Haiti: 19 deaths for the passage of Isaac

There are 19 deaths caused by the passage of the storm Isaac of Haiti. Marie-Alta Jean-Baptiste, civil protection in Haiti, reported that more than 300 homes were destroyed, especially in the city 'of Jacmel, on the southern coast of the country. Further two thousand homes were damaged. Jacmel was hit hard by the earthquake in 2010 provoked 'the death of over 220 thousand people. The storm and 'befallen Haiti on Friday' and the rains caused by its passage caused floods across the country.

Amuay Explosion: The world's worst in 25 years

Saturday's blast at the Amuay refinery which has left 39 dead (last official part), is the most serious in the world of the past 25 years. Below, some of the similar events in recent years: - 14 September 1997, India. At least 30 people died in a huge fire at an oil refinery in the state-owned Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited (HPCL) in Visakhapatnam (south). The fire blew various deposits, forcing authorities to evacuate 150,000 people from five villages. - June 25, 2000, Kuwait. Four workers died and 50 people were injured in an explosion caused by a gas leak in Kuwait main refinery, south of the capital. - August 14, 2003, Spain. Seven workers who worked in the company subcontracted died in Puertollano (center) after an explosion in a refinery of Repsol. - October 30, 2004, China.Seven workers died in an explosion while repairing a conduit containing hydrogen sulfide in an oil refinery in Daqing (northeast). - March 23, 2005, United States. Fifteen dead and over 70 injured in a blast that hit several buildings, causing a fire in the largest U.S. refinery British oil group BP in Texas (south). - March 21, 2006, Venezuela. Two workers died in a fire while performing maintenance on the Amuay refinery, operated by national oil company PDVSA, located 400 km northwest of Caracas. - April 3, 2010, United States. Five employees, three men and two women, of an oil refinery company Tesoro Anacortes (northwest), near the border with Canada, died in a fire during an operation of "routine maintenance." - 7 September 2010, Mexico. Two killed in an explosion caused by a leak at a refinery facility company Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex) in Cadereyta, near Monterrey (northeast). - June 2, 2011, Great Britain. Four workers died in a fire after the explosion at an oil refinery owned by U.S. group Chevron in Wales. According to police, a storage tank exploded during maintenance work at the refinery, one of the largest in Europe, with 1,400 employees. - July 30, 2011, Mexico. At least two workers were killed by an explosion after the start of a treatment unit at a refinery owned by the national company Pemex Tula, north of Mexico. - August 25, 2012, Venezuela. At least 39 people were killed and over 80 were injured in an explosion Amuay refinery, operated by PDVSA.

Japanese children have thyroid nodules after the Fukushima nuclear accident

About 38,000 Japanese children have already done tests to identify thyroid nodules since March 2011, when an earthquake and tsunami devastated the country's northeast, affecting the Fukushima atomic plant and initiating the largest nuclear disaster in Japan this total, more than 13 600 children (36%) had thyroid nodules, although no one has been diagnosed with cancer. The information was revealed on Monday (27) by broadcaster NHK. According to the station, because of these results, Japan will increase thyroid tests in the northeast of the country to analyze the effects of radiation, after detecting the lymph glands of the small. In the province of Fukushima, which is the Daiichi nuclear plant, severely damaged by the tsunami have been made since the beginning of the tragedy nuclear tests in about 38 000 children under 18 years. Fish in Fukushima have radiation above limit, Butterflies mutants are found after accident.  According to NHK, 36% of children in whom the tests were done showed nodules in the thyroid, although none of them was diagnosed cancer. The Fukushima government does not consider it necessary to take additional examinations, although parents have expressed their concern, since the lymph gland can be found in healthy children. Experts have warned that radioactive iodine released from Fukushima Daiichi center after the accident can accumulate in the thyroid glands of children and increase their risk of this type of cancer, as occurred after the nuclear disaster at Chernobyl (Ukraine) in 1986. The new tests will be done by the end of March 2013 with about 4,500 children under 18 in three provinces annexed to Fukushima to compare the results with those collected in the province. The government hopes that with the exams is possible not only alleviate the concern of citizens, but detect possible effects on children of the radiation released by the nuclear unit.