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After four months of a campaign in which moral and religious issues overshadow concrete proposals on issues important to the nation, Dilma Rousseff is elected the first president in Brazilian history. The Workers’ Party candidate defeated the opposition candidate Jose Serra in a runoff in which abstention has exceeded 20 million voters. Dilma [...]

WikiLeaks has posted a huge encrypted file named “Insurance” on your its site, increasing speculation that those responsible for the site to disclose more confidential information. According to blog users, the file is 20 times larger than the set of 77 000 U.S. secret military documents on Afghanistan that the site posted in July. Contributors [...]

The BBC television network is considering broadcast the games of the World Cup in South Africa without the viewers have to endure the incessant buzz of the vuvuzela. The public broadcaster has received 220 complaints and, reports the Guardian newspaper, wants to reflect the environment of games, is studying the possibility to pass them so that we can [...]

Facebook announced it will offer “memorials” profiles to the profiles to friends or relatives that have died. The site leader in social networking invited users to report when any of its users to die, to remove sensitive information such as updates and contacts, according to the website of the newspaper The Guardian. For this, however, it [...]

The ancient Dominicant church in Maastricht believed to be already more than 800 year old is finally renovated as a bookstore, much to the delight of the book lovers. Prior to this, the Selexyz Dominicanen was converted into a parking lot for bicycles. Until very recently, the upper floors were not accessible to public. The bookstore offers a wide [...]

The Guardian, a Guardian Media Group newspaper, that is extremely renowned in the United Kingdom, laid off one of its prized freelance writers, Paul Carr, who was an avid contributor and writer for the daily’s ‘Not Safe For Work‘ column. The lay off came in the wake of The Guardian’s diminishing freelance budget. Even though [...]