Politics

• Wednesday, September 7th 2011 - 10:59 UTC

  Brazilian bikini bottoms too tight for contestants: where are your panties?

  

  When you're competing against 88 other beautiful women from around the world, sometimes it takes subtly drastic measures to be memorable. And sometimes you forget to pack your underwear.

• Wednesday, September 7th 2011 - 10:54 UTC

  Americans, Brazilians and Spanish, the ‘coolest nationalities” in the world

  

  The Americans have been voted the world's “coolest nationality” in an international poll, the Brazilians the coolest in Latin America and the Spanish in Europe, according to social networking site Badoo.com.

• Wednesday, September 7th 2011 - 10:47 UTC

  Argentina/Brazil confirm South Atlantic as a peace and cooperation zone free of nuclear weapons

  

  Argentina and Brazil defence ministers confirmed the two countries “strategic alliance” and subscribed a bilateral cooperation declaration emphasizing on the South Atlantic as “a Peace Zone, free of nuclear weapons”.

• Wednesday, September 7th 2011 - 04:42 UTC

  Falklands’ team ready for Commonwealth Youth Games opening ceremony

  

  The Falkland Islands team will be arriving in the Isle of Man over the next couple of days to participate in the Commonwealth Youth Games which brings together more than 1,000 athletes from all over the world.

• Wednesday, September 7th 2011 - 04:35 UTC

  Spain’s conservative opposition extends lead over Socialists to 15 points

  

  Spain’s conservative opposition People’s Party (PP) has extended its lead over the ruling Socialists and is on course to win a parliamentary majority in the November 20 elections, according to an opinion poll on Sunday.

• Wednesday, September 7th 2011 - 04:03 UTC

  Cambridge, Harvard best world universities; US and UK monopolize top rankings

  

  Cambridge has retained its premier status in the QS World University Rankings, beating Harvard for a second year, as UK and US institutions again took the top 10 spots. Latin America figured badly with only six ranked in the 300 universities reviewed, the best in position 169.

• Tuesday, September 6th 2011 - 20:11 UTC

  UN warn austerity measures and deficit cuts is pushing the world towards disaster

  

  The pursuit of austerity measures and deficit cuts is pushing the world economy towards disaster in a misguided attempt to please global financial markets, the annual report of the United Nations economic think-tank UNCTAD said on Tuesday.

• Tuesday, September 6th 2011 - 16:37 UTC

  International Literacy Day: 793 million adults can neither read nor write

  

  This year’s International Literacy Day, celebrated world-wide on 8 September, will focus on the link between literacy and peace.

• Tuesday, September 6th 2011 - 06:34 UTC

  Colombia’s new defence minister is President Santos closest aide

  

  Colombia’s new defence minister vowed on Monday a forceful response to illegal armed groups and more innovation in confronting guerrillas and drug barons in the country.

• Tuesday, September 6th 2011 - 06:31 UTC

  A China/Mercosur trade agreement would be “something extraordinary”

  

  A free trade agreement, (FTA), between China and Mercosur could be “something extraordinary”, said Argentine Foreign Affairs minister Hector Timerman who next Thursday begins a political and business mission in Beijing.