Subsistence whaling has sustained Alaska native communities for centuries and renewal of their five-year bowhead whale quota is crucial, U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens said Monday at the opening of the International Whaling Commission meeting.
Paraguay will be going to the polls to elect the successor of President Nicanor Duarte Flores on April 20 next year, confirmed this week the country's Electoral Tribunal.
A top European Union trade negotiator begins this week an official visit to the four Mercosur country members in an attempt to re-launch the stalled talks with the South American block for an association agreement.
An Australian doctor on a trans-Pacific flight was upgraded to first class and given a bottle of vintage champagne after delivering a baby for a Brazilian who didn't even know she was pregnant, news reports said on Sunday.
A group of 125 international marine scientists on Thursday called on the head of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) to push for a global agreement that slashes subsidies paid by many countries to their fishing industries.
In a week commemorating the 25th anniversary of the Falkland Islands War, The History Channel UK is premiering three commissioned programmes including The Islander's War, a Point of View production by Mike Ford that will be screened in the United Kingdom at the beginning and the end of the Falklands' Week on June 11 and 17.
The town of Gosport, on the western side of Portsmouth harbour, and home of the Falklands Veterans Foundation, has hosted the first major event commemorating the 25th Anniversary of the Falklands War.
Argentine President Néstor Kirchner marked on Friday his four years in office reaffirming his call for a concertation †or alliance of different political forces †ahead of the October's presidential election. However, he remained tight-lipped on who will be the ruling Peronist party's candidate.
The countdown has begun for Venezuela's oldest private television station: midnight Sunday Radio Caracas Television, the most widely watched channel, will be forced off the air after President Hugo Chávez's government decided not to renew its licence.
Corruption is undermining judicial systems around the world denying citizens' access to justice and the basic human right to a fair and impartial trial, sometimes even to a trial at all, according to the Global Corruption Report 2007: Corruption in Judicial Systems issued Thursday by Transparency International, the global coalition against corruption.