The U.S. Marine Corps said it is investigating the origins of a video posted on the Internet that claims to show Marines urinating on the corpses of insurgents.
The video, which surfaced on Web sites Wednesday, portrays four Marines in combat gear laughing as they urinate while standing over three bodies of Taliban militants, The Washington Post reported Thursday.
Art restorers have discovered the figure of a devil, hidden in the clouds of one of the most famous frescos by Giotto in the Basilica of St Francis in Assisi.
The devil was hidden in the details of clouds in the cycle of the scenes in the life and death of St Francis painted by Giotto in the 13th century. The discovery was made by Italian art historian Chiara Frugone where a profile of a figure with a hooked nose, a sly smile, and dark horns hidden among the clouds in the panel of the scene depicting the death of St Francis.
The chief restorer of the basilica, said Giotto probably never wanted the image of the devil to be a main part of the fresco and may have painted it in among the clouds.
The master may have painted it to spite someone he knew by portraying him as a devil in the painting, according to Fusetti. The artwork in the basilica in the convent where St Francis is buried was last restored after it was damaged by an earthquake in 1997.
The New York marathon Geoffrey Mutai has breaking world record. Kenya 30 years, ran 2:03:02, beating the previous record of 2 minutes and 37 seconds. Mutai won the Boston Marathon earlier this year and set the record for this race too. If you read this, Geoffrey, congratulations! If you are not Geoffrey Mutai, return to work, the provision failed.
In April, the fastest race in history 26.2 miles: 2:03:02 in Boston. Does not count as a world record because the course is considered too direct and too low.
The finalists of the second and third Sunday also broke the old record. Emmanuel Mutai of Kenya colleagues (no relation), the London Marathon champion, was 1:22 behind. Tsegaye Kebede of Ethiopia was third.
Since dragged London Marathon champion Mary Keitany about 2 ½ minutes in the 15-mile mark, but his past with about a mile. The Dice won in 2:23:15 27 years - almost a minute better than his previous personal best.
Buzunesh Deba Ethiopian colleagues, who lives in the Bronx, was the second of his first podium in a marathon major, four seconds behind. It was the second closest final of the women in the history of the race.
An earthquake magnitude 4.7 at 2:12, with an epicenter six miles north of Prague in Lincoln County. It is about 50 miles east of Oklahoma City and 75 miles southwest of Tulsa.
A scale replica of 3.4 was recorded in the same location at 2:27, and a replica of magnitude 2.7 at 2:44
Oklahoma Geological Survey scientist Austin Holland told Oklahoma City television station Kotva as earthquakes and aftershocks occurred in a known fault line.
The inhabitants of Prague and Sparks felt a strong vibration, while farther away, the earthquake was more than a dull roar, he said.
"It moves much faster when they are near him," he said. "Because it is a big earthquake is going to make noise for a while."
Quake Rattles Area Stretching Into Texas, Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri.
Turkish authorities said Tuesday the death toll of the earthquake in eastern Turkey has soared to 432nd At least nine people were rescued on Tuesday, although many bodies were found after the earthquake on Sunday.
Rescuers in ERCIS and the provincial capital, Van, led against time to free dozens of people trapped inside the mounds of concrete, twisted steel and construction debris. Aerial views of the two cities filmed Tuesday showed the devastation of the earthquake.
Nearly 500 aftershocks have shaken the region since Sunday, according to Turkey Kandilli seismology center, and a fairly strong on Tuesday, measuring 5.4, sent residents rushing into the streets.
The authorities have warned the survivors in the mainly Kurdish region not to enter damaged buildings and thousands spent another night out in cars or tents in freezing weather near, for fear of return to their homes. Some 1300 people were injured.
Attacker at U.S. embassy in Sarajevo killer believed to be the successor of ultraconservative Islamic sect in Bosnia exposed to the inability to deal with religious extremists, who invaded the country during the war of 1992-5. Gunman accused of shooting the embassy building at least 30 minutes on Friday, wounding a guard of police, the police, the shooter stands before he was shot in the leg.
The attacker, identified by police, 23 years, Mevlid Jasarevic was a person familiar with the Bosnian police, which was attended by one of the most remote communities practice very conservative branch of Islam known as Wahhabism and, alternatively, Salafism.
The captain of a Boeing 727 of Iran Air was able to land his plane at Mehrabad airport in Tehran, although its front landing gear failed to take place. Captain Hooshang Shahbazi is skill of the pilot saved the lives of some 94 passengers and 19 crew members.
