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  • Friday, July 10th 2009 - 12:51 UTC

    G8 and G5 consensus to close the Doha Round trade talks next year

    A compromise must be reached before the G20 summit next September in Pittsburgh

    A consensus has emerged Thursday at the expanded Group of Eight summit in Italy on the need to close the Doha Round on world trade talks by the end of next year. The World Trade Organization (WTO) talks began in 2001 and were aimed at lowering trade barriers for agriculture and the services sector and to boost trade and development for poor countries.

  • Friday, July 10th 2009 - 12:31 UTC

    Cruise passengers ill with Norovirus virus demand refund

    Marco Polo passengers warned they won’t disembark unless they are contemplated

    Passengers on a cruise liner at the centre of a virus outbreak have said they will stay on the ship until they are promised their money back. The Marco Polo has been berthed at Invergordon on the Cromarty Firth in Scotland since Monday after hundreds of passengers and crew became ill with norovirus.

  • Friday, July 10th 2009 - 12:19 UTC

    Bank of England adopts “wait and see” stand on money injection

    Data from the UK economy remains contradictory

    Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee adopted a “wait and see” stand as they held off from delivering more aid to the recession-blighted UK economy. The Bank had been expected to expand its quantitative easing (QE) programme - effectively printing money - by £25 billion to £150 billion, but took no further action after its two-day meeting.

  • Friday, July 10th 2009 - 12:16 UTC

    Territorial waters dispute conditions Moratinos visit to Gibraltar

    Caruana claims Spain has thrown “an additional banana skin” to the controversy

    Spanish Foreign Secretary Miguel Angel Moratinos has declared that the Tripartite Forum of dialogue is not the place to solve the dispute over the Rock’s territorial waters between Britain, Gibraltar and Spain.

  • Friday, July 10th 2009 - 12:03 UTC

    Arrogant, ill mannered French tourists the worst in the world

    Bonjour and merci absent from French tourists’ lingo

    Already judged to be Europe’s worst tourists last year, the French have now been named as the worst in the world. In a survey of 4.500 international hotel owners, they are criticized for not speaking foreign languages and of being arrogant and tight with their cash.

  • Friday, July 10th 2009 - 12:01 UTC

    Oil giant Shell world’s largest company ahead of Wall-Mart and Exxon

    For the first time in ten years the biggest firm is not from the US

    Oil giant Royal Dutch Shell has replaced US retail group Wal-Mart as the world's largest company, the latest annual survey by Fortune magazine says.

  • Friday, July 10th 2009 - 07:33 UTC

    New constitution for St Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha

    The three islands are located in the middle of the Atlantic ocean.

    Britain’s Foreign Office Minister Chris Bryant welcomed on Thursday the new St Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha Constitution Order 2009, which among other things includes a Bill of Rights, better defines the role of the Governor and has separate chapters for each of the three islands.

  • Thursday, July 9th 2009 - 12:56 UTC

    G8 concerned with “exit strategies” from stimulus packages

    Hundreds of Billions of US dollars pumped into the richest economies could backfire into runaway debt and inflation

    The leaders of G8 believe the world economy still faces “significant risks” and may need further help, but macro-economic stimulus “must be consistent with price stability and medium-term fiscal sustainability” according to summit documents that also reflect failure to agree climate change goals for 2050.

  • Thursday, July 9th 2009 - 12:46 UTC

    New mix of hogs and seasonal flu detected in Canadian farm

    The hogs H3N2 virus has been around for over a decade

    Two farm workers in Western Canada have become infected with a new flu virus, health officials said this week, emphasizing the strain, described as non-pandemic influenza A virus, was not related to the H1N1 pandemic.

  • Thursday, July 9th 2009 - 12:25 UTC

    Bank of England to pump extra £ 25 billion to UK economy

    Recession is moderating but risks remain

    The Bank of England is set to pump an extra £25 billion into the recession-blighted UK economy. The rate-setting Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) is expected to vote to step up its quantitative easing programme - effectively printing more money - while holding interest rates at their record low of 0.5%.