Powerful earthquake rocks Taiwan

"A powerful 6.0-magnitude earthquake jolted Taiwan on Tuesday but there were no immediate reports of damage, casualties or tsunamis, the Seismology Centre said. The undersea tremor, which could be felt in the...

NASA Successfully Tests ‘Interplanetary Internet’

" Although the crew of the spacecraft Endeavour experienced a glitch in the first space walk when an astronaut accidentally let her tool bag float away, NASA had a lot to celebrate as it announced success with a high-tech space program. NASA, along with Vinton Cerf, a...

Gobekli Tepe: Evidence of The World’s First Temple

Fascinating prehistoric megaliths could be the world's oldest worship temple, the one - acre excavation has not yet releaved all of its secrets. " Six miles from Urfa, an ancient city in southeastern Turkey,...

Feds plan to sell drilling rights off Va. coast

I don't know if this is good or not. I have close friends that are commercial fisherman. This will be very very bad for them. 50 miles off shore is not that far and they fish there. What will it do to the waters...

UN: Congolese troops raped, pillaged villages (Updated)

" UPDATES: UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has made a fresh plea for 3,000 more peacekeepers to be sent to the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo. In New York, Mr Ban also called for a ceasefire so aid workers...

Irish police seize yacht with cocaine worth more than £500m

A yacht from Ireland was siezed this morning in a raid, and 700 million euros worth of cocain was found on board. The capture follows an investigation which was launched after one of the yachts in the smuggling ring overturned off the coast of Cork and dumped 62 bales of...

Shell Oil Company achieves 376.59 mpg in test car- 1973!

"Indianapolis (IN) - Using fully stock production gasoline engine powered vehicles, with engine modifications limited only to changes in fuel mixture and ignition timing, Shell Oil Company served host to an open...

Soak up history at hot springs to the south of Reno

"Anne Kloepfer of Genoa Lake believes in the healing properties of the hot springs in which she frequently has soaked since the 1960s. "It's the fountain of youth," she said, while relaxing in a pool at David Walley's Resort, Hot Springs and Spa in Genoa. "It's great."There...

Indian woman beheads 'sex pest'

This really a shocking story from the Indian state OF Uttarpradesh,a women beheaded the attacker , who tried to rape her in grass field.The daring act of this women is going to set example for those women who...

Burgers: NY $200 Burger, Brad eats 7kg Monster Hamburger, Gorske eats 23 000 ...

Brad Eats Monster Hamburger 6.8 kg in 4:30 h Brad Sciullo, who works as a waiter in an Italian restaurant in Pennsylvania, terminated his fast food gastronomic adventurer in four hours and 39 minutes. Brad became the...

Strong earthquake off Guatemala-Mexico coast

 A strong earthquake measuring 6.5 , have been repoted from mexican -Guatemala border."A strong 6.5-magnitude earthquake struck in the Pacific near the Mexico-Guatemala border on Thursday, but there was no tsunami...

Divorce Cambodian style

And you think American divorces are weird!"(CNN) -- A Cambodian couple who separated after 40 years of marriage may have taken things too literally when it came to splitting their assets: ...

Close friend believes Steve Fossett 'had death wish because of guilt over mar...

Here we go the guys reported dead and now we have a nasty assumption from the gutter press. Lets milk the story before he is put into the grave.   " Adventurer Steve Fossett crashed his plane into a remote Californian mountainside in a ‘subconscious death wish’,...

Galveston: Debris from Hurricane Washed up 120 Miles Away

FLOTSAM and debris are being washed up on shores as far away as Corpus Christi, over one hundred miles south of Galveston.   With recovery teams now moving in having sectioned off the piles of hubris into 44 heaps, the human death toll is expected to rise in the...

Musical Road Hits Sour Notes With Neighbors

Kinda like those wake up lines at the side of the road... .. only more musical." Local officials say it was a mistake to allow a television commercial company to grind grooves into a stretch of desert roadway near Lancaster to enable car tires to play a song -- "The...

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