Russian Kosteniuk clinches World Chess Championship
The Russian-born World Women’s Chess champion Alexandra Kosteniuk beat Peruvian hopeful Dysi Cori in a match.
The 2010 Machu Picchu Challenge was held in Machu Picchu as Kosteniuk collected the winner’s purse of 10,000 soles ($3,500 US dollars). This is out of the ordinary, extraordinary experience. I have played chess my entire life and I have never had an experience like this to play is such a moving place, said Kosteniuk after beating Cori. Cori, Peru’s Grandmaster, received 2,000 soles ($700 US dollars), but says she looks forward to playing Kostniuk again for another chance at becoming the number one World Women’s Champion. Kosteniuk arrived earlier in the week and gave a masters workshop at the National Engineering University.
Kosteniuk, who is also a model and actor, will finish her visit by competing simultaneously against 30 National Engineering University students on Tuesday.
Thousands Driven From Homes by Floods, Death Toll Increases From 24
January 30, 2010 by Trend PK
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Thousands Driven From Homes by Floods, Death Toll Increases 
From 24, Days of heavy rains in Peru brought continued landslides and flooding in the regions of Ayacucho, Cuzco and Puno, driving hundreds out of their homes.
In Ayacucho, around 100 homes were damaged when the Huantachaca River flowed over its banks and into a neighborhood. Locals crossed a precarious bridge while muddy water blasted the pillars. Roads and homes in the town of Huanta were full of water, mud and debris after the river ran into neighborhoods. I have been trying to bail the water out of my house since three in the morning. Twenty people helped me but I was not able to do it, a resident told. Families walked amongst the rubble of crumbled walls and tried to pull what belongings they could from homes. Local newspapers are reporting the wettest rainy season in 15 years. Thousands of tourists have been trapped at Machu Picchu, but other parts of the Cuzco region have also been hit hard by the rains, with some 13,000 affected by the floods and at least 24 dead. In Zurite in Cuzco, roads were washed out and farmers tried to move their animals to higher ground.
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