International

• Tuesday, January 29th 2008 - 20:00 UTC

  “Good” global tourism outlook after a record 2007

  

  Global tourism soared to a record performance in 2007, led by emerging markets, and the outlook remains good despite financial crises and high oil prices, the UN World Tourism Organisation said Tuesday in Madrid.

• Tuesday, January 29th 2008 - 20:00 UTC

  IMF: significant global slowdown but no recession

  Stormed by recent financial market turbulence and a weakening U.S. performance, world growth is projected to slow to 4.1% in 2008, down from an estimated 4.9% last year, the IMF said in its quarterly update for the global economy.

• Monday, January 28th 2008 - 20:00 UTC

  Doha Round ministers hoping for an Easter miracle in gloomy 08

  

  World Trade Organization members are hoping to agree on the most challenging chapters of the stalled Doha round of trade talks next Easter said the Swiss economy minister in Davos during the closing meetings of the economic forum.

• Sunday, January 27th 2008 - 20:00 UTC

  IMF suggests more regulation to address financial imbalances

  

  International Monetary Fund Director General Dominique Strauss-Kahn called for a serious “response” to the risk of a United States recession and encouraged fiscal stimulus programs in some countries warning that monetary policy “is not enough”. He also supported more multilateral regulation.

• Thursday, January 24th 2008 - 20:00 UTC

  Global unemployment set to increase this year syas ILO

  Economic turbulence largely due to credit market turmoil and rising oil prices could spur an increase in global unemployment by an estimated 5 million persons in 2008, the International Labour Office (ILO) said Thursday in its annual Global Employment Trends report (GET).

• Thursday, January 17th 2008 - 20:00 UTC

  Brucellosis outbreak hits Italy's mozzarella producing buffalos

  

  The production of one of Italy's best known exports, mozzarella, is under threat from an infection of brucellosis spreading through herds of water buffalo. The Italian government has set up an emergency commission to try and stop the spread of the disease, which affects milk production.

• Thursday, January 17th 2008 - 20:00 UTC

  HMS Endurance visit rejected by Ushuaia Malvinas veterans

  

  Argentine Malvinas veterans from Tierra del Fuego in the extreme south of Argentina made public their dissatisfaction with the coming visit of Britain's ice patrol HMS Endurance to the port of Ushuaia next January 26.

• Thursday, January 17th 2008 - 20:00 UTC

  Whalers hand militant conservationists to Australian officials

  

  Japanese whalers are praising the Australian government for its help to resolve a stand-off with militant conservationists in Antarctic waters. The whalers handed over the Australian and British protesters to Australian officials overnight

• Wednesday, January 16th 2008 - 20:00 UTC

  HMS Endurance breaks ice North of James Ross Island

  

  HMS ENDURANCE breaking through the ice North of James Ross Island, the ship is currently transferring scientist to Mount Haddington where they will be carrying out ice drilling for the next 2 months.

• Wednesday, January 16th 2008 - 20:00 UTC

  OPEC: no oil shortage; investors abandoning US dollar

  

  OPEC is ready to increase its output if the fundamentals of supply and demand justify such a move, but does not believe there is a current shortage of oil in the market, the cartel's secretary-general Abdallah el-Badri said on Wednesday.