International

• Monday, March 29th 2010 - 04:19 UTC

  Chinese firm buys Volvo from Ford for 1.8 billion USD

  

  A Chinese firm has sealed a 1.8 billion USD deal to buy Volvo, the troubled US-owned Swedish car maker, ending more than a decade of ownership by Ford Motors.

• Monday, March 29th 2010 - 00:21 UTC

  UK participates in Chile’s FIDAE with cutting edge technology in defence

  

  United Kingdom companies involved in some of the most cutting edge technology in the defence and security sectors are currently in Santiago for the Air and space air exhibition, FIDAE.

• Sunday, March 28th 2010 - 21:46 UTC

  First gay marriage in Westminster: groom was Foreign Office minister Chris Bryant

  

  The Palace of Westminster, which houses the British Parliament, was on Saturday the venue of an unprecedented event: its first gay wedding.

• Saturday, March 27th 2010 - 06:47 UTC

  Chile and Uruguay best ranked in global information technology report

  

  Sweden tops the rankings of The Global Information Technology Report 2009-2010, released this week for the ninth consecutive year by the World Economic Forum.

• Saturday, March 27th 2010 - 06:44 UTC

  Falklands join Earth Hour, the 125th country to participate in the global event

  

  The Falkland Islands are to participate Saturday in ‘Earth Hour’, a global awareness campaign on climate change organised by the World Wide Fund for Nature which spans thousands of cities around the world.

• Saturday, March 27th 2010 - 06:19 UTC

  In support of our planet, Earth Hour’s global display of climate action

  

  Saturday March 27 at 8.30pm local time, more than 4000 cities and towns across 125 countries and regions will switch off their lights for Earth Hour in an historic moment of global unity.

• Saturday, March 27th 2010 - 06:16 UTC

  Catholic Church is not above the law

  The Biblical formula “Render unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's, and unto God the things that are God's” is generally taken to mean that people should recognize the authority of the state in secular matters, but that is not necessarily what Jesus meant by it. It is certainly not the current practice of the Roman Catholic Church, although the rule in modern democracies is very clear: The law applies equally to everyone, even priests.

• Saturday, March 27th 2010 - 06:04 UTC

  Web 2.0 versus Control 2.0

  

  The fight for free access to information is being played out to an ever greater extent on the Internet. The emerging general trend is that a growing number of countries are attempting to tighten their control of the Net, but at the same time, increasingly inventive netizens demonstrate mutual solidarity by mobilizing when necessary.

• Saturday, March 27th 2010 - 03:25 UTC

  Spanish minister defends Gibraltar friendly-approach policy before Congress

  

  Spain is defending its interests in relation to Gibraltar “firmly and efficiently” Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos declared in a special session of Congress in Madrid. But he also underlined Spain’s commitment for police and judicial co-operation to stamp out crime in the area.

• Saturday, March 27th 2010 - 03:22 UTC

  German scientists find evidence of major tsunami in the Atlantic, 2000 years ago

  

  German scientists said Thursday they discovered evidence that a major natural disaster occurred in the Atlantic Ocean around 2,000 years ago - possibly triggering a monster tsunami.