Baby stroller maker Graco has voluntary recalled 2 million MetroLite and Quattro brand name strollers after reports that as many as four babies died of strangulation in the strollers. According to Donald Mays from the Consumer Reports the deaths took place between 2003 and 2005 as a result of the babies being caught by the [...]
U.S. Department of Defense has issued a directive that now allows the military recruiters to enlist openly gay people willing to serve in the army. According to the Associated Press, three former service members who were previously discharged from the army for being gay have initiated a re-enlisting process following the ruling of a Californian [...]
Super huge typhoon Megi struck the Philippines’ island of Luzon on Monday, cutting off all sorts of communications and electricity, and forced the authorities to declare a state of disaster in its northern province. The authorities also had to cancel all domestic and international flights to the province, and fear that the disastrous typhoon may [...]
U.S. Department of Defense has recently disclosed information about its project aimed to create manoeuvrable bullets for sniper rifles. A multi-million dollar contract for the development of the new technology has been awarded to Teledyne Technologies Incorporated by Pentagon’s DARPA, which stands for Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. Many experts believe that sniper rifles continue [...]
The richest man in India, the head of the industrial empire Reliance Industries Mukesh Ambani, has finished building the most luxurious home in the world home. The glass skyscraper has everything, including the hanging gardens, similar to the famous Hanging Gardens of Semiramis, once considered to be one of the Seven Wonders of the World. [...]
Two American students and their lawyer will receive US$610,000 in compensation as a result of a lawsuit filed by the parents for the invasion of the students’ privacy. The lawsuit was filed against the Lower Merion School District in Philadelphia and involved two students who received laptop computers from the school with webcams installed on [...]
Netherlands Antilles, often referred to as a piece of Holland in the Caribbean, has ceased to exist. Instead, two new independent states and three autonomous territories have been formed, replacing the former Dutch colony. A recent change in the constitutional status that dissolved Netherlands Antilles, allowed the two former colonies of Curacao and St. Maarten [...]
Armed security around Prince Harry, third in line to the British throne, has been increased two-fold among the threats of terrorist attacks against British royals. Harry has been assigned 6 SAS-trained body guards that were ordered to follow the Prince wherever he goes. The British security service was forced to raise the threat level to [...]
As Russian Soyuz rocket with three astronauts on board blasted off from the Baikonur launch pad in Kazakhstan, former Russian spy Anna Chapman has been seen among the group of officials waving the astronauts off. This was Anna`s first public appearance since her deportation in July from the United States amid the biggest spy scandal [...]
The well-known U.S. real estate tycoon Donald Trump said he was seriously considering the possibility of running for the U.S. presidency in 2012. The billionaire admitted, most likely, he would be running on the Republican ticket. Trump says he has been asked before to run for the White House, but now, for the first time, [...]
