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Prince William and Kate to Announce Engagement In summer
Kate Middleton and Prince William
Prince William and Kate to Announce Engagement In summer
Royal wedding speculation grew yesterday after claims that Buckingham Palace has ‘cleared its diary’ for a June announcement of an engagement between Prince William and Kate Middleton.
According to well-connected former editor and author Tina Brown, aides plan to announce on either June 3 or 4 that a wedding will take place in November.
Miss Brown was a personal friend of William’s mother Diana and has published a well-received biography of her. She said the hint had come from an anonymous – but impeccable – royal contact.
‘A high-placed source in More >
The Innovative Teacher Uses Fruits to Generate Electricity
Averrhoa bilimbi
The Innovative Teacher Uses Fruits to Generate Electricity
Sunarto, a senior high school teacher in Magetan, East Java has made a breakthrough in generating electricity from a juice of a kind of fruit, averrhoa bilimbi. The Surabaya Institute of Technology graduate generates electricity of a light bulb that keeps turning on continuously for a month.
His innovation is the result of a long observation on potential electric power in averrhoa bilimbi. After taking a series of experiments, he finally reap the innovation.
According to him, it’s not difficult to generate electricity from averrhoa bilimbi. Just prepare a glass of soil, averrhoa bilimbi More >
Michael Jackson Killed Himself with Fatal Overdose
Michael Jackson's
Michael Jackson Killed Himself with Fatal Overdose
The doctor charged over Michael Jackson’s death made an initial court appearance in Los Angeles today as crowds of the singer’s fans rallied outside the courthouse.
Members of the Jackson family including his parents Joe and Katherine, sister Janet and brothers Jermaine and Randy also attended the hearing for Dr Conrad Murray, 52, who has pleaded not guilty to involuntary manslaughter.
The case in Los Angeles Superior Court is aimed at assigning a judge and setting a preliminary trial date. Dozens of fans rallied outside wearing T-shirts emblazoned with Jackson’s picture and the slogan Justice More >
iPad Wireless Complaints
iPad
iPad Wireless Complaints
The launch of Apple’s long-awaited iPad tablet computer has been marred by reports that some users have experienced technical problems with the device. Apple sold more than 300,000 iPads on the tablet computer’s first day in stores, the company said, but some new owners have logged on to Apple forums complaining that their iPad had little or no wi-fi signal, where other devices worked well.
Michael Arrington at TechCrunch reported “scores of complaints” on Apple forums. “I’m getting one or two bars on my iPad in rooms where my iPhone, iPod touch, both Macbook Pros, Apple TV and Playstation More >
The New Generation of 3D Mobile Phones
The Sharp 3D
The New Generation of 3D Mobile Phones
A new generation of 3D mobile phones that don’t require special glasses, could go on sale by the end of this year. Japanese electronics manufacturer Sharp unveiled a new three-inch liquid crystal display screen that played 3D animations over the weekend.
The company also showed off a touch-panel screen that could flick from one 3D photo to another and a display connected to a camcorder that showed video it was taking in 3D.
The new technology is expected to be incorporated into mobile phones, electronic dictionaries and digital cameras in Japan from as early More >
Eight year old Sumatran rhino became pregnant
Eight year old Sumatran rhino became pregnant
A critically endangered Sumatran rhino which became pregnant in captivity could have miscarried, a rhino conservationist said Sunday. Eight-year-old Ratu became pregnant in February after mating with Andalas, the first of only three Sumatran rhinos born in captivity over the past 112 years.
“She might have miscarried… we checked and the foetus was gone. She’s also ovulating,” said Widodo Ramono of the Rhino Foundation of Indonesia, which is conducting the breeding programme in conjunction with the International Rhino Foundation (IRF) and Cincinnati Zoo in the United States. Ramono said the rhino would be given an More >
Sensational Rocket War Celebrated traditional Easter
Sensational Rocket War Celebrated traditional Easter
Homemade rockets streaked through the sky during a traditional Easter celebration in the village of Vrontados at midnight yesterday, on the Greek island of Chios.
As a variation of the Greek habit of throwing fireworks during the celebration of the Orthodox Christian service at midnight before Easter Sunday, two rival church congregations in the town, the congregations of the Agios Markos and Panagia Erithiani churches, perform a ‘Rocket War’.
Each congregation fires thousands of homemade rockets across the town, with the objective of hitting the bell tower of the church of the other side. There are many More >
Facts and figures on the new Apple iPad
Facts and figures on the new Apple iPad
There were scenes of nearly hysterical enthusiasm as dozens of Apple staff in matching blue T-shirts psyched themselves up before opening hour with rhythmic clapping and cheering.
Customers emerged from the glass-roofed store, holding their newly minted toys in front of the television news cameras like trophy winners. iPad latest of many groundbreaking products by Apple
“I’m going to go home and play with iPad, not my girlfriend,” announced a young man named Randy.
Apple calls the tablet “revolutionary” and the Wall Street Journal in a review said the device is a “game changer” that could More >
Central Asia’s Aral Sea has shrunk by 90 per cent in the past 50 years
Central Asia’s Aral Sea has shrunk by 90 per cent in the past 50 years
It was once the world’s fourth-largest lake, but Central Asia’s Aral Sea has shrunk by 90 per cent in the past 50 years what has been described as one of the planet’s ‘most shocking environmental disasters.’
The sea, which borders Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan and was once 26,000 square miles, has dried up significantly since the 1960s when the rivers that fed it were largely diverted in a Soviet project to boost cotton production in the arid region.
By 1997 it had shrunk to 10 per cent of its More >
The great mysteries of our evolutionary tree, exactly when humans began to walk on two feet
The great mysteries of our evolutionary tree, exactly when humans began to walk on two feet
The discovery of a ‘missing link’ between man and apes could revolutionise our understanding of how we evolved, scientists say. They believe the two-million-year-old fossilised skeleton of a child, found in South Africa, is that of an entirely new species and an intermediate stage between our ape-like ancestors and modern man.
And they claim it could help us crack one of the great mysteries of our evolutionary tree – exactly when humans began to walk on two feet. While most finds are little more than scattered More >
The Air Comet attendants posing provocatively in and outside airline cabins
The Air Comet attendants posing provocatively in and outside airline cabins
Flight attendants owed up to nine months’ wages by a grounded Spanish airline have posed nude for a calendar to draw attention to their plight, one of the cabin crew turned models said on Wednesday.
The calendar, numerous excerpts of which appeared in the Spanish media, shows the Air Comet attendants, all female, posing provocatively in and outside airline cabins, and in one case on top of a jet turbine.
“We are just demanding our rights to receive what is ours, we each have eight or nine months of unpaid salaries,” attendant More >
