Israeli helicopter crash kills 7

All seven people aboard an Israeli military helicopter were killed when it crashed into a mountain in central Romania, officials said Tuesday. The people onboard included one Romanian and six Israelis. The Sikorsky CH-53 Sea Stallion helicopter crashed on Monday during a military exercise which was for the training of crews to fly at low altitudes. [...]

Canadian air jet crashes and exploded

An air force jet crashes during an air show practice over Lethbridge County Airport in Alberta, Canada. The jet crashes and exploded in a ball of flames during a training run for a weekend international show. The jet is a CF-18 Hornet jet, a model specifically used for air shows. The pilot flying the air [...]

Germany: Love Parade festival killed 19 people

Nineteen people and 342 were injured at German music festival. The event meant to celebrate love and peace set off a panic on crowds of people jammed in an entry tunnel which resulted to a stampede. The popular Love Parade festival in Duisburg in western Germany Saturday brought 19 people’s lives to an end. There [...]

40 Whale jumps onto Yacht

A 40 tons whale jumps and hits a boat and crushes the specific yacht. A southern right whale jumped onto their yacht off the coast of South Africa. The 40 ton sea mammal off the coast of Cape Town dived out of the water and into the air and smashed the pole of a 33-foot [...]

Putin praises motorbikes by jumping on a Harley

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin jumped on a Harley Davidson and made his way into an international biker convention in southern Ukraine atop the motorbike. Nearly 5,000 bikers from Europe and other countries around it gathered in Sevastopol for the annual festival on Saturday on Ukraine’s Crimea peninsula. Putin is visiting Ukraine for talks with [...]

38 bodies found in a dumping ground

38 bodies of dead people found  at Monterrey in northern Mexico duping ground was found by authorities, the officials said Friday. They have found the remains in a series of pits that were scattered on a ground at a suspected drug-gang dumping site. The bodies found at the site were too badly decomposed that authorities [...]

IMF cancels $268 million Haiti debt and provide aid

The IMF announced on Wednesday that it had  canceled Haiti’s $268 million debt and will lend the earthquake-devastated country another $60 million to help it with reconstruction plans. The decision was a part of a plan for long-term reconstruction after the Jan. 12 magnitude-7 quake, which killed as many as 300,000 people in Haiti, IMF [...]

500-millionth member registers on Facebook

At least one out of every 13 people on the planet now uses Facebook. The social-network giant announced that it had registered its 500 millionth member, which means that one person in 13 of the entire global population has a profile set up on Facebook. The popular site was launched in 2004. It has gained [...]

Cold Snap in Argentina Kills 8

Nearly eight people have died in a cold snap in Argentina in the past several days, the nation’s state-run news agency reported. Half of the country lies in snow. The capital Buenos Aires recorded its lowest temperatures in a decade on Friday. Mercury fell to -1.5 degrees Celsius in the capital, close to the coldest temperature [...]

Face Veils Banned At Universities In Syria

Syria has banned the Islamic face-covering veil from its universities. The latest move by the Education Ministry of the country comes as similar moves in Europe over the ban of niqab sparks cries of discrimination against Muslims. An official at the ministry said the ban affects public and private universities and aims to protect Syria’s [...]

Trains collide in east India killed 61 people

A speeding express train rammed in the back of another passenger train in eastern India Monday morning that have killed more than sixty people according to television reports. The express train that collided with another passenger train early Monday mangled the carriages and killed 61 people according to railway police. The crash happened about 2 [...]

Suicide attacks kill at least 48; includes Iraqi militia

A twin suicide bombings Sunday had said to kill at least 48 people which includes dozens of people from a government-backed, anti-Al-Qaida militia who were getting their paychecks according to the officials. The attack happened near an Iraqi military base which killed almost fifty people in violence west of Baghdad. The attack turned out to [...]

Dreamliner first flight outside US

Boeing’s Dreamliner completes its first flight outside United States. The Boeing Co’s new 787 Dreamliner jet landed in Britain Sunday ahead of a major airshow. The carbon-composite plane thrilled many eager planespotters who came to see the breakthrough. The plane landed and touched the ground at 9:08 in the morning (0808 GMT) at Farnborough airport. [...]

