International

• Monday, August 13th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Amnesty pessimistic about turning around the rich/poor gap

  

  The gap between rich and poor jumped fourfold globally in the last decade: while in the nineties a wealthy person had 30 times richer than a poor person, the rate has currently ballooned to 130 to one, according to the latest report from Amnesty International Council.

• Sunday, August 12th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Keep clear of the penguins!

  

  Dutchman Johannes Huber is the executive secretary of Antarctic Treaty System, which has its headquarters in Downtown Buenos Aires.

• Saturday, August 11th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Brown says FAM outbreak limited to small area of England

  

  British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Friday that foot-and-mouth disease had been stopped from spreading outside a small area of England, despite tests for a suspected new outbreak in a herd several kilometers from the initial cluster of cases.

• Thursday, August 9th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Seven months of unusual global climatic catastrophes

  

  In line with the forecasts from experts and international agencies in the first seven months of this year the world experienced unusual climatic catastrophes including heat waves in Europe, snow falls in Africa and record floods in Asia according to the latest report from the United Nations Meteorological Organization.

• Thursday, August 9th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Great Britain: Foot-and-mouth restrictions eased

  

  Restrictions on the movement of animals imposed in the wake of the foot-and-mouth outbreak have been eased.

• Thursday, August 9th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Central banks inject funds to contain fears of global credit crunch

  

  The European Central Bank, ECB, pumped 94.8 billion Euros into the Euro zone banking market Thursday in an attempt to contain fears about a sub-prime credit crunch spilling over from United States.

• Thursday, August 9th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Yuan clash: China threatens with massive sale of US bonds

  The Chinese government has begun a concerted campaign of economic threats against the United States, hinting that it may liquidate its vast holding of US treasury bonds if Washington imposes trade sanctions to force a Yuan revaluation.

• Wednesday, August 8th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  UK: Foot-and-mouth disease, 'possible sabotage investigated'

  

  Experts are investigating the possibility that the foot-and-mouth outbreak was caused by sabotage linked to the Pirbright laboratory site.

• Wednesday, August 8th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Climate change could intensify hunger risk warns FAO

  

  Climate change could lead to potential food shortages and increase the risk of hunger in developing countries, the head of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization said Wednesday.

• Wednesday, August 8th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  OPEC contrary to increasing crude output in September

  

  Despite calls from consumers for more crude to lower prices from near record highs, the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, OPEC, does not believe it's necessary to raise output when it meets next September 11.