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Stories for April 19th 2008

• Saturday, April 19th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

  UK's second bank shareholders asked to inject cash

  

  Britain's second largest bank, Royal Bank of Scotland, is to ask shareholders for about £10 billion of extra cash to improve its financial position, reports BBC.

• Saturday, April 19th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

  Citigroup losses: when bad news becomes good news

  

  New York based Citigroup has suffered a second massive loss and is cutting 9,000 jobs as the credit crisis continues to take its toll on the biggest US bank.

• Saturday, April 19th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

  Choking Buenos Aires with no relief unless weather changes

  

  With no forecasts of change, smoke blanketing Buenos Aires and extending to neighboring Uruguay has thickened forcing local authorities to close airports, major highways and declare a yellow alert in many hospitals.

• Saturday, April 19th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

  “Puerto Deseado” surveying north Falklands' waters

  

  The Argentine Navy scientific research vessel Puerto Deseado set to sea last Thursday towards the Falkland Islands to conclude collecting data and double checking on previous information referred to the outer limits of the continental shelf, contemplated in the United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea, reports the Argentine press.