Stories for 2008

Sunday, February 17th 2008 - 21:00 UTC
Global warming could return predators to Antarctic waters

Marine life in Antarctica will be at risk from an invasion of sharks, crabs and other predators if global warming continues, scientists warn. Crabs are poised to return to the Antarctic shallows, threatening creatures such as giant sea spiders and floppy ribbon worms, says a UK-US team.
Sunday, February 17th 2008 - 21:00 UTC
Venezuela helped by Uruguay plans Antarctic base

Venezuelan scientists and military officers set out Friday on their country's first expedition to Antarctica, leaving Friday from Uruguay's capital Montevideo aboard the Uruguayan naval research ship “Oyarbide”.
Saturday, February 16th 2008 - 20:00 UTC
Petrobras & Pemex consider deepwater G. of Mexico project

Brazil's government owned oil and gas corporation Petrobras has invited Mexico's oil monopoly Pemex to join it as a minority partner in a deepwater exploration project on the US side of the Gulf of Mexico revealed Samir Awad Petrobras executive manager for the Americas, Africa and Eurasia.
Saturday, February 16th 2008 - 20:00 UTC
Identity theft, main US consumer fraud for 7 years running

Identity theft for the seventh year in a row topped in 2007 the list of consumer fraud complaints recorded by the United States Federal Trade Commission, FTC. The list contained in the publication “Consumer Fraud and Identity Theft Complaint Data January-December 2007,” showed that of 813,899 total complaints received in 2007, 258,427, or 32% were related to identity theft.
Friday, February 15th 2008 - 20:00 UTC
Feb 21 part of YPF shares back under Argentine control

Spain's Repsol YPF announced Thursday that the sale of 14.9% of its affiliate in Argentina to that country's businessman Enrique Eskenazi will become effective next February 21.
Friday, February 15th 2008 - 20:00 UTC
Fed admits outlook for US economy “has worsened”

United States Federal Reserve chief Ben Bernanke told Congress on Thursday that the US economic outlook had deteriorated but pointed out that the Fed will “act in a timely manner”.
Friday, February 15th 2008 - 20:00 UTC
Argentine-Brazilian group after Esso assets in Mercosur

Argentine group Eurnekian and Brazilian investment fund GP Investimentos have tied up to launch an offer to buy the Latin American Esso downstream assets of Exxon Mobil Corp, said a spokesman for Eurnekian in Buenos Aires.
Friday, February 15th 2008 - 20:00 UTC
Mrs. Kirchner can't convince protestors to end pickets

Argentine president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner and Gualeguaychu pickets kept on Thursday to their positions in the controversy over the construction of a pulp mill in neighboring Uruguay which environmentalists and protestors claim is/will be highly contaminating.
Friday, February 15th 2008 - 20:00 UTC
Falkland Islands: Weekly 'Penguin News” update

Headlines: Dorada under new ownership; New Constitution by mid-2008?; Kirchner to London; ASSI inspectors reveal findings; MPs on week-long visit; Drugs man jailed; Coming up this week.
Friday, February 15th 2008 - 20:00 UTC
US-Andean countries trade program extended ten months

A United States House of Representatives panel approved Thursday a ten month extension for a trade programme providing reduced tariffs for exports from the four Andean nations of Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru.