Pakistan rocket hits Israel city

ShareA rocket fired by Palestinian militants in Gaza early Friday had hit the Israel city of Ashkelon. Though it caused minor damage, there is no injuries associated with it according to the Israel Defense Forces spokesman. The military said that Gaza militants fired a rocket in Israel and said that it was a rare strike [...]

Building in Italy collapses killing 3

ShareThree people were killed in their sleep when an apartment building collapsed overnight in a town in southern Italy, police said on Saturday. A 10-year-old girl survived after the collapse, and told firefighters from under the rubble before she was pulled out alive after several hours, Naples deputy police chief Peolo Iodice said. People around [...]

Black Box from Pakistan plane crash found

Share The  "black box" flight data recorder was found by recovery workers on Saturday in the wreckage of Pakistan’s worst-ever plane crash, officials said, adding that  it appeared to be in good condition. By an analysis of the data on the recorder, clues and reasons for the Airblue flight crash on Wednesday into the Margalla [...]

Officials: Over 800 dead in floods in Pakistan

Share Heavy rains have led to flooding in Pakistan, which has killed more than 800 people in a week, a government official said on Saturday. Rescuers struggled to reach stranded victims and some evacuees showed signs of fever, diarrhea and other waterborne diseases. The record-breaking rains led to massive destruction in the past week, mainly [...]

Report: Tablet launched in November by Blackberry maker to compete with iPad

ShareBloomberg News reported on Friday that Research In Motion will introduce a tablet computer in November to compete with Apple’s latest tablet computer – the iPad. The new device, made by the Ontario-based maker of the BlackBerry smartpnone, will be called the Blackpad, according to the Bloomberg News. The new device is expected to have nearly [...]

5.7-magnitude earthquake hits Iran

ShareA 5.7-magnitude earthquake hit the northeast Iranian city of Torbat-e Heydariyeh on Friday, leading to the injury of at least 110 people, Iranian TV broadcasted. The quake also damaged several villages and temporarily disrupted communications, Iran’s state TV said. The earthquake struck the region at around 6:20 p.m. local time. It shook the city for about [...]

It’s Chelsea Clinton’s big day in upstate NY

ShareChelsea Clinton will be marrying her longtime boyfriend today at an exclusive estate along New York’s Hudson River after weeks of intrigue, secrecy and buzz that caused hundreds to crowd into this small village hoping to catch of a glimpse of a former president, a secretary of state or their publicity-shy daughter. 30-year-old Chelsea is [...]

Ayew in Stuttgart?!

ShareThe good world cup of André Ayew is attracting numerous clubs, especially from Italy and Germany. The Ghanaian was the star of his national team along with Gyan, he is currently a player of the South French team, Olympic of Marseille. Days ago he was in a good way to re-sign with his team but [...]

Brazilian goalkeeper Bruno Fernandes accused of murder

ShareBrazilian star goalkeeper Bruno Fernandes has been charged with the murder of his ex-girlfriend on Friday. This footballer was also played for Brazil’s most popular club Flamengo. But he was suspended from Flamengo when the accusations against him were first raised. Fernandes was also charged with kidnapping, hiding a body, forming a criminal gang and [...]

Sami Khedira signs for Real Madrid

ShareThe news was not a surprise since all the medias talked about the contact between Sami Khedira and Real Madrid, the Stuttgart player 23 years old, one of the world cup revelations, is the 4th player to sign in the Spanish capital club after Di Maria, Pedro Leon and Canales. The transaction details were not [...]

The Top 20 Concert Tours

ShareHere is a list of the Top 20 Concert Tours, which ranks artists by average box office gross per city and includes the average ticket price for shows in North America. 1. (1) Bon Jovi; $3,675,524; $96.62. 2. (2) Eagles; $2,001,264; $108.38. 3. (3) James Taylor / Carole King; $1,368,495; $79.30. 4. (4) Taylor Swift; [...]

Flooding in Pakistan kills at least 430

Share At least 430 people across Pakistan was killed during a flood which is caused by monsoon rains, according to an aid organization. The worst-hit areas and where the damage has been centered is in the northwest of the country. The flood caused many rivers to burst their banks. The rushing waters have also washed [...]

Baghdad attacks leave 16 dead

ShareSixteen people were reported killed in the strings of attacks in Baghdad Thursday. The dead includes nine security force members. There were also 14 who were wounded in the series of attacks that happened in the Iraqi’s capital’s Sunni district of Al-Adhamiyah, according to the interior ministry. The assailants shoot three soldiers to death in [...]

