http://www.actualidad.com Actualidad News Wed, 22 Feb 2012 23:54:07 GMT http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-17129858/ A train crash at a station in the Argentine capital, Buenos Aires, has killed 49 people with at least 600 more injured, officials say. The train slammed into the barrier at the end of the platform at the Once station during the morning rush hour. "We assume that there was some fault in the brakes", Transportation Secretary JP Schiavi said. Eyewitnesses said the train was travelling fast. Dozens of people remain trapped. "The train was full and the impact was tremendous," a passenger identified as Ezequiel told local television. Medics at the scene were overwhelmed by the casualties, he added. 22 February 2012 Last updated at 17:37 GMT Share this pageEmail Print Share this page 555ShareFacebookTwitter.Argentina train crash in Buenos Aires 'kills dozens'Advertisement The BBC's Vladimir Hernandez: "This is one of the busiest parts of the rail system" Continue reading the main story Related Stories In pictures: Argentina train crash Argentina bus and trains collide Country profile: Argentina A train crash at a station in the Argentine capital, Buenos Aires, has killed 49 people with at least 600 more injured, officials say. The train slammed into the barrier at the end of the platform at the Once station during the morning rush hour. "We assume that there was some fault in the brakes", Transportation Secretary JP Schiavi said. Eyewitnesses said the train was travelling fast. Dozens of people remain trapped. "The train was full and the impact was tremendous," a passenger identified as Ezequiel told local television. Medics at the scene were overwhelmed by the casualties, he added. "People started to break windows and get out however they could," another eyewitness told Reuters. "Then I saw the engine destroyed and the train driver trapped amongst the steel. There were a lot of people hurt, a lot of kids, elderly," the eyewitness added. Thu, 23 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-17129858 http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/02/22/us-boeing-idUSTRE81L11920120222/ About 55 Boeing Co 787 Dreamliner jets may have a recently discovered flaw in the fuselage, the company said on Wednesday, while reiterating that the world's first carbon-plastic passenger plane is safe to fly. The news bolsters a growing perception in the aviation world that the plane-maker will not be able to accomplish its plan to increase production on the airplane to 10 per month by the end of next year, although the company stands by its forecast. Shares of Boeing traded slightly higher, with analysts noting that they have long expected Boeing to miss its production rate target and are not surprised by the latest news. "Most people expected something like that. If it really is a relatively simple fix, it's probably not going to be what derails the production plan. Something else will derail the production plan, but not this," said Richard Aboulafia, an aerospace consultant at Teal Group. "It's tough to put it in isolation with everything else," he said. "It's emblematic of a broader problem on concurrency --making design changes and learning how to build something, while simultaneously building it in volume." In the latest in a series of glitches in developing the revolutionary jet, Boeing earlier this month reported signs of "delamination" on a support structure in the rear fuselage. Delamination occurs when repeated stress causes laminated composite materials to begin to separate. The company is examining a backlog of assembled Dreamliners to see whether they show similar signs of stress, which it has blamed on incorrect "shimming" -- a process planemakers use to fill tiny gaps when aircraft are built. "All the airplanes that were built up to plane 55 have the potential for the shimming issue," James Albaugh, chief executive officer of Boeing Commercial Airplanes, told reporters during a media roundtable in Singapore. Albaugh said the problem is "very fixable." Thu, 23 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/02/22/us-boeing-idUSTRE81L11920120222 http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/02/22/us-usa-economy-housing-idUSTRE81F0UU20120222/ U.S. home resales surged in January to a 1-1/2 year high and the supply of properties on the market was the lowest in almost seven years, pointing to a nascent housing recovery. The National Association of Realtors said on Wednesday existing home sales increased 4.3 percent to an annual rate of 4.57 million units last month, the highest since May 2010. "Overall this is not such a bad number. It's reflective of a better jobs market, but the improvement is going to be in fits and starts," said Yelena Shulyatyeva, U.S. economist at BNP Paribas in New York. However, the tenor of the report was weakened somewhat by a sharp downward revision to December's sales data to show only a 4.38 million-unit rate rather than the previously reported 4.61 million-unit pace. That followed an annual revision of the seasonal factors for the series going back three years. Sales in December actually fell 0.5 pct from November, instead of the 5 percent increase reported last month. There were no revisions to monthly prices and inventory data. Economists polled by Reuters had expected sales to rise to a 4.65 million-unit sales pace. Still, the report was the latest to add to tentative signs of improvement in the housing market. The inventory of unsold homes on the market is shrinking. Last month, there were 2.31 million unsold homes on the market last month, the lowest since March 2005. That represented a 6.1 months' supply at January's sales pace, the lowest since April 2006 and down from 6.4 months in December. A supply of 6 months is generally considered ideal. But the median sales price fell 2 percent to $154,700 in January from a year ago. The Federal Reserve has suggested a number of ways other policymakers could step in to help the beaten-up market, including giving government-controlled mortgage finance firms Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac a bigger role in refinancing loans. Thu, 23 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/02/22/us-usa-economy-housing-idUSTRE81F0UU20120222 http://edition.cnn.com/2012/02/22/world/africa/kenya-somalia-terror/index.html/ Asha Mohamed sits in her cramped room in Pumwani slum clutching a tiny photo of her son, Harun. He's dressed in a blue-striped tie framed by a crisp white T-shirt -- a typical 15-year-old Kenyan high school student. But in September he vanished. "Harun woke up very early and asked his sister "what time is it?" says Asha. He kept on asking her again and again. Then, at four in the morning, he left the house." In her heart, Asha knew where he had gone, but the text messages later confirmed it. Harun left his school and home in Kenya to fight for al Qaeda-linked Al Shabaab. "It started when he was 14. He came to me many times and said "mom, I am going to Somalia to fight Jihad." I thought he was just playing." For years, Al Shabaab has targeted Somalis abroad to fight in their campaign to overthrown the weak transitional government. Now Kenyans, with no ethnic link to Somalia, are joining the Jihad. According to a recent U.N. report, there are "extensive Kenyan networks linked to Al-Shabaab, which not only recruit and raise funds for the organization, but also conduct orientation and training events." Many of those events centered on Pumwani, a largely Muslim slum in Nairobi. Here, residents and religious leaders speak of a charismatic young Kenyan Sheikh that arrived from Mombasa. They say he bravely stood up to corruption, promoted the Quran, and generously handed out scholarships to young men. And he stoked their passion for Al Shabaab. The man is Sheikh Ahmad Iman Ali -- now the leader of Al Shabaab's Kenya cell. He is remembered fondly at the Maratib Islamic Center in Pumwani. "He was fearless and, at the same time, kind," says Abdullah Kilume, the administrator of the center. "The majority think he was a good man, he did a lot of good, they saw what he did." Sheikh Iman would conduct lengthy sermons at the center's mosque, says the U.N. report. The sermons were called 'Jihad Training sessions' and many of them are posted on the Thu, 23 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://edition.cnn.com/2012/02/22/world/africa/kenya-somalia-terror/index.html