International

• Wednesday, November 25th 2009 - 09:58 UTC

  Moratinos downplays incidents in Gibraltar waters with the Guardia Civil

  

  Spanish foreign affairs minister Miguel Ángel Moratinos said the Guardia Civil continued to cooperate with law enforcement agencies in the sea around Gibraltar, despite Spain not recognising British sovereignty of those waters.

• Wednesday, November 25th 2009 - 06:00 UTC

  On the 150th anniversary of “On the origin of species”, Darwin’s missing notebook

  

  Charles Darwin's encounter with the first of the two creatures that would provide him with the early clues for his theory of evolution was not a dramatic one. “Met an immense Turpin; took little notice of me,” the 26-year-old jotted in his notebook in 1835.

• Wednesday, November 25th 2009 - 05:06 UTC

  Bank of England emergency loans at height of crisis peaked £ 61.6 billion

  

  Emergency loans to Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) and HBOS peaked at £61.6 billion at the height of the financial crisis, the Bank of England has said. The Bank revealed for the first time the details of its Emergency Liquidity Assistance (ELA) to both banks in a submission to the Treasury Select Committee.

• Tuesday, November 24th 2009 - 13:12 UTC

  Argentina defends the right of the Palestine people to have a State

  

  Argentine President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner defended the right of the Palestinian State to “have its own frontiers” in a lunch shared with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, at the Government House.

• Tuesday, November 24th 2009 - 13:11 UTC

  Baroness Thatcher returns to Downing Street

  

  Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher moved back into Downing Street, in the shape of a portrait by royal artist Richard Stone. Nicholas Glass reports. The unveiling had been delayed several times due to the ailing health of Baroness Thatcher, 84, who attended Monday the private reception.

• Tuesday, November 24th 2009 - 13:03 UTC

  Family of de Menezes reaches compensation agreement with London police

  

  The family of Brazilian citizen Jean Charles de Menezes has agreed a compensation deal with the London Metropolitan Police. Relatives of the Brazilian have been locked in an often acrimonious legal battle with the force since he was shot dead at Stockwell Tube station on July 22, 2005.

• Tuesday, November 24th 2009 - 12:57 UTC

  Boeing 747 flies an engine with 50% bio-kerosene mix

  

  A Boeing 747, one of four engines powered by a 50% bio-kerosene mix, circled the Netherlands for an hour on Monday for what airline KLM called the world's first passenger flight using bio-fuel.

• Tuesday, November 24th 2009 - 12:45 UTC

  Deep sea abyss swamped with diversity of life and new species

  

  From a translucent giant octopus to a fish bearing barbed fangs, a team of international scientists say they have discovered hundreds of new species living in total darkness at least 5km beneath the surface of the world's oceans.

• Tuesday, November 24th 2009 - 03:50 UTC

  Quotas for Atlantic blue fin tuna cut by one third to 13.500 tons

  

  The body responsible for managing Atlantic blue fin tuna has decided not to suspend the fishery in response to concerns over dwindling stocks. The International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (Iccat) instead decided to lower the annual catch quota by about one third.

• Tuesday, November 24th 2009 - 03:41 UTC

  Spain prepares to announce radical reforms while “economy begins recovery”

  

  Spanish president Jose Luis Rodríguez Zapatero said Monday that the country’s “economic recovery” has started and all indicates that the rhythm will accelerate.