Power partly restored in India after second massive Power failure.

Electric power station on outside Jammu, India. Image credit CNN India suffered its second massive power failure in two consecutive days on Tuesday, depriving as many as 600 million people, half the country's population of electricity and disrupting transportation networks for hours. The first power grid collapse, on Monday, was the country's worst...

OLYMPICS: China's Amazing Teenage Swimmer Wins 2nd Gold

Chinese Swimmer Ye Shiwen. Chinese swimmer Ye Shiwen's prowess has continued to boggle minds at the ongoing Olympic games.The Chinese swimming prodigy's extraordinary swims during the first few days of the Olympics may have drawn praise from across the sport, but they've also raised suspicions of drug doping...

OLYMPICS: Michael Phelps becomes greatest Olympian.

Swimmer Michael Phelps celebrating his legendary feat.  World renowned U.S swimmer Michael Phelps On Tuesday became the greatest Olympian ever, setting a record with his 19th medal after anchoring the U.S. men's 4x200-meter freestyle team to gold. The crowd at London's Aquatic Centre rose to its feet as Phelps churned home, well ahead...

OLYMPICS: Jo - Wilfried Tsonga win longest Tennis Match

Jo -Wilfried Tsonga in his record setting Olympic match.  Tennis player Jo-Wilfried Tsonga entered the record books on Tuesday by winning the longest tennis match in Olympic history. The Frenchman's second-round clash with Canada's Milos Raonic took three hours 58 minutes to complete, with the final set ending 25-23...

OLYMPICS: French win two golds and two world records broken in swimming events.

France's Clement Lefert, Amaury Leveaux and Fabien Gilot celebrate after winning the men's 4 x 100m freestyle relay final swimming event at the London 2012 Olympic Games at the Olympic Park on July 29, 2012 in London. Image Credit CNN  At the swimming events, two world records tumbled in the Aquatics Centre Sunday while France claimed two...

OLYMPICS: Lizzie Armitstead wins first medal for hosts.

Marianne Vos crosses the line ahead of Lizzie Armitstead to win gold in the women's road race.Image Credit CNN   Cyclist Lizzie Armitstead won the first medal of the London Games for the hosts but had to settle for silver behind Dutchwoman Marianne Vos in cycling's women's road race Sunday. Vos proved the stronger in the sprint for the line...

OLYMPICS: China win 10m diving gold

China's Yuan Cao and Yanquan Zhang on their way to gold in the 10m synchronized diving. Image Credit CNN Chinese pair Yuan Gao and Yanquan Zhang claimed gold in Monday's men's synchronized 10m diving final. The reigning world champions scored 99.36 with a near faultless final dive to claim the Olympic title...

English charges FA Rio Ferdinand for Ashley Cole "choc ice" tweet

Rio Ferdinand has been charged for replying to tweets describing Ashley Cole as a "choc ice". Image credit CNN  Manchester United defender Rio Ferdinand has been charged with improper conduct by the English Football Association. The former national team captain responded to a tweet describing Chelsea and England left-back as a "choc ice" with...

Headscarf may prevent Saudi athlete from participating in Olympics judo competition.

Female Saudi Judo athlete Wojdan Shaherkani, left, arrives with her father at Heathrow airport . Image Credit CNN.  One of the two women on Saudi Arabia's Olympic team may be pulled from the competition because of the kingdom's insistence that she wear a headscarf in her judo matches. Saudi and international Olympic officials met late into...

Lewis Hamilton dominates from start to finish to win Hungarian Grand Prix.

Lewis Hamilton wins Hungarian Grand Prix. McLaren's Lewis Hamilton controlled the race from start to finish to win the Hungarian Grand Prix on Sunday to revive his title hopes. The 2008 world champion made the most of pole position to cross the line at Hungaroring ahead of Lotus pair Kimi Raikkonen of Finland and France's Romain Grosjean. It was...

Romney faces Palestinian criticism for Jerusalem remarks.

U.S republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney on his tour.     U.S republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney incurred huge criticism from  Palestinian leaders today, when he suggested here that the Israeli economy had outpaced the economy of the Palestinian territories in part because of advantages of “culture.” Palestinians...

Saudi Arabia bans smoking in public places.

Smoking, now banned in Syria. The Saudi Arabian government has banned smoking in government offices and most public places, including restaurants, coffee shops, supermarkets and shopping malls...

Syrian Rebels Capture Military base near Aleppo.

Jubilant Syrians Rebels outside Aleppo.  Syrian rebels captured a government military base, in the early hours of today on the outskirts of Aleppo, the hotly contested Syrian metropolis that has seen more than a week of bloody clashes. The base had about 200 Syrian troops and appeared to be under attack by rebels from three sides overnight. "The...

