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Stories for November 17th 2012

• Saturday, November 17th 2012 - 05:47 UTC

  BBC pays £ 185.00 to leading Tory wrongly accused of child sex abuse

  

  The BBC agreed to pay 185,000 pounds to a former treasurer of Britain's Conservative Party wrongly accused of child sex abuse as a result of one of its reports. The settlement came as media reports said one of the BBC's former stars had been arrested as part of an ongoing police investigation into sex crimes centred on the publicly funded broadcaster.

• Saturday, November 17th 2012 - 05:42 UTC

  Gibraltar says UK diplomacy credibility must follow up words with actions

  

  There was a marked escalation in the dispute over Gibraltar’s territorial waters as Britain and Spain both hardened their diplomatic stance in the wake of recent incursions.

• Saturday, November 17th 2012 - 05:37 UTC

  Topsy-turvy inflation numbers from Argentina’s official stats office

  

  More bad publicity for Argentina’s official Stats office, Indec: not only are the institution’s releases on inflation taken lightly or ignored by a majority of Argentines and openly questioned by the International Monetary Fund, now the head of the office was caught driving under the influence of alcohol.