World's Longest Sea Bridge Unveiled In China

China has opened the world's longest sea bridge to the general public today. The Qingdao Bridge is 26.3 miles or 42.4 kilometer long and connects Eastern coastal city of Qingdao with the suburb of Huangdao in Jiaozhou Bay. By unveiling this bridge, China has broken the previous record of the longest bridge which was held by Lake Pontchartrain Causeway, Louisiana in the USA, by 4 KMs. This bridge is said to be standing on more than 5,200 pillars....

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Is Osama Bin Laden Dead For Real? I Don't Think So

I woke up early in the morning yesterday. Turned on my computer and did some usual stuff. I was just about to turn off the computer when I saw news of Osama Bin Laden's death. I sit on the chair again and read the news. After that at around 9:30 (IST) US President Mr. Obama came live and announced that Osama Bin Laden has been killed in a military operation by US in Pakistan. Great news. And meanwhile I was tweeting the news of Osama's death. Twitter was full of Osama. Osama Bin Laden was a trending topic. People from all over the world were tweeting about the death of Osama. News channels on television were full of same news. And when it all...

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Indian Origin Associated Press Photographer Missing In Libya

Photo credit - AP An Associated Press photographer Altaf Qadri covering conflict in Libya has gone missing. Altaf, 35, is an award winning photographer from Shrinagar, India who has been separated from his colleagues near the eastern Libyan city of Ajdabiya, while he was on an assignment, according to the Associated Pres...

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The Cruel World : Girl Gets Executed For Being Raped : WTF?

When I woke up this morning, I got to read this really strange news on NY Times website. The news were about Hena (or Hina), a 14 year old girl in Bangladesh, who was allegedly raped by a man of her village. The incident happened when Hena went to an outdoor toilet. The man, who is said to be her cousin, ambushed Hena, beat her up and then raped her. The wife of alleged rapist saw them both in this situation, and guess what? She also beat Hena. Strange? Hold on, read further. The case went to a local mosque's Imam who issued a "Fatwah" against Hena stating that she was guilty of "adultery" and must be punished. Then a village makeshift court...

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Chinese People Rush To Buy Salt Fearing Japan Radiation

We all know that Japan is fearing nuclear radiation due to 8.9 Magnitude earth quake and tsunami caused by it have affected nuclear reactors very badly. Japan is currently trying to fight and get over this on going nuclear crisis. Nuclear radiation is said to be spread outside of Japan, in other countries if all does not go well. The radiation leak is not that high, but it could affect nearby countries. Now news has come from China that people are rushing to stores to buy salt as they believe that iodized salt would help them fight the nuclear radiation effect...

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Egypt President Hosni Mubarak Resigns : Hands Over Country To The Army

Egypt's president Hosni Mubarak resigned today as president and handed over the control to the military on. Hosni was in power since almost 30 years and was facing a historic 18-day wave of pro-democracy demonstrations by hundreds of thousands of Egyptians. "The people ousted the president," chanted a crowd of tens of thousands outside his presidential palace in Cairo. "In these grave circumstances that the country is passing through, President Hosni Mubarak has decided to leave his position as president of the republic. He has mandated the Armed Forces Supreme Council to run the state. God is our protector and succor" Th Vice President Omar...

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Crazy World: Girl Arrested For 'Stealing' Food Thrown Outside By Tesco

A girl was arrested after she found and took home food, thrown out by a Tesco food store worth £200 following a power cut. Tesco, supermarket giant in UK thrown thousands of pounds of spoiled stock and left it out in the street.Sasha Hall, 21, from Great Baddow found herself potato waffles, pies and ham from outside the Tesco Express in Great Baddow, Essex. But she was shocked to see police at her home to arreste her for suspected 'theft by finding' and took her to the police station in handcuffs.'There was £3,000 worth of food going to waste on the street,' said Sasha. 'It had been thrown out, so I thought I could put it to better use. 'When...

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Some Of The Best Pictures From Egypt Protests

Whatever going on in Egypt is really sad. People are protesting against the president Mr Mohamed Hosni Sayyid Mubarak who is the president of Egypt since around 30 years. Now people need change in the rule and are protesting on roads with so much anger in their eyes. Mr. Hosni Mubarak ordered no to use any force on protesters and policemen are trying hard to get over the situation. While so much going on in this beautiful country of Egypt, I was scrolling through pictures of the protests on Time's website and I liked some pictures so much. The following pictures says so much. I don't know what you get from them, but I realize what human nature...

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Seven People Dead After 100 Vehicle Pile Up In China

At least seven people were killed and 15 injured when over 100 vehicles rammed into the back of each other in a foggy on Monday morning on an expressway in China, officials said. The incident happened when a truck crashed into a petrol station in Zunyi County of southwest China's Guizhou Province at about 8 am. At least, 100 other vehicles then crashed into the rear of each other, Xinhua reported quoting local firefighter...

