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Sep
4
2010

Government declares state of emergency in southern New Zealand

The New Zealand Government declared a state of emergency on Saturday 4th September 2010 in the south, hours after the earthquake of 7.2 on the Richter scale that hit the area of Christchurch. About a hundred people were injured, two of them seriously, but no deaths were recorded so far by the authorities.
7.2-degree earthquake [...]

Sep
2
2010

Nearly one in four travel site violates the law : DGCCRF report

A French site has published the report that a quarter of Internet travel sites monitored this summer by the DGCCRF were more or less misleading to the consumer. Hervé Novelli announced a “zero tolerance”.
Of the 449 travel websites tested this summer by the DGCCRF (Directorate General for Competition, Consumption and Repression of Fraud), 98 were [...]

Sep
1
2010

farewell to U.S. combat troops, Iraq has become an independent sovereign state

U..S. President Barack Obama the evening of August 31 speech at the White House announced that U.S. combat mission in Iraq ended after 7 years experience full of bloodshed and controversy of the war, The Associated Press comment that the U.S. participate in one of the longest war this into the turning point.
Is [...]

Aug
28
2010

NASA experts will travel to Chile next week to advise chilean miners

A team of NASA experts will travel next week to advise the Chilean government on how to put efforts to maintain in good condition of 33 miners trapped 700 meters at a site in the Atacama Desert.
It will b qualifies as be a historic rescue operation, the team headed by Deputy Director of [...]

Aug
28
2010

Google Earth and Maps: Remembering Hurricane Katrina on its 5th anniversary

Kate Hurowitz who has posted a blog yesterday on Google Lat Long Blog has revealed about his self experience and informed that before joining Google he was working with a non-profit organization(http://www.childrenshealthfund.org/ the organization helped the areas affected by Hurricane Katrina by sending mobile health clinics to the Gulf Coast, where [...]

Aug
25
2010

Miss Universe 2010 reveals that she never had plastic surgery or diet

The Mexican Jimena Navarrete Rosete, 22, says that it is really unbelievable that she became Miss Universe 2010. “I’m in shock, is all I can say! This is for Mexico,” she wrote in his Twitter shortly after the ceremony.
The Mexico candidate is elected Miss Universe, She has dedicated the new Miss Universe title in Mexico [...]

Aug
7
2010

Tibetan Mastiff cause of death remains a mystery!

See the love of a man towards the dog breed Tibetan mastiff. In order to buy a Tibetan Mastiff he sold the property plus 10 million in cash, with nearly 600 thousand yuan has been spent to buy a Tibetan Mastiff. However, the dog just after one month suddenly expired.
The buyer, “Hope A sigh,” [...]

Aug
1
2010

Shark Week is back: Fan Photos and Live shark cam

Here are 44 photos set for the fans of shark week which has begun on Discovery channel from today i.e. August 1st 2010. The Week is considered as one of the favorite week of people. During this week people love to watch Lemons, and Tigers and Bulls Sharks. Here we are giving you link to [...]

Aug
1
2010

Shark week premiers from August 1st, Best week on TV

Are you too looking for Shark week? Did you know it’s Shark Week on discovery channel? We are herby giving details on the same .It starts on Sunday, August 1, with “Ultimate Air Jaws” at 9PM e/p and “Into the Shark Bite” at 10 PM e/p. People are crazy about this and really looking [...]

Jul
30
2010

China is 2nd largest economy in the world: PBOC

China is now the second largest economy in the world, today said Yi Gang, vice-president of the People’s Bank of China (PBOC, central bank of the country), indicating that the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of china surpasses Japan . This statement was made in an interview published on the website of the foreign [...]