International

• Thursday, October 11th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Australia Targets Japanese Youth With YouTube

  

  Australia has taken its battle against Japanese whaling in the Antarctic to the Internet, with a new YouTube campaign unveiled on Tuesday that targets Japanese children.

• Thursday, October 11th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  British activist Doris Lessing wins Nobel for literature

  

  British writer, Iran born, Doris Lessing won the 2007 Nobel Prize in literature, the Swedish Academy announced Thursday citing her “skepticism, fire and visionary power” in dozens of works, notably her classic “The Golden Notebook.”

• Thursday, October 11th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Global education spending concentrated in few rich countries

  

  A new publication by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) shows that global spending on education is concentrated in just a few countries, with the education budget of a single country like France or Italy outweighing education spending across all of sub-Saharan Africa.

• Tuesday, October 9th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Financial support for British farmers hit by FMD restrictions

  

  British farmers affected by current restrictions on the movement of animals imposed following the outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease, FMD, are to be given a multi-million-pound package of support.

• Monday, October 8th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Gibraltar to address UN Decolonization special session

  

  The United Nations Fourth Committee, the Special Political and Decolonization, meets this Monday for an opening session under the Chairmanship of Abdalmahmood Abdalhaleem Mohamad from Sudan.

• Monday, October 8th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Gibraltar votes on Thursday under new 2006 constitution

  

  On October 11th Gibraltar goes to the polls to elect a new Government. Under the new 2006 constitution there will be an increase in the number of votes per person to ten from the previous eight, with the two major parties, the Gibraltar Social Democrats (GSD) and the Gibraltar Socialist Labour Party (GSLP) with the newer Progressive Democracy Party (PDP) fielding six and two independent candidates on offer.

• Sunday, October 7th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Chilean striker stars for Vitesse

  

  Colo Colo are one of the big names of Chilean football and 22 year old striker Juan Lorca quickly became a star at the club which he joined as a junior player at the age of 12.

• Saturday, October 6th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  PM Gordon Brown rules out autumn election

  

  Gordon Brown has said he will not call a general election this autumn. The PM said he wanted a chance to show the country his “vision for change” and to develop his policies further.

• Friday, October 5th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Soaring wheat prices cause food crises in poor countries

  

  Up to 36 countries worldwide are facing food crises at a time when the price of wheat has hit record levels and stocks are described as worryingly low by the latest crop and food situation report published by the UN Friday.

• Thursday, October 4th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  “Risk reappraisal” leaves Euro rate unchanged at 4%

  

  The Governing Council of the European Central Bank meeting in Vienna decided to leave interest rates unchanged at 4%. The decision comes despite the strength of the Euro against the US dollar and calls from some European leaders to cut rates and boost European competitiveness.