International

• Wednesday, June 10th 2009 - 13:29 UTC

  Falklands set for ‘peaceful’ relationship with new FCO Overseas Territory official?

  

  The Falkland Islands may be set to have a more peaceful relationship with the new Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for the Overseas Territories, than with the last.

• Wednesday, June 10th 2009 - 13:21 UTC

  Flight 447: Airlines rush to change Airbus speed sensors

  

  As Brazilian divers continue to recover bodies and remains of Air France Flight 447 wreckage, airlines worldwide are scrambling to replace plane speed sensors on a number of Airbus jets in the aftermath of the accident.

• Tuesday, June 9th 2009 - 12:52 UTC

  Vancouver, Canada chosen as the most liveable city in the world

  

  The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) announced Monday that Vancouver, British Columbia is the best city in the world to live, followed by Vienna, Austria and Melbourne, Australia.

• Tuesday, June 9th 2009 - 12:50 UTC

  Spain to the rescue of banks with 9 billion Euros emergency fund

  

  The Spanish government plans to set up a 9 billion Euros emergency fund to prop up the country's weakest banks if other measures fail, Finance Minister Elena Salgado said in a Sunday interview with Madrid’s ABC.

• Tuesday, June 9th 2009 - 10:01 UTC

  Air France pilots’ union demand replacement of speed sensors

  

  An Air France labour union of pilots called on its members to refuse to fly Airbus A330s and A340s until the airline replaces speed sensors after investigators said the equipment probably played a role in June first Flighty 447 plane crash.

• Tuesday, June 9th 2009 - 09:47 UTC

  World military expenditure in 2008 totalled 1.46 trillion, up 45% since 1999

  

  United States spent 607 billion US dollars on its military in 2008, accounting for 42% of the total world military expenditure for the year with China, France and the United Kingdom far behind, according to the 2009 Yearbook on Armaments, Disarmament and International Security, issued by Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, SIPRI, on Monday.

• Tuesday, June 9th 2009 - 09:33 UTC

  World celebrates “one ocean, once climate, one future”

  

  The world’s oceans generate most of the oxygen we breathe, supply us with food, regulate our climate, clean the water we drink, and offer a pharmacopoeia of potential medicines.

• Monday, June 8th 2009 - 14:04 UTC

  World airlines 'face $9bn loss'

  

  The global airline industry has nearly doubled its expected losses for the year to $9bn amid what it calls an unprecedented crisis.

• Monday, June 8th 2009 - 13:33 UTC

  Air France accelerating replacement of Airbus speed monitors

  

  Air France has said it is accelerating replacement of speed monitors on Airbus planes following the disappearance of a jet over the Atlantic six days ago.

• Monday, June 8th 2009 - 13:25 UTC

  EU Parliament election: Centre right advances at expense of the left

  

  Centre-right parties have done well in elections to the European Parliament at the expense of the left. Far-right and anti-immigrant parties also made gains, as turnout figures plunged to between 43 and 44%, according to the latest reports from BBC.