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Jennifer Hudson completed filming their first video from the murders of her mother, brother and nephew.

The clip for "If This Is not Love" was performed in Los Angeles and is scheduled to be released the week of February 9.


Slowly, the singer and actress, 27 years is returning to work following the October murder of her mother Darnell Hudson Donerson, 57, his brother Jason Hudson, 29, and her nephew Julian King, 7. His former brother-in-law has been accused of crimes.

Jennifer Hudson will sing the national anthem on Sunday at the Super Bowl, and also at the Grammy Awards February 8, where he is nominated for four awards for the CD that bears his name.

While the singer Amy Winehouse was on vacation in the Caribbean, known for stealing seized at his home located in North London, said Friday his spokesman Chris Goodman.

The interpreter of "Rehab" reported that several guitars and recording equipment, among other things, was taken from his home.


According to the spokesman, the robbers left the house empty while Winehouse was in its well-known hotel in the island of St. Lucia.

The man said that the neighbors came to see the thieves on Thursday and called the police. Officers found the front door of the residence broken, but there have been no arrests.


Winehouse rose to fame in 2006 with his album multi-Grammy winner "Back to Black" and has a fortune estimated by the Sunday Times newspaper at 10 million pounds (15 million dollars).

The Japanese industrial group Hitachi announced Friday the elimination of 7,000 jobs at its electronic sections of the crisis, which has an expected annual net loss exorbitant 700,000 million yen (7,830 million dollars, 5,600 million euros ).

Hitachi said it has found "a huge drop in demand from the month of November" in numerous activities (compounds and electronic materials, telecommunications and automotive equipment, materials, etc.)..


Just three months ago, Hitachi expected to end the year with a net profit of 15.000 billion yen, although initially advocated an annual profit of 40,000 million, having made a net profit of 58,120 million yen last year.

Spain wants the upcoming International Congress of the Spanish language, to be held in Chile in 2010, promotes "the presence of Spanish on the Internet," still inadequate, despite the current economic crisis and recovery taking advantage of this language the world.

"We must make an effort to encourage the presence of Spanish on the Internet, which, although growing, still does not match the force that holds in other areas," the president encouraged the Spanish Government, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, in the presentation V Congress in Madrid, to be held in Valparaiso, from 2 to 5 March 2010.


"Despite the economic difficulties that we went through, there is a growing interest in the possibilities of the Spanish" shown by the proliferation of studies on the economic value of our language and its importance as a source of wealth, "he said.

Thus encouraged to take advantage in such areas as education, knowledge society, research, development and innovation.


"It will give a qualitative leap in promoting the use of information technology (...) to enrich the wealth of our language," also affected the director of the Instituto Cervantes, Carmen Caffarel.

This would explore "ways in the field of new digital media" and enhance "the Hispanic publishing industry, for its part said the director of the Royal Spanish Language Academy, Victor Garcia de la Concha.


In times of economic crisis, Zapatero called on the publishing companies that do not leave "one of the strongest cultural industries."

Spanish is the third most spoken language in the world, with more than 500 million people, behind the Chinese and English, with a growth rate of 10% annually.


It is the official language in over 20 countries and the second in the U.S., where the middle of this century, 130 million people speak.

'America in the Spanish language,' title of the congress, which will examine the influence of American language in Spanish, "reverses the usual perspective of the 'Spanish America'," according to De la Concha.


America is "call to expand the mapping of our language" and "will be the laboratory and the Spanish driver of the future," said Zapatero.

The Congress, which coincides with the bicentennial of the independence of Chile, Argentina, Colombia and Mexico, will be presented the "New Grammar of the Spanish language, 'new' Spelling 'panhispánica and' Dictionary of Americanisms academic.


This latest book is "an old dream" that the association of 22 academies of Spanish is becoming a reality, "said De la Concha, and collected nearly 100,000 entries in the Spanish American.

Latin American poetry and their representatives, Chilean Pablo Neruda, Gabriela Mistral, Vicente Huidobro, Nicanor Parra and Gonzalo Rojas-occupy a central place in the conference, which will reach its fifth edition after its inception in 1997 in Zacatecas (Mexico), and the last one, held in Cartagena de Indias (Colombia in 2007).


Neruda and Mistral protagonizarán two commemorative editions including "unpublished materials," said the Chilean minister Paulina Urrutia.

European markets showed mixed Friday after sharp falls in Tokyo and an increasing number of bad economic reports and quarterly results from companies such as Sony and Honda, which suffered a drop in profits.

In Europe, banking and mining shares were stronger, but the day was marked by reports of unemployment in the euro area, where the rate increased by 8% during December, and information on the Gross Domestic Product U.S. the fourth quarter of last year, expected during the day and that could bring their worst fall in more than 25 years.


By midday in Europe, the British FTSE 100 index had an increase of 0.21%. Meanwhile, the German DAX fell 0.39% and the French CAC 40 fell 0.31%.

In London, shares of mining giant Rio Tinto climbed 4.3% after it announced an agreement to sell an iron mine in South America and other projects worth its rival, for $ 1,600 million.


Shares of banks Lloyds Banking Group, Royal Bank of Scotland and Barclays rose 7.1%, 6.2% and 5.4%. In Frankfurt, Commerzbank rose 5.8% and 1.4% Deutsche Bank.

The U.S. government reported an economic contraction of 3.8% in the fourth quarter, a decline much faster than the decrease of 0.5% the previous quarter and increased from the low of 6.4% annualized in the first quarter of 1982 when the country was experiencing a severe recession.


Investors also reacted to news from the European Union, about 230,000 people in the euro area have lost their jobs in December, reflecting a deteriorating economic situation in the bloc of 16 countries with a common currency.

Asian stock markets were also mixed on Friday. The main indicator of the Hong Kong stock market rose marginally to speculation of a cut in interest rates in China or other measures of encouragement. European stock exchanges opened up to the future strengthening of shares on Wall Street.


The markets had made some gains at the start of the week, boosted by a positive earnings outlook from British lender Barclays and a package of incentives by 819,000 million dollars which was entering the U.S. Congress, but the confidence Asia spoiled due to bad economic and corporate news, especially in Japan, the largest economy in the region.

"Investors are looking for a magic cure, but it is not. There is a solution by itself can solve all the complex problems facing the world economy," said Arjuna Mahendran, head of investment strategy at HSBC Private Bank Asia in Singapore.


"In a typical short-sighted, the markets are alternating between despair and hope," he said. "The problem is that there is no real clarity on profits and the economic situation, and perhaps did not until the second half of this year or at the very end of the year," he added.

In Japan, the Nikkei 225 index fell 257.19 points, or 3.1%, to 7994.05 as investors recovered from an accumulation of bad reports on earnings and the latest economic report, which showed that industrial production plummeted to a record pace, and increased unemployment.


In Hong Kong, the Hang Seng Index recovered from early losses to close the session with a gain of 0.9%, to 13,278.21 units. Sudcoreano KOSPI index fell 0.4%, while markets in Singapore and the Philippines also lost ground. The main stock market index gained 0.4% in Australia. The markets in China closed all week for the Lunar New Year.

