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Stories for February 2nd 2009

• Monday, February 2nd 2009 - 20:00 UTC

  January marked Brazil first trade deficit in eight years

  

  Brazil recorded its first monthly trade deficit in almost eight years in January as exports plunged by a record amount on falling prices for the country's commodities, according to the latest release from the Development, Industry and Trade ministry.

• Monday, February 2nd 2009 - 20:00 UTC

  Argentine tourists “flooded” Chile during January

  

  Tourist activity in Chile during January increased 6.4% compared to the same month a year ago, totalling 424.536 tourists and an estimated 289 million US dollars, up 9% over January 2008, according to the Chilean Tourism Office.

• Monday, February 2nd 2009 - 20:00 UTC

  UK paralyzed by snow storm and more forecasted

  

  Tens of thousands of people were left stranded Monday as the heaviest snowfall to hit the United Kingdom in 18 years swept across the country, causing travel chaos and closing thousands of schools. And more snow is on the way. Helen Chivers, a forecaster with the Met Office, said a large area of sleet and snow showers was moving out of France on its way to the UK.

• Monday, February 2nd 2009 - 20:00 UTC

  Millions of migrant rural workers in China are jobless

  

  An estimated 20 million Chinese migrant workers that left impoverished rural areas for jobs in the booming cities workshops are now unemployed as a direct consequence of the world crisis, admitted a high official from the ruling Communist party in Beijing.

• Monday, February 2nd 2009 - 20:00 UTC

  End of Falklands' St Brandan contract echoes in Britain

  

  The latest British Ministry of Defence's decision to terminate the contract of the “Saint Brandan”, which has been working in the Falkland Islands for the past 26 plus years has added to the widespread controversy in the UK against the use of foreign labour, reports Maritime Global Net.

• Monday, February 2nd 2009 - 20:00 UTC

  Wreckage of 18th century legendary HMS Victory found

  

  A shipwreck believed to contain more than a billion dollars of gold has been discovered at the bottom of the English Channel. HMS Victory, the legendary British warship which was the predecessor to Lord Nelson's Victory, sank during a storm in 1744, taking more than 1,000 sailors to their deaths