Serbians Elect Tomislav Nikolic President

Posted in: Featured, World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | May 21st 2012 | no comments

Serbia elected on Sunday a new president, nationalist Tomislav Nikolic, who unseated incumbent Boris Tadic in a runoff won by 50.21% to 46.77% according to the latest estimations of the electoral commission which announced preliminary results. Boris Tadic, who had shortened his mandate in order to push [...]

BP stops work in the gulf after days of success

By Catalin Magureanu | July 14th 2010 | 5 comments

BP stopped the activity on two major projects, which would cease the flow of billowing oil from its well situated in the Gulf of Mexico, after days of positive results and approaching the final goal of controlling the crisis. After nearly three months of failed attempts to stop the spill, which has contaminated the beaches and ruined the fishing industry from Florida to Texas, the [...]

Glamping Makes Many Happy Campers

By Irina Ionescu | July 14th 2010 | 2 comments

What? Does the word "glamping" not ringing you any bell? Actually I'd be surprised if it did. Glamping takes camping into a new dimension of glamorous, luxury and comfort, so it's easy now to understand that the key word, glamping, comes from the two words glamour and camping. Many years of enjoyable camping, backpacking and adventure trips might have come across you, but there comes [...]

Small Ways To Save Big On Food Expenses

By Irina Ionescu | July 14th 2010 | no comments

People nowadays got used to taking it all for granted and spending large amounts of money daily for things they shouldn't pay for but they do, out of comfort, lack of time or interest. But if you want to be a green activist in a big city and reduce your carbon footprint upon the environment, or if you just want to save some money for other things, you should take into consideration these [...]

The radical al Shabaab outside the Somali border

By Catalin Magureanu | July 14th 2010 | one comment

Somali militant from al Shabaab attacked with suicide bombs the Ugandan capital Kampala. There were twin explosions killing a number of 74 people, being the first terrorist attack outside the Somali borders, not counting the few attacks into the north of Kenya. The bombing was planned to take place in a restaurant known as a rugby club where people were watching the Football World [...]

The effects of Human Growth Hormone

By Sergiu Vidican | July 14th 2010 | one comment

It seems that some of the athletes and “gym rats” are not relying only on steroids anymore in order to improve their performance. The new trend in the world of performance enhancing substances is the Human Growth Hormone, or HGH, as they are also called. One of the biggest news came a while ago when Anthony Galea, a Canadian doctor has been charged with distributing such substances [...]

Top Green Gizmos for Summer

By Irina Ionescu | July 14th 2010 | one comment

There is no better time than summer to start reducing your energy use, as well as your carbon footprint with some innovative green gadgets. The first step in lowering energy use is determing how much each appliance uses in the first place. Plug your appliances into the Kill A Watt, and an easy-to-read meter will tell you how much energy is being used. What you also probably know [...]

Blatter, unhappy with the final

By Tudor Daniel | July 13th 2010 | no comments

FIFA President Sepp Blatter blames both Dutch and Spain’s players who ruined Sunday’s World Cup final with too many fouls committed plus other little incidents against English referee Howard Webb who was inclined to show twelve yellow cards and one red, the Netherlands conceding eight of them and also the red one shown to Heitinga. Blatter declared it was not the kind of match he has [...]

Drunk drivers can avoid breath test if they do not speak English

By Raluca Coman | July 13th 2010 | no comments

The state Supreme Court ruled on Monday that the New Jersey drivers that do not speak English must be informed in a language they understand of the consequences of refusing to take the alcohol breath test if they are accused of driving under the influence of alcohol. No other state requires the translations of the statement, though New York and Washington provide free access to [...]

Former school teacher acused of being pedophile

By Raluca Coman | July 13th 2010 | no comments

Gerald Laneaux, a 26 years old Austin school teacher, is accused of sexual assault on two girls aged 4. The police accused him of two different attacks on young girls, calling him a pedophile and a predator. One of the attacks took place at a Pflugerville preschool where he was teaching and the other one seems to have happened in his car. The mother of the victim that is supposed to [...]