The economy registered a contraction of 3.8% at the end of 2008, the highest in a quarter century, as the recession forced consumers and businesses to reduce spending, the government reported Friday.

The Commerce Department report indicated that the rate in October-December by far surpassed the 0.5% recorded in the previous quarter.


While economists forecast a further contraction of 5.4%, the results did not fail to reflect the impact of mortgage crisis, credit and financial.

The contraction of 3.8% annual pace was the worst since the 6.4% in the first quarter of 1982, when the country suffered a severe recession.


In 2008, the economy grew just 1.3%, compared to 2% in 2007, the slowest expansion since the last recession in 2001.

To revive the economy, the president Barack Obama and Democratic lawmakers devised a program of 819,000 million dollars, approved on Wednesday by the House of Representatives, which must be investigated now _ _ certainly changed in the Senate.


The White House predicted the bad news. The previous day, press secretary Robert Gibbs said that the results of the fourth quarter would be "materially adverse."

The GDP is the sum of all goods and services produced within a country, and is considered the most accurate barometer of economic health.


The fourth quarter was the weakest of 2008 and the contraction of 3.8% will increase further once the government finishes analyzing the statistics. The economy remains in a state of weakness in most of this year, analysts predicted, and some believe that the contraction in the first quarter is 4% or more.

Consumers reduced their spending by 3.5% in late 2008, after a 3.8% in the third quarter. The last time I did it in two consecutive quarters was in late 1990 and early 1991.


In the fourth quarter of 2008, Americans reduced their spending especially on durable goods, those high prices and a lifespan of at least three years, including automobiles, appliances and furniture. Spending on durable goods fell to annual rate of 22.4%, the largest since 1987.

A reduction of 7.1% annually in the cost of goods "not sustainable" as food and clothing was the highest since 1950.


The new frugality of Americans was patentizada on increasing savings, which rose to 2.9% in the fourth quarter, compared to 1.2% in the third.

encestó Eddie House added 28 points to eight triples, a career, and Rajon Rondo contributed 24 units and nine assists for the night of Wednesday to the Boston Celtics won their ninth game in a row, by 119 -100 on the Sacramento Kings.

It was the seventh defeat in a row for Sacramento, which had started the match with 10 points ahead in the first period before Boston scored the next six drives.


The Celtics held a 25-9 offensive in the second quarter and turned a disadvantage into an advantage two units of 14.

Boston and won by 24 points in the fourth period, when House encestó four of five triples.


"I wish I had been able to launch and maintain a network tied to the stave," said head coach Kenny Natt of Kings. "We must recognize the boy: It's a great shooter and his colleagues looked for it and moved well without the ball," he added.

Eddie House is on the point and ready for the competition from three-point shots in the Weekend Star Game.


All you need is an invitation.

"He must be in the contest for three-point shots," said Kevin Garnett alero. "That is what this press conference: Paul Pierce and Kevin Garnett are here to say we think Eddie House should be in the competition of three point shots," he said.


Garnett added that he would prefer to see the support of three-point shot is to give players like House, which otherwise would probably not be taken to the Star Game.

"I think the competition of three-point shot should be for guys who can not only perform, but can do so exciting," said Garnett. "I think one wants to see all the top shooters in the league so. It is assumed that that's it," he said.


House has scored at least seven shots from a distance of three points in three of the last four games, and his teammates are not the only ones who are campaigning to be invited to the weekend Star Game.

The crowd then the song "Ed-die! Ed-die!" every time I touch the ball in the fourth period and gave him a standing ovation when he left the stave 4:02 minutes left when the game and Boston had 23 points advantage.


"Any given night could be anybody (who achieved so many three-point shots)," said House. "If I am invited, great. If not, is a chance to rest," he added.

For the Kings, the Dominican Francisco Garcia played 18:17 minutes in which they scored six points.

Swiss Roger Federer came close to a victory for his 14th Grand Slam title of individual _con to match the mark of American Pete Sampras_ Thursday to overcome the Open semifinals in Australia to American Andy Roddick also with partial of 6-2, 7-5 and 7-5.

Roddick, who made a vigorous training before the start of the season designed to help beat Federer and world number one Rafael Nadal, was in good shape.


But the second preclasificado it surpassed all facets of the game, spreading shock winners across the court and forcing Roddick to make just one good hit to win a point, even had no answer that serves the American 16-8, which harsh draw is well known.

Federer, who seeks his fourth title of Australia, on Sunday will face the winner of the final meeting on Friday between the Spaniards Nadal, first preclasificado and Fernando Verdasco.


In the women's branch, Serena Williams was placed on Thursday at a victory to win his 10th individual title and fourth Grand Slam in the Open defeat by Australia at 6-3 and 6-4 partial to Russian Elena Dementieva. His next engagement is against Dinara Safina.

With the roof of the Rod Laver Arena closed to protect players and fans outside temperature nearly 44 degrees Celsius (111 degrees Fahrenheit), Williams played his best tournament of the confrontation.


"I have not moved well for a while, so I was a little impact," he said, leaving room for improvement. "A perfect match for me? Oh, no, no, no!. But it was definitely better," he said.

"I'm really excited because I'm playing consistently," added Williams.


And certainly it did against Dementieva, who defeated in their previous three clashes and came here after winning two tournaments, followed by heating.

"I think today was very powerful," said the fourth preclasificada. "I think maybe I was not aggressive enough and maybe I was not playing with enough depth, enabling it to be very aggressive and dictate the game," he said.


Williams, second preclasificada, has a string of victories here in alternate years since 2003.

Wednesday was a game of being eliminated when Russian Svetlana Kuznetsova also was serving for the match, but found his rhythm quickly to Dementieva.


The U.S. won 27 years on this occasion in just 98 minutes of play.

After defeating Russia in two consecutive clashes, Williams will face Saturday in the final to Russian Safina also. The winner will also be the number one player in the world ranking.


Safina advanced to the finals on Thursday after defeating his compatriot Vera Zvonareva by 6-3 and 7-6 (4).

Safina's older brother, Marat Safin, won the title here in 2005, a day after that Williams beat the then number one and compatriot Lindsay Davenport in the women's final.


Safina looks forward to give a late birthday present. Safin served 29 years on Tuesday.

"Maybe now with some money to buy her a gift," he joked. "It's great that you can follow in his footsteps. He was my idol, it is still my idol," he added.

Safina has not yet won a major tournament, lost the final of the French Open in 2008 at the Serbian

Ana Ivanovic, and lost to Williams last year in the semifinals of the U.S. Open.

It has been 50 years since a single-engine plane crashed in a field of snowy Iowa, killing instantly three men whose names would be enshrined in the history of rock 'n' roll.

The past decades have not diminished the fascination with that night, February 2, 1959, when Buddy Holly, 22, JP "The Big Bopper" Richardson, 28, and Ritchie Valens (or Richard Steven Valenzuela), 17 and of Mexican descent, sang in Clear Lake after boarding the plane on a flight of about 480 kilometers (300 miles) which ended lasting a few minutes.


