It is announced that more than 20 writers are still needed for a week-long event to include a poet from every nation competing in the 2012 Olympics and Paralympics: among those attending are
Jo Shapcott (Great Britain) and Nobel laureates
Seamus Heaney (Ireland) and
Wole Soyinka (Nigeria).
(BBC)(The Guardian)
The
St Cuthbert Gospel, the oldest intact European book, is to stay on UK territory due to the £9 million raised for purchase by the
British Library.
(BBC)
Senior U.S. officials admit for the first time that the Secret Service prostitution scandal during the
6th Summit of the Americas involved as many as 20 women, 11 American agents and some military personnel.
(BBC)
Spanish foreign minister
José García-Margallo y Marfil attacks Argentina over its decision to nationalise
YPF, an Argentine oil company in which Spanish company
Repsol has a majority shareholding, a decision reported to be popular in Argentina.
(BBC)
It is announced that more than 20 writers are still needed for a week-long event to include a poet from every nation competing in the 2012 Olympics and Paralympics: among those attending are
Jo Shapcott (Great Britain) and Nobel laureates
Seamus Heaney (Ireland) and
Wole Soyinka (Nigeria).
(BBC)(The Guardian)
The
St Cuthbert Gospel, the oldest intact European book, is to stay on UK territory due to the £9 million raised for purchase by the
British Library.
(BBC)
Senior U.S. officials admit for the first time that the Secret Service prostitution scandal during the
6th Summit of the Americas involved as many as 20 women, 11 American agents and some military personnel.
(BBC)
Spanish foreign minister
José García-Margallo y Marfil attacks Argentina over its decision to nationalise
YPF, an Argentine oil company in which Spanish company
Repsol has a majority shareholding, a decision reported to be popular in Argentina.
(BBC)