Politics

• Wednesday, September 12th 2012 - 01:41 UTC

  Euro-Rescue-Day: German constitutional court rules on support for the EU currency

  

  Germany's Constitutional Court rejected on Tuesday an attempt to further delay a ruling on the European Stability Mechanism (ESM) and fiscal compact, which had previously been pushed back by months while the judges reviewed whether the German parliament is permitted under the constitution to ratify the treaties.

• Wednesday, September 12th 2012 - 01:33 UTC

  Falkland Islands’ cricket team gearing up for Caribbean tour

  

  Plans for a Caribbean Cricket Tour by the Falkland Islands Cricket Team are well underway. The 15 strong team plans to travel to Belize, Barbados and Jamaica in November and December this year.

• Wednesday, September 12th 2012 - 01:23 UTC

  Spanish bankruptcy spurs separatism: Catalonia the main tax contributor takes to the streets

  

  Hundreds of thousands of Catalans took to the streets of Barcelona in an unprecedented show of mass support for autonomy from Madrid, blaming Spain's economic crisis for dragging their wealthy region down.

• Tuesday, September 11th 2012 - 06:40 UTC

  Despite the clamp, Timerman’s plans big ‘dollar splash’ next March in Uruguay

  

  While most Argentines face increasing difficulties to access to US dollars, to travel overseas or use their debit and credit cards abroad, (the famous ‘dollar clamp’) one of President Cristina Fernandez most notorious and loquacious ministers, Hector Timerman is organizing a three-day major splash at Uruguay’s most posh resort to celebrate the marriage of his eldest daughter.

• Tuesday, September 11th 2012 - 06:21 UTC

  Gibraltar flag flies over the Foreign Office

  

  The Gibraltar flag can be seen flying over the Foreign Office in Whitehall, London on the part of the building overlooking Whitehall and Downing Street to celebrate Gibraltar Day, September 10.

• Tuesday, September 11th 2012 - 06:11 UTC

  Cristina Fernandez targets Argentines going abroad to contain outflow of dollars

  

  No end for the US dollar clamp in Argentina. According to the Buenos Aires media the government of President Cristina Fernandez is preparing a set of new measures to further limit Argentines from holding the US currency but also from spending abroad on tourism.

• Tuesday, September 11th 2012 - 06:03 UTC

  Falklands’ population 2.563 of which 75%, live in Stanley, according to April census

  

  The normal resident population of the Falkland Islands on Census Day (15 April 2012) was 2,841 according to the first results from the census published by the Falkland Islands Government and released on Monday.

• Tuesday, September 11th 2012 - 05:58 UTC

  Ex Argentine vice-president to head observers mission to Venezuela elections

  

  Former Argentine Vice-president Carlos ‘Chacho’ Alvarez was chosen as head of the Electoral Observers mission that Unasur will be sending to Venezuela for the coming presidential elections on October 7.

• Tuesday, September 11th 2012 - 05:19 UTC

  Air carrier HMS Ark Royal sold for scrap metal for £ 3 million

  

  Aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal is being sold for £3m for scrap metal by the Ministry of Defence to help tackle a multi-billion pound defence deficit. The removal of the Royal Navy's former flagship from service in 2011, five years early, was a “difficult but necessary decision”, the MoD has said.

• Tuesday, September 11th 2012 - 05:14 UTC

  Argentine August ‘non-official’ inflation index marks 1.9% and 24.23% in twelve months

  

  Argentina’s August inflation index based in the analysis of nine private agencies and released by Congressional members from the opposition climbed 1.9% against the previous month, the highest in the last four months.