2 earthquakes hit Papua New Guinea

Two earthquakes having magnitudes of 6.9 and 6.8 hit  the New Britain Region of Papua New Guinea in the southwestern Pacific ocean Sunday, the U.S. Geological Survey reported. The first tremor occurred at a depth of 57 kilometers, it said. The epicenter was about 114 kilometers from the city of Kandrian, Papua New Guinea. The [...]

The World Goes Under The Hottest Year On Record

The world is simmering in the hottest year so far, an analysis released by a US national weather reported. This is causing droughts worldwide and concerns in the US by farmers. The analysis showed that the first six months of 2010 have been warmer than the first half of 1998, the previous record holder, by [...]

Contact Lenses: advantages and complications

Contact lenses or simply known as contacts is a corrective, cosmetic, or therapeutic lens usually placed on the cornea of the eye. It was invented by a Czech chemist Otto Wichterte and his assistant Drahoslar Lim also invented the first gel used for their production. Contact lenses serve the same corrective purpose as glasses. This [...]

US analyst and wife sentenced for Spying Cuba

A retired official of State Department was sentenced Friday to life in prison  for spying Cuba for three decades. The life imprisonment is without parole. His wife also suffer to 5 1/2 years in jail. The retired intelligence analyst Kendall Myers is the great grandson of Alexander Graham Bell. He said that he meant his [...]

Utah identifies 2 allegedly behind immigrant list

Two state workers have been identified who apparently accessed confidential documents to create a list of 1,300 purported illegal immigrants which was mailed to law enforcement officials and to news media according to Utah officials Friday. The state agencies were investigating whether any of their employees leaked social security numbers and any other personal information. [...]

Shootout in Mexico border city, killed 12

A dozen of people were said to be killed in the shootout in Mexico border city of Nuevo Laredo and wounded 21 in the series of gun battles between soldiers and cartel  gunmen. The drug cartel has used a car bomb and this is the first they used in Mexico’s decades-long fight against traffickers. They [...]

Iran mosque bombing: death toll rises

The death toll of mosque bombing said to rise Friday leading to deaths of 27 people which includes the members of the elite Revolutionary Guard according to Iranian authorities Friday. Sunni insurgent group claim responsibility for the bombing and said that it carried out a double suicide bombing against a Shiite mosque in southeast Iran [...]

Oil Spewing finally stops from Gulf gusher

The oil has finally stopped spewing though temporary. BP has finally controlled over one of America’s biggest environmental catastrophes . Thursday after 45 days and up to 184 million gallons of oil spewed in the Gulf of Mexico. The leak was said to stopped with the tight-scaling containment cap installed three days earlier atop its [...]

Goldman to pay $550 million to settle civil fraud charges

Goldman Sachs and Co. has agreed to pay a record of $550 million. This payment is laid to settle civil fraud charges that misled buyers of complex or mortgage-related investments. “We believe that this settlement is the right outcome for our firm, our shareholders and our clients,” the firm’s statement said. Goldman said in a [...]

Couple convicted in Stamos extortion case

Allison Lenore Coss, 24 and Scott Edward Sippola, 36, a Michigan couple were found guilty in federal court of  conspiracy and using e-mail to threaten a person’s reputation. They were convicted Thursday because the said couple was trying to extort $680,000 from actor John Stamos. The couple was threatening to sell old photos of the [...]

Junked ancient ship about 200 years ago uncovered

A ship that was junked about 200 years ago was uncovered or discovered at the World Trade Center site. The 32-foot long ship hull was discovered by archeologists which is believed to have been used during the 18th century as part of the fill that extended lower Manhattan into the Hudson River. The vessel was [...]

Argentina legalizes gay marriages!!!

Argentina is the first ever Latin American country to legalize same sex marriages. The bill was cleared by the Congress, but was still stuck in the Senate for a decision. After 15 hours of reviewing the bill, the members of Senate finally gave it a green signal on Thursday. The President of Argentina, Cristina Kirchner [...]

Iranian nuclear scientist returns home from US

An Iranian nuclear scientist returns home and claimed that he suffered extreme mental and physical torture at the hands of U.S. integrators after he disappeared  last year. He said to be abducted by the American agents. The scientist at the center of a bizarre espionage drama arrived to a hero’s welcome Thursday morning which includes [...]

