Stories for 2012

Tuesday, January 17th 2012 - 07:00 UTC
Brazil economy rebounds in November boosted by domestic consumer spending

Brazil’s economy grew at its fastest pace in 19 months in November, reversing a three-month contraction, as a recovery in consumer spending helped Latin America’s largest economy shrug off a global slowdown. Yields on interest rate futures rose.
Tuesday, January 17th 2012 - 06:54 UTC
Rockhopper shares soar as talks for a partner in Falklands’ oil operation advance

Rockhopper Exploration Plc climbed to an 11-month high in London trading after a report that Cairn Energy Plc is in talks with the only company to have made a potentially commercial oil find near the Falkland Islands.
Tuesday, January 17th 2012 - 06:48 UTC
Brazil and FIFA try to solve differences ahead of the 2014 World Cup

Brazil had been demanding too much in negotiating the conditions for hosting the 2014 World Cup but a legal dispute should be settled within days, FIFA said on Monday.
Tuesday, January 17th 2012 - 06:44 UTC
S&P downgrades the European Stability Facility but willing to reconsider

Credit ratings agency Standard and Poor’s downgraded the European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF) from “AAA” to “AA+,” although it does not rule out it would increase it again if it bolsters its funds, according to a communiqué released on Monday.
Tuesday, January 17th 2012 - 06:41 UTC
Argentine government and Moyano try to set ground rules for future relationship

In another round of the ongoing battle between the Argentina government and the leader of organized labour Hugo Moyano, Interior Minister Florencio Randazzo stated that “if the union leaders are really representatives of the working class, there is no possibility of a divorce between the CGT Labour Confederation and the national government”.
Tuesday, January 17th 2012 - 06:38 UTC
Volcanic ashes again isolate Argentine ski and summer resort causing massive losses

The presence of a cloud of ash caused by a volcano in Chile has again closed an airport in neighbouring Argentina just days after it had re-opened anticipating massive losses for the tourism and the resort’s finances.
Tuesday, January 17th 2012 - 06:35 UTC
Australian experts link carbon dioxide emissions effects on fish brain and nervous system

Rising human carbon dioxide emissions may be affecting the brains and central nervous systems of sea fish, with serious consequences for their survival, according to Australian research.
Monday, January 16th 2012 - 19:32 UTC
Falklands’ conflict gunner meets Skyhawk pilot he shot down, at his home in Argentina

A Royal Navy veteran from the Falklands War has completed an extraordinary journey to meet the Argentine pilot he thought he had shot down and killed during the 1982 conflict.
Monday, January 16th 2012 - 19:29 UTC
Landless peasants with 80 families occupy and take over farm in north of Uruguay

The landless peasants’ movement has reached Uruguay: the self called “shaggy” ones with eighty families, have taken over a 400 hectares farm in the extreme north of the country Artigas, and have been occupying the land since.
Monday, January 16th 2012 - 19:20 UTC
Minister recalls Captain Scott’s South Pole feat and heralds work of UK polar scientists

On the eve of the centenary of Royal Navy Captain Robert Scott reaching the South Pole, Foreign Office Minister Henry Bellingham has heralded the work of British polar scientists in helping to shape the understanding needed for managing climate change and contributing to the UK’s work for the peaceful protection of Antarctica.