Alessandra Corine Ambrósio is a Brazilian model and actress. Ambrosio is known for her work with Victoria's Secret and was chosen as the first spokesmodel for the company's "PINK" line....

Los Chorros is an enchanting local secret visited more often by natives than by tourists. Deep into the jungle, surrounded by only the sound of falling water and the song of birds, Los Chorros is one of Costa Rica’s natural jewels. Located in the little town of Tacares de Grecia, it is known as the natural water source of all the local villages....

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Former Brazilian President Lula with football star Ronaldinho. Wikimedia Commons Rio de Janeiro, Aug 28 (EFE).- Former two-term President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva acknowledged Friday that he is weighing the possibility of seeking to return to Brazil's highest office in the 2018 elections. "I can't say that I am or that I'm not (a candidate)," Lula said during an interview with Radio Itatia...

Source: Wikimedia Commons Washington, Aug 28 (EFE).- The Associated Press has sued the U.S. Justice Department over the FBI's failure to turn over public records related to its online impersonation of the media company during a 2007 sting operation. The lawsuit, to which EFE gained access on Friday, was filed jointly by the AP and the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press with the U....

Source: NOAA San Juan, Aug 28 (EFE).- At least 14 people died and 25 went missing on the eastern Caribbean island of Dominica when it was hit by Tropical Storm Erika. Dominica's Public Works and Communications Minister Ia Pinnar said in a statement on local radio that, according to the latest information available, 14 bodies have been recovered and at least another 25 people are missing. P...

By Mauricio Costanzo, 2009 Flickr Creative Commons 2.0 By Carolina Cusirramos Lima, Aug 27 (EFE).- Aware of the threat that climate change poses to their livelihoods, rural communities in Peru are dealing with global warming by using both traditional and scientific techniques discussed in a new book, "Lecciones para la Tierra" (Lessons for the Earth). The book recounts 20 experiences fro...

Wikimedia Commons New York, Aug 27 (EFE).- Serbian world No. 1 Novak Djokovic will take on Brazilian Joao Souza in the first round of the U.S. Open and could face Spain's Rafael Nadal in the quarterfinals, while second-ranked Swiss Roger Federer will kick off his quest for a record sixth title in New York against Argentina's Leonardo Mayer. Barring one or more upsets, Djokovic would square ...

Source: Flickr Commons San Francisco, Aug 27 (EFE).- Tech giant Microsoft said that since the launch of Windows 10, the latest version of its operating system, less than a month ago, the software has been installed in more than 75 million devices. "More than 75 million devices running Windows 10 - and growing every day," Microsoft vice president Yusuf Mehdi said in a Twitter post. "Windo...

Wikimedia Commons Washington, Aug 26 (EFE).- The National Association of Hispanic Journalists, or NAHJ, criticized Republican presidential hopeful and real estate developer Donald Trump for ordering the removal of Univision's Jorge Ramos from a press conference in Iowa. The NAHJ ripped Trump in a statement for allowing the expulsion of Ramos "solely because he was asking questions." "Mr....

Source: Flickr Commons Cali, Colombia, Aug 26 (EFE).- Uruguayan soccer player Alexis Viera, a former goalkeeper for America de Cali, sustained a spinal injury and lost sensation in his legs after being shot during a robbery attempt in Colombia, doctors said. Viera, who currently plays for the Colombian Second Division's Depor Futbol Club, was shot in the left side of his chest and the injur...

Source: Ejercito Bolivariano Twitter By Gonzalo Dominguez Loeda Cucuta, Colombia, Aug 26 (EFE).- Unlike many Latin American border cities, Colombia's Cucuta offers good quality of life and a dynamic economy due, in part, to its close ties to San Antonio, the Venezuelan city that makes up the rest of an urban area now cut in half by the border closing. When Venezuelan President Nicolas Ma...

Source: Tina Franklin, Flickr Commons 2.0 New York, Aug 26 (EFE).- Irish-American actor Pierce Brosnan, who played James Bond in "GoldenEye" and three other installments of the iconic spy series, said in a recent interview that the possibility of a gay 007 should not be ruled out, although he believes a black Bond will come first. "Sure. Why not?" the 62-year-old Brosnan, whose last Bond fl...

Source: Flickr Commons Washington, Aug 26 (EFE).- A gunman killed a television reporter and a cameraman working for a CBS affiliate in southwest Virginia while they were doing a live report on Wednesday morning, the television station said. Reporter Alison Parker and cameraman Adam Ward, who worked for WDBJ-TV in Roanoke, were shot and killed by an unidentified man at around 6:46 a.m., but ...

