News 20-24/05/2013

News 20-24/05/2013

The photographer who faces death with his lens

After photographing the world's most famous faces, from Kate Moss to Madonna and from Tony Blair to Queen Elizabeth II of England, the Scots John Rankin Waddell, known simply as Rankin, has focused his lens to people with terminal illnesses.

When Sandra Barber was diagnosed with a brain tumor, she wanted to wear a mask of war paint on his face every time I went to a chemotherapy session. Going to treatment was like going to a battle.

Two days later, Barber, who had battled breast cancer, was presented to Rankin.

The photographer has photographed celebrities and models for 20 years, but he deal with the death of his parents was mulling over a project on mortality.

Barber told him about his idea of ​​face painting. "He said, 'Fabulous, fabulous, I shoot you, do it next week,'" he recalls.

For the meeting, plus the paint around her eyes, she wore a collar impresionente black and red plumage show her as a warrior princess tidy.

Argentina, a magnet for college students

It does not take a college student to perceive the phenomenon in recent years Argentina has become a magnet for young people, especially American, arriving in the country to study.

Between 2006 and 2013 more than doubled the presence of foreign students in the country, which can be seen beyond the classroom: enough to walk the streets, restaurants and bars in cities such as Buenos Aires, Cordoba and Rosario, which concentrate most universities.

According to the Secretariat of University Policies of the Ministry of Education of Argentina the country has more than 50,000 foreign students in undergraduate and postgraduate studying thousands of others, although the exact figures have not yet been published.

These numbers suggest that Argentina is now the Latin American country with the highest number of international students.

This is an assumption and not a reliable data because it is impossible to confirm: a representative of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (Unesco) told BBC News that in most countries region no official statistics on the number of foreign students.

However, Unesco does have a fact that reveals the magnitude of the Argentine phenomenon: the latest figures from Cuba, the Latin American country that historically had greater presence of foreign students, show that in 2011 there were 27,309 foreign students, a figure much lower than the South American country.

Chivas USA sued for racial discrimination against "non-Mexican"

Two football coaches team sued the U.S. professional league Chivas USA for discrimination, claiming they were fired for not having Latino.

Chronopoulos Theothoros Daniel Calichman and raised the lawsuit Tuesday in Superior Court in Los Angeles, California.

Coaches from the lower divisions of the MLS team (Senior League Football) ensured that the team owner Jorge Vergara Mexican, has a draft "Mexicanisation" team, so they were victims of harassment and retaliation by ethnicity and race.

Vergara also owns club Chivas de Guadalajara, the only Mexican league club has never aligned to a player who is not Mexican.

Coaches claimed that in a meeting last November, Vergara said employees who do not speak Spanish would be fired.

After making a complaint of discrimination in the Department of Employment of Chivas USA, were suspended and later fired. Both call for compensation.

Chivas USA has not commented on the matter.

Myth crumbles Argentine barbecue

They are reputed to dance tango like the gods, to play football better than anyone and, above all, to make one of the best barbecue in the world.

However, in demonstrating their talents on the grill during the 12th edition of the World held recently Roast in Saidia, in northern Morocco, the Argentines did not conquer the palate of the jury.

After three days of tough competition in which they had to prepare five courses, one meat, two of lamb, a chicken and a dessert-the Argentine team failed to place in the top positions.

The award went to Denmark and the second and third place went to Germany and the Principality of Liechtenstein, respectively.

The jury of chefs, food critics and journalists, evaluated the ability of 80 teams from 42 countries-note-taking "how cooked the meat, the degree of cooking, the flavor of the dishes, presentation, hygiene in the preparation and broilers wardrobe, "he told BBC Ivo Van den Bosch, president of the World Association of Asado, who helped coordinate the event hosted by the organization.

Although each team brought their own cooking implements-the Argentines traveled discs loaded with plow, 15 crosses for grills and other paraphernalia-not allowed to compete with their own flesh, which was provided by the organizers of the event for all to compete on equal footing.

And this, perhaps, is one reason why Argentina could not take the trophy.

R. UK accused of discriminating against European immigrants

The European Commission will take the British government to court for alleged discrimination after learning that authorities there refused to pay social benefits to some immigrants in the European Union.

The commission, which verifies that the EU member countries comply with the laws of the block, said additional tests UK makes them immigrants from the EU to see if they are true or not benefits are unfair.

According to a government spokesman, the test is "a vital tool and just" to ensure that these benefits are only paid to people who can live and work in the UK legally.

The benefits affected are the economic benefits received by families with children and the subsidy for the unemployed.

Moreover, the European Commission initiated infringement proceedings against Spain for not accepting public hospitals in some European health insurance card and community force patients to pay for treatments that are free for Spanish.

This card gives European visitors free access to public health services.