A new law dubbed the “Facebook law”, that prevents teachers from contacting their students over the Internet has led to the filing of charges by a Missouri teacher, who said the law made it illegal for her to chat with her own child using Facebook. Teachers are prohibited by the new law to engage in [...]
An extremely rare shark attack in the Sea of Japan’s northwestern part has left a young man with chewed off arms. “A 25-year-old man was brought in in grave condition, unconscious. His arms were chewed off at the elbows,” reported the Interfax news agency Wednesday, quoting a source in a hospital in the Khasan district. [...]
Investment Company Kingdom Holding Co., which is headed by Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, is set to make a new whole record by completing the tallest tower in the world in over a five-year period. The company did not however say when it intends to start working on the project. The Kingdom Tower project, [...]
After thirteen months and several surgeries, this sea turtle is finally free. It was more than a year ago when this sea turtle was rescued with pneumonia and a collapsed lung. The spinal cord of the turtle was exposed by the holes in its shell which also allowed a crab and several pounds of sand [...]
BBC got a glimpse of Apple’s financial records and reported that compared to the United States federal government, the software company has more cash on hand. The quarterly financial report of the company that gave the world the iPhone, iPod and the iPad has $76.4 billion in reserve cash, compared to the only $73.7 billion [...]
If the claims made by a climatologist from the University of Alabama are true, then there appears to be a “huge discrepancy” between the actual levels of heat in the atmosphere and the global warming predictions. Dr. Roy Spencer, who was called “a prominent climate skeptic” by AP Science Writer Seth Borenstein, claims that the [...]
Carnage, the latest movie of Roman Polanski based on the dramatic play “Gods of Carnage” by French playwright Yasmina Reza, has been chosen to open the New York Film Festival. This is twin good news for Polanski considering that the film was also recently included in the Venice Film Festival line-up. The film by Polanski [...]
Israeli archaeologists showed Sunday a 2000-year old tiny golden bell which was pulled from an ancient sewer beneath Jerusalem’s old city. The half-an-inch-diameter bell, which the archaeologists said was a rare find, seemed to be a clothing ornament for the city’s wealthy residents two millennia ago as indicated by the small loop on the bell. [...]
A media poll Sunday showed that the call of Prime Minister Naoto Kan to do away with nuclear power is being supported by more than two-thirds of Japanese which is evident of the growing opposition to atomic energy after the Fukushima Daiichi plant disaster. Kan said earlier this month that he was convinced by the [...]
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton confirmed Sunday the possible resumption of international negotiations on ending the nuclear programs of Pyongyang with the visit to the US of a senior North Korean official. The rival Koreas have been on the edge for more than a year now, with high tension and animosity characterizing their [...]