Records of the miraculous landing on October 18 became a sensation on the Internet and Facebook page Shahbazi (http://www.facebook.com/shahbazi200) has attracted hundreds of new friends.
The IR-742 flight from Moscow Sheremetyevo airport was close to Tehran Imam Khomeini that the crew did not get a down and locked indication for the front and a missed approach.
After unsuccessfully to troubleshoot the crew decided to divert the Mehrabad airport in Tehran, where a low approach confirmed the front did not spread. The crew made a landing without front and came to a stand still on both main landing gear and nose of the aircraft. The plane was evacuated, no injuries occurred.
With Gaddafi and killed him, "military work now being done," NATO has informed the campaign in Libya is one of the "most successful in the history of NATO." However, the number of casualties and the war-torn country into question the idea of the success of the Union.
Coming up on last week's pledge to end military operations in Libya on Friday, the Secretary General of NATO, Anders Fogh Rasmussen said the military operation in Libya will be completed on October 31, the Associated Press (AP) reports.
His announcement came a day after the Security Council of the United Nations adopted a resolution to lift the no-fly zone over Libya.
Speaking from Brussels, Rasmussen said that after the death of Qaddafi, military operations have been able to stop quickly points out triumphantly that "Operation Unified Protector is one of the most successful in NATO's history,''as the AP.
US President Barack Obama was also full of praise for the operation. Commenting on the speech of late night hit show The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Obama told host operations in Libya "did not cost us one billion U.S. dollars," and no American soldiers were killed or wounded.
Price of success
Speaking on March 31, Bishop Giovanni Martinelli Innocenzo, Vicar Apostolic of Tripoli, reported that "air raids have called humanitarian killed dozens of civilians in various areas of Tripoli." The head cleric went on to say "in the district of Buslim, a building that collapsed because of the bombing, killing 40 people," the agency quoted FEDES, the information service of the Pontifical Mission Societies.
However, despite the decision to close our eyes to the number of victims, one of the few cases of the alliance could not deny the guilty on June 19 was a missile, which NATO has killed nine civilians.
Attacks of this nature occurred on a daily basis during the intense bombing campaign.
Speaking in September, the Health Minister in the new Libyan government estimates that at least 30,000 people were killed and 50,000 wounded during the first six months of the war. Some, however, considered that the real figure could be much higher.
Written in September, Thomas C. Mountain, a freelance journalist currently living in Africa, who was a member of the U.S. delegation to peace for the first time in Libya in 1987, said that NATO had dropped over 30,000 bombs on Libya, with an average of "two civilians killed in each attack." This mountain has estimated that some 60,000 civilians were killed by Libyan NATO air strikes the only end of August.
Shortly after, when rebel forces began the siege of Sirte, Moussa Ibrahim, a spokesman for the now defunct Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, told Reuters by telephone on September 19 that "in the last 17 days, more 2,000 inhabitants in the city of Sirte was killed in air strikes by NATO. "
From today, about 26,000 out NATO strikes of 9600 and missions have been conducted by NATO, with an average of four bombs used by attack.
Triple explosions in Thailand's restive South have killed two civilians and injured a dozen of security officers, including bomb disposal specialists. The Explosive Ordnance Disposal units rushed to the scene near an irrigation canal in remote Tak Bai district after the first explosion, which killed two irrigation workers and injured other five people.
As the bomb squads were checking the incident, another explosion occurred one kilometre away from the first explosion scene, wounding a military officer. Investigators said the improvised bomb was detonated by a mobile phone. The explosive specialists also found the third bomb three meters away from the second one, but failed to defuse it in time. The blast instantly injured six officers.
I've been hunting new footage of Japans March 2011 Tsunami that might have been released late,i found this.This footage is said to had been released in September 2011 but i cannot confirm that,but i don't remember seeing it.
(i apologize if this is a repost,the LL search is a bit difficult,some have seen it it seems,but for the most part many haven't including myself.)
I did try the LL search engines without success, so i gave up and just decided to put it up anyways.
There are many Tsunami vids showing rooftops i checked all i could and unless i missed it,i didn't find this one.
An amazing vid,this whole residential area gets wiped out,very sad,people screaming in panic,then a man sobbing at the destruction as he was lucky enough to survive the initial wave.
At the beginning of the vid take note.At the end of the vid make a comparison.
Video shows the moment the gunman was shot. Two policeman are said to have been injured by the gunman, who was using a semi-automatic weapon. The gunman has been shot by a sniper and arrested.
Bosnian TV identified the shooter as Mevlid Jasarevic. A member of the Islamic fundamentalist Wahhabi sect from Novi Pazar, Serbia.
