Rewind: Best PHOTOS in the last 48 hours A firefighter extinguishes a burning car early this morning during the New Year’s eve celebration in Lille, France Rewind: Best PHOTOS in the last 48 hours Norway’s Tom Hilde crashes during the final of the first event of the 60th four-hills ski... [Read More]

Rostam Ghasemi 11. Rostam Ghasemi (Rank 32) Age: 47 years Rostam Ghasemi is the President of the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC). Rostam Ghasemi is Iran’s Minister of Petroleum since 3 August 2011.   Lou Jiwei 12. Lou Jiwei (Rank 33) Age: 60 years Lou Jiwei... [Read More]

Carlos Slim   6. Carlos Slim (Rank 23) Age: 71 years Carlos Slim Helu, the world’s richest man is a Mexican business tycoon. He is the chairman and chief executive of telecommunications companies Telmex and America Movil and has extensive holdings in other Mexican companies through his... [Read More]

Bill Gates They are the world’s most powerful people in the corporate world. They lead big companies or world’s leading financial institutions. Meet the people who matter in the world of business according to the Forbes magazine. 1. Bill Gates (Rank 5) Age: 56 years Bill Gates is the chairman... [Read More]

Top suspect in journalist s death blames Ukrainian ex president A former Ukrainian police general, and the main suspect in the high profile case of a journalist’s murder, has said that former President Kuchma ordered the hit. Ukrainian media has reported that Aleksey Pukach, the main suspect in... [Read More]

40 carat dinner for diamond loving dog Contrary to popular belief, girls aren’t the only ones who have a soft spot for diamonds. A dog belonging to the owner of a jewelry shop in the US has unwittingly devoured a $10,000 meal of the scrummy sparklers. The owners of a jewelry store in Georgia were... [Read More]

Pentagon sinks fastest aircraft ever The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) put an experimental aircraft into the sky today, and though the mission didn’t pan out exactly as planned, today’s flight signaled what’s to come in military machinery. The Falcon Hypersonic Technology... [Read More]

Blogger launches boycott of American women One blogger is setting out to tell the world that American women are useless. Two days before Christmas 2010, an American male typing from an undisclosed location logged onto his new website to pen his very first post. In barely 200 words, the blogger quotes... [Read More]

They downgraded the US and added theatrics to the debt ceiling debate – but who are these ratings agencies? They seem to wield immense power and influence over the global economy – a mere warning from one of them can rock markets, influence the debate by governments, with ripple effects that... [Read More]

Syria hacked Anonymous blindsides the world Amonymous group launched a range of new attacks A new series of devastating computer attacks, targeting Syria and the US, has been... [Read More]

UK trooper cuts off Taliban fingers as souvenirs A soldier from 4th Battalion The Royal Regiment of Scotland The British Ministry of Defense is investigating allegations that a Scottish soldier sliced off the fingers of dead Taliban fighters in Afghanistan and kept them as macabre souvenirs. ­A soldier... [Read More]

Britain burning Riot madness spreads across UK United Kingdom, Birmingham : Police officers wearing riot gear block the main streets in the city center of Birmingham, central England, on August 8, 2011 during a night of unrest. (AFP Photo / Paul Ellis) Violence and looting has spread to the western... [Read More]

All F 35 and F 22s grounded An F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, marked AA-1, lands Oct. 23 at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif. Over 200 of the most expensive aircrafts in the world are used by the US Military, but fleets of war planes owned by the Air Force are sitting on the sidelines, despite costing billions... [Read More]

Banks bulldozing towns across America Banks are knocking down homes left and right. If something is giving you a hard time, there is one surefire American way to solve your problems: knock it straight to the ground. That’s the plan that Bank of America and a number of other financial institutions... [Read More]

More-layoffs-coming-as-market-crashesMore layoffs coming as market crashes “I’m having trouble now remembering the last good data point,” says Uri Landesman. He’s not the only one. Landesman, president of New York’s Platinum Partners, tells Reuters this week that numbers on Wall... [Read More]

US buys most expensive drones ever United States Air Force Global Hawk un-manned reconnaissance aircraft. (Photo from http://www.af.mil) With $14 trillion in the hole and a slew of wars seemingly no one wants America to be in, what better way for the United States to spend their money by putting $23... [Read More]

Missouri struggles of prevent student teacher sex Social studies? Yes. Social networking. No. When Missouri Senate Bill 54 goes into effect on August 28, teachers across the state will be prohibited from contacting students, former and current, through online networking sites. Messages, commenting,... [Read More]

Massive child pornography ring busted Attorney General Eric Holder announced this morning that 72 individuals have been charged with being linked to a massive child pornography ring started in Louisiana and spreading across five continents and 13 countries. Holder spoke from Washington DC this morning... [Read More]

NYPD pepper sprays man to death The death of a Bronx man who suffered a fatal asthma attack after cops pepper-sprayed him has been ruled a homicide by the city medical examiner. An autopsy found that Kemp Yarborough cause of death was by“acute bronchial asthma attack during a physical altercation... [Read More]

Human genes can be patented The US Patent and Trademark Office is about to see a hell of a lot more test tubes in their mailbox. The United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled on Friday that human genes can indeed be patented. The Public Patent Foundation and American Civil Liberties... [Read More]

US economy shows worst quarter since recession Here’s a surprise: the American economy is not expanding at what experts had hoped. Economists had predicted that second quarter consumer spending in the US would increase by 1.8 percent. Instead, the gross domestic product in the States managed only... [Read More]

Newborns hooked on painkillers is new American epidemic It looks like the penchant for prescription drug addiction`doesn’t skip a generation. A new report issued by the White House Office on Drug Control Policy reveals that not only is prescription narcotic abuse the fastest growing drug problem... [Read More]

Boeing overcharges the Pentagon As Congress tries to come to agreement on a way to save American money, here’s one thing they’ve overlooked: The United States Army was charged more than double by Boeing for spare parts. In an audit of the Department of Defense Office of Inspector General release... [Read More]

“House Republicans wary of the Obama administration’s Aug. 2 deadline for raising the debt ceiling think they have support for their skepticism from a surprising source — former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan,” Roll Call writes. “Greenspan met with a small group of House Republican... [Read More]