A suicide bomber drove an explosive-laden truck into a crowd of people gathered to watch a volleyball game in a village in northwest Pakistan, killing at least 75 in an attack seen as a retaliation against locals who had formed a progovernment militia.
The attack — in an area near South Waziristan, a center of Taliban and al Qaeda activities where Pakistan’s government began a military offensive last fall — marked a bloody start to 2010 for the country. Pakistan has seen a surge in attacks by Taliban militants in recent …
The 19-year-old ‘Harry Potter’ star loves the freedom of living alone, but is relieved to live close enough to his family for them to do his chores.
He said: “I’m living in south west London. It’s lovely. It’s a slightly rude awakening, like, ‘Oh my God! I’ve got to do so much more for myself.’ Got to do the washing. But I still live close to my parents and take it round there sometimes.”
The actor also branded the attention he gets from girls “ridiculous”, insisting his fans are interested in his …
Two experts have examined what life will be like 50 years in the future, and claim that the labor market will be vastly different with androids working alongside humans in many jobs.
Psychologist Neal J. Roese and computer scientist Eyal Amir from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, authors of the report “Human-Android Interaction in the Near and Distant Future,” say people can expect to be sharing a lunch break with robots in our lifetime.
Published in the journal ‘Perspectives on Psychological Science,’ Roese and Amir look ahead a half decade to …
While governments around the world are working on supplying effective vaccines, there are sadly no magical potions or fictional Latin incantations capable of quashing the advance of swine flu.
Just ask Harry Potter actor Rupert Grint, who has conventional Muggle medicine to thank as he progresses along the road to recovery after being struck down by the potentially deadly H1N1 virus.
According to Grint’s female publicist, the actor succumbed to the virus while shooting the seventh and final movie in the hugely popular Harry Potter series – in which he plays bumbling, …
The Grinning Man is a mysterious man who has been sighted during heightened UFO encounters as well as during the 1960s Mothman sightings. Two young eyewitnesses said he turned and looked at them with a permanent grin on his face. According to the men who interviewed the boys: “[t]he man was over six feet tall, they agreed, and was dressed in a sparkling green coverall costume that shimmered and seemed to reflect the street lights. There was a wide black belt around his waist.” The boys also said “He had …
The death of Michael Jackson on Thursday has caused an increase in demand for his songs and for memorabilia.
The top nine selling items at Apple’s iTunes Store were albums by Jackson, with first and second being a “hits” album and the 1982 album Thriller.
Amazon.com similarly reported selling more Jackson merchandise in the 24 hours following his death than it had sold in the preceding 11 years, and that sales of Jackson CDs accounted for 60% of its total business on Thursday. Yesterday morning the top seller in the album chart …