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Rupert Murdoch’s media empire, News Corporation, announced on Wednesday that his son James had stepped down as executive chairman of News International, the British newspaper subsidiary that is embroiled in layers of overlapping police and judicial inquiries into phone hacking...

Today the European Union (EU) complained that the Council of Human Rights (HRC) of the UN adopts a firm stance condemning Syria. China and Russia must follow such position, which states the immediate rejection of using the force to achieve the fall the Bashar al-Assad regime....

An International Court of Arbitration, administered by the Permanent Court at The Hague issued an interim award which states with jurisdiction over the claims raised by Chevron (Texaco) against Ecuador. The multinational asked for arbitration in September 2009 in order to move to...

Yesterday, racer Juan Pablo Montoya suffered an accident after crashing with a truck loaded with jet fuel. The impact caused a loud explosion which obligated the suspension of the race NASCAR Daytona 500 auto race at Daytona International Speedway, more than two hours. Cleaning...

Venezuelan president, Hugo Chavez, is in “good physical condition” after surgeons in Cuba removed an injury from his pelvic area. This is the latest operation Chavez had since surgeons removed a cancerous tumour last year from the same area. Elias Jaua, the vice-president of...

Judge Wilson Merino, of the Criminal Division of the Ecuadorian National Court of Justice (CNJ), said this afternoon that El Universo case was filed in the courts. The judges of the Criminal Division agreed in a written document with the decision of President Rafael Correa, who...

Soccer teams of Ecuador and Honduras will play a friendly match tomorrow morning in Guayaquil, in order to study different alignments of their teams for future games. In June, Ecuador will start the South American qualifying for the World Cup while facing Argentina, while...

The United Nations informed that the repression in Syria due to the crackdown against the regime of president Bashar al-Assad has left more than 7,500 fatalities. The first demonstrations during the Arab Spring started in March of 2011, since then the army has crushed any kind of...

A new program will allow USA federal prison inmates to listen to music on personal MP3 players. More than 200,000 prisoners will be allowed to have MP3 players, which will be sold to them in the prison commissionaires, and choose from an in-jail house library of about 1 million...

Teresa Cedeño, Jacqueline Guzman, Lydia Gaibor and Arelis Beltran led a workshop on the production of chemicals and nutrition. Arelis has a volunteer for the Crusade For a New Humanity Foundation for several years and decided to take this opportunity to perform community service...