North Korea has confirmed it has carried out a third nuclear test after monitoring agencies reported an “unusual seismic event”. “A third nuclear test has been successfully staged,” the North’s state-run Korean Central News agency said. “The nuclear test was conducted as part of measures to protect our national security and sovereignty against the reckless [...]
Pakistan’s Malala Yousufzai, girls’ rights champion who escaped assassination by Taliban death squad, nominated for top international honor Malala Yousufzai, the 15-year-old Pakistani advocate for girls’ education, who survived a Taliban assassination attempt, has been nominated for the 2013 Nobel Peace Prize by three members of the Norwegian parliament from the ruling Labor Party. She [...]
A woman has been tortured and burned alive in Papua New Guinea after being accused of using sorcery to kill a young boy, local media report. The woman, a mother aged 20 named as Kepari Leniata, was stripped, tied up and doused in petrol by the boy’s relatives in Mount Hagen in the Western Highlands, [...]
Archaeologists have discovered ancient houses as well as precious artifacts and jewels from a buried kingdom, beneath the volcanic ash in Indonesia. The excavated remains were found on the Indonesian island of Sumbawa near the foot of the Tambora volcano known for its largest eruption in recorded history. “Based on the unearthed remains, particularly the [...]
As you may or may not have heard, there has been a recent influx of “Strange sounds around the world”, “Earth groaning”, and other phrases describing basically similar events which “witnesses” video tape and share. All are comprised of loud machine-ish, or even trumpet-like, sounds that seem to permeate an area from above and / [...]
During the first week of 2012, UFO reports streamed in from around the world as numerous eyewitnesses described and videotaped strange things in the sky. Whether they were balloons, conventional aircraft or misidentified astronomical objects, the new year of UFO sightings is off and running as the worldwide proliferation of digital video cameras and phone [...]
In December 2011, the Guardian posted this note to go with what looked like a living photograph of the newly discovered snub-nosed monkey from Myanmar: “R. strykeri has not yet been photographed in life. The image to the right is a reconstruction based on photographs of a related species and a specimen of the new [...]
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