Heavy rain across southeastern Australia has resulted in the region’s worst flooding in 15 years, forcing hundreds of people to flee their homes.Downpours of 200mm within a 24-hour period also triggered landslides in the state of Victoria and there are fears more rivers could burst their banks.The cost of the flooding is expected to be [...]
Several gameplay videos debuted today for Portal 2, perhaps next year’s most anticipated sequel. One video shows the first footage of the game’s new two-player cooperative mode, while trailers highlight specific new features of its high-tech environment that can be exploited by the player. The original Portal was short but widely celebrated for its innovative [...]
Master Blaster and senior Indian batsman Sachin Tendulkar was on Friday conferred with the Indian Air Force’s honorary rank of Group Captain to honour his cricketing achievements and contribution to the nation.Tendulkar is the first sportsperson to be conferred a rank by IAF and the first personality with no aviation background to receive the honour.In [...]
Where do you put the blood splatter?It’s just one of the questions the developers over at Guerrilla Games have found themselves trying to answer as they’ve worked on “Killzone 3,” a first-person shooter for the PlayStation 3 that gamers will be able to play in stereoscopic 3-D.Sony announced at the Penny Arcade Expo this week [...]
SAN JOSE MINE, Chile—President Sebastian Pinera said the government was advancing on plans to dig three rescue tunnels to reach 33 trapped miners, while rescuers read a poem that one of the miners had written about the ordeal.In remarks in Santiago, Mr. Pinera said that the main rescue tunnel for the miners, being dug by [...]
“American Idol” judge Kara DioGuardi is leaving the show, in a strong indication that pop diva Jennifer Lopez has made a deal to replace her, a source said.Reports late this week said J.Lo was very close to signing.DioGuardi, an accomplished songwriter and the daughter of former Westchester GOP Congressman Joseph DioGuardi, had been in an [...]
Bethany Storro doesn’t usually wear sunglasses, but she got a surprise paycheck and bought a pair earlier this week. Those sunglasses, she is convinced, saved her eyesight when a woman threw a cup of acid in her face 20 minutes later. “God is watching over me,” Storro, of Vancouver, Washington, told CNN affiliate KATU in [...]
Danny Trejo plays the long-haired, craggy-faced titular Machete with a combination of swift ferocity and baleful kindliness. And the ladies love it.Maybe it’s the way the tattooed man of few words wields his knife — masterfully — when the situation calls for it. And the situation calls for it a lot in Robert Rodriguez’s entertaining and [...]
Near-tragedy on the set of Transformers 3.An extra was hospitalized Wednesday evening after suffering a severe head injury during filming of a stunt that went awry.According to the Indiana State Police, the woman, who was not part of the stunt team was behind the wheel of a car when an object smashed through her windshield. “Preliminary [...]
Comedian Robert Schimmel, known for his foul-mouthed routines and appearances on “The Howard Stern Show,” died last night after suffering serious injuries in a car accident.Schimmel was traveling in Arizona with his 19-year-old daughter, Aliyah, who was driving at the time of the crash.The car rolled onto the side of the freeway after she tried [...]
