With many in the private sector eschewing emerging markets, developing countries – only one quarter of which have the resources needed to prevent a spike in poverty – face a financing shortfall of up to 700 billion US dollars this year, according to the World Bank.
Britain’s Royal Air Force fleet of Nimrod surveillance planes, some of which were involved in the 1982 Falkland Islands conflict, has been temporarily withdrawn from operations overseas, almost a year after a coroner called for the aircraft to be grounded because of safety concerns.
The world should adopt economic stimulus plans that carry well into 2010, and possibly 2011, to ease a global recession and must expand financial regulation across all sectors to prevent a similar crisis in future, said the International Monetary Fund.
Spain confirmed that a woman has died from the human form of mad cow disease, the fifth such death in Spain since 2005. The victim died in January in the northern city of Santander, according to the statement, released by the Ministry of Health.
Former British Cabinet minister Peter Hain has delivered a stark warning that Labour faces electoral disaster unless it adopts a very different agenda. In what will be seen as a thinly-veiled attack on Gordon Brown's leadership, Mr Hain insisted the party had lost its narrative and was no longer seen as a credible force for change.
On the 60th anniversary of the British Commonwealth, Queen Elizabeth II message underlines the continuing values and goals on which the organization rests: freedom, democracy and human rights; equality and equity; development and prosperity.
Spanish police arrested a man arriving at Barcelona's airport from Chile on a wheelchair after determining that the cast on his fractured left leg was made of cocaine, the Interior Ministry said in a statement Friday.
Britain’s Lloyds Banking Group is close to a deal with the government for a £258bn asset insurance scheme, according to BBC sources. The agreement could increase the taxpayer's share in the bank from its current level of 43% to as much as 70%, according to reports.
A leading Spanish Senator welcomed Gibraltar’s Chief Minister’s decision not to greet the Princess Royal at the runway when she arrived on an official visit to the Rock
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao has said the current year will be the most difficult the country has faced this century because of the global economic crisis. Addressing parliament this week, Mr Wen reiterated that there would be a 585 billion US dollars investment program to stimulate the Chinese economy.