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What is the world coming to? Have you ever wondered what kind of world we are living in? I just came across a Jakarta Globe report that is quite shocking, and may be indicative of an upside down world that we are in now.
Drugs smugglers have now employed a new way to smugger illicit drugs across [...]
AIDS/HIV is a serious disease. There is no known cure, although certain drugs are able to delay the onset of the deadly full blown stage. Exactly which is the AIDS capital of the world is difficult to say, because AIDS is growing rapidly in several countries. Governments and NGOs everywhere are cracking their heads on how [...]
Have you ever wondered how safe is your computer? Most of us know that we need to take precautions while on cyberspace. So if we don’t want to fork out money, we go for the free anti-virus options. And we do the same for firewall. Then we let our guard down, thinking that we are safe [...]
So Carole found herself being denied entry to a swimming pool in a suburb of Paris recently, officially for “hygiene” reasons, but she and many others believe it was because she was wearing a burkini which covered her body from neck to ankles and wrists as required by Muslim dress code for women. But while the [...]
Have you noticed that earthquakes are increasing in frequency nowadays? The latest one happens today. It occurred in Indonesia, in the sea under the Indian Ocean approximately 110 kilometers (70 miles) southwest of the city of Padang. The undersea earthquake measured 6.7 magnitude and two aftershocks with magnitudes of 5.2 and 5.6 followed within the hour.
Indonesia was [...]
It is a week now since Typhoon Morakot hit Taiwan with 2.6 meters (102 inches) of rain water, which caused massive mudslides and floods. There are of course many tragic stories of victims and exciting stories of the bravery of rescuers, but one story caught my attention. The six-story Jinshuai Hotel in Jhihben collapsed into the Jhihben [...]
Several weeks ago, French President Nicolas Sarkozy told Parliament that the burka, which covers women from head to toe, is “not welcome” in France. As a result, Parliament is now studying whether to ban the burka in France or not. Meanwhile a 35-year old Muslim woman by the name of Carole has been ordered out of a [...]
I love chocolates, but I don’t like the mess when they melt in the hot sun. I also don’t like the high calories they contain. Years ago, M&M’s came up with a wonderful slogan – Melts in your mouth, not in your hand. That’s somewhat reassuring. But what if your hand is in the hot sun?
So [...]
We are used to seeing co-ordinated DDOS attacks on government-related sites and corporate sites. But a co-ordinated cyber war targeting an individual’s site? In an unprecedented attack, Twitter, Facebook and LiveJournal sites crashed.
The individual being targeted is Georgian blogger who goes by his online moniker of Cyxymu. His real name is Georgy Jakhaia. He is actually [...]
In some parts of Mexico hot springs and cold springs are found side by side; and because of the convenience of this natural phenomenon the women often bring their laundry and boil their clothes in the hot springs and then rinse them in the cold ones.
A tourist who was watching this procedure commented to his Mexican [...]
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