International

• Wednesday, May 30th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  UN report calls for US dollar support to avoid global recession

  

  In order for current world economic growth rates to continue, it is crucial to keep the United States dollar from falling rapidly while also avoiding a recession, says a United Nations report released Wednesday.

• Tuesday, May 29th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Boosted by savers China's stock markets continue to soar

  The Chinese government trebled the stamp duty on the trading of shares in what analysts say is a bid to cool the country's overheated stock market. The tax will rise from 0.1% to 0.3% with immediate effect, Beijing said.

• Monday, May 28th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  UN Decolonisation Seminar urges case by case approach

  

  At the conclusion of its three-day review of progress achieved in implementation of the Plan of Action of the Second International Decade for the Eradication of Colonialism, the 2007 Caribbean Regional Seminar recommended that the Special Committee on Decolonisation consider establishing a “Special Committee focal point” in each Non-Self-Governing Territory where there was no dispute over sovereignty, in order to enhance the exchange of information.

• Monday, May 28th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  International Whaling Commission opens four-day meeting

  

  Subsistence whaling has sustained Alaska native communities for centuries and renewal of their five-year bowhead whale quota is crucial, U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens said Monday at the opening of the International Whaling Commission meeting.

• Sunday, May 27th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Good Friday mid air birth featuring “Angel” and “Barbara”

  

  An Australian doctor on a trans-Pacific flight was upgraded to first class and given a bottle of vintage champagne after delivering a baby for a Brazilian who didn't even know she was pregnant, news reports said on Sunday.

• Sunday, May 27th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Scientists call on WTO to slash fishing subsidies

  

  A group of 125 international marine scientists on Thursday called on the head of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) to push for a global agreement that slashes subsidies paid by many countries to their fishing industries.

• Friday, May 25th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  World growth is being led by Europe and Japan says OECD

  

  The Organization for Economic Development (OECD) says that world growth is being led by Europe and Japan, which is compensating for a United States slowdown. Actually economic growth in Europe and Japan this year has overtaken the US

• Friday, May 25th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Extinction threatens 15% of European mammal species

  

  The first assessment of all European mammals, commissioned by the European Commission and carried out by the World Conservation Union (IUCN), shows that nearly one in every six mammal species is now threatened with extinction.

• Friday, May 25th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Helicopter Pilots Finish Record Pole-To-Pole Trip

  

  Two British-based pilots completed this week a record-breaking helicopter journey to both the North and South Poles, touching down at the Texas airport they left more than five months ago.

• Friday, May 25th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Gibraltar decolonized and all that remains is “UN delisting”

  Joe Holliday, Gibraltar's deputy Chief Minister, told the United Nations seminar in Grenada that Gibraltar is decolonised and that it is for the UN to de-list the territory. The seminar reaffirmed the principle of self determination and Argentina and Spain were criticized for furthering their sovereignty disputes.