CR Star Archives San Juan, Aug 14 (EFE).- Environmental agencies in Puerto Rico are investigating the destruction of 99 eggs of the endangered leatherback turtle that were found in a nest on a beach in San Juan, activist Deborah Feliciano told EFE Friday. Feliciano, a member of the government-sponsored 7 Quillas group that is charged with keeping watch on the beaches of Condado and Ocean Pa...

Cajamarquilla - Wikimedia Commons By Carolina Cusirramos Lima, Aug 13 (EFE).- Peru, a country with a rich historical heritage, has added drones to archaeology's classical tools for surveying, registering and protecting archaeological sites from climate- and human-caused damage. The use of unmanned aerial vehicles, or drones, has so far helped in registering 375 archaeological sites, or 6...

Ammonite - Wikimedia Commons Lima, Aug 13 (EFE).- Customs agents and National Police officers seized 156 fossils from an Argentine tourist at Peru's Tacna station, on the border with Chile, the Culture Ministry said. The fossils were found on Aug. 7 at the Santa Rosa international bus depot, the ministry said in a statement. Customs agents and Culture Ministry experts identified the piec...

File photo of retired Cuban leader Fidel Castro. EFE/File Havana, Aug 13 (EFE).- The United States owes Cuba millions of dollars for the harm caused by its economic embargo on the island, Fidel Castro wrote in an article published Thursday, the day before Secretary of State John Kerry is due in Havana to raise the Stars and Stripes over the restored U.S. Embassy. "Cuba is owed compensation ...

San Jose, Aug 13 (EFE).- Clean energy sources were used to generate 100 percent of the electricity in Costa Rica for 94 straight days, breaking the old record of 75 days set between January and March of this year, the state-owned Costa Rican Electricity Institute, or ICE, said. No fossil fuels were burned between May 8 and Aug. 9 to generate electricity, cementing Costa Rica's "world leadership...

Source: Wikimedia Common3 Los Angeles, Aug 11 (EFE).- Colombian actress Sofia Vergara confirmed that she would be the voice of Bart Simpson's new teacher on the animated television series "The Simpsons." Vergara, who has previously voiced characters on "Family Guy" and "The Cleveland Show," will have a role in this season's episode 27, "Teenage Mutant Milk-Caused Hurdles," which will air on...

Garcia Marquez. Source: Flickr Commons Cartagena, Colombia, Aug 11 (EFE).- The ashes of the late Colombian writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez will repose from Dec. 12 in this Caribbean city, the governor of Bolivar province announced Tuesday. "With deep emotion we officially announce that the ashes of Nobel laureate Garcia Marquez will repose in Cartagena," Gov. Juan Carlos Gossain said. "The...

Wikimedia Commons After published reports stated that suspected plane debris washed up on several Maldives islands, Malaysia will send a team of investigators to examine it. Investigators will try to determine if the debris came from a plane before taking any further action. "I urge all parties to allow for the verification process to take its due course. Once it is determined to be aircraf...

Ann Maxine Patton, the US woman accused of killing her wealthy husband John Felix Bender on January 8th, 2010, is scheduled to begin her third murder trial at 8 a.m. Monday morning. The trial will take place at the Perez Zeledon Criminal Court and is expected to last at least one week. The same court dropped charges against Patton in January 2013 following her first murder trial, deciding it...

Wikimedia Commons By Marti Quintana Mexico City, Aug 10 (EFE).- Some 5,000 young men are imprisoned in Mexico after being convicted of serious crimes, with 22 percent of them serving time for murder, a high number that obscures an even more painful reality. Many of these youths and teenagers fall in the trap of organized crime as a result of family troubles, poverty, dropping out of scho...

ISIS fighters in Iraq. Source: Wikimedia Commons Mosul, Iraq, Aug 8 (EFE).- A firing squad of the Islamic State jihadist group executed Saturday at a military camp in the city of Mosul at least 300 civil servants who worked for the Iraqi Supreme Electoral Commission, according to witnesses and security officials. The spokesman for National Multitude, a military force in Nineveh province who...

Source: Wikimedia Commons Caracas, Aug 7 (EFE).- President Nicolas Maduro accused CNN of conducting a "terrorist campaign" against Venezuela by airing false reports about looting in order to "destabilize" the country. "That's what CNN is doing...from the United States once again...but we are dismantling the plan and they know that we're dismantling it," Maduro said during a Cabinet meeting ...

Panama City, Aug 8 (EFE).- The Panama Canal said it will lower the maximum allowable draft of ships passing through the inter-oceanic waterway starting Sept. 8 due to an El Niño-triggered drought. The measure will affect 18.5 percent of the ships that travel through the canal, according to the Panama Canal Authority, or ACP, which said it will not significantly affect "the efficiency and capaci...