Bollywood Actress Sherlyn Chopra to be Playboy's first Indian Model

Bollywood Actress Sherlyn Chopra with Playboy owner Hugh Hefner  Bollywood film actress Sherlyn Chopra will become the first woman to pose for popular lifestyle magazine, Playboy.  The 28-year-old knockout wrote to the magazine and suggested the idea herself, the BBC reported. They got back to her within a few days to accept...

Blackout leaves 300 million Indians without power.

Power failure in northern India. New Delhi, India: The normal life is slowly returning to normal with power being restored upto a certain extent in some states. On Monday, whole of North India plunged into darkness as the power supply in eight states was severely affected after failure of northern electricity transmission grid at about 2:30 am. The...

Nigerians living in fear, uncertainty – Obasanjo, IBB.

Olusegun Obasanjo and Ibrahim Babangida, former Nigerian presidents. Former Nigerian heads of state, General Olusegun Obasanjo and General Ibrahim Babangida have expressed concern over the growing insecurity in the country, saying “Nigeria is currently under fear and uncertainty.” In a joint statement obtained by Punch newspaper correspondent...

ACN, ARP ask Tukur to resign over subsidy scam.

PDP National Chairman, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur.     Action Congress of Nigeria has called on the Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, to resign, following the alleged involvement of  his son  in the fuel subsidy scam. The ACN  described the subsidy scam as the biggest corruption case in Nigeria’s...

Thirteen die as bus, truck collide in Edo State Nigeria.

Remains of Bus Truck collision in Edo state Nigeria.     No fewer than 13 persons were confirmed dead and one injured on Sunday morning after an Iveco truck (AAA962XB) and an Anambra State Mass Transit inter-state Toyota Hiace bus (YB610EPE) collided on the Benin-Sagamu Expressway at Ofosu, Edo State...

"PDP conspiring with Reps to impeach Jonathan" Nigeria's South-South leaders.

Nigeria's President, Goodluck Jonathan. Suspicion and rage simmered in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria on Friday, following statements credited to the Deputy National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP,  a Nigerian political party, Dr. Sam Jaja, that President Goodluck Jonathan had committed blunders that required his impeachment. Elders...

Social media users carpet Senator David Mark on call for censorship.

Nigerian Senate President, David Mark. Nigerian online social media users have criticised the Senate President, David Mark, for reportedly seeking a check on the use of social media by Nigerians. They said it was an attempt to frustrate public criticism of government. Mark had last Thursday, while declaring open a two-day retreat for Senate Press...

Biological mechanism for growing animal defense, mating and ornamental systems discovered.

Washington state university entomologist Laura Corley Lavine has helped discover the mechanism  behind the Japanese Rhinoceros beetle elaborate horn. Image credit ScienceDaily.com  Researchers led by scientists at the University of Montana and Washington State University have discovered a developmental mechanism they think may be responsible...

New Apple mountain Lion software brings attention to mountain Lion research.

New Apple Mountain Lion OS X.   Apple's new OS X release, "OS X Mountain Lion" has brought attention to a little known specie of mountain lion whose home is the wooded hills near the multi-billion dollar company's headquarters in Cupertino U.S.   According to Physics.Org, since 2008, UC Santa Cruz researchers have captured 36 mountain...

Gorilla accidentally hangs himself at Prague zoo.

Tatu, pictured in 2007 after his birth was aired live on internet. Tatu killed himself on Friday morning while playing in a rope structure in the gorilla wing, the zoo director said. "This is the most tragic event that has happened at the Prague zoo since a flood damaged a large section in August 2002," director Miroslav Bobek said in a statem...

Scientists locate seat of Meta-Consciousness through studies of lucid dreamers

Brain regions activated more during lucid dreaming than normal dreaming. Image credit ScienceDaily.com  The studies of lucid dreamers show which centers of the brain become active when we become aware of ourselves in dreams. Lucid dreamers are people who can become aware of dreaming during sleep.  Scientists from the Max Planck Institutes...

Physicists manufacture world's smallest semiconductor Laser.

Smallest Laser production principle.   A collaboration between Physicists at the University of Texas at Austin and colleagues in China and Taiwan has led to the development of the worlds smallest Laser. This is according to this week's Science report  on their work. Chih-Kang "Ken" Shih, professor of physics at The University of Texas...

Princes at war: How Prince Charles's plans for a slimmed monarchy sparked Palace power struggle.

Prince Andrew and Prince Charles: at loggerheads Outside the gates of Buckingham Palace the post-Diamond-Jubilee glow remains as warm as ever. The Queen at 86 is more popular now than at any time in her reign, the monarchy’s future enthusiastically underwritten by the millions who turned out to celebrate last month. But within palace walls the...

