Wikimedia Commons Buenos Aires, Oct 13 (EFE; additional reporting by The Costa Rica Star).- Three armed robbers carrying a baby broke into a clothing store south of Buenos Aires and sat the toddler on the floor while they went through with the holdup, the victim told EFE Tuesday. Security cameras caught the criminals entering the store and carrying out the robbery, while the little one sat ...

Santa Teresa has a variety of nightlife for those who are more interested in partying and meeting people. Like other popular tourist spots, nightlife really picks up during high season. The local scene is now a vibrant mix of intoxicating food, art and design. A variety of clubs on the beach also offer nights with live DJs and reggae or electronic music. Source:joyofscouting.com ...

Source: Facebook The case of Gerardo Cruz Barquero, a young man who was brutally stabbed days after he documented a man apparently recording an obscene video in the capital city of Costa Rica, is becoming more convoluted. The man whom Mr. Cruz caught in the purported act of attempting to record the exposed legs and buttocks of a young woman wearing a miniskirt has gone public with a few statem...

Source: Wikimedia Commons Miami, Oct 13 (EFE).- The shark migrations that occur at this time of year on the southeastern coast of the United States set off a new alarm at Miami Beach, where at least a hundred were spotted. The school of sharks, swimming in a southerly direction Monday in search of warmer waters, was just 50 meters (160 feet) from the shore at Miami Beach, according to video...

Pixabay Commons San Juan, Oct 13 (EFE).- Saint Lucia's citizenship-by-investment program will commence accepting applications in January 2016 in the hopes of improving the economy, the government said Tuesday. Prime Minister Kenny Anthony said in a statement that although he wanted to defend and protect the country's citizenship, it was time to look for other approaches to deal with challen...

Free Syrian Army forces fighting in urban terrain. Source: Flickr CC. Washington, Oct 12 (EFE).- The United States airdropped 50 tons of munitions to rebel groups in northern Syria, in an urgent attempt to replace its failed program for training opposition militias, CNN said Monday, citing unnamed U.S. officials. The delivery was carried out with the parachuting of 112 loaded pallets, a U.S...

Wikimedia Commons Washington, Oct 12 (EFE).- Aerosmith lead singer Steven Tyler asked, through his lawyers, Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump to stop using the group's song "Dream On" at his campaign events, according to a letter published Monday by the media. According to the letter, obtained via the Hollywood Reporter Website, the attorneys remind Trump that he already had rece...

Tegucigalpa, Oct 11 (EFE).- The National Banks and Securities Commission, or CNBS, of Honduras ordered the "forced liquidation" of Banco Continental, which stands accused by the United States of money laundering and supporting drug trafficking, the Honduran bank announced on the weekend after proposing to regulatory authorities that it be allowed to "voluntarily liquidate" instead. The decision...

Mexico City, Oct 11 (EFE).- Authorities seized 3.5 tons of shark fins and 529 kilos of sea bass swim bladders in Manzanillo, a coastal city in the western Mexican state of Colima, the Profepa federal environmental protection agency said. The animal parts came from "wildlife in Colima" and had been dehydrated, the agency said in a statement. Inspectors found the shark fins and sea bass swim b...

Wikimedia Commons By Valentina Bastias Atias Santiago, Oct 10 (EFE).- Argentina's Geronimo Villanueva, one of the scientists behind a recently released study confirming the existence of water on Mars, is enthusiastic about the possibility of discovering life on the red planet. "In recent years, the study of (Mars) has been revived thanks to the discovery of liquid water in large quantiti...

Source: Wikimedia Commons By Mariel Huerta Mexico City, Oct 10 (EFE).- Romi, a 10-month-old pitbull, died of poisoning after being taken for a walk in Parque Mexico, a case that would have been forgotten if almost 20 other dogs in the area had not already died that way, a growing cause for concern among the residents of the elegant Condesa neighborhood in the Mexican capital. While regre...

Source: Indian Sao Paulo, Oct 8 (EFE).- Domestically manufactured electric motorcycles and the arrival in Brazil of U.S. brand Indian highlighted the opening day of the Two Wheels Trade Show in Sao Paulo, South America's biggest motor-bike event. The first day of the biennial fair was highlighted by new scooter designs and features, iconic American motorcycle brand Indian's entry into the B...

EFE/David Fernández Beijing, Oct 9 (EFE; odds by IDS).- Spain's Rafael Nadal rallied for a 3-6, 6-4, 6-3 victory here Friday over American Jack Sock to reach the China Open semifinals and give himself another chance to solve the riddle of Fabio Fognini, who has defeated the 14-time Grand Slam champion three times this season, most recently at last month's U.S. Open. Sock came out firing wit...

