Posted on 21 February 2012
Seventeen people were reported injured when two blasts hit a nightclub in Romania. According to reports, the initial blast happened in the early hours of Sunday in the northern Romanian town of Sighetu Marmatiei. The first blast wounded seven people. The second explosion happened several hours after and injured 10 other people. The injured victims [...]
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Posted on 21 February 2012
Hollywood superstar actress Angelina Jolie has joined thousand of voices for the armed intervention to stop the ongoing crackdown in Syria which killed many civilians in the area. In a recent media interview, Jolie said the United Nations should now intervene in the conflict by conducting a military offensive against the leaders of Syria. Jolie, [...]
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Posted on 15 February 2012
On a small island off Madagascar, a group of scientists have discovered a species of chameleon that are tiny enough to perch easily on the head of a match. The new species is called Brookesia micra and is the tiniest ones every discovered. In addition to this tiny chameleon the scientists have also discovered three other species [...]
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Posted on 13 February 2012
Nine family members were reported killed when an avalanche buried seven houses at a remote mountain village in Kosovo. According to reports, an avalanche hit the village of Restelica near Kosovo’s border with Macedonia and Albania and buried the houses killing the victims in the process on Sunday. Despite the sad news, authorities still had [...]
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Posted on 02 February 2012
The quest of an American missionary couple to spread the good news and share some love ended in tragedy in Monterrey City, Mexico. The Mexican Police said Wanda Sue Casias, 67, from Texas and John Casias, 76, originally from Colorado, were killed inside their home on the said area by still unidentified suspects. The police [...]
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Posted on 01 February 2012
A soccer match turned violent in Port City in Egypt on Wednesday. According to reports, 73 people were reported killed and 1,000 others injured when the match between al-Masry and Al Ahli, one of Egypt’s most successful clubs, turned violence that day. The violence started after Al-Masry won the match 3-0. Some of the Al-Masry [...]
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Posted on 31 January 2012
Thirty six persons were reported killed in Eastern Europe due t o the extreme cold weather condition in the area. According to reports, the severe cold weather condition already disrupted the power connections and caused heavy traffic in those nations. The national government in this part of the world already opened shelters and give hot [...]
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Posted on 30 January 2012
In Thailand, a new threat to the threat of the survival of the elephants living there has emerged. The new threat is the taste for eating elephant meat which includes everything from their sexual organs to their trunks. The Wildlife officials were made aware of this new threat when they found two elephants in a [...]
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Posted on 30 January 2012
In Ireland, Frank Buckley, an artist based in Dublin has started to build a house using one point eighty-two billion dollars of shredded money. Frank Buckley, who is unemployed, has been working approximately twelve hours a day since the start of December. The shredded money he is using are decommissioned Euros that have been lent [...]
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Posted on 26 January 2012
On Thursday, the thirty-three pilot whales that were still stranded on Farewell Spit were shot after many attempts to re-float them back out to sea failed. These whales were the last of ninety-nine who had stranded themselves on Monday. All week the conservation staff and volunteers tried to get them re-floated but could not do [...]