Stories for May 2011

Monday, May 23rd 2011 - 00:31 UTC
Over 300.000 Cubans have opted to work in the private sector as ‘self-employed’

The number of Cubans working in the private sector continues to rise and now includes over 300,000 as a result of President Raul Castro government’s economic reforms that have been implemented since last October.
Monday, May 23rd 2011 - 00:25 UTC
Chilean naval officers to court for kidnapping and torture of Anglo-Chilean priest

Chilean Judge Julio Miranda of the Valparaíso Court of Appeals formally presented last week an accusation against 10 retired navy officers for the kidnapping and torture of Anglo-Chilean priest Michael Woodward.
Monday, May 23rd 2011 - 00:09 UTC
Argentina and Chile organize winter land SAR operation in Antarctica

Argentina and Chile Antarctic organizations are planning this year’s edition of the Search and Rescue training operation which is scheduled to take place sometime between August and September in the Antarctic Peninsula
Monday, May 23rd 2011 - 00:06 UTC
Air France’s Atlantic crash: speed probes seem to have iced reports Germany’s Spiegel

Air France plane crashed into the Atlantic in 2009 because of a sudden stall, the German Spiegel magazine reported Sunday citing an expert involved in analysing data from the plane's flight recorders.
Monday, May 23rd 2011 - 00:01 UTC
Maradona to coach Dubai team and puts Arab football on global spotlight

Diego Maradona will become the second highest paid coach in world football when he formally takes over as manager of UAE Pro League side Al Wasl next month.
Sunday, May 22nd 2011 - 23:54 UTC
Spain’s Mr Zara is buying one acre site in London’s West End for £ 220m

Spain’s Amancio Ortega, the co-founder and former chairman of retail giant Inditex, is splashing out on a 1 acre “island site” on London’s Oxford Street for around £220m according to Property Week.
Sunday, May 22nd 2011 - 23:41 UTC
Ukraine’s richest man pays highest price for London residence: £ 136.4 million

Ukraine’s richest man, Rinat Akhmetov, has paid the highest price for a UK residence, buying an apartment in the One Hyde Park development in Knightsbridge. Land Registry documents show that two properties on the seventh and eighth floor of the luxury development have been bought by a single buyer, the total consideration amounting to £136.4m.
Sunday, May 22nd 2011 - 23:31 UTC
Chile, Peru and Costa Rica join the Geneva based UN Human rights council

Chile, Peru and Costa Rica will be representing Latin America and the Caribbean in the UN Human Rights Council for the next three years, following a round of balloting among UN member states over the weekend.
Sunday, May 22nd 2011 - 23:06 UTC
Brazil’s Real will depreciate when the US and Europe raise interest rates

Dollar inflows into Brazil are returning to normal levels, and the Brazilian Real will start to depreciate once interest rates in the US and Europe start to rise, said Brazil Finance Minister Guido Mantega. He also anticipated tax reforms to boost Brazilian competitiveness.
Sunday, May 22nd 2011 - 22:59 UTC
Amazon tribe first contacted in 1986 has no abstract concept of time

Amazonian tribe has no abstract concept of time, say researchers. The Amondawa lacks the linguistic structures that relate time and space - as in our idea of, for example, “working through the night”.