Officials: Floods in Pakistan kill 313

ShareAfter three days of flooding in Pakistan, the death toll has reached up to 313 on Friday, rescue and government officials said. Heavy rains bloated rivers, submerged villages, and triggered landslides in Pakistan on Thursday. The monsoon rains have drowned entire regions of the country. The death toll has increased due to the poor infrastructure [...]

J-Lo Might Be New ‘American Idol’ Judge: Sources

ShareSinger, dancer, and actress Jennifer Lopez may be close to signing a deal to join Fox TV’s hit singing contest “American Idol” for judging new talent on the show,  a person familiar with the negotiations said late Thursday. The person, who was not authorized to comment publicly, spoke on condition of anonymity. The new opening [...]

Study: Calcium Supplements Boosts Increase of Heart Attacks

ShareAccording to a study released Friday, calcium supplements taken by the elderly to strengthen bones may boost the risk of heart attacks. The study suggested that the role of calcium in the treatment of osteoporosis should be reconsidered. Calcium tablets are commonly prescribed to boost skeletal health, but a recent clinical trial suggested they might [...]

Retrieval of 3,000 chemical-filled barrels rushed in Northeast China river

ShareAbout 3,000 chemical-filled barrels were rushed to be retrieve from the Songhua river at the Wukeshu Dock in Yushu city, northeast China’s Jilin Province. Workers were rushing Thursday to retrieve all of those 3,000 barrels that contained 170 kilograms of chemicals each that were swept by floods into the Songhua river which is running through [...]

Black Eyed Peas ‘I Gotta Feeling’ reaches 6 million download mark

ShareThe Black Eyed Peas No. 1 hit “I Gotta Feeling”  has become the first song to reach the 6 million mark in digital downloads. The announcement of the milestone was made on Friday and confirmed by Nielsen SoundScan. The group’s leader Will.I.Am said the moment was more to them than the song. “We came out in [...]

15 die from forest fires in Russian city

ShareForest fires raged east and south of Moscow on Friday, destroying villages, surrounding one Russian city while killing 15 people, including three firefighters, officials said. The fires spread quickly across more than 200,000 acres in the past few days due to a record heat wave and severe drought that has plagued Russia for weeks. Fields [...]

Ellen DeGeneres Says She Is Leaving ‘American Idol’

ShareAfter being a judge on the reality show “American Idol” for just one season,  Ellen DeGeneres is leaving the show. “A couple months ago, I let FOX and the ‘American Idol’ producers know that this didn’t feel like the right fit for me,” Ellen said in a statement issued to Access Hollywood on Thursday. “I [...]

Toyota recalls 412,000 cars in US due to steering problems

ShareAvalon sedans and Lexus LX470 SUVs, which were both from Toyota were recalled in US. 412,000 cars in US and most of them were Avalons, were recalled by the company due to steering problems which have already been blamed for three accidents. Toyota is recalling a total 412,000 cars, 373,000 of them were Avalon cars [...]

The world’s oldest living things captured

ShareThe world’s oldest living things was captured by photographer Rachel Sussman, a time traveler and an American photographer, has journeyed across the globe on a mission to bring back images of the world’s oldest living organisms. She began her time-traveling in 2004 while she visit the island of Yakushima in Japan to see a reportedly [...]

1st US execution: date set for Virginia woman

ShareDate was set for an execution of a Virginia woman, the first execution of “woman in Virginia since 2005 and said to be one of the few in the century since the U.S. Supreme Court allowed the death penalty to resume. The execution was set September 23 for Teresa Lewis who was sentenced to death [...]

Ship lost for more than 150 years;found

ShareA ship that was abandoned for more than 150 years ago was found by a team of Canadian archeologists. The team known as Parks Canada had located the ship wreck of the British ship HMS Investigator. The said ship was in the quest for fabled Northwest Passage and was lost in the search for the [...]

150 year-old lost ship recovered

ShareA ship abandoned more than 150 years ago  in the quest for the fabled Northwest Passage and was lost in the search for the doomed expedition of Sir John Franklin has been discovered by Canadian archeologists on Wednesday. Marc-Andre Bernier, Parks Canada’s head of underwater archaeology, said the HMS Investigator was abandoned in the ice [...]

