International

• Wednesday, August 10th 2011 - 17:39 UTC

  UK tourism authority pulls down ‘Visit Britain’ ads and videos

  

  “Visit Britain”, the UK's tourism authority, has pulled a video promoting Britain with the tag line “You're Invited” from adverts running alongside BBC iPlayer programs overseas, reports The Guardian.

• Wednesday, August 10th 2011 - 07:35 UTC

  US, EU and Asian markets rebound strongly on Fed Reserve announcement

  

  Asian markets rebounded after the US Federal Reserve said it will keep interest rates on hold and Wall Street had its best day in two years. The decision by the US central bank to keep rates at current levels until at least 2013 helped stem one of the biggest sell-offs in recent years.

• Wednesday, August 10th 2011 - 07:30 UTC

  China’s surplus highest in two years, but export growth rate expected to slow

  

  China’s trade surplus surged to 31.5 billion dollars in July, the highest level in more than two years, as exports rose to a record. Exports climbed 20.4% from a year earlier while imports surged 22.9%, the Customs bureau said on its website Wednesday.

• Wednesday, August 10th 2011 - 05:38 UTC

  London relatively quite with 16.000 police, but rioting extends to other cities

  

  Hundreds of people were arrested as the worst rioting in a generation spread from London to cities across the length and breadth of England.

• Tuesday, August 9th 2011 - 21:53 UTC

  Inflation in China higher than expected; food prices climb 14.8% in 12 months

  

  Inflation in China was higher than expected in July, despite a series of efforts by the government to rein in prices. Consumer prices in July rose 6.5% compared with the same month last year, the National Bureau of Statistics said.

• Tuesday, August 9th 2011 - 19:25 UTC

  “Demanding Falklands’ sovereignty talks before anything else, states Argentina’ current default position”

  

  In an interview with the Buenos Aires Herald, Argentine Defence Minister Arturo Puricelli demands that Falklands’ sovereignty talks must be started before any other issues can be discussed.

• Tuesday, August 9th 2011 - 12:53 UTC

  “The most significant financial crisis capitalism has faced in contemporary history”

  

  “I have no doubts we are before the most significant financial crisis capitalism has faced in contemporary history”, said Uruguay’s Vice-president Danilo Astori when asked about the possible consequences for the region if the lack of confidence in the US dollar and Euro extends.

• Tuesday, August 9th 2011 - 07:37 UTC

  Gold soars to 1.700 dollars as world markets are on free-fall fearing recession

  

  Asian equity markets were sharply down early Tuesday as investors fearing a possible global economic slowdown continued to flee stocks as had happened earlier in Europe, United States and Latin America.

• Tuesday, August 9th 2011 - 07:26 UTC

  Canada-Brazil CEO forum to consider trade agreement with Mercosur

  

  Visiting Canadian Primer Minister Stephen Harper and Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff signed on Monday several agreements on air travel, pension benefits, international aid and other areas at the Planalto Executive palace in Brasilia.

• Monday, August 8th 2011 - 20:39 UTC

  Youth killed by polar bear is grandson of former Gibraltar governor

  

  Horatio Chapple, 17, an aspiring UK medical student, who was killed last week when a polar bear rampaged into the tent in which he and his friends were sleeping on a glacier in Svalbard, Norway, is Gibraltar’s former Governor Sir John Chapple’s grandson.