International

• Thursday, May 15th 2014 - 07:00 UTC

  UK Labor ratifies full support for Gibraltar's self determination

  

  Britain’s Leader of the Opposition, Ed Miliband and Clare Moody, Labor candidate for the South West and Gibraltar in the coming European Parliamentary election have confirmed that Labor fully supports self determination for the people of Gibraltar.

• Wednesday, May 14th 2014 - 15:13 UTC

  Discovery of the century: is it the wreckage of Columbus 'Santa María'?

  

  Archaeologists believe they may have found the wreckage of the Santa Maria, one of the ships Christopher Columbus used to sail the ocean blue en route to the “New World” more than 500 years ago.

• Wednesday, May 14th 2014 - 00:15 UTC

  West Antarctica glaciers' melting 'have passed the point of no return', says NASA study

  

  A new study by researchers at NASA and the University of California, Irvine, finds a rapidly melting section of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet appears to be in an irreversible state of decline, with nothing to stop the glaciers in this area from melting into the sea.

• Tuesday, May 13th 2014 - 18:59 UTC

  Several world leaders expected for the coming World Cup in Brazil

  

  The Brazilian government is counting on a strong presence from world leaders during the football World Cup, which kicks off on June 12. Cristina Fernández, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and US vice-president Joe Biden are among the dignitaries expected to attend.

• Tuesday, May 13th 2014 - 18:53 UTC

  Scottish church fears strong divisions following the independence referendum

  

  Political leaders locked in a bitter fight over Scottish independence have urged all Scots to reunite whatever the outcome of a referendum in September as the national church voiced concerns over rifts in society.

• Monday, May 12th 2014 - 23:56 UTC

  Mujica asks Obama support for scientific knowledge and to combat smoking

  

  In an enjoyable press conference at the White House Uruguay's President Jose Mujica spoke about the increasing importance for people in the US to be bilingual, the dangers of smoking and his interest in having access to U.S. knowledge and professors. President Barrack Obama praised the Uruguayan leader's 'extraordinary' credibility and leadership in democracy and human rights issues.

• Monday, May 12th 2014 - 06:54 UTC

  Churchill feared in 1942 the Falklands could be taken over by the Japanese

  

  According to the Sunday Express wartime prime minister Winston Churchill feared the opening of a new front in the Falkland Islands and was so concerned about the matter that he sent about 1.000 soldiers to protect the Islands and ensure Britain would not have to retake them.

• Monday, May 12th 2014 - 06:48 UTC

  Brazil downplays, mathematically, the threat of dengue for Cup tourists

  

  A study by Brazilian experts calculates that, in the worst case scenario, just 100 of the 600,000 foreign tourists who will visit Brazil during the World Cup soccer tourney scheduled to begin in June, or less than 0.02% of the total visitors, will contract dengue during their stay in the country.

• 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.