A Global Conference on Aquaculture 2010 will take place in Phuket, Thailand, with more than 700 participants from 60 countries, to evaluate where the sector stands today and face upcoming challenges and opportunities.
Florida State wildlife officials were called to the world's largest cruise ship, Royal Caribbean's Oasis of the Seas, to deal with a little stowaway – a burrowing owl.
International trade will expand by an unprecedented 13.5 this year, the World Trade Organization said, revising its forecast because of a faster-than-expected recovery in flows of global commerce.
Relations between the UK and Brazil were strengthened this month following the signing last week in Brazil of a Defence Cooperation Treaty between the two countries, according to the English publication Defence News and Business.
An advisor to China's central bank has rebuffed criticism from the US over Beijing's exchange rate policy. In a speech in Beijing, Li Daokui said China will not appreciate the Yuan solely because of external pressure.
For some residents of rural East Yorkshire in England it is quicker to send a message by carrier pigeon than rely on broadband internet – and that's official.
Novelist Martin Amis, author of some of Britain’s best known modern literature is fed up with criticisms in Britain, and also on request from his Uruguayan wife is planning to move definitively to the United States.
The Pope, currently visiting the United Kingdom has warned that religion - and Christianity in particular - is “being marginalised” around the world. His comments came in his keynote speech to UK MPs, senior members of British society, and religious leaders at Westminster Hall in central London.
Japan's prime minister said that authorities would keep intervening to curb the country’s currency strength as sagging manufacturing confidence underscored the threat the currency poses to the fragile economic recovery.
For the first time animal activists have shown evidence that an open and a black market in whale meat exists on the Faroe Islands. The animal protection activists Andreas Morlok (Project Whale Protection Action – ProWal) and Juergen Ortmueller (Whale and Dolphin-Protection-Forum – WDSF) (*) discovered on these islands, under the pretext of being anglers, that the pilot whale hunt nowadays has nothing to do with the old traditions which the hunters claim to be following.