Stories for 2010

Monday, March 15th 2010 - 20:16 UTC
Uruguay/Bolivia sign agreement to exchange natural gas for sea outlet

Bolivia will gain access to Atlantic ports in Uruguay in exchange for a pledge of natural gas exports to Montevideo in an agreement signed in La Paz by presidents Evo Morales and José Mujica.
Monday, March 15th 2010 - 20:07 UTC
Controversy in UK over cuts in military training to save money

A record 80 training exercises were cancelled last year By the UK Ministry of Defense while the number of British troops in Helmand reached 10,000.
Monday, March 15th 2010 - 19:58 UTC
Internet celebrates 25th anniversary of dotcom domain name

It was not until the late 1990s that it really took off but today the internet celebrates the 25th birthday of the dotcom domain name. On 15 March 1985, the first company to add dotcom to its name was a computer maker named Symbolics.
Monday, March 15th 2010 - 19:56 UTC
Unemployment fears threaten UK recovery says Bank of England

Unemployment threatens to hamper the UK economic recovery as worried households cut back on spending, the Bank of England has warned. The latest quarterly bulletin said there was a risk of rising dole queues if “the recovery in demand proves more sluggish than businesses have expected”.
Monday, March 15th 2010 - 19:50 UTC
Colombia’s former Defense minister consolidates as sucesor of Uribe

Colombian presidential candidate Juan Manuel Santos’s La U party is leading the vote count of congressional elections held Sunday, consolidating his position as frontrunner to succeed Alvaro Uribe.
Monday, March 15th 2010 - 18:18 UTC
Falklands’ on shore Loligo containerisation to improve quality and create jobs

For the first time a whole season’s catch of Loligo Squid will be containerised in the Falkland Islands, an experiment set to improve the product quality and meet world export demands plus generating on-value added activities in the Islands.
Monday, March 15th 2010 - 13:46 UTC
Blackout Hits Most Of Chile

Transformer failure blamed as much of the country goes dark.
A blackout blamed on a fault in Chile's Central Interconnected System hit nearly all of Chile around 8:50 p.m. local time Sunday night.
Monday, March 15th 2010 - 11:16 UTC
Chinese oil firm buying 50% stake in Argentine group

China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) is paying $3.1bn (£2bn) for a 50% stake in Argentine oil and gas group Bridas Corporation. Cnooc Ltd.,
Saturday, March 13th 2010 - 02:55 UTC
Cuban political prisoners’ controversy backfires on Lula da Silva

One of the most influential Senators from Brazil’s ruling Workers Party remembered President Lula da Silva that world figures such as India’s Mahatma Ghandi and Martin Luther King appealed to hunger strikes as part of their peaceful struggle for the rights of their peoples.
Saturday, March 13th 2010 - 02:32 UTC
Lehman Brothers had been using “accounting gimmicks” for years

Former bosses at Lehman Brothers have been accused of using an “accounting gimmick” to hide billions in losses which helped bring about its collapse. The technique, called “Repo 105”, was used to temporarily remove 50 billion US dollars of assets from the US investment bank's balance sheet in 2008, according to a one-year investigation.