International

• Wednesday, February 16th 2011 - 19:25 UTC

  US Justice Department looking into Google’ plan to become hub of online travel

  

  Google wants to become the hub of online travel, promising better bargains and more convenience by melding the internet search leader's capability with the web's top airline-fare tracker, ITA Software.

• Wednesday, February 16th 2011 - 19:12 UTC

  The mobile phone is the new PC anticipates Google CEO Schmidt

  

  The mobile phone is the new PC, Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt said this week at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain.

• Wednesday, February 16th 2011 - 13:23 UTC

  Japan cuts short whaling season; Greenpeace says whale-meat market overstocked

  

  The Japanese whaling fleet has called an early end to its whaling season in Antarctica a move which conservationists tentatively say could spell an end to whaling in the Southern Ocean. But Greenpeace Japan said there were other reasons to halt “scientific whaling”.

• Wednesday, February 16th 2011 - 01:12 UTC

  Deutsche Bourse and NYSE Euronext become world’s largest exchange operator

  

  Deutsche Boerse and NYSE Euronext announced Tuesday the creation of the world's largest exchange operator. A key compromise is an agreement to headquarter the combined group in both New York and Frankfurt.

• Wednesday, February 16th 2011 - 00:39 UTC

  What about tasting some ‘Charlem’, Charleston engineered meat?

  

  Vladimir Mironov, a US biologist and tissue engineer at the Medical University of South Carolina, has been working to grow “cultured” meat for a decade, and is closer than ever to achieving his goal.

• Wednesday, February 16th 2011 - 00:37 UTC

  French conservatives attack IMF Strauss-Khan who is eyeing Sarkozy’s post

  

  France's economy minister Tuesday urged IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn to stay at the global lender, as French conservatives sought to impede his potential bid for the French presidency next year.

• Wednesday, February 16th 2011 - 00:32 UTC

  World Bank food prices index jumps 15% in four months, just below 2008 record

  

  Rising food prices have driven an estimated 44 million people into poverty in developing countries since last June as food costs continue to rise to near 2008 levels, according to new World Bank Group numbers released ahead of the G20 Meeting of Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors in Paris.

• Wednesday, February 16th 2011 - 00:30 UTC

  IMF calls for Yuan and SDRs to play greater role in global finance

  

  IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn said the currencies of China and other emerging economies such as Brazil should play a greater role in global finance, as part of a bid to promote monetary stability

• Wednesday, February 16th 2011 - 00:28 UTC

  Japan insists G-20 must address the issue of capital inflows to emerging economies

  

  Japan's finance minister made it clear Tuesday that Tokyo is particularly interested in discussing ways to deal with the problem of strong capital inflows into emerging economies when he meets with officials from the Group of 20 industrial and developing nations in Paris later this week.

• Tuesday, February 15th 2011 - 23:02 UTC

  Worldwide in 2010, 44 journalists were killed; most vulnerable local reporters

  

  At least 44 journalists were killed worldwide because of their jobs last year, with Pakistan the deadliest country to work in, a rights group said Tuesday.