Stories for July 2011

Tuesday, July 12th 2011 - 07:30 UTC
Police reveal former PM Brown could have been victim of Murdoch’s tabloid

Police have said that former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown may have been a victim of phone hacking by an investigator working for British newspapers, his spokeswoman said on Monday.
Tuesday, July 12th 2011 - 07:23 UTC
News of the World bought UK royal family details from police team, says BBC

The News of the World newspaper bought contact details about the royal family from a policeman, the BBC reported today, deepening the scandal engulfing the News Corp media empire.
Tuesday, July 12th 2011 - 07:15 UTC
UK statements on the Malvinas issue are “ridiculous” says Cristina Fernandez

President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner said that “Argentina is absolutely committed to peace” and dismissed as “ridiculous” statements from the United Kingdom threatening to use force if needed to preserver the occupation of the Falkland Islands.
Tuesday, July 12th 2011 - 07:01 UTC
EU digs in to defend Euro: lower costs of aid packages and beefs up stability fund

European Union finance ministers pledged to beef up a rescue package for troubled economies such as Greece as they went to battle to contain debt crisis contagion threatening to engulf Silvio Berlusconi’s Italy and Socialist Spain.
Tuesday, July 12th 2011 - 03:47 UTC
South Georgia mentioned as example of longline fisheries seabirds protection

A new global estimate of the impact of longline fisheries on seabirds reveals that, despite efforts to reduce seabird deaths, upwards of 300,000 birds are still being killed every year. However South Georgia is praised for having imposed strict regulations that have seen seabird deaths as bycatch drop by 99%.
Tuesday, July 12th 2011 - 03:42 UTC
Squid landings in Argentina double, but from a very low 2010 floor

Fisheries catches landed in Argentine ports totalled 356.304 tons in the first six months of 2001 which represents a 13.3% over the 314.338 tons of the same period a year ago. However, squid landings in the same period doubled but from a very low 2010 floor, according to the latest data from the Under Secretariat of Fisheries and Aquaculture.
Tuesday, July 12th 2011 - 03:38 UTC
BAS James Clark Ross discovers underwater volcanoes in South Sandwich Islands

Scientists who have discovered previously unknown underwater volcanoes around the remote South Sandwich Islands in the southern Atlantic Ocean say the research is important to help understand what happens when volcanoes erupt or collapse underwater.
Tuesday, July 12th 2011 - 02:38 UTC
Obama pushes congressional leaders for deficit reduction deal: “if not now, when?”

President Barack Obama pushed congressional leaders for the largest possible deficit-reduction deal that would involve changes to popular entitlement programs, asking: “If not now, when?”
Tuesday, July 12th 2011 - 01:47 UTC
Euro confidence crisis, Italian chapter, sends world markets tumbling

Global stocks and the Euro sank as fears that Italy could become the latest country caught up in the Euro-zone debt crisis caused investors to sell risky assets and snap up safe-haven US Treasury debt, pushing the 10-year note's yield below 3%.
Tuesday, July 12th 2011 - 01:41 UTC
Adopted heirs of Argentine media group test negative to first DNA tests

DNA tests from the adopted children of one of Argentina's richest women do not match blood samples from two families who suspect the siblings were stolen as babies from political prisoners in the 1970s, legal sources said on Monday.