International

• Saturday, September 24th 2011 - 22:22 UTC

  Human Rights Watch praises “critical” support from four Latam countries

  

  Four Latin American countries, Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Mexico, have been identified among the seven most important countries on the UN Human Rights Council, in a report by the Human Rights Watch organisation.

• Saturday, September 24th 2011 - 22:17 UTC

  The Medvedev-Putin teams hang on: next March they change posts

  

  Vladimir Putin declared he was ready to return to the Russian presidency after current head of state Dmitry Medvedev announced he would bow to his mentor at March's election.

• Saturday, September 24th 2011 - 22:13 UTC

  Geithner calls on the Euro zone for a ‘firewall’ against the crisis spreading

  

  US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner has called on European leaders to take urgent new steps to create a 'firewall' against the crisis spreading. He added that decisions on how to tackle Euro zone debt could not wait “until the crisis gets more severe”.

• Saturday, September 24th 2011 - 21:57 UTC

  Experiment with ‘faster than light’ neutrino particles open dreams of time travel

  

  Sub-atomic particles apparently travelling faster than light could force a major rethink of theories about how the cosmos works and even allow dreams of time travel and extra dimensions, scientists said on Friday.

• Saturday, September 24th 2011 - 21:50 UTC

  Abbas anticipates long debate in Security Council on Palestine UN membership

  

  Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said he expected the Security Council to finish debating his nation's application for full UN membership within weeks, not months.

• Saturday, September 24th 2011 - 21:45 UTC

  Major purge in UBS; main shareholder Singapore fund demands tighter controls

  

  Swiss bank UBS's Chief Executive Oswald Gruebel resigned, shouldering the blame after its scandal-hit investment banking business lost 2.3 billion dollars in alleged rogue trading.

• Saturday, September 24th 2011 - 00:50 UTC

  Israel and Palestinians told to resume peace talks within one month

  

  The Quartet of Middle East negotiators urged Israel and the Palestinians on Friday to resume peace talks within one month and aim for a deal by the end of 2012.

• Friday, September 23rd 2011 - 23:23 UTC

  US court rules “Black Swan” underwater treasure must be returned to Spain

  

  A US appeals court has ruled that Odyssey Marine Exploration must return the controversial ‘Black Swan’ treasure to Spain. The judgement upholds a prior ruling from a lower court but Odyssey said it would challenge the decision.

• Friday, September 23rd 2011 - 23:12 UTC

  European banks have already received 420 billion Euros, reveals EC

  

  “The recapitalization of European banks is something that is ongoing, it is something that is already happening,” Commission spokesman Olivier Bailly told a regular briefing.

• Friday, September 23rd 2011 - 22:29 UTC

  Greece’s ‘orderly default’ with 50% haircut for bondholders round the corner

  

  Greek Finance Minister Evangelos Venizelos was quoted by two newspapers as saying an orderly default with a 50% haircut for bondholders was one of three possible scenarios for resolving the heavily indebted euro zone nation's fiscal woes.