Europe

Elizabeth Smart, who was kidnapped at age 14 from her Salt Lake City home and held for what she described as “nine months of hell,” is engaged and anticipates a wedding in early summer, a family spokesman said on Friday. After her rescue, Smart, took up a career as an advocate for missing children and occasional TV news commentator. Her ... Read More »

Hundreds of websites are down today protesting the SOPA , a bill if introduced could take away your internet freedom. Among the hundreds to oppose the bill, are Google, Wikipedia, Boing Boing, Reddit, Minecraft, Firefall, Scribd, Facebook who have joined unanimously to go against the US senate I have already covered an article on how dangerous the SOPA bill could ... Read More »

Cruise Ship Captain Francesco Schettino who abandoned the sinking ship was arrested today with charges of man slaughtering against his name. Three people including two French tourists and a Peruvian crew member were confirmed to have died and 41 were still unaccounted for after the 114,000-tonne Costa Concordia smashed into rocks near the island of Giglio. Authorities said that Francesco ... Read More »

The US government is concerned that Israel is preparing to take military action against Iran over US objections, and has stepped up contingency planning to safeguard US facilities in the region, The Wall Street Journal reported. The newspaper said President Barack Obama, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and other top officials have delivered a series of private messages to Israeli leaders, ... Read More »

Six people died in the early hours of Saturday after a cruise ship ran aground off the Italian coast in an accident which forced the coast guard to evacuate over 4,000 people, media reports said. The Costa Concordia was on a trip around the Mediterranean when it hit a reef near the Isola del Giglio late Friday. The local mayor ... Read More »

A large public outcry was seen among the rights group  following a video release from British newspaper The Observer that showed the locals in Andaman Islands being treated as Slaves and Human Zoos The released video, displayed  how Men who term themselves as Civilized turned into monkeys. Andaman Islands is not only the place of natural beauty, but also has ... Read More »

OMG! This is insane. A school in Gwinnett County, Ga., gave assignment to its third grade students some simple maths problems. The more the assignment sounded simple, the more it contained unacceptable words in it. The third grade assignment question read, “Each tree had 56 oranges. If eight slaves pick them equally, then how much would each slave pick”. Another ... Read More »