International

• Wednesday, April 17th 2013 - 07:50 UTC

  Margaret Thatcher: Some Personal Memories

  

  By David P. Michaels - I was, naturally, sad to hear the news about Lady Thatcher, but cheered myself up by remembering some wonderful, private moments with her, rather than the state of her health these recent years and her subsequent death this past week.

• Wednesday, April 17th 2013 - 07:43 UTC

  India’s exports to booming Colombia have crossed the billion dollar mark

  

  By R. Viswanathan - Yes. India's exports to Colombia have crossed the billion dollar mark, reaching 1.124 billion dollars in 2012. Colombia is the third biggest destination of India's exports to Latin America after Brazil and Mexico.

• Wednesday, April 17th 2013 - 07:41 UTC

  Europe austerity measures are impacting on healthcare and increasing xenophobia

  

  Austerity measures are impacting European Union healthcare services and causing an increase in xenophobia, warn the humanitarian group Doctors of the World this week highlighting Spain as a potential hotspot.

• Wednesday, April 17th 2013 - 07:33 UTC

  Austria keeps to bank secrecy and demands UK and US shed light on their tax havens

  

  Austria vowed to stick to its bank secrecy laws, defying renewed pressure to follow Luxembourg in revealing information on European Union depositors and criticized the United States and Britain for permitting tax havens.

• Tuesday, April 16th 2013 - 06:21 UTC

  Attack on Boston marathon leaves three dead, 17 critically injured and fears it was a 'terrorist bombing'

  

  An investigation is under way after two explosions near the finishing line of the Boston Marathon left three people dead and more than 100 injured. The FBI has taken over co-ordination of what it described as a “potential terrorist inquiry”.

• Tuesday, April 16th 2013 - 03:32 UTC

  Investors dumping precious metals: gold fall the biggest since 1980

  

  Gold futures plunged more than 9% on Monday, marking the biggest one-day percentage fall in 30 years and extending losses over the past two sessions to more than 13%, as the precious metal pushed deeper into bear market territory. The June contract for gold settled at 1,361.10 dollars an ounce on the Comex division of the New York Mercantile Exchange, 140.30 or 9.3% lower than the previous session's close.

• Tuesday, April 16th 2013 - 03:30 UTC

  Antarctica summer ice melt at it highest level in 1.000 years

  

  The summer ice melt in parts of Antarctica is at its highest level in 1,000 years, Australian and British researchers reported on Monday, adding new evidence of the impact of global warming on sensitive Antarctic glaciers and ice shelves.

• Monday, April 15th 2013 - 07:12 UTC

  Bishop from Thatcher’s birthplace warns about the cost of the funeral, ‘a mistake’

  

  The Bishop of Grantham has spoken out about the scale and cost of Margaret Thatcher's funeral. The Rt Rev Tim Ellis, from Baroness Thatcher's birthplace in Lincolnshire, has called the millions likely to be spent a “mistake”.

• Monday, April 15th 2013 - 06:07 UTC

  Bad start for Maduro: Capriles showing debilitates him inside the Bolivarian nomenclature

  

  Following five hours of a long recount process Venezuela’s National Electoral Council announced early Monday morning that acting president Nicolas Maduro is the new head of state, having defeated Henrique Capriles by less than a two percentage point difference.

• Monday, April 15th 2013 - 03:01 UTC

  Francis names advisory board of cardinals to advise on reforming the Curia

  

  Pope Francis, in his first major decision, set up an advisory board of cardinals from around the world to help him govern the Catholic Church and reform its troubled central administration.