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New York. Did Steve Fossett’s plane crash near the Death Valley on September 3? Sheriffs and volunteers will scan the ground in four Nevada counties this weekend to try to find the missing adventurer. New leads have prompted authorities to restart the search for Fossett. “Air Force experts analyzed data from military and civilian radars, said State Trooper Chuck Allen with the Nevada Department of Public Safety. They made deductions and narrowed the search to an area of about 100 square miles”. Columbia University (New York), September 24. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad did not move. He just smiled and smirked when Leo Bollinger, the president of Columbia University, said in his introduction of the Iranian president, that his denial of the Holocaust made him appear “ridiculous”. When it was his turn to speak, Mr Ahmadinejad complained about the “unfriendly” treatment, quoted the Quran and defended his policies and beliefs. New York. Cyber war! Forget the traditional wars: cyber space is the new battleground of the 21st century. As the Pentagon is trying to stabilize Iraq and Afghanistan, it is also getting ready for this new kind of war. On Tuesday September 18, the U.S. Air Force set up a provisional Cyber Command at Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana. Its goal will be to protect the U.S. cyberspace against hacker attacks. New York. Candace Downing was 12 years old. She suffered from anxiety and psychiatrist prescribed an antidepressant. Ten and a half months later, on Jan. 10, 2004, her mother found Candace hanging from the valance over her bed in their Laytonsville, Md., home. New York. “I have a dream”. Do you remember Martin Luther King Jr? A young skinny boy wearing a straw hat on the set of “Kid Nation” did too. Did he learn the line? He might have according to some parents of the 40 kids, ages 8 to 15, who were placed in a ghost town in the New Mexico desert to build a society without grown-ups. According to the Los Angeles Times, these parents have told confidentially two Los Angeles-based children advocacy groups that their children were sometimes told what to say by the producers of “Kid Nation”. New York. As General David Petraeus, the top US. Military Commander in Iraq, and Ryan Crocker, the U.S. ambassador to Iraq, made the case for the troops surge in Baghdad, the.point.is news agency has decided to put the spotlight on the price of the war and on the consequences of the Bush administration policies. So far, 3754 U.S. soldiers have died in Iraq and more than 27000 have been wounded according to U.S. Department of Defense. Between 71,510 and 78,081 Iraqis have died according to the Iraq Body Count. An investigation led by AP shows that brain injuries are a problem for U.S. soldiers returning from the war. Several thousand troops have been treated for traumatic brain injury (TBI) and thousands more are believed to suffer from it. > New York. Thomas Frischknecht and Andrea Dalla Valle, two Swiss citizen who were extradited to the U.S. on August 24, were arraigned on Tuesday September 4 in a U.S. federal court in Alexandria. Frischknecht, a former professional bike rider, and his friend faced judge Gerald Bruce Lee, who is presiding over the case. They were charged with three counts of conspiracy to import and distribute ecstasy and one count of distribution of ecstasy. Kingston. While trying to avoid the potholes on the streets of downtown Kingston, Dig, the taxi driver suddenly comes up with a request. He wants to be paid before he drives into Trench Town, Kingston’s notorious slum where Bob Marley once grew up. “You should never show any money in Trench Town”, he says. In Jamaica, the neighborhood is considered to be the birthplace of reggae music but also one of the most dangerous places on the island despite the fact that crime recently declined there. Second set of pictures taken in Trench Town, Kingston’s notorious slum. |
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