International

• Friday, June 14th 2013 - 00:05 UTC

  NASA investing in 3D ‘pizza printer’ for astronauts long space missions

  

  With concerns about our ability to feed 12 billion people by the end of the century, one engineer is looking to replace conventional food with something produced by a 3D printer, and he’s getting a grant from NASA to create a prototype.

• Thursday, June 13th 2013 - 09:23 UTC

  France conditions EU/US free trade talks demanding exclusion of movies and digital media

  

  France threatened to block the start of free trade talks between the European Union and the United States if movies and digital media are not kept out the negotiations. Two days before EU countries are supposed to give the go-ahead for negotiations France said it would veto the talks unless the sector - that it sees as crucial to its cultural identity and under threat from Hollywood - is excluded.

• Thursday, June 13th 2013 - 07:20 UTC

  China censors summit picture of Xi-Winnie the Pooh with Tigger-Obama

  

  Chinese bloggers got on the wrong side of censors this week when they likened an image of Presidents Xi and Obama at the Sunnylands estate in California to a picture of the popular children’s cartoon characters Winnie the Pooh and Tigger.

• Thursday, June 13th 2013 - 07:17 UTC

  Wages in the UK have fallen dramatically since the recession, helping to keep jobs

  

  Wages in the United Kingdom have fallen more in real terms during the current economic downturn than ever before, according to a report. One third of workers who stayed in the same job saw a wage cut or freeze between 2010 and 2011, said the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS).

• Thursday, June 13th 2013 - 07:13 UTC

  World soccer star Messi involved in alleged fiscal hat-tricks

  

  World famous Barcelona and Argentine striker Lionel Messi has declared on his Facebook page that he is “surprised” by accusations in Spain of tax avoidance.

• Thursday, June 13th 2013 - 07:09 UTC

  Falklands and Ascension coins to commemorate the life of Lady Thatcher

  

  The Falkland Islands and Ascension Island have released two coins from Pobjoy Mint to commemorate the life of former British Prime Minister Baroness Thatcher who passed away at the age of 87 on 8 April 2013.

• Thursday, June 13th 2013 - 06:59 UTC

  Millions of underage children worldwide working in hazardous conditions

  

  An estimated 10.5 million children worldwide, most of them under age, are working as domestic workers in people’s homes, in hazardous and sometimes slavery-like conditions, says the ILO. Six and a half million of these child labourers are aged between five and 14 years-old. More than 71% are girls.

• Thursday, June 13th 2013 - 06:46 UTC

  Falklands at C 24 June 20; UN Committee supports sending missions to Non-self Governing Territories

  

  The United Nations Special Committee on Decolonization, or C 24, will be hearing the Falklands/Malvinas question in a week’s time, Thursday June 20, after having heard those relative to Gibraltar and Western Sahara on Wednesday 12 June.

• Thursday, June 13th 2013 - 06:41 UTC

  World Bank cuts global growth outlook as Europe remains in deep recession

  

  The World Bank cut its outlook for global growth, saying the economy should expand more slowly this year than last as it cited a deeper-than-expected recession in Europe and a recent slowdown in some emerging markets such as BRIC members.

• Thursday, June 13th 2013 - 06:38 UTC

  Falklands’ hero and 1982 governor Sir Rex Hunt honoured by Foreign Secretary

  

  The British Government’s, “pride and thanks,” was expressed at Sir Rex Hunt’s memorial service in London last Tuesday. Sir Rex Hunt was Governor of the Falkland Islands when the Argentine military invasion on 2 April 1982. After the conflict Sir Rex who the Argentines expelled from the Islands returned to this job at Government House in Stanley.