Amid a UK-Argentine diplomatic and trade face-off over the Malvinas islands, retired Royal Marine Brigadier Ian Gardiner – who commanded a Marine company in the 1982 Falklands war – thinks a new Argentine attack on the islands is unlikely.
Former Colombian finance minister Jose Antonio Ocampo ended his bid to become World Bank president, leaving two candidates in an unprecedented challenge to US control of the global development institution.
Russia will support Jim Yong Kim, the US nominee for the next World Bank head, Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov said today after meeting the candidate, who is in Moscow on his world tour to seek support.
Standard & Poor's reaffirmed today its top-notch AAA rating for Britain, saying it expects the country's debt burden to peak in 2014. S&P's also said its outlook for Britain's rating was stable.
Syrian forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad shot dead five protesters after Friday prayers, activists reported, while the government said an army officer was killed as violence marred a ceasefire brokered by international peace envoy Kofi Annan.
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said North Korea's long-range rocket test today was deplorable, in direct violation of U Security Council Resolution 1874, and threatened regional stability.
US stocks closed their worst two-week slide since November with a selloff as disappointing China growth data sparked worries the global recovery was flagging. Meanwhile, European shares went into reverse after two days of gains as concerns over euro zone sovereign debt returned.
Shares of Argentina's biggest energy company YPF edged lower by 4.2 percent in Wall Street and 3.3 percent at the Merval Buenos Aires stock market.
Condemned to die shortly after birth for being a girl, outspoken Afghan member of parliament Fawzia Koofi lived to become a champion of women's rights and is now eyeing the presidency in 2014.
World powers and Iran held talks on Tehran's nuclear programme in Istanbul today in a "constructive atmosphere", a European Union spokesman said after the first session.