- Earl today became a dangerous Category 4 hurricane with maximum sustained winds of 215 mph as it moves through the warm waters in the Caribbean, U.S. forecasters said. “We forecast additional strengthening”, predicted the US National Hurricane Center (NHC) in the 2100 GMT bulletin. The eye of the storm was at that...
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- A new study by British researchers now says that the worldwide extinction of dinosaurs was caused by two, not one as had been proposed earlier, meteorites hitting the Earth 65 million years ago. The researchers at the University of Aberdeen, UK, led by Professor David Jolley, say there is evidence of a second impact in Ukraine, as...
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- An audacious Frenchman, who has climbed skyscrapers all around the world, was arrested on Monday in Sydney after climbing a 57-story building. Alain Robert, also known as the French “Spiderman”, reached the top of the Lumiere building in downtown Sydney on Monday morning, where the police was waiting for...
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Having reached an agreement with several U.S. movie companies, YouTube launched its free movie playback and hosting service. The service starts off with 400 free on demand movies, which can be accessed through the URL http://www.youtube.com/movies. YouTube closed deals with various companies including Lionsgate, Metro Goldwyn Mayer...
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- The German commander of ISAF International Security Assistance in Afghanistan (ISAF) said today that the release of tens of thousands of secret protocols on intervention in the Hindukush is endangering the lives of their soldiers. “I think this attitude is completely irresponsible,” German General Hans Werner Fritz in...
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- US President, Barack Obama, insisted today that the combat mission in Iraq, which officially ends on Tuesday, is close to ending. “The bottom line is this: the war is ending,” Obama told the nation in his weekly address broadcast on radio and the web. He said as that as a presidential candidate, he had promised he...
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