The main stadium for the 2012 London Olympics was shown to media on Tuesday, exactly 2 years from the opening of the next summer games. The London Olympics will open on July 27th, 2012 and feature competitions in 26 sports — 2 less than in the Beijing Olympics. The stadium, now under construction in east [...]
North Korean Foreign Ministry official Ri Dong Il protests about the United States – South Korean joint military drill, calling it a threat to regional peace and security. He speaked when visited Hanoi to attend the ASEAN Regional Forum on Sunday. Ri described the joint naval exercise in the Sea of Japan as a provocation [...]
Universal Pictures has released eight minute clip from the upcoming “Cowboys and Aliens” movie. The movie is based on the novel named Cowboys and Aliens. The story tells about Western settlers and Apache Indians. They must work together to against the alien. Director: Jon Favreau (Iron Man) Cast: – Harrison Ford (Col. Woodrow Dolarhyde) – [...]
Are you iPhone’s 4 fans? Today, Apple Inc. releases new promotion for the iPhone 4 named “iPhone 4 case Progam“. CEO Apple, Steve Jobs, promised that there would be case with no charge for everyone who purchased the iPhone before September 30th. There are some colors for your new iPhone case: Clear, the Speck PixelSkin [...]
More than 7,203 children in the Palestinian territory of Gaza, bounced the balls for 5 minutes. That means they have set a new world record for dribbling basketballs simultaneously and it is expected to be recognized by Guinness World Records. Children said that they hoped their mass-dribbling record would help attract the world’s attention to the [...]
Storm Bonnie – Currently, a formed tropical storm creep to the Bahamas and it has a tendency towards the oil spill area of the Gulf of Mexico. Forecasters at the US National Hurricane Center in Miami reported that this storm has maximum sustained winds of nearby 35 mph and might become Tropical Storm Bonnie by [...]
“The Kiss” – More than 1,500 couples in AIDS 2010 Conference in the Austrian capital Vienna have expressed their support for people infected with HIV by staging a kiss-in on Wednesday. The AIDS 2010 Conference was organized by a museum in Vienna that began in the capital on Sunday. Couples formed a “red ribbon”, the [...]
After a downbeat economic forecast by Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke, New York stock prices plunged on Wednesday. The key index briefly lost 160 points. The Dow Jones industrial average closed at 10,120, down 109 points from Tuesday’s close. Bernanke also warned that it would take time before the US job market recovered. Sell orders [...]
An international team of astronomers had been observing 2 young star clusters near the Milky Way with a giant telescope in Chile, when they found a huge star in the Tarantula Nebula. They have discovered what might be the largest ever star, with a mass 300 times that of the Sun. Large stars are said [...]
The United States has announced it is considering new sanctions against North Korea, after the first-ever “2-plus-2″ security talks between US and South Korean ministers. Defense Secretary Robert Gates and US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton met their South Korean counterparts, foreign minister Yu Myung Hwan and Defense Minister Kim Tae Young, in Seoul on [...]