"It really was like the first monument of rock 'n' roll, the first death," said rock historian Jim Dawson, who has written several books about music in that era. "They say these things come in three. Well, all three occurred at the same time."

Since Wednesday, thousands of people will gather in the small town in northern Iowa where the pioneers of rock gave its final presentation. Coming to the Surf Ballroom symposiums with relatives of the three musicians, a concert and ceremony as the Hall of Fame Rock and Roll designates the building as its ninth national monument.


And discuss why, after so many years, many people still interested in what the composer Don McLean famously called "the day the music died."

"It was the site of this latest action of these great artists," said Terry Stewart, president and chief executive of the Hall of Fame Rock and Roll in Cleveland. "It justifies it fixed in time."


Clear Lake is an unusual place for a pilgrimage of rock 'n' roll, especially in the winter. The tourist town of 8,000 inhabitants along its namesake lake, and in the days of winter cold and wind makes this community located about 160 kilometers (100 miles) north of Des Moines anything but a holiday destination.

The crash site is on private property, eight kilometers (five miles) from Clear Lake and 0.8 kilometers (half mile) from the road. The corn grows high in adjacent fields during the summer but in winter the fields are covered with snow and a small monument to the road is often covered by a thick layer of ice. The monument has a small cross and a guitar and thin metal discs, all covered with flowers during the summer.


"It's a much more pleasant trip in the summer," said Jeff Nicholas, of Clear Lake resident who heads the board of the Surf Ballroom. "But in the winter, feel how it was."

Nobody keeps track of the number of visitors, but the fans come throughout the year and the summer days at the site of the accident, they can create the rarity of a bottleneck in a corn field.


Stewart said the deaths occurred because resonate even at a time when rock 'n' roll was going through a kind of transition. The sound of Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis and Holly was giving way to the so-called British Invasion of the mid-60.

"The music was changing at that time," he said. "The accident put an item on the change."


The three musicians influenced rock and roll your way.

Holly's career was short, but his particular style of singing, the way he played the guitar and put his talent to compose a tremendous influence on many artists. The Beatles, which was formed around the time of the accident, were among the first fans and created its name inspired by the Holly's band, The Crickets (Beetle, with a double and is beetle in English cricket is cricket). Holly's successes include "That'll Be The Day," "Peggy Sue" and "Maybe Baby."


A Richardson is often credited with having created the first music video with the recording of his rendition of "Chantilly Lace" in 1958, decades before MTV.

And Valens was the first musician to implement a Mexican influence to rock 'n' roll. Recorded their highly successful "La Bamba" just a few months before his death.


The plane left the airport in nearby Mason City around 1 am, in the direction of Moorhead, Minnesota. The players tried to avoid a tiring journey by bus and cold.

It was only hours after the plane was found smashed, dented against a metal fence. Investigators believe the pilot, who also died, was confused in the midst of darkness and snow and the plane crashed to the ground.

The accident generated a wave of pain between his passionate followers throughout the country. Twelve years after the crash was immortalized as "the day the music died" in the 1971 McLean song "American Pie".

Adrian Biniez wrote more than twenty scripts that did not like before finding that has led him to compete with large cinema in Berlin Film Festival.

"Giant," his first feature film is a romantic comedy about a night security guard who falls in love with an employee cleaning a hypermarket. One of only two Latin American bands to be measured at the Berlinale for the Golden Bear, in February.


"It's the first experience of undertaking a feature film and it is a matter of satisfaction that has been designated for the Berlin festival," he told the AP the Argentine rookie 34 years on Wednesday, two days before leaving the Old Continent.

Based in Uruguay for five years, then Biniez was not connected with the cinema.


"I started as a screenwriter for the film Taxi," said the director, who has two films to his credit: "Total availability" (2008) and "8 hours" (2006).

"This idea of 'Giant' I did four years ago, after several failed attempts to write more than 20 scripts that I liked," he continued. "This script was the last, so I did the reverse journey: I started almost last."


Although the title of the film is equal to the 1956 classic starring Rock Hudson, Elizabeth Taylor, James Dean and Carroll Baker, the plot is not related.

The "Giant" of Biniez, with the performances of the Uruguayan Horacio Camandulle and Leonor Svarcas, remains a guard who did not shy are encouraged to approach the woman who attracts him and begins to spy when you leave work.


The plot takes place in a climate of that supermarket where there was reduction of personnel. It is a strange and tense climate that we live, "said Biniez. And the final, said with mischief, "save me".

"Giant" was filmed in April last year in Montevideo neighborhood of El Prado, La Aguada and the center of the capital.


He won a place in Berlin after being seen and accepted by a selection committee of the festival, which will compete with 17 other productions, some led by stars such as Renee Zellweger, Tommy Lee Jones, Michelle Pfeiffer and Judi Dench.

"Beyond as you can go with the film festival in Berlin ... I find it very gratifying that this first feature may appear to compete," said Biniez. "Certainly if there is an extra (a prize) far better," he said smiling.


The tape, an Argentine-Uruguayan co-German, could begin to show in May in the region.

The Berlin Film Festival, in its 59th edition, runs from 5 to February 15.

Sony Corp reported a negative result in its third fiscal quarter and reiterated that it expects a record annual loss due to falling demand and the rise of the yen, while its rival Nintendo Co. cut its forecast for the entire year for the second time in three months.


Nintendo scored an increase of 21 per cent in operating profit for the period between October and December, thanks to robust sales of its year-end computers for video games Wii and DS.

However, reduced its profit target for the year ending in March by 16 percent, far more than expected, and slightly lowered its sales target for the Wii, a move that generated fears about its growth potential.


"It will be a big impact for Nintendo (...) unit if they reduce the goals of the Wii because people expect that up," said Hiroshi Kamide of KBC Securities.

However, the new estimate of annual operating profit of Nintendo, 530,000 million yen (5,900 million U.S. dollars), still imply a record, which contrasts sharply with Sony, which is heading to its worst loss in history and operational the first in 14 years.


Nintendo said operating profit increased in the quarter to 249,200 million yen from 205,300 million yen in the same period last year.

That result was hardly in line with the average forecast of 247,900 million yen from four analysts surveyed by Reuters.


Nintendo's strategy to expand its client products through simple but innovative games has been an overwhelming success and the Wii in sales exceeds the Sony PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, Microsoft Corp., since it debuted in 2006.

Sony has been hit by falling prices and stagnant demand for flat screen televisions, digital cameras and other electronic products, while taking huge costs by closing factories and eliminating jobs.


The maker of Bravia TVs and Cyber-shot cameras reiterated a forecast released last week a record operating loss of 260,000 million yen (2,900 million U.S. dollars) in the year ending in March.

This compares with a profit of 475,000 million yen in the previous fiscal year.


A BATTERY OF INVENTORIES

While inventories are stacked and prices fall, Sony feels depression in every corner of their operations, ranging from semiconductors to the film and insurance.


