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Troy Davis, a 42 years-old African American inmate convicted of killing officer Mark MacPhail in 1989, received yesterday a lethal injection at a Jackson (Georgia) penitentiary after the U.S. high court decided to carry out the execution.Dozens of people protested because the...

Strong winds and heavy rains assailed Japan and five people perished during the arrival of typhoon Roke. The natural phenomena arrived the region of Tohoku at 12:00 GMT the same place were the Fukushima nuclear power plant is located. The Tokyo Electric (Tepco) nuclear central...

During last Sunday evening a strong quake shook Sikkim with a magnitude of 6,8 on the Richter Scale. The death toll has reached 54 casualties, 42 in India, five in Nepal and seven in Tibet, the seism left a total of a 100 injured. Afterwards several strong tremors were felt in...

Today seven Italian scientists were charged with involuntary homicide because they overestimated the risks of the earthquake that struck the city L’Aquila on April of 2009. Among the accused are the members of the Commission “Great Risks” who met last March 31 of 2009 to comment...

During the National Air Race 2011 in Reno, Nevada, the 74-year-old pilot named Jimmy Leeward lost control of his plane “the galloping horse” while performing for the national championship of air exhibitions. The plane dived directly into the ground were several fans watched the...

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said yesterday he was confident that the fourth cycle of chemotherapy that he will begin in the coming days to cope with cancer will be his last one, allowing him to be recovered for re-election campaign in 2012 . The energetic socialist...

Cuba’s government today asked support to the “international community” against the seizure of half a century that the United States has applied unto them and which has become “the main obstacle” to economic development. “It is an act of...

During the Tuesday afternoon several militants made a coordinated attack against the U.S. embassy and NATO headquarters in Kabul. The strike was made with firing rockets and assault rifles. The U.S. embassy informed that there are some casualties and wounded in the Police ranks,...

During the tenth anniversary of the 11-S attacks made by the terrorist group Al Qaeda. A video with new footage showed their deceased leader Osama Bin Landen as well as a message from his successor Ayman Al Zawahiri. The video was uploaded to Internet today in the North American...

A campaign to arrest the Pope for covering up sexual abuse of minors by priests when he makes his arrival to Britain has been organized by a group of lawyers. Richard Dawkins, an activist group leader, said the goal is to suspend the planned papal visit to the UK next September,...