International

• 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.

• Thursday, November 19th 2009 - 13:26 UTC

  Russia opens its first embassy ever in Paraguay’s 200 year history

  

  The Russian Federation has formally opened its first embassy in Paraguay’s 200 year history. Although there have been diplomatic relations the Russian ambassador was concurrent from Buenos Aires and only since two decades ago.

• Thursday, November 19th 2009 - 05:42 UTC

  Israeli president Peres predicts the fall of Chavez and Ahmadinejad

  

  Israel President Shimon Peres predicted on his last day tour of Argentina and Brazil that the people of Venezuela and Iran will make their leaders disappear before too long. Speaking at a forum in Buenos Aires, Peres said both Hugo Chavez and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad have gone crazy over oil, which he said is not bad to sell but “really dangerous if you swallow it.”