Obama not invited to Chelsea Clinton’s wedding

ShareOn Thursday, US President Barack Obama said he was not invited to Chelsea Clinton’s wedding, saying that the security footprint of two presidents at one wedding would have spoiled the event. 30-year-old Chelsea Clinton is to wed marry investment banker Marc Mezvinksy, 32, outside a town in New York state this weekend. Tight security measures [...]

Lindsay Lohan Writing Album in Jail

ShareWhile serving two weeks of her 90 day sentence in jail, Lindsay Lohan passed her time by writing. Shawn Chapman Holley, who is Lohan’s Lawyer, said to People.com that the actress and singer kept herself busy and is doing well. “She’s good, she’s eating some Twizzlers. She looks gorgeous. … She’s writing a lot. She’s [...]

Tina Fey and Meryl Streep To Team Up For New Film

ShareTina Fey and Meryl Streep have signed onto the comedy which will be directed by Stanley Tucci for “Mommy and Me.” This will be the fifth film that the Oscar nominated actor has directed. The actresses, according to The Los Angeles Times, will be playing mother and daughter. Sony is reportedly the front-runner to make [...]

Maradona’s ‘Betrayal and liar’ accusation

ShareDiego Maradona has accused the Argentine Football Association (AFA) of ‘Betrayal and liar’ after his contract as national coach was not renewed. Maradona claimed, the AFA president Julio Grondona lied to him and team manager Carlos Bilardo betrayed him. But both of them have rejected the accusations of deceit and betrayal against them. The team [...]

Pakistan in the grip of heavy rains!!!

SharePakistan is gripped with flooding and heavy torrential rains. The monsoon season brings the threat of flooding with it. This year, heavy and continuous down pour have broken all previous records and the country is experiencing the worst monsoons ever. Massive landslides in the northern areas have hampered traffic flow in the region. Bridges have [...]

French Woman Admits Suffocating Her 8 Newborns

ShareThe French woman who was detained after corpses of eight newborns were found in her garden has admitted that she suffocated them and concealed their corpses in the garden and garage of her home on Thursday, a prosecutor confirmed. She has been charged with manslaughter for the act. Dominique Cottrez, who is a 46-year-old nurse’s aide [...]

Winston Churchill’s dentures sold at auction in England

ShareA set of dentures used by former British leader Winston Churchill were sold at an auction on Thursday for 15,200 pounds. The partial set of choppers is described as the teeth that saved the world. The upper dentures were crucial for maintaining his distinctively slurred speaking style famous from World War II-era radio broadcasts. His [...]

Kanye West joins Twitter, visits Facebook office to perform

ShareKanye West is keeping in touch with the giant social networking sites with the release of his new album. West joined Twitter on Wednesday, one day after going to the offices of Facebook, in Palo Alto, California. He visited the offices to preview his new material. Videos of him rapping a cappella while standing on a conference [...]

List of films competing at Venice Film Festival

ShareA lineup of films in competition for the Golden Lion to run from Sept. 1-11 at the 67th Venice Film Festival are: “Black Swan,” by Darren Aronofsky, United States “La Pecora Nera,” (Black Sheep), by Ascanio Celestini, Italy “Somewhere,” by Sofia Coppola, United States “Happy Few,” by Antony Cordier, France “La Solitudine Dei Numeri Primi,” [...]

Japan: iPod Nano may pose fire hazard

ShareThe Japanese industry ministry has ordered Apple to report on measures it will take regarding cases of its iPod Nano music player overheating and catching fire, an official said on Thursday. The Economy, Trade and Industry Ministry said on Thursday that overheating of the 2005 iPod Nano while charging has caused at least 27 incidents, [...]

Heavy rains slows search for dead in Pakistan plane crash

ShareRelatives continue to grieve and search for the corpses of their loved ones at the air crash site in Islamabad, Pakistan on Thursday. Most of them, desperate to find the bodies, joined emergency teams who battled the thick mud, rain and slippery hillsides on Thursday at the scene of Pakistan’s worst-ever plane crash. Airblue’s Airbus [...]

People sue Apple over faulty iPads

ShareiPad users of Apple said that the iPad will shut itself off after some time in direct sunlight or after it stays long enough in expose to heat of the sunlight. Apple is being sued by three customers who claim that the iPad has overheating problem. The lawsuit they had filed accuses Apple of fraud, [...]

