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Overwhelmed by gay marriage requests for next Sunday, the day in which a bill will be in effect to allow such unions, the mayor of New York yesterday announced a lottery to choose 764 couples, a record for the city. New York became on June 24th in the sixth US state to authorize...

Rupert Murdoch and his son James appeared Tuesday before British lawmakers probing the phone hacking scandal that has seized public life, raising questions about the police, politicians and the media elite in the worst crisis to confront Prime Minister David Cameron. “This is the...

The sky turned brown in the Phoenix area on Monday due to a giant wall of dust, also known as a “haboob” in Arabic and around Arizona, that formed in Pinal County and headed northeast to Phoenix.The dust wall was about 3,000 feet high and created winds of 25 to 30 mph, with gusts...

Rebekah Brooks, one of the top executives in Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. empire resigned last Friday, however she was arrested during the Sunday noon by Scotland Yard because of the illegal newsgathering investigation. The 43-year-old woman was placed in custody on charges of...

50 protesters that had been arrested over the past few weeks were released, Residents of Hama (Syrian City) reported. Government offices in the city have reopened after almost two weeks of closure. While in the city of Homs, south of Hama, activists report that 30 people were...

The typhoon Ma-On continues to threaten Japan. Maximum winds in Ma-On are at 95 mph Monday. Ma-On is nearly packing the strength of a Category 2 hurricane, recent data indicates that dangerous conditions are expected for Landfall in southern Japan. Ma-On can led to storms that...

The journalist who exposed the illegal wiretapping scandal in Britain, Sean Hoare, was found dead today. Hoare, who worked in the newspaper News of The World and The Sun, was the first employee to admit that the heads of News International (the British division of News...

Venezuelan president, Hugo Chavez, began today his second treatment phase against cancer. Chavez was received in the Jose Martí airport by his Cuban colleague, Raul Castro and the Cuban minister of Foreign Relations, Bruno Rodriguez Parrillla. On Sunday, before leaving Caracas,...

The tycoon of the information, Rupert Murdoch, has a sixth sense for troubles, this time he recognized that the News of the World crisis is reaching a dangerous point. British newspapers today published an apologizing letter from Murdoch entitled “Sorry.” The text...

U.S. plans to withdraw 10,000 troops in Afghanistan this year and expects to withdraw all its troops (100,000 soldiers) in 2014.The first group of 650 soldiers, left the Asian country and will not be replaced, said Maj. Michael Wunn, U.S. military spokesman. President Barack...