempt for human rights and a failure to make peace in the Middle East.
Britain was accused last week of failing to meet its obligations under the international landmine ban treaty.
The Federal Open Market Committee decided Wednesday to keep the key interest rate unchanged at 5.25% reflecting the reduced impetus from energy prices and contained inflation expectations.
Argentina's President Nestor Kirchner claimed before United Nations that Britain has been remissive in complying with the mandates of the General Assembly for the resumption of sovereignty talks on the Falkland Islands.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez called George W. Bush the devil himself at the U.N. General Assembly on Wednesday, saying the U.S. president had left the smell of sulphur hanging in the chamber from his appearance the previous day.
A vessel originally launched in Port Glasgow by The Queen is back in Greenock, before heading for a new life in the South Atlantic sailing around the Falkland Islands as a Fisheries Patrol, reports the British press.
China's soaring economy has been most positive for Latinamerican exports even when some specific sectors have suffered, claims a paper from the World Bank released in Singapore.
Chilean investigators warned this week that temperatures in Chile's coastal waters have increased by half a degree since August, setting the stage for the arrival of El Niño by the end of this year.
House construction in United States dropped 6% in August while producer prices rose by just 0.1% following on moderate energy costs.
The Ecuadorian presidential candidate leading public opinion polls said that if elected he will not extend a current agreement enabling United States to undertake counter drugs operations from a strategic air base in Ecuador.