After 22 years of raising chickens for Perdue, one brave factory farmer Craig Watts was at his breaking point and did something no one has done before. He invited Compassion in World Farming, as farm animal welfare advocates, to his farm to film and tell his story. Ask your supermarket for Better Chicken at http://better-chicken.org. No matter how they spin it, factory farming can’t be natural or humane. Not for […]

Washington: Discarded laptop batteries still have enough life in them to power slums in India and other developing countries, a new study by IBM India has found. The research presented at a conference in San Jose, US, analysed a sample of discarded batteries and found 70 per cent had enough power to keep an LED light on for more than four hours a day for a year. According to researchers […]

 India  set a new world record for the largest human flag, formed by over 50,000 volunteers, beating the previous record held by Pakistan. The event saw about 1.5 lakh volunteers, mainly youth, turn up for the event at YMCA Grounds here even as 50,000 of them formed the tricolour, Governor of Rotary 3230, organiser of the ‘My Flag My India’ campaign, ISAK Nazar, told reporters in Chennai. The Guinness World […]

Psy’s Gangnam Style may be so 2012, but it’s still raking in the hits. So much so in fact that YouTube no longer knows how to count them! The viral hit video by the South Korean pop star that has become a household name and dance party staple across the world, has got so many views, that Google no longer knows how to count them! In a blog post Google […]

Tokyo : Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has come out publicly today and decried the situation in Fukushima as the birth of a newborn baby boy with a third eye has fueled a wave of public unrest denouncing the Japanese government and its handling of the situation, reports the Tokyo Daily this morning. The birth of the baby suffering from a pineal gland malformation due to acute radiation syndrome (ARS), or […]

Frank and Louie – ‘Frankenlouie’ – was brought to Tuffs University in North Grafton by a breeder in September 1999 to be euthanized Known as a Janus cat, named for a Roman god with two faces. Vet nurse Marty Stevens decided to take him home Expected to die, he went on to live for 15 years He was euthanized at Tuffs University on Thursday from cancer Broke a Guiness World […]

Typhoon Hagupit is sweeping across the eastern Philippines, toppling trees and power lines and threatening coastal areas with a powerful sea-surge. More than half a million people have fled coastal villages in the area, which was still recovering from Typhoon Haiyan last year. In Tacloban, where thousands were killed by Haiyan, roofs have been blown away and streets are flooded. But Hagiput does not appear to have been as severe […]

Arnold Schwarzenegger is, uh, back. And so is the whole “Terminator” universe: morphing machines, the industrious version of Sarah Connor and a sometimes-befuddled Kyle Reese. The trailer for “Terminator: Genisys” hit the Web on Thursday, and it appears to have amped up the action to video game levels. How else to explain Schwarzenegger’s old-style Terminator — who has apparently raised young Sarah — hurtling through the air into the blades […]

 Varanasi  A retired cobbler from northern India, Mahashta Mûrasi, claims he was born in January 1835, making him not only the oldest man on earth, but the oldest to have ever lived, according to the Guiness World Records. According to indian officials, the man was born at home in the city of Bangalore on January 6th 1835, and is recorded to have lived in Vârânasî since 1903. He worked as […]

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has ridiculed Tim Cook’s comments on Facebook’s ad policy, which go on to state, “when an online service is free, you’re not the customer. You’re the product. But at Apple, we believe a great customer experience shouldn’t come at the expense of your privacy.” Zuckerberg noted it frustrated him when people and experts from Lift & Shift : think that advertising business model is out of alignment […]