Archive: July, 2010

Terror by the road: 15 tortured, killed and dumped in northern Mexico

On a road in northern Mexico near the US border, dead bodies of 15 victims have been found. These people had been dumped after being mercilessly butchered as evidenced by the torture marks and bullet wounds on many of the bodies. Officials came across these bodies on Thursday on a highway leading from Ciudad Victoria [...]

Michael Jackson’s forgotten music to be released in November

Songs that did not form a part of Michael Jackson’s albums while he was alive and several forgotten recordings that were left behind on computer hard drives will be on an album released this fall. As per Jackson estate spokesman Jim Bates, Jackie Jackson, one of the pop singer’s older brothers, has been working in [...]

Lawyer : Lindsay awaiting “light at the end of the tunnel”

Lohan began her 90-day sentence on July 20 for violating probation in a DUI case. Although jail hasn’t exactly been easy for her, but Lindsay Lohan is trying to pass by this phase by focusing her attention elsewhere. “She’s looking forward to her release,” attorney Shawn Chapman Holley said Thursday after visiting the actress, 24, at Century Regional [...]

China races to recover chemical barrels from river

Workers on Friday struggled to recover 3,000 barrels filled with hazardous chemicals that were swept into a river in northeast China by floods, amid fears some had sunk, state media said. Soldiers and emergency personnel fanned out at several points along the Songhua river in Jilin and Heilongjiang provinces to recover the barrels, which came [...]

First gay couples tie knot under the new Argentine law

Gay couples rushed to tie the knot in Argentina on Friday; two weeks after the country became the first in Latin America to grant them the same marriage rights as heterosexual couples. “We never thought we’d get to this point,” said talent agent Alejandro Vanelli, 61, who wept as he exchanged vows with Ernesto Larrese, [...]

Forest fire ravages Russia amid heat wave

At least 29 people are reported to have died in forest fires and storms that have swept across Russia. In the latest incident, seven people were crushed when a lorry was overturned in a storm in Saint-Petersburg. “Six people including a 14-year-old girl were crushed by trees, and a man was crushed when his lorry [...]

Disney sells Miramix studios for $660 million

Walt Disney Co. has finally sold its Miramax film division to Filmyard Holdings LLC for more than $660 million thus ending the month long talks with various bidders. The Miramax production 2007 movie No Country for Old Men earned Academy awards in 2008. The private equity investors of Filmyard Holdings include investment firm Colony Capital [...]

Germany to remember Love Parade victims

German Chancellor Angela Merkel will attend a memorial ceremony for the victims of the Love Parade disaster later. She will be joined by Germany’s president Christian Wulff at an ecumenical service at a church in Duisburg. Panic broke out in a narrow tunnel that served as the only entrance to the techno festival in the [...]

UK’s oldest Tweeter dies at 104

Britain’s Ivy Bean, the oldest Tweeter has died in her sleep at the age of 104. Ivy Bean, from Bradford, acquired over 56,000 followers on the popular micro-blogging service. Mrs Bean joined the site in 2008, one year after she registered on Facebook and very soon attracted attention for being the oldest “tweeter”. Her celebrity [...]

Negligent parents from Minneapolis leave baby alone in the car in 110 degrees.

A six-week old baby was left alone in the car by his parents Tuesday, when the temperatures were soaring. The outside temperature was 94 however, temperature inside the car rose up to 110 degrees. The baby was lucky to have escaped alive. His parents, Rosa Dejesus Perez-Siguencia, 35 and Angel Rigoberto Garcia-Tapia, 34, had left [...]

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