Stories for 2012

Thursday, October 18th 2012 - 18:32 UTC
Gibraltar admitted to UEFA junior football and Futsal competitions

Gibraltar Football Association President Gareth Latin announced that Gibraltar has been invited to participate in UEFA Under 17, Under 19 and Futsal competitions, commencing in September 2013, despite Spain’s “outright objection”.
Thursday, October 18th 2012 - 18:22 UTC
Newsweek's final print edition 31 December and then moves to all-digital format

Newsweek, the venerable US weekly magazine covering current events, will publish its final print edition on Dec. 31 and move to an all-digital format early next year, two top executives said.
Thursday, October 18th 2012 - 18:14 UTC
Astronomers working from Chile discover Earth ‘clone’ in ‘our backyard’

Astronomers have found a new planet, the closest yet outside our solar system and just an astronomical stone's throw away at four light years, raising the chances of finding a habitable planet in Earth's neighbourhood.
Thursday, October 18th 2012 - 16:07 UTC
Paymaster Germany suggests EU Executive veto power over national budgets

German Chancellor Angela Merkel demanded stronger central powers for the European Union's executive to veto national budgets that breach EU rules, risking a clash with close ally France at a summit of the bloc's leaders.
Thursday, October 18th 2012 - 16:04 UTC
Protector catches stunning sonar imagery and bathymetric survey off St Helena

The Royal Navy Ice patrol HMS Protector heading for another Antarctic season previous visit to South Africa and Falkland Islands has produced stunning sonar imagery of the wreck of a wartime RFA tanker to help salvage experts study the state of it.
Thursday, October 18th 2012 - 16:00 UTC
Green light for gold and silver mine project in Patagonia Santa Cruz province

Gold miner Minera IRL Ltd reports it has secured government permits to build its Don Nicolas pit mine in Argentine Patagonia and is now seeking financing to get the 57 million dollars project up and running next year, the company said on Wednesday.
Thursday, October 18th 2012 - 15:56 UTC
Brazil plans to double natural gas output by 2020; 21 new rigs in 2018

Brazil natural gas output could nearly double by 2020, reaching up to 120 million cubic-meters a day, as Latin America's largest economy increases the number of offshore platforms to take advantage of huge deep-sea oil reserves, the general director of the National Petroleum Authority, ANP, said this week.
Thursday, October 18th 2012 - 10:41 UTC
Brazil-FAO sign agreement for cotton expertise transfer to small farmers in Africa

A 20 million dollars agreement signed Wednesday by the United Nations and Brazil will seek to transfer the expertise of the South American country to support cotton farmers in developing economies.
Thursday, October 18th 2012 - 10:33 UTC
Monsanto suspends collection of royalties in Brazil following state court ruling

Monsanto, the world’s biggest seed company, suspended collection of royalties for its Roundup Ready soybeans in Brazil while it appeals a state court ruling on intellectual property rights.
Thursday, October 18th 2012 - 07:29 UTC
Mercosur conflict still alive: Venezuela expels Paraguayan diplomats

Venezuela's government decided to expel Paraguay's remaining diplomats from the country, the top envoy at the Paraguayan Embassy said on Wednesday. Charge d'affaires Victor Casartelli said that he and three other Paraguayan diplomats in Caracas were told by Venezuela's Foreign Ministry to leave within three days.