An 8.8 magnitude Chile had hit Chile which one of the most populated city in the world. This is an excerpt from Inquirer.net
A huge 8.8-magnitude earthquake rocked Chile early Saturday killing at least 78 people, toppling buildings and triggering a tsunami threatening the Pacific rim of fire, officials said.
The massive quake plunged much of the Chilean capital, Santiago, into darkness as it snapped power lines and severed communications.
The US Pacific Tsunami warning center issued a “widespread” tsunami warning for all Pacific nations.The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology said that …

Five kilograms of cocaine were concealed in 10 packs of cookies were smelled by Colombian sniffer dogs and seized by the Colombian police last Saturday. These cocaine stuffed cookies are supposed to be shipped to Barcelona.
Not your average biscuit, "the cream was taken out of the cookies and replaced with compressed bleached cocaine to avoid suspicion from counternarcotics units," it added.

According to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, Colombia is the world’s biggest producer of cocaine.
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Pictures of drinking, grinning doctors and holding guns from Puerto Rico were posted on the facebook accounts of these doctors who were supposed to be doing humanitarian mission to aid Haitian earthquake victims. An investigation on this matter will be launched whether these doctors will be disciplined. Their Puerto Rican Secretary of Health Lorenzo Gonzalez was saddened by this.
"The poor judgment of a few basically damages the beautiful effort that many others have put in place in terms of providing good medical care," Gonzalez said. "When I saw the pictures, …

Toyota has said in their website that they announced it would recall approximately 2.3 million vehicles to correct sticking accelerator pedals on specific Toyota Division models ( Source : Toyota.com ).

This action is separate from the on-going recall of approximately 4.2 million Toyota and Lexus vehicles to reduce the risk of pedal entrapment by incorrect or out of place accessory floor mats. Approximately 1.7 million Toyota Division vehicles are subject to both separate recall actions.
Toyota’s accelerator pedal recall is confined to the following Toyota Division vehicles:
• 2009-2010 RAV4,
• 2009-2010 Corolla,
• 2009-2010 Matrix,
• 2005-2010 Avalon,
• 2007-2010 …

A Chocolate theme park is about to open in Beijing, China next week, January 29. The “chocolate wonderland” has a size of 20,000-square-meter. Final touches are being done on this chocolate theme park on the Olympic Green near the Bird’s Nest Stadium. It has the life size replicas of the Terracotta Warriors and a section of the Great Wall.
"Even though chocolate in China is not as popular as it is in Western countries, we hope to promote the chocolate culture and market in China," Zheng Yaoting, general manager of the …

Roger Federer, the world’s top-ranked tennis player, will take part in an exhibition event in Australia on Sunday together with the other top stars like Serena Williams, Rafael Nadal, Andy Roddick, Kim Clijsters and Samantha Stosur. They venue will be at Melbourne Park in the state of Victoria’s capital city.
Federer organized this charity event to raise funds for the Haiti earthquake victims.
"The entry fee is a minimum donation of $10. This should be fun and it’s for a great cause," the Swiss said on his official Web site.
"I think it’s …

An univited guest was spotted in the White House state dinner in honor of the Indian prime minister. Last November 24, in another security lapse, an uninvited person traveled from Washington hotel and arrived at the dinner together with the Indian delegation.
"This individual went through all required security measures along with the rest of the official delegation at the hotel, and boarded a bus/van with the delegation guests en route to the White House," the Secret Service said.

According to Obama administration official, the man was a U.S. Citizen, was not …

International CES will start on January 7 to Januray 10, and as expected lots of gadget will be shown. Our Tech Site { Tech At Hand } will try to update you with information and latest gizmos that will be shown in CES 2010, yo just have to bookmark the CES 2010 Tag in order to get the latest post from our site. or you could subscribe to email or RSS for the latest information about CES 2010.
CES 2010 is located at NEVADA USA and here is the CES …

The World’s Tallest Skyscraper which can now be found in Dubai will open on Monday. Burj Dubai’s exact height was not revealed, but they say that the tower exceeds 800 meters, which makes it higher than Taiwan’s Taipei 101 tower with the height of 508 meters.
Bill Baker is the one who designed Burj Dubai.
"We thought that it would be slightly taller than the existing tallest tower of Taipei 101. (Emaar) kept on asking us to go higher but we didn’t know how high we could go," he said.

"We were …

Last 4 years ago the fastest man made object was made, it is luto-bound New Horizons probe, and it is now believed that the probe is closer to pluto compared to earth. just a little under four years after its launch. It’s currently traveling at about 31,000 miles an hour and is located about 1.527 billion miles from Earth.
12-29-09_lg“Today, 29 Dec 2009, New Horizons crossed a milestone boundary– henceforth we’re now closer to Pluto than to Earth. Go New Horizons!” the mission’s controllers tweeted Tuesday.
The spacecraft will be the first …