International

• Friday, October 11th 2013 - 08:11 UTC

  Don’t be fooled by Libya: this is a failed state

  

  Gunmen this week seized Libyan Prime Minister Ali Zeidan from a hotel in central Tripoli, releasing him shortly afterwards, but making it clear that post-Gaddafi Libya is a failed state and that the government is incapable of taking full control over its oilfields and export terminals

• Friday, October 11th 2013 - 08:06 UTC

  Nobel in Literature for short stories writer Alice Munro from Canada

  

  Canadian Alice Munro won the Nobel Prize in Literature for her tales of the struggles, loves and tragedies of women in small-town Canada that made her what the award-giving committee called the “master of the contemporary short story”.

• Friday, October 11th 2013 - 07:52 UTC

  Argentina prepared to comply with World Bank arbitration and pay corporations with bonds

  

  Argentina will offer 500 million dollars in sovereign bonds to resolve disputes with corporations at a World Bank arbitration panel, a financial daily newspaper reported on Thursday.

• Friday, October 11th 2013 - 07:21 UTC

  World Bank/Argentina agree on new Strategic partnership: 3bn dollars in loans

  

  The Argentine government and the World Bank agreed on Thursday in Washington on a new Strategic Partnership involving an estimated 3 billion dollars in the next three years which will concentrate on loans for education, health care and rural development.

• Thursday, October 10th 2013 - 05:21 UTC

  Pope Francis sends his blessings to President Cristina Fernandez

  

  Pope Francis has wished President Cristina Fernández a “full health recovery” following the surgery she underwent on Monday at the Fundación Favaloro clinic in Buenos Aires. “I beg you to feel my presence. I guarantee my nearness and prayer,” the ex Argentine cardinal said.

• Thursday, October 10th 2013 - 05:14 UTC

  Higgs boson or ‘God particle’ theorists take the Nobel Prize in Physics

  

  Two scientists have won the Nobel Prize in physics for their work on the theory of the Higgs boson: Peter Higgs, from the UK, and Francois Englert from Belgium, share the prize. In the 1960s, they were among several physicists who proposed a mechanism to explain why the most basic building blocks of the Universe have mass.

• Thursday, October 10th 2013 - 00:42 UTC

  Noble in chemistry for three scientists who developed computer simulation programs

  

  This year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry has gone to three scientists who developed computer programs that have become as important to chemists as test tubes. These programs accurately simulate how large, complex molecules behave and this work is central to drug discovery, materials science and much more.

• Wednesday, October 9th 2013 - 05:49 UTC

  Brazil finishes trade liberalization proposal for Mercosur/EU negotiations

  

  The Brazilian government National Trade Council, Camex, approved the contents of a proposed trade liberalization offer to be made by Brazil involving negotiations for a wide ranging cooperation and trade agreement between Mercosur and the European Union.

• Wednesday, October 9th 2013 - 05:33 UTC

  French Total signs to explore for oil to the north of Uruguay

  

  French energy giant Total signed on Tuesday a deal with Uruguay’s oil company Ancap to search for oil in the northern counties of Artigas and Salto in an area of 6.200 square kilometres.

• Tuesday, October 8th 2013 - 18:32 UTC

  IMF forecasts sluggish expansion in developing world; trims global output estimate

  

  The International Monetary Fund trimmed its forecasts for global output for the sixth time since early last year, saying stronger growth in most advanced economies would fail to make up for a more sluggish expansion in the developing world