President Barack Obama announced himself as a candidate for the next year’s re-election through video and mail sent to his supporters on Monday. He hopes economic recovery will increase his chances for a new term. The announcement sets the plan to gather about $1 billion donations, which would break off the campaign finance record of […]

Engineers at NASA are busy perfecting the mega-rover to Mars before they send it to Florida. The mega-rover is expected to be launched later this year. A small group of NASA technicians are working 24/7 at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory to assemble the craft. They are also testing the science instruments of the said mega-rover. […]

A strong 6.7 magnitude earthquake hit the southern part of Java, Monday. Many residents fled from the Indonesian port to look for higher grounds due to fear of an impending tsunami. The epicentre of the earthquake in the Indian Ocean was 15 miles deep, said the US Geological Survey. Seismologists in India placed the earthquake […]

The Birmingham police placed two of its officers on paid administrative leave in line with the investigation on the alleged beating of a black man. The entire incident was said to have been caught on tape. Mayor William Bell of Birmingham said that training should be conducted to inform or remind police officers of the […]

Eman al-Obeidy, the woman who claimed to have been raped and beaten by Moammar Gadhafi’s troops is still in custody, said her mother. This is contrary to the statement the government of Libya released to the press. They said, Sunday, that al-Obeidy has been released and is safe with her family. Eman’s mother, however, said […]

Prosecutors from Wisconsin filed a criminal complaint, Thursday, against Katherine R. Windels, 26. This is after she allegedly sent e-mails to Republican state senators after they submitted controls on the union rights of public employees. Katherine Windels, who is from Cross Plains, Wisconsin, is facing a maximum penalty of three years in state prison, on […]

The United States fell to the third spot in the clean-energy investment last year, based on the report released by the Pew Charitable Trusts on Tuesday. It appears that lack of national energy policy displaced the country from its previous position in terms of investment. The US, which held the top place in 2008 and […]

Three Filipino drug smugglers have been confirmed as executed by the People’s Republic of China. Execution was conducted despite the Philippine government’s efforts to political concession and clemency for the convicts. 42 year-old Ramon Credo and 32 year-old Sally Villanueva, two of the three convicts, saw their families for the first time in years, but […]

Thousands of people attended the memorial service for a Georgia police officer, who was shot dead by an armed carjacker, on Sunday. According to the Athens Banner-Herald paper, the funeral was attended by nearly 2,500 people, which include law enforcement officers from Georgia and different parts of the country. Country Officer Elmer “Buddy” Christian was […]

On Sunday, a source said that the emergency law in Syria that has been observed since 1963 is soon to be lifted. The decision came as a result of the violent anti-government protests that have been going on for days. Reem Haddad, spokesperson of the Syrian Information Minstry, said that the emergency law will indeed […]