ALMA instrument array in Atacama, Chile Santiago, Nov 11 (EFE).- The ALMA observatory, located in the middle of northern Chile's Atacama desert, announced that it will join with other telescopes around the planet to create a telescope as large as the Earth which will be able to spot objects just 10 cm (4 in.) wide on the Moon. In a statement, the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array...

Active athletes who love taking advantage of the country's beautiful terrain and weather. The Jaco & Central Pacific area is one of the most popular regions for athletic contests and events. Athletes of all ages participates very often in events that include running, swimming and bicycling. Source: visitjacocostarica.com...

Flickr Commons1 Mexico City, Nov 9 (EFE).- The coach of a girls' basketball team in the southern state of Oaxaca was shot to death by a father who was angry with the decision not to let his daughter play in a game, Mexican authorities reported Monday. The incident occurred at a sports facility in Oaxaca on Sunday after a game in which Guillermo Audelo, 33, had coached his team - the Dragons...

Joaquin "Chapo" Guzman. Source: Wikimedia Commons Buenos Aires, Nov 9 (EFE; additional reporting by The Costa Rica Star).- Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" (Shorty) Guzman is not in Argentina, the Argentine government said Monday, citing the results of an investigation. Officials ruled out the possibility that the Sinaloa drug cartel's leader was in the Argentina-Chile border region. ...

U.S. military DASH-8 aircraft. Wikimedia Commons Caracas, Nov 8 (EFE).- The Venezuelan Defense Ministry on Sunday claimed that a U.S. DASH-8 military aircraft violated its maritime airspace and the armed forces of Caracas said they detected "unusual" air activity by other U.S. "intelligence equipment" based in Curacao. The U.S. Coast Guard DASH-8, "equipped with an electro-optic system that...

Flickr Commons Rio de Janeiro, Nov 8 (EFE).- Rescue teams on Sunday found the bodies of two people who died in the avalanche of mud and mining residue that virtually wiped out seven Brazilian towns last week after two dikes ruptured. The governor of the state of Minas Gerais, Fernando Pimentel, said Sunday that hopes are dwindling for finding alive any of the 28 people who went missing when...

Messi with teammate Neymar. Wikimedia Commons Barcelona, Nov 8 (EFE; odds by IDSca.com).- With Lionel Messi out with a knee injury, it has been Neymar's turn to step up and provide leadership for Barcelona in Spanish soccer action, and step up he has, most recently scoring two of the team's three goals to shut out Villarreal here on Sunday. In a game that was looking bad for a floundering B...

Wikimedia Commons New York, Nov 8 (EFE).- Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump used an appearance on "Saturday Night Live" to poke fun at himself. The 69-year-old real estate mogul, who has been near the top of the polls in the GOP field vying for a shot to be the party's standard bearer in the 2016 presidential election, hosted SNL, a popular 90-minute comedy show on NBC. Trum...

Cuevana Montevideo, Nov 3 (EFE; additional reporting by The Costa Rica Star).- Uruguay's Anti-Piracy Association has sued Cuevana, an Argentine Web site that allows users to watch television series and movies for free, to prevent access to its content in Uruguay. "The rest of the world can do whatever they think is necessary, but in Uruguay it shouldn't be accessible," the association's pre...

Tacna region Santiago, Nov 7 (EFE).- The Chilean government rejected Saturday the enactment in Peru of a new law creating a district on the border between the two countries which, it says, "includes territory that is unquestionably Chilean," and announced that it is sending a note of protest to Lima. Peruvian President Ollanta Humala enacted Saturday the creation of the La Yarada-Los Palos ...

ISS. Source: Wikimedia Commons Washington, Nov 7 (EFE).- Two astronauts of the U.S. space agency NASA successfully completed almost eight hours of "high-flying plumbing" while on a spacewalk to make repairs on the International Space Station, or ISS. NASA officials reported Friday that ISS commander Scott Kelly and colleague Kjell Lindgren worked exactly seven hours and 48 minutes outside t...

Pixabay Commons Singapore, Nov 7 (EFE).- Chinese President Xi Jinping and Taiwanese counterpart Ma Ying-jeou wrote a page in the history of the two territories on Saturday, holding the first ever meeting between leaders of these longstanding rivals. The meeting - held at a neutral site, a luxury hotel in Singapore - ended with promises to further develop relations in the future as long as T...

Wikimedia Commons Washington, Nov 6 (EFE).- U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson announced Friday that new airport security measures are being introduced as a result of the ongoing investigation into the Russian airliner tragedy last week on Egypt's Sinai Peninsula. President Barack Obama cited Thursday the possibility that an explosive device on board the aircraft caused the crash ...

