Ukraine’s credit ratings were raised at Standard & Poor’s on improvements in the country’s policy coordination and after a Russian gas subsidy agreement helped boost the government’s debt outlook.

• Date: 18.05.2010  |  Published on EGF: 18.05.2010  |  Markets  |  from sptimes.ru

Amid stories of rebellion and a crackdown in the south, rumours of unrest and gossip about coup and counter-coup, the information coming out of this troubled Central Asian ex-Soviet Republic points towards a growing degree of control by the interim government of Roza Otunbaeva, both in legislative and military terms, as a hundred criminal cases are brought against ex-President Kurmanbek Bakiev.

• Date: 17.05.2010  |  Published on EGF: 17.05.2010  |  Markets  |  from pravda.ru

Europe's current crises are bad enough to make anyone feel down. Our Vienna correspondent Kerry Skyring has been visiting his native Australia and concludes that Europe's bad news is best viewed from a sunny beach.

• Date: 17.05.2010  |  Published on EGF: 16.05.2010  |  Markets  |  from Deutsche Welle

How will India measure, report and verify its climate change actions when it is not yet sure of what actions it needs to take or the economic consequences of such moves to reduce greenhouse gas emissions?

• Date: 14.05.2010  |  Published on EGF: 14.05.2010  |  Security  |  from IndiaTimes

As ice caps melt, opening up new shipping routes and access to billions of dollars' worth of oil and natural gas riches, the Arctic is fast becoming the new global frontier amid fears that a no-holds-barred scramble for resources might someday provoke an international crisis.

• Date: 14.05.2010  |  Published on EGF: 14.05.2010  |  Markets  |  from washingtonpost.com

Investments that yield energy savings will reward the banks who provide crediting

• Date: 14.05.2010  |  Published on EGF: 14.05.2010  |  Energy  |  from kyivpost.com

David Cameron is preparing for his first cabinet meeting as UK prime minister, as he puts the finishing touches to his historic coalition government.

• Date: 13.05.2010  |  Published on EGF: 13.05.2010  |  Markets  |  from bbc.co.uk

Conservative Party leader David Cameron has been named Britain's new prime minister, taking over from Gordon Brown who resigned. Cameron said he would seek a coalition with the Liberal Democrats.

• Date: 12.05.2010  |  Published on EGF: 12.05.2010  |  Markets  |  from Deutsche Welle