The company reported an operating loss of 18,000 million yen in the fiscal third quarter, compared with a profit of 236,200 million yen between October and December 2007.

Other industry heavyweights such as Samsung, have already reported quarterly losses.

Toshiba * 1760 record quarterly loss mln dlrs for chips

* Bajará costs mln dlrs for 3300


* NEC Elec loss records, will reduce costs by 890 mln dlrs

* Toshiba will eliminate 4,000 contract, NEC, 1200

Toshiba Corp said Thursday it plans to reduce costs by 3,300 million dollars next fiscal year by a reduction in capital spending and hired workers, noting that it aims to its worst annual loss.


The second largest worldwide manufacturer of NAND memory, next to industry leader Samsung Electronics, are fighting a slowdown that has already been nearly two years, caused by a chronic excess supply and weak demand for digital cameras and other electronic devices.

Semiconductor manufacturers have cut production to revive prices, but the anemic consumer demand has limited price increases and forced some companies to seek government support.


Toshiba said it will cut capital spending by half in the year starting in April, by delaying the construction of two new plants of flash memory chips and slowing other projects.

Moreover remove posts 4500 recruits, but will return to take 500 people employed by the division of power plants and elevators, which used to make profits.


Analysts warned that further cuts in personnel and costs could limit future growth and market share.

"Only a restructuring will not help the companies in the current economic conditions," said Masaru Hamasaki, senior strategist for Toyota Asset Management.


"If companies cut jobs or reduce capital spending on the basis of its current level of earnings, this can lead to shrink their business," he warned.

Toshiba has moved its operations in recent years, allocating resources to focus on NAND flash memory chips, used in digital music devices like the iPod from Apple Inc. or cell phones.


The global market for flash memories retrajo in the third quarter over the same period last year, according to research firm iSuppli.

The electronics group is simultaneously punched in the global recession, the strong yen and depression of the chip sector, said Fumio Muraoka, executive vice president of corporate signature at a press conference.


The company announced the red in the third fiscal quarter and warned that it expects to close in negative fiscal year, which means the group's first annual loss in 7 years.

Toshiba said in the third quarter had an operating loss of 158,800 million yen.

He also noted that throughout the year (ending in March) might incur a loss of 280,000 million yen, compared with a previous forecast of a gain of 150,000 million.

All 16 analysts consulted by Reuters expect an annual operating loss of 67,500 million yen.

SHADOWS IN THE FIELD OF CHIPS

Its local rival NEC Electronics Corp, which makes chips for Nintendo's Wii console and Co for Lexus luxury car from Toyota Motor Corp., also warned a net loss for the fourth consecutive year.

The deterioration of the economy crushed the prospects for a restructuring of the subsidiary of electronics manufacturer NEC Corp.

Now expects operating loss of 55,000 million yen in the year ending in March, versus a previous forecast of a profit of 1,000 million yen, amid a drop in sales of autos, televisions display crista liquid phones cell phones and other products.

NEC Electronics, which reported a quarterly operating loss of 16,200 million yen, reported that cut costs by 890 million dollars over two years, eliminating 1,200 jobs under contract.

The U.S. company Eastman Kodak photographic products Co on Thursday reported an unexpected loss for the fourth quarter and announced it will eliminate up to 4,500 jobs, with a dramatic drop in demand for digital cameras and printing equipment.

Along with this, the firm announced a new round of layoffs worldwide, which aims to reduce costs. The adverse results come one year after completing a restructuring plan that lasted four years and halved its staff, now at about 26,900 people.


The losses in the fourth quarter for continuing operations came to $ 137 million, or 51 cents per share, compared with earnings of $ 215 million, or 75 cents a paper, a year ago.

The company reported preliminary results of which could add some depreciation of assets during the period.


Kodak, which provides commercial printing services, coupled with the manufacturing of digital cameras, photo frames and printers, said that revenue fell 24 percent to 2430 million dollars.

In December, Kodak said its results of 2008 could break the expectations due to the "growing global recession."


The firm announced that it will reduce its global workforce between 3,500 and 4,500 jobs during 2009. That includes layoffs of between 2,000 and 3,000 employees announced in late 2008 for implementation in 2009.

"Over the last three months of the year, experienced dramatic declines in several of our key businesses due to a slowdown in consumer spending and strong demand in Caiuá team," said chief executive Antonio Perez.

The popular website to find work Monster Worldwide announced on Tuesday that some hackers managed to enter the database and steal personal information from customers.

Monster spokeswoman, Nikki Richardson confirmed that the pirates went to many sites around the world, but said that some regions, particularly Asia Pacific and Eastern Europe, were unaffected.


He said that Monster is working with the security organs appropriate "but declined to say which countries. An investigation is under way in the United States, where the company is based.

Monster has users in some 36 countries, including 45 million in Britain. This is the second attack suffered by Monster software in 18 months.


A statement on the site 'www.monster.com' indicates that we learned recently that they illegally entered our database and extracted data from contacts and accounts, including usernames and passwords, email addresses, names, phone numbers and other data. "

The company said that hackers had access to no social security numbers nor the resumes of the clients. Now the company warned that intruders can use the stolen information to "catch" other.

* Trichet said the ECB could cut rates again

* German unemployment rises almost double the expected


* Collapse of air cargo volume in December

* Sony suffers loss in 3rd. trim, Nintendo low picture

The European Central Bank (ECB) might cut interest rates to new record minimum, its chairman said Thursday, while German unemployment data showed its biggest increase in nearly four years, while confidence deteriorated economy in the euro zone.


Japanese firms felt an even greater harm to the global financial crisis, and international aviation agency said that 2009 would be one of the most difficult years in its history.

The ECB President Jean-Claude Trichet said the bank could take more unusual measures to combat the global economic slowdown and cut rates below their current level of 2 percent, as a minimum.


"At the moment we have taken non-standard and could take more of these measures. Veremos. Advancement or not discard anything," Trichet said in an interview with CNN that appears on its website.

The signs of global corporate voltage stressed the need for dramatic responses, while the fiscal stimulus plan of 825,000 million dollars from the U.S. president Barack Obama was endorsed Wednesday by the House of Representatives.


It marked the first legislative success of his presidency, but showed the deep partisan divisions since, despite an offensive to convince Obama, all Republicans voted against the project. It is expected that the Senate approved a similar version.

Cutting JAPANESE EARNINGS


In Japan, Sony Corp followed the path of electronics maker Canon Inc. with a bad earnings report.

Sony fell on negative results in the last quarter and reiterated its projection of a record annual loss due to the collapse in demand and the strengthening of the yen. The rival Sony, Nintendo Co. cut its outlook for the full year for the second time in three months.


Nippon Steel, the second largest steel worldwide, lowered its projected pre-tax profits for the year to March by 36 percent by the weakening of demand for all types of products.

The electronics group Toshiba Corp said it planned to cut costs to $ 3,300 million in the next fiscal year, reducing capital expenditures and contract jobs.


