Politics

• Saturday, June 9th 2012 - 05:13 UTC

  Middle class Argentines protest with pots and pans against corruption, crime, inflation and the dollar clamp

  

  For the third night in ten days angry Argentines took to the streets of Buenos Aires and other major cities banging pots and pans to protest corruption, rampant crime and insecurity, inflation and the dollar clamp in the midst of an economy that is showing clear signals of exhaustion and growing questions on the current course of affairs.

• Saturday, June 9th 2012 - 05:08 UTC

  Spain expected this weekend to ask help from the Euro zone to bail out its banks

  

  Spain is expected to ask the Euro zone for help with recapitalising its banks this weekend, sources in Brussels and Berlin said on Friday, becoming the fourth country to seek assistance since Europe's debt crisis began.

• Saturday, June 9th 2012 - 03:31 UTC

  Hollande could manage a narrow manageable majority in Sunday’s election

  

  The latest opinion polls released ahead of France's parliamentary election on Sunday suggest President Francois Hollande will win a narrow but workable majority that depends on Green allies and hard leftists.

• Saturday, June 9th 2012 - 02:46 UTC

  Chile’s May inflation on target but government fears external risks

  

  Chile's consumer price index remained unchanged in May, the government statistics agency INE said on Friday, slowing its pace from April as lower food and transport prices offset higher electricity costs. Prices rose 0.1% in April, the INE said last month.

• Saturday, June 9th 2012 - 00:37 UTC

  Argentina rapidly becoming too expensive for foreign tourists

  

  Argentina is rapidly becoming an expensive country for tourists and evidence of this is the declining number of tourists arriving in the country in the first months of the year while the number of Argentine travelling overseas is soaring, according to Mario Lielman, chair of the Buenos Aires Tourism and Travel Agencies Association.

• Friday, June 8th 2012 - 23:34 UTC

  Beverage industry blasts New York for limiting sale of oversized sugary drinks

  

  New York City's top health official shot back at critics who have blasted the city's plan to limit the sale of oversized sugary drinks such as soda, calling beverage industry opposition ridiculous.

• Friday, June 8th 2012 - 20:59 UTC

  Guernsey Bailiff, guest of the Falklands during Liberation commemoration

  

  The Island of Guernsey's Bailiff is to visit the Falkland Islands to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the end of the conflict and the Islands' liberation.

• Friday, June 8th 2012 - 20:51 UTC

  Bank of England stand-by on optimism over a solution to the Euro debt crisis

  

  The Bank of England has resisted injecting further emergency liquidity to the UK economy as optimism over finding a solution to the Euro zone debt crisis grew.

• Friday, June 8th 2012 - 20:48 UTC

  Earl and Countess of Wessex visit Gibraltar to celebrate Queen’s Diamond Jubilee

  

  The Earl and Countess of Wessex – Prince Edward and Sophie - are visiting Gibraltar from Monday to Wednesday of next week as part of Her Majesty the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee celebrations.

• Friday, June 8th 2012 - 20:35 UTC

  Artefacts from controversial 1804 wreck stored in Gibraltar returned to Spain

  

  Archaeological artefacts recovered from a controversial wreck and stored in a warehouse in Gibraltar were handed to Spanish authorities this week. The items were recovered by Odyssey Marine Exploration in 2007 from the wreck of “Nuestra Señora de las Mercedes”, a Spanish galleon that sank off Portugal in 1804.