International

• 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.

• Wednesday, October 6th 2010 - 22:46 UTC

  Outrage in Italy over house arrest conditions of a former Nazi SS captain

  

  Jewish groups have expressed outrage that a former Nazi SS captain convicted for his role in the massacre of 335 civilians in Italy is allowed out from his house detention to go shopping or to church.

• Wednesday, October 6th 2010 - 19:15 UTC

  Japan requests OIE free of FMD status; Korea de-listed resumes pork exports

  

  Japan formally requested the World Organization for Animal health, OIE, to declare the country free of foot and mouth disease do it can resume beef exports. Japan suffered an outbreak of FMD which forced the termination of 289.000 livestock.

• Wednesday, October 6th 2010 - 02:19 UTC

  IMF says financial system remains “Achilles heel of global recovery”

  

  Progress to restore global financial stability has suffered a setback in advanced economies, the International Monetary Fund said in its latest Global Financial Stability Report, with markets still sensitive to negative surprises.

• Wednesday, October 6th 2010 - 02:15 UTC

  IMF chief admits danger of “currencies as a policy weapon”

  

  Countries risk undermining the global economic recovery if they use their currencies to try to boost domestic growth, the head of the International Monetary Fund warned on Tuesday in a newspaper interview.

• Wednesday, October 6th 2010 - 00:13 UTC

  Fed and ECB “flood of liquidity” plunging the world into “chaos” warns Stiglitz

  

  The policies of extremely low interest rates maintained by the Federal Reserve and the European Central Bank are plunging the world into chaos instead of helping with the recovery of the global economy, the winner of the Nobel Prize in economics, Joseph Stiglitz, said on Tuesday.