The best place on earth to be a mother is Norwegian and the worst is Afghanistan, according to a new study that measures the welfare of mothers and their babies. In Norway the rates of maternal and infant mortality are low, life expectancy and schooling for women are high and maternity leave on average last year, according to the document.Austra...
Costa Rica's president, Laura Chinchilla, who on Sunday will be a year in power, suffered a setback with a united opposition, which seized the ruling Congress directory, allowing you to manage the legislative agenda and threatens to file its reform tax.In a sign that unity is strength, an alliance of five parties, ranging from fundamentalist neo...
The recovery of the second black box of Air France Flight 447 in mid-Atlantic on Tuesday reinforced the hope of discovering why the plane crashed into the sea with 228 people on board nearly two years ago. The device that recorded the voices of the cockpit of the plane was found by the robot Remora 6000 and towed the ship 'Ile de Sein "in the ea...
Several Chilean parliamentarians believed today that the recognition of Peru to the nautical chart Ecuador submitted to the UN represents an "own goal" for the country and a "triumph" for Chile, and also makes its maritime claim is "ridiculous and absurd."Meanwhile, the president, Sebastián Piñera, participated on Tuesday in a public activit...
The White House spokesman, Jay Carney, explained some of the details of the Operation Geronimo ', which took the life of Osama Bin Laden in Pakistan, but have still left some questions unanswered.For example, the spokesman said that "Bin Laden would not be armed, but tried to defend herself." A reporter asked how she could defend himself unarmed...
The discovery of the plane's two black boxes covering the line between Rio de Janeiro and Paris, which crashed into the Atlantic on June 1, 2009 opens the door to resolving one of the most mysterious air accidents, said today responsible for the investigation.6000 Remora submarine robot retrieved this morning the second black box of the ill-fate...