International

• Saturday, September 25th 2010 - 05:02 UTC

  FAO emergency meeting to address soaring prices of cereals

  

  Experts from more than 75 FAO Member States agreed Friday that while there were no grounds for complacency, there was no indication of an impending world food crisis. They proposed exploring new measures to check food price volatility and manage associated risks.

• Friday, September 24th 2010 - 01:18 UTC

  Airlines recovery surprises and boosts profits but 2011 is forecasted as ‘austere’

  

  The International Air Transport Association (IATA) revised its 2010 industry outlook and is now projecting a profit of 8.9 billion US dollars (up from the 2.5 billion forecast in June), with Asia and Latinamerica leading. However, in its first look into 2011, IATA estimates that profitability will drop to 5.3 billion.

• Thursday, September 23rd 2010 - 04:43 UTC

  China and Peru top world list of fish tonnage caught, says National Geographic

  

  China leads the world in tonnage of fish caught annually as well as the amount of fish consumed, according to new findings reported in National Geographic magazine.

• Wednesday, September 22nd 2010 - 15:54 UTC

  Royal Navy: HMS Gloucester snub will not affect good relationship with Uruguay

  

  The Royal Navy is “disappointed” with Uruguay's treatment of a warship heading to the Falkland Islands, but the incident will not affect “the good defence relationship with the Uruguayans, writes Michael Powell The News from Portsmouth Defence correspondent.

• Wednesday, September 22nd 2010 - 15:08 UTC

  Book reveals MI6 helped prevent communist revolution in Brazil in 1935

  

  The most detailed and authoritative history of the first forty years (1909-1949) of the British Secret Intelligence Service, MI6, was released this week by the London publishers, Bloomsbury and in the USA by Penguin.

• Wednesday, September 22nd 2010 - 07:32 UTC

  US behind Brazil, China and India as preferred place to invest, says Bloomberg

  

  The United States has fallen behind emerging markets Brazil, China and India as the preferred place to invest, according to a survey from Bloomberg. The US ranked first three months ago in the last quarterly Bloomberg Global Poll.

• Wednesday, September 22nd 2010 - 07:22 UTC

  Gibraltar apologizes to Madrid for illegal police search in Spain

  

  The Gibraltar Government made public an apology to Spain at the weekend after a Madrid newspaper revealed that two Gibraltar policemen illegally searched a house in Alcaidesa and seized evidence without first informing the Spanish authorities.

• Wednesday, September 22nd 2010 - 07:18 UTC

  Global conference on aquaculture to discuss introduction of genetics

  

  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.

• Wednesday, September 22nd 2010 - 03:12 UTC

  Stowaway owl in the world’s largest cruise vessel returned to its habitat

  

  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.

• Monday, September 20th 2010 - 23:59 UTC

  International trade forecasted to grow 13.5% in 2010, says WTO

  

  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.