Flickr Commons Stockholm, Aug 25 (EFE).- Fans of late Swedish author Stieg Larsson's Millennium trilogy are eagerly awaiting the release this week of "The Girl in the Spider's Web," the fourth installment in the best-selling series. The latest book in the series, which has sold more than 80 million copies around the world, was written by David Lagercrantz, a Swedish journalist and author se...

EFE/David Fernández New York, Aug 26 (EFE).- Spanish tennis star Rafael Nadal, who is in this metropolis making last-minute preparations for the U.S. Open, attracted a big crowd in Manhattan's Bryant Park when he played a game of "strip-tennis" with several Tommy Hilfiger models. Playing before hundreds of surprised tourists at a mini-court set up at the park, located between the Grand Cent...

Source: PPG By Carolina Ruiz Vega Glidden, a painting brand of PPG Industries, the world’s leading coatings company, and El Lagar stores signed a distribution agreement in Costa Rica. "Our brand of paints and coatings is joining with another market leader, El Lagar, for distribution in Costa Rica, with the aim of further strengthening our presence in the country," said Horacio ...

"Hawker Hunter T7 'WV372 - R' (G-BXFI) (12863569924)" by Alan Wilson - Hawker Hunter T7 'WV372 / R' (G-BXFI). Licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 via Commons A midair collision on Sunday afternoon killed a pilot during an airshow in the village of Dittingen in Switzerland. According to a Wikinews report, the crash occurred as three Ikarus C42 planes from the German Grasshopper display team flew tog...

Source: IAU Mexico City, Aug 24 (EFE).- Mexico's Silvia Torres-Peimbert is the first Latin American woman to serve as president of the International Astronomical Union, or IAU, thanks to her five-decade scientific career. Torres-Peimbert, born in Mexico City in 1940, is only the second Latin American to lead the IAU - Argentina's Jorge Sahade headed the organization from 1985 to 1988 - and ...

Caracas, Aug 24 (EFE).- Shoppers have been banned from lining up overnight in front of Caracas supermarkets because many among them are speculators who cause product scarcities in regular stores, make illegal sales at inflated prices, and sell contraband to Colombia, the head of government of the Capital District, Juan Dugarte, said. "Standing in line outside of store hours is now forbidden," b...

"Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes Yahoo 2006" by Kevin Ballard - http://flickr.com/photos/eridius/116003811/in/set-72057594087529032/. Licensed under CC BY 2.0 via Commons Medellin, Colombia, Aug 23 (EFE).- Hollywood star Tom Cruise met with the mayor of the northwestern Colombian city of Medellin, Anibal Gaviria, to discuss the filming of "Mena." "It was a friendly and productive meeting that l...

Wikimedia Commons San Juan, Aug 22 (EFE). - Human rights activist Pedro Julio Serrano asked Puerto Rican authorities on Saturday to investigate the murders of three openly gay young men over the past month on the Caribbean island, and not to dismiss the possible "hate angle" sparked by their sexual orientation. "With the murder of Edwin Giovanni Vazquez last night, three openly gay men have...

Managua, Aug 22 (EFE). - Nicaragua will be the meeting place for the 7th Space Conference of the Americas 2015, or CEA, which is expected to attract more than 200 participants to exchange information and experiences about satellites and other technologies, the authorities said. During the CEA, to be held Nov. 17-19 in Managua, there will be four great areas of discussion: education, science &am...

Source: Wikimedia Commons Miami, Aug 21 (EFE).- A 10-year-old girl is recovering in hospital after having one leg bitten by a shark while she was playing in the water a few yards (meters) offshore at a beach in Jacksonville, on the northeast coast of Florida, local media reported. The incident occurred last Wednesday when the girl was with her mom in the water close to the shore, and was at...

Wikimedia Commons Washington, Aug 21 (EFE).- Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump on Friday described as "terrible" the news of the beating dealt a homeless Hispanic man in Boston by a pair of brothers, who said they were backing the billionaire's anti-immigration policies. "Boston incident is terrible. We need energy and passion, but we must treat each other with respect. I would n...

Wikimedia Commons Miami, Aug 20 (EFE).- Divers from a Florida treasure hunting company have recovered 350 gold coins worth $4.5 million from the wreck of an 18th-century Spanish galleon off Vero Beach. Less than a month after a family found 60 gold coins worth more than $1 million using a metal detector, the 1715 Fleet-Queens Jewels LLC, which holds the rights to several areas containing th...

Source: Sprout New York, Aug 20 (EFE).- Canadian drug maker Valeant Pharmaceuticals International said Thursday it has agreed to acquire North Carolina-based Sprout Pharmaceuticals, maker of a pill that increases women's sexual desire, for $1 billion in cash and a share of future profits. The announcement comes two days after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the drug, flibanse...

