Stories for 2015

Saturday, October 10th 2015 - 06:52 UTC
Nobel Peace Prize to only surviving member of the 'Arab spring”

The 2015 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded Friday to Tunisia's National Dialogue Quartet for its efforts to bring democracy to the country, where the political upheaval in 2011 sparked pro-democracy movements throughout the Arab world.
Saturday, October 10th 2015 - 06:37 UTC
Nobel literature for lady in love with kind Russia, “not that of Stalin or Putin”

Belarusian writer and dissident Svetlana Alexievich won the 2015 Nobel Literature Prize on Thursday for her work chronicling the horrors of war and life under the repressive Soviet regime.
Saturday, October 10th 2015 - 06:27 UTC
Global Unions call on IMF and World Bank should take recession threats seriously

Given the Annual Meetings of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank taking place in Lima, Peru, the International Trade Union Conference, ITUC, and its Global Unions partners call on the international financial institutions to adopt policies that counter the global economic slowdown.
Saturday, October 10th 2015 - 06:11 UTC
The Pope’s Subversive Message

The following piece by Arthur C. Brooks (*) was published in The New York Times opinion page. It is a strong view on Francis's visit significance for US Catholicism.
Saturday, October 10th 2015 - 02:56 UTC
FIFA in turmoil: Blatter appeals suspension; emergency meeting 20 October

FIFA president Sepp Blatter has appealed against the 90-day ban that forced him out of office, as world football's sleaze-tainted governing body headed into months of turmoil over how to find a new leader.
Saturday, October 10th 2015 - 02:38 UTC
“Enough is enough”, FIFA needs 'credible external presidential candidate', says IOC head

International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach has issued his strongest critique of FIFA and urged the scandal-tainted federation to seek a “credible external presidential candidate” to regain credibility.
Saturday, October 10th 2015 - 02:20 UTC
Gibraltar invited to high level security briefing at Ministry of Defense in London

Gibraltar's Chief Minister Fabian Picardo has been invited to attend a high level security briefing at the Ministry of Defense in London next week, part of a drive by the British Government to foster closer links with the Government of Gibraltar.
Friday, October 9th 2015 - 10:20 UTC
Corriere Della Sera apologizes to Cristina Fernandez for publishing 'false news on her shopping'

A Roman appeals court has confirmed a ruling against Italy’s Corriere Della Sera newspaper for a defamatory piece on Argentine president Cristina Fernández.
Friday, October 9th 2015 - 08:04 UTC
Scientists flock to Falklands for vital South Georgia future research strategy

Fifteen scientists from institutes around the world gathered in the Falkland Islands this week to assess future scientific requirements for South Georgia. Project manager Dr Vicky Peck from the British Antarctic Survey based in Cambridge explained that the South Georgia Future Science project wanted to identify what the scientific needs of the island were and how they could best be facilitated.
Friday, October 9th 2015 - 07:48 UTC
Falklands celebrates on Saturday cultural diversity day

The Falkland Islands cultural diversity will be celebrated with a whole day of events on Saturday, 10 October. The Falklands with a population of 3.000 according to the latest census, has integrated people born in 53 different countries, with predominance from Britain, St Helena and Chile.