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  • Tuesday, January 23rd 2018 - 06:42 UTC

    Macri in European tour to promote Argentina: Moscow, Davos and Paris

    Macri will inaugurate the Argentina Square, in the Yakimanka District and lay a flower wreath at the Unknown Soldier Monument next to the Kremlin outer wall.

    Argentine president Mauricio Macri arrived on Monday evening to Moscow the first leg of his latest tour of European countries, and the first of 2018, with the purpose of promoting Argentina and attracting investments. In Moscow president Macri and First Lady Juliana Awada are scheduled to meet with president Vladimir Putin at the Kremlin.

  • Tuesday, January 23rd 2018 - 06:27 UTC

    Jaguar Land Rover plans production cuts on Brexit uncertainty and diesel cars' taxes

    Vehicle makers have blamed Brexit confusion and a hike in diesel taxation for a general fall in UK car sales.

    Jaguar Land Rover will cut production of some vehicles amid uncertainty over Brexit and changes to taxes on diesel cars. The company will scale back output of Range Rover Discovery Sport and Evoque models temporarily later this year. Last week, JLR said its global sales hit a record in 2017, but that the UK market was “tough”.

  • Monday, January 22nd 2018 - 09:57 UTC

    Gap between super rich and the poor at its widest, claims Oxfam

    Oxfam has produced similar reports for the past five years. In 2017 it calculated the world's eight richest individuals had as much wealth as the world's poorest half

    The gap between the super rich and the rest of the world widened last year as wealth continued to be owned by a small minority, Oxfam has claimed. Some 82% of money generated last year went to the richest 1% of the global population while the poorest half saw no increase at all, the charity said.

  • Monday, January 22nd 2018 - 09:30 UTC

    Australian scientists attempting a krill “census” based on the “sound” of the species

    Dr. Martin Cox, acoustic specialist, explains that if they can match the frequency signals with a single krill, they could determine the number in a swarm.

    A team of Antarctic scientists hopes that an experiment to capture the “sound” of a single krill will help determine how many individuals of this key Antarctic species are swimming in the Southern Ocean. Researchers from the Australian Antarctic Division (AAD) are using echo sounder technology to record the sound of krill specimens of different sizes over a range of frequencies.

  • Monday, January 22nd 2018 - 09:11 UTC

    Crowd of 1.3 million at Pope's final Mass in Peru, contrasts with visit to Chile

    The crowd at the military base of 1.3 million people reported by the Vatican was the largest of Francis’ weeklong, two-nation visit.

    More than one million people turned out Sunday for Pope Francis’ final Mass in Peru, giving him a warm and heartfelt farewell that contrasted sharply with the outcry he caused in neighboring Chile by accusing sex abuse victims of slandering a bishop.

  • Monday, January 22nd 2018 - 08:12 UTC

    INSV Tarini is moored in Stanley, Falkland Islands

    The Governor and MLA Stacy Bragger (L) were there to greet the crew. (Pic FIG)

    We’re so proud to welcome these adventurous ladies and look forward to their time with us said the Falkland Islands Governement on tweeter.

  • Sunday, January 21st 2018 - 11:47 UTC

    Go, TARINI Go...

    Team Tarini with Indian PM Narendra Modi

    We all love to dream, and strive hard to achieve them, yet this voyage by the team of six Indian Naval Lady Officers is much bigger than a mere dream! It’s a daunting challenge posed by the stormy seas and fierce weather, which could deter the best of the seafarers! Yet, they chose something for which they had opted. Team Tarini, a name that will be attached to the six brave Navikas’ as they are termed for the rest of their life.

  • Saturday, January 20th 2018 - 08:16 UTC

    Francis strongly sides with indigenous peoples and calls the Amazon, God's “holy ground”

    Bare-chested and tattooed native families, many sporting feathered and beaded headgear, interrupted Francis with applause, wailing horns and beating drums

    From deep in the Amazon rainforest, Pope Francis demanded on Friday that corporations stop their relentless extraction of timber, gas and gold from God's “holy ground,” and called on governments to recognize the indigenous peoples living there as the primary forces in determining its future.

  • Saturday, January 20th 2018 - 07:19 UTC

    Falklands expecting arrival of the all-woman Indian Navy team in INSV Tarini

    The tiny sailboat INVS Tarini with its six member crew left India last September and should be arriving in Goa next April. (Pic by Indian Navy)

    The all-woman Indian Navy team sailing in the INSV Tarini in one of the toughest feats, a global circumnavigation trip has successfully crossed the notoriously rough Drake Passage, rounding Cape Horn off the southern tip of South America and are en route to Stanley in the Falkland Islands, where they will be arriving any moment.

  • Friday, January 19th 2018 - 10:08 UTC

    Global surface temperatures in 2017, the second warmest since 1880, says NASA

    2017 was the third consecutive year in which global temperatures were more than 1 degree Celsius (1.8 degrees Fahrenheit) above late 19th-century levels.

    Earth’s global surface temperatures in 2017 ranked as the second warmest since 1880, according to an analysis by scientists at NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS). Continuing the planet’s long-term warming trend, globally averaged temperatures in 2017 were 0.90 degrees Celsius (1.62 degrees Fahrenheit) warmer than the 1951 to 1980 mean. That is second only to global temperatures in 2016.