NEWS

BBC

John Lennon £5 coin issued by Royal Mint
To conmemorate John Lennon's 70th birthday, he's been immortalized in a limited series of coins. He was voted by 92% of the people who voted.

1- What did Lennon's fans to support his choice?
2- What does the proportion of votes show us?
3- Which is the percentatge of people that vote for Lennon?
4- With who is now John Lennon joined in this tipe of coins?

Pacific quake off Japan islands sparks tsunami alert 

Japan is on tsunami alert after a 7.4-magnitud earthquake.

1- Which is the magnitud of the earthquake?

2- Where was the epicenter of the earthquake?

3- About which depth did it struck?

4- What happened on 1995?

CNN

'Butterfly Houses' showcase the caring face of architecture
Some architects have made houses called "butterfly houses" because they are ecologic an socially sustainable, giving a home to a lot of orphans.

1- Which propieties have this tipe of houses?
2- Acording to the architects, which is the aim of this butterfly houses?
3- Which materials did they use? 
4- What is the function of the special shape of the roofs?

Cholera outbreak could hurt Haiti's rice production
 Cholera has killed about 3000 people in Haití and now it threatens to damage the crops, causing more misery in another vital way.

1- For what reason the consumers are afraid of buying rice grown in Haití?
2- Why the effects of cholera were magnified in November?
3- Which was the information of Haiti's health ministry about the 18th of December?
4- Which is the warning of MSF?

A scene of violent chaos in Cairo
It started with verbal abuse, and then it got physically.
1- What happened on Cairo's Tahrir Square on Wednesday?
2- What happened when the barriers that were separating them came down?
3- What did they do with a mosque?
4- What did the military trying to separate the two sides?

ALJAZEERA

Parcel bombs target Greek capital 
The Greek authorities fount another parcel bomb, a day after four parcel bomb were found. They were on the Russian and Swiss embassies in the Greek capital, and three more bombs were discovered in the Bulgarian embassy, outside the parlament and in a courier company.


1- Where were the parcel bombs fount?
2- Who is the the suspect, according to the police, of this attacks?
3- Who was the target of the attacks when they begun the1th of November?
4- Why Brady Kiesling said that those bombs were not so dangerous as they think?

Brisbane braces for masive floods
Australia's third-largest city is preparing its fight against the incoming plague of floods.

1- What is expected to happen if the river Brisbane bursts its banks?
2- How many Brisbane residents were alredy sheltering in evacuation centres on Tuesday?
3- Why many of the business in the center of the city were forced to shut down?
4- Which economic problems will bring all this mess?

Libyan air force "no longer exists"
The Libyan air force has stopped the devastating air strikes due to international coalition forces.

1- Why did this clame come?
2-What did Bagwell said about this?
3- What are they trying to do with this control over Gaddafi's forces?
4- What did pro-Gaddafi's forces do in response to this coalitions?

HELLO MAGAZINE

Mount Etna: Sicily's sleeping giant
 The mount Etna has in constantly alert de sicilians. This mount has sculped the landscape and way of life around him, but people say that it's a "good" volcano due to soil properties.

1- How old is the mount Etna?
2- What happened in 1669?
3- Why locals say that Etna is a good volcano?
4- Who is this mount dedicated to?