Wikimedia Commons Morelia, Mexico, Oct 9 (EFE).- A small plane loaded with packets of cocaine crashed and burst into flames in the western Mexican state of Michoacan, an accident in which two suspected drug traffickers were killed, officials said. The Cessna slammed into a mountain known as El Organito near the Pacific coast, the Michoacan state Attorney General's Office said Thursday. T...

Source: Hugh Jackman Instagram Mexico City, Oct 9 (EFE).- Australian actor Hugh Jackman, currently in Mexico City promoting his latest film, "Pan," finally had his dream of savoring the best tacos in the capital come true after asking for the advice of his followers on Twitter. "Best tacos in La Marquesa, Mex!!! Gracias ladies (sic)," he posted on his Instagram account together with a photo...

Wikimedia Commons Washington, Oct 9 (EFE).- U.S. President Barack Obama suggested that Russian airstrikes in Syria are a sign of the growing weakness of Russian leader Vladimir Putin in an interview on CBS News, of which an excerpt was released Friday. Obama questioned whether Putin is defying U.S. leadership in the Middle East with his air attacks on Syria, which he described as an attempt...

Wikimedia Commons Los Angeles, Oct 8 (EFE).- Spencer Stone, one of three U.S soldiers who in August subdued a suspected terrorist on a train traveling from Amsterdam to Paris, was seriously stabbed in Sacramento, California, the U.S. Air Force announced Thursday. Stone, 25, is in stable condition. He has been transferred to a local hospital and is currently receiving treatment for his wo...

Photo by Rafael Mantesso By Carol Blair Vaughn American mega-corporation TARGET has always had its bull terrier mascot named “Bullseye”, but now the upscale footwear brand Jimmy Choo has a rival bull terrier, named – wait for it – Jimmy Choo. Jimmy Choo (The Dog) belongs to Brazilian photographer and artist Rafael Mantesso, and Mantesso and the dog have a new book coming out in October t...

Wikimedia Commons Washington, Oct 7 (EFE).- U.S. President Barack Obama on Wednesday telephoned the head of Doctors Without Borders, Joanne Liu, to apologize for the U.S. airstrike on a hospital operated by the organization in Kunduz, Afghanistan. White House spokesman Josh Earnest reported the telephone call and Obama's apology at his daily press conference and added that the president als...

Mexico City, Oct 7 (EFE).- A 24-year-old Mexican man who posed as a drug trafficker on Facebook, posting photographs and threatening messages, was arrested and is being held at a maximum-security prison, officials said. Martin Juarez Campos, who called himself "El M Juarez" in online posts, claimed to be a member of the Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generacion, one of the most powerful and violent crimi...

Flickr Commons New York, Oct 6 (EFE).- A former president of the U.N. General Assembly is among six people arrested in a multimillion-dollar corruption case, U.S. authorities announced Tuesday. John Ashe, who represented Antigua and Barbuda at the United Nations and presided over the General Assembly in 2013-2014, is accused of accepting more than $500,000 in bribes from a Chinese billionai...

San Salvador, Oct 6 (EFE).- The severed head of a Salvadoran police sergeant was found Tuesday on a bridge in the town of Apopa, 12 kilometers (7 miles) north of this capital, authorities said. The Attorney General's Office identified the victim as Baltazar Olayzola Diaz, a member of the Soyapango municipal police whose death brings to 49 the number of officers murdered in 2015. Meanwhile, N...

Source: Microsoft New York, Oct 6 (EFE).- Microsoft on Tuesday announced the launching of the "ultimate laptop," its first such computer, calling it the "thinnest, most powerful PC ever created." The Surface Book, with a 12-hour battery life, will go on sale Oct. 26 from $1,499, top officials at the tech giant said at a presentation of new products in New York. "It's the first laptop we'...

Over a quarter of the country is owned by the government and is reserved and protected. All in a driving distance from wherever you are staying, you can zip-line, skydive, bungee jump, white water raft, backpack, hike, scuba dive, kayak, cliff jump, or create your own adventure. Any type of adrenaline rush is found right here in Costa Rica. Source: www.theodysseyonline.com...

"Rolling Stones 26" by Gorupdebesanez - Own work. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Commons Havana, Oct 5 (EFE).- Cubans were astonished this weekend to see Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger strolling through the historic center of Havana, where he is on a private trip with one of his children, official media reported Monday. The British rock icon visited the Hotel Santa Isabel in the Old H...

Hurricane Joaquin. Source: NOAA Miami, Oct 5 (EFE).- The U.S. Coast Guard said Monday that the cargo ship El Faro most certainly sank after it sailed from Florida last week with 33 people aboard, then suddenly disappeared east of the Bahamas when it entered the area struck by Hurricane Joaquin. At a press conference in the Miami suburb of Opa-locka, Coast Guard Capt. Mark Fedor said that "w...