Former Vice President recuperating after heart surgery

Former Vice President Dick Cheney announced that he underwent major heart surgery last week in northern Virginia Wednesday. The former Vice President undergone surgery to install a small pump to help his heart work. He began to experience increasing congestive heart failure for the past weeks and just last week, a procedure is being done. [...]

Series of attacks killed 6 US troops and 6 Afghans

A series of attacks caused to kill many people in Afghanistan which includes six U.S. troops and also include at least dozen civilians in Afghanistan’s volatile south and east. Attacks is said to be raining since American reinforcements moving into Taliban-dominated areas. On Saturday, there were two U.S. troops reported to die in the south [...]

Pakistan suicide bombing death toll raises

Two suicide bombers killed about 102 people in a village in Pakistan. This also wounded 168 people in the village of Yakaghund in Pakistani tribal area of Mohmand. A suicide bomber struck outside a government office in a tribal region where the army of Pakistan has fought over Taliban forces who had been a cause [...]

Octopus Paul Predicts World Cup Winner!

The Germans hate him, but Spain loves him. And despite this international tug-of-war, Paul the Oracle Octopus continues with his predictions, he has picked the winners of both the third-place match and the World Cup final. So far, Paul’s predictions have been perfectly accurate – his predictions being made when he picks out  his food [...]

Pakistan moves forward as transgender attains social acceptability!

In a conservative country like Pakistan, there are still many issues that remain taboo despite progression in the civil and social rights.  The transgender community has always been ridiculed and targeted by people of all classes, no matter how literate or civilized they might be. The unfortunate result of this isolating behavior is that the [...]

Argentinean man cycles around the world!

Pablo Garcia, an Argentinean citizen, decided to travel across five continents on his bicycle. His aim is to cycle across a 100 countries, and so far he has done 68! He has just reached Shanghai, China and from there onwards will travel to Beijing, then Korea and maybe Japan. He thinks that his journey will [...]

NYC Subway Bomb Plot Linked With British Plotter

A failed plot to set off bombs in the New York subway station system last year was part of a larger al-Qaida terrorist conspiracy that planned a similar attack in London. The link was announced on Wednesday by US prosecutors in an indictment unsealed. The prosecutors added several al-Qaida figures to the case, which includes [...]

NATO airstrikes accidentally kills Afghan troops

Five Afghan army allies were said to be killed mistakenly by NATO airstrike Wednesday. Officials said that this happened while they were attacking insurgents in the country’s east. Gen. Mohammad Zahir Azimi, the Afghan Defense Ministry spokesman said that the Afghan soldiers were launching an ambush before dawn against insurgents reportedly on the move in [...]

Dalai Lama turns 75

The Dalai Lama spends its 75th birthday in Dharmsala India which has been his home after he fled Tibet due to a failed 1959 uprising against Chinese rule. The spiritual leader give a speech address in a crowd of about 5,000 followers at his temple in McLeod Ganj which is a hill station in the [...]

CIA and Pakistan locked in spy battles

Pakistan’s Spy agency, the Inter-Services Intelligence, is spying the CIA and trying to run a double agent against them. This was discovered and concluded when a Pakistani man approached CIA officers in Islamabad last year and offered to give up secrets of his country’s closely guarded nuclear program. He also claimed to possess spent nuclear [...]

Fire at transformer station leaves Toronto with a blackout

Due to a fire at a Toronto transformer station, the power went out to much of the city on Monday, snarling traffic in the midst of a blazing heat wave. The impact did not, however, effect the financial markets. The provincial power company under the name ‘Hydro One’ said that the blackout was due to a fire at a transformer station [...]

Somali Pirates Capture Chemical Tanker

According to the EU’s anti-piracy task force, Somali pirates have seized a chemical tanker carrying lubricating oil in the Red Sea. The pirates, the report says,  attacked the Marshall Islands-flagged MT Motivator on Sunday in the northern Strait of Bab al Mandeb.  The hijack was confirmed on Monday morning after communication with ship was lost, the [...]

