Stories for September 22nd 2011

Thursday, September 22nd 2011 - 22:42 UTC
Brazil’s August unemployment stable at 6% in tight labour market

Brazil’s unemployment rate remained unchanged at 6% in August, a record low for the month while average real wages rose 0.5% from the previous months to 1,629.40 Reais (839.16 US dollars) a month, the government statistics agency IBGE report showed.
Thursday, September 22nd 2011 - 22:17 UTC
IMF re-activates resource pool of 571 billion for another six months

The International Monetary Fund re-activated this week a 571 billion dollars resource pool to ensure it has funds to help cover Europe's worsening sovereign-debt crisis. The IMF extended activation of its so-called New Arrangements to Borrow for a six-month period from October.
Thursday, September 22nd 2011 - 21:57 UTC
Chile targets tourism as third most important sector of the economy by 2020

The new campaign by Chile’s National Tourism Service (Sernatur) aims to make tourism the third largest sector of the country’s gross domestic product (GDP) by 2020. The campaign will be launched on Jan. 1, 2012.
Thursday, September 22nd 2011 - 21:52 UTC
Brazil to the rescue of the Real which is down 17% against the dollar in 4 weeks

Brazil's central bank unexpectedly acted to halt the currency's slide on Thursday, highlighting growing concern among officials that the global financial crisis is damaging Brazil's economy and could cause a potentially destructive spurt in inflation.
Thursday, September 22nd 2011 - 21:39 UTC
RFA ‘Black Rover’ returns to UK after 18 months support operations in Falklands

Royal Fleet Auxiliary ship Black Rover is returning to the UK on Sunday after an 18-month deployment in support of the Royal Navy operations in UK Overseas Territories including the Falkland Islands, South Georgia, St Helena and Tristan Da Cunha.
Thursday, September 22nd 2011 - 21:21 UTC
Falklands’ war Wessex helicopter involved in Sir Galahad disaster rescued for new role

A Wessex helicopter which was used to rescue injured servicemen during the Falklands conflict is to have a new role as a cafe at a Shropshire paintball Centre.
Thursday, September 22nd 2011 - 21:17 UTC
Decisive day for striking students and Chile’s class oriented education system

Thursday’s march by Chilean striking students and their supporters may signal an end to an unprecedented four months of student unrest – if the number of demonstrators proves to be small.
Thursday, September 22nd 2011 - 20:24 UTC
SABMiller takes over Australia’s leading brewer Foster’s Group fro 10.2bn

Australian beer giant Foster's has accepted an improved takeover worth 9.9 billion Aus dollars (10.2bn US dollars) from British-based brewer SABMiller, the pair announced on Wednesday.
Thursday, September 22nd 2011 - 11:24 UTC
Bowhead whales from Greenland and Alaska mingle along the Arctic passage

Bowhead whales, the giants of the Arctic, are using the Northwest Passage to move across the top of the Americas. Skeletons, DNA samples and harpoon heads have all suggested that bowhead populations living on each side of the continent did meet and mingle.
Thursday, September 22nd 2011 - 08:43 UTC
Obama tells Palestinians UN is not a short cut to negotiations with Israel

US President Barack Obama told the United Nations that the Palestinians deserved a state of their own, but that this would only be achieved through talks with Israel.