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Burma: strong earthquake hits the country near city of Mandalay

A 6.8-magnitude quake hit some 70 miles north of Burma’s second-largest city of Mandalay

d by two strong aftershocks. The US Geological Survey issued a yellow alert, indicating that “some casualties and damage are possible”. Earthquakes are relatively common in Burma. In March 2011, at least 75 people died when a powerful earthquake hit Burma near the borders with Laos and Thailand.  …

South Korea promises strong response to North Korea aggression

South Korea has pledged a "strong response" to North Korea's aggressions, amid high tensions on the peninsula

South Korea has pledged a “strong response” to North Korea’s aggressions, amid high tensions on the peninsula. Speaking to defence officials on Monday, President Park Geun-hye said that she took the series of threats from Pyongyang “very seriously”. North Korea announced on Saturday that it was entering a “state of war” with South Korea. On Sunday, the US…

Richard III remains: strong circumstantial evidence points to a skeleton being the lost king

A dig under a council car park in Leicester has found remains with spinal abnormalities and a cleaved-in skull that suggest it could be Richard III

Richard III was given a low-key burial in the Franciscan friary of Greyfriars. This was demolished in the 1530s, but documents describing the burial site have survived. The excavation, which began on 25 August, has uncovered the remains of the cloisters and chapter house, as well as the church. Work focused on the choir area, in the centre of the church, where it was indicated Richard was interre…

Strong solar storm expected to hit Earth today causing disruptions

US weather specialists warn that a strong solar storm is expected to hit Earth shortly and it could disrupt power grids, satellite navigation and plane routes

ed the storm as the Sun’s version of Super Tuesday – in a reference to the US Republican primaries and caucuses in 10 states. “Space weather has gotten very interesting over the past 24 hours,” Joseph Kunches added. The charged particles are expected to hit Earth at 4,000,000 mph (6,400,000 km/h), and NOAA predicts the storm will last until Friday morning. Images of the Sun

Bitcoin triumphant among concerted DDOS attacks – Bitcoin is still going strong

Bitcoin recovers ddos attack 13 april 2013

not a secret Mt.Gox is the largest Bitcoin exchange with more than 80% of all USD trades and more than 70% of all currencies. Mt.Gox is an easy target for anyone that wants to hurt Bitcoin in general. 2. Abuse the system for profit. Attackers wait until the price of Bitcoins reaches a certain value, sell, destabilize the exchange, wait for everybody to panic-sell their Bitcoins, wait for the price…

Ku Klux Klan documentary shows the group is still strong in Mississippi and Virginia

A series of documentaries aired on Abc's Nightline has laid bare the shocking truth about the Ku Klux Klan which remains very much in existence

…dramatically increase. “The Klan and other [similar] groups grew pretty significantly by our account,” Senior Fellow Mark Potok of the Southern Poverty Law Center said. “Six hundred groups in the year 2000 to 1,018 last year. “And that’s not the half of it. Militia groups have come back, and have come back with a force that is amazing.”…

President Fernando Lugo removal draws strong reactions in Latin America

Governments in Latin America have reacted angrily to the impeachment of Paraguayan President Fernando Lugo in the wake of a land dispute scandal

…ad been no break with democracy. A 39-4 vote in the Senate on Friday saw Fernando Lugo impeached, in a case stemming from his handling of clashes between farmers and police last week in which at least 17 people died. Earlier, Argentine President Cristina Fernandez had said her country “would not validate the coup” in Paraguay. Governments in Latin America have reacted angrily to the i…

Spain warns Argentina of strong response over YFP Repsol nationalization

Spain has warned it will defend its interests as a row with Argentina over the nationalization of oil company YPF Repsol

…e expropriation. “It is not appropriate for a modern country, Argentina does not deserve this,” he said. Repsol’s Argentine partner, the Eskenazi family’s Grupo Petersen, has a 25.5% stake in YPF which will not be affected by the nationalization. However, Reuters notes that it is unclear how Petersen will be able to repay a $1.9 billion loan provided by Repsol.  …

