Showing posts with label world news. Show all posts
Showing posts with label world news. Show all posts

Friday, August 26, 2011

Man Steals Five Snakes

Man Steals Five Snakes
Man Steals Five Snakes. Two 19-year-old men have some explaining to do after one of them was bitten by a venomous snake that they admitted to stealing from a nature center.Travis Stotts and Dennis Watson of Clarksville, Indiana are expected to be arrested after they admitted entering O’Bannon Woods State Park Nature Center through an unlocked door and stealing an Eastern Massasauga rattlesnake.

Thursday, August 25, 2011

Steve Wozniak On Steve Jobs Resignation

Steve Wozniak On Steve Jobs Resignation
Steve Wozniak On Steve Jobs Resignation. Steve Jobs resigns from Apple, Cook becomes CEO. Silicon Valley legend Steve Jobs on Wednesday resigned as chief executive of Apple Inc in a stunning move that ended his 14-year reign at the technology giant he co-founded in a garage.

Apple shares dived as much as 7 percent in after-hours trade after the pancreatic cancer survivor and industry icon, who has been on medical leave for an undisclosed condition since January 17, announced he will be replaced by COO and longtime heir apparent Tim Cook.

Condoleezza Rice Photos Gadhafi

Condoleezza Rice Photos Gadhafi
Condoleezza Rice Photos Gadhafi. Found at Gadhafi compound: Condoleezza Rice photos. Libyan rebels who took control of Moammar Gadhafi's sprawling compound made a surprising discovery in one of the buildings: a photo album with pictures of Condoleezza Rice.

Wednesday, August 24, 2011

Hurricane Irene Track Live

Hurricane Irene Track Live
 
Hurricane Irene Track Live. A strengthening Hurricane Irene churned on a northwest track toward the Southeast United States on Tuesday, threatening the Turks and Caicos Islands and the Bahamas with battering winds and rain and dangerous surf.Irene is a category 1 hurricane moving into the Southeast Bahamas and Turks and Caicos Islands.

Hurricane Irene Track

Hurricane Irene Track
 
Hurricane Irene Track. A strengthening Hurricane Irene churned on a northwest track toward the Southeast United States Tuesday, threatening the Turks and Caicos Islands and the Bahamas with battering winds and rain and dangerous surf. While the U.S. National Hurricane Center's five-day forecast now sees a possible landfall in North Carolina this weekend, forecasters have been cautioning that such projections can have a margin of error of as much as 250 miles.

Colorado Earthquake

Colorado Earthquake
 
Colorado Earthquake. The largest earthquake to strike Colorado in almost 50 years has shaken hundreds of people near the New Mexico border.The magnitude 5.3 earthquake was recorded at about 11:46 p.m. MDT Monday about nine miles southwest of Trinidad, Colo., and about 180 miles south of Denver, according to the National Earthquake Information Center in Golden, Colo. The quake followed two smaller ones that hit the area earlier in the day.

Monday, August 22, 2011

Libyan rebels control Tripoli

Libyan rebels control Tripoli
Libyan rebels control Tripoli. Libyan rebel forces have controlled Tripoli except Bab Al-Aziziyah and are clearing up the remnants of Libyan leader Muammar Gadhafi's forces, National Transitional Council's senior official Abdullah Almayhop said.

Sunday, August 21, 2011

Carol Close air rage

Carol Close air rage
Carol Close air rage. Carol Close expose anger included biting, move and punching digit members of cabin gathering during a pass grace from metropolis to the friar Republic.
Close, a benevolence worker, kicked and punched grace attendants after she went Norse on the composer Airlines flight.

Saturday, August 20, 2011

Britons drink 5,800 pints

Britons drink 5,800 pints
Britons drink 5,800 pints. Britons drink 5,800 pints in their lifetime and suffer 726 hangovers, according to a new study. The study, based on a survey of 2,000 people, found that Britons drink at least three nights a week and have nine drinks in total -- which works out at 468 a year.

However, while over half (57 per cent) sip a beverage in the comfort of their own home, just 17 per cent say they regularly visit the pub.

Thursday, August 18, 2011

Lyle Monroe Bensley

Lyle Monroe Bensley
Lyle Monroe Bensley. Self-Described Vampire, Accused Of Biting Woman, Telling Cops 'He Needed To Feed' A self-described vampire broke into a woman's home and bit her, according to law enforcement officials in Texas.

