Monthly Archives: February 2012
Ben Gazzara, Broadway and film actor, died at 81 in New York
Film and Broadway actor Ben Gazzara has died on Friday in New York at the age of 81. Ben Gazzara was best known for playing...
Clara Lazen, 10, may be the youngest in history to discover a new molecule
Clara Lazen, a 10-year-old girl from Missouri, may be the youngest in history to discover a new molecule after a brief introduction on molecular...Fidel Castro Launched His Memoirs, “Guerrilla of Time”
Fidel Castro, the former Cuban president has made a rare public appearance to launch his memoirs. The book, “Guerrilla of Time”, is almost 1,000 pages...
Shifts in Earth’s axis are enough to trigger the ice ages, Harvard Prof. Peter Huybers proves
Peter Huybers, a Harvard earth sciences professor, has finally proved the idea that slight shifts in Earth's axis are enough to trigger the ice ages...Left-wingers are more intelligent than right-wingers, says a controversial Canadian study
A controversial Canadian study says that right-wingers (conservatives) tend to be less intelligent than left-wingers, and people with low childhood intelligence tend to grow...
Romanian model Ioana Spangeberg has a waist of just 20 inches
Ioana Spangenberg, a Romanian model with a waist of just 20 inches, has insisted she eats three square meals a day, including fatty foods...
Syria: more than 200 people killed in an army massacre in city of Homs
More than 200 people were killed by Syrian government forces which bombarded the city of Homs with tank shells and mortars, opposition groups say. Activists...
True love lasts for ten years, say scientists
A new research by New York's Stony Brook University and Harvey Mudd College in Claremont, California, has found that even after ten years of...
iOptik, the contact lenses which focus 3D screens directly into user’s eyeballs could be on sale in 2014
U.S. company Innovega announced that its iOptik contact lenses which focus 3D screens directly into people's eyeballs could be on sale as early as...
Kim Kardashian: “I am not dating Mark Sanchez.”
Rumors emerged yesterday that Kim Kardashian and NFL star Mark Sanchez were secretly seeing each other while he was said to be dating Victoria's...Drug addiction could be linked to brain abnormalities, scientists at the University of Cambridge say
Scientists at the University of Cambridge suggest that abnormalities in the brain may make some people more likely to become drug addicts. The researchers found...
The world’s largest virtual telescope have been created by linking four telescopes
Astronomers at the Paranal observatory in Chile have created the world's largest virtual optical telescope linking four telescopes, so that they operate as a...
Europe is freezing. Black Sea is frozen on the Romanian coastline and 101 people died in Ukraine.
Black Sea is frozen near the Romanian coastline and villagers in Serbia and Bosnia were airlifted from their homes after being cut off without...American tourists and Egyptian guide seized in Sinai have been released
The two American women tourists and their Egyptian guide, who were kidnapped in Egypt's Sinai peninsula, have been released, according to officials. The tourists had...
Is Angelina Jolie pregnant with twins again?
Rumors that Angelina Jolie is pregnant with another set of twins have been spread in recent days. However, Angelina Jolie certainly hasn't been rocking a...
David Peaston, the American gospel and R&B singer, dies at 54
David Peaston, R&B and gospel singer, best known for the tracks Two Wrongs (Don't Make it Right) and Can I?, has died at 54. David...
Anonymous intercepted conference call between FBI and Scotland Yard
Anonymous has released a recording of a conference call between the FBI and Scotland Yard in which they discuss efforts against hacking. The conference call, said to...Two American women kidnapped by gunmen in Egypt’s Sinai peninsula
Two American women tourists have been kidnapped by gunmen in Egypt's Sinai peninsula, according to security sources. The American tourists were travelling in a small...
Barred spiral galaxy image captured by Hubble space telescope
An image of a "barred spiral" galaxy that could help us better understand our own Milky Way has been captured by Hubble space telescope. Most...
La-Fleu Mohamed, a Muslim woman wearing full face veil, claims she was refused service at a gas station
La-Fleu Mohamed, a Muslim woman from Florida, who is wearing a full face veil, has claimed she was refused service at a Chevron gas...
Kim Kardashian is secretly dating NFL star Mark Sanchez?
Kim Kardashian is in Miami to sound out premises for a new D-A-S-H shop, but she is squeezing in a bit of pleasure into...
A quick 21-question Alzheimer test can reveal if your loved one is at risk
A quick test that tells if your loved one is at risk of Alzheimer’s disease has been devised by Banner Sun Health Research Institute...
Demi Moore visited by Ashton Kutcher and Bruce Willis after her 911 crisis
Demi Moore has been visited by Ashton Kutcher yesterday and just hours later her other ex husband, Bruce Willis, was also spotted checking in...
Hans Feldmeier, a German pensioner, tasted a 64-year-old American lard
Hans Feldmeier, a German pensioner who received a tin of American lard 64 years ago in an aid package, has only just tasted it,...
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