Earthquake shakes Northern Japan
Region: JapanPer Yahoo! Japan, a 6.3-magnitude earthquake shook Northern Japan at 12:30 p.m. local time on Friday. The epicenter was in Tokachi-oki and the quake was felt strongly in nearby Hokkaido and Sapporo, Japan. Per the ma... more
Views: 3451Brazil mulls over controversial bill to legitimize land-grab in Amazon
Region: BrazilBrazil’s president Lula da Silva has a controversial bill on his hands: it is his call to approve or veto a law that will grant land title to 300,000 properties illegally established across some 600,000 square kilo... more
Views: 1683Zuma promises 4 million jobs by 2014
Region: South AfricaPer Bloomberg, South Africa President Jacob Zuma pledged to create four million jobs by 2014, including 500,000 by the end of this year, in his state of the nation address Wednesday. He said that the government would boost... more
Views: 1662Can Reliance on Twitter Make Emotional Cripples of Us All?
Region: United StatesAmong the most important voices suggesting Twitter has the potential to numb human senses and create indifference to human suffering is University of Southern California researcher, Mary Helen Immordino-Yang. Her inquiry ... more
Views: 1130Twitter's First Scientific Experiment
Region: United Kingdom (Great Britain)With Twitter,you can stay updated about your friends or your favourite people.But there's a lot more Twitter can do.Now,Twitter is going to be used for a scientific experiment for the first time says Richard Wiseman. Th... more
Views: 870Air France jet missing over Atlantic, presumed crashed
Region: BrazilPer CNN, Air France flight 447 carrying 228 passengers from Rio de Janeiro heading to Paris was reported missing early Monday morning. The jet lost contact with the airlines shortly after it flew over a stormy area with st... more
Views: 2140Iceland keeps shaking with earthquakes
Region: IcelandPer Ice News, Iceland has had “438 earthquakes” in 48 hours, mostly small tremors and aftershocks but still an enormous amount of seismic activity. The most notable earthquake registered at 6.1 on the Richter S... more
Views: 1744Iran restores access to Facebook
Region: IranPer Time, the Iranian government has reversed a block on access to social networking Web site Facebook. The news came after rising protests by supporters of pro-reform candidate, Mir Hossein Mousavi, who is trying to leve... more
Views: 1971Deadly bomb blast strikes Lahore, Pakistan
Region: PakistanPer CNN, at least 10 were killed and 80 wounded in an apparent suicide attack on a police building in Lahore, Pakistan. More than 200 people were believed to be inside the facility, which was brought to rubble. The first ... more
Views: 2639Guatemalans organize protests to fight injustice
Region: GuatemalaPer Prensa Libre in Guatemala, protests advocating for justice were held in separate locations in Guatemala City on Sunday. The events were held at Plaza Italia and Plaza de Constitution and were organized through the soci... more
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