International

Wednesday, July 13th 2011 - 16:12 UTC
UK political system targets News Corporation: end of Murdoch’s empire?

Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation has announced that it is dropping its planned bid to take full ownership of satellite broadcaster BSkyB. The announcement came as the House of Commons prepared to vote for a motion supported by all major party leaders calling on Mr Murdoch to do so.
Wednesday, July 13th 2011 - 00:44 UTC
Sao Paulo and Rio do Janeiro among the 12 most expensive cities in the world

Brazil’s two biggest cities are getting more and more costly and are more expensive places to live in than New York, according to the annual cost of living study released Tuesday by business consulting firm Mercer.
Wednesday, July 13th 2011 - 00:29 UTC
The year of the seven-billionth baby, up two billion since July 1987

The United Nations marked on Monday July 11, World Population Day, with Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon stressing that ending global poverty and inequality was the key to unleashing the great human potential for prosperity and peaceful coexistence.
Tuesday, July 12th 2011 - 23:43 UTC
US and Spain host to most of the 6.5 million that migrated from the Americas from 2003 to 2009

Between 2003 and 2009, nearly 950,000 people per year emigrated from the Americas to countries of the OECD and of this total, nearly half went to the United States, and a fourth to Spain, according to the First Report on International Migration in the Americas.
Tuesday, July 12th 2011 - 23:32 UTC
China secures one of IMF four Deputy Managing Director posts

China has secured its first top-level post at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in recognition of its growing power in the global economy. New IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde appointed Zhu Min to a newly created deputy managing director post.
Tuesday, July 12th 2011 - 07:30 UTC
Police reveal former PM Brown could have been victim of Murdoch’s tabloid

Police have said that former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown may have been a victim of phone hacking by an investigator working for British newspapers, his spokeswoman said on Monday.
Tuesday, July 12th 2011 - 07:23 UTC
News of the World bought UK royal family details from police team, says BBC

The News of the World newspaper bought contact details about the royal family from a policeman, the BBC reported today, deepening the scandal engulfing the News Corp media empire.
Tuesday, July 12th 2011 - 07:01 UTC
EU digs in to defend Euro: lower costs of aid packages and beefs up stability fund

European Union finance ministers pledged to beef up a rescue package for troubled economies such as Greece as they went to battle to contain debt crisis contagion threatening to engulf Silvio Berlusconi’s Italy and Socialist Spain.
Tuesday, July 12th 2011 - 03:47 UTC
South Georgia mentioned as example of longline fisheries seabirds protection

A new global estimate of the impact of longline fisheries on seabirds reveals that, despite efforts to reduce seabird deaths, upwards of 300,000 birds are still being killed every year. However South Georgia is praised for having imposed strict regulations that have seen seabird deaths as bycatch drop by 99%.
Tuesday, July 12th 2011 - 01:47 UTC
Euro confidence crisis, Italian chapter, sends world markets tumbling

Global stocks and the Euro sank as fears that Italy could become the latest country caught up in the Euro-zone debt crisis caused investors to sell risky assets and snap up safe-haven US Treasury debt, pushing the 10-year note's yield below 3%.