2012 President Obama State of the Union

Barack Obama's State of the Union address 2012

2012 President Obama State of the Union Barack Obama's State of the Union address 2012  Here is the  Speech…. according to  the New York Times…but not on….. are many other   issues  that effect the American People…yesterday, today & tomorrow ……that were not addressed in the speech at all…….as there are so many problems around us it is hard…

Google shares suspended for more than 2 hours after 20% drop in profits accidentally revealed early

Google chief executive Larry Page apologized to analysts on a conference call after the market closed

Google shares’ trading was suspended for two-and-a-half hours after the internet giant released its third-quarter results early by mistake. Its quarterly profits fell 20% from a year earlier to $2.18 billion – below analysts’ expectations. Google blamed financial printing firm RR Donnelley for filing an early draft of the results, which had been expected after the closing bell. Shares…

La Ferrassie 1: Neanderthal man reconstructed from a skeleton

A team of scientists has created what it believes is the first really accurate reconstruction of Neanderthal man

A team of scientists has created what it believes is the first really accurate reconstruction of Neanderthal man, from a skeleton that was discovered in France over a century ago. In 1909, excavations at La Ferrassie cave in the Dordogne unearthed the remains of a group of Neanderthals. One of the skeletons in that group was that of an adult male, given the name La Ferrassie 1. These remains have…

Misha: FBI identified bald, red-bearded Armenian American who helped radicalize Tamerlan Tsarnaev

The FBI has identified the American known as Misha who helped radicalize the Boston bombing suspects Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev

…isappeared – no longer living in the Cambridge, Massachusetts area. However, family members have been telling reporters that in the years before the Boston Marathon bombings, Tamerlan Tsarnaev , 26, fell under the strong influence of a new friend, a Christian who converted to Islam and who steered the religiously apathetic young man towards adopting strong Islamic views. “It started in 2009….

Typhoon Bolaven heads toward Okinawa and is expected to hit later on Sunday

Strong Typhoon Bolaven is heading toward the Japanese island of Okinawa

…g toward the Japanese island of Okinawa Japan’s meteorological agency estimated wind speeds near the storm’s centre at around 180 km/h (112 mph), while extremely strong gusts were reaching 252 km/h. All domestic and international flights out of the island’s Naha Airport have been cancelled. According to news agency AP, some 200 households are already without electricity and aroun…

Tamiflu demand boosts Roche sales in Q1 2013

Roche has reported a 5 percent rise in sales for the first quarter of 2013, boosted by strong demand for Tamiflu

Swiss pharmaceutical company Roche has reported a 5% rise in sales for the first quarter of 2013, boosted by strong demand for its flu treatment, Tamiflu. Total sales hit 11.6 billionn Swiss francs ($12.4 billion) in the first three months of 2013. Roche has reported a 5 percent rise in sales for the first quarter of 2013, boosted by strong demand for Tamiflu Tamiflu sales rose during a heavy fl…

Eagle Dad, father of 4-year-old Chinese boy Duo Duo pictured running naked in the snow, gave his first interview

He Leisheng explained that the snow ordeal was simply a small part of his extraordinary child-rearing regime for his son Duo Duo

…e else.” Duo Duo’s plight emerged after the family spent a winter break in New York, where the boy went to kindergarten for three months as part of his tailor-made education. On the morning of January 22 – Chinese New Year’s Eve – he was sent outdoors to run in the snow. Speaking at his ornately decorated European-style apartment – which has a picture of himself meeting Chinese president Hu Jintao…

Gabrielle Giffords’ vote – the most memorable out of 430

Gabrielle Giffords

…greet people and the other one by her side. Gabrielle Giffords hair was dark and closely cropped, and she wore glasses.   Gabrielle Giffords cast her vote for the debt-limit bill, which finally passed 269 to 161.   “She is a model for the attitude that we should all have because she is tenacious and she is relentless in her love for America. … You were missed and we’re glad to have you back,…

Iran earthquakes death toll rises to at least 250 as search goes on

Iranian rescue teams are searching through the rubble of collapsed buildings for survivors from two strong earthquakes which left at least 250 people dead

