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Again, Pope Francisco showed great mercy for the most disadvantaged people, after hugging and kissing a man with a completely disfigured face,  last Wednesday during a general audience held in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican. The man, whose face is deformed as a result of...

During a meeting held yesterday with the patriarchs, major archbishops and other religious offices of the Congregation for Eastern Churches, Pope Francisco called for the respect for everybody’s right for a decent life and religious freedom. The Argentine pope referred...

The  auction house from Paris, Artcurial, announced that next Monday will be auctioned a piece of a staircase from the 3.50 meters high Eiffel Tower. The piece is currently exhibited at its headquarters on the Champs Elysees. This piece of 750 kg, which includes 19 steps was part...

The State’s Attorney-General said yesterday in a statement that the Appeals Court of the tenth circuit in Denver (Colorado, United States) gave the authorization to the Ecuadorian Government to make use of the documentation that the US oil company Chevron kept in reserve as...

British writer, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2007, died yesterday at the age of 94. Lessing, considered one of the most influential writers of the last century, wrote more than 50 novels that ranged from political issues to dabble into science fiction. At 88, she...

This Sunday, during the traditional Sunday Angelus in St. Peter’s Square, Pope Francis prescribed to his millions of Catholic followers a ‘spiritual medicine,’ named ‘Mercy’. “I want to recommend you all a new medicine, now some of you will...

On Sunday one Boenig 737-500 crashed at the airport in the city of Kazan, capital of the Republic of Tatarstan, the accident left 50 dead people. According to preliminary data, the 44 passengers and 6 crew of Tatarstan company plane died instantly as the aircraft exploded and...

Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, ex-wife of Nelson Mandela, said that he is still “very sick” and cannot speak due to the tubes  that keep his lungs clean of fluid, although he is relaxed. “He remains very sensitive to any germ, so he literally has to be in a sterile...

The 20-year-old woman is the first human in the world that suffers from avian flu H6N1, reported the magazine ‘Lancet Respiratory Medicine’. Doctors took a sample from the throat of this young woman who had trouble  breathing and flu-like symptoms last May and after...

According to an article published today by the journal Science, the first global map of high resolution that shows the extent of forests and jungles, as well as the loss of vegetation,  has been created by a team of researchers, including Google and scientists from the US...