The biggest diamond found in Angola and the number 27 found worldwide, with 404.2 carat, was sold by $16 millions, according to a communique of the Lucapa Diamond company, cited by the media today. In the note, the corporation indicates that the value obtained with marketing represents' a spectacular price per carat of 55, 585 Australian dollars (39, 580 US dollars), which is a record value achieved with the sale of a white diamond mined in the Lulo concession (mine) '.

The director general of the FAO, José Graziano da Silva said that the first two Sustainable Development Goals - to end poverty and hunger in 2030- are today the most ambitious and important ones in the history of the UN. Da Silva said that Latin America and the Caribbean may be the first region to achieve them, according to a statement issued at the 34th Conference of the FAO for Latin America and the Caribbean that continues here today.

The Bolivian government plans to build some 115 thousand houses until 2020, with the objective of reducing the housing deficit and benefit needy families, informed here the Viceminister of Housing and Urbanism, Bony Morales. Over the next five years we want to build about 115 thousand buildings that, added to those delivered until now, will exceed the government target of 200 thousand homes since President Evo Morales assumed power in 2006, asserted the official in a press round.

The representative here of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Theodor Friedrich, stressed the historical cooperation between his institution and Cuba in agriculture, Granma newspaper reported today. Cuba has seriously taken collaboration with FAO, the official said in the eastern Cuban province of Holguin, where he participated in Expociencia, a meeting that promotes and encourages the application in the territory of science and technology in all branches of the economy.

Cuba denounced today the US violations of the resolutions and recommendations of the Dispute Settlement Body (DSB) issued by the World Trade Organization (WTO).