International

• Saturday, July 18th 2009 - 15:06 UTC

  Major celebration for SS Great Britain’s 40th anniversary return to Bristol

  

  A small army of volunteers will be collecting and sifting through thousands of memories over the next year in the run up to the 40th anniversary celebrations of the SS Great Britain’s return to Bristol from the Falkland Islands.

• Saturday, July 18th 2009 - 14:19 UTC

  Falklands’ war Chinook involved in the Afghanistan choppers controversy

  

  The British Ministry of Defence has admitted one of its helicopters used in Afghanistan was a “cut and shut” – a combination of two aircraft, reported the London press on Friday.

• Friday, July 17th 2009 - 05:37 UTC

  Developed countries trade falls but at a more moderate rate

  

  Trade in developed countries continued to fall in the first three months of this year but the rate of decline moderated, the OECD said this week.

• Friday, July 17th 2009 - 05:33 UTC

  Argentina obtains Non-Aligned Movement observer status

  

  The Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) leaders approved this week the admission of Argentina and the World Peace Council (WPC) as observers at the its 15th summit currently held in the Egyptian Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh.

• Thursday, July 16th 2009 - 15:46 UTC

  OPS changes emphasis of A/H1N1 virus flu to “qualitative” info

  

  The Pan American Health organization, OPS, announced Wednesday it had changed its monitoring system for the A/H1N1 virus because figures released by the different countries do no really reflect the transmission of the pandemic.

• Thursday, July 16th 2009 - 15:18 UTC

  China’s international reserves at a record 2.13 trillion US dollars

  

  China's foreign exchange reserves reached 2.13 trillion US dollars by the end of June 2009, up 17.84% year-on-year, according to the latest release from the People’s Bank of China, PBOC.

• Thursday, July 16th 2009 - 07:13 UTC

  Record unemployment in UK: 2.38 million, the worst since 1995

  

  Unemployment in the United Kingdom has soared to “truly horrendous” levels after a record 281,000 people joined the growing jobless ranks, taking the total to 2.38 million, the worst since 1995.

• Wednesday, July 15th 2009 - 23:50 UTC

  Ten years on - still disagreement on Falklands’ agreement

  

  On the tenth anniversary of the agreement July 14th 1999 between Britain and Argentina on the Falklands, an elected representative of the time still maintains she was right to disagree with the decision that allowed Argentine passport holders the right of access to the Islands.

• Wednesday, July 15th 2009 - 11:30 UTC

  PM Brown “all talents cabinet” coming to an end

  

  Gordon Brown has lost yet another member of his Government as Health Minister Lord Darzi announced he was quitting. The renowned surgeon became the latest minister to join the exodus as he revealed he was stepping down next week in order to focus on his clinical work and academic research.

• Tuesday, July 14th 2009 - 11:18 UTC

  A/H1N1 influenza virus is “unstoppable” admits WHO

  

  The new H1N1 virus is “unstoppable” reported on Monday the World Health Organization which gave drug makers a full go-ahead to manufacture vaccines against the pandemic influenza adding healthcare workers should be the first to get one.