International Business News - World http://www.ibtimes.com/rss/feed/world.rss All articles are copyrighted by IBTimes.com 120 30 http://www.ibtimes.com/rss/feed/world.rss http://www.ibtimes.com/images/top_logo_ibt2_3.gif Hurricane Bill weakened to post-tropical storm status on Monday after lashing Eastern Canada with heavy winds and rain and pounding the U.S. East Coast with heavy seas that killed two people. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090824/storm-bill-loses-steam-north-atlantic.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/218990-storm-bill-loses-steam-in-north-atlantic.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090824/storm-bill-loses-steam-north-atlantic.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090824/storm-bill-loses-steam-north-atlantic.htm Mon, 24 Aug 2009 07:15:30 EDT Hong Kong on Thursday opened its first DigPlayground at Cyberpor, which is also the first unique outdoor digital playground in Asia. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090731/asias-nooutdoor-digital-playground-opened-hk.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/217770-asias-nooutdoor-digital-playground-opened-in-hk.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090731/asias-nooutdoor-digital-playground-opened-hk.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090731/asias-nooutdoor-digital-playground-opened-hk.htm Fri, 31 Jul 2009 16:11:44 EDT Monday, Bulgaria's National Statistical Institute announced that the visitor arrivals from abroad decreased 12.7% year-over-year in June. The number of visitor arrivals totaled 957,271. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090727/bulgaria-tourism-arrivals-decline-in-june.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090727/bulgaria-tourism-arrivals-decline-in-june.htm Mon, 27 Jul 2009 09:23:00 EDT Monday, the Statistical Service of the Republic of Cyprus said the tourism revenue decreased 17.3% year-over-year to EUR 158.1 million in May, compared to the 0.3% fall in the preceding month. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090629/cyprus-tourism-revenue-drops-in-may.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090629/cyprus-tourism-revenue-drops-in-may.htm Mon, 29 Jun 2009 07:57:41 EDT Income investors are snatching up a new form of pseudo municipal bonds known as Build America Bonds (BAB). http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090512/how-do-build-america-bonds-work.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090512/how-do-build-america-bonds-work.htm Tue, 12 May 2009 16:46:33 EDT The World Health Organization reported on Monday that 985 cases of influenza A (H1N1) have been reported across twenty countries. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090504/swine-flu-cases000.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090504/swine-flu-cases000.htm Mon, 04 May 2009 07:22:32 EDT The influenza AH1N1 the virus that has claimed the lives of 19 people in Mexico is on the decrease according to the Federal Health Minister, Jose Angel Cordova Villalobos the El Universal reported. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090503/swine-flu-worst-over.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/213008-.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090503/swine-flu-worst-over.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090503/swine-flu-worst-over.htm Sun, 03 May 2009 13:31:55 EDT This first swine flu death in the U.S. has been confirmed in Texas with the death of a 23 month old toddler, this is first death of its kind to take place outside of Mexico. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090429/ufirst-death-swine-flu-texas.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/212830-.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090429/ufirst-death-swine-flu-texas.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090429/ufirst-death-swine-flu-texas.htm Wed, 29 Apr 2009 11:26:19 EDT California Governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger, on Tuesday declared a state of emergency to tackle the swine flu outbreak in the most populous U.S. state. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090428/california-swine-flu-state-emergency.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090428/california-swine-flu-state-emergency.htm Tue, 28 Apr 2009 17:11:57 EDT Fears that any tentative green shoots in the global economy could be trampled by a deadly outbreak of swine flu put markets on edge on Monday, after world policymakers said over the weekend that a recovery could begin later this year but plenty of downside risk remained. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090427/flu-fears-dampen-talk-tentative-world-recovery.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/212692-health.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090427/flu-fears-dampen-talk-tentative-world-recovery.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090427/flu-fears-dampen-talk-tentative-world-recovery.htm Mon, 27 Apr 2009 06:21:22 EDT Two Italian nuns kidnapped by Somali gunmen in a cross-border raid into Kenya in November have been freed. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090219/somalia-nuns-freed-kidnapped-italian.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/209679-.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090219/somalia-nuns-freed-kidnapped-italian.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090219/somalia-nuns-freed-kidnapped-italian.htm Thu, 19 Feb 2009 13:09:53 EST Venezuela seized a local bank owned by Allen Stanford on Thursday to stem massive online deposit withdrawals as the impact of a U.S. fraud case against the Texan billionaire spread through Latin America. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090219/venezuela-seizes-stanford-bank-after-online-run.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/209658-a-view-of-the-outside-ofstanford-bank.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090219/venezuela-seizes-stanford-bank-after-online-run.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090219/venezuela-seizes-stanford-bank-after-online-run.htm Thu, 19 Feb 2009 09:16:01 EST On Friday evening a British Airways passenger jet with 72 people on board crash-landed at London City Airport. All passengers were evacuated to safety, the Associated Press reported. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090213/british-airways-london-flight-crash-landed.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/209423-.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090213/british-airways-london-flight-crash-landed.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090213/british-airways-london-flight-crash-landed.htm Fri, 13 Feb 2009 16:45:58 EST On Wednesday a privately owned U.S. communications satellite collided with a defunct Russian satellite. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090211/russia-space-satelites-collide.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090211/russia-space-satelites-collide.htm Wed, 11 Feb 2009 20:14:16 EST A 1937 Bugatti sports car that was found in an English doctor's garage for almost 50 years was sold at an auction in Paris on Feb. 7, for about $4.4 million, the associated press reports reported. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090210/1937-bugatti-sports-car-found-garage-after-50-years-sells53-million.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090210/1937-bugatti-sports-car-found-garage-after-50-years-sells53-million.htm Tue, 10 Feb 2009 19:24:24 EST On Monday a 38-year-old woman who ignited a fierce right-to-die debate that convulsed Italy and dragged in the Vatican died after spending 17 years in a vegetative state. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090209/italian-woman-right-die-debate-eluana-englaro-italy-vatican.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/209367-.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090209/italian-woman-right-die-debate-eluana-englaro-italy-vatican.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090209/italian-woman-right-die-debate-eluana-englaro-italy-vatican.htm Mon, 09 Feb 2009 23:54:47 EST New Rubik's 360, is not a cube. Two-time British Cube-solving champion Dan Harris, 24, from Gorleston, Norfolk, has tested Rubik's 360 on the Sunday Telegraph. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090204/rubiks-cube-360.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090204/rubiks-cube-360.htm Wed, 04 Feb 2009 19:15:20 EST Researchers have found fossils of the world's biggest snake ever from northeastern Colombia, a behemoth that stretched 42 to 45 feet long, reaching more than 2,500 pounds from nose to tail tip. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090204/worldbiggest-snake-ancient-snake-colossa-snake-titanoboa-cerrejonensis.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090204/worldbiggest-snake-ancient-snake-colossa-snake-titanoboa-cerrejonensis.htm Wed, 04 Feb 2009 13:33:39 EST A small, hot earth-like planet has been discovered by astronomers led by the French Space Agency using the COROT space telescope, detected outside the Solar System, which has a surface to walk on. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090204/small-hot-earth-like-planet-discovered-corot.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/209277-.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090204/small-hot-earth-like-planet-discovered-corot.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090204/small-hot-earth-like-planet-discovered-corot.htm Wed, 04 Feb 2009 11:57:04 EST The Worlds second octuplets live are doing well after a Californian woman gave birth to eight babies at the same time, in Los Angeles, CA on Monday. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090127/octuplets-california.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/209111-.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090127/octuplets-california.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090127/octuplets-california.htm Tue, 27 Jan 2009 12:14:54 EST