Washington, Nov 6 (EFE).- A 32-year-old Texas man who is dying of cancer had his dream come true of seeing the latest film in the "Star Wars" saga in an exclusive screening before it reaches theaters in December. Daniel Fleetwood, given two months to live by doctors last July, is a great fan of the saga, which led his wife to launch a campaign on social networks urging the producers of "The For...

Very cool blues band playing at Tamarindo’s beach-side restaurant This beautiful little spot has exploded with tourist development over the last 5 years, with row after row of surf shops, dress shops, souvenir shops, bars and restaurants. Hotels are everywhere, of all sizes and grades, with most being of very high quality. The tiny streets are full of traffic and the bars are full of the sounds o...

Wikimedia Commons Washington, Nov 5 (EFE).- The atmosphere of Mars could have disappeared billions of years ago as a result of the solar wind, which hits the planet with great strength, a situation that would explain how it lost the water that once covered its northern hemisphere, NASA reported Thursday. New information gathered by NASA's MAVEN probe, which is orbiting the Red Planet, indic...

Wikimedia Commons Washington, Nov 5 (EFE).- Former President George H.W. Bush harshly criticizes Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld - both of whom were key officials during the 2001-2009 presidency of his son, George W. Bush - in a new biography, Fox News reported. The conservative news network released excerpts from Jon Meacham's book "Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey of George Herbert...

ISIS fighters in Iraq. Source: Wikimedia Commons Washington, Nov 4 (EFE).- The chartered Russian passenger jet that crashed last weekend in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula could have been downed by the Islamic State or a related jihadist group, according to the investigation into the tragedy being conducted by the U.S. government. According to U.S. intelligence sources quoted by media outlets, inve...

Wikimedia Commons Los Angeles, Nov 3 (EFE).- "Star Trek" returns to the small screen with a "totally new" series starting in January 2017, CBS Television Studios said. The series will kick off with a special program on the CBS network, but the first episode and those that follow will be available in the U.S. exclusively on CBS All Access, a cross-platform streaming service that includes bot...

Managua, Nov 3 (EFE).- More than 50 divers removed 1.6 tons of solid waste, including tractor tires, from the bottom of San Juan del Sur Bay, one of the main attractions for tourists on Nicaragua's Pacific coast, clean-up organizers said. A total of 785 items were removed from the bay during the two-day clean-up operation, Dive Nicaragua, which organized the event for the second time, said. ...

Pixabay Public Domain By Alejandro Rincon Moreno Cancun, Mexico, Nov 3 (EFE).- The Internet of Everything has been introduced to 10 percent of the Latin American public, and - although this is a relatively low percentage - it represents a "great advance," a Cisco executive said here Tuesday. "We still don't have that massive use that we would like, but - although it's complicated to find...

Flickr Commons Belmopan, Nov 2 (EFE).- Belizean chief elections officer Josephine Tamai said Monday that the people threatening her and her family should stop, with her comments coming two days before the national elections. "I actually felt threatened and my family has been threatened," Tamai told reporters. Tamai has complained of "political mischief" and said police have been providin...

Wikimedia Commons Buenos Aires, Nov 3 (EFE).- Argentine Health Minister Daniel Gollan said Wednesday that his Twitter account was hacked after several tweets were posted there warning about the alleged dangers for the public health system if the opposition candidate wins the presidential runoff election. "The 12 new radiation therapy centers for cancer treatment will continue moving forward...

Wikimedia Commons Rio de Janeiro, Nov 2 (EFE).- A 17-month-old boy bit and killed a poisonous snake he found in the yard of his family's house in Mostardas, a coastal city in Brazil's Rio Grande do Sul state, Radio Gaucha reported on Monday. The boy, whose name is Lorenzo, was playing on Sunday afternoon in the house's concrete-covered yard in an urban area where snakes are rarely seen, rel...

Cara Jocelyn Delevingne born 12 August 1992 is an English fashion model, actress and singer, born in London in 1992. Delevingne first began modeling at age ten in an editorial shot by Bruce Weber for Vogue Italia alongside model Lady Eloise Anson. She signed with Storm Model Management in 2009 after being spotted by Sarah Doukas, the founder of Storm, who had previously discovered Kate Moss....

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Is the region’s most vibrant and dynamic beach town. Made famous for its unparalleled surf and laid back beach culture, Tamarindo draws thousands of visitors from around the globe to its shores every year. You can’t miss Las Baulas National Marine Park, a nesting ground for the indigenous giant leatherback sea turtles. Rich in wildlife, the area is home to an abundance of exotic species such as mo...

