International

• Thursday, February 1st 2007 - 20:00 UTC

  Air travel expected to double by 2025

  

  The number of air travellers is expected to double by 2025, rising to more than 9 billion a year, a body representing the world's airports said on yesterday. The Airports Council International (ACI) predicted air freight would triple over the same period.

• Thursday, February 1st 2007 - 20:00 UTC

  Global warming 'very likely' man-made

  

  The world's leading climate scientists, in their most powerful language ever used on the issue, said global warming is “very likely” man-made, according to a new report obtained Friday by The Associated Press.

• Wednesday, January 31st 2007 - 20:00 UTC

  Fed leaves rates unchanged; “inflation likely to moderate”

  The United States Federal Reserve left Wednesday interest rates unchanged at 5.25% for the fifth time running based on “firmer economic growth” with the economy “likely to expand at a moderate pace over coming quarters”.

• Wednesday, January 31st 2007 - 20:00 UTC

  Bush formally requests Congress extension of fast track

  US President George Bush formalized Wednesday his announced request to the Democratic-led Congress to renew his fast-track authority (officially Trade Promotion Authority) for negotiating international trade agreements.

• Tuesday, January 30th 2007 - 20:00 UTC

  OPEC's target: oil in the range of 50/55 US dollars per barrel

  

  The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, OPEC, is preparing to implement another round of oil cuts beginning February first, satisfied with its decision to cut supply by 6% that has helped restore market balance.

• Tuesday, January 30th 2007 - 20:00 UTC

  Money reward for Japan's whaling fleet position

  

  An anti-whaling group patrolling the Ross Sea off Antarctica is offering a 25.000 US dollars reward to any person or group that can provide coordinates of the Japanese whaling fleet operating in the area.

• Tuesday, January 30th 2007 - 20:00 UTC

  Last minute agreement averts British Airways full strike

  

  British Airways averted a strike by flight attendants, reaching agreement on pay and sick leave hours before the two-day walkout was due to start Wednesday. The deal was finally nailed down after more than 120 hours of talks between the company and the Transport and General Workers' Union.

• Monday, January 29th 2007 - 20:00 UTC

  China begins filling its strategic oil reserves

  

  China's first strategic oil reserve base station has begun to be filled in Ningbo, Zhejiang province, according to reports from the country's National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC). This is the latest step in China's efforts to ensure a strategic oil reserve.

• Monday, January 29th 2007 - 20:00 UTC

  Poll reveals that Europeans are not happy with the Euro

  

  A majority of people in France, Germany, Spain and Italy feel the euro has hurt their economies, according to a poll published Monday in the Financial Times. The FT-Harris survey found more than half of citizens questioned in the big euro zone countries said they preferred their former currency.

• Monday, January 29th 2007 - 20:00 UTC

  UN marks Holocaust Day as reminder for future genocides

  

  United Nations marked Monday the annual International Day of Commemoration in memory of the victims of the Holocaust with an urgent appeal that the remembrance of the millions of Jews and others murdered by the Nazis serve to prevent new massacres, a rebuff for those who deny that the tragedy ever occurred, and moving testimony from survivors.