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During the hearing of this Tuesday, judges confirmed and declared Cesar Carrion innocent. They also revoked the sentence of Luis Martinez, Luis Bahamonde and Jaime Paucar who were originally declared innocent will now face a two year prison sentence. The Third Criminal Chamber of...

Through a press release, the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Science announced that comic actor Eddie Murphy will be the next host of The Oscar’s ceremonies gala, in its 84th issue. The film institution aims to rejuvenate its retransmission offering a more diverse racial...

The death toll after typhoon “Talas” in Japan has risen to 42 while totaling 55 missing. Efforts to get emergency supplies to thousands of people held incommunicado continue. In Nara and Wakayama, the most affected provinces, there is still danger of further...

El Universo legal representative Joffre Campaña informed that the analysis made to the copy of the hard drive of judge Juan Paredes revealed that the sentence was elaborated outside court 15º of Guayas. According to the results, file Correa 457-2011.2 was placed into the computer...

The Finnish company Nokia has decided to renew its distinctive ringtone (Nokia tune), recognized worldwide, to include it in the new phone models to come. The mobile company has launched a contest in collaboration with the AudioCraft company. The competition, which will end on...

Madonna announced during a recent interview that her next album — the first since 2008’s “Hard Candy” — will be released in spring 2012. The “Material Girl” songbird made the reveal while promoting her latest cinematic effort,...

Juan Sanchez, an artist from Imbabura who never considered himself as a craftsman or a sculptor, is the creator of the most representative giant figures of Guayaquil city. He first worked in “the parrot” located at La Alborada neighborhood, then “the...

Investigative journalism of Latin America is in great risk, this was one of the conclusions of the Latin American Conference of the Investigative Journalism (Colpin by its Spanish acronym) 2011. For four days Guayaquil was the city that sponsored the meeting of media...

Ecuadorian importers yesterday began proceedings to obtain import licenses. These licenses will be an import requisite for tires, CKD, hybrid vehicles, appliances, mobile phones, among other 51 goods. The measures will come into force from September 16, 2011. To get the...

Rene Ramirez, besides being Senplades and Senescyt chairman, was sworn yesterday as the new Ecuadorian Chairman of Higher Education, body in charge for the administering policies and regulation of the country’s university system. Ramirez, who represents the Executive, was...