The International Air Transport Association (IATA, for its acronym in Spanish) said that air cargo in December fell 22.6 percent over the same month of 2007, a free fall "unprecedented and disturbing" that reflects the slowdown international trade.

Passenger traffic fell 4.6 percent. The figures are bad news for the global economy in general, since one third of international trade takes place in goods shipped by air.

The IATA director general Giovanni Bisignani said that was not anywhere on the floor of the market, adding: "Keep the seat belts tight and get ready for an emergency landing and turbulence."

The global economic crisis has already cost billions of dollars and now threatens millions of jobs.

In Germany, unemployment rose by 56,000 people in January in terms of monthly and seasonally, compared with a projection of 30,000. The unadjusted total, a sensitive indicator in an election year, grew to 3.489 billion.

In France, hundreds of thousands of workers staged a nationwide strike to try to force the president Nicolas Sarkozy and business leaders to work more on attempts to protect jobs and wages.

The House of Representatives controlled by Democrats on Wednesday approved an historic plan for economic stimulus 819,000 million dollars, which gave the presidency of Barack Obama an early legislative victory.

On a day when attention devoted to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, Obama has worked hard economic issues that have dominated the early days of his administration, which inherited an economic crisis unparalleled since the Great Depression of the 1930s .


The 244-188 vote in the House sent the proposal to the Senate, where debate is expected to begin this week with a parallel bill that has already been taking shape. The Democratic leaders have promised to have legislation ready for Obama to enact the mid-February.

With unemployment at its highest levels in the last 25 years, banking bamboleándose despite the infusion of staggering amounts of money from a financial rescue plan and states struggling to fund their budgets, the Democrats say the legislation is necessary while Republicans criticize because they believe falls short in tax and public spending is too.



Before the vote in the House, in his first briefing at the Pentagon as president, Obama heard the views of the four military chiefs of the Joint Staff in the next step to fulfill its promise to withdraw U.S. troops from Iraq within 16 months.


Among these are general military leaders have openly declared that his apprehension about the impact of prolonged and repeated assignments to which the troops had been put in Iraq and Afghanistan. The chairman and deputy chairman of the Joint Staff, the military advisers of the president and Defense Secretary Robert Gates attended the meeting.

Leaving the meeting, Obama said his government faced "difficult decisions" on Iraq and Afghanistan. But the new commander in chief of the armed forces did not provide more details about its plans.


"Our efforts continue to pursue the extremist organizations that can cause damage to our homeland is a priority in our minds," Obama said to reporters after spending two hours at the Department of Defense. Not answered questions about the withdrawal in Iraq.

Earlier, the White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said that Obama is thoughtful process as it aims to change the mission in Iraq. Questioned about when the president is ready to talk about their decisions in that war, Gibbs said: "I think it will be relatively soon. I do not want to put an exact date."


Obama promised during the election campaign to withdraw troops from Iraq by May of 2010, but clarified that prior consultation with the military, and adjust the schedule in order not to endanger the lives of soldiers to stay in the Arab country to train Iraqis and fight al-Qaida. He also sought not risk the stability of Iraq.

Meanwhile, Obama increased a bit to complete his cabinet with the backing of the committees of the Senate nomination of Eric Holder as Attorney General and retired Admiral Dennis Blair as the new director of national intelligence. The full Senate could confirm later.


Blair is the most important intelligence adviser to Obama, with a budget of 50,000 million U.S. dollars which includes 16 agencies.

Holder, who became the first African American to be Secretary of Justice, testified during the hearings that "waterboarding", an interrogation technique simulates drowning, is torture and promised to prosecute in U.S. courts to detainees at Guantanamo prison thus breaking the government's anti-terrorist policies of George W. Bush.


The Press Secretary of the White House also confirmed that the February 19 will be the first international trip of Obama as president, on a visit to Canada.

Gibbs gave no further information about the trip. A source who spoke to AP on condition of anonymity because the itinerary is still under analysis, said that at least there will be a visit to Ottawa, the Canadian capital.

A team of British scientists for the first time used a new technique successful fertilization "test" to better predict what a woman's eggs are the most prone to pregnancy, reported Monday a major expert in fertility.


The treatment combines antenatal checks currently in use with a new computer program that can detect defects in the eggs with chromosomes that are likely to lead to a spontaneous abortion.

The first patient, a 41-year-old British woman in 13 who had failed fertility treatment, is currently pregnant, the researchers reported.


The ultimate goal is to more multiple births and fewer pregnancies and spontaneous abortions, said Simon Fishel, director of CAREfertility, the clinic who developed the technique.

"We will go slowly with technology because we do not want to create (false) expectations," Fishel said at a press conference. "The Holy Grail is to achieve a pregnancy with an embryo," he said,


More than 3.5 million babies born worldwide through assisted reproductive technology since July 25, 1978, when two British doctors brought the world to the first "test tube baby, Louise Brown.

That number is growing rapidly because more and more women are waiting longer to be mothers and increasingly couples can go to a treatment of in vitro fertilization, or IVF. Most of them are women between 30 and 39 years.


The technique involves removing the eggs from the ovaries of a woman and combined with sperm in the laboratory. Doctors then pick the best embryos, usually one or two, and implanted into the female womb.

The challenge is to choose the best embryo, said Fishel, who was part of the team that brought the world to Brown.


Currently, doctors often use a microscope to select an embryo with the best way, rather than check their DNA, Fishel said.

"Now we can see all the chromosomes of an embryo in real time and can apply for a fresh embryo after watching their chromosomes," said the expert.


Fishel's team, which refined a technique to detect problems in complex chromosomes, took a sample of a small polar body called the egg, which contains half the chromosomes of the egg but is not part of the process of fertilization.

Researchers used a new computer program to find that two of nine eggs of women in the IVF treatment had failed 13 times were good candidates for a pregnancy.


The patient, who wants to remain anonymous, is entering the last two months of gestation.

"Although they are in a very early stage, this technique would offer a new diagnostic and therapeutic hope for couples who suffer from repeated failure of implantation (embryo) through IVF," said Stuart Lavery, director of IVF at Hammersmith Hospital London.

Health regulators in the United States reported on Monday that they are reviewing the effectiveness of the widely used anticoagulant Plavix, made by Sanofi-Aventis SA and Bristol-Myers Squibb, in some patients.

The action comes after several studies showed that the popular drug did not work so well in some people, possibly because patients metabolize them differently according to their genetic or consumption of other drugs.


Bristol and Sanofi had agreed to conduct studies on the interaction of genetic and drug Plavix, also known as clopidogrel bisulfate, said in a statement published on its website the Food and Drug Administration of the United States (FDA by its Spanish acronym).

"This information should lead to a better understanding of how to optimize the use of clopidogrel," added the agency.


Laura Hortas, a spokesman for Bristol, said he had no details on how many companies would need to study or how long it will take steps.

The result "will allow us to understand and characterize the factors that influence this complex issue," said Hortas on behalf of both laboratories.