Twitter Tweets Used To Measure Moods By Researchers

ShareResearchers at Northeastern University in Boston have created a Twitter Mood Map to measure the moods in the US by using millions of Twitter messages, or tweets, from the famous social networking site. The researchers discovered that individuals were happiest in the morning and in the evening, with happiness peaking on Sunday morning and dipping [...]

French Couple Detained For Case Of 8 Dead Newborns

ShareA French prosecutor said on Thursday that charges were to be made against a couple detained after eight dead babies were discovered on their property in northern France. The couple is in their mid-40s and are the parents of the dead babies, a judicial official said. The bodies of the infants were found on two different [...]

4 Mexican journalist held hostage in Mexico

ShareFour Mexican journalist were abducted in the Laguna region which includes Durango and parts of the neighboring state of Coahuila – all in the northern part of the country where the fighting of the Zetas criminal group and the Sinaloa cartel has been happening. The four journalists were named through media reports as Jaime Canales, [...]

Eminem stays on No.1 at US album chart for fifth week

ShareEminem led the US pop album chart for a fifth week on Wednesday, marking an even stronger debut from fellow rapper Rick Ross. Eminems’ album  ”Recovery” sold 187,000 copies during the week ended July 25, according to Nielsen SoundScan. Its total stands at almost 1.7 million till Wednesday. Ross’ fourth album “Teflon Don”  was on [...]

Japan hangs 2 convicted killers; 1st execution in year

ShareJapan hanged two convicted killers on Wednesday which is said to be the first execution in a year of the said country, according to the government. This is the first executions in the country since the Democratic Party of Japan took power last September. The two death row inmate was Kazuo Shinozawa and Hidenori Ogata. [...]

Soul Singer, Al Goodman, dies at 67

ShareAl Goodman, a soul singer and who sang with Moments – a chart-topping rhythm-and-blues trio, died on Monday at a hospital in Hackensack, New Jersey due to a heart failure according to his son James. The said singer was 67 and lived in Englewood, New Jersey. His daughter Rhonda Goodman said that her father died [...]

Military plane crashes in Alaska base

ShareA cargo plane crashed in Alaska with four people on board. The plane crash happened about 6:14 p.m. local time according to Capt. Uriah Orland. The Air Force C-17 plane, which is assigned to the 3rd Wing at the base, crashed at the Elmendorf air force base near downtown Anchorage while on a training run [...]

Cataluña bans Corrida!

ShareThe Corrida announced officially on July, 28 by the Catalan deputies, banned in the richest Spanish region. A big deception for the Aficionados, even if they are less that they were in the past. The Corrida is not very popular in Barcelona and Cataluña like it’s in Seville or Madrid, last year the number of [...]

Grief grows as recovery of remains of victims in Pakistan’s worst plane crash ever continues

ShareThe Pakistani nation is stricken by the devastating airplane crash that killed 152 people on Wednesday. Rescuers continue to search the path of devastation strewn with body parts and twisted metal wreckage atop the Margalla Hills surrounding the capital of Pakistan, Islamabad. As the night grows, the increase in the death toll continues. The rescue workers [...]

Raul joins Schalke 04

ShareReal Madrid and former Spanish International legend Raul has signed a two-year contract Wednesday with Germany’s Schalke 04, the Bundesliga club have announced. The 33-year-old striker, who bid an emotional farewell to Real Madrid on Monday and ended a 16-year career at the Bernabeu. Schalke coach Felix Magath told the club website (www.schalke04.de): ‘’It’s great [...]

Texas man guilty of starving 3 children, sentenced to 99 yrs. in prison

ShareAlfred Santiago, 38, a Texas man is said to be guilty for starving three children and was sentenced to 99 years in prison. The man locked the three children for almost one year to a squalid hotel bathroom. He was convicted Tuesday of injury to a child and sexual abuse as well. He was sentenced [...]

Pakistani plane carrying 152 people crashed

ShareA passenger jet is said to crashed into the hills that surrounds Pakistan’s capital. The plane that crashed Wednesday was carrying 152 people according to officials and there were at least twenty five people that were confirmed dead and another five injured people had survived that plane crash. There were still many more people that [...]

Gwyneth Paltrow hits the country tunes!

ShareFrom her role in the upcoming film ‘Country Strong,’ Gwyneth Paltrow has taken up singing for the film in her own hands. Starring alongside the genre’s biggest name, Tim McGraw, Paltrow sang sweet notes for the film. The actress’ sweet, medium-range voice lends itself well to the mellow title track of the movie, which is also [...]

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