Source: PokerStars Mexico City, Oct 31 (EFE).- Andres Moreno of Mexico, considered the most obese man in the world, has set out on the road back to health and at the same time has received some unexpected encouragement from Portuguese soccer star Cristiano Ronaldo, who sent him a signed team jersey. Moreno, 37, underwent surgery this week that will help him lose weight and eventually get ba...

Wikimedia Commons Madrid, Oct 28 (EFE).- An object can levitate or move without anything touching it using acoustic holograms created by experts from Britain's Bristol and Sussex universities led by Spaniard Asier Marzo, an article in the journal Nature Communications said. Marzo told EFE that the study proved that the hologram principle also applies to sound because "ultimately both light ...

ISIS fighters in Iraq. Source: Wikimedia Commons Cairo, Oct 31 (EFE).- Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro expressed "his most heartfelt condolences" to the Russian government and to the families of the victims of the plane crash Saturday in the northern Sinai Peninsula in Egypt. The crash of the commercial jet of the Russian company Kogalymavia, widely known as Metrojet, killed the 224 peo...

British actor Daniel Craig performs during the shooting of the 24th James Bond movie 'Spectre' in Rome, Italy. EFE Since James Bond first hit the silver screen back in 1962 with Dr. No, the 007 secret agent has had us both shaken and stirred. Between mass killings (strictly on behalf of her Majesty’s Secret Service, of course) and regularly dancing with death, Bond always finds time to kick ba...

Nanno meets one of his favorite Tico football players. Source: NanoSeventeen Twitter By Mark Lugo From a very early age, our son Marianno, known as Nanno, loved to kick a football around. Coming from a baseball and American football background, I never really understood football too much. I would play XBOX during the late stages of my wife’s pregnancy to ease the anxiety. I guessed that, li...

Pixabay Commons Seoul, Nov 1 (EFE).- Leaders from South Korea, China and Japan wrapped up their first summit in three years in Seoul on Sunday, vowing to end long-running territorial and other disputes, and urging North Korea to avoid staging nuclear and missile tests. South Korean President Park Geun-hye, Chinese Prime Minister Li Keqiang and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe agreed in th...

Source: NASA Washington, Oct 31 (EFE).- On Halloween night a large asteroid, dubbed "The Great Pumpkin" and measuring the size of four soccer fields, came near Earth, and scientists around the world prepared to witness this unusual phenomenon that occurs only once every 10 years. It looks like a point of light, according to Paul Chodas, director of the NASA's Near Earth Object office at the...

Source: Evernote Bogota, Oct 30 (EFE).- Now boasting 150 million users worldwide, 15 million of them in Latin America, productivity app Evernote has seen rapid growth by offering smartphone users an easy-to-use and effective tool for uploading data and organizing and accessing it across various devices. Honduran Luis Samra, who has headed private company Evernote's Latin America division si...

Serena Williams. Source: Wikimedia Commons Washington, Oct 28 (EFE).- A pair of media outlets say American tennis great Serena Williams is pregnant with Canadian rapper Drake's baby, although other sites indicate the report is false. The urban music Web site Mediatakeout.com, citing an unidentified source, said the 34-year-old Williams was already pregnant during her shocking loss last mont...

Source: Pixabay Commons Washington, Oct 30 (EFE).- United States authorities arrested 29 individuals accused of forcing Mexican and Central American women into prostitution in the southeastern part of the country after helping them cross the border illegally into the U.S., officials said. U.S. agents were able to identify 15 possible victims, including a young woman who was still an underag...

Source: Point Break Twitter Los Angeles, Oct 30 (EFE).- Edgar Ramirez provided a sneak peek in Los Angeles at "Point Break," a remake of the 1991 thriller starring Patrick Swayze and Keanu Reeves, and which this time around switches the Venice Beach setting for a global eco-adventure. In the new version, a young FBI agent, played by Luke Bracey, infiltrates a group of extreme-athletes suspe...

Wikimedia Commons Montevideo, Oct 29 (EFE).- Uruguayan President Tabare Vazquez, a physician, provided medical care to another passenger on board the plane taking him to France for an official visit, assisting a teenager suffering from a severe allergic reaction, the weekly Busqueda reported. A 17-year-old French passenger became ill Monday during the Air France flight from Buenos Aires to ...

Chichigalpa, Nicaragua, Oct 28 (EFE).- A new attraction for fans of extreme tourism has been inaugurated at the foot of San Cristobal Volcano, Nicaragua's tallest, in the northwestern region of the Central American country. The site, with its inn, dining hall, visitors center, tourist service facility and trails for climbing the 1,745-meter (5,721-foot) high volcano, was constructed with a budg...