The new olympic stadium for Tokyo-2020 will cost some two billion dollars, 54 percent more than the fixed budget, announced the Japanese Sports Council. Despite reducing the original volumen last May to one billion 372 million dollars, the present design will be still more expensive than planned.

Historians from more than one dozen countries are discussing today in this capital about the current challenges of historiography around Cuba and America in the world. Experts from Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, United States, Peru, Venezuela, Argentina, Spain and Cuba, among other countries, are attending the first International Colloquium of Historians, to be held at the Havana's San Geronimo University College.