International

• 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.”

• Wednesday, November 18th 2009 - 13:33 UTC

  Praise for the British press for exposing MP’s expenses scandal

  

  The head of Britain’s Press Complaints Commission has praised the exposure of Members of Parliament expenses claims - and said it showed the vital need to retain press freedom to investigate our “dysfunctional democracy”.

• Wednesday, November 18th 2009 - 08:10 UTC

  Cyber-war is here and to stay: ask US, China, Russia, Israel and France

  

  Major countries and nation-states are engaged in a “Cyber Cold War,” amassing cyber-weapons, conducting espionage, and testing networks in preparation for using the Internet to conduct war, according to a new report released by McAfee.

• Wednesday, November 18th 2009 - 03:02 UTC

  Unfriend, with real lex-appeal, word of the year for Oxford American Dictionary

  

  Unfriend“ has been named the word of the year by the New Oxford American Dictionary, chosen from a list of finalists with high technical jargon. Unfriend was defined as a verb that means to remove someone as a ”friend” on a social networking site such as Facebook or MySpace.

• Wednesday, November 18th 2009 - 02:38 UTC

  Chile and Uruguay, least corrupt in Latam and an inspiration for the region

  

  Chile, Uruguay and Costa Rica have the lowest perceived levels of corruption in Latinamerica, a benchmark and inspiration for the Americas according to the latest report from Transparency International. Argentina and Venezuela are among the low performers in a region where there are serious indications of “rampant corruption”.