Stories for 2011

Thursday, February 3rd 2011 - 22:17 UTC
Brazil to provide free medicines for high blood pressure and diabetes

Brazil is to provide free medicines for everyone suffering from high blood pressure or diabetes. The drugs will be distributed as of next month through a nationwide network of budget pharmacies, where many medicines are already heavily subsidised.
Thursday, February 3rd 2011 - 22:05 UTC
Vodafone forced to send pro-Mubarak mobile-phone text messages

UK’s Vodafone was ordered to send mobile-phone text messages by the Egyptian government, urging people to confront “traitors and criminals” as demonstrators demanded the ouster of President Hosni Mubarak.
Thursday, February 3rd 2011 - 22:02 UTC
UN forecasts period of “food volatility and supply disruptions”

The world is going into a period of food volatility and supply disruptions due in part to weather related problems and a backdrop of rising prices, the UN World Food Program's executive director said.
Thursday, February 3rd 2011 - 21:56 UTC
Santander, Euro zone largest bank helped by solid results in UK and Brazil

The collapse of the Spanish property prices helped pull annual profit down 8.5% at the Euro zone largest bank Santander. Solid results from Brazil and Britain, which each account for more profit than Spain at the diversified bank, failed to calm fears about exposure to a stagnant domestic economy, struggling to shake off the worst recession in half a century.
Thursday, February 3rd 2011 - 21:54 UTC
Brazilian industry loosing world market share to main trading partner, China

Competition with top trading partner China is costing Brazilian industry valuable market share, the National Confederation of Industry (CNI) in South America's largest economy said on Thursday.
Thursday, February 3rd 2011 - 21:17 UTC
With inflation pressures ‘contained’, ECB leaves interest rates unchanged

European Central Bank (ECB) has kept interest rates in the Euro zone unchanged at a record low 1%, despite fears of increasing inflation. Speaking at a press conference after the rate decision, the ECB president Jean-Claude Trichet claimed that inflation pressures remained contained.
Thursday, February 3rd 2011 - 19:12 UTC
Falklands receives 6.000 cruise visitors in one day; 90% satisfaction rate

FALKLAND Islands Tourist Board statistics showed a 90% satisfaction rate yesterday on the busiest day ever in Stanley’s cruise ship visitor history.
Thursday, February 3rd 2011 - 17:31 UTC
British scientists develop blood test for the human version of BSE (mad cow)

The first reliable blood test for the fatal Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (vCJD) – said to be 100,000 times more accurate than the current method – has been developed by British scientists.
Thursday, February 3rd 2011 - 17:05 UTC
Air traffic strong recovery in 2010, but oil prices derail 2011 prospects

Air traffic increased 8.2% in the passenger business and 20.6% in freight according to the full 2010 report from the International Air Transport Association, IATA. Middle-East, Asia-Pacific and Africa regions were above average in passenger transport and Latinamerica led in cargo expansion.
Thursday, February 3rd 2011 - 16:40 UTC
World food prices at historic peak in January seventh month running, says FAO

World food prices surged to a new historic peak in January, for the seventh consecutive month, according to the updated FAO Food Price Index, a commodity basket that regularly tracks monthly changes in global food prices.