Sarajevo Mayor Alija Behmen said the gunman "got off a tram with a Kalashnikov and started shooting at the American Embassy." Witnesses told Bosnian television that the man urged pedestrians to move away, saying he was targeting only the embassy.
One police officer guarding the building was wounded before police surrounded the gunman. After a 30-minute standoff, the sound of a single shot echoed and video showed the shooter slump to the ground.
The Sheriff's Office Manatee County reported that they were involved in a high-speed chase after an armed robbery Thursday, October 13, 2011, about four hours in the 5100 block 30th Street East, Bradenton.
A sheriff's report said deputies responded to a robbery at the site above. According to the victim, she was on her way back to 5299 East 33rd Street McDonald. McDonald left the victim and the driving west on 51st Avenue East. The victim approached 30th St. and stopped at the intersection of four lanes.
While stopped at the intersection, two of the four men in black approached the victim's car. One of the suspects approached the driver, pointing a gun at her. The suspect demanded money from the victim and fired a shell into the air. The victim said she gave the suspect an undetermined amount of money. The suspect took the money and fled. The victim was not injured.
A little later, the suspect vehicle near East I-75 and SR70 and deputies began pursuing the car north on I-75.
Deputies attempted a traffic stop with negative results. The ongoing quest for several miles to the north on I-75. The suspects off the road to SR 64 and then reinstated.
The chase continued north on I-75 to Hillsborough County. The chase continued to exit # 246 (Big Bend Rd). Stop sticks deployed HCSO near Big Bend and the suspects to stop and avoid punctures continued to flee.
The suspect continued west and made sticks HCSO stop again near U.S. 41 and Riverview Rd Two tires were now flat on the suspect's vehicle and eventually stopped at U.S. 41 and the Riverview Rd four suspects were detained without incident. The four suspects involved all have cash in their possession. The suspect vehicle, a Dodge Intrepid, believed to be stolen in Tampa. No weapons were found at the scene, but the car had not been treated as the date of release.
The suspects were Demario Murray, 24; De'Eric Moore, 17, Antwon Moore, 22, and Timothy Jefferson, 20. The four are from Tampa.
Three of them were booked in the Hillsborough County Jail on charges of armed robbery / pursuit. De'Eric Moore was taken to the booking facility for juveniles in the county of Hillsborough.
The Condit Dam on the White Salmon River in Washington was blown up to restore the fish habitat.
Its seems like all around the country, dams are coming down in an effort toward river restoration and more healthful fish stocks. The Condit Dam on the White Salmon River in Washington is the latest to come down, and 60 Minutes brings us footage of the river being freed.
The largest dam removal project in history will burst forward today as engineers cap off a decades-long effort to restore 14 miles of salmon habitat to the White Salmon River. At noon, engineers will blow up the Condit Dam with 700 pounds of TNT.
This fall we are celebrating two major river restoration efforts. The removal of outdated dams on Washington’s Elwha River and White Salmon River will bring the rivers back to life and deliver a wide variety of benefits to local communities.
American Rivers has dubbed 2011 “the year of the river” because of these and other historic river restoration projects. In fact, this year we will reach the significant milestone of 1000 dams removed in the U.S. Explore the links below to learn about the Elwha and White Salmon, and other rivers being restored through dam removal. And, learn about why healthy rivers are so important for our health, economy, and quality of life.
This carving was created in NYC by utilizing a 1,693lb pumpkin for the Zombies (Zombkins) that are crawling out of the new Worlds Record pumpkin that weighed a whopping 1,818.5lbs. It took Ray Villafane about 15 hours tocarve.
A crowd of garden-goers watched in awe as Villafane deftly sliced and slivered pieces of the giant squash (yes, pumpkins are a type of winter squash). After a few hours, the orange flesh was transformed into a terrifying scene complete with an eerily realistic zombie and a ghastly ghoul breaking out of the pumpkin’s shell. Villafane even used the stringyinnards of the pumpkin as “guts” draped in the hand of the zombie, who he depicted reaching out towards the audience.
The pumpkin, which is currently the record holder for largest pumpkin in the world,
was “raised” by Jim and Kelsey Bryson in Ormstown, Quebec. The orange behemoth is on display with its two slightly smaller brothers (grown in California and Pennsylvania) at the NYBG until October 30th, and all three will be carved into spooky sculptures by Villafane.
When the final stronghold of loyalist Muammar Gaddafi has fallen
Libyan fighters on Thursday, is believed ousted leader was captured and killed in the fighting.
