Politics

• Thursday, September 8th 2011 - 00:19 UTC

  Uruguay willing to compensate alleged Haitian gang-raped victim

  

  Uruguayan President Jose Mujica has apologised to his Haitian counterpart Michel Martelly over the alleged rape of an 18-year-old Haitian man by Uruguayan UN peacekeeping troops in the poor Caribbean state.

• Thursday, September 8th 2011 - 00:16 UTC

  CFK announces increase in child allowance 45 days before presidential election

  

  With less than two months for the October 23 general election, Argentine President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner announced on Wednesday changes in the Universal Child Allowance (AUH), including the new rates for children under 18, disabled children and pregnant women.

• Wednesday, September 7th 2011 - 23:30 UTC

  Germany’s high court gives Parliament greater say in Euro zone bailouts

  

  Germany's top court handed its country's parliament a greater say over Euro zone bailouts, potentially hampering Berlin's ability to act decisively against a debt crisis which Chancellor Angela Merkel said needed a fundamental rethink to solve.

• Wednesday, September 7th 2011 - 22:17 UTC

  Falkland Islands Assembly Member removed from Tourism portfolio

  

  In a move signalling some disquiet in the Falkland Islands’ Legislative Assembly, three-quarters of the elected members decide to remove the Hon Emma Edwards as the Tourism Representative. The portfolio was transferred to MLA Mike Summers who is currently overseas.

• Wednesday, September 7th 2011 - 12:01 UTC

  Falklands’ deployed HMS Edinburgh visits South African navy Simons Town base

  

  The veteran HMS Edinburgh has completed the first half of her six-month Falkland Islands deployment in the South Atlantic and is now in South Africa for maintenance and the ship’s company for some rest and recovery.

• Wednesday, September 7th 2011 - 11:29 UTC

  Obama job-creating speech will announce a 300 billion dollars plan, says US media

  

  US President Barack Obama will unveil a 300 billion dollars package to create new jobs in an address to Congress on Thursday, US media reports citing Democratic sources.

• Wednesday, September 7th 2011 - 11:05 UTC

  Brazil to implement anti-dumping duties retroactively on Chinese steel tubes

  

  Brazil decided to implement anti- dumping duties retroactively to prevent companies from stocking up on imported goods the government says pose a threat to local industry.

• 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”.