International

• Friday, February 24th 2012 - 20:06 UTC

  French women say Mademoiselle is sexist so now it’s simply Madame or Monsieur

  

  Official French documents will no longer force women to reveal their marital status by requiring them to choose the title Mademoiselle or Madame.

• Friday, February 24th 2012 - 19:31 UTC

  Liverpool final homecoming ceremony for Type 42 destroyer that carries city’s name

  

  The City of Liverpool is preparing to give one of its proudest symbols a final homecoming it will never forget is sailing into the city for her last ever official visit, before the vessel is decommissioned following thirty years of outstanding service.

• Friday, February 24th 2012 - 19:14 UTC

  The Malvinas/Falklands: diplomacy interrupted

  

  Sending Prince William to the Malvinas, or Falkland Islands, gives out a message of intimidation. By Sean Penn

• Friday, February 24th 2012 - 19:07 UTC

  Caritas Spain: 22% of households below poverty line, another 30% on the cliff

  

  A report examining Spain’s current levels of poverty has made national headlines after its launch revealed shocking figures. Caritas Spain has drawn attention to the precariousness facing millions of people at a time when networks of social aid are in danger of disappearing.

• Friday, February 24th 2012 - 07:53 UTC

  Visiting US congressman offers support for Falklands’ self-determination

  

  South American rhetoric on the Falklands should, “be cooled, otherwise mistakes might happen,” US member of the house of Representatives Republican Congressman F. Jim Sensenbrenner told the Falkland Islands Legislative Assembly on Thursday.

• Friday, February 24th 2012 - 07:46 UTC

  Argentine claims of Falklands’ ‘militarization’ is ‘unfounded and baseless’

  

  Argentine claims that the UK is ‘militarizing’ the South Atlantic and the Falklands are ‘unfounded’ and ‘baseless’ according to a letter from British ambassador Mark Lyall-Grant addressed to the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon.

• Friday, February 24th 2012 - 07:43 UTC

  EU confirms Euro zone heading for its second recession in three years

  

  The Euro zone's economy is heading into its second recession in just three years, while the wider European Union will stagnate, the EU executive said, warning that the currency area has yet to break its vicious cycle of debt.

• Friday, February 24th 2012 - 07:34 UTC

  Extremely rare beaked whales filmed for the first time ever in Australian waters

  

  Australian researchers on Thursday revealed they had filmed a pod of extremely rare Shepherd's beaked whales for the first time ever.The Australian Antarctic Division team was tracking blue whales off the coast of Victoria state in January when they spotted the reclusive mammals, which are so rarely seen that no population estimates of the species exist.

• Friday, February 24th 2012 - 05:33 UTC

  Spain trusts Gibraltar and Malvinas cases will be addressed at next UN General Assembly

  

  Spain’s Foreign Affairs Minister Jose Manuel Garcia-Margallo trusts the next UN General Assembly will debate on the Gibraltar and Malvinas Islands conflicts, “and express support for negotiations”.

• Thursday, February 23rd 2012 - 06:33 UTC

  Argentine group insists with Falklands’ self determination and sharing natural resources

  

  A group of Argentine intellectuals, academics and free-thinkers have criticized President Cristina Fernandez government strategy of confronting the UK on the Malvinas Islands sovereignty dispute and called for dialogue that guarantees the self determination of the Falkland Islanders.