International

• Tuesday, October 12th 2010 - 06:51 UTC

  “Queen Elizabeth” maiden voyage fully booked less in less than 30 minutes

  

  The Queen has officially named Cunard's new Queen Elizabeth cruise ship in the port of Southampton. The ship will leave on her maiden voyage to the Canary Islands on Tuesday - a trip that was fully booked less than 30 minutes after going on sale.

• Tuesday, October 12th 2010 - 00:55 UTC

  The Kirchner couple government “is corroded by corruption”

  

  Peruvian Nobel Literature Prize 2010 Mario Vargas Llosa claims Argentine president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner leads a “government corroded by corruption” and said that Argentina is disappearing as a political reference in Latinamerica.

• Tuesday, October 12th 2010 - 00:42 UTC

  Spanish, the third most common language in the web

  

  Spanish is the third most common language in the web with 136 million users which represents 8% of the total number of internauts in the world, behind English (38%) and Chinese (22%) according to a report from Fundacion Telefonica New York.

• Saturday, October 9th 2010 - 02:04 UTC

  China reacts angrily to award of Nobel Peace Prize to dissident Liu Xiabo

  

  China has reacted angrily to news that one of its dissidents has won this year's Nobel Peace Prize, labelling it obscene and saying the prize has gone to a criminal. Nobel Committee president Thorbjoern Jagland announced the illustrious award in Oslo.

• Friday, October 8th 2010 - 00:42 UTC

  “Global currencies and trade wars” led to Great Depression warn IMF and WB

  

  World leaders must defuse currency tensions before they worsen to avoid repeating the mistakes of the Great Depression, the head of the World Bank President Robert Zoellick told reporters.

• Friday, October 8th 2010 - 00:36 UTC

  Nobel Literature Prize for Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa

  

  The 2010 Nobel literature prize winner Peruvian born author Mario Vargas Llosa said that he felt “a great joy'' when he was called with the news, but at first, he thought it might be a joke, ”I thought I had been completely forgotten by the Academy. I didn't even know the prize was being given this month.''

• Friday, October 8th 2010 - 00:28 UTC

  Mrs. Kirchner plummets to position 68 among most powerful women list

  

  Argentina’s President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner plummeted to the No. 68 spot on this year's “The World's 100 Most Powerful Women” list made by US business magazine Forbes in New York, down from her No 11 position last year.

• Wednesday, October 6th 2010 - 23:01 UTC

  Chinese millionaires love foreign luxury cars: 460.000 in seven months

  

  China's imported auto market continues to flourish with sales of 460,000 in the first seven months of this year. It represents a growth rate of 150% compared with the same period of last year.

• Wednesday, October 6th 2010 - 22:51 UTC

  Strong controversy in US over possible approval of genetically modified salmon

  

  The possible approval of genetically modified salmon has led to vigorous dispute in the USA. The recommendation by experts that that further testing should be conducted for the time being was the conclusion of a hearing arranged by the American Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and echoed broadly in the media. The salmon would have been the first genetically modified animal approved for human consumption.

• Wednesday, October 6th 2010 - 22:47 UTC

  GM cultivation totalled 134 million hectares in 2009; 77% soybeans, 49% cotton

  

  The cultivation of genetically modified plants increased globally in 2009 with the field area rising by nine million hectares over 2008 to a total of 134 million.