Iranian rescue teams are searching through the rubble of collapsed buildings for survivors from two strong earthquakes which left at least 250 people dead. The 6.4 and 6.3 quakes struck near Tabriz and Ahar on Saturday afternoon, and more than 2,000 are believed injured, many in outlying villages. Thousands spent the night in emergency shelters or in the open and there have been more than 55 afte…

Bobby Brown Today show interview: “Bobbi Kristina tells me everything”

Bobby Brown says he and his daughter Bobbi Kristina share a very open, healthy relationship

After yesterday’s Today show interview was focused on Whitney Houston, its second part turned this morning to Bobby Brown’s on-going relationship with daughter Bobbi Kristina. According to Bobby Brown, 43, he and his daughter Bobbi Kristina share a very open, healthy relationship as he tells Matt Lauer: “I am her father, she talks to me about everything.” When asked if the…

Barack Obama erased his white girlfriends from his past to burnish his credentials as a black leader, claims David Maraniss

Australian Genevieve Cook first met Barack Obama in 1983 in the kitchen of a mutual friend’s New York flat

ok and they would read together and discuss writers into the night. Like Alexandra McNear, Genevieve Cook was attracted by the “mental exhilaration” of his intellect, marveling at how mature he was at 22, but dismayed by his remoteness and wariness about commitment. Needless to say, Barack Obama was as self-obsessed as ever. When Genevieve Cook told him that she loved him, Barack Obama’s response…

Second Presidential Debate: Barack Obama team raises expectations

Barack Obama's team says he will make a strong comeback in Tuesday's debate rematch with Mitt Romney

…#8221; after his passive showing in the first debate. The rivals will take questions on domestic and foreign policy from an audience of 80 undecided voters at a town hall-style forum in New York. With 21 days to go until the election, the race is essentially deadlocked. As he battles for a second term, the Democratic president is trying to hang on to narrow leads in many of the nine key swing stat…

How James Bond’s sex life compares with that of an average man

James Bond's womanizing has been central to the film character's appeal

…e Pussy Galore, Honey Ryder and Xenia Onatopp. It’s a pattern of behavior that, to say the least, does not tally with most of Bond’s countrymen. The Health Survey for England, published in 2011, found that men reported a mean average of 9.3 female sexual partners in their lifetime. By contrast, James Bond – vaguely placed in Ian Fleming’s novels somewhere in his late 30s, t…

Ukraine parliamentary elections

Ukrainians are voting in a parliamentary election Western officials are billing as a litmus test of its democratic credentials

ng. Yulia Tymoshenko’s Fatherland party has joined with other opposition parties to form a united front. Viktor Yanukovych – who has been president for three years and faces re-election in 2015 – has rejected calls to free his rival, maintaining that she was sentenced by an independent court. He insists European integration is one of his government’s main goals and will hop…

2012 election results so far: Who is winning presidential race?

The final voting precincts on the west coast won't even begin to be tallied until early Wednesday morning, but the election could be decided much earlier than that

The final voting precincts on the west coast won’t even begin to be tallied until early Wednesday morning, but the election could be decided much earlier than that. Polls begin to close at 6:00 p.m. Eastern Time, and results will flood in not long thereafter. Whichever candidate reaches 270 electoral college votes wins the White House. Crucially, Barack Obama won each of the swing states li…

2012 Barack Obama acceptance speech in full

Barack Obama announced that the “best is yet to come” during a moving acceptance speech as the news came that he had been re-elected as President of the United States

…t the “best is yet to come” during a moving acceptance speech as the news came that he had been re-elected as President of the United States Barack Obama acceptance speech in full: “Tonight, more than 200 years after a former colony won the right to determine its own destiny, the task of perfecting our union moves forward,’ The newly re-elected President said. It moves forward because of you…

Mitt Romney releases his health record

Mitt Romney was declared healthy enough to be the President of the United States

…hysical ability to take on the presidency and vice-presidency. Mitt Romney’s doctor is Randall D. Gaz, of the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, who has been treating the politician since 1989. Mitt Romney was declared healthy enough to be the President of the United States His letter noted that the candidate has been involved in few major medical emergencies, bar ‘a concussion…

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