Early on 4 January, as the morning sun lazily crept its way up over the horizon of Buenos Aires, Argentina, the first of 665 valiant competitors crossed the start line of the 37th Dakar Rally. They’ve signed themselves up for two weeks of treacherous, torturous trudging across 5,661 miles of South America. It’s a loop that incorporates the most inhospitable parts of Argentina, Bolivia and Chile, where man and motorised […]
STUTTGART, Germany — Soon after the Islamist group Boko Haram kidnapped nearly 300 teenage girls in Nigeria in April, the United States sent surveillance drones and about 30 intelligence and security experts to help the Nigerian military try to rescue them. Gen. David M. Rodriguez, the top general for American missions in Africa, rushed from his headquarters here to help the commanders in the crisis. Seven months later, the drone […]
The search is on for an AirAsia plane carrying 162 people that lost contact with Indonesian air traffic control Sunday. Before communication was lost, AirAsia Flight QZ 8501 asked to deviate from its planned flight route — from the Indonesian city of Surabaya to Singapore — because of weather conditions, AirAsia said in a statement. There was conflicting information about when exactly Flight 8501 went missing. AirAsia said contact was […]
The new trailer for Chris Hemsworth’s ‘In the Heart of the Sea’ has been unveiled. The film is based on the book by Nathaniel Philbrick, which tells the true story of the Essex whaling ship sinking into the Pacific Ocean in 1820, reported Ace Showbiz. ‘In the Heart’ of the Sea will open in cinemas on March 13, 2015. Please follow and like us:
Flickr/NHS Confederation Patrick Soon-Shiong at an NHS Confederation conference. Imagine visiting the doctor’s office for a check-up and watching as the measurements from your blood pressure and heart rate appear instantaneously on a screen at the doctor’s desk. When the doctor comes in, instead of manually comparing your vitals with a chart pasted inside her notebook, she looks to the screen, where the computer has done the work for her, […]
Mount Sharp was built by sediments deposited in a large lake bed over tens of millions of years, Curiosity has found Shows ancient Martian climate may have produced lakes at many locations Now believed the ancient, thick atmosphere on Mars raised temperatures above freezing globally on the planet Billions of years ago, a lake once filled the 96-mile- (154-km) wide crater being explored by NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity, bolstering evidence […]
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 […]
Cricketer Phillip Hughes has died, surrounded by close family and friends at St Vincent’s Hospital in Sydney The 25-year-old was struck by a ball delivered by bowler Sean Abbott on Tuesday afternoon at SCG Team doctor Peter Brukner said Phillip Hughes was not in pain when he passed away on Thursday afternoon ‘He never regained consciousness following his injury,’ Dr Brukner said As the sporting community mourns Hughes’ death, concerns […]
A rarely seen fish that resembles a severed head with a huge mouthful of fangs has been captured on video in its natural, deep-sea habitat for the first time. The female “black sea devil” anglerfish was filmed 580 metres below the surface of the ocean on Nov. 17 using a remote-controlled robotic submarine by researchers at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute in California. As of Monday morning, the video […]
Karma is the Sanskrit word for action. It is equivalent to Newton’s law of ‘every action must have a reaction’. When we think, speak or act we initiate a force that will react accordingly. This returning force maybe modified, changed or suspended, but most people will not be able eradicate it. This law of cause and effect is not a punishment, but is wholly for the sake of education or […]