William Bonner - Bar Idiot - Becomes Human Torch. After Challenging Friends To Set His Head On Fire.

William Boner' head on fire. As reported by The Weekly Vice,William Bonner, a 36-year-old Georgia man, was feeling a little light headed Friday night after he allegedly challenged his bar buddies to set his head on fire.... and they did...

Heavy fighting in Syrian city of Aleppo

Syrian fighters near Aleppo As reported by CNN, Combat consumed parts of the sprawling Syrian city of Aleppo on Saturday, a disturbing sign for world powers who fear an all-out government assault. Government forces shelled Aleppo neighborhoods, and Free Syrian Army rebels clashed with government soldiers in and around the city on Saturday, the...

Mitt Romney: Arab Spring Could've Been Avoided By Bush's 'Freedom Agenda'

Mitt Romney, U.S presidential candidate. In an interview with the right-wing Israeli daily newspaper Israel Hayom, Mitt Romney said that the Arab Spring might never have happened had Bush's "freedom agenda" not been prematurely halted by President Barack Obama, as reported by Huffington post...

Florida puppeteer accused in child porn case.

Ronald Brown, accused puppeteer.    A Florida puppeteer who entertains children at birthday parties, schools and churches, secretly wanted to rape, kill and eat them, cops said.    Ronald Brown, 57, of Largo, was arrested last week after federal agents found that he'd allegedly been chatting online with child pornography suspects...

Hacker finds flaw in hotel locks, can ruin your vacation with $50 DIY gadget

Hacker testing device. As reported by Engadget, Cody Brocious, who was recently brought on by Mozilla to work on Boot to Gecko, is giving a presentation at the annual Black Hat conference in Vegas where he demonstrates a method for cracking open keycard locks with a homemade $50 device. The hack only works on locks made by Onity at the moment,...

New Recruits in the Fight Against Disease: Anti-Bacterial 'Killing Machine' Deciphered

An illustration of the bacteriophage lysin Ply C. (Credit: Image courtesy of Monash University). In research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, scientists from Monash University, The Rockefeller University and the University of Maryland detail how the bacteriophage lysin, PlyC, kills bacteria that cause infections...

RNC Issues False Attack On Obama Over Daily Economic Briefings In New Web Ad .

U.S Presidential candidates Barack Obama and Mitt Romney. The Republican National Committee (RNC) continued its line of attack that President Barack Obama is neglecting the economy in the pursuit of his own reelection with the release of a new web ad on Tuesday that invokes a year-old report to make a false claim about Obama's engagement with...

South Korean president apologizes for bribery scandals in his inner circle.

South Korean President Lee Myung-Bak. South Korean president Lee Myung-bak apologized to his country for what he called "shameful incidents" involving his family and inner circle, on Tuesday, As reported by CNN. Earlier this month, his older brother, Lee Sang-deuk was arrested on bribery charges involving two troubled Korean banks. This week, prosecutors...

Ghana swears in new president after leader's death

New Ghanaian President John Dramani Mahama. Ghanaian officials swore in a new president on Tuesday, hours after the death of the West African nation's leader. John Evans Atta Mills died suddenly at a military hospital on Tuesday afternoon a few hours after becoming ill, Chief of Staff John Henry Martey Newman said in a statement. He was...

Sport News: 24 July 2012 ; Soccer results, Hockey results, Basketball results, Cricket results.

SOCCER UEFA champions league qualifiers.  (FT) Ventspils                            1 - 1                           Molde  (FT) RB Salzburg                       4 - 3          ...

Colorado theater shooting suspect makes first court appearance.

James E. Holmes, Aurora shooting suspect. The man accused of shooting into a packed movie theater made his first court appearance on Monday, giving the public its first look at the 24-year-old former doctoral candidate since his arrest moments after the gunfire ended early Friday.  James E. Holmes, his hair dyed various shades of orange,...

NCAA Hits Penn State With $60 Million Fine, Postseason Ban, Loss Of Scholarships And Wins.

Penn State Football team. One day after the statue of Joe Paterno was removed from outside of Beaver Stadium on the Penn State campus, NCAA President Mark Emmert announced sanctions resulting from the football program's role in the sexual abuse scandal involving former defensive coach Jerry Sandusky. On Sunday, the NCAA announced its intention...

Westboro Baptist Church Threatens To 'Super Picket' Aurora Prayer Vigil For Batman Shooting Victims.

Members of the Westboro baptist church appear to be on their way to protest a prayer vigil for the victims of the Aurora massacre, according to tweet from the members posted by Examiner.com. using the hashtag #ThankGodForTheShooter, Examiner.com reports members tweeted out their plans to "super picket" the candle lit prayer service, saying "God is...