Wikimedia Commons By Alexandra Mendoza San Diego, Aug 7 (EFE).- Since Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump made his controversial remarks about Mexicans, the piñata fashioned to look like him has been a must-have at Latino parties, where it is given a few whacks for what the magnate thinks about immigrants. "In the 14 years we've been making piñatas, this is the first time we've ...

Joaquin "Chapo" Guzman. Source: Wikimedia Commons Washington, Aug 5 (EFE).- The U.S. government is confident that fugitive Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman remains holed up in the western state of Sinaloa since escaping from prison last month, the head of the Drug Enforcement Administration told EFE Wednesday.   Sinaloa, Guzman's long-time base of operations, "is where...

Source: Flickr Commons Mexico City, Aug 6 (EFE).- The lone detainee in the killings of Mexican photojournalist Ruben Espinosa and four women in this capital has confessed to his involvement in the crime and provided "some information" about the two other suspects, Mexico City's district attorney said Thursday. Rodolfo Rios told the Televisa network he is confident the two other suspected pe...

Source: LATAM Sao Paulo, Aug 6 (EFE).- LATAM Airlines Group, which was born from the 2012 merger of Chile's LAN and Brazil's TAM, said here Thursday that it will unify all of the conglomerate's brands under the name LATAM. Despite current political and economic challenges in Brazil, the region's biggest market, the group is looking to embark on "new paths and therefore uniting the brands is...

Wikimedia Commons San Juan, Aug 4 (EFE).- Department of Natural and Environmental Resources, or DRNA, personnel are caring for a manatee calf rescued off a beach in northwestern Puerto Rico, environmental officials said Tuesday. The marine mammal was spotted on Monday off Shacks beach in the city of Isabela, Natural and Environmental Resources Secretary Carmen Guerrero Perez said in a state...

Wikimedia Commons New York, Aug 4 (EFE).- Bruce Willis, Kristen Stewart and Jesse Eisenberg will be part of the cast for Woody Allen's next film, an as yet untitled project that will begin filming this month in New York and Los Angeles, the moviemaker announced on Tuesday. Also appearing in the film will be Parker Posey, who was in Allen's "Irrational Man," Blake Lively, Jeannie Berlin, Cor...

Wikimedia Commons Buenos Aires, Aug 4 (EFE).- Navy and Environment Secretariat personnel are working with whale experts Tuesday to lead a lost whale out of the dikes on the River Plate in Buenos Aires and into open water, Argentine officials told EFE. The young humpback whale, which is seven meters (about 23 feet) long, got lost on Monday in the waterway. Rescuers using motorboats are tr...

Source: Wikimedia Commons Harare, Aug 2 (EFE).- Zimbabwe is suspending the hunting of lions, leopards and elephants outside Hwange National Park in response to the killing of Cecil, the African country's most famous lion, in July, officials said. The Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority, or ZPWMA, is also investigating the possible illegal hunting of another lion a day after Cec...

Former President Mujica, right, shakes hands with former President Lula of Brazil Sao Paulo, Jul 31 (EFE).- The think-tank led by former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva reported Friday that its headquarters was the target of "a political attack with an explosive device," adding that "fortunately no one was hurt." "The bomb was thrown at the building from a car," said the note ...

Wikimedia Commons Los Angeles, Aug 1 (EFE).- Spanish actor Antonio Banderas will play the lead character in the TV series "Havana Quartet," based on the Mario Conde police procedural thrillers created by Cuban journalist Leonardo Padura, the Starz channel's CEO Chris Albrecht announced. Banderas and Cuba's "Magic City" author Eduardo Machado are executive producers of the series, while Mach...

"Embraer EMB-505 Phenom 300 - Wallner" by Rolf Wallner - http://www.airliners.net/photo/Untitled-(Jet-Aviation/Embraer-EMB-505-Phenom/2054788/L/. Licensed under GFDL 1.2 via Wikimedia Commons London, Aug 1 (EFE).- Several family members of the late al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden were killed in an airplane crash Friday in the south of England, the Saudi Arabian ambassador to Britain confirmed ...

By Antonio Broto Beijing, Jul 31 (EFE).- The International Olympic Committee steered clear of financial risks and decided to award the 2022 Winter Games to Beijing, capital of the world's second-biggest economy, instead of Almaty, Kazakhstan, which argued it could offer a more natural and authentic cold-weather sporting event. In a decision certain to spark controversy for some time (similar...

Wikimedia Commons Washington, Jul 30 (EFE).- On Friday, July 31, a rare so-called "blue moon" will be seen in the sky, an event that occurs only once every three years or so and which will not recur until January 2018. As the U.S. Naval Observatory says on its Web page, a so-called "blue moon" is a second full moon within the same calendar month. Each lunar cycle between full moons lasts...

Source: Comex Visual cleanliness must be your ally when choosing lighting and paint colors for your Jaco Beach condominium unit. By Carolina Ruiz When you are dealing with small living spaces, there is nothing better than applying the proper measure of light and color to create comfort and space where it does not exist. Furniture and decorative elements can be key allies as well, as long...

