Brazil .- The University of Salamanca Lula appointed honorary doctor

SALAMANCA, 31 Mar. The Governing Council of the University of Salamanca (USAL) today approved the appointment of Doctor Honoris Causa to Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, president of Brazil, in the absence of ratification by the faculty of doctors. The award was approved by the Department of Teaching, Organization and Methods of Research of the Faculty of Education and the Department of Spanish Language at the Faculty of Philology.

Paris, a school lacking the alternate Parents publish an ad

Parents of pupils in one class of public school Jules-Ferry, in the Place Clichy, Paris, in the end they made it the most. Get to grips with the absences of teachers of their children and faced with the impossibility of the principal to find alternate, despite the insistent requests to the administrator, have published an advertisement in the newspaper Le Parisien: "Urgent, parents seek school Jules Ferry (man or woman) Professor of English and other disciplines.

In Bulgaria, mysterious death of a businessman at the heart of a political scandal

He was only 47 years. An early age to die of a heart attack. Mihail Mihov, said, "Misho beer", was found dead Wednesday, March 30, in a hotel room in Pravets, near Sofia. Chairman of the Bulgarian basketball, he was best known for its entrepreneurial activities. That as owner of the brewery Ledenika that his name has arisen in the heart of a major political scandal in early January.

Mihail Mihov was one of the main protagonists in a case of plays that shook the political establishment to Prime Minister Boyko Borissov. The opposition weekly Galeria, very close to the businessman Alexei Petrov sulfur, published in several issues the content of telephone conversations involving senior government officials including the head of the Customs Agency, Vanio Tanov and Finance Minister, Simeon Djankov.

Kills eight UN workers in Afghanistan violence

At least eight UN workers were murdered in the city of Mazar-i-Sharif, during violent protests against the burning of a Koran in the U.S., police sources told Efe. After Friday prayers, thousands of people took to the streets in the city, the most important northern Afghanistan, in protest against the burning of a Koran, on 20 March, at a church in the United States, and stoned the local headquarters of the UN mission in the country.

Japan prepares blackouts blackout risk

Japan limit the energy consumption industries during peak hours to avoid blackouts in Tokyo and east of the country after the devastating earthquake this month, said on Tuesday an official of the Ministry of Commerce. The earthquake of magnitude 9.0 and the tsunami that followed the March 11 cut by 23 percent the total generation capacity of Tokyo Electric Power Co's, which has produced power outages in most of its service area for the first time in his career of 60 years.

Confirm explosions in Tripoli

Aircraft of the international coalition forces flew over this afternoon, several areas of Tripoli after loud explosions were heard in the east of the Libyan capital, according to the UAE TV channel Al Arabiya. A resident of Tripoli, named Saad, told the chain that allied planes bombed three times in the eastern part of the city.

The Libyan news agency Jana confirmed within minutes after the bombing and said, as they do from the beginning of the attacks, they reached "civil and military areas" without providing further details. This afternoon the State agency had claimed that Allied planes also bombed residential areas and military in the cities of Misrata, Zenten, Uatiya and Mizdah.

Further increase in the rate of radioactive iodine in Fukushima

A rate of radioiodine up, 4,385 times the legal limit, was measured in seawater collected at 300 meters south of the nuclear accident in Fukushima, TEPCO said, Thursday, March 31. This is the highest measured level of iodine 131 from the beginning of the disaster. This rate of radioiodine was 1 250 times the standard Saturday 1850 times Sunday, and then dropped earlier this week before rebounding sharply on Wednesday at 3355 times the legal limit.