International

• Saturday, May 5th 2012 - 01:38 UTC

  IOC criticizes Argentina for involving the Games with politics and Falklands’ dispute

  

  The International Olympic Committee, IOC, criticized on Friday an Argentine television spot that links the London Games to Argentina's sovereignty dispute with Britain over the Falkland Islands, calling it a blatant attempt to use the games for political purposes.

• Friday, May 4th 2012 - 21:31 UTC

  Y&R holding condemns Falklands-Olympics spot and asks Argentine government to ban the ad

  

  WPP international advertising holding on Friday regretted a controversial TV spot showing an Argentine athlete training for the London Olympic Games in Port Stanley, Falkland Islands.

• Friday, May 4th 2012 - 17:21 UTC

  Falklands spot: Argentina trying to recover from “some diplomatic setbacks”, says Hague

  

  British Foreign Secretary William Hague has branded as a stunt an Olympic TV advert by Argentina featuring a hockey player training on the disputed Falkland Islands, described in the broadcast as “Argentine soil”.

• Friday, May 4th 2012 - 17:16 UTC

  Brazil committed to compete with China in Africa for resources and growing market

  

  Brazil pledged major investment and technology transfer to Africa to repay a “solidarity debt” from a country with a huge black population to the poorest but resource-rich continent.

• Friday, May 4th 2012 - 16:52 UTC

  Falklands’ spot: UK regrets Argentina’s attempts to exploit and politicise Olympic Games

  

  The British Foreign Office criticized a controversial spot showing an Argentine athlete training for the London Olympic Games in Port Stanley, in the Falklands as an attempt to exploit and politicise the Games.

• Friday, May 4th 2012 - 06:35 UTC

  The plot behind the Argentine Olympics-Falklands political spot

  

  The controversial Argentine government Olympic spot allegedly in support of the delegation that will competing in the coming London games had everybody on the black: public opinion, the athlete who ignored who really paid for his acting, obviously the Falklands where it was filmed and even the Argentine Olympic Committee.

• Friday, May 4th 2012 - 05:57 UTC

  Falklands joins Queen Elizabeth Diamond Jubilee global celebrations

  

  The Falkland Islands Government has set aside £3,000 for Queen Elizabeth’s Diamond Jubilee events. Some of this funding is available to people who wish to organize community events and £500 has been allocated for events on the West.

• Friday, May 4th 2012 - 00:36 UTC

  ECB calls on governments to put “growth at the centre of the agenda”

  

  The European Central Bank, meeting in Spain on Thursday, held interest rates at historic lows but insisted it was up to governments to find ways of boosting growth without busting fiscal rules.

• Friday, May 4th 2012 - 00:31 UTC

  Bank of England governor admits more should have done to prevent the crisis

  

  After coming under fire for years for refusing to accept responsibility for the crisis, Bank of England governor Mervyn King said in his BBC Today Program Lecture that the BoE should have done more -- but added that the bank's hands had been somewhat tied.

• Thursday, May 3rd 2012 - 22:08 UTC

  UN Ban Ki-moon message on World Press Freedom Day, May 3

  

  “In an era of rapid and often momentous change, the value of a vigorous, independent and pluralistic press is undeniable.