While some reports have suggested a possible interaction makes Plavix less effective, other research found no such problem, the FDA said.

Plavix is an antiplatelet which aims to reduce the risk of dangerous blood clots that could cause heart attacks and strokes (CVA). To operate, you must first be metabolized by the body, according to the FDA.


One type of medication usually prescribed to patients treated with Plavix are antacids such as Nexium and Prilosec AstraZeneca PLC and other inhibitors of proton pump, the federal agency said.

However, the FDA said that doctors and patients should continue using Plavix until there is more data available.


Doctors should reassess the use of some antacids, including versions sold in the patients taking Plavix, the FDA said.

The FDA said that the laboratories had agreed on a timetable for carrying out the studies, but gave no further details. The agency added that it could take months to review the findings after the completion of investigations.


The communique from the FDA is available in English, http://www.fda.gov/cder/drug/early_comm/clopidogrel_bisulfate.htm.

The Paraguayan government on Saturday admitted the existence of a dengue epidemic, but low-intensity andalusia confirmed 35 individuals out of 360 patients treated in public hospitals, and in Bolivia reported an increase of evil in Santa Cruz.

According to the Bolivian authorities, just over 3,000 people came to the hospital so far this year with symptoms of dengue fever in this eastern city.


Meanwhile, Ivan Allende, director of Health Surveillance, Ministry of Public Health in Paraguay, told reporters that the majority of infected people live in the interior and the same amount in just three quarters of Asuncion.

"Of the 360 suspects, after laboratory tests out to 146 people but continue to study the blood of 179 other subjects," he said.


The doctor explained that "the epidemic of dengue fever is low, it means that we are on alert and worried but still can not declare a state of national emergency."

Symptoms of the disease are high fever, headache, diarrhea, nausea and severe pain mainly bones.


Between February and May 2008, the previous government of President Nicanor Duarte declared a national emergency andalusia checked more than 1,300 cases of patients of which eight were fatal shunt.

In Bolivia, the Health Minister Ramiro Tapia, who reported in 3233 across the country were positive cases, of which 2800 were filed in Santa Cruz until January 20.


Last week, his office confirmed the two deaths by dengue hemorrhagic fever in Santa Cruz.

Dengue fever appears in the rainy season in tropical areas. The bearer of evil encuba mosquito larvae in stagnant water. If the treaty is not a bad time can lead to dengue haemorrhagic fever, causing death.

For anyone who must endure endless business meetings, with contributions and pastelitos boring just any diet, Jennifer Baran said to have the antidote.

In his conference room with walking "nobody has to sleep sitting up. Everyone walks or jogging in tapes for burning fat elliptical machines.


The rest of the room, which began renting Baran recently in his gym in Buffalo, has the appearance of any conference room with a screen for PowerPoint presentations, conference phones and coffee-making machine.

The big difference here is that the participants exercised while working.


"Exercise? Do not think so." That was the initial reaction of the teacher Michele Ganschow when the director of their school, Cherie Ansuini, scheduled a work session in the gym of Baran.

Ganschow went to the reunion will begin shortly and began to take a taste.


"One takes more time. It is two things at once," he said.

The idea has some aspects that can be considered negative. For example, many people might not like sweat against colleagues.


"It's fun to see the expressions on all the machines," said trainer John Grzymala exercised while on a bike and elliptical hear the presentation of Ansuini. "Surely I am red as a beet," he said, to laughter from his colleagues.

A positive aspect is that the shirts and pants gym comfortable replace more formal dress, which will probably require dry cleaning. The monitors, moreover, indicate a calories burned, making it clear that the meeting was productive from the viewpoint of the health of employees.


Another benefit: The more people talk about. When you are exercising, they tend to focus on specific things and get down to business.

Baran opened signature Healthy Living Support Network with the idea of offering advice on nutrition and physical education, and talks on motivation.


The concept of the conference room with exercise equipment inspired Dr. James Levine, a specialist in obesity from the Mayo Clinic, who installed devices in his office after publishing a study showing that people thin stands an average of two hours more than the rest and burned 350 calories more than the obese.

"We are trying to incorporate the exercises to everyday life," said Baran, who has a master's degree in social work and certified instructor.


Hoped that readers clubs, people who watch movies together and prove their new business conference room. It also offers another room with a collection of exercises reclined bicycles. The rent of the rooms is between 60 and $ 90 an hour.

While most of those attending the reunion organized by Ansuini for the school Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary was brought to a more intense pace, if you exercise at a slower pace for a longer period, also benefits.


Craig Dexheimer was walking in his belt, with his elegant suits and removed without even the twins, when answered a telephone call at his office in Minneapolis. His company, Salo, set up two conference rooms with exercise machines and said that idea is lighting.

The firm has partnered with Levine last year to analyze the effects of incorporating some exercises to work site, including "desk" with tapes that are moving to no more than two miles (3.2 kilometers) per hour.

It is assumed that such a pace to allow someone to exercise without sweating or running out of air. At about ten o'clock, Dexheimer, who is chief operating officer of the company, had traveled 4.3 miles (6.9 km) and thought to continue walking until noon.

Said it receives numerous calls from people interested in the idea and also organizes visits to their offices.

"You can check your e-mail and database" while walking, Dexheimer said, who said he lost 11 kilos (25 pounds) in six months. Says that the weight loss affected other changes he made in his lifestyle. "There are some things that are more difficult to walk a while, just as writing by hand or take notes."

"It takes two or three days to get used. But one fits," said the executive.

Back in Healthy Living, armed with a clip off the tape if it is pulled, Ansuini gave its report without problems from the tape path, albeit at times was slightly shaken.

"I think we are more productive because we have more energy, more adrenaline than usual, when working from a tape treadmills, said Marc Bandelier, one of the teachers of the school Ansuini, during a break to drink water.

Bandelier, by the way, burned 268 calories.

Some of the busiest airports in the United States will soon begin to test experimental radar system designed to detect flocks of birds and to assist pilots to avoid the kind of shot down a plane crash that the company made U.S. Airways almost two weeks.

The sectors to point out that air traffic controllers could someday use the technology to stop-offs, new routes and schedule might warn pilots about the presence of birds to take actions in order to evade them.


The new technology uses an inexpensive communication antennas maritime radar, such as those used in fishing vessels and a computer program designed to track the birds as they gather and fly distances of up to 10 kilometers (six miles) from an airport.

The dangers of the birds are fully illustrated since January 15 when a U.S. Airways plane lost power in both engines apparently after hitting a flock just 90 seconds after leaving LaGuardia Airport. The pilot managed acuatizar the plane in the Hudson River, saving the 155 people on board.


Managers to detect Inc., a company dedicated to producing radar to detect birds, based in Panama City, Florida, say such systems one day prevent such mishaps, to enable flight controllers to know when groups of birds near the aviation routes.

Other experts and the Federal Aviation Administration said that these technologies are not proven and require years of refinement. However, they have demonstrated the potential for the agency to conduct more tests.

