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U.S. and China sign trade agreements worth U.S. $ 45 billion

U.S. and China have reached an agreement on the conclusion of trade agreements worth 45 billion dollars, said Wednesday a senior U.S. official quoted by Reuters. Agreements have been obtained during the visit President Hu Jintao made a period of four days, U.S..

According to reports, an agreement aimed at buying Boeing 200 aircraft by the Chinese, for 19 billion dollars.

Also, contracts were negotiated about Honeywell, Caterpillar and Westinghouse Electric, a subsidiary of Toshiba Corp..

The Washington official said on condition of anonymity, the U.S. and China have made progress in several key business areas, from intellectual property, innovation and public procurement.

Iran Earthquake of 5.1 degrees

An earthquake measuring 5.1 degrees hit on Saturday morning, Fars province, southern Iran, causing damage in several villages in the area, but to do and no casualties, according to preliminary information broadcast by state television and quoted by AFP . The quake occurred at 3:54 local time (0:24 GMT).

This is the second earthquake that hit Iran in recent days, after Wednesday, another earthquake of 5.3 on the Richter scale, also occurred in southern Iran, leaving 16 injured and causing damage in 17 villages in the south.

In 2003, 30,000 people lost their lives after a devastating earthquake that hit south-eastern Iran.

Last month, seven people were killed and hundreds more were injured after an earthquake in northeastern Iran.

Eugenie Blanchard nun, the world's oldest person, dies at age 114 years

The oldest person in the world, nun Eugenie Blanchard, died Thursday at age 114 years in the French Antilles, local officials said, quoted by AFP. Blanchard diedThursday morning in a hospital in Saint-Barthelemy, an island located about 250 kmnorth of Guadeloupe.

According to reports, Blanchard was born in Saint-Barthelemy on 16 February 1896.After becoming a nun, she left to serve in Curacao in the Netherlands Antilles, where he acquired the nickname "Sweets, " he used to give candy to children to attendreligious services and discussions.

After he retired 30 years ago, the nun returned to the French Antilles.

His grandson, Daniel Blanchard, a former mayor of Saint-Barthelemy, EugenieBlanchard said he is convinced that he lived so much "because he decided to offer her virginity to God. "
  
In May 2010, Eugenie Blanchard became the oldest person in the world after the death of the Japanese Kama chinense. She died just days before turning 115 years.

According to the Gerontology Research Group, which monitors the very old, currentlyexist in the world at least 75 "supercentenari", ie persons who are at least 110 years.

An American who has appeared nude in front of President Barack Obama could get a million dollars from a billionaire

An American president appeared naked in front of Barack Obama during a rally held Sunday in Philadelphia, thus qualifying him for a million dollar reward offered by British businessman Alki David, The Weekly Standard forward. In August, David announced that he will give $ 1 million first person who manages to appear nude in front of the White House leader.

According to American publication, the man who appeared naked in front of Obama's 24-year-old James is called Juan Rodriguez. He was helped by two employees battlecam.com web page, which belongs to British billionaire.

Glen Zolar and Joey "Boots" Bassolino confirmed to The Weekly Standard that met the requirements of David Rodriguez, wearing on his chest even battlecam.com site name. Who appear naked in front of Obama must be close to the president, to be completely empty and cry out six times battlecam.com site name.

Moreover, Alki David said that "when I see video recording and will confirm (editor's note. That Rodriguez appeared nude in front of Obama), I will send you a check, but I will send cash.

Glen Zolar and Joey "Boots" Bassolino said they had filmed the incident on Sunday but have not yet released video.

At this point, James Juan Rodriguez was in police custody in Philadelphia.

Alki announced in August that will provide $ 1 million first person who manages to appear nude in front of Barack Obama. He made that promise in a campaign to promote battlecam.com site that gives people hundreds of thousands of pounds if they are different acts crazy, they filmed and then load them on the Internet.

Initially, the contractor has provided $ 100,000 of which managed to appear naked before the American president, but then David raised the stakes dramatically, offering $ 1 million after being told initially that the prize is not enough for something so challenging.

The billionaire said it was contacted by hundreds of applicants.

Latest Wikileaks documents will be released in "two weeks"

crets about the war in Afghanistan and documents in "two weeks", despite thePentagon's requests not to risk the lives of people involved, according to AFP.

"We are about half way, which is about two weeks' rest will be made public secretfiles on 15,000 war in Afghanistan, Julian Assange said in a news conference inStockholm.

Friday resumed its pressure on the Pentagon site to not let the documents, saying they are more dangerous than previous ones.

"We hope further that Wikileaks will not publish those documents and will notendanger human lives even more.," said Pentagon spokesman David Lapan.

Assange said, however, that Wikileaks can not be threatened by the Pentagon orother group.

"Organizations who are embarrassed by the publication of documents always requirethat they not be published," he said.

The site specializes in the publication of confidential information, Wikileaks publishedon July 25, more than 90,000 secret documents related to the war in Afghanistan,which gives the impression that Pakistan, a U.S. ally in the war, allowing his officers totreat the information directly with the Taliban. The United States has condemned the publication of secret documents.

"These 15,000 documents are those that put them aside on the basis that theycontain some indications, which means it is more likely to contain personally identifiable information. It takes a line by line analysis," the Assange said.

The site calls itself "the first intelligence agency of the people" and was founded in December 2006 Assange, a former hacker.

NASA plans 28 space missions in order to find life in our solar system

NASA is considering the construction of 28 missions to find life beyond Earth in oursolar system, said an American scientist. "Astrobiology and the search for life are the main objectives of what we should do in these explorations of the solar system, " saidSteve Squyres, a researcher at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.

"We think a total of 28 different missions. They cover everything from exploration to the planet Mercury and sending away objects in our solar system - which is very relevant in the search for life, " he continued, AFP .

Among other policy objectives: a mission to Mars in three stages, which would bring toEarth samples of soil. "Those samples could clearly show whether Mars eversupported life forms or support today, " said the scientist. Another part of the missionwill investigate the origins of methane in the atmosphere of the planet and whether ornot organic. Methane breaks down quickly in the martian atmosphere, but scientistshave discovered methane clouds on Mars in 2003, which showed that the planet is notcompletely dead. "We will send a mission to identify potential sources of methane andposilitatea we consider it to be of biological origin, " Squyres said.

Read more in our solar system, scientists are very interested in Europe, a Jupitermoon. "It is believed that Europe has a liquid water ocean under the ice crust. Andthink of a robot mission to Europa, which could, among other things, the ability to use aradar that can penetrate the ice, which can to find the ocean if it exists, identify placeswhere we could go to learn more "about the ocean, "said Squyres.