Stories for 2014

Monday, May 12th 2014 - 06:45 UTC
“Ship of Gold” 156 years later renders its first five bars valued at 1.2 million dollars

At the waning years of the great California Gold Rush, a ship laden around 30,000 pounds of the precious metal on its way to New York was caught in the middle of a vicious hurricane and sunk off the coast of South Carolina with 425 souls aboard.
Monday, May 12th 2014 - 06:38 UTC
Pelé desperate to exorcise Brazil's defeat and loss of the World Cup to Uruguay in 1950

Brazil's Pelé, the legendary attacker believes that his country's national team has the ideal opportunity to exorcise the demons of their 2-1 infamous loss to Uruguay at the Maracana 64 years ago, more precisely 16 July 1950.
Monday, May 12th 2014 - 06:34 UTC
Panama elected-president pledges to normalize relations with Venezuela and Colombia

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and Panamanian president-elect Juan Carlos Varela have pledged to waste no time in normalizing relations and re-launching diplomatic, economic and trade ties cut off two months ago, Venezuela's foreign ministry announced. Varela takes office next July first.
Monday, May 12th 2014 - 06:25 UTC
Argentina media makes it a day with the Home Office reference to Malvinas

The Argentine media has given extensive coverage to the Foreign Office's glitch of calling the Falklands by its Spanish name Malvinas in several documents, and the furious reaction in Parliament, as was reported by the Sunday Express.
Sunday, May 11th 2014 - 08:34 UTC
Falklands discusses capital projects investments over the next five years

Falkland Islands members of the Legislative Assembly made an open, public presentation, with feedback, to explain how approximately £61.1 million in available government funds might be divided between capital projects over the next five years.
Saturday, May 10th 2014 - 08:37 UTC
Mujica meets Obama on Monday with a long agenda of issues to discuss

Uruguayan president Jose Mujica flies on Saturday evening to the United States and on Monday at 10:45 will be walking into the White House for a sixty minutes meeting with President Barack Obama. Mujica will be spending five days in Washington where he has scheduled a long list of meetings and conferences.
Saturday, May 10th 2014 - 08:09 UTC
Blatter wants to keep running FIFA: “my mission is not finished”

FIFA president Sepp Blatter plans to run for a fifth term as the boss of global football, the Swiss newspaper Blick said on Friday. “I want to do this, because things aren't over yet. My mandate is running out, but my mission is not finished,” the 78-year-old was quoted as saying by the tabloid.
Saturday, May 10th 2014 - 08:03 UTC
Brazil's auto production rose in March but is down 21,4% compared to 2013

Brazilian vehicle production rose 1.6% last month compared with March, but was down 21.4% from the level of April 2013, the Anfavea auto industry association said Friday. Last month saw 277,100 cars, trucks, SUVs and buses roll off assembly lines in Brazil, significantly short of the 352,400 vehicles produced by Latin America's largest economy in April 2013.
Saturday, May 10th 2014 - 07:55 UTC
Falklands among the best 30 Islands in the world

The Falkland Islands has earned eleventh place in a list of the 30 best islands in the world. The list was created by Lee Abbamonte who is the youngest American to visit every country in the world and is recognized as one of the world’s most-travelled people.
Saturday, May 10th 2014 - 07:30 UTC
Falklands' Governor role increasingly moving away from an executive position

The role of the Governor has moved away from an executive position within the Falkland Islands according to Governor Colin Roberts, who only last week was inaugurated in the post. Speaking with Penguin News, the Foreign Office diplomat explained what he saw as his role, and how the position itself has changed over the decades.