Father saved chickens as fire killed kids

Philippines - Fire killed two children in Las Piñas on Friday morning allegedly after their father decided to save his fighting roosters first. Authorities said a fire broke out in Manggahan Village, BF Resort Drive in Las Piñas at 10:55 a.m. Two children, identified as Adrian, 5, and John Rick Luto, 2, were killed after being trapped in the second floor of their home. The victims' mother, Maria, blamed her husband, Orlando, for letting two of their kids die. She said Orlando rescued his fighting roosters first and neglected the children. "Bitbit bitbit niya 'yung mga manok tapos sinasabi nila sa kanya, 'Yung anak mo nandoon,' pero wala lang siyang pakialam [He was holding the chickens and they were telling him, your son(s) is still there,...

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Christmas Lantern blamed for senior’s death on Christmas

California, USA - To some, the Christmas Lantern (Tagalog: Parol) is a symbol of light and hope, particularly to Christian Catholics, however, to some, it's a symbol of death. According to a recent news posted Dec. 30, an elderly Filipina woman in Southern California got killed by the symbol of Christmas - a Christmas Lantern. Authorities said 91-year old Dorie Feliz Pozas was killed at around 9 a.m. on Christmas Day, after apparently brushing up against a lit candle in her Pacoima Senior Living Facility. Firefighters reportedly forced their way into Pozas' apartment at the Pledgerville Senior Citizen Villa on Sunday morning after a visitor noticed smoke coming from it. They found her body badly burned and her clothes still smoldering. Pozas...

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Syrian activists urge mass rally amid observer visit

Syrian activists have called for massive street demonstrations on Friday against President Bashar al-Assad, as Arab observers continue their mission. Correspondents say the presence of the monitors has emboldened the protesters, despite further killings. Up to 40 died on Thursday, activists said, mostly after security forces shot at crowds gathered in areas expecting a visit from the Arab team. According to BBC News, at least 5,000 are believed to have died since the revolt began in March 2011. The Arab League peace plan calls for a complete halt to the violence, the withdrawal of all armed forces and the release of all detainees. According to Jim Muir of BBC News, Beirut, in many places the observers have found themselves surrounded by...

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Russian nuclear submarine "Yekaterinburg" fire has been put out

Thick smoke billowed from the vessel as firefighters tackled the blaze. Russia - The huge fire that engulfed a Russian nuclear submarine undergoing repairs in the northern Murmansk region has been put out, the emergency minister says. Sergei Shoigu said radiation monitoring would also now go back to normal after being stepped up when the blaze started on wood decking near the Yekaterinburg. Officials said there was no risk as its two reactors had been shut down. Nine people were hurt fighting the fire though. President Dmitry Medvedev has ordered an investigation into the incident. One of his deputy prime ministers has promised that the Yekaterinburg, a Delta-IV-class nuclear submarine, will be repaired within several months. "According...

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Official list of Philippine holidays for 2012

Malacañang has a list of Philippine holidays for the upcoming year 2012. This official list of Philippine Holidays for 2012 is based on Proclamation No. 295 which is also known as "The Declaration of Regular Holidays, Special Non-Working Holidays, and Special Holidays for schools for the year 2012." Don't be surprise if they include Chinese New Year on the list. They say the Chinese New Year, is one of the most revered and festive events celebrated not only in China but also in the Philippines by both Chinese Filipinos and ordinary Filipinos as well; and the joint celebration is a manifestation of our solidarity with our Chinese Filipino brethren who have been part of our lives in many respects as a country and as a people; 23 January 2012...

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Former Miss Universe Miss Venezuela dies of cancer at age 28

Ms. Venezuela - Eva Ekvall This photo was taken on May 11, 2001. In this photo, Miss Venezuela Eva Ekvall stands with other contestants, unseen, as they wait for the announcement of the winner of Miss Universe in Bayamon, Puerto Rico. According to the news, Ekvall died on Saturday Dec. 17, 2011 due to breast cancer in Houston at age 28. The venezuelan television channel Globovision reports that Ekvall died on Saturday in a Houston hospital after a long struggle with breast cancer. At age 18, Ekvall was third runner-up in the Miss Universe pageant in Puerto Rico. She was a model, actress and television news anchor. Ekvall was crowned Miss Venezuela at age 17 in 2000, and the following year she was third runner-up in the Miss Universe pageant...