New reports suggest that Gaddafi was not the only member of senior officials of the deposed regime to be killed or taken into custody.
Mutassim Gaddafi was also found dead in Sirte, Libya, information minister and several of the main supporters of Gaddafi.
Reports Aboubakr Yunus Jaber, chief of the armed forces of Gaddafi, was found dead in Sirte, and Ibrahim Moussa, a former spokesman for Gaddafi, was taken prisoner.
Philadelphia police are looking for man they say drove to a bar west of Philadelphia on Tuesday and started shooting.
Detectives from the Southwest, said Richard Jones, 26, drove up to the bar in Westminster and Belmont, jumped from his car and headed for the door, AK-47 in hand. When he could not open the door, he began to shoot.
When he finished, he ran to catch his car which had rolled down the street.
"I imagine that sign, there is no better criminals," said Capt. Ben Naish NBC Philadelphia.
Like Jones, he chased a moving vehicle and fired one shot at police stations. He stayed.
From there, the suspect walked the woman of the house and terrorize his Manayunk before going to Lafayette Hills, where his car broke down.
Police told NBC Philadelphia that Jones left his car and threw the AK-47 in the backyard of a resident.
Authorities say a dozen people were in the bar at the time of the shooting. Fortunately no one was injured.
The police say they have no idea why Jones was shooting at the bar in the first place.
If you have information, you are invited to call Philadelphia police.
(September 11th,2011) - I have never seen this before as far as i remember,source claims it was released this year but i cannot verify this,i can tell you i've seen alot of 9/11 footage,this i haven't seen before,if you have i apologize but it's new to me.
Cars on fire at beginning,with firefighter response.
Man yelling from a window at WTC building 7 at (1:00).
Whirl wind at (1:18)
Massive fire at (1:30)
Same man better view in building 7 yelling for help from 8th floor w/ authorities assuring him he would be rescued (1:51)
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Gaddafi has been hidden, "like a rat," last night, when his followers fought to the death in Tripoli.
In a desperate last stand, the road from the street are fighting to stop the rebels finally triumph over the tyrant hard.
Heavy shooting, the snipers and tank explosions rocked the capital. Opposition governors claim to control 85 percent of Tripoli, but in a sign of the intensity of fighting was the hospital in the city working only "filled" with 5,000 injured.
Surprised by the lightning advance of his fief, Colonel Gaddafi was said to hide in shelters during secure the streets of Tripoli.
The rebels warned the actual moment of victory would come only when the colonel was captured.
In other developments:
David Cameron, cut short his leave to return to London where he invited the dictator to go;
More notorious Gaddafi's son Saif al-Islam has up to the hotel of journalists in Tripoli and boasted of victory;
Libyan embassies were demolished Gaddafi flags and pictures;
Some 1,300 people were killed in Tripoli;
Green Square, the key points seized by the rebels, has become too dangerous to enter as a loyalist snipers have taken power;
Court officials opened the discussion on the transfer of Gaddafi's son Saif al-Islam in The Hague;
Another son, Khamis, was reported to have died;
Crude oil prices fell again Libyan merchants expected a full-time production;
Downing Street has refused to rule out the possibility of British troops on the ground as "observers of the peace";
South Africa was forced to deny planning to offer exile Gaddafi - an offer extended by Angola.
Saif, as rebels said they had arrested and who is wanted by the International Criminal Court, told reporters: "We broke the backbone of the rebels was a trap We gave them a hard time, then we will win ... "
He arrived in armored car services, and insisted that his father was safe, "naturally."
And last night, it seemed that Gaddafi was preparing to fight to the bitter end, when its forces fired three Scud missiles Sirte, home thanked the family of Colonel.
A video shot during a demonstration in downtown Columbus shows a confrontation between a police officer out of service and another uniformed officer, who worked as private security.
Witnesses began filming the incident, after seeing off-duty detective Roger Dickinson on the wall, Mark Harrington, creative director just said. Dickinson was with Harrington and other protesters, the officer in uniform - covered in the video as "Jack" - was invited to move.
In the video, Dickinson, shouting repeatedly: "Jack," let it go because it is pushed against the wall.
"Let me go, Jack! Let go. Let me now!" Dickinson says.
Other officers arrived as backup, and finally, the officer released his hold.
The Columbus Police Department will conduct an internal investigation into the incident. A spokesman said that the CPD video does not show the complete story of what happened to the argument.
Harrington speculated that personal views on abortion may have played a role in the actions of the officers, although he did not know the cause of violence.
