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Zahi Hawass, head of the antiquities of Egypt, announced yesterday that the Tutankhamun tomb, the most visited in the Valley of Kings, the great pharaonic necropolis of ancient Thebes (modern Luxor), would be shut down to prevent the damage that tourism has caused to the grave....

In April, the memories of Julian Assange, founder of Wikileaks, will be on bookstores’ shelves in Spain and Latin America, reported Random House Mondadori, publisher of the book, which also acquired the rights to the book in Spanish. “I hope this book will become one of the...

The board of the Federación Ecuatoriana de Futbol (FEF) began with its ordinary session to analyze the new norms for the regulations of the Ecuadorian national championship of 2011. The tournament system will be the same that was used on 2010. This is one of the subjects to be...

4700 German farms have suspended the sale of meat and eggs after discovering that some of the foods which chickens and pigs eat contain dioxin -a carcinogenic substance in large quantities-. So far, in the country it was founded 150,000 tons of contaminated animal foods. The...

A heavy flooding has left over 50 people dead and hundreds without home in South Africa Eastern Cape Province. The residents still struggle the adverse weather conditions that have assailed the country since December. Dozens of people were killed by the collapsed homes and...

President Barack Obama has chosen Gene Sperling as the new director for the National Economic Council (NEC). Sperling is not new in this position, he held his position between late 1996 and 2000 during Bill Clinton’s second term. In addition, according to Reuters reports...

On Thursday the largest international exhibition of electronics, Consumer Electronics Show (CES) was held in Las Vegas, Nevada. Piracy and the variety of movies that the World Wide Web provides via streaming, is a subject that concerns many Hollywood studios, so th...

Today, the Cabinet will discuss in Baeza, Napo province, the proposal of President Correa: Reinstate the Special Consumption Tax (SCT) to alcoholic beverages, cigarettes and, cellular calls; as well as the VAT increase on medicines. The director of the Internal Revenue Service...

The military presence intensifies in the invaded lands on the Northwest area of Guayaquil. Over 700 soldiers protect the land and participate in the eviction that has been taking place for two straight days. Residents from a sector known as Ciudad de Dios, which has a size of...

Alfonso Harb, the new president of Barcelona Sporting Club, presented the new players of the team, the Argentinean Rodrigo Marangoni, and the Brazilian Rodrigo Texeira, who come as the new reinforcements for the yellow team. The presentation occurred in the facilities of GamaTV...