On that day the Argentine president is expected to reaffirm the current economic model
The Boden 2012 issue will pay out 2.281 billion dollars supposedly to those holders of the paper distributed ten years ago and which according to President Cristina Fernandez will show Argentine honours its debts and at the same time will make “Argentine more free and less dependent”.
“Just four days” said Economy minister Hernan Lorenzino in his twitter where he has the countdown to
A Boeing 787 Dreamliner sparked a fire during an engine test. Picture: Dan Himbrechts Source: The Australian
BOEING says it remains confident in the safety of its Boeing 787 Dreamliner jets despite federal regulators probing an incident where an engine issue sparked a fire in South Carolina, US.
The jet is one of Boeing's most critical products. The company delivered the first Dreamliner jets last year following several years of design and production delays.
Airlines set record orders for the jet, as its lightweight, high-tech design was expected to offer travellers more comfort, provide airlines significant fuel savings and open up new routes.
Boeing has confirmed that a 787 had an engine issue while undergoing preflight runway testing in North Charleston, South Carolina, yesterday. The Post and Courier newspaper
The Libyan desert could become the next top tourist spot. Picture: Supplied Source: Supplied
Libyan tourist authorities want it to become tourist hot spot Ancient ruins and Tripoli "paradise" for history buffs Country has five UNESCO World Heritage sites
IT may have endured more than 40 years of sheer bloody terror and dictatorship, but a Libyan tourist organisation reckons the country has what it takes to be the next top tourist spot.
With more than 2000km of palm-fringed coastline and an historic quarter in Tripoli, the Libyan Society for the Activation of Tourism reckons the country has a lot to offer adventurers.
Adel Belhaj of the Libyan Society for the Activation of Tourism said his country was filled with ancient ruins which made it a "paradise" for
The Brazilian president is attending the London Games
Speaking to reporters in London, where she is attending the opening of the Olympic Games, Rousseff also said Brazil's economy will grow at a faster rate in coming months, despite the impact of the global economic crisis.
“We will move forward with our counter-cyclical program in August and September” she said, referring to the raft of stimulus measures Brazil has deployed since the beginning of the year, such as tax
By Igor Jovanovic for Southeast European Times in Belgrade -- 27/07/12
Prime Minister Ivica Dacic said that Serbia's priority would be European integration, continuing talks with Pristina, good relations with neighbouring countries and economic progress. [Reuters]
After more than two months since the parliamentary elections, Serbia's new cabinet led by the Serbian Progressive Party (SP) and the Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS) was elected by parliament on Friday (July 27th).
Presenting the new government's programme, new Prime Minister Ivica Dacic – a former spokesman of Slobodan Milosevic -- said that its priority would be European
By Muhamet Brajshori for Southeast European Times in Pristina -- 26/07/12
Kosovo civil society often complains it is excluded from decision making processes. [Safet Kabashaj/SETimes]
The EU has expressed concerns that Kosovo authorities pressure and intimidate civil society when its activities do not correspond to the government's views and interests, but analysts are skeptical the government's subsequent efforts to improve co-operation will result in significant changes.
The 2011 EU progress report stated that civil society has not been involved
Garcia-Margallo admitted pressure from Mercosur and Unasur members
“If the situation does not improve, most probably Paraguay will not be able to attend the summit in Cadiz; I think it is a situation which is better for Paraguay, better for Spain as the organizer and host, and better for a group of countries that will be attending”, said García-Margallo in Lima.
García-Margallo described the Paraguayan situation as “particularly complex”, following the removal of Fernando Lugo and his replacement
Michael Schumacher believes Mercedes have made progress this season, even if the points tally says otherwise.
At the halfway stage of a record-breaking 20-Grand Prix campaign, the seven-times champion has managed to haul himself up to 12th in the drivers' standings with 29 points, 27 of those in the last three races.
Team-mate Nico Rosberg has 76 points, but with just one from his last two drives, whilst the Brackley-based team are languishing in fifth in the constructors' table after finishing fourth the last two seasons.
Delivering his "half-time analysis", Schumacher said: "As so often in life it is a
Microsoft is reportedly looking to bring back the light pen in order to convince non-touch-screen users of the benefits to Metro UI.
Microsoft's current focus on touch-display interaction - as evidenced by its pushing of Metro UI in Windows 8 and its Surface interactive tables and Windows-based tablet product lines - is clear, but it looks like the company has another trick up its sleeve: the reintroduction of the light pen.
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Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee delivers remarks to the Conservative Political Action Conference in February in Washington, D.C.
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Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee delivers remarks to the Conservative Political Action Conference in February in Washington, D.C.
Among the many contenders who could wind up becoming Mitt Romney's running mate, there are some potential surprises — like former presidential candidate-turned TV and radio host Mike Huckabee.
