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A Model of the First 100% Green City Was Presented

A model of the first 100 percent green city, Masdar City, was presented in Abu Dhabi, during the World Future Energies Summit. Masdar City will be the first hundred percent ecologic city of the world when it is completed. This city will not produce C02 and will not allo...
Posted On 19 Jan 2011
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Today People Start to Pay Products with Cell Phones

Today, Starbucks inaugurated its new technology to buy lattes. Shoppers now can swipe cellphones instead of credit cards to make purchases.  The 6,800 stores the company operates in the United States and the 1,000 that are in Target stores are able to pay with their smart-phones...
Posted On 19 Jan 2011
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Insua Confirms Palacios as Barcelona Captain

The “Noche Amarilla” would begin at 19:30 of this Wednesday in the Monumental stadium. The soccer party would be between Barcelona and Deportes Tolima of Colombia. This morning the coach Ruben Dario Insua confirmed that he would use the tactical scheme of 3-5-2. Barcelona’s...
Posted On 19 Jan 2011
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Former Banker Goes to Court for Supporting WikiLeaks

Rudolf Elmer, 55, former Swiss banker that two days ago delivered to WikiLeaks information of 2,000 clients suspected of tax evasion is now on a preliminary hearing on a court of Zurich to hear the charges against him. Elmer faces a prison sentence of eight months and a fine of...
Posted On 19 Jan 2011
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Prince William and Kate Will Star in a Comic

The cartoonist Rich Johnston, known in the world of comic illustration for its political content comics, was responsible for writing the script for “Kate and William: A Very Public Love Story”. Mike Collins and Gary Erskine, two well-known artists in United Kingdom,...
Posted On 19 Jan 2011
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All Funds of Former President of Tunisia are Frozen

All funds deposited by former Tunisian President Zine al Abidine Ben Ali, in banks of Switzerland, have been frozen because the Swiss government “seeks to prevent that the Swiss financial center serves to conceal the stolen funds from the concerned populations”. All...
Posted On 19 Jan 2011
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Ecuadorian Police Leave Administrative Tasks

The Executive Order 632, issued on January 17, provides that the legal, judicial and extrajudicial representation of the National Police, and also its reorganization, must be entirely assumed by the Ministry of Interior. The first changes will be on the personnel management: no...
Posted On 19 Jan 2011
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H1N1 Virus Takes its Ninth Victim

A 39-year-old woman from the province of Imbabura, Ecuador, died yesterday due to the H1N1 virus. According to ECTV, public television channel, the woman died when she arrived to the medical center with respiratory complications. This becomes the ninth death caused by H1N1 in the...
Posted On 19 Jan 2011
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Zetas Drug Cartel Founder was Apprehended

The Mexican federal police arrested Flavio Mendez Santiago a.k.a. “El Amarillo” one of the six founding members of the drug cartel Zetas. Mendez, 35, was one of the former militaries that deserted the Army in the early nineties and became the armed force of Cartel del Golfo....
Posted On 19 Jan 2011
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Radio Sucre Was Seized

National Finance Corporation (CFN) seized the building where Cadenar system (Radio Sucre, Cupido, and Sistema Dos chain station) operates, due to a $ 2’600.000 dollars debt. Employees from the radio stations were forced to leave the facilities and enable the automatic mode...
Posted On 18 Jan 2011
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