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  • Friday, March 7th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

    “Green Passport” campaign launched at Berlin Tourism Fair

    A “Green Passport' campaign” was launched Friday at a world tourism fair aims at shrinking the environmental footprint of vacation travelers, according to the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP).

  • Friday, March 7th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

    Many women round the world “still face discrimination”

    Almost every country in the world still has laws that discriminate against women, and promises to remedy this have not been kept, the top United Nations human rights official said on Friday, speaking on the eve of International Women's Day.

  • Thursday, March 6th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

    Hard times for some of Europe's leading financial institutions

    Some of Europe's leading banks are also facing problems as a consequence of the downfall from the US credit crisis and for having possibly breached US rules banning banks from doing business with countries on a terrorist blacklist.

    France's biggest retail bank Credit Agricole made a loss in the last three months of 2007, hit by a hefty charge at its Calyon investment banking arm.

  • Thursday, March 6th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

    OPEC freezes oil output and blames US for high crude prices

    OPEC accused the United States on Wednesday of economic “mismanagement”, which it said is pushing oil prices to new record highs and rejected calls to increase output. Oil prices surged for the first time past 104 US dollars a barrel after OPEC's announcement and a US government release showing a surprise drop in crude stockpiles.

  • Thursday, March 6th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

    Euro zone and UK leave interest rates unchanged

    Inflation and recession is Eurozone challenge, said Trichet

    The European Central Bank (ECB) kept interest rates unchanged at 4% on Thursday as concerns about inflation persist. Earlier in London the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee adopted a similar decision keeping interest rates on hold at 5.25%.

  • Wednesday, March 5th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

    Metals war: Billiton after 55 billion loan to bid for Rio Tinto

    Mining giant BHP Billiton is talking to an important group of banks for a record 55 billion US dollars loan to back its hostile bid for rival Rio Tinto, it was revealed on Tuesday by banking sources.

  • Wednesday, March 5th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

    Falkland Islands Holdings plc acquisition of Momart

    Falkland Islands Holdings PLC (FIH) said it has acquired art logistics and storage company Momart International Ltd for £10.27 million, of which £ 7.78 million is payable in cash and the remaining through the issue of 582,666 shares.

  • Tuesday, March 4th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

    US housing decline costs UK's main bank 17.2 billion dollars

    HSBC, the UK's largest bank, has said it has made a 17.2 billion US dollar loss after the decline in the US housing market hit the value of its loans. However annual profits still rose 10% to 24.2 billion, up from 22.08 billion the year before.

  • Tuesday, March 4th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

    UN urges C 24 decolonization advance process

    UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon

    All over the world, hundreds of millions of people had exercised their right to self-determination and achieved self-government, and facilitating that process was “one of the proudest chapters of our Organization's history” Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said last week as he opened the current session of the Special Committee on decolonisation, the so called C24 (according to official UN reports).

  • Sunday, March 2nd 2008 - 21:00 UTC

    UK government pledges crackdown on plastic bags

    The agency in charge of UK government marketing announced this week that it would stop buying plastic bags for use in promotional campaigns. The announcement followed the publication of figures in The Guardian showing that the government bought nearly 1million plastic bags last year for promotion and marketing purposes.