Stories for 2007

Friday, October 12th 2007 - 21:00 UTC
Gore and U.N. climate panel win Nobel Peace Prize

Former US vice president Al Gore has shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
Friday, October 12th 2007 - 21:00 UTC
China strikes huge gas deposit in northwest region

China's largest oil and gas company PetroChina has discovered a major gas field in the nation's northwest Xinjiang region, state media reported this week. The field, known as Dabei III, boasts an estimated reserve of up to 130 billion cubic meters reports the China Daily newspaper.
Friday, October 12th 2007 - 21:00 UTC
Fed anticipates tougher regulations for mortgage market

Federal Reserve governor Randall Kroszner said this week that the central bank was forced to cut its benchmark interest rate in September because earlier attempts to increase liquidity did not help enough.
Friday, October 12th 2007 - 21:00 UTC
“This is New York” campaign targets 50 m. tourists by 2015

Tourists love New York and lots of them visit the Big Apple but the city says that's not enough so it is spending big money on a new ad campaign. The goal is to attract 50 million tourists a year by 2015 with the slogan “This is New York”.
Friday, October 12th 2007 - 21:00 UTC
Forty new aircrafts, and four A380, for Aerolineas Argentinas

Grupo Marsans the largest tourism and transport group in Spain announced this week it has ordered 73 Airbus aircraft, including four new A380 “Superjumbo”, for its Air Comet and Aerolineas Argentinas fleets.
Friday, October 12th 2007 - 21:00 UTC
Colombia gas-links with Venezuela and joins Bank of the South

Colombia formally requested to join the regional multilateral development bank known as the Bank of the South. President Alvaro Uribe made the announcement on Friday during the inauguration of a gas pipeline which links Guajira in northern Colombia with Venezuela's Lake Maracaibo area.
Friday, October 12th 2007 - 21:00 UTC
FAO warns about global advance of animal diseases

The recent arrival of the bluetongue virus in the United Kingdom indicates again that animal diseases are advancing globally and countries will have to invest more in surveillance and control measures, warned FAO.
Friday, October 12th 2007 - 21:00 UTC
US dollar in Chilean market keeps sliding and closer to $ 490

With the US dollar operating in the Chilean Money exchange market below the 500 pesos benchmark, and still sliding, the Chilean Central Bank decision to leave the basic rate unchanged came as a relief.
Friday, October 12th 2007 - 21:00 UTC
Chavez bans Spanish pop singer from government stadium

A popular Spanish singer has been banned from performing in a Caracas stadium over remarks he made about Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. Higher Education Minister Luis Acuña accused Alejandro Sanz of criticizing Chavez three years ago while touring Venezuela.
Friday, October 12th 2007 - 21:00 UTC
Nine million children in Latinamerica malnourished

FAO called Friday on Latinamerican governments to fight infant malnutrition in the region which affects nine million children in the region which are born condemned to exclusion,