“Bicholim Conflict” was voted a “good article” – a Wikipedia badge of honor – and sat happily on the online encyclopedia for more than half a decade. But editors have lately discovered a small issue with the site’s meticulously written 4,500 word article detailing the 17th century Bicholim Conflict. It was entirely made up. After five years of featuring the piece, which tells th…
ything could happen. I feel the mayor should do something about that. The children should be our first priority, no matter what else is going on in the city.” Zak, a former Cleveland police officer of 30 years, believes the community is feeling the effects of the city’s cuts in the police force. “The first thing a city should do is protect its citizens,” he said. Although police cannot be on the s…
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Solar Impulse, a solar-powered plane, has landed in Rabat, Morocco, after flying from Spain, completing the second leg of its pioneering journey. Pilot Bertrand Piccard landed the Solar Impulse in Rabat, 19 hours after taking off from Madrid. The plane – the size of a jumbo jet – was powered by 12,000 solar cells turning four electrical motors. The 2,500 km-trip (1,550 miles), begun i…
…me photos, he is reading Friday’s copy of the Communist Party newspaper Granma. Fidel Castro led Cuba after the revolution in 1959, first as prime minister (1959-1976) and later as president. In 2006, surgery took Fidel Castro out of public view. His brother Raul became acting president. In February 2008, Fidel Castro officially handed over power to Raul who has been leading the country sinc…
Oct 22 2012 | Posted in
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Whitney Houston’s premature death at 48 in Beverly Hilton Hotel triggered a slew of media speculation and rumors about her alleged drug use and troubled personal relationships. Now, a Vanity Fair article has shed new light on Whitney Houston’s personal life and last days in Los Angeles, three months after she was found drowned in a hotel bathtub. One of the more bizarre anecdotes is recount…
May 5 2012 | Posted in
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…a records what is happening before a patient’s eyes and fires beams of near infrared light on to the retinal chip. The creates an electrical signal which is passed on to nerves. Natural light is 1,000 times too weak to power the implant. The researchers said: “Because the photovoltaic implant is thin and wireless, the surgical procedure is much simpler than in other retinal prosthetic…
Intel confirms details of the first smartphone to be powered by one of its processors. The XOLO X900, made by the Indian manufacturer Lava, will go on sale on 23 April priced at about 22,000 rupees ($420). Lava has teamed up with Indian retail chain Croma to distribute the device across the country. The move follows Intel’s previous failed attempt to break into the smartphone market. A tie-…
igeroa, who told police that her daughter stabbed her own child. When officers went to the home, they found Emily Castro covered in mud, water and blood. Emily and Anthony’s father Ariel Castro, 52, was arrested on Monday after one of his alleged victims, Amanda Berry, escaped his home and called police. Neighbors in the street were shocked to hear that Ariel Castro, who was a school bus dri…
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Coolpix S800c, the first mainstream digital camera to be powered by Google’s Android system, has been released by Nikon. Nikon’s point-and-shoot Coolpix S800c model is being marketed as a “social imaging device”. Demand for compact cameras has suffered because of the rise of smartphones. However, Nikon says its latest model offers superior picture quality thanks to the siz…
…using what the firm dubbed “digital ink”. When the stylus is held close to the screen of the tablet it ignores touch-input from the users’ hands and “samples” the ink at 600 dpi (dots per inch). The ARM-based version will be available with either 32 GB (gigabytes) or 64 GB of storage. Microsoft said they would be priced at a similar rate to other tablets using the sa…
…7(7): e1002182. doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.1002182 Contact: Dr. Beatriz Martinez-Delgado and Dr. Javier Benitez Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO) Human Genetics Melchor Fernandez Almagro 3 Madrid 28029 SPAIN bmartinez@cnio.es jbenitez@cnio.es Disclaimer This press release refers to an upcoming article in PLoS Genetics. The release is provided by journal staff, or by the article aut…
Tom Cruise’s lawyer has threatened the National Enquirer with a multimillion-dollar lawsuit over a new issue asserting it has details of the actor’s recent split with wife Katie Holmes, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The website posted a letter from Tom Cruise’s Los Angeles attorney, Bert Fields, in which he blasts American Media Inc, parent of the National Enquirer, for w…
