And China, though insistent at last week's talks on pushing its continental shelf approach, did not reject outright a proposal by Japan for joint development of fields straddling the median line.
Thomas Cook has been hit by weakening consumer confidence in Germany, as political uncertainty weighs on its crucial continental Europe business.
And that Venezuela's central bank made a mint on its intra-continental loans.
With the poll in the Times showing that less than one in five Brits now has a positive view of Europe — hardly surprising in view of the continent's economic problems — the P.M. has said he will give a big speech in January on Britain's relationship with its continental partners.
It is now on its way to continental China.
Some of these are still on passage and carry on into continental Europe but others remain.
For each SNP, we calculated iHS on one continental group at a time.
Changes in land cover also impact carbon sequestration in vegetation cover with an influence on climate on continental scale.
