Stories for September 2010

Wednesday, September 1st 2010 - 06:23 UTC
First ship to claim British victory in Falklands RFA Sir Percivale is dismantled

In her finest hour she was at the forefront of British victory in the Falklands in a long service that saw her serving the country around the world. Now nearly 28-years after Argentina invaded the Falklands, this once great servant of the Royal Navy sits tired and lifeless in a Merseyside dry dock and is destined to become a tin of beans in your kitchen, reports the Mail on Line
Wednesday, September 1st 2010 - 06:13 UTC
World’s oldest drinkable champagne recovered from the Baltic Sea

Divers have salvaged 70 bottles of what may be the world's oldest drinkable champagne from a shipwreck in the Baltic Sea off Finland's Aland archipelago, Swedish media reports said.
Wednesday, September 1st 2010 - 06:10 UTC
Brazil promotes tourism to Rio’s (crime-free) favelas (shanty towns)

Tourists usually try to run from Brazil’s Rio do Janeiro's notorious slums. Now officials headed by President Lula da Silva are inviting them to come and visit instead. The Santa Marta shantytown this week became the first community in a program meant to promote tourism in the poor neighbourhoods that are home to some unique music and art work.
Wednesday, September 1st 2010 - 06:02 UTC
Brazilian beef producer wants to sell abattoirs and reduce Argentine operations

Brazil’s JBS, the world's top beef producer is trying to sell three of its Argentine plants due to government policies that have depleted cattle stocks and supply and hurt profits, a trade group said on Tuesday.
Wednesday, September 1st 2010 - 05:57 UTC
Colombia’s Santos meets Lula da Silva in his first overseas visit

Colombian president Juan Manuel Santos arrived Tuesday in Brazil for an official two-day state visit that begins Wednesday with a meeting with President Lula da Silva to address a regional political agenda and strengthen bilateral trade.
Wednesday, September 1st 2010 - 05:43 UTC
Falklands’ veteran returns trumpet to Argentine POW

The Argentine jets screamed overhead the young paratrooper from Dundee, dropping their deadly payloads over Sussex Mountain. For Tony Banks, the Falklands war had become real and terrifying as the battle for Goose Green got under way.
Wednesday, September 1st 2010 - 05:40 UTC
Unemployment in Euro zone 10% and 9.6% in EU; worst case Spain with 20.3%

As many as 23 million men and women in the EU were unemployed in July, according to data released by Eurostat on Tuesday. Of these, 15.833 million are from the Eurozone countries.
Wednesday, September 1st 2010 - 05:37 UTC
US drops investigation into China’s current currency policy

US government has decided to drop a general investigation of China's currency policy, avoiding a major trade dispute. However the department ruled that more than $500m of aluminium imports had been unfairly subsidised. The US will retaliate with duties of up to 137% on the relevant products.
Wednesday, September 1st 2010 - 02:48 UTC
Lifting Mercosur out of its “institutional paralysis”, Rousseff’s main challenge

Consolidating South American integration would be the main foreign policy priority of the Brazilian ruling party presidential candidate Dilma Rousseff if public opinion polls are confirmed at the ballot box next October 3 and she emerges as the successor of Lula da Silva.
Wednesday, September 1st 2010 - 02:44 UTC
UK and US media blast the Kirchners for attempting “to lock-hold the press”

British daily Financial Times ran an op-ed Tuesday morning blasting Argentina’s presidential couple for their attempt to “secure a lock-hold on Argentina’s press,” and accusing them of mirroring the “black arts” tactics of the Mexican Institutional Revolutionary party.