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Enrique Sotomayor Maternity Hospital will celebrate its 62 anniversary by giving to the number 1’500 .000 infant born at the facility: Free basic education in the educational unit JoséDomingo de Santistevan; besides, the mother and her newborn baby will be attende...

Today, Oprah Winfrey revealed on her program “The Oprah Winfrey Show” that she has a half-sister. Patricia, a woman from Milwaukee whose last name was not published, was given up for adoption by Winfrey’s mother, Vernita, because she felt she would n...

The vaccination campaign for the prevention of influenza virus in children under 5 years started today. About 500 thousand doses of the vaccine, called trivalent, has been distributed nation wide. Minister David Chiriboga asked Ecuadorians to go to health centers an...

The strong flooding in South Africa claimed over a 100 lives. The government declared 33 municipalities as disaster zones. The last weekend the Government informed that most of the victims were from the province of KwaZulu-Natal. The preliminary evaluations show that over 424,150...

Russian president, Dmitry Medvedev, suspended his journey to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Sweeden, after the explosion in the Domodedovo airport in Moscow. The Russia’s Investigation Committee (RIA), qualified the blast as a terrorist attack. So far the death toll is of 35...

After 23 years of repression, Tunisia lives for the first time a big party, celebrating that dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali left the power eight days ago. On the streets the joy is felt, people paint walls with messages like “Freedom, democracy and secularism,”...

A growing number of schools across the nation are embracing the iPad as the latest tool to teach Kafka in multimedia, history through “Jeopardy”-like games and math with step-by-step animation of complex problems. As part of a pilot program, Roslyn High School on Long Island...

The flooding and landslides in a mountainous region of Brazil have reached 806 killed people, according to Brazilian government officials. The disaster is the second largest in Brazil and it has only been surpassed by a meningitis outbreak that killed 1,500 people in 1974....

Electricity Minister, Miguel Calahorrano, sent his letter of resignation, with his administration report, to President Rafael Correa. Calahorrano indicated that the President is considering his resignation, but he said that he did not have any confirmation yet. However government...

Aglae and Gloria Febres-Cordero studied ballet since childhood, when they finished their higher education they had a vision: to create a ballet school, which was installed at their home in 2002 with the help of their parents. Four years after founding Eptea, which is the school...