SKorea bus accident kills 12

A bus plunged of an elevated road while heading towards South Korea’s main airport on Saturday, killing 12 passengers and injuring another dozen people. The bus hit a guardrail as it tried to avoid a broken-down car and plummeted 30 feet down from the road in Incheon, police said. Among the dead was a Korean-American [...]

15 killed in Philippines bus crash

15 people were killed and 48 others were wounded on Saturday due to the brakes failing of a speeding bus packed with passengers. The vehicle slammed into a concrete barrier in the central Philippines, police said. The bus was carrying mostly homebound factory workers. It was  traveling at high speed in the Cebu province when [...]

220 perish in Congo fuel truck explosion!!!

Last night, a fuel taker turned over near Eastern Congo causing immense destruction and loss of life. At least 220 have perished in the fire while another 200 are critically injured. The disaster took place when a fuel truck was travelling at high speed and overturned at a corner. More catastrophe followed when nearby villagers [...]

Mexican murder suspect of slaying U.S. consulate employee

A drug-cartel enforcer said that he ordered a woman to be killed because she helped a rival gang obtain American visas in the border city of Ciudad Juarez, according to federal police Friday. The woman who worked in the Mexican border’s biggest U.S. consulate was identified by the name Lesley Enriquez. There were other two [...]

Gates tightens over military interview with repoters

Defense Secretary Robert Gates ordered a tightening controls over military interaction with reporters Friday. He ordered military officials to get Pentagon clearance for interviews and any other medic contacts. This order came nine days after Obama relieved Gen. Stanley McChrystal of command of the Afghan War and 10 days after the magazine “Rolling Stone” published [...]

Afghanistan: USAID compound attacked; 4 killed

A four-story house was attacked by Taliban suicide attackers Friday in Afghanistan. The house which was used by an American aid organization is located in north Afghanistan. The attack of the Talibans has killed four people before they die in a fierce battle with the Afghan security force that took about five hours. According to [...]

270,000 vehicles of Toyota have faulty engines

Toyota Motor Corp. will recall one of its top-of-the-line Lexus Sedans due to an engine fault worldwide according to a report Thursday. About 270,000 cars which was sold worldwide and includes luxury Lexus sedans followed massive global recalls. 180,000 of the 270,000 vehicles with engine problems were sold overseas and the rest in Japan. This [...]

Gunbattle at Afghan airport; killed 8 militants

Taliban claimed responsibility for setting off a car bomb that stormed the entrance of NATO air base in eastern Afghanistan according to authorities Wednesday. There were eight insurgents who died in the failed assault. This is the third ground assault of the Taliban who claimed responsibility for the said attack against a major coalition base [...]

Medical marijuana man sued Walmart for firing

Joseph Casias, a medical marijuana user said he was wrongfully fired from a Walmart store in Michigan which he claims in a lawsuit filed Tuesday. Casias, 30,  a medical marijuana user was fired last year after five years on the job in Battle Creek despite being legally registered to use the drug. He also said [...]

Sandra Bullock and Jesse James: divorced finally

Sandra Bullock, the Oscar-winning actress and celebrity biker, Jesse James are divorced confirmed a court clerk in Austin, Texas, Monday. Monique Huey-Jones, James’ publicist declined to comment Tuesday. Bullock filed for divorce and decided to end their marriage in April after knowing that James had been unfaithful. Her initial filing cited ‘discord or conflict of [...]

Larry King’s ending his show after 25 years

Larry King, the broadcast veteran said Tuesday that he’s ending his “Larry King Live” show, his nightly show on CNN for 25 years. But King said he will still host occasional specials for CNN on major events. He also said he just wanted to spend more time with his wife and young children. “With this [...]

Alex grows back into tropical storm: maximum sustained winds now at 75 kph

Tropical storm Ales was said to strengthen with a maximum sustained winds that was measured to be 45 miles per hour according to the National Hurricane Center reports. Tropical storm Alex is said to be the first named storm of the 2010 Atlantic Hurricane Center. It moves across the Gulf of Mexico late Sunday after [...]

