Research and rescue operations were hampered by the rough seas, strong winds and strong currents for the 100 plus people missing after their ferry had a mishap and sank off the east coast of Papua New Guinea. Australian rescuers saved more than two hundred people from Papua New Guinea from drowning after their ferryboat sank […]
At least one thousand people were injured and seventy-four people killed in Egypt when fans of opposing teams invaded the field and quarrelled after a heated soccer match in the Mediterranean city of Port Said on Wednesday even though the local team al-Masry beat the visiting team from Cairo, Al Ahli, which is Egypt’s most […]
Local residents reported on Tuesday that at least 11 al Qaeda revolutionists, which include some local leaders, were killed in an air strike in southern Yemen. Allegedly, unidentified people attacked the al Qaeda militants while they were travelling in two vehicles east of the city of Lawdar in Abyan province in southern Yemen. At least […]
Topless Ukrainian protesters were detained last Saturday while trying to crash an exclusive gathering of international CEOs and political leaders to address the world’s perennial problem of poverty. Separately, demonstrators claiming to be members of the Occupy organization marched to the site of the gathering and had a dispute with the police. After a tedious […]
The Vatican faces controversy linked to corruption after an Italian television investigation announced on Thursday that a former high ranking official, Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, was transferred against his will after he complained about discrepancies pertaining to awarding of contracts. The program on a private TV station La 7 “The Untouchables” exposed Wednesday night what […]
British scientists have found scores of fossils the great evolutionary theorist Charles Darwin and his peers collected but that had been lost for more than 150 years. Dr. Howard Falcon-Lang, a paleontologist at Royal Holloway, University of London, said that he stumbled upon the glass slides containing the fossils in an old wooden cabinet that had been shoved in […]
Other than family, football was everything to Joe Paterno. “Right now, I’m not the coach. And I’ve got to get used to that,” Paterno said after the Penn State Board of Trustees fired him at the height of a child sex abuse scandal. Paterno, a sainted figure at Penn State for almost half a century but scarred forever by the […]
Wikipedia and several other websites went dark for 24 hours on Wednesday to protest proposed U.S. legislation to Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the related PROTECTIP Act (PIPA)–they argue would effectively censor the free and open Internet. Visitors to U.S. Wikipedia pages are being redirected to a page that explains the blackout, and invites users to […]
Donna Claver, A Montana woman lost her engagement ring in the early ’70s. She was pregnant, and while applying lotion, the gold and sapphire engagement ring slipped from the top of the toilet and fell down the drain, according to Today.com. The ring had lodged itself in the drain of the toilet. Donna and her husband, Terry, tried to fish […]
Rescue operation searching the half-submerged wreck of an Italian cruise ship for missing passengers and crew recovered a sixth body on Monday, after more than 48 hours the vessel keel over off Italy’s west coast. The captain of the 114,500-tonne Costa Concordia, arrested on Saturday, was accused of manslaughter and abandoning his ship before all of the more […]
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