British actor Daniel Craig performs during the shooting of the 24th James Bond movie 'Spectre' in Rome, Italy. EFE By Paula Escalada Medrano Mexico City, Oct 5 (EFE).- As the premiere of "Spectre," the latest James Bond film, approaches, members of the cast said in an interview with EFE that the movie was a career milestone and a dream come true. "Bond is in a world of its own. It has tr...

Guatemala City, Oct 4 (EFE).- Rescue teams resumed searching on Sunday for victims of the mudslide in a community outside Guatemala City that killed at least 87 people and left 350 others missing, emergency management officials said. The search resumed at 6:00 a.m., Sergio Cabañas, the national emergency management office's coordinator on the scene, told EFE. The national emergency managemen...

Messi Poster in Buenos Aires Seville, Spain, Oct 3 (EFE).- FC Barcelona missed the scoring punch of injured striker Lionel Messi in a 2-1 loss here Saturday against Sevilla, which seized control of the game with two goals early in the second half. Both teams were missing several injured players for the match at Ramon Sanchez Pizjuan Stadium in this southern city, with the Catalans also havi...

Pixabay Commons San Francisco, Oct 3 (EFE).- A group of hackers that calls itself README dumped on the Internet the personal data of more than 2 million users of the San Francisco-based Patreon crowdfunding Web site, the company reported Saturday. The crowdfunding site, founded in 2013 by musician Jack Conte and digital developer Sam Yam, collects funds from donors to help artists finance t...

Wikimedia Commons Paris, Oct 3 (EFE).- The Doctors Without Borders/Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) organization raised the death toll from the bombing of its hospital Saturday in the northern Afghan city of Kunduz to 12 of its staff and seven patients, the consequences of what is said to have been a U.S. airstrike. According to MSF records, still provisional and reported on Twitter, 12 of th...

Wikimedia Commons Mexico City, Oct 2 (EFE).- Microsoft Corporation CEO Satya Nadella said here during a meeting with Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto that the technology giant would invest around $1 billion to promote digital education and inclusion in the Latin American country. During Thursday's meeting at the Los Pinos presidential residence, Nadella said the investment would be carr...

Wikimedia Commons Bogota, Oct 2 (EFE).- Guerrilla and drug-trafficking kingpin Victor Ramon Navarro Serrano, alias "Megateo," was killed in a military operation in northwestern Colombia, officials reported Friday. The report was confirmed by the Colombian ambassador to Washington, former Defense Minister Juan Carlos Pinzon, who posted his congratulations both to the police and the armed for...

Wikimedia Commons Rio de Janeiro, Oct 2 (EFE).- The Lausanne, Switzerland-based Court of Arbitration for Sport, or CAS, on Friday rejected Brazil's appeal of a suspension imposed on Neymar and confirmed the player will have to miss his country's first two 2018 World Cup qualifiers versus Chile and Venezuela. Neymar was suspended for four games after a Copa America match against Colombia las...

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Pixabay Commons By Carol Blair Vaughn The composition of the world population has changed dramatically in recent decades as life expectancy worldwide has risen from 46 to 68 years – except in Costa Rica, where life expectancy has risen to 77 for men, and 81 for women, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). The WHO has dubbed this movement, “Older People – a new power for developm...

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Source: Wikimedia Commons United Nations, Sep 30 (EFE).- The United States and Russia on Wednesday agreed to hold top-level military talks as soon as possible on the airstrikes that both countries are conducting in Syria, the two top U.S. and Russian diplomats - John Kerry and Sergei Lavrov, respectively - announced. The agreement is aimed at avoiding undes...

Wikimedia Commons Washington, Oct 1 (EFE).- Real-estate magnate and Republican presidential contender Donald Trump said that if he won the 2016 election and became president, he would send Syrian refugees home. "If I lose, I guess they're staying. But if I win, they're going back," Trump said Wednesday night in Keene, New Hampshire, adding that there could be terrorists among the refugees. ...

Santa Teresa, once a tiny fishing village, this town has maintained its rustic village feel despite a recent boom in tourism in the area. This beach town has attracted surfers and beach lovers alike to its white sands in the past decade. Santa Teresa’s dramatic sunsets over the Pacific Ocean and lovely people have caused many tourists to spend long amounts of time here or even move permanently. Ma...

Wikimedia Commons Dublin, Sep 29 (EFE).- Liquor giant Brown-Forman Corporation, the maker of Jack Daniel's Tennessee Whiskey, held the ground-breaking ceremony on Tuesday for its distillery at Ireland's historic Slane Castle, the company's first new whiskey distillery outside the United States. The Louisville, Kentucky-based company said it planned to invest 44 million euros ($50 million) i...