International

• Friday, October 11th 2013 - 13:03 UTC

  FIFA investigator meets English officials on frustrated 2018 World Cup bid

  

  Senior officials from the England team which bid to host the 2018 World Cup are meeting a lawyer appointed by FIFA to investigate allegations of wrong-doping surrounding the voting process.

• Friday, October 11th 2013 - 12:57 UTC

  Gibraltar Under-19 football team makes history as they compete for European Qualifier

  

  Gibraltar Under-19 national football squad left the Rock en route to be the first team representing Gibraltar in a European Championship Qualifier. The first stop is in Bulgaria, where the Gibraltar players will prepare with a friendly against the Bulgarian national team. From there, they will travel to the Czech Republic to compete at the European Championships.

• Friday, October 11th 2013 - 12:51 UTC

  Over six million ticket requests for 2014 World Cup, with 70% from Brazil

  

  A total of 6,164,682 requests for tickets for the 2014 FIFA World Cup had been received when the initial application period ended on Thursday 10 October 2013, of which 70.86% were from Brazil, with the remaining 29.14% from the rest of the world.

• Friday, October 11th 2013 - 10:14 UTC

  Gibraltar accuses Spain of incitement to racial hatred and calls for ad hoc talks

  

  Gibraltar accused Spain before the United Nations Fourth Committee of incitement to racial hatred and called for reasonable dialogue urging the start of ‘ad hoc’ talks to resolve issues Madrid has been expressing concern over.

• 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.