Rating agency DBRS Incorporated has upgraded its ratings on Argentina´s long-term foreign and local currency securities to “B” from “B (low)”. According to the international report, strong growth in neighboring Brazil -Argentina’s main trade partner- and highly favorable world agricultural commodity prices have led to a strong recovery in 2010-2011 GDP growth. However, the Canadian... 

Charged with numerous counts of child molesting including murder, Sergey Kutnyuk was sentenced by Sverdlovsk Region Court to life imprisonment. The Russian parliament has approved a law on pedophilia in a first reading. From now on people found guilty of sex crimes against children under the age of 14 will face chemical castration, while repeat offenders face a life sentence. ­According to the new... 

Yemeni protestors demand the resignation of Ali Abdullah Saleh at a huge demonstration in the capital, Sana'a, October 4, 2011. Anti-regime protesters have staged more massive demonstrations in two major cities in Yemen, demanding the immediate resignation of Ali Abdullah Saleh, Press TV reports. On Thursday, tens of thousands of people packed the streets in the capital Sana’a and the southern... 

Lithuania's Foreign Minister Audronius Azubalis Lithuania’s top diplomat urged Moscow on Tuesday to start considering the issue of compensation for the Soviet-era “occupation” of his country. “I have encouraged Russia to open a dialogue on the joint evaluation of the past, the restoration of justice, compensation for the occupation, and problems of the investigation of crimes... 

Anger: Susan Rice, US Ambassador to the UN, walked out of a security council meeting after Russia and China vetoed a resolution on Syria America’s ambassador to the U.N. stormed out of a security council meeting after China and Russia vetoed a resolution condemning Syria’s crackdown on anti-government protests. Furious Susan Rice claimed Washington was ‘outraged’ by opposition... 

Russian Ambassador to the UN Vitaly Churkin Russia and China have vetoed a Western-backed United Nations Security Council resolution threatening military action and sanctions against Syria. On Tuesday, nine countries voted for the text drawn up by France, Britain, Germany and Portugal, but Russia and China voted against, killing the resolution because of their veto power as permanent members of Security... 

Two days ago the entire Israeli media has reported that the Syrian president Bashar al-Assad will attack Israel’s capital city Tel Aviv in case NATO attacks his country. Furthermore, Assad said Iran and Lebanon’s Hezbollah will side with Syria against NATO. This story has been reported by Ynet, Haaretz, The Jerusalem Post, DEBKAfile, and confirmed by the US based Newsmax. NATO troops are... 

A grim Federal Security Services (FSB) report on Prime Minister Putin’s plan to meet China’s leader Hu Jintao [both pictured top photo right] in Beijing next week warns that both Russian and Chinese military forces are being placed on their ‘highest alert’ in anticipation of a massive land invasion believed being planned by the United States of both the Middle East and Central Asia. The plans... 

Former Apple CEO, Steve Jobs, holds up new iPod Nano after introducing it at an event in San Francisco, California in this September 7, 2005 picture. Steve Jobs, the billionaire co-founder of the technology giant, Apple Inc., has died at the age of 56, succumbing to pancreatic cancer, says a brief company statement. “We are deeply saddened to announce that Steve Jobs passed away today,” AFP quoted... 

The ALMA radio telescope has taken its first photograph of the Antennae Galaxies from the observatory in Chile (pictured) telescope. Click on the image to enlarge it. To boldly show: World’s most expensive telescope takes first pictures of deepest space in quest for more knowledge of outer universe. This is the remarkable first picture taken by the new $1.3billion radio telescope sitting high... 

London’s elite real estate reached another maximum level in September. The average price on a real estate object in the British capital hit the level of 3.968 million pounds sterling. This is 4.5% higher than before the crisis in March 2008. Houses and apartments in London became 11.4% more expensive within a year. In comparison with March 2009, the prices have grown by 37.2%. London remains... 

Four in a marriage: Vicki Darger says that her husband has a 'higher purpose' Vicki Darger has a spacious home in the suburbs, her children attend public school and she couldn’t live without her Blackberry. Her life seems utterly unexclamatory. But, look a little further and it’s clear that Vicki lives a highly unconventional married life. Her husband, Joe, has fathered 24 children... 

'Occupy Wall Street' (OWS) demonstrations Many major US unions express support for the countrywide protests at the dire economic situation, which have been raging on under the banner ‘Occupy Wall Street’ (OWS). The Transit Workers Union (TWU) said that all its 38,000 members had voted unanimously to support and join the OWS demonstrators, British newspaper The Guardian reported... 

Putin wants to further globalize the world by creating a union similar to the European Union, the Eurasian Union. Vladimir Putin has proposed the creation of a new international power nexus between Europe and the Asia-Pacific region in an article in the Izvestia daily. According to the Voice of Russia, the Eurasian Union is Putin’s priority. The Izvestia article, published on Tuesday, mainly... 

An optometrist checks the eye for glaucoma: The condition is one of the most common causes of blindness in the UK. Cocaine users are 45% more likely to develop glaucoma (blindness) even if they’ve given up the drug. People who take cocaine or are former users are 45 per cent more likely to develop a common form of blindness, a large study has found. Researchers also found they developed glaucoma...