International

• Tuesday, November 24th 2009 - 02:43 UTC

  Brazilian opposition questions Iranian president’s visit

  

  The main leader of the Brazilian opposition Jose Serra criticized the government of President Lula da Silva for receiving Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and recalled that the Iranian Defence minister has been accused of the attack against the Argentine Jewish Mutual, AMIA, in 1994, in Buenos Aires.

• Monday, November 23rd 2009 - 11:22 UTC

  Iranain President begins controversial visit to Brazil, Bolivia and Venezuela

  

  Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is expected Monday in Brasilia as part of a five nation tour to Africa and South America to boost ties with Latinamerica's biggest economy and a rare backer of Tehran's right to develop a nuclear programme.

• Monday, November 23rd 2009 - 11:06 UTC

  Chile was next target after Falklands in 1982, admits Argentine Brigadier

  

  The last Argentine dictatorship headed by General Leopoldo Fortunato Galtieri had plans to attack Chile following the invasion and recovery of the disputed Falklands/Malvinas Islands in 1982 revealed on Sunday the former chief of the Argentine Air Force at the time, Brigadier Basilio Lami Dozo.

• Monday, November 23rd 2009 - 11:03 UTC

  Tough guidelines to protect quality and origin of Scotch whisky

  

  New guidelines to protect whisky from foreign imitation, including new rules on labelling and bottling, are coming into force in Scotland on Monday. There will be a new requirement to only bottle Single Malts in Scotland, and tighter rules on the use of distillery names on bottle labels.

• Saturday, November 21st 2009 - 11:31 UTC

  World largest solar powered trimaran prepares to circumnavigate the world

  

  The world's largest solar-powered trimaran, PlanetSolar, will not have sails. Instead of wind it will rely on the power of the sun to circumnavigate the world in 140 days. That's according to plans sketched out by the financial backers and designers of the triple-hull, 30-metre-long, 15-metre-wide boat under construction at Knierim shipyard in Kiel, Germany.

• Saturday, November 21st 2009 - 10:53 UTC

  Cruise vessels on alert as four icebergs are spotted drifting towards New Zealand

  

  At least four icebergs are bearing down on New Zealand, drifting only a few hundred kilometres off the South Island coast and moving closer by the day.

• Saturday, November 21st 2009 - 05:48 UTC

  UK apologizes to Spain for “lack of judgement” incident in Gibraltar waters

  

  Giles Paxman, Britain's ambassador to Madrid has apologized after the Royal Navy fired on a buoy bearing the red and yellow of the Spanish flag during target practice off Gibraltar.

• Friday, November 20th 2009 - 10:35 UTC

  Compromise candidates for EU president and Foreign policy chief

  

  European Union leaders have opted for little-known compromise candidate, Belgium premier Herman Van Rompuy, to become the bloc's first full-time president, diplomats have said.

• Friday, November 20th 2009 - 10:29 UTC

  Papua New Guinea cannibal tribe could hold clue to “mad cow disease”

  

  Darwinian natural selection could help halt human “mad cow disease”, experts say after finding a tribe impervious to a related fatal brain disorder. The Papua New Guinea tribe developed strong genetic resistance after a major epidemic of the CJD-like disease, kuru, spread mostly by cannibalism.

• Friday, November 20th 2009 - 02:11 UTC

  OECD warns UK jobless could reach 9.5% by 2011

  

  United Kingdom’s jobless rate could soar to 9.5% in two years' time, even after the economy begins to recover, a leading economic body has warned.