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Orangutans could video chat between zoos via iPads

The zoo keepers want to build reinforced tablets so they can let the orangutans play without human help. Orangutans at a Milwaukee zoo could soon be video-calling their primate friends via tablet computers. The hairy tech fans have been playing with iPads since they were first introduced to them in May 2011. Conservationist Richard Zimmerman said the next step would be to provide wi-fi access, which means the apes could watch orangutans in other zoos. He hopes the experiment will raise awareness and funds to support the wild animals facing extinction. Mr. Zimmerman, from the US-based charity Orangutan Outreach, said he had wanted to give the device to the animals ever since it was launched back in January 2010. "The original idea came...

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US warns Iran over threat to block oil route

Admiral Habibollah Sayari says Iran could easily close the Strait of Hormuz. Iran warned it would shut the Strait of Hormuz, the oil route, if the West imposed more sanctions over its nuclear program. On this warning, the US Navy has said it will not tolerate disruption to a vital oil-trade route. The US and its allies believe Iran is trying to develop a nuclear weapon - a charge Tehran denies. Reacting to Iran's warning, a US Fifth Fleet spokeswoman said it was "always ready to counter malevolent actions." The Strait of Hormuz links the Gulf and the oil producing states of Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to the Indian Ocean. About 40% of the world's tanker-borne oil passes through it. The US maintains...

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Maria Ozawa Sex Videos

I am no porn promoter by any means, but just for the sake of those curious souls who wanted to learn more about Maria Ozawa's past career (yup, porn's a career in other countries), I am going to provide you information as much as I can. Maria Ozawa began her career as an adult video artist, in Japan they call it AV Idols. Now, Adult video careers range from merely showing private body parts, to posing nude in front of a camera or a video cam, to hardcore porn. Of course, the bigger the role, the bigger the pay. Ozawa no longer does porn according to reliable sources (one is Wikipedia if it does count). On a brighter side, she's a tech savvy girl, who loves to play video games in her spare time. And oh, I believe she also loves to blog. But...

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Maria Ozawa Doppelganger dupes lustful Filipino men on Facebook

Maria Ozawa Lustful Filipino men fans of Maria Ozawa apparently got duped by a doppelganger. That seems to be one of the latest entertainment to hit the net here in the Philippines. According to news, on December 22, Japan-based former adult movie star, Maria Ozawa left a cryptic message on the wall of her official Facebook account, simply saying: "hello philippines". In the following days, Ozawa posted photos of an apparently recent trip to the Philippines—including a picture of her leaning out of a traditional Filipino calesa horse-driven carriage. But other than the photos, Ozawa has kept mum about her stay in the Philippines. That is, until "Maria Ozawa" showed up. Appearance of a Maria Ozawa doppelganger In a follow-up comment...

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Priests brawl in the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem

Bethlehem, the place where Jesus Christ was allegedly born. Christians had built a Church, called the Church of the Nativity, on the spot where Jesus was said to had been born. It was visited by many devotees of different Christian sects. Unfortunately, the Church of the Nativity is also where religious brawls frequently occur. Religious differences seem to be the culprit. According to BBC News, scuffles have broken out between rival groups of Greek Orthodox and Armenian clerics in a turf war at Bethlehem's Church of the Nativity just few days ago. Greek Orthodox and Armenian priests and monks brawl during preparations for Orthodox Christmas celebrations. Bemused tourists looked on as about 100 priests fought with brooms while cleaning the...

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Pope Benedict XVI got knocked down by a woman in 2009 Video

This video was taken way back in December 2009, and it happened during Christmas eve, when the Pope traditionally held a mass and gives his Christmas message at St. Peter's Basilica. This may be old news, but for those who had been living in the dark, here's your chance to hear it... Pope Benedict XVI traditionally walks the center aisle before starting the mass, but suddenly a woman jumps pass the barricade and drags the Pope into the floor. The woman in red, the Pope's attacker was identified as Susanna Maiolo, a Swiss-Italian national with psychiatric problem. She had a record of attacking the Pope already back in 2008, she wasn't successful back then as the Pope's guardian angels, the men-in-black security guards, caught her just before...