Putting Huckabee on the GOP ticket could certainly liven up the presidential race. In addition to being a respected former governor of Arkansas, he's well known for his good-natured public persona. At a Huckabee campaign event, you might find him playing an electric bass with the old-time rock 'n' roll band Capitol Offense.
Playfulness aside, one big plus is that Huckabee has been tested, having run a surprisingly strong race for the Republican nomination four years ago.
A Tried And True Conservative
"You know I wasn't sure that I would ever be able to love a state as much as I love my home state of Arkansas, but tonight, I love Iowa a whole lot," Huckabee said after winning the 2008 Iowa caucuses, thanks to a big turnout among evangelical voters. But his underfunded campaign faded in later contests.
Many think he'd have been a front-runner this year, given his strong 2008 showing, his vastly improved name recognition and better fundraising.
But last spring, he disappointed potential followers with this statement on his weekend TV show on Fox News: "I can't know or predict the future, but I know for now my answer is clear and firm. I will not seek the Republican nomination for president this year."
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Lower rates and stimuli measures could be finally working, which could mean a relief for President Dilma Rousseff
Brazil's central bank has slashed interest rates in eight straight meetings to a record-low 8% in an effort to stimulate the country's faltering economy.
Brazil's benchmark IPCA inflation index rose 0.33% in the month to mid-July, government agency IBGE said on Friday, up from 0.18% in the previous reading.
Twelve month inflation rose to 5.24% from 5% in the previous month.
The former Air Force general with his daughter later to become Chilean president
Alberto Bachelet was arrested in 1973 and faced court-martial for treason for having been a member of Socialist president Salvador Allende's government prior to his overthrow by Pinochet's military junta.
Retired air force colonels Ramon Caceres and Edgar Ceballos were arrested on Tuesday and charged with being the “co-authors of the crime of torture that caused the death” of Bachelet, Judge Mario Carroza said.
Bachelet,
By Svetla Dimitrova for Southeast European Times in Sofia -- 19/07/12
Smoke is seen after a blast at Bulgaria's Burgas airport on Wednesday (July 18th). [Reuters]
Israel is promising swift retribution for a deadly terrorist attack on a tourist bus carrying vacationing Israelis to a Bulgarian resort town, saying that "all signs lead to Iran" being behind the blast that killed six people and injured 32 others.
The bus exploded on Wednesday (July 18th) at the Burgas airport, some 400km east of Sofia, as passengers were boarding following a charter flight from Tel Aviv. Officials said the group was heading to the Sunny Beach resort, about 30km
Velazquez said Paraguay will appeal to other instances if the ruling is negative
One of the legal experts from the Paraguayan Foreign Ministry, Ernesto Velazquez confirmed the appeal presented by Paraguay last 9 July.
The tribunal that will discuss the issue is made up of Argentina’s Carlos Maria Correa; Paraguay’s Roberto Ruiz Diaz; Uruguay's Jose Maria Gamio and Wilber Barral and Jorge Luis Fontora from Brazil.
“As of today (Tuesday) the members have six days running to come
Athletes and fans from around the world have begun to arrive in London for the Summer Olympic Games. On Monday, Heathrow saw a record number of arrivals. Meanwhile, a giant security firm failed to recruit the number of Olympic guards it promised. The London Olympics start July 27 and end Aug. 12.
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By Ivana Jovanovic for Southeast European Times in Belgrade -- 16/07/12
The joint distribution system should ensure stable supplies of electricity to all member countries. [Nada Bozic/SETimes]
Ten countries have signed an agreement to register a new company, the Co-ordinated Auction Office for Southeast Europe (SEE CAO), to distribute electric power throughout the region.
The company will be headquartered in Podgorica, its basic aim to ensure steady supplies of electricity to Albania, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), Macedonia, Greece, Montenegro, Romania,
Liverpool midfielder Charlie Adam has insisted the Reds deserved more than their eighth-placed Premier League finish last season.
By ESPNSTAR.com staff
Liverpool's eighth place finish last season saw them end their season with their worst points tally in 18 years and behind city rivals Everton - an event which happened only once in 2005 for the past 25 years.
The Reds also finished the season with the worst shots-to-goals conversion rate in the league, they also topped the league in terms of hitting the woodwork at 30 times.
Adam felt that luck denied them a better finish and urged his team mates to
Michael Schumacher is hoping home comforts next weekend will give Mercedes the opportunity to finally give their fans "a reason to celebrate".
For the first time in three years since Mercedes returned to the sport, after taking over Brawn GP, the German manufacturing giant are in with a chance of conjuring a strong result on home soil.
The German Grand Prix has not been too kind to Mercedes over the last two years, with Schumacher and Nico Rosberg ninth and eighth respectively at Hockenheim in 2010, and eighth and seventh at the Nurburgring last season.
