Gus, a Chinese crested dog that won the title world’s ugliest pooch died of cancer at age nine. Read…
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December 24, 2008
World’s Ugliest Dog Dies
November 6, 2008
Barack Obama: 44th President of the United States
On November 4, 2008, Barack Hussein Obama II defeated John McCain to become the 44th President of the United States. It was a historic win as Obama is the first African American to be elected in the highest office of the powerful nation. In his victory speech, Obama proclaimed: "change has come to America."
He will be his oath of office on January 20, 2009.
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October 23, 2008
Epidexipteryx Hui : Birds’ Earliest Ancestor
Scientists are saying that the Epidexipteryx Hui, uncovered by farmers of Inner Mongolia, China, almost a year ago, is the oldest known ancestors of birds. The creature is about the size of a pigeon and has a mixture of a bird and dinosaur. Read…
Josef Fritzl Declared “I Was Born to Rape”
Josef Fritzl , the Austrian man who shocked the world for keeping his daughter locked in a cellar for more than two decades and fathering her 7 children has told a psychiatrist that he was "born to rape", and blamed his oppressive mother for his behavior. Read…
August 18, 2008
‘Kryptonite’ Discovered In Mine
This was the headline in BBC news a few months back. I wanted to feature it here but I never got around to do it.
As you may know, the ‘kryptonite’ –as Hollywood moneymakers "created" it to be– is a green fragment from krypton ( the exploded planet of Superman ) which skin-headed Lex Luther uses to reduce our tights-donning, red-caped Superhero into nothing but a defenseless super weakling (ever watched Smallville?)
Well, as it turned out, the real mineral, discovered in a mine in Serbia is "white and harmless" and, does not glow. It will not be officially called kryptonite because krypton –the one in our Periodic Table– is not a mineral but "a colorless, odorless, tasteless noble gas"*. So instead, the ‘dull looking white rock’ will be named after its place of discovery, JADARITE (pronounced YA-darayt).
July 24, 2008
Oldest Copy Of Bible Will be Online
The 4th century New Testament, the oldest copy of the Bible is being reunited again online by Scholars. The full text of the Codex Sinaiticus will be available on the net by next July, says The British Library. Full story…