Nobel Prize Medicine 2010 winner is test tube baby pioneer
Posted on 04. Oct, 2010 by Allen Smith in Buzz
Britain scientist and pioneer in Test Tube Bady research, Robert G. Edwards wins Nobel Prize Medicine for 2010.
The British professor Robert Edwards, whose work on test tube baby led to the birth of world’s first test tube baby in London wins 2010 Nobel Prize in medicine that was announced on Monday, October 04, 2010. His [...]
Eiffel Tower and Berlin Central Station to be terror targets
Posted on 03. Oct, 2010 by Murthy in Buzz
It is learnt through intelligent sources that Pakistan based Islamic terror groups are planning to repeat Mumbai-styled terror wreaks in Europe.
If a media report has to be believed, they have had their sights set on important landmarks including the Eiffel Tower, Berlin Central Station and Paris’ Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris.
The names of these hi-profile landmark [...]
Iraq defers census exercise again
Posted on 03. Oct, 2010 by Murthy in Buzz
Iraq defered its first census yet again due to political unrest especially over the dispute areas of the north. The planned October 24 census has been postponed to December 5. This makes the census postponed to almost 3 years (due originally in 2007) now.
An official source from the planning ministry (which is responsible for census) [...]
Stuxnet bug a big threat to Chinese national security
Posted on 27. Sep, 2010 by Allen Smith in Buzz
A new malicious software (malware) touted as the latest cyber-weapon finding its way through Chinese factory computers, especially of the key industry sector, will be a threat to the China’s national security, warn the cyber experts.
Named the Stuxnet bug; the virus was discovered during June first, and it was believed to be programmed to infiltrate [...]
Hugo Chavez wins majority in the Venezuelan Congress
Posted on 27. Sep, 2010 by Allen Smith in Buzz
Polls for the Venezuela’s parliamentary elections have closed and, President Hugo Chavez wins a majority in the Congress again.
The ruling United Socialist Party of Venezuela led by the President Hugo Chavez has won majority among 165 seats in the Venezuela Congress.
About 70% of the Venezuelans turned out to vote and elect the members for the [...]
Iran declares that the Bushehr nuclear plant to be Stuxnet malware free
Posted on 26. Sep, 2010 by Allen Smith in Buzz
Iran’s Bushehr nuclear power plant clears off rumors about Stuxnet malware.
The project manager of the plant dismissed rumors of computer virus targeting industries in Iran to hit the computers at the nuclear plant facility.
Mahmoud Jafari, project manager at Bushehr Nuclear Plant reassured the media about now possible malware and that the fuel load at the [...]
Russian spacecraft signs off from ISS and lands safely on Earth
Posted on 26. Sep, 2010 by Allen Smith in Buzz
Two Russians cosmonauts and one American astronaut from NASA astronaut have come back to earth on Saturday after delays from docking off the International Space Station.
The space travelers returned to the station from the Russian Soyuz capsule that carried them to landing in steppes of the Kazakhstan, Perminov added. The Soyuz capsule landed safely after [...]
Bomb threat on board diverts Pakistan bound jet to Sweden
Posted on 25. Sep, 2010 by Murthy in Buzz
A Pakistani jet airline bound to Karachi in Pakistan from Canada carrying 273 passengers aboard had taken a diversion to Sweden after a reported bomb threat on board.
The Swedish police was investigating and trying to track the person reportedly carrying explosives on board the plane.
The airplane; however, has been diverted to Sweden and landed in [...]
CNN poll shows bigger disapproval rate for Obama
Posted on 25. Sep, 2010 by Allen Smith in Buzz
According to CNN poll that came out on Friday, the approval rating of US President Barack Obama touched the lowest ebb and dropped 8 points in 20 days time touching lowest mark since he became the American President.
According to the poll conducted by CNN/Opinion Research Council, 54% of people surveyed disapproved of the President, only [...]
Google sees Bing not Facebook as its main threat
Posted on 24. Sep, 2010 by Latha B. Reddy in Buzz
Eric Schmidt, the Google’s chief executive says that Bing is their threat, not Facebook or the otherwise Apple.
While Eric described Apple as a decent competitor and Facebook as one company of consequence that is doing excellent job in the social networking arena it is still Microsoft’s new-generation search engine, Bing that will be Google’s main [...]
