Europe's biggest economies agreed on Saturday to work together to support financial institutions, but without forming a joint bail-out fund. French President Nicolas Sarkozy hosted the meeting of the leaders of Britain, Germany and Italy in Paris.
BHP Billiton proposed 114 billion US dollars hostile bid for rival mining giant Rio Tinto has been cleared by Australia's competition watchdog.
Brazilians on Sunday will go to the polls to elect mayors and city councils in more than 5,500 municipal areas. It will be the last significant electoral test in South America's largest country before the presidential elections in 2010.
The United States economy received a 700 billion US dollars shot in the arm Friday, and Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands got a shot of assistance from rum, according to the US Caribbean territories press.
Argentine president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner called striking farmers to dialogue warning that there's much uncertainty in the world because of the international financial crisis and it could affect the Argentine model.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy distanced himself from a proposed 300 billion Euro European Union-wide bank rescue scheme that has divided EU governments on the eve of a meeting to be held in Paris.
On the eve of the crucial vote in the US House of Representatives, Latinamerican markets tumbled Thursday dragged by Wall Street (down 3.22%), with Brazil's Bovespa and Argentina's Merval suffering the largest losses.
Vice President Julio Cobos has become the most popular politician in Argentina strengthened by the weakness of President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner who has committed several major political errors and no longer speaks with him.
The British Government has said that it agrees with the Foreign Affairs Committee's (FAC) statement that Gibraltar's presence on the UN list of Non-Self Governing Territories is an anachronism.
Former Argentine president Raul Alfonsin, the first elected leader following the cataclysm of the 1982 Falklands/Malvinas conflict was honoured this week with the unveiling of a bust in Government House, Casa Rosada