Solís Leads In 80.56% of Votes
Counted
It is two weeks today that the
presidential elections took
place and the Tribunales Supremo
de Elecciones (TSE) is almost
done with the manual counting of
the votes. As of yesterday,
80.56% of the votes have been
counted, closing the day with
the province of Heredia.
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Arturo Kinch, 49, of Costa Rica,
believed to be the oldest
competitor at he Olympics,
competes in the Men's 15K
Classical Cross Country race at
the Turin 2006 Winter Olympic
Games in Italy. Kinch finished
the race in second-to-last
place. [AP Photo/Murad Sezer] |
Costa
Rican Placed Second-to-Last in
Olympics Race
Far away from the glare of the
NBC cameras, as a blizzard
slammed the foot of Mount
Albergain, cross-country skier
Prawat Nagvajara, the Drexel
University professor from
Thailand, and Arturo Kinch of
Costa Rica engaged in a private
Olympic battle that most sports
fans will never see or hear
about.
Pests May Soon Be Seen As Allies
in Energy Rrisis
As oil companies scour the globe
for new drilling spots,
microbiologists are looking for
the keys to an energy revolution
— inside termites from the
jungles of Costa Rica.
Woman
Sentenced to Prison For Sexual
Abuse of Minor
Sex abusers usually tend to be
male. However, the Tribunal de
Juicio de Siquirres, sentenced a
woman to 10 years prison for
performing oral sex on a 10 year
old boy.
Man
Adopted a 16ft Crocodile as a
Pet
Alli Shedden, from Siquirres,
found the crocodile, which had a
bullet in its head, in a swamp.
He took the injured animal home,
named it Poncho and nursed it
back to health.
Chavez
threatens to cut off oil to US
over Rice's remarks
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez
warned on late Friday that he
could cut off oil supplies to
the United States, if Washington
continues to destabilize his
government.
Fans,
cops wait for Stones in Rio
Fans poured into Rio de Janeiro
from around the globe and a huge
police operation swung into
action for what will be one of
the biggest rock concerts ever –
a free show by the Rolling
Stones on the city's famed
Copacabana Beach on Saturday
night (local time).
Paramilitary Groups Disarm in
Colombia
Hundreds of paramilitary
fighters handed in their weapons
and renounced violence Wednesday
in a ceremony in southern
Colombia, the country's peace
commissioner said.
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