Brazilian striker Adriano was punished with a suspension on Monday for three days to give a punch to an opponent in the match that his club Inter Milan on Sunday before the disputed Sampdoria by the Italian League.

Adriano scored the goal that gave Inter the 1-0 victory, a result that allowed the nerazzurri regain the status of leaders of the lone Serie A.


The sporting judge Gianpaolo Tosel determined that Adriano beat Daniele Gastaldello treacherously to Sampdoria in the stomach, for 38 minutes shortly before the Brazilian anotase s goal to extend the first time.

The penalty was imposed after analyzing television images that show when Adriano hit the tip, which was not appreciated by the arbitrator.


According to a communique from the Italian league, the judge found "clear and irrefutable" Adriano intends hitting the opponent, "with the clear potential to cause injury."

Rafael Nadal became the first preclasificado on Monday to the quarterfinals of the Open by defeating Australia 6-3, 6-2 and 6-4 here at the end of 2007, Chilean Fernando Gonzalez.

Spanish in 22 years was down a service break in the third set but recovered to win five games straight.


Gonzalez, who beat Nadal in the quarter-finals here on his way to the finals two years ago, took third round due to the difficult recovery from a disadvantage of two sets to overcome French Richard Gasquet 12-10 in the fifth .

Nadal, the current champion of the French Open and Wimbledon, looking to reach her first final in the first Grand Slam of the year. In his next engagement will face French Gilles Simon, who benefited from another retirement, when his friend and compatriot Gael Monfils quit after three partial.


"I'm playing well, but one never knows whether it will be enough," said Nadal, who had 33 winners and only 11 hits not forced errors.

Simon had the advantage 6-4, 2-6 and 6-1 when Monfils had to retire with an injury appeared in the arm or hand.


The fourth preclasificado Andy Murray was eliminated by Spanish Fernando Verdasco, 14th preclasificado with a partial 2-6, 6-1, 1-6, 6-3 and 6-4.

The Scot saved two match points after being with regard to 40-0 against, but could not avoid the third, stars a setback in the network.


Verdasco was a key player in the triumph of Spain in the Davis Cup final in Argentina, and said he could benefit from the experience, said the title when recovering from a disadvantage in September after doing the same in the first confrontation.

"I think that the Davis Cup final, made me stronger mentally," said Verdasco. "And this season I worked really hard. So today, I really believe in me, he could win the match," he added.


American Serena Williams moved on Monday to the quarterfinals of the Australia Open after his opponent in the fourth round, the Belarussian Victoria Azarenka, withdrew due to an undisclosed discomfort immediately.

Azarenka won the first partial and Williams had a 6-3 advantage in the second set 4-2 when Azarenka, who seemed to falter when trying to provide a service, finally retired, thus ending the meeting.


Azarenka, 19, serving with regard to 30-30, walked staggering toward the shadows at the back of the court, holding her face and trying to contain the tears while trying to recover.

Had taken a medical time out before the September and left the arena game. He returned for one game and a half, but could not continue and was helped to leave the pitch shortly afterwards by two assistants.


"I just want to come and see that it is good. I feel so bad. She was playing very well," Williams said in an interview on the court. "There are many more great Australia Open for her," he added.

Executives said they were experiencing dizziness and an unspecified illness. "


Azarenka said he felt sick all morning.

"I woke up at six o'clock and I was throwing up all morning and I just felt weak," he said. "As I got to the stadium to see a doctor, I felt a little better.

"I am very disappointed because I played well and I could not hold a little longer because games were actually closed," he added.

Williams also had to be reviewed by a doctor in the second part, due to an ankle problem.

Now face the winner of the U.S. Open in 2004, the Russian Svetlana Kuznetsova, who went to the next round when his opponent, China's Zheng Zie, he hurt his wrist and was withdrawn.

Carla Suarez Navarro, the Spanish for 20 years who dropped to a seven-time Grand Slam winner Venus Williams in the second round on Monday over his compatriot Anabel Medina Garrigues (preclasificada 21) with partial and 6-3, 6 -- 2.

In his next commitment, Suarez will face the Olympic gold medalist Elena Dementieva, the Russian fourth preclasificada happened to the quarterfinals for the first time in 11 years at Melbourne Park after winning by 6-2, 6-2 to Slovak Dominika Cibulkova.

The Macintosh computers are preparing to celebrate his 25 years with youthful vigor and Peter Friess remember like it was yesterday, the day he received his first 'Mac' in the hands of Steve Jobs, the legendary owner of the firm.

At that time, some twenty years, Peter Friess classified antique clocks for the Deutsches Museum in Munich (Germany), when he learned that Apple's nascent company, founded in 1976, had built a computer.


"The German was the biggest science museum in the world and not a single office was equipped with a computer at the time," says Friess, 49, now president of the Tech Museum of Innovation in Silicon Valley, south of San Francisco ( California).

"I called Apple to tell them in Munich that really needed a computer."


Jobs was right in Munich. It was not until the museum with a computer to Friess and one for the director.

"I was just a craftsman working in the basement, perhaps the most modest museum employee, and Steve Jobs gave us, me and the director, computers, still wonder Friess. "I gave him a hand. I do not know if you remember, but I do. I still have this computer."


When the first Macintosh-baptized, the legend, in homage to the variety of apples for your favorite co-inventor Jef Raskin left-market, the 24 January 1984, Apple, founded in a California garage by Steve Jobs and Wozniak, even gave his first steps.

The signing marked the departure of its first product for the general public with a publicity became legendary, and was inspired by the novel'1984 'by George Orwell, and that symbolized the emergence of a revolutionary innovation in a totalitarian and uniform universe .


Among the new Macintosh was the mouse, which led to move a cursor on the screen, and icons to activate various functions: it was the first graphical interface for users, avoiding having to type a long series of numbers and letters, and put the computers accessible to non-specialists.

Preserving its technology, Apple continued to produce Macintosh, which were adopted by creatives, whose quality is only matched by its price, then too high.


Several hundred miles further north, signing a couple of programs, Microsoft sells its systems under license for exploration and other programs that allow other manufacturers to market computers at a price more accessible.

In 1985, Jobs was ousted after a bid for power and did not return until 1997, during which time the brand has suffered a major setback.


Since then, Apple released news that led to changes in consumption of media, with digital players like iPods, iTunes Store online and mobile phones iPhones to rejuvenate the brand.

In addition, Apple made its products compatible with Microsoft software, thus removing a major obstacle to convert new believers.


Apple released on Wednesday a quarterly profit récors of 1610 million dollars, with a 9% rise in sales of Macintosh, which is 2.52 million copies (of a total of about 77.3 million computers sold worldwide ).

In the U.S., Apple is in fourth place in sales with a market share of 7.2%, according to marketing firm IDC.

A producer of Hong Kong to attract viewers to the cinemas which ensures that it will be the first erotic movie in 3D world, reported local media on Sunday in Hong Kong.

Stephen Shiu Junior, president of One Dollar Productions, said it will use special effects to make it as realistic as possible'3 D Sex and Zen, "a production of 30 million dollars hongkoneses (3.85 million dollars).


