The International Air Transport Association (IATA) announced that Goh Choon Phong, CEO of Singapore Airlines has assumed his duties as Chairman of the IATA Board of Governors (BoG) for a one-year term, effective from the conclusion of the 73rd IATA (...)
A Mexican state court has denied an appeal and upheld a 12-year prison sentence for a former "Survivor" producer convicted of killing his wife on a 2010 Cancun beach vacation, according to AP.
State prosecutors in Quintana Roo said Monday that the (...)
Forecasters say Ernesto has become a hurricane off the coast of Honduras and is headed toward the Yucatan Peninsula, AP reported.
The U.S. National Hurricane Center said Ernesto had winds of 80 mph (129 kph) and was located about 185 miles (298 (...)
A UN climate summit in Mexico approved a compromise deal Saturday tackling the growing threat of climate change after days of deadlock.
The summit adopted two separate agreements, one on the future of the Kyoto Protocol and a second on a broader (...)
On behalf of Kuwait's Emir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, his envoy Minister of Commerce and Industry Ahmad Al-Haroun, arrived here today at the head of his country's delegation to attend the 16th United Nations Climate Change (...)
This year is «almost certain» to rank among the three hottest years on record, and 2001-2010 is undoubtedly the warmest 10-year period since the beginning of weather records in 1850, AP quoted the U.N. weather agency as saying Thursday.
Data from (...)
Tropical Storm Karl dumped heavy rains on the Yucatan Peninsula on Thursday as it moved toward the Gulf of Mexico, where it is expected to pick up steam and become a hurricane threatening Mexico's central coast by the weekend.
In the Atlantic, (...)
Prosecutors say lawyers for a reality TV producer accused of murdering his wife in Mexico have filed a legal challenge there to try to block his extradition.
Mexico has requested Bruce Beresford-Redman's extradition from the United States. The (...)
The producer of “Pimp My Ride” and formerly of “Survivor” is barred from leaving Mexico while authorities investigate the death of his wife whose body was found in the sewer of a Cancun resort, a state official said Friday.
Bruce Beresford-Redman (...)
The International Energy Forum (IEF) has decided to convene a Ministerial level meeting by March 2011 in Riyadh to draft and approve an IEF Charter that will strengthen the organization through guiding principles and financial support (...)
The producer of “Pimp My Ride” and formerly of “Survivor” is barred from leaving Mexico while authorities investigate the death of his wife whose body was found in the sewer of a Cancun resort, a state official said Friday.
Bruce Beresford-Redman (...)
Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Ali bin Ibrahim Al-Naimi confirmed that the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is considered, thanks to its moderate and balanced policy, one of the most enthusiastic and interested (...)
Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman bin Abdulaziz, Assistant Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources for Petroleum Affairs and Chairman of the High Level Steering Group (HLSG) at the 12th Conference of the International Energy Forum, delivered a (...)
World energy producers and consumers pledged greater cooperation and called for transparent markets here on Wednesday to tackle oil price volatility seen as damaging to economic recovery.
“With regard to energy market volatility, energy markets (...)
The 12th Conference of the International Energy Forum has expressed appreciation of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for its initiative to hold special meeting on energy called for by the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al (...)
The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries needs to “work hard” with consumer countries to help avoid the risk of excessive oil price volatility, the cartel's head said Monday.
On the eve of the world's largest energy forum in the Mexican (...)
The governing board of the Inter-American Development Bank agreed early on Monday to raise $70 billion in fresh capital and erase $479 million of Haitian debt, Colombia's finance minister was quoted as saying by Reuters.
"What was agreed in the (...)
Samuel Peter of Nigeria stopped Russian Oleg Maskaev in the sixth round, pummeling him with 12 unanswered power punches to force a stoppage and claim the WBC heavyweight title on Saturday.
The 27-year-old Peter improved to 30-1 with 23 knockouts, (...)
Samuel Peter has chased Oleg Maskaev from New York City to the Mayan Riviera. He has insulted and harangued the WBC heavyweight champion for over a year now, confidently vowing to take his belt with a violent knockout.
If Peter can punch Maskaev on (...)
Hurricane Wilma tore into the heart of Mexico's Caribbean resort strip on Friday, trapping thousands of frightened tourists in darkened shelters pounded by torrential rains and shrieking winds as Cancun's half-million residents watched their streets (...)
Lashing wind and rain pounded Mexican beach resorts on Friday and thousands of tourists hunkered down in shelters to escape Hurricane Wilma, which was hammering Caribbean resorts on its way to densely populated southern Florida, Reuters (...)
Hurricane Emily howled toward Mexico's Caribbean coast on Sunday bearing 150 mph (240 kph) winds, pounding waves and torrential rain, and causing chaos in Cancun as tourists fled resorts in its path.
As an ominous stiff breeze signaled the storm's (...)
Hurricane Emily battered Mexico's Caribbean beach resorts on Monday, forcing thousands of tourists out of fancy seafront hotels and into crowded shelters to escape its destruction.
Emily knocked out power lines, blew down trees and whipped up (...)
South African police commissioner Jackie Selebi was elected Friday as the new president of Interpol during the final of the 73rd Interpol General Assembly in Cancun, Mexico, a spokesman said.
Selebi, who was Interpol vice president for Africa, was (...)
