Outer Solar System, Space – A planet has been discovered just beyond our solar system by astronomers in Hawaii, and it is believed that it could sustain or even harbour life. The new discovery is approximately three times the size of our planet and is in orbit of a dying star, the red dwarf star [...]
San Jose, Chile – As a large-scale rescue operation is currently underway to free the 33 trapped miners from their underground prison, the families of those trapped plan on launching a major lawsuit for compensation. Since August 05, the families have been holding a vigil at the site and camping close by to their trapped [...]
Burma – According to officials, the Burmese pro democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi is due to be released in November. Suu Kyi has spent 15 years out of the last 20 years in confinement after she won the last election, which took place in 1990. Unidentified sources have claimed that she will most likely [...]
Europe – A co-ordinated strike has taken place across Europe amid pay and budget cuts. The streets of Brussels saw protesters and Warsaw saw approximately 5,000 people demonstrating. Major transit hubs as well as hospitals were affected during the striking. A total of 11 capitals across the continent were affected by the general strikes. “This [...]
UK – A British doctor who fraudulently tricked MS patients into spending thousands of pounds on alternative treatments that had never even been successfully been tested on humans before has been struck-off. The General Medical Council found that Doctor Robert Trossel had taken money from patients for a fake treatment who were in pain and [...]
Europe – According to sources, intelligence officials have received information that there is to be a terror attack on European soil, which is said to be of similar proportions to the Mumbai attacks. It is believed that terrorist network, which is based in Pakistan has been planning simultaneous attacks in English cities and other major [...]
Texas, US – The culprit for the recent shooting at Texas University in Austin was a 19-year-old student from the University. The man was identified as Colton Tooley by the Travis County Medical Examiner. Before turning the AK-47 rifle on himself, he managed to fire shots on the campus but fortunately nobody was injured. It [...]
Pakistan – The latest unmanned drone strike was carried out in the tribal region of North Waziristan and according to reports, one of al-Qaeda’s senior commanders, Sheikh Mohammad Fateh al Masri was killed. The commander was killed in one the notoriously unstable areas of the region. Conflicting reports say that he was killed in an [...]
London, UK – According to the latest study by a team of researchers at the UK’s Royal Botanical Gardens in Kew, London, almost 20 percent of the world’s plant population are in danger of extinction. The worrying facts have been recorded for the 380,000 species that are at threat in the ‘Sampled Red List Index [...]
UK – The University of Oxford claim to have found a faulty gene that may be to blame for causing migraines. The latest finding could help in the developments of searching for a suitable treatment for the disorder that affects so many millions of people around the world. An estimated one in five people suffer [...]
Europe – Despite a blockade in the occupied territory of Gaza, a Jewish activist yacht carrying aid will continue to head there since it set sail from Cyprus on Sunday. The vessel had ten people onboard who come from Jewish organizations from across the globe including the US, the UK, Germany and Israeli Jews. “The [...]
Washington, US – The hearing of one of the soldiers accused of killing innocent Afghan civilians commenced on Monday at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, which is the beginning of five of the soldiers who have been charged with premeditated murder. This hearing will find out if there has been enough evidence gathered to proceed with a [...]
Kunar Province, Afghanistan – A small convoy of aid workers was attacked which led to a female British aid worker and three other local members of staff being kidnapped in the north eastern area of Afghanistan. Police officials claim there had been gunfire exchanged between them and the militants during the ambush but the men [...]
London UK – The Labour leadership has been won by Ed Milliband who marginally beat his brother David by just a 1.3 percent majority, despite the older brother David being seen as the favourite right up until the closing moments of the race. In third and fourth place consecutively was Ed balls and Andy Burnham, [...]
Kazakhstan – The Soyuz space capsule, which was carrying three astronauts, has returned safely back to Earth after having spent six months onboard the International Space Station. Onboard the Soyuz was US Astronaut Tracy Caldwell Dyson and also Russian Astronauts Alexander Skvortsov and Mikhail Kornienko. Minor problems undocking had delayed their landing but they finally [...]
US – The founder of social networking site Facebook has publicly defended his recent contribution of $100m for US schools, which comes at the same time as a movie is about to be released covering the entrepreneurs life which is said to not portray him at his best. Despite having no connection with the schools [...]
Australia – The president for the Australian Olympic committee, John Coates has slammed the Commonwealth Games Federation for allowing India to be the host of this year’s event. He highlighted the lengthy delays in the construction of some of the buildings and pointed out other certain incidents, which have hampered progress. Some of the teams [...]
Europe – Pharmaceutical giant Glaxosmithkline suffered a set back last night as one of their products for the control of diabetes could pose serious health issues and was withdrawn from the European market. European regulators found that the diabetes drug, Avandia, can in fact increase the risk of having a heart attack. The European Medicines [...]
Paris, France – Exactly a decade after BMW released their modernised and vamped up version of the Mini, the new electric Mini scooter E Concept has been revealed. The new Mini scooter is due to be a feature next week at the Paris motor show 2010. The first interpretation of three of the versions of [...]
Paris, France – According to authorities, an estimated one million demonstrators turned up on the streets of the Capital on Thursday in an attempt to urge the French leader, President Nicolas Sarkozy to cancel his proposal to increase the age of retirement to 62. Public transport sectors including airports, railways and also schools have been [...]
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