Category: World
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‘Batman’ Visits Colorado Survivors While Gun Sales Rise After Cinema Massacre
Batman star Christian Bale along with his wife Sibi Blazic visited survivors of the Colorado theater shooting Tuesday and stopped by a makeshift memorial to victims of the attack that killed 12 people and injured 58. Bale, who stars as Batman in The Dark Knight Rises, previously issued a written statement saying: “Words cannot express…
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Bangladesh rickshaw puller starts clinic for the poor
Joynal Abedin still remembers the rainy and windy night when he saw his father die because there was no medical treatment. His village in the northern Mymensingh district of Bangladesh did not have any medical facility at that time, and the nearest hospital was about 20km (12 miles) away. The death of his father, about…
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Muslim Woman Could Face Two Year Jail Sentence For Not Removing Veil In France
32 year old Hind Ahmas was fined 150 euros (picture above) and was told to perform 15 days of citizenship service after she was caught wearing a veil in public, which she refused to remove. She risks a two year jail sentence and a €30,000 fine if she does not perform her citizenship service, which…
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Pictures of the December 10 Lunar Eclipse
Below are some pictures of last week’s lunar eclipse from around the world. The earth’s shadow falls on the moon as it undergoes a total lunar eclipse above the Sydney Harbour Bridge. The earth’s shadow falls on the moon as it undergoes a total lunar eclipse viewed through the arch supports of the Sydney Harbour…
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Gitex 2011 review
Gulf Information Technology Exhibition (GITEX) is the largest IT exhibition of the GCC and MENA. Every year thousands of exhibitors and visitors attend Gitex to network, do business, and learn about the latest IT trends and cutting age hardware and software solutions. Gitex has two parts, the Technology section, more of a B2B event, is…
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Steve Jobs (1955-2011)..”Stay Hungry Stay Foolish”
Co Founder of Apple, Steve Jobs passed away last night, aged 56. In his life, he has touched millions around the globe with his modesty, his vision, his brilliance and above all his inspiration to billions around the globe.. to follow what they feel right for them, no matter how stupid it be to other,…
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London Riots: What the youth want?
Not all Londoners are rioters. Likewise, not all Muslims or Pakistanis are terrorists. Violence is not the legacy of a single group, religion, race, or country. It is a state of mind, arousing due to continuous build-up and subsequent outburst of frustration of some genre. Just that the global community (read = international media) labels…
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Ancient lost city of Shekhem unearthed in Palestine
Dutch and Palestinian archaeologists, while working on an urban lot in Nablus, West Bank, Palestine, have unearthed what could be termed as remains of the ancient city of Shekhem. The city of Shekhem, positioned in a pass between the mountains of Gerizim and Eibal and controlling the Askar Plains to the east, was an important…
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Ice Island drifting towards Canada
An Ice Island broke free from the glaciers of Greenland and is drifting along the shores of Canada since August 2010. A shipping disaster is waiting to happen soon. Source: MSNBC
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Buy hacked US Military Websites for $500 Only
If you’re a criminal looking for full control of the Web used by the U.S. Army’s Communications-Electronics Command (CECOM), you can get it for just under US$500. According to a ComputerWorld report, Security vendor Imperva found out about a hacker claiming at an underground forum that he has control over a number of websites, including…