Chinese court sentence Tibetan environmentalist

A leading Tibetan environmentalist and collector who collects antiquities was sentenced of fifteen years of imprisonment for robbing graves, which his lawyer confirms, in a Chinese court in the far western region of Xinjiang. The lawyer, Pu Zhigiang said that his client was fine but he had been shocked by his client’s physical appearance. “He [...]

More than 400 Anti G20 summit protesters arrested by police

There were more than four hundred protesters who were arrested by police Sunday after black-clad demonstrators who wore masks broke off from the crown of peaceful protesters. This happened in downtown Toronto where global economic summit was held. Protesters smashed windows of a bank branch, smashed storefronts, wrecked a police car and set it on [...]

Thailand:tourist boats collided

Two boats in Bangkok, Thailand on the way to a popular island beach party in the Gulf of Thailand, Sunday, June 27, 2010. The speedboats carrying foreign tourists and Thai people overturned before midnight of Saturday which according to the website of The Nation newspaper had thrown passengers into rough seas water just off the [...]

Four people found stabbed in Pennsylvania

Police, after responding to a car crash discovered a crime scene. The driver was covered with blood that the police doubted and knew that it was not all from the accident he had just met, said Northampton County District Attorney John Morganelli. The police found four people who were stabbed to death Saturday in a [...]

World Summit: turned attention to nuclear threats

G8 which is compose of eight major industrial countries were scheduled to open their second day of talks on Saturday and this is said to focus on nuclear threats with Iran and North Korea together with President Barack Obama. World leaders of G8 from eight countries – United States, Japan, Germany, France, Britain, Italy, Canada [...]

More than 2 million cribs recalled amid safety concerns

Cribs from Evenflo, Delta Enterprise Corporation and some other companies recalled Thursday amid safety concerns that it can suffocate babies, become trapped or fall from the cribs. More than two were recalled from Evenflo along with six other companies Thursday. Main concerns were entrapment and suffocation that comes with models such as drop-side models but [...]

Lake Michigan shipwreck found after 112 years

A wooden steamship, “The Doty”, that sank on Lake Michigan for more than a hundred years ago was found to have been perfectly reserved by cold waters. The great wooden ship sank because of a violent storm happened more than a century ago. The 300-foot-long L.R. Doty was carrying a cargo of corn. It sailed [...]

Toxic metals found in whales, also threatened human health

Study that was conducted by American scientists found that high levels of toxic and heavy metals threatened whales. American scientists who observed nearly 1,000 sperm whales with tissue-sampling darts were said to discover a threat of high levels of toxic and heavy metals in whales and this is said to affect both the health of [...]

California couple tried to sell baby for $25

Parents of a 6-month-old baby who tried to sell their child for $25 outside Walmart store in Salinas, California are facing felony child endangerment charges. The couple who were arrested were Patrick Fousek, 38 years old, and Samantha Tomasini, 20 years old. Officer Lalo Villegas, Salinas Police spokesman said they were arrested hours after Fousek [...]

Virgin Atlantic: passengers stranded on grounded plane for more than 4 hours

Virgin Atlantic Airways passengers say that they were trapped and spent more than four hours after its plane was diverted to Connecticut on Tuesday night. The flight is from London to Newark New Jersey and it was diverted to Bradley because of bad weather. The plane landed at Connecticut’s Bradley International Airport about 8:20 pm [...]

More rains hit south China

Two hundred people and millions were forced to evacuate because of heavy rains which brought floods and landslides in south China Thursday. The Ministry of Civil Affairs said up to 196 millimeters or eight inches of rain fell on parts of Jiangxi and neighbouring Fujian province. Militias aided in the evacuation of over seventy-five thousand [...]

4 Commuters Killed in Philippines

Four people died and six were wounded on a village road when about thirty hooded attackers shot and hacked them Thursday as they ran, horrified of the gunmen believed to be Abu Sayyaf militants. The victims who were thought as commuters in a jeepney going home from Isabela City. Two passengers died at the scene [...]

Storms that hit Midwest cause widespread flash flooding

Severe storms hit Midwest Tuesday that caused to break an earthen dam just north of Avon, Indiana. The storms were said to be part of a wave that is moving across the Midwest as a low pressure system that is slowly moving due east. Residents was forced to evacuate and leave their homes going to [...]

