U.S. achieves an extension in extremis to avoid government shutdown

Republicans and Democrats buried the hatchet when there was only an hour for the "cerrojazo" the federal government for lack of funds. The two parties finally reached an agreement for the fiscal 2011 budget includes a cut in public spending of 38,000 million dollars, the largest in recent U.S. history.

"I have the pleasure to announce that the Washington Monument and all government offices will remain open," said Obama, with the obelisk illuminated in the background, at the time of his ambivalent blessing to the deal shortly before midnight. The agreement prevented the paralysis of the administration feared that would have left empty ministries, museums, national parks and thousands of federal agents throughout the country, in a sequel to "cerrojazo" of the Clinton era (only services "emergency" air traffic controllers to the soldiers in line of fire would have continued in their posts).

PORTUGAL - Against austerity, one solution golf!

The Socialist government's intention to reduce from 23 to 6% VAT on playing golf is a source of pride for golfers and a shame for trade unionists. A group of people with low collective organization, incapable of doing demonstrations or participate in negotiations, manages to be more effective in meeting its legitimate aspirations that united CGTP and UGT [CGT Portuguese General Union of Workers - close to the socialists - are the main trade union confederations in the country].

TEPCO built a steel wall to stop the radiation in the sea of Fukushima

Tokyo. .- Tokyo Electric Power (TEPCO), operator of the Fukushima nuclear power plant, began today to install a steel wall to prevent more water from leaking radioactive material into the sea, local news agency Kyodo. TEPCO will try and plug an outlet to the Pacific Ocean connected to the reactor 2, which was taking water used in the turbine building when the system worked properly.

Now, technicians are concerned that through this channel is highly radioactive water is leaking into the sea, so the block with seven steel plates and a plastic mesh of 120 meters wide. On Wednesday, TEPCO operators managed to stop a leak highly polluting discovered four days earlier in a pit of Fukushima Daiichi plant near the sea, the levels of radioactivity in the ocean have remained high, although down from a peak of 7.5 million over the legal limit.

Build a steel wall to stop the sea of Fukushima radiation

Tokyo Electric Power (TEPCO), operator of the Fukushima nuclear plant, has begun installing this Saturday a steel wall to prevent more water from leaking radioactive material into the sea, local news agency Kyodo. TEPCO will try and plug an outlet to the Pacific Ocean connected to the reactor 2, which was taking water used in the turbine building when the system worked properly.

Now, technicians are concerned that through this channel is highly radioactive water is leaking into the sea, so the block with seven steel plates and a plastic mesh of 120 meters wide. On Wednesday, TEPCO operators managed to stop a leak highly polluting discovered four days earlier in a pit of Fukushima Daiichi plant near the sea, the levels of radioactivity in the ocean have remained high, although down from a peak of 7.5 million over the legal limit.

GERMANY - Stuttgart happen to red and green

According to a survey conducted from March 16 to 22 for RTL and the site's online magazine Stern tells Die Welt, a "historic change" is taking shape for March 27, when elections are held in Baden- Württemberg. The current center-right coalition and the Liberals (CDU-FDP) does not exceed 43%, while the opposition Red-Green (SPD Social Democrats and Greens) climbs to 48%.

Worse yet for the current "black-yellow coalition" of CDU reached 38% of voting intentions, but the FDP does not exceed 5%. It may therefore not be represented in the regional parliament. After the protests against the infrastructure project Stuttgart 21 is the nuclear disaster in Japan, analysts said, propelling the Greens at 24%, tied with the SPD.

Republicans and Democrats reach agreement to avoid the 'close' the U.S. Government

Washington. (EFE) .- The U.S. president, Barack Obama said today that the agreement reached by leaders of Congress on the federal budget includes "the largest annual cuts in the history" of the country. "Congress, on behalf of all Americans, has now reached an agreement to avoid paralyzing the government," he said in a televised statement from the White House, which acknowledged that some of the cuts approved "will be painful and would not have been in better circumstances.

A cold blood in a French village

The story could have been signed in mid Truman Capote and Norman Mailer: the cold blooded murder of a family and an executioner's song dubbed 'the eternal guilty' but whose guilt over a decade later, is still in doubt. The French version of the real story that Capote was occurred in 1994. As in the book, a family was brutally murdered in a small town of 1,500 inhabitants.

In this case the Klutter family farm is located in the countryside of northern France (La Sarthe). On the morning of September 5 the family's nanny Leprince discovered the bodies of marriage and two children stabbed and sewn. The baby escaped the massacre only the couple, two years since then under the tutelage of a caregiver.