The United States economy expanded 5.3% in the first quarter of 2006, its fastest growth rate in two-and-a-half years, according to a release this week from the US Department of Commerce.
Researchers at the Universidad Austral de Chile (Uach) are closer to reaching their goal of cloning the first cow in Chile. Scientists expect Chile's first bovine clone to be born December 2006.
A powerful earthquake flattened buildings in central Indonesia, killing at least 3.000 people and injuring thousands more in the country's worst disaster since the 2004 tsunami.
Spain will start building eight military patrol boats for Venezuela under a long-awaited deal that was signed Friday and has angered the United States.
Countries agreed Friday on a wide range of recommendations to promote sustainable fishing on the high seas as a conference to review the implementation of a landmark treaty on managing and conserving valuable fish stocks concluded at United Nations Headquarters in New York.
There is something slightly forlorn about the French president, Jacques Chirac's four day visit to South America. Chirac, who is due to land in Santiago later today, Friday, is coming into the last year of his second presidential term.
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Unexpected increases in investment revenue and taxation have both contributed to a better than expected year for the finances of the Falkland Islands Government.
Venezuela signed Wednesday in Buenos Aires the protocol establishing the full incorporation to South America's main trade block Mercosur.
The Secretary General of the Organisation of American States Jose Miguel Insulza admitted tensions inside Mercosur but denied Latinamerican countries are increasingly divided over ideology.