But after Rosberg's win in
The bipartisan National Governors Association is meeting in Virginia, where they aim to tackle big issues, like how to grow state economies amid national uncertainty. Guest host Maria Hinojosa speaks with Nebraska Governor Dave Heineman, a Republican and outgoing chair of the National Governors Association.
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Paraguay should not exacerbate our divisions said the Washington official
The crisis triggered by the exit of Lugo must be a motive of unity for the region and not of division, added Jacobson talking with journalists and the first formal statement from Washington referred to the Paraguayan situation.
Lugo was removed from office by Congress following political impeachment last June 22 and so far the US government had taken prudent distance from the situation waiting for the results from the in situ mission of OAS to Paraguay.
“At this moment there does not seem
By Biljana Lajmanovska for Southeast European Times in Skopje -- 11/07/12
A pipeline such as this could reduce the high cost of natural gas in Macedonia. [Reuters]
Skopje and Moscow have signed a draft agreement giving Macedonia an arm of the proposed South Stream gas pipeline, which will transport Russian natural gas under the Black Sea in Bulgaria to Greece, Italy and Austria.
Although left out in the primary pipeline route, with this deal Macedonia should still get a branch passing through its territory.
"The South Stream will pass through many countries and will have a single branch going to Macedonia
A HUSBAND and his family have been found guilty of murdering a pregnant young wife at her Birmingham home, in the belief that she had been possessed by Jinn spirits.
Naila Mumtaz died in hospital on 8 July 2009, after she was found collapsed at her home in Craythorne Avenue. Paramedics were called to the address by family members, however the 21-year-old could not be saved and she was pronounced dead a short time later.
Naila, who was six-months pregnant at the time of her death, died as a result of smothering, according to a post mortem examination, and the trial heard that members of her husband’s family had deliberately caused her death.
The court heard how Naila’s husband Mohammed Mumtaz, father-in-law, Zia Ul-Haq, mother-in-law, Salma Aslam, and her sister-in-law’s husband Hammad Hassan, believed that the young woman,
Much fanfare followed South Sudan's independence one year ago. But challenges were also exposed, like how to manage oil revenue and build roads, homes and schools. Guest host Maria Hinojosa learns how the world's youngest country has been doing this year. She speaks with NPR's Ofeibea Quist-Arcton and Juba-based radio host Mading Ngor.
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Much fanfare followed South Sudan's independence one year ago. But challenges were also exposed, like how to manage oil revenue and build roads, homes and schools. Guest host Maria Hinojosa learns how the world's youngest country has been doing this year. She speaks with NPR's Ofeibea Quist-Arcton and Juba-based radio host Mading Ngor.
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Much fanfare followed South Sudan's independence one year ago. But challenges were also exposed, like how to manage oil revenue and build roads, homes and schools. Guest host Maria Hinojosa learns how the world's youngest country has been doing this year. She speaks with NPR's Ofeibea Quist-Arcton and Juba-based radio host Mading Ngor.
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Much fanfare followed South Sudan's independence one year ago. But challenges were also exposed, like how to manage oil revenue and build roads, homes and schools. Guest host Maria Hinojosa learns how the world's youngest country has been doing this year. She speaks with NPR's Ofeibea Quist-Arcton and Juba-based radio host Mading Ngor.
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Much fanfare followed South Sudan's independence one year ago. But challenges were also exposed, like how to manage oil revenue and build roads, homes and schools. Guest host Maria Hinojosa learns how the world's youngest country has been doing this year. She speaks with NPR's Ofeibea Quist-Arcton and Juba-based radio host Mading Ngor.
Source: NPR : National Public Radio
Much fanfare followed South Sudan's independence one year ago. But challenges were also exposed, like how to manage oil revenue and build roads, homes and schools. Guest host Maria Hinojosa learns how the world's youngest country has been doing this year. She speaks with NPR's Ofeibea Quist-Arcton and Juba-based radio host Mading Ngor.
Source: NPR : National Public Radio
Much fanfare followed South Sudan's independence one year ago. But challenges were also exposed, like how to manage oil revenue and build roads, homes and schools. Guest host Maria Hinojosa learns how the world's youngest country has been doing this year. She speaks with NPR's Ofeibea Quist-Arcton and Juba-based radio host Mading Ngor.
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Suwon Bluewings missed the chance to join Jeonbuk Motors at the top of the K-League following a surprise 3-0 defeat at home to Gyeongnam.
Two goals from Kim In-han (14 and 50) sandwiched a Rocha Caique strike as Suwon fell to their fifth loss of the season.
They remain three points behind Jeonbuk and a point behind second-placed FC Seoul.
Busan I'park failed to break into the top five with a last-minute 2-1 defeat against Incheon United.
Han Kyo-won fired Incheon ahead after 57 minutes with Yoon Dong-min equalising in the 78th minute.
