International Business News - GRL http://www.ibtimes.com All articles are copyrighted by IBTimes.com 400 100 http://www.ibtimes.com/ http://www.ibtimes.com/images/top_logo_ibt2_3.gif Florida electric and natural gas utility owner Teco Energy Inc. said Monday it has formed a new subsidiary to develop and own a Florida intrastate natural gas transmission pipeline. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080804/teco-energy-forms-pipeline-subsidiary.htm Mon, 04 Aug 2008 12:38:44 EDT Officials say the Nordic countries are close to obtaining information exchange deals with the Channel Islands in a bid to fight tax evasion. Project leader Torsten Fensby of the Nordic Council of Ministers says Norway, Denmark, Finland, Sweden, Greenland and the Faeroe Islands will sign such agreements with Jersey and Guernsey on Oct. 28. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080804/nordics-to-enter-tax-deals-with-channel-islands.htm Mon, 04 Aug 2008 09:43:17 EDT A mother who was initially labeled a kidnapping victim was arrested Friday in New York on a warrant charging her with helping her boyfriend flee after a fatal stabbing. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080801/girlfriend-held-in-flight-of-mass-murder-suspect.htm Fri, 01 Aug 2008 17:31:03 EDT Finally, China had an act of nature it could celebrate. After an Olympic year of freakish natural disasters, crowds of Chinese watched a total solar eclipse along the country's ancient Silk Road on Friday, one week before the start of the Summer Games in Beijing. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/101836-china-eclipse.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080801/chinese-cheered-by-eclipse-a-week-before-olympics.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080801/chinese-cheered-by-eclipse-a-week-before-olympics.htm Fri, 01 Aug 2008 14:06:05 EDT A man accused of killing a woman in Massachusetts and fleeing to New York with his four small children and their mother was being held without bail Thursday after agreeing to be taken back to Massachusetts to face charges, prosecutors said. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080731/nypd-nabs-man-accused-of-killing-woman-in-mass.htm Thu, 31 Jul 2008 21:01:26 EDT A man accused of fatally stabbing a woman in a Massachusetts apartment and then fleeing with his four children and their mother was arrested Wednesday by police, who said the siblings and their mother were in good health and apparently had not been taken against their will. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080730/nypd-nabs-man-accused-of-killing-woman-in-mass.htm Wed, 30 Jul 2008 23:36:49 EDT A man accused of abducting his wife and four young children from a Massachusetts apartment where another woman was found fatally stabbed was arrested Wednesday by police, who said the siblings and their mother were in good health. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/101005-family-abducted.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080730/amber-alert-issued-in-mass-for-4-children.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080730/amber-alert-issued-in-mass-for-4-children.htm Wed, 30 Jul 2008 21:41:22 EDT A total solar eclipse will darken some of Earth's skies on Friday, but geography, weather, the economy and even the Olympics are combining to make it a hard and expensive for people to see it. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080728/fridays-remote-solar-eclipse-will-be-on-internet.htm Mon, 28 Jul 2008 17:16:54 EDT After traveling around the Arctic Circle alone, walking across South America, venturing through African war zones and hiking deep into the Amazon, Borneo and Sumatra jungles, Mike Horn is ready to embark on his most ambitious project yet. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/94940-britain-explorer.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080721/explorer-aims-to-educate-youth-on-the-environment.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080721/explorer-aims-to-educate-youth-on-the-environment.htm Mon, 21 Jul 2008 13:12:13 EDT The Coast Guard has detained a cruise ship with 1,200 passengers in New York Harbor because the ship had a leaking hull, damaged lifeboats and other safety issues. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080717/cruise-ship-with-hull-damage-detained-in-ny-harbor.htm Thu, 17 Jul 2008 09:35:06 EDT The Coast Guard has detained a cruise ship with 1,200 passengers in New York Harbor because the ship had a leaking hull, damaged lifeboats and other safety issues. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080716/cruise-ship-with-hull-damage-detained-in-ny-harbor.htm Wed, 16 Jul 2008 21:31:23 EDT The Canadian province Newfoundland and Labrador asked the federal government Friday to file a complaint to the World Trade Organization if the Europe Union proceeds to enact legislation banning the import of seal products. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080711/provincial-agency-wants-canada-to-defend-seal-hunt.htm Fri, 11 Jul 2008 16:45:20 EDT Anti-seal hunt demonstrators have staged a protest outside European Union headquarters demanding that the 27-nation bloc impose a total ban on all imports of seal products from Canada and other countries. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080701/seal-hunt-protests-outside-eu-headquarters.htm Tue, 01 Jul 2008 09:56:34 EDT There's a 50-50 chance that the North Pole will be ice-free this summer, which would be a first in recorded history, a leading ice scientist says. The weather and ocean conditions in the next couple of weeks will determine how much of the sea ice will melt, and early signs are not good, said Mark Serreze. He's a senior researcher at the National Snow and Ice Data Center and the University of Colorado in Boulder, Colo. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080627/this-summer-may-see-first-ice-free-north-pole.htm Fri, 27 Jun 2008 17:40:22 EDT The International Whaling Commission ended its annual conference on Friday, leaving all the tough work on expanding or restricting whale hunting still ahead of it. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080627/whale-meeting-ends-tough-calls-delayed.htm Fri, 27 Jun 2008 13:50:11 EDT The International Whaling Commission has turned down a request from Denmark to allow indigenous fishermen in Greenland to catch 10 humpback whales a year. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080626/greenland-denied-humback-whaling-permit.htm Thu, 26 Jun 2008 18:44:40 EDT A senior Russian general says Russia will conduct military exercises in the Arctic to uphold the country's claim to the region's vast natural resources. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080624/russia-plans-to-hold-military-exercises-in-arctic.htm Tue, 24 Jun 2008 13:10:01 EDT A deadlock between pro- and anti-whaling nations led the International Whaling Commission to put off the most controversial issues on its agenda Tuesday and agree on a committee to overcome differences--probably by next year. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080624/chilean-president-pushes-whaling-ban.htm Tue, 24 Jun 2008 16:25:15 EDT Bizarre microbes flourish in the most punishing environments on Earth from the bone-dry Atacama Desert in Chile to the boiling hot springs of Yellowstone National Park to the sunless sea bottom vents in the Pacific. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/77143-phoenix-mars.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080622/can-the-martian-arctic-support-extreme-life.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080622/can-the-martian-arctic-support-extreme-life.htm Sun, 22 Jun 2008 13:25:18 EDT A tax on airline tickets, an auction of pollution rights, an international climate change bond: These are some of the ideas likely to be thrashed out at a 162-nation conference on raising the billions needed each year to fight global warming. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/61933-germany-climate-change.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080603/climate-costs-nations-talk-taxes-bonds-auctions.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080603/climate-costs-nations-talk-taxes-bonds-auctions.htm Tue, 03 Jun 2008 13:26:13 EDT