Politics

• Wednesday, July 13th 2011 - 00:29 UTC

  The year of the seven-billionth baby, up two billion since July 1987

  

  The United Nations marked on Monday July 11, World Population Day, with Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon stressing that ending global poverty and inequality was the key to unleashing the great human potential for prosperity and peaceful coexistence.

• Tuesday, July 12th 2011 - 23:43 UTC

  US and Spain host to most of the 6.5 million that migrated from the Americas from 2003 to 2009

  

  Between 2003 and 2009, nearly 950,000 people per year emigrated from the Americas to countries of the OECD and of this total, nearly half went to the United States, and a fourth to Spain, according to the First Report on International Migration in the Americas.

• Tuesday, July 12th 2011 - 23:32 UTC

  China secures one of IMF four Deputy Managing Director posts

  

  China has secured its first top-level post at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in recognition of its growing power in the global economy. New IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde appointed Zhu Min to a newly created deputy managing director post.

• Tuesday, July 12th 2011 - 07:39 UTC

  HMS York returns to Portsmouth after months on Falklands and South Georgia duty

  

  Type-42 destroyer HMS York returned to cheering crowds of families and well-wishers at Portsmouth Naval Base last week following a varied and wide-ranging deployment to the Falklands in the South Atlantic and Libya.

• Tuesday, July 12th 2011 - 07:33 UTC

  “A majority (70%) of Buenos Aires City voters do not like to be blackmailed”

  

  Buenos Aires City Mayor, conservative Mauricio Macri said on Monday he was “really surprised” with the large margin victory obtained in the first round of his bid for re-election and considered the result “a good example of the voters’ independency, and how citizens can surprise with their decisions”.

• Tuesday, July 12th 2011 - 07:30 UTC

  Police reveal former PM Brown could have been victim of Murdoch’s tabloid

  

  Police have said that former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown may have been a victim of phone hacking by an investigator working for British newspapers, his spokeswoman said on Monday.

• Tuesday, July 12th 2011 - 07:23 UTC

  News of the World bought UK royal family details from police team, says BBC

  

  The News of the World newspaper bought contact details about the royal family from a policeman, the BBC reported today, deepening the scandal engulfing the News Corp media empire.

• Tuesday, July 12th 2011 - 07:15 UTC

  UK statements on the Malvinas issue are “ridiculous” says Cristina Fernandez

  

  President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner said that “Argentina is absolutely committed to peace” and dismissed as “ridiculous” statements from the United Kingdom threatening to use force if needed to preserver the occupation of the Falkland Islands.

• Tuesday, July 12th 2011 - 01:41 UTC

  Adopted heirs of Argentine media group test negative to first DNA tests

  

  DNA tests from the adopted children of one of Argentina's richest women do not match blood samples from two families who suspect the siblings were stolen as babies from political prisoners in the 1970s, legal sources said on Monday.

• Monday, July 11th 2011 - 23:50 UTC

  Falklands’ MLA Summers takes the oath: “a pleasure and a responsibility” to be back

  

  The Falkland Islands Legislative Assembly has eight members once again. Mike Summers, a veteran of Falklands’ affairs was sworn in as an MLA at an official ceremony held at Government House this Monday morning.