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Due to the extreme weather 506 bodies have been found on the highlands of Rio de Janeiro. Meanwhile in Teresopolis, Nueva Friburgo, and Petropolis are among the most affected cities by the heavy rains, which caused landslides that buried countless of houses on the foothills....

Pope John Paul II, who died on April 2, 2005, will be beatified this year on May 1. Karol Wojtyla will be elevated to the glory of the altars after Pope Benedict XVI, his successor to the throne of Peter, promulgated a decree today recognizing a miracle through his intercession....

The Italian justice opened an investigation on Silvio Berlusconi since he is suspected to be involved in a prostitution and abuse of power case. The investigation was opened against Berlusconi, because he used his political influence, on May 27 and 28 of 2010, to ask the police...

This Friday the Prime Minister, Mohammed Ghannouchi assumed on an interim basis the presidency of Tunisia, after the former president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali left the country due to a month of demonstrations that ended with his 23-year regime. Basing his charge on the article 56...

The European Union (EU) suffered a loss from 10% to 15%. According to Eduardo Ledesma, Head of the Banana Exporters Association from Ecuador, the country is at risk due to the difference in its tariffs in contrast to the one managed in Colombia, Peru, and the Central American...

The remains of the largest ship built in the twentieth century, the Titanic, could disappear by 2030. Deep-sea bacteria is eating the steel structure of the ship which sank in 1912; experts identified it as Halmonas Titanicae and it has already consum...

Yesterday, Carlos Ramírez was chosen President of the Court of Justice. The Voting was made in private, after an hour they let media to get in, when the outgoing president, José Vicente Troya, was positioning and taking the oath of his successor. Ramirez was chosen in the second...

The flooding and earth slides caused by the heavy rains in Rio de Janeiro have claimed the lives of 257 civilians, while leaving over 180,000 victims of the mountain region of Rio de Janeiro. In Sao Paulo, thirteen people perished because of the flood. In the state of Rio de...

In March, for the very first time the international YouTube Symphony Orchestra 2011 will have an ecuadorian musician playing  in its orchestra, his name is Alex Jimbo Viteri. Viteri has been a musician since he was three years old, his first public appear was at four and at six...

The Sicilian volcano Etna has entered in state of eruption this Thursday morning, after sprouting Lava Rivers through a crater on the southeast slope. Experts say that after the explosion an ash cloud could appear an affect the Valle del Bove. The National Institute of Geophysics...