Stories for November 2007

Thursday, November 1st 2007 - 20:00 UTC
U.S. pilot who dropped Hiroshima bomb dies

Paul Tibbets, the pilot of the U.S. bomber that dropped the first atomic bomb on Japan on August 6, 1945, died on Thursday at age 92, a newspaper reported.
Thursday, November 1st 2007 - 20:00 UTC
Falklands' veterans at Liberation Monument SAMA dedication

The Falkland Islands will hold on Saturday evening 10 November 2007 a special remembrance service at the Liberation Monument in Stanley, in honour of the Liberation of the Islands 25 years ago, while reflecting on the struggle and sacrifice that made the achievement of those remarkable combined services possible.
Thursday, November 1st 2007 - 20:00 UTC
Scathing report on Chile's booming salmon industry

The environmental NGO Ecoceanos this week released a scathing report on Chile's 2.2 billion US dollars farmed salmon industry, the world's second largest after Norway.
Thursday, November 1st 2007 - 20:00 UTC
Uruguay's Botnia plant opening delayed on Spain's request

At the request of Spain Uruguay at last moment postponed the effective start-up of a 1.2 billion US dollars Finnish built pulp mill which has been at the heart of an acrimonious two-year controversy with neighboring Argentina.

U.S. pilot who dropped Hiroshima bomb dies