International

• Saturday, August 14th 2010 - 08:48 UTC

  Coal power opposition goes global

  

  Almost 10,000 people from 100 countries have objected to plans for a new coal-fired power station at Hunterston in Ayrshire, Scotland, it was revealed yesterday (Friday 13 August) by WWF.

• Friday, August 13th 2010 - 06:48 UTC

  Indian, Brazilian, South African navies in trilateral war games

  

  Four Indian warships are being dispatched for a two-month-long overseas deployment along the African coast this week, which will culminate in complex trilateral war games among Indian, Brazilian and South African navies.

• Friday, August 13th 2010 - 04:06 UTC

  Asian and Latinamerican corporations buying Argentine assets

  

  In the nineties most Argentine companies were purchased by companies with headquarters in New York or Madrid but in this decade they come from less glamorous countries: China, India, Brazil, Russia and unsuspected places such as Mexico, Peru and Colombia.

• Friday, August 13th 2010 - 02:40 UTC

  UK faces “choppy recovery” in the next two years warns Bank of England

  

  The UK economy faces a “choppy recovery” over the next two years, the governor of the Bank of England, Mervyn King, has warned. His comments came as the Bank lowered its economic growth forecast and said inflation would stay higher for longer than previously forecast.

• Thursday, August 12th 2010 - 20:31 UTC

  Russian drought and fires catches the US with record crops of corn and soybeans

  

  Russian President Dmitri Medvedev says a full one-quarter of Russia's grain crops have been destroyed by weeks of drought and wildfires, leaving many Russian farmers close to bankruptcy.

• Thursday, August 12th 2010 - 18:00 UTC

  Spain top of the list for European pensioners seeking to relocate

  

  Sun, sea and sangria come top of the list for European pensioners seeking to relocate for retirement, a new survey showed this week. The survey by employee management consulting firm Aon Corporation found that one in four Europeans wishing to retire abroad would like to move to Spain, followed by France, Italy and the United States.

• Thursday, August 12th 2010 - 17:56 UTC

  Possible way out to Gibraltar/La Linea ‘car congestion tax’ controversy

  

  Spain's Public Works Ministry (Ministero de Fomento) has refused La Linea permission to divert traffic toward a toll gate, in a move that could scupper controversial plans to tax drivers heading to Gibraltar, reports the local press.

• Thursday, August 12th 2010 - 04:22 UTC

  Sterling holders interest in property moves to Netherlands and Germany

  

  Sterling holders interest in hitherto hot overseas property destinations has decidedly cooled due to the recession, a report out this week showed. Searches for property in the United Arab Emirates, which includes Dubai, have dipped 80% in the last two years, the report from foreign exchange company Moneycorp and the Rightmove property company found.

• Wednesday, August 11th 2010 - 23:56 UTC

  Chinese industrial growth slows down for fifth consecutive month

  

  Chinese industrial growth slowed again in July, adding to data suggesting that the country's economy is cooling. Factory output was up 13.4% from July 2009, but this was the fifth consecutive month the annual pace had slowed and the lowest rate of 2010.

• Wednesday, August 11th 2010 - 06:38 UTC

  Church bells in Wales return home to Santiago to mark Chile’s bicentennial

  

  A set of church bells that survived a Santiago fire and spent almost 150 year in Wales will return to Chile to mark the country's bicentennial celebrations, Minister for Latin America Jeremy Browne made the announcement Tuesday.