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Monday, 13 October 2014

Giant squid attacks Greenpeace submarine

© news.com.auThe giant squid took on a Greenpeace sub in the Bering Sea. Incredible footage has emerged of a huge squid taking on a Greenpeace submarine.The video was released by Greenpeace on Vine and shows the squid spinning around and squirting black ink at the sub.The shocked crew pointed a light at the squid to try and scare it away. The squid continued to thrash around and whip the sub with its tentacles. © news.com.au The incident occurred...

USGS: Earthquake Magnitude 6.1 - South of the Kermadec Islands

© USGS Event Time2014-10-14 04:12:30 UTC2014-10-14 16:12:30 UTC+12:00 at epicenterLocation34.917°S 179.970°E depth=31.5km (19.6mi)Nearby Cities400km (249mi) SSW of L'Esperance Rock, New Zealand430km (267mi) NE of Whakatane, New Zealand450km (280mi) NNE of Gisborne, New Zealand459km (285mi) NE of Tauranga, New Zealand840km (522mi) NE of Wellington, New ZealandScientific Data...

USGS: Earthquake Magnitude 7.3- 67km WSW of Jiquilillo, Nicaragua

© USGS Event Time2014-10-14 03:51:35 UTC2014-10-13 21:51:35 UTC-06:00 at epicenterLocation12.576°N 88.046°W depth=40.0km (24.9mi)Nearby Cities67km (42mi) WSW of Jiquilillo, Nicaragua86km (53mi) SSW of La Union, El Salvador95km (59mi) W of Corinto, Nicaragua95km (59mi) SSE of San Rafael Oriente, El Salvador174km (108mi) SE of San Salvador, El SalvadorScientific Data...

The widely cited physicist who doesn't exist turns out to be 'total *sshole'

© Shutterstock An Italian science writer reviewing a paper written in 1987 by two well-known physicists from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, noted a third author with an intriguing and profane Italian name which translates to "total *sshole."Vito Tartamella discovered what turned out to be a private joke, when reading "," published in 1987 in the Journal of Statistical Physics, and credited to physicists Bill Moran, William G. Hoover, and...

Turning up the heat at St Louis protests: Ferguson activists reject religious leaders' platitudes

© James Cooper/Demotix/CorbisCornel West said the older generation 'has been too obsessed with being successful rather than being faithful to a cause'. Frustration and anger among young black Americans at an older generation's apparent failure to adequately respond to the killing of Michael Brown by a white police officer in Ferguson upended a key event at a weekend of mass protest on Sunday.The showdown exposed a generational divide over how best...

Ultraviolet light robot kills Ebola in two minutes; why doesn’t every hospital have one of these?

While vaccine makers and drug companies are rushing to bring medical interventions to the market that might address the Ebola pandemic, there’s already a technology available right now that can kill Ebola in just two minutes in hospitals, quarantine centers, commercial offices and even public schools.It’s called the Xenex Germ-Zapping Robot, and it was invented by a team of Texas doctors whose company is based on San Antonio. (And no, I didn’t get...

Falling metal object mystifies New Jersey plant workers

© NBC New YorkA 5-by-5 inch piece of metal that appears to be made of ceramic, metal and rubberlike layers fell from the sky. Workers at a New Jersey treatment plant say they saw a heavy, metallic object fall from the sky Wednesday, and they want to know where the potentially deadly projectile came from.The employees at Secaucus Treatment Works said the 5-by-5 inch piece of metal debris hit a railing, ricocheted off a concrete tank, then hit the...

Nurse accused of killing 38 patients she found annoying

© EuropicsModal Trigger Nurse Daniela Poggiali was arrested for allegedly killing up to 38 patients whom she found annoying. Officials said that a nurse in northeast Italy might have killed as many as 38 patients because she found them - or their relatives - annoying.Daniela Poggiali, who lives in the town of Lugo, was taken into custody over the weekend.The 42-year-old nurse was booked for the alleged slaying of 78-year-old patient Rosa Calderoni,...

Stolen billions set aside for post-Saddam Iraq found in Lebanese bunker

© Photograph: EPAPaul Bremer and Iraqi deputy prime minister Barham Saleh in 2004. Bremer defended the CPA’s handling of the funds. More than $1bn earmarked for the reconstruction of Iraq was stolen and spirited to a bunker in Lebanon as the American and Iraqi governments ignored appeals to recover the money, it has been claimed. Stuart Bowen, a former special inspector general who investigated corruption and waste in Iraq, said the stash accounted...

Hysteria: Elementary school child forced to sign anti-suicide contract for pointing a crayon at classmate

Inappropriate: A five-year-old Alabama girl was made to sign this contract after pretending a crayon was a gun An Alabama mom is furious that her five-year-old daughter was forced to sign a contract saying she will not hurt herself or anyone at school after she pointed a crayon at a classmate.The incident occurred at E.R. Dickson Elementary School in Mobile.The mom, only identified as Rebecca, said the school asked her toddler, Elizabeth, whether...