Wikimedia Commons Washington, Aug 19 (EFE).- Actress Yvonne Craig, who played Batgirl in the iconic 1960s television series "Batman," died from cancer, Variety reported on Wednesday. She was 78. Craig died on Monday at her home in Pacific Palisades, California, surrounded by her family. The actress, who was born on May 6, 1937, in Taylorville, Illinois, died from breast cancer that sprea...

Chicago, Aug 20 (EFE).- Experts say Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump's promise to seize Mexican immigrants' remittances if Mexico does not pay for the construction of a border wall is just more bravado on the billionaire's part to remain on top of the polls. Trump, who disclosed his plan for dealing with illegal immigration last Sunday, got back in the spotlight when he said that as...

By Maria Jose Brenes San Jose, Aug 20 (EFE).- The plight of a Kemp's Ridley sea turtle that biologists in Costa Rica rid of a plastic straw stuck in its nose highlights the need to reduce the use of the synthetic material, since 8 million tons of plastics are dumped in the oceans each year, biologist Nathan Robinson told EFE. Robinson and Christine Figgener, of the Leatherback Trust, posted ...

Wikimedia Commons La Paz, Aug 19 (EFE).- Bolivia's government said Wednesday it will submit a bill to Congress that provides economic rewards to energy companies that take exploration risks. Vice President Alvaro Garcia Linera made the announcement at the inauguration of the 8th International Oil and Gas Congress, organized by the Bolivian Hydrocarbons Chamber. State-owned and private-se...

Wikimedia Commons Santiago, Aug 19 (EFE).- Chilean astronomer Maritza Soto has discovered a planet three times as large as Jupiter orbiting a red giant star larger than the Sun and located some 290 million light years from Earth. Soto, a 25-year-old doctoral student in Sciences at the University of Chile, worked for eight months using two telescopes at the La Silla observatory, 600 km (abou...

Source: Panoramio La Paz, Aug 18 (EFE).- The Bolivian peasants accused of killing one of the police officers trying to evict them from the gold mine they had occupied, have released the four officers they had held hostage since Monday, Bolivian Interior Minister Carlos Romero said. The peasants held the officers captive after ambushing them Monday near the Ananea community north of La Paz, ...

Source: Wikimedia Commons By Carlos Meneses Sanchez Rosario Islands, Colombia, Aug 18 (EFE).- A scuba diving center in this Caribbean paradise is using an experimental therapy for people with disabilities, most of them victims of Colombia's armed conflict, who can forget about their physical limitations amid the coral. Diving Planet director Andres Obregon created this recreational scuba...

Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro, Aug 17 (EFE).- Brazilian police dismantled Monday a religious sect accused of subjecting its faithful to slavery-like conditions while accumulating a fortune of close to 100 million reais (some $28.6 million) in donations from its followers, officials said. At least six people were arrested in an operation aimed at dismantling a criminal organization "that use...

Source: Kevin Manzur for T-Mobile Los Angeles, Aug 15 (EFE).- Colombian singer-songwriter Shakira is part of the voice cast for the upcoming 2016 Disney computer-animated comedy "Zootopia," the studio said at its D23 Expo, an event for fans in Anaheim, California. Shakira will voice the part of Gazelle, a pop star in the mammal metropolis of Zootopia, where a police lieutenant bunny and a f...

Salma Hayek. Wikimedia Commons Los Angeles, Aug 15 (EFE).- Mexican actress Salma Hayek has obtained a restraining order against two female fans she says have been impersonating her and even threatened to kidnap her 7-year-old daughter, Valentina, celebrity news Web site TMZ reported.   A Los Angeles judge issued the temporary order after reviewing evidence submitted by the celebrity...

Electric BYD Qin taxi. Wikimedia Commons Montevideo, Aug 15 (EFE).- Four electric cars have been incorporated for the first time into this capital's taxi fleet, part of the Uruguayan government's efforts to promote renewable energies.   The transportation sector accounts for 29 percent of the country's energy consumption, Industry, Energy and Mining Minister Carolina Cosse said, add...

Washington, Aug 16 (EFE).- Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said in an interview with NBC that as president he would deport all the undocumented immigrants in the United States.   The 69-year-old billionaire real estate developer said he would rescind President Barack Obama's executive orders on immigration.   Obama issued executive orders aimed at protecting so...

San Martin de Porres. Wikimedia Commons By Monica Martinez Lima, Aug 14 (EFE).- Sts. Rose of Lima, Martin de Porres and Juan Masias, all of whom died more then 400 years ago, will soon have their faces recreated by the most cutting-edge technology used in forensic odontology. The remains of the three saints lie in Santo Domingo Convent in Lima, where a team of forensic odontologists from...