"This erotic film in 3D is probably the first of the kind in the world," said the Sunday Morning Post newspaper in Hong Kong.

"Just imagine that you watch the film as if they were sitting next to the bed," he explained.


The film is loosely inspired by a work of Chinese erotic literature of the seventeenth century.

Thanks to the effects of 3D, the spectators, who will have to get special glasses, have the impression that the actresses are just a few inches of them, said the producer.


The start of filming is scheduled in April, with Japanese and Taiwanese actresses. It is expected that the film comes out in China next to Christmas, according to the press.

In recent years, many Hong Kong movies have closed since the usual spectators preferred to stay home to watch movies on DVD.

Noting behavioral disorders and also in the academic performance of students, teachers of the Faculty of Dentistry of the Universidad Nacional del Nordeste, Argentina faced an investigation to determine consumption of drugs. And there was a marked influence drug advertising industry.

The study showed that the drugs used are the central nervous system and the musculoskeletal system. According to July Lotero professional in charge of the work for students relieved intake of drugs is synonymous with health.


Among the respondents, 84% recognized that once consumed drugs influenced by advertising, the vast majority are non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and analgesics.

Lotero noted here that, with this trend, there is a high consumption of NSAIDs, a substance that could lead to the emergence of significant adverse effects, particularly in the gastrointestinal tract.


The investigation looked at 100 students, 20 of each year of the race. Data were extracted by monitors through a structured survey with closed and open. The variables considered were age, sex, year course, which consumes any medicine, therapeutic, who recommended him and the influence of advertising.

Among the women surveyed had evidence the use of a dangerous psychotropic drugs, the clonazepam. On one occasion was taken anxiolytic, on the advice of relatives.


The professionals in charge of the study indicated: They should assess the reasons for the use of psychotropic drugs in order to determine the reasonableness of its use because it has the potential to affect cognitive ability and performance in the psychophysical for dental student large manual that training on their journey unfolds.

Such conduct has created a problem for public health and society as a whole, called the medicalization of health, Lotero explained.


He also mentioned that the World Health Organization (WHO) recognizes and accepts the self. But when it is responsible. And they illustrate the use of medications free access (without prescription) for the relief of symptoms little serious ailments such as mild sore throat, stomach or heard, and if this does not replace self-professional contact with the patient.

In autoprescripción is left to one side to the doctor and the patient who decides what medicine to take and contrasts autoprescripción or indiscriminate use of drugs without supervision or optional indication, the experts concluded.

A man from Guizhou Province, southwest China, was infected with bird flu and is in serious condition in hospital on Sunday, announced the Ministry of Health.

This is the sixth case of bird flu in humans reported to be in China this year. The Chinese Ministry of Health said on its website (www.moh.gov.cn) the latest victim is a man of 29 years apellidado Zhou, who fell ill on January 15.


In recent weeks, four people have died from bird flu in China.

"The epidemiological tests indicate that the patient had previous exposure to poultry in markets," the ministry said in a short statement.


None of the people who were close to Zhou has shown symptoms of the disease, added the ministry.

Even before the report of his case, health officials were urging Chinese to step up surveillance this month because it is assumed that the winter season helps the virus to spread.


Other recent victims fell ill in areas where there were no known poultry outbreaks of the deadly H5N1 strain.

The H5N1 strain remains mainly a virus is in birds. But experts maintain that there is a possibility that the virus mutate to a version that allows easy human-to-human infection, which could cause a pandemic that would cause death to millions.


Including the latest case, at least 36 people have been infected in China and 24 have died due to H5N1 to date.

The Paraguayan government on Saturday admitted the existence of a dengue epidemic, but low-intensity andalusia confirmed 35 individuals out of 360 patients treated in public hospitals, and in Bolivia reported an increase of evil in Santa Cruz.

According to the Bolivian authorities, just over 3,000 people came to the hospital so far this year with symptoms of dengue fever in this eastern city.


Meanwhile, Ivan Allende, director of Health Surveillance, Ministry of Public Health in Paraguay, told reporters that the majority of infected people live in the interior and the same amount in just three quarters of Asuncion.

"Of the 360 suspects, after laboratory tests out to 146 people but continue to study the blood of 179 other subjects," he said.


The doctor explained that "the epidemic of dengue fever is low, it means that we are on alert and worried but still can not declare a state of national emergency."

Symptoms of the disease are high fever, headache, diarrhea, nausea and severe pain mainly bones.


Between February and May 2008, the previous government of President Nicanor Duarte declared a national emergency andalusia checked more than 1,300 cases of patients of which eight were fatal shunt.

In Bolivia, the Health Minister Ramiro Tapia, who reported in 3233 across the country were positive cases, of which 2800 were filed in Santa Cruz until January 20.


Last week, his office confirmed the two deaths by dengue hemorrhagic fever in Santa Cruz.

Dengue fever appears in the rainy season in tropical areas. The bearer of evil encuba mosquito larvae in stagnant water. If the treaty is not a bad time can lead to dengue haemorrhagic fever, causing death.

Pope Benedict XVI since Friday has its own channel on YouTube, the Internet site to share digital videos, to report directly, without mediation malignant on the activities of the papacy.

The site http://it.youtube.com/vatican was symbolically named by the Pope, who admitted that "the new digital technologies are creating fundamental changes in human relationships, especially among young people." The Pope has always welcomed the new technologies, which he described as "a true gift to humanity."


Despite this, the pontiff urged "to monitor who is in the service of all people and all communities, especially those most needy and vulnerable" in a message released Friday at the World Day of Communication Social.

The conference was opened with the launch of the video site of the Vatican on the Internet. "We will reach a large audience, overall, to have contact with everyone, beyond the Catholic environments," said Vatican spokesman, Father Federico Lombardi to present the initiative.


The Holy See now has a website in several languages (www.vatican.va), as well as an international broadcaster (Vatican Radio) and a television production center that covers all activities of the Pope. "We wanted to take another step" in YouTube, said Lombardi, who aspires to become "a large network in the Network."

In the video portal can be admired stories in Italian, English, Spanish and German and will be "a credible source and continuing to understand the message of the Pope, the spokesman said the pope.


The internet can see from this Friday a dozen videos of two minutes, including the conclusion of the Angelus last Sunday January 18 from the Vatican, the pope faces the window.

The number of Internet users worldwide has exceeded 1,000 billion and China is the country with most Internet users, reported Friday that the digital research company comScore Inc.

"Overcoming 1000 million users is a significant mark in the history of the Internet," said executive chairman of comScore, Magid Abraham, in a statement.


"The next one billion will be connected before you realize, and one billion more will come even faster than the previous ones," said Abraham. ComScore says that the Asia-Pacific owns 41% of users, followed by Europe (28%), North America (18%), Latin America (7%) and Middle East and Africa (5%).

China is the country with most Internet users with nearly 180 million people networked in December, followed by U.S. with 163 million, Japan with 60 million, Germany and Britain with almost 37 million each and France with 34 million.