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Stories for December 16th 2014

• Tuesday, December 16th 2014 - 22:35 UTC

  Antibiotic-proof bug detected in Rio's Olympic waters

  

  Scientists at the Instituto Oswaldo Cruz find enzyme-producing bacteria that requires bolder therapeutic measures. Flamengo beach unfit for swimming.

• Tuesday, December 16th 2014 - 20:54 UTC

  Uruguay's media law bill reaches Senate - Mujica warns of foreign sharks.

  

  President and journalists organisations deem LSCA necessary to avoid handing the media over to outside operators. They see no danger to freedom of speech in legislative project as it is.

• Tuesday, December 16th 2014 - 19:19 UTC

  Commissioner’s first visit to South Georgia

  

  THE Commissioner of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, Colin Roberts, has just returned from a ten day trip to South Georgia. The visit was the Commissioner’s first to the island and the initial port of call was King Edward Point (KEP), the seat of administration on the island.

• Tuesday, December 16th 2014 - 17:58 UTC

  Moving Centenary Tribute to Capital's Heroes of the World War One

  

  A commemoration of Edinburgh’s own heroes of the First World War – including a professional footballer with Hearts who was killed in action on the Somme – has taken place at Waverley Station today (Tuesday 16 December 2014).