Mining Chiefs died of plane crash

A plane travelling from Cameroon to a mine on Congo crashed on Saturday killing all eleven people on boar, which includes the mining tycoon Ken Talbot of Sundance Resources Company. There were six Australians, two Britons, two French, and a US national on the twin turboprop plane chartered by Perth-based Sundance. French military confirmed that [...]

Abebech Gobena: A woman of substance!!!

It has been rightfully said that no work is more worthy or noble than social work and the people who do this are the noblest of them all. Not everyone has the substance, strength or willingness to help the poor and the destitute. It takes a lot of courage and willpower to actually do something [...]

Kurdish rebels suspected in bombing

Kurdistan Freedom Falcons claimed responsibility of an attack which killed five and wounded twelve people in Istanbul on Tuesday. The Kurdish rebels detonated a remote-controlled bomb inside a bus carrying military personnel and their families. These rebels fighting for autonomy in the country’s Kurdish-dominated southeast have planned their attacks on Turkish targets this month and [...]

Gang members killed 14 bus passengers in El Salvador

At least fourteen passengers died in an attack in a gang-plagued part of the municipality of Mejicanos, outside San Salvador, National Police Commissioner Carlos Ascencio said. The group started firing the bus then set it on fire using gasoline. Police helped thirteen people escape the flame by breaking the windows of the bus but others [...]

Arizona wildfire, forces evacuation

A 600-acre wildfire have forced hundreds of people to evacuate. The wildfire which happened near downtown Flagstaff have broke out Saturday afternoon behind a hotel near Interstate 40. Firefighters both in aircraft and on the ground battled the second serious wildfire that threaten Flagstaff area already in two days. The wildfire have prompted and alarmed [...]

Twin car bombs explode near bank in Baghdad

Two car bombs had reported to explode in Baghdad near a bank Sunday. Two of the suicide car bombers killed nearly twenty seven people and had reported the latest that it killed almost thirty in the latest attack. Iraqi officials said that at least twenty seven people were killed in the latest attack that targeted [...]

2 bombs rock Southern Afghanistan

Two blasts rocked in a provincial capital Southern Afghanistan Sunday. The  bombs were set up in push carts that exploded just minutes apart. Officials have reported that two explosions rocked Taliban hotbed Helmand province of southern Afghanistan and killed two civilians and have wounded sixteen others. The deaths included a young girl and a woman [...]

Man killed himself after shooting stepdaughter’s family

A fifty-six year old man shoot himself at the Del Taco restaurant in San Berbardino, Los Angeles, California, 1 p.m. on Saturday, after firing his stepdaughter’s family- killing her husband and her six-year-old sin. He wounded his stepdaughter critically and another child, then turn the gun on himself. The gunman, who lives in Lancaster in [...]

No hope for Colombia miners

More than three thousand grieving residents of Amaga attended the funeral service on Friday at a local church for the nine recovered bodies of miners who were believed to be one of the dozen victims of an explosion at San Fernando mine, northwestern Antioquia province Colombia which was believed to be the result of a [...]

Military investigates shooting at an Army post in Georgia

An army reservist died after a fellow soldier shot him Thursday. This happened in an Army Reserve Center, south of Atlanta, near Fort Gillem. The reserve center is adjacent to Fort Gillem in Forest Park, Georgia. The place is said to be a gathering place for area reserve units. The shooting happened between 4:30 and [...]

Mine explosion causes deaths in Columbia!

On Wednesday, a mine exploded in Northwest Columbia killing at least 11 miners. The mine that was situated in Bogoto had recently undergone an inspection last week. The explosion took place at 10:30 p.m. local time, when the daily shifts were being changed and many miners were present inside. Out of the total 79 miners, [...]

World Cup festivities paused to mourn with Mandela family

The World Cup festivities on Thursday took a momentary pause to join the Mandela family in mourning the passing of Nelson Mandela’s great granddaughter. Hundreds of people gathered at 13-year old Zenani Mandela’s school for the public funeral following a private burial. It is a rare public appearance of the 91-year old Mandela when he [...]