Shahram Amiri goes back to Iran

By Raluca Coman | July 13th 2010 | no comments

An Iranian nuclear scientist that has been missing has taken refugee at the Pakistani embassy from Washington and wants to return to his homeland as soon as possible. Shahram Amiri has disappeared in June 2009 during a pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia. Iran has claimed that the United States has abducted Shahram Amiri, charges denied by the Americans. United States has reported this year in [...]

14 year-old tourist shot in St.Thomas

By Raluca Coman | July 13th 2010 | no comments

A Puerto Rican tourist aged 14 years old was killed on the United States Virgin Islands because she was caught in the crossfire between two gangs. Lizmarie Perez Chapparro from Puerto Rico was killed in front of her family after being in the gunfight and was struck by a bullet while she was riding with her relatives on a safari bus that walks tourists across the territory of the three [...]

Pepsi helps cleaning the Gulf

By Raluca Coman | July 13th 2010 | one comment

Pepsi expands its charitable program, the popular Refresh Project, to the Gulf of Mexico and is planning to help communities affected by the oil spill. One Pepsi spokesman declared on Thursday that the soft drink producer will give 1.3 million dollars more to projects that will help communities from Texas, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana and Alabama. Starting with January the charitable [...]

World Cup’s final referee: Most difficult two hours in my life

By Tudor Daniel | July 13th 2010 | no comments

Twelve yellow cards and one red Howard Webb has shown in Sunday’s big World Cup final between Spain and the Netherlands. It was quite a tense match with both sides running desperately towards the trophy they have never had the chance to win. Plenty of less or more serious fouls plus other incidents also happened. There were shown five yellow cards only in the first half an hour while [...]

John Stamos accused of seducing 17 year-old girl

By Raluca Coman | July 13th 2010 | no comments

A woman has been charged of trying to swindle actor John Stamos of hundreds of thousands of dollars on the motive that she had a romantic relationship with him in 2004 when she was a 17 year old during a spring break trip to Florida. Stamos declined to comment on this case but is expected to testify during the trial. William Sobel, John’s attorney declared that the allegations made in [...]

Oils spill stopped by a new cap

By Raluca Coman | July 13th 2010 | no comments

BP secured a new cap more tight than the old one on the leaking well of the Gulf of Mexico and prepares to begin tests to see if it tight enough and will stop fresh oil from spilling in the water. The results will be known within 48 hours, so that the new cap can be changed if it is not suitable for the job that it needs to do. The solution is still temporary, but it will prevent more [...]

Is Mad Max finished?

By Raluca Coman | July 13th 2010 | no comments

Mel Gibson finally admitted that he hit the mother of his child which means that the court has evidence in the domestic violence case against him. There were already proofs in the audio recording provided by RadarOnline.com, where the actor is taped cursing his ex girlfriend, Oksana Grigorieva. She remains calm through the eight minutes recording and advises Gibson to get medication, [...]

Natural wonders: The fire fall of Yosemite Park

By Silvia Mutis | July 13th 2010 | no comments

Every year, for a few days in the last two weeks of February, in Yosemite Park a bizarre natural phenomenon but nonetheless quite amazing occurs when the waters of the Horsetail fall flow, coming off the El Capitan mountain in two distinct streams and dropping some 1570 feet onto steep slabs spraying up in a mist before continuing down another 500 feet to the bottom of the [...]

Expecting the unexpected will make you miss the unexpected

By Sergiu Vidican | July 13th 2010 | no comments

A recent study has been conducted by Daniel Simons, a professor of psychology and in the Beckman Institute at the University of Illinois, and it has proved that the people who are aware that something unexpected is about to happen have very low chances of noticing another unexpected event. Daniel Simons became famous when he released a clip in 1990 which is related to the recent study. [...]