However, a last-minute goal from Jung In-whan
The city of Scranton, Pa., sent out paychecks to its employees Friday, like it does every two weeks. But this time the checks were much smaller than usual. Mayor Chris Doherty has reduced everyone's pay — including his own — to the state's minimum wage: $7.25 an hour.
Doherty says his city has run out of money.
Scranton has had financial troubles for a couple of decades — the town has been losing population since the end of World War II. But the budget problems became more serious in recent months as the mayor and the city council fought over how to balance the budget.
Doherty wants to raise taxes to fill a $16.8-million gap. The city council wants to take a different approach and borrow money. City council members did not respond to NPR's requests
The Planet Money team digs into the rate-setting scandal engulfing the British bank Barclays. Emails reveal bank employees were shockingly casual and explicit in their communications about manipulating one of the key financial benchmarks in the global economy.
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Scientists have discovered a new subatomic particle with profound implications for understanding our universe. On Wednesday, they announced they've found a particle believed to be the long-awaited Higgs boson. Nicknamed the "God Particle," it represents the final piece in a theory that explains the basic nature of our universe.
Nothing has been easy in the search for the Higgs particle. It takes a huge amount of energy to create one, something on the scale of the energies that existed in the early moments of the Big Bang. Recreating that level of energy requires smashing particles together in the world's most powerful accelerators. Scientists knew that even if they created a Higgs boson, it would break apart immediately. The only way to identify it would be to sift through that subatomic debris, looking for signs of the decaying Higgs.
But experiments over the past year at CERN's particle accelerator in Switzerland, the Large Hadron Collider, seem to have surmounted all those hurdles. Early Wednesday, Joe Incandela, spokesperson for CERN's Compact Muon Spectrometer (CMS) team stood before a packed auditorium in Switzerland to report the big news — in a way that only geeky physicists could really appreciate.
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This graphic depicts a proton-proton collision from the search for the Higgs boson particle.
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This graphic depicts a proton-proton collision from the search for the Higgs boson particle.
"In the region of 125 GEV, they combine and give us a combined significance of 5 standard deviations," he said, proving that even momentous discoveries sound dry if you get down far enough into the weeds.
Fabiola Gianotti spoke on behalf of a second huge collaborative experiment, the ATLAS group, that also reported results. The audience didn't even wait for her to speak after she flashed a slide showing that team's statistics.
"I'm not done yet," she told the group. "There's more to come, be patient!"
Through nearly two hours of technical details, the crowd of scientists got what it had come for. In the end, Rolf Heuer, director of the CERN particle accelerator, finally put it in plain language.
It's a key to the structure of the universe.
- Joe Incandela, CERN
Former aristorcrat's home...Hotel del Casco San Isidro Buenos Aires, Argentina. Picture: Supplied Source: Supplied
Fancy staying beside a former bullfighting ring? Quinta Real Zacatecas, Mexico. Picture: Supplied Source: Supplied
In pictures: World's most lavish hotel suites
WANT to stay somewhere a little bit different on your next holiday? Travel website Virtual Tourist has compiled this list of some of the best converted hotels around the globe.
1. Hotel del Casco, San Isidro, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Originally built in 1892 and located 22km north of Buenos Aires, Hotel del Casco is a restored neoclassical palazzo. Formerly an aristocrat's summer home and later a warehouse for stored goods, the palazzo has been meticulously renovated. The builders tried to keep the original structure and preserve the building's unique neoclassical details, such as its traditional marble entrance staircase and large columns. The interior patio is a distinctive feature of the building.
2. Quinta Real Zacatecas, Mexico
While many have stayed in a refurbished factory or a renovated palace, few travelers can say they stayed adjacent to an authentic bullfighting ring. The Quinta Real Zacatecas, in Mexico, hasn't seen any action of that kind
LOCKED IN: Undergrad Alex Mariakakis tests the UnLoc system while roaming Hudson Hall on Duke University's campus. Mariakakis carries both a laptop and a smart phone, whose screen is inset in the lower right portion of the image. Image: Courtesy of Duke University, via YouTube
Global positioning system (GPS) devices may not always provide spot-on directions, but they do provide drivers, cyclists and hikers with convenient access to digital map data of every square meter of the planet shadowed by satellites. Step indoors and you will find that same GPS receiver becomes an expensive paperweight.
Indoor GPS has been in the works for at least a decade, but the plethora of interfering signals from wi-fi, ultrasound, cellular and other devices
“The acquisition of El Morro was completely proper and consistent with law”, said Goldcorp CEO Chuck Jeannes
Ontario Court Justice Herman Wilton-Siegel dismissed Barrick’s claims that the purchase was unlawful and ineffective, Goldcorp said in a statement. Barrick is reviewing the ruling and may consider an appeal, the Toronto-based company said in a release.
“We are pleased that the court has confirmed our position that our acquisition of El Morro was completely proper and consistent with the relevant
