International

• Thursday, May 7th 2015 - 06:35 UTC

  Liverpool will commemorate the centenary of the sinking of the Lusitania

  

  About 1,200 people died and 771 survived when the British liner was torpedoed by a German submarine on 7 May 1915 during World War One. One of the largest ships in the world, it was sailing from New York to its home port of Liverpool when it was sunk off the coast of Ireland.

• Thursday, May 7th 2015 - 06:19 UTC

  Fifty million people registered to vote and elect 650 Westminster MPs

  

  49.5 million people are registered to cast their votes in the UK general election on Thursday 7 May. Polls open at 07:00 BST at around 50,000 polling stations across the United Kingdom. A total of 650 Westminster MPs will be elected, with about 50 million people registered to vote.

• Wednesday, May 6th 2015 - 18:40 UTC

  Is this where investors should be looking when oil recovers?

  

  When oil prices recover-and plenty of analysts think the climb back up will start soon-Canada's western frontier of Saskatchewan and neighboring Alberta will 'still have the edge'', according to a report from TD Economics. Depressed oil prices may have skewed the view from Canada's oil-producing west, but this will be one of the better places to bet on the oil rebound.

• Wednesday, May 6th 2015 - 17:24 UTC

  Petrobras awarded in Houston highest recognition for offshore oil operators

  

  Petrobras’ Exploration and Production Director, Solange Guedes, received the OTC Distinguished Achievement Award for Companies, Organizations and Institutions, the highest recognition that an oil company can be given as an offshore operator.

• Wednesday, May 6th 2015 - 07:10 UTC

  OAS deploys electoral observation mission for Guyana Sunday's election

  

  The Organization of American States has started the deployment of the Electoral Observation Mission of the Organization of American States to the general and regional elections scheduled iin Guyana for Sunday May 11. This is the fifth time the OAS has observed elections in Guyana, following Missions in 1997, 2001, 2006 and 2011.

• Wednesday, May 6th 2015 - 06:55 UTC

  Pope Francis will receive Cuba's Raul Castro on private visit next Sunday

  

  Pope Francis and Cuban President Raul Castro will meet privately on Sunday at the Vatican, a spokesman said, four months before the pontiff's trip to the Caribbean island, his first as leader of the Catholic Church.

• Tuesday, May 5th 2015 - 17:50 UTC

  China warms up to Taiwan and calls for future relations on an “equal basis”

  

  Chinese President Xi Jinping met with the chairman of Taiwan's ruling Nationalist Party (KMT) in Beijing on Monday for the highest-level meeting between the two sides since 2009.

• Tuesday, May 5th 2015 - 17:38 UTC

  Brad Pitt invited to Ecuador to observe the 'pollution disaster” allegedly caused by Chevron

  

  US cinema star Brad Pitt has been invited by the Ecuadorian government to observe the pollution in the country's Amazon region allegedly caused by Chevron. President Rafael Correa announced the invitation in his regular weekend report, saying that the oil giant is in preparation of spearheading a film with the movie star about an alleged case against the company.

• Tuesday, May 5th 2015 - 09:25 UTC

  Chile asks World Court to throw out Bolivia's sea outlet claim: 'dispute has been settled'

  

  Landlocked Bolivia went to the World Court on Monday, seeking to force Chile to negotiate the granting of a corridor of sovereign territory giving it access to the sea for its natural gas and mineral exports. Bolivia lost its coastal territory after being defeated by Chile in the 1880s War of the Pacific. Peru an ally of Bolivia also lost territory.

• Tuesday, May 5th 2015 - 09:01 UTC

  Hung parliament and delicate coalition knitting forecasted for UK Thursday vote

  

  The Conservatives and Labor on Monday launched their final push to woo voters ahead of Britain's general election this week, as potential kingmaker parties made their pitch for power.