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Award Nobel Peace Prize To Julian Assange : Russia

Russia has suggested that Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks should be awarded the Nobel peace prize. This changed expression comes as a surprise after Russian President Demitry Medvedev's spokesman slammed WikiLeaks releases by saying, "not worthy of comment" earlier. The latest comment from Russia came after the release of the cable which described Russia as a "mafia state...

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Panama Canal Closed Due To Flooding

Heavy rain and flooding Wednesday prompted the closing of the Panama Canal for only the third time in its 96 year history. "Officials closed the canal around noon and were hoping to reopen it by Wednesday evening", Fernando Lemos, spokesman for the Panama Canal administrator said. "The situation might get better in the next few hours," Lemos said, "but there is no exact time as to when the canal will open again...

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Woman Left Her Elderly Mother On Floor For A Week Pleads Guilty To Manslaughter

A woman has pleaded guilty to manslaughter after she left her elderly mother on the floor of her home for almost a week before she was hospitalized. Paramedics found Kateryna Pyrczak, 72, naked and covered with blankets on her kitchen floor on November 10, 2008. She was taken to the Western Hospital where staff found her covered in faeces and ulcers. Her legs were decaying, her right foot to mid-shin was black and maggot infested and her foot was gangrenous. She later died in hospital. Mary Eve Pyrczak, 50 of Albans pleaded guilty on Thursday to manslaughter by negligence in the Victorian Supreme Court before Justice Paul Coughlan. Pyrczak...

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WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange Arrested In London

Julian Assange, WikiLeaks founder Wikileaks founder Julian Assange was arrested in London on Tuesday on suspicion of rape, after an arrest warrant issued by Swedish authorities. Julian Assange has been arrested by British police. Swedish prosecutors issued the arrest order in connection to allegations of sexual crimes. He was arrested today at at 9:30 a.m local tim...

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Swiss Postal System Closes WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange Bank Account

All is not well with whistle-blowing site WikiLeaks. The Swiss Post Office's banking arm said on Monday that it had closed an account set up by WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange after he gave false information. "PostFinance has ended its business relationship with WikiLeaks founder Julian Paul Assange," the bank said in a statement. "The Australian citizen provided false information regarding his place of residence during the account opening process." Assange had given an undisclosed address in the Swiss city of Geneva as his residence, it adde...

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Mother Faked Brain Tumor To Cheat Well Wishers Out Of Hundreds Of Pounds

A mother was faking while she claimed to be fatally ill with a brain tumor, bone cancer and leukemia. She is accused of inventing her condition to con well-wishers out of hundreds of pounds. The woman named Terri Edkins, 23, from Gainsborough, Lincolnshire allegedly shaved her hair off and wore a headscarf to fake the appearance of a real cancer sufferer as she told her three young children, friends and family that she had only six months to live....

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India's Nicole Faria Is The Miss Earth 2010 : Pictures Included

India's 20 years old girl from Banglore Nicole Faria has been crowned Miss Earth Talent 2010 after beating 17 other contestants in Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam. Faria won the title at the talent show with a scintillating belly dance that combines Oriental and Middle Eastern style. "We are ecstatic and overjoyed although we expected it," Faria's father Ian said in Bangalore. The event raised 100 million Vietnamese Dong, which will be transferred...

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China Officials Were Behind The Google Hacking Attack - WikiLeaks US Cable

Sources told American diplomats that hacking attacks against Google were ordered by China's top ruling body and a senior leader demanded action after finding search results critical of him, leaked U.S. government cables show. The American Embassy sent a cable to Washington saying a source told diplomats the Chinese government coordinated late last year's attacks on Google under the direction of the Politburo Standing Committee. The cable about the hacking attacks against Google, which was classified as 'secret' by Deputy Chief of Mission Robert Goldberg, was released by WikiLeaks to The New York Times and The Guardian newspaper...

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PayPal Terminates WikiLeaks Account

The online payment service provider PayPal has terminated the account used by WikiLeaks to collect donations. PayPal said in a blog posting that the move was the result of violation of its policy, which states that our payment service cannot be used for any activities that encourage, promote, facilitate or instruct others to engage in illegal activit...

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Google Apologizes For Mixing Up Russian Flag Colors On Its Home Page

The wrong logo on Google Russia home page Google dedicated a logo on 2nd of December to Russia's victory on wining the World Cup 2018 hosting. But something went wrong and they mixed up the Russian flag colors. The flag of the Russian Federation is a tricolor of three equal horizontal stripes – white on the top, blue in the middle and red on the bottom. Google mistakenly interchanged the red and blue stripes. Google has apologized for the mistake...

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FIFA World Cup 2018 Will Be The Best Ever - Vladimir Putin

The Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin held a press-conference in Zurich after Russia was awarded the right to host the World Cup 2018 where he thanked FIFA and promised a visa-free regime for guests of the sporting spectacle. Putin stressed that Russia deeply respects those who lost the competition to host the World Cup and expressed no doubts that they would conduct the championship brilliantly and promised that next time it will be Russia’s...

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