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At the age of 111 years, died on Sunday, in New York City, Alexander Imich, a Polish immigrant born on February 4, 1903 in southern Poland. On May 8, the Guinness World Records organization awarded him the title of the world´s oldest man, at 111 years and 93 days of life. Imich...

At least 22 young mothers were kidnapped in the town of Dikway, northeastern Nigeria, near Chibok allegedly by Boko Haram armed men, informed on Tuesday inhabitants of the place. “According to available information armed men arrived shortly before noon and took 22 women and...

The strike that paralyzed the Sao Paulo Subway was suspended this Tuesday, however union leaders warned that if their demands for higher wages are not met, they will call on workers to cease work on Thursday, the day of the World Cup opening in Sao Paulo. In a meeting hel...

On Monday the authorities announced the end of the attack to the Karachi International Airport, the largest in Pakistan, after a 12-hour Taliban assault that left at least 28 people dead, ten of them Taliban members. This attack, which ended this morning with the death of the...

The police in Sao Paulo dispersed protesters supporting the subway strike in Brazil this Monday with tear gas in another day of chaotic traffic, barely lacking three days of that this city received the inauguration World Cup. Around 25 police fired tear gas and sound bombs...

Fighting between the army and rebels have left so far this year nearly half a million displaced civilians in Iraq, according to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). According to Adrian Edwards, UNHCR spokesman, “the number of displaced could be higher”,...

On Thursday in a court in the capital of Vermont, Montpelier, Attorney General William Sorrell, sued two dozen U.S. companies, including Chevron Corp for polluting groundwater with a gasoline additive. According to Sorrel, the refineries promoted, distributed and marketed...

“We can neither confirm or deny that this is our first tweet,” yesterday published the Central Intelligence Agency through its new account in the social network Twitter. With this  joke about its proverbial hermeticism, the largest spy agency in the world opened its...

The searches of the Malaysia Airlines plane disappeared in March with 239 people on board now focus on the “seventh arc” of the Indian Ocean, between latitudes 20 and 39 degrees south, announced the Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB). According to the agency,...

The General Assembly of the United Nations today unanimously approved the creation of the Nelson Mandela Award in acknowledgment of the significant contributions and the objectives fulfillment of the organization by Mandela. The principal organ of the UN thus pays tribute to the...