Video: NASA excitedly prepares for 'once in a lifetime' viewing of comet narrowly missing Mars

© NASAMars simulation Scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory are preparing all of their assets orbiting and roving Mars to observe and collect data from what they call a "once in a lifetime" viewing of a never-seen-before comet passing within 87,000 miles of the surface of the planet. Comet C/2013 A1, also known as comet Siding Spring, will pass Mars on Oct. 19, at less than half the distance between Earth and our moon and less than one-tenth...

Halloween prop puts Obama's name on a tombstone, draws complaints

© KOCOObama's tombstone Oklahoma woman said she was "absolutely offended" by her neighbor's Halloween display, which included a tombstone with President Barack Obama's name on it."He is the president of the United States, and it actually is about respect," said Jamila Phillips, who recently moved to the neighborhood in Edmond. "It's a total respect thing because this person is still alive."Her neighbor, Dwayne Dockens, told KOCO-TV he's displayed...

Wiwa Indians killed by lightning during a tribal ceremony in Colombia to be left unburied in accordance with their beliefs

© AFP PhotoA picture released by the Defensoria del Pueblo shows a native from the Wiwa ethnic group looking at the the location of a lightning strike in Santa Marta, Colombia, on October 6, 2014 Eleven Wiwa Indians killed by lightning during a tribal ceremony in Colombia's Sierra Nevada mountains will be left unburied where they died according to their traditions, an official said Sunday. The community of about 60 families will abandon their remote...

NIH Director blames 'budget cuts' for lack of an Ebola vaccine

© NIHFrancis Collins The head of the National Institute of Health (NIH) is blaming budget cuts for the current Ebola epidemic, claiming that a vaccine would have developed if the NIH's budget hadn't been stagnant for the past decade, the reports. Dr. Francis Collins told the that the "NIH has been working on Ebola vaccines since 2001. It's not like we suddenly woke up and thought, 'Oh my gosh, we should have something ready here.'"When asked why...

Ukrainian conscripts fed up: National Guard troops protest outside presidential office in Kiev

© Reuters / Valentyn OgirenkoConscripts of the National Guard of Ukraine gather near the presidential administration headquarters to demand their demobilization in Kiev, October 13, 2014 Ukrainian National Guard troops are protesting outside the presidential administration office in Kiev as they demand demobilization. They are refusing to return to their barracks outside the capital.About 200 soldiers have surrounded the building claiming they have...

Tropical storm Gonzalo strikes Antigua, could potentially develop into Category 1 hurricane

Tropical Storm Gonzalo is making its way through the eastern Caribbean, spinning through Antigua on its way toward Puerto Rico and the US and British Virgin Islands. Authorities say Gonzalo could potentially form into a Category 1 hurricane.Antigua is expected to receive heavy rain and winds for several hours, according to AP's latest report. Many Antiguans have reported that homes have been stripped of roofing and downed trees have blocked roads...

Cop breaks into Colorado family's home, fatally shoots resident in the back without explanation

© KRDO.comCrime scene tape blocks off the house where the shooting occurred in Rocky Ford. A Colorado family said that it was stunned over the weekend when an officer broke down their door, and fatally shot one of the residents in the back without an explanation.Sara Lindenmuth told KRDO that a Rocky Ford police officer forced down the door to their home sometime after her brother-in-law, 27-year-old Jack Jacquez, came home around 2 a.m. on Sunday...

Analysis of emperor Obama's old new clothes - the US energy wars and shale gas scams

It really is a pity that children are not allowed to U.N. meetings, so that during Obama's address to the General Assembly last week someone could have shouted out: "The King is naked!". For even though in its intention his speech was supposed to be a finely-weaved cloth depicting utopian motifs of US-led knights in shining UN armour fighting for human progress, democracy, peace and prosperity around the globe, there were so many holes in this...

Man injured in bear attack in Srinagar, India

One person was injured in a attack by a wild animal in Braipathri Nagbal Pakharpora. A bear attacked and injured a person identified as Mohammad Rafique Hajam son of Mohammad Abdullah residence of Braipathri Nagbal jurisdiction of PP Pakherpora. The injured was shifted to SKIMS Soura Srinagar for treatme...

Man attacked and mauled by bear in Mizoram, India

A 50-year-old man was attacked and injured by a bear in a jungle near the Mizoram-Myanmar border in south Mizoram's Lunglei district, police said today.The man was attacked by the bear inside the thick jungle protected by the local community when he was passing through it on Wednesday last, the police said.He called up his relatives over phone after the attack and was taken home by volunteers from the village. He was admitted with multiple wounds,...

Storms tear through Arkansas, Louisiana, killing 1, thousands without power in Texas

© John Johnson via TwitterPossible tornado touchdown near Ashdown, AR....1 dead. A multi-day severe weather outbreak began with tragic news Monday morning, as a tornado was reported in southwestern Arkansas that killed one person.The Weather Channel has confirmed through the Little River County, Arkansas, Sheriff's Department that the fatality occurred in an area between the towns of Ashdown and Foreman near the borders of Texas and Oklahoma. The...
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