Posted on 03 June 2009
Hope is fading for families and friends of the now notorious 477 passengers. More and more facts point to the dark truth: victims of the Air France flight crash AF 447 will probably never return. I wish that this time tomorrow I’ll come back here and edit this post with a “I was wrong” update…
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Posted on 01 June 2009
After Chrysler filed for bankruptcy one month ago, it was the turn of General Motors to file for bankruptcy under Chapter 11 protection. Today at 8 A.M. local time, General Motors declared bankruptcy at the federal court in Manhattan after they reported $81 billion losses in the last four years. GM is the biggest car [...]
Posted on 01 June 2009
Today, the Air France flight AF447 left the Rio de Janeiro airport, and it should have landed at the Paris airport at 09:15 GMT, however, the plane is missing. The pilots of the Airbus A330-200 plane reported a technical fault at the electric circuit, and that they are experiencing turbulence. After that, the AF447 flight [...]
Posted on 01 June 2009
Carlo Ancelotti, 49, has been officially appointed as the Chelsea FC manager. Ancelotti left AC Milan yesterday after a 2-0 win away at Fiorentina, and today he was confirmed as Chelsea coach. Although the Italian manager had one more year contract at Milan, he decided that it was the perfect time to leave Milan after [...]
Posted on 29 May 2009
Travellers to African countries will have to worry for another virus called Lujo. According to a team of scientists, the Lujo Virus is very similar to the Ebola virus as it’s lethal and it causes massive bleeding to infected people. The Lujo Virus infected five people from Zambia and South Africa as of September last [...]
Posted on 27 May 2009
What a great game tonight! Although it wasn’t the best Uefa Champions League Final, Manchester United and FC Barcelona put it a good display in order to please fans from all over the world. Long story short, Barcelona won 2-0 in a game they dominated and therefore it was a deserved win. The Manchester-based team [...]
Posted on 27 May 2009
It seems like the competitors for iPod Touch/phone’s throne are multiplying. Until now there was Palm Pre but it seems that from this fall another gadget will be joining the duo. Zune HD is produced by Microsoft and it is, of course, yet another touch-screen enabled device.
Aside from being just another nit gadget device, the [...]
Posted on 26 May 2009
Apparently not everything that we do is harmful for our planet and gets in the way of its delicate ecological balance. Furthermore, one huge ship that served the U.S. Air Force in the World War II is going to be sunk to become one of the planet’s biggest manmade coral reefs.
The Gen. Hoyt S. Vandenberg, [...]
Posted on 21 May 2009
Lucy Gordon (not to be confused with the writer), British actress and model of considerable fame, hung herself two days ago, on May 20th 2009. She committed suicide, as is believed at this point with some certainty and probably will remain the verdict. Her 29th birthday would have been today – she killed herself just [...]
Posted on 21 May 2009
It’s not even winter, not to say 2010, and the long waited Winter Olympics have already started to cause controversy among people. Latest scandal gravitates around the 2010 Olympic Torch which for many viewers apparently looks like a joint. I agree!
The Olympic officials of course deny all these accusations and it seems that the desired [...]