Stories for September 21st 2011

Wednesday, September 21st 2011 - 05:58 UTC
Brazilian daily creates a “Folhaleaks” to help combat rampant corruption

Brazilian daily Folha de Sao Paulo on Sunday launched an online initiative to collect feedback from sensitive information and leaks for journal investigation, a Web site it dubbed “Folhaleaks” in direct reference to the widely known Wikileaks Web site founded by Julian Assange.
Wednesday, September 21st 2011 - 05:54 UTC
“Negative political considerations” downgraded Italy’s rating says Berlusconi

Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was quick to reject a long-feared assessment from ratings agency Standard & Poor’s that saw Italy’s credit rating downgraded by one notch on Tuesday.
Wednesday, September 21st 2011 - 05:52 UTC
Spanish oil company takes the lead in super-fast analysis of seismic data

Spanish oil major Repsol-YPF and the Barcelona Supercomputing Centre launched this week their new joint research centre aimed at speeding the analysis of seismic data.
Wednesday, September 21st 2011 - 05:45 UTC
Family affair: fifty children and still feeling strong

A 90-year-old retired peasant has fathered children with two wives, sister-in-law and mother-in-law in Brazil’s Rio Grande do Norte state, the press reported on Sunday.
Wednesday, September 21st 2011 - 05:36 UTC
Ecuadorian high court upholds ruling sentencing journalists to prison and fines

An Ecuadorian appeals court has upheld criminal libel convictions and three-year prison sentences for three newspaper directors and a former editorialist over a column that called populist President Rafael Correa a dictator.
Wednesday, September 21st 2011 - 05:25 UTC
Obama and Rousseff address world crises and pledge new talks before G20 meeting

The world crisis was the main issue addressed by Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff during the bilateral meetings with US President Barack Obama and later with her peer Mexico’s Felipe Calderon in New York.
Wednesday, September 21st 2011 - 05:13 UTC
End of ‘don’ ask, don’t tell’: gays can serve openly in the US military.

President Barack Obama hailed the end of the policy banning gays from serving openly in the US military, saying its official demise marked a key step toward fulfilling America's founding ideals.
Wednesday, September 21st 2011 - 02:10 UTC
Roubini suggests Greece default on its debts and follow Argentina’s 2001 example

The economist who predicted the credit crunch and financial crisis has recommended that Greece leave the Euro, default on its debts and return to the drachma.
Wednesday, September 21st 2011 - 01:58 UTC
“The Tigers”: from Buckingham Palace changing the guard to the Falklands

Soldiers from the Portsmouth area have swapped Royal duties for freezing Falkland Islands training reports the Portsmouth media. Up to 120 members of the 2nd Battalion Princess of Wales’s Royal Regiment have travelled the 8,000 miles south from London to the Falkland Islands.
Wednesday, September 21st 2011 - 00:49 UTC
Uruguay alert to the extent of Brazil recent measures on auto imports

Uruguayan president Jose Mujica admitted a certain ‘stinging feeling’ following the recent Brazilian decision to increase import taxes on vehicles by 30%, which could also have an impact on Mercosur partners.