International

• Tuesday, October 9th 2012 - 20:34 UTC

  Economic downturn in Spain: Red Cross to make first ever public appeal

  

  The Red Cross is to make its first ever public appeal in Spain to help those affected by the economic crisis. It will ask Spanish people to donate money to help 300.000 of the most vulnerable people.

• Tuesday, October 9th 2012 - 20:26 UTC

  UK displays ‘red line’ in plan to merge defence giants EADS and BAE Systems

  

  France and Germany must reduce their stakes in defence firm EADS if the UK is to allow a proposed merger with BAE Systems to go ahead, Defence Secretary Philip Hammond has said.

• Tuesday, October 9th 2012 - 20:15 UTC

  Ghana court to rule Thursday on the release of Argentina’s Navy vessel

  

  The case of the seized Argentine naval ship ARA Libertad was heard on Tuesday by a Ghana Commercial Court which will rule on Thursday whether to release the vessel impounded on arrival last week at the Port of Tema, according to the official Ghana News Agency.

• Tuesday, October 9th 2012 - 04:11 UTC

  Brazil strongly supports Argentina Falklands’ claim at defence ministers’ summit

  

  Brazil came out strongly in support of Argentina’s sovereignty claims over the Falklands/Malvinas Islands and criticized British military exercises in the Islands during his speech on Monday to the Americas Defence ministers’ conference taking place in Punta del Este, Uruguay.

• Tuesday, October 9th 2012 - 04:02 UTC

  Wikileaks Assange bail guarantors ordered to pay £ 93.000

  

  Nine people who put up bail for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, including two members of the British aristocracy and a Nobel Prize winner, were ordered to pay 93,000 pounds on Monday after Assange took refuge in Ecuador's embassy.

• Tuesday, October 9th 2012 - 03:15 UTC

  IMF top economist points to global uncertainty; wishes forecasts were ‘inaccurate’

  

  The IMF cut its global growth forecast for the second time since April and warned US and European policymakers that failure to fix their economic ills would prolong the slump.

• Tuesday, October 9th 2012 - 03:10 UTC

  Euro-zone launches 500bn bailout fund; Spain “needs no aid program”

  

  Euro-zone finance ministers launched their permanent 500 billion Euro bailout fund on Monday but said Spain, the country widely expected to be first to draw on it, was taking steps to overhaul its economy and did not need a bailout for now.

• Tuesday, October 9th 2012 - 01:24 UTC

  Hague reaffirms Gibraltar sovereignty but calls for more cooperation with Spain

  

  The British Government and the Government of Gibraltar must work ever more closely together in a spirit of openness and trust to further mutual interests and “without conceding on sovereignty, which must remain paramount,” they must also look to the future and work to strengthen relationships with Spain”.

• Tuesday, October 9th 2012 - 01:13 UTC

  Gibraltar unveils management scheme for its territorial waters

  

  The Gibraltar Government has provided for more protection for British Gibraltar Territorial Waters with the publication of the revised Southern Waters of Gibraltar Management Scheme.

• Tuesday, October 9th 2012 - 01:09 UTC

  Nobel in Medicine for stem-cells reprogramming that could some day repair damaged organs

  

  Scientists from Britain and Japan shared the Nobel Prize in Medicine for the discovery that adult cells can be reprogrammed back into stem cells which can turn into any kind of tissue and may one day repair damaged organs.