Source: AmaTierra Feria Verde, an upmarket version of the Feria del Agricultor (Farmers Market) tradition of Costa Rica, is coming to Ciudad Colon, located just outside the western suburbs of San Jose. By Jill Rutenberg The Feria Verde and Organic Market is deliciously off and running on the west side of town with Tuesday’s opening of the organic market in Ciudad Colon. “It’s about time....

Wikimedia Commons Buenos Aires, Jul 27 (EFE).- U.S. actor Leonardo DiCaprio is in far southern Argentina to shoot the final scenes of "The Revenant," directed by Mexican Alejandro Gonzalez Iñarritu, the recent winner of the Oscar for Best Picture for "Birdman." The Hollywood star arrived in the city of Ushuaia on Sunday and will remain there for four days filming several scenes that it was ...

Source: Panoramio Mexico City, Jul 30 (EFE).- The deaths of two more religious pilgrims who were run over by a cargo truck in the Mexican state of Zacatecas on Thursday brought to 26 the number of fatalities in the incident, state Gov. Miguel Alonso Reyes said Thursday. In comments to Radio Formula, Reyes said that 46 people hurt in the Wednesday evening accident in the town of Mazapil "rem...

Source: Wikimedia Commons Buenos Aires, Jul 28 (EFE).- Argentine soccer icon Diego Maradona denied feeling depressed after the death of his father and said that he will go "for FIFA" in a video he posted on his Facebook page. "I know that they're saying lots of things. Nobody can know what I'm feeling inside over the death of my father. They cut off a love from me that I thought was eternal...

ISIS fighters in Iraq. Source: Wikimedia Commons Miami, Jul 28 (EFE).- A 23-year-old Hispanic was arrested and charged with preparing to detonate a bomb on a beach in Key West by remote control, the FBI announced Tuesday. The bureau said that Harlem Suarez, who declared himself to be a member of the Islamic State terrorist organization, was charged by the U.S. Department of Justice with int...

An entertainment android. Source: Wikimedia Commons By Mar Centenera Buenos Aires, Jul 27 (EFE).- Are androids creative? The question becomes inevitable when faced with robots that create portraits of whoever poses in front of them, an avatar dancer that improvises choreographies, and a computer that creates its own language at the exhibition of artificial intelligence that opened over the ...

Wikimedia Commons New York, Jul 27 (EFE).- Thirty-five women who say they were victims of sexual abuse at the hands of Bill Cosby give details of their accusations in the latest edition of New York Magazine, published on Monday. The women's black-and-white photos of them seated in similar poses - and next to a vacant chair representing others who have not been able to make their accusations...

Pixabay Commons Beijing, Jul 26 (EFE).- A passenger deliberately started a fire with a cigarette lighter and gasoline on board a Shenzhen Airlines plane while it was in flight over China, although the fire was quickly extinguished and the man subdued and later arrested, the official Xinhua news agency reported Sunday. The incident occurred about 1 p.m. local time on Sunday during a flight b...

Asuncion. Wikimedia Commons Asuncion, Jul 22 (EFE).- The protest in which bus drivers have been "crucifying" themselves in Greater Asuncion was brought to the doors of the Labor Ministry in this capital on Wednesday, where four workers were nailed to crossed boards to demand respect for their labor rights. The four men, bringing to 18 the number of workers who have opted to take the extreme...

Wikimedia Commons Paris, Jul 26 (EFE).- Police opened fire Sunday morning on a vehicle that tried to go through barricades preventing access to an area between the Place de la Concorde and the Champs Elysees, where the Tour de France will end, officials told EFE. The driver was probably drunk and the incident was likely not terrorist-related, the officials said. The dark-colored vehicle ...

Sony Pictures Beijing, Jul 25 (EFE).- Producers of the American science fiction comedy "Pixels," which debuted this week in the United States and Europe, changed the film's screenplay to avoid offending China and ensure access to that market, leaked internal e-mails appear to show. Among the thousands of internal Sony Pictures Entertainment e-mails made public by WikiLeaks in recent months,...

British actor Daniel Craig performs during the shooting of the 24th James Bond movie 'Spectre' in Rome, Italy. EFE London, Jul 22 (EFE).- The makers of "Spectre," the 24th installment in the James Bond saga, on Wednesday unveiled the first full-length trailer for the film, which features the usual mix of spectacular explosions, high-speed chases and gorgeous women. The two-minute, 32-second...

Wikimedia Commons Washington, Jul 24 (EFE).- Fiat Chrysler Automobiles said Friday it is conducting a voluntary safety recall affecting 1.4 million vehicles in the United States after two hackers remotely controlled some functions of a 2014 Jeep Cherokee. The automaker said in a statement that "the recall aligns with an ongoing software distribution that insulates connected vehicles from re...