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…, the article by investigative journalist Edward Epstein revealed. The article continued to pick flaws in Nafissatou Diallo’s statement too, which coincided with the missing mobile. Nafissatou Diallo, 32, entered DSK’s hotel room at 12:06 on May 14 for housekeeping and claims that within the six minutes she was in room 2806 with him, she was dragged near the bathroom and forced to give him oral se…
…eir mothers The article also provoked responses from religious and Pro-Life groups. Rev. Joanna Jepson came to public attention when she spoke out against a late abortion that had been carried out in 2001. Doctors are permitted to carry out abortions beyond the 24-week legal limit if they believe a baby’s disability is serious enough, but Rev. Joanna Jepson argued that a cleft palate was a…
…Connor Cruise, were sent on a course to teach them to recognize “suppressive persons”, such as their adoptive mother. The article includes an interview with John Brousseau, who was a Scientologist for 32 years and is a former brother-in-law to the church leader David Miscavige. Us Magazine claims that Bella and Connor Cruise were sent on a course to teach them to recognize “suppressive persons”,…
Sep 6 2012 | Posted in
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…Drug Administration (FDA) have revealed facilities crawling with mice, roaches and ants, and food preparation areas swarming with flies. According FDA health violation records obtained by ABC’s 20/20, over the past four years, there have been more than 1,500 violations in the airline food industry. The federal agency said that “significant” problems were found at a much higher rate than in…
Nov 18 2012 | Posted in
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…ons as a gasoline-burning car that gets 79 miles to the gallon. In Texas, where the coal is the main source of energy, an electric vehicle is environmentally friendly as a gasoline-powered car getting 46 miles per gallon. In several coal-centric states, an electric car generates more emissions than a hybrid. However, the electric will still outperform the standard compact car. “For people wh…
The Central Council of German Sinti and Roma (Gypsies) has gone to court to get Swiss magazine Die Weltwoche banned in the country after it used an image of a Roma boy pointing a gun on its cover. Headlined The Roma are coming, Die Weltwoche’s publication amounts to racial incitement, the Central Council of German Sinti and Roma says. There is no relationship between the Romanian people (Th…
…y models in the U.S. The launch brings to mind Chrysler’s pink-and-white Dodge LaFemme, unveiled in 1955, came with a designated spot to store a matching handbag and rain hat. And as recently as 2000, Ford built a prototype Windstar minivan that had its own washer/dryer, microwave and vacuum cleaner for domestic goddesses on-the-go…
Oct 27 2012 | Posted in
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…id the new set-up would enable it to tailor search results better. But data regulators in France have cast doubt on the legality of the move and launched a Europe-wide investigation. Google has merged 60 guidelines for its individual sites into a single policy for all of its services. France’s privacy watchdog CNIL wrote to Google earlier this week, urging a “pause” in rolling ou…
…r said the storm was moving at about 20 mph (30km/h) towards Florida’s southern tip, and was expected to begin battering the coastline during the day on Sunday. It was packing sustained winds of 65 mph. People in southern Florida have been making final preparations for Tropical Storm Isaac, as it barrels to the US Residents of the Florida Keys, a thin island chain connected to the mainland…
st’s acrylic and a mount for the tags of neoprene strips held in place by a silicone-based adhesive. Laboratory trials showed this combination would keep the tracker locked down for a minimum of 50-plus days. In contrast, hard epoxy preparations would come off after only a couple of weeks. Dr. Kate Mansfield and colleagues are now compiling a report on what they have learnt about neonate dis…
…Phone system. It features a 4.8 in (12.2 cm) display, making it one of the bigger models on the market. There was only one Android-tablet announcement – the Galaxy Note 2. The device features a 5.5 in (14 cm) screen and is narrower and taller than its predecessor. It also features a new Air View function. When a stylus is held about 1cm above its display, previews are triggered of on-screen…
…off.” Tom Henderson’s seven-day plan: • Day 1: Take inventory • Day 2: Delete cookies • Day 3: Redirect host files • Day 4: Install tracking blocker • Day 5: Mobile phone maintenance • Day 6: Find replacements • Day 7: Maintenance and reflection …
#8211; leading to huge frustrations within the CIA. These repeated warnings came before the famous top secret briefing – which has previously been reported – given to George Bush on August 6 with the heading “Bin Laden Determined to Strike in the U.S.”. Just a few weeks later on September 11, terrorists smashed planes into the World Trade Center in New York City – killing nearly…
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