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Coqui frogs increase in numbers in Hawaii

A coqui frog sits on a leaf in Wahiwa, Oahu. Honululu, Hawaii - A tiny, coin-sized frog called coqui, whose distinctive nightly mating calls are a beloved sound in Puerto Rico and other Caribbean islands have become a plague in Hawaii. The frogs have been growing in numbers in the state in recent years and are now starting to show up in larger quantities on Oahu, which is home to most of the state's population. The frogs already have a strong foothold on the less-populated Big Island, and people there complain of being kept awake at night with a thunderous roar of chirps as thousands of male coqui simultaneously summon partners - a mating chorus some say can be as loud as a jet airplane. The frogs are also preventing the state's plant nurseries...

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Was Jesus really born on the 25th of December?

I also would like to commemorate Christmas by writing an article about it. You see, I am always fascinated by this festive season. When I was young, this seemed to be one of the happiest days of my life, as a matter of fact, each year, I was waiting for Christmas, and wished everyday was already Christmas. Those were the good old days. Well, we still celebrate Christmas, and our family unite just to celebrate the occasion. It's still fun. But, I was curious... was Christ really born on December 25th at exactly 12 a.m. as what our elders told us? For Jesus to have been born at exactly 12 a.m. on the 25th of December makes it sound as if it was some kind of Divine plan, or was it just exaggerated? Well let's see, what the scholars have...

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God does not exist says Hawking (Philosophy)

Stephen Hawking The world's most famous physicist Prof. Stephen Hawking has declared that God does not exist. Hawking joins the opinion of several other world-class scientists like Richard Dawkins, Peter Atkins, James Watson, Victor Stenger, Sam Harris and many others who deny the existence of God in the name of the latest advancements in physics, biology, neuroscience and other scientific domains. The so-called "New Atheism", championed by Richard Dawkins, sees God as a delusion, a by-product of the mind of superstitious and scientifically uneducated people. "Because there is a law like gravity, the universe can and will create itself from nothing ... Spontaneous creation is the reason there is something rather than nothing, why the universe...

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LHC discovers new particle

The LHC has been built to investigate the fundamental building blocks of nature. The Large Hadron Collider or LHC on the Franco-Swiss border has made its first clear observation of a new particle since opening in 2009. The new particle was called Chi_b (3P) and it will help scientists understand better the forces that hold matter together. The LHC is exploring some of the fundamental questions in "big physics" by colliding proton particles together in a huge underground facility. Detail in the sub-atomic wreckage from these impacts is expected to yield new information about the way the Universe is constructed. The Chi_b (3P) is a more excited state of Chi particles already seen in previous collision experiments, explained Prof. Roger...

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Nature mourns for Kim Jong-il's death?

Scenes of mourning for Kim Jong-il have been broadcast on the state television. According to KCNA (Korean Central News Agency), strange natural phenomena have been witnessed in North Korea since the death of the country's leader Kim Jong-il. Ice cracked on a famous lake "so loud, it seemed to shake the Heavens and the Earth," and a mysterious glow was seen on a revered mountain top, KCNA said. The personality cult surrounding North Korea's founding father and son bestows near-divine status on them. Meanwhile, on a separate news, South Korean intelligence has questioned how Mr. Kim died. Citing US satellite photos, the country's national intelligence service director Won Sei-hoon said there was no sign that the special train, on which...

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Iraq hit by multiple bomb blasts killing more than 50 people

Burnt vehicle at bomb attack site in Baghdad's Bayaa district, Iraq, Dec. 22.  According to a recent news, a wave of apparently coordinated blasts in neighborhoods across Baghdad killed nearly 70 people and wounded more than 150 others Thursday in the worst violence Iraq has seen in months. The explosions hit days after the last U.S. forces left the country and in the midst of a major government crisis between Shiite and Sunni politicians that has sent sectarian tensions soaring. According to a report, there 16 discrete explosions in 13 different locations in the capital. The blast was said to had took place between 7 and 8 a.m. local time and involved suicide car bombs, bombs placed in parked cars and IEDs (Improvised Explosive Devices)....

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