More than 50 countries have alerted the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) that they are considering utilizing nuclear power, announced this week the head of the United Nations body.
Spanish banks are strong and have solvency and do not need the government to take stakes in them, said Emilio Botin, the chairman of Spain's largest bank Santander.
More than 300 women, successful entrepreneurs, leaders in their workplace with fierce personalities, in smart business suits or colourful artisanal dresses from Latin American and Caribbean countries such as Peru, Panama, Jamaica, Honduras, Guatemala, Bolivia all exuberant, all very feminine were recently at a conference at the Hilton Hotel in Buenos Aires: Vital Voices of the Americas: Women as a Bridge to a More Prosperous Future Summit for Latin America and the Caribbean. Chilean President Michelle Bachelet and President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner addressed this gathering of government leaders, community and NGO advocates, and leading businesswomen.
A consortium of five Japanese steelmakers and a South Korean trading firm will invest 3.1 billion US dollars to acquire 40% of a Brazilian iron ore mining company Mineiros S.A. to secure supplies of iron ore, trading house Itochu Corp. announced Friday.
The German Institute Alfred Wegener said on Friday that a scientific expedition for the first time was able to navigate the fabled Northwest Passage linking the Atlantic and the Pacific oceans along Arctic waters bordering Russia and North America because they were free of ice
All 27 European Union states broadly support the bank rescue plan proposed for the bloc and the holding of a world finance summit, France's president has said.
The Chinese Government ordered this week the recall of all dairy products more than a month old in its latest move to contain the contaminated milk scandal that has triggered domestic and world-wide concern.
Nobel laureate and renowned economist Professor Joseph Stiglitz described the current financial crisis not as a predominantly economic problem, but as a social one, citing the three million US citizens who have already lost their homes, with another two million expected to lose theirs over the next few months.
The Conservative party of Primer Minister Stephen Harper on Wednesday evening declared victory in Canada's general election, but has fallen short of securing a parliamentary majority.
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown called on Wednesday for an international conference before the end of the year to reshape the financial world order.