Janice Harms fridge

Janice Harms fridge
Janice Harms fridge. An American woman’s fridge saved her from being crushed to death after her house exploded with her inside.Janice Harms, 65, from Clara City in Minnesota, was standing next to her fridge when the roof of her two-storey house caved in early Saturday morning, the Star Tribune reports.

Man accused of stealing $200,000 from dates

Man accused of stealing $200,000 from dates

Man accused of stealing $200,000 from dates. A married Massachusetts man met four other women online, romanced them over the span of years and then stole more than $200,000 from them by feigning financial and medical problems, authorities said.

Albert Lovering Jr., of Waltham, was indicted Tuesday on 23 counts of larceny. He pleaded not guilty Wednesday.

Prince Charles receives rap CD during Tottenham visit

Prince Charles receives rap CD during Tottenham visit
Prince Charles receives rap CD during Tottenham visit. Prince Charles does not seem the most obvious person to be a fan of rap music but that did not stop a man in Tottenham giving him a hip hop CD. The Prince of Wales was assured by the rapper that the music on the album was "reasonable" as he visited areas in London that were affected by last week's riots.

Mark Fowler dies Sydney

Mark Fowler dies Sydney
Mark Fowler dies Sydney. A British Thai kick-boxing champion has died during a fight in Sydney, prompting calls for tighter regulation of the sport. Mark Fowler, 35, collapsed in front of spectators after fighting five rounds on Saturday night and failed to regain consciousness. He died on Monday afternoon of head injuries.

Wednesday, August 17, 2011

Ron Paul Attacks

Ron Paul Attacks
Ron Paul Attacks. If Iran Attacks Israel, Israel Should Deal With It. The most-ignored presidential candidate of the Republican field took a lot of heat from Middle East hawks for implying during the recent GOP debate that the threat from Iran was grossly exaggerated. Today on Fox News, he doubled down on that position.
But when pressed on his views by Fox host Megyn Kelly, Paul went even further, declaring that if Iran ever gets a nuclear weapon and attacks Israel, the United States should let Israel respond. Paul noted, however, that Iran probably wouldn’t attack Israel in this scenario because of the latter’s nuclear arsenal. “They’re not suicidal,” Paul said of the Iranians. Here’s the exchange:

Sewer capybaras

Sewer capybaras
 Sewer capybaras. The world's largest known rodent, the cabybara, was spotted by workers at the Paso Robles Wastewater Treatment Plant and photographed before submerging back into the water, reported Fox 35.

"I received a call from the city of Paso Robles sewer plant," Tom Tognazzini of the Department of Fish and Game told Your Central Coast News.

Tuesday, August 16, 2011

Mayor Johnson heckled on riot visit

Mayor Johnson heckled on riot visit
Mayor Johnson heckled on riot visit. London Mayor Boris Johnson has paid a chaotic visit to riot-hit Peckham to show his support for the community after last week's disturbances.Mr Johnson was at different times warmly approved, heckled by angry locals, surrounded by an excitable crowd, and finally popped into the front of a police van to ensure his smooth exit from the area.

Video released of car hitting riot police

Video released of car hitting riot police

Video released of car hitting riot police. Scotland Yard has released footage of two police officers being mown down as they chased looters during last week's riots. The officers were investigating reports of an attack on a clothing store in Waltham Forest in north-east London when they were hit by a green Citroen that was driven at them at high speed.

Friday, August 12, 2011

5 Keys to the GOP Debate in Iowa

5 Keys to the GOP Debate in Iowa
5 Keys to the GOP Debate in Iowa. Eight Republican presidential hopefuls will debate in Iowa Thursday, hoping to generate momentum two days before a closely watched straw poll that will test their campaigns' strength.
Here are keys to the Republicans' debate in a state that in February will hold the first caucus of the primary season determining who will become the party's presidential nominee to run in November 2012 against Democratic President Barack Obama.

Thursday, August 11, 2011

Police got riots wrong says Cameron

Police got riots wrong says Cameron. The police admit they got their riot tactics wrong, the prime minister has said, as he announced measures to help homeowners and businesses.

David Cameron told MPs the riots in cities across England were "criminality pure and simple", but there were "far too few police" on the streets.