Cheap drug saves tens of thousands

The cheap drug TXA or Tranexamic Acid recently studied by researchers is commonly used in elective surgeries to stop bleeding. This dru, if applied to patients gets a fifteen percent lower chance of dying from hemorrhage than those who did not, and a ten percent lower chance of dying from any other cause such as [...]

Killer flash flood in France leaves several dead

Rescuers were kept busy at France’s Cote d’Azur holiday playground on Thursday while digging through mud-filled cars searching for bodies drowned in one of the country’s worst floods in centuries. A new storm brewed and hit the region but this did not hinder the rescuers from continuing their search. Interior Minister Brice Hortefeux said the [...]

African World Cup receives mixed reaction from Africans!

The general opinion of the Africans about the fact that they are hosting the World Cup for the first time is a mixed reaction. Some deem this as the greatest thing to have ever happened and still cannot believe its taking place! A poor continent where most countries like Malawi did not even possess television [...]

US strengthens sanctions on Iran’s nuclear program

Several Iranian personalities and companies were added anew by the Obama administration in its blacklist, in connection with the United States and Europe’s tight measures on Iran’s nuclear program a week after the United Nations announced its new sanctions. The new US sanctions are aimed at oil firms, insurance companies, and shipping lines which are [...]

Osama bin Laden’s hunter, dying from disease

Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden’s would-be hunter is dying from kidney disease. Bin Laden’s hunter which is an American construction worker was detained in northern Pakistan on an armed solo mission to kill Osama bin Laden. He has been examined by a doctor after his relatives warned that he had kidney problems, needed dialysis and [...]

Philippines: wrestles with Jejemon

Jejemon came out over the years as youths of today tried to shorten text messages on mobile phones. The term jejemon comes from ‘jeje’ substitute for ‘hehe’ – SMS term for laughter and is affixed with ‘mon’ – from the word “Pokemon”, the popular Japanese anime of cute trainable monsters. It then evolved into a [...]

Empty seats in World Cup???

Empty seats in world cup and that too a Football World Cup is simply unheard of. In some of the recent matches held in South Africa, a large number of seats were found empty. FIFA is investigating why it happened so. In the Algeria vs. Slovenia match and Serbia vs. Ghana match, there were seats [...]

The world is gripped in football frenzy!!!!

Nowadays, it seems as if the only thing on everyone’s minds is the football World Cup. Even if you are not too fond of football, you will be engulfed and overwhelmed by the love for this sport and eventually will get caught up in the excitement of it all. People have been planning their holidays [...]

A lull before the storm???

The eerie calm seen on the streets of Osh city, Kyrgyzstan reminds the locals of the old idiom, ‘lull before the storm’. After a week of violence and destruction in Kyrgyzstan, the situation seems to have normalized a bit. Although, the streets are as barren and dead as a graveyard, but it’s a sign of [...]

School teacher pleaded guilty

Melissa Huckaby, a 29-year-old school teacher of Tracy, California gives apology to the parents of her daughter’s playmate after kidnapping and murdering the young girl. The 8-year-old Sandra Cantu was brutally killed that left the girl with wounds to her body with serious injuries outside her genitals that were consistent with a bloodstained rolling pin [...]

US soldiers fight crime in the heartland of Puerto Rico

Helping to stem a vicious crime wave in Puerto Rico’s central mountains was the latest mission of Army National Guard Lt. Anthony Santiago. Puerto Rico, which was once-tranquil heartland has become a new refuge for drug gangs who were flushed out of the big cities according to local officials. This prompted Gov. Luis Fortuno to [...]

Columbia free long-held hostages from rebels

Policemen who were held for nearly 12 years was free and rescued by Columbia soldiers. They were hostage in the jungle by leftist rebels according to authorities on Monday. The hostages were two high-ranking police officers and an army sergeant. They were among the longest-held rebel captives during a raid that happened on Sunday in [...]

Pakistan sends relief planes to Kyrgyzstan

In the wake of ethnic clashes and riots being held in Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan has gone ahead and started sending relief consignments as aid. Pakistan is not a direct neighbor with Kyrgyzstan, but empathizes with them in this time of catastrophe. Pakistan has already started flying out special air force planes laden with food items and [...]

