Argentina's nine-year economic expansion is slowing sharply, according to analysts, who predict growth of 2.5 percent to 3 percent this year, half the 5.1 percent projected by the government's 2012 budget and far below last year's 8.9 percent rise.

Researchers find a startling error rate in statistics on imports of fish for saltwater aquariums. Yet reliable data is needed as coastal managers seek to reduce risks from the introduction of diseases and invasive species.

KUALA LUMPUR, May 22 †- Lynas Corporation chairman Nicholas Curtis has said that bilateral deals are only as good as the willingness of governments to play by their own rules, citing the Australian miner’s frustrations in starting up its Kuantan rare earths plant even as Canberra and Putrajaya inked a free trade agreement (FTA) today. The Lynas ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Egypt's military rulers plan to spend close to $1 billion on diesel this summer, a spike in imports as they brace for a first free presidential election triggered by last year's uprising with a wary eye on renewed civil unrest. Fuel shortages have already caused public anger this year and slowed the grain harvest. And with creditors pressing for Egypt's new leaders to risk a ...

New Film Website Brings Production Business to ColoradoDenver, Colorado (PRWEB) May 22, 2012 The Colorado Office of Film, Television & Media, a division of the Office of Economic Development and International Trade, today announced the launch of ShootColorado.org, a public-private partnership aimed at attracting and facilitating film, television and print media production around the state ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Eastman Kodak Co lost a preliminary patent ruling on Monday, as a trade panel judge ruled that Apple and Research in Motion did not violate a Kodak patent because it was invalid. An administrative law judge at the International Trade Commission said that the critical portion of Kodak's patent, which allows a user to preview digital images, was invalid because it was ...

Industries based on nanotechnology are a rapidly growing niche in the economy of the Czech Republic, which, although small, is widely respected for its technical prowess.

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Igor Sechin, one of President Vladimir Putin's closest confidants, was named CEO of Rosneft on Tuesday, putting the informal leader of a political clan drawn from the Soviet secret services in direct charge of Russia's biggest oil company. His move from the corridors of power to the executive suite at Rosneft - just across the Moscow River from the Kremlin - marks the ...

BEIJING/SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China will fast track approvals for infrastructure investment to combat a slowdown in the economy, a state-backed newspaper reported on Tuesday, showing how Premier Wen Jiabao's call for policies to support growth is being put into action. The pace of investment in the likes of roads, bridges and real estate is running at its weakest in nearly a decade, April data ...

A global operation sparked by the Department of Internal Affairs and spanning 20 countries has targeted 55 key suspects in the worldwide distribution of child sexual abuse pictures. Some were involved in the actual sexual abuse of the children depicted.

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