Dozens rescued in Oklahoma City

Dozens were rescued in Oklahoma city flashfloods on Monday. The Oklahoma state Department of Health received 136 reports of cuts, scrapes and exposure to flood water but is not required to be hospitalized. There were no fatalities or major injuries reported in the incident. But according to the Oklahoma Corporation Commission there were about 6,700 [...]

Foreigners being rushed to safety in Kyrgyz

Owing to the difficult and violent situation in Kyrgyzstan, the government is trying its level best to safely escort all foreigners to Bishkek, the capital city. The ethnOwing to the difficult and violent situation in Kyrgyzstan, the government is trying its level best to safely escort all foreigners to Bishkek, the capital city. The ethnic [...]

Pakistan: dismissed the report of continued Taliban ties

Pakistani officials denied the allegations that Pakistan’s powerful intelligence continues  to support the Taliban and other Afghan insurgents. They rejected the allegations after a paper from a Harvard academic accused the agency of continued links to the rebels on Sunday. Matt Waldman argues in a paper for the London School of  Economics that the powerful [...]

117 killed in the ethnic violence in Kyrgyzstan

A "well-known person" which was suspected of fomenting the worst ethnic riots for about 20 years now, was arrested Monday by the Kyrgyzstan’s interim government. The Health Ministry said that 117 had been killed in the clash. Ninety-three in Osh and twenty four in Jalalabad and many more has been wounded in the violence which [...]

Orders of ‘Shoot to kill’ terrorize atmosphere in Kyrgyzstan!

After a third day of ethnic clashes in the south of Kyrgyzstan, the interim government ordered ‘shoot to kill’ instructions to the police. Earlier the Interim President, Roza Otunbayeva, had requested Moscow to send in their military troops in order to stabilize the situation. He had reached this conclusion after 86 people had been killed [...]

Myanmar: denies nuclear cooperation

Myanmar brushed aside Western concerns about possible nuclear cooperation with North Korea and said it had no intention of building an atomic bomb. It was denied by Myanmar after the United States raised concerns about "growing military ties" following that Myanmar had begun a nuclear weapons program with Pyongyang’s help. Myanmar’s foreign ministry said: "These [...]

75,000 Uzbeks flee riots in Kyrgyzstan

Kyrgyz mobs torch Uzbek villagers and slaughtered the residents. More than seventy-five thousand Uzbek refugees have fled across the border into Uzbekistan. The Uzbek Emergencies Ministry said in a statement carried by Russia’s RIA Novosti news agency that most of the Uzbek refugees were elderly people, women, and children, and many had gunshot wounds. Refugee [...]

Oil spill total: bad news for BP

BP still struggling to stop the oil spill faces the worst scenario today as the leak worsen affecting both the environment and BP’s financial health. Scientists said that the leak has been spewing as much as 2 million gallons of crude a day. This means that more than 100 million gallons may have leaked into [...]

Mexico: 19 slain at rehab clinic, 20 in second city

Nineteen men and four others were killed by 30 gunmen in a drug rehabilitation center in a Mexican border state capital. The police also found twenty people who were killed in another drug-plagued northern city. The authorities also discovered fifty-five bodies in an abandoned silver mine weeks after. The killings in Mexico is said to [...]

South Africa World Cup Begins With a Sad Start

Africa’s first World Cup opened in a tragic loss of life. A beloved African icon stayed home in northern Johannesburg during the opening ceremony and game on Friday instead of cheering at the moment of triumph for Africa holding its first World Cup. Nelson Mandela was absent during the beginning of the awaited tournament to [...]

Car bomb killed 2 Americans and 3 Iraqis

U.S.-Iraqi military convoy was struck by a car bomb in north of Baghdad on Friday. The bombing has killed at least five people which includes two American troops. Names of the casualties were not released since their families were not yet informed. A suicide attacker hit the patrol of Humvees and Stryker vehicles in the [...]

Southern Afghanistan : 2 US troops, 11 Afghan civilians killed

Violence sparked again in Southern Afghanistan that killed two U.S troops and at least eleven civilians. The recent violence include one attack with a suicide bomber. The said suicide bomber wore a burqa who knew himself up in a bazaar. This happened in the neighboring Zabul province. The suicide bomber detonated his cache of explosives [...]

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