5 Nov 2011

A moving adoption story.

Moving: British Education Secretary Michael Gove has given a highly emotional account of his adoption.
I love my parents in the way most children would: for having been there at every point in my youth and childhood, ready to pick me up when I fell and support me when I stumbled.
I love them for having made sacrifices for my education, for doing without foreign holidays, a new car or the conservatory they’d dreamed of so I could be given every opportunity.

2 Nov 2011

New 9/11 footage shows WTC 7 consumed by fire.

 
Its dramatic collapse several hours after the Twin Towers fell triggered a decade of conspiracy theories.
Those who believed that the September 11 attacks on America were not carried out by Al Qaeda terrorists pointed to the fall of World Trade Center Building 7 as proof of their wild claims.
But a newly released video appears to finally prove once and for all that Building 7 was brought down by the intense heat of the blazing World Trade Center - and not explosives, as conspiracy theorists claim.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2056088/Footage-kills-conspiracy-theories-Rare-footage-shows-WTC-7-consumed-fire.html#ixzz1cVfg6rwY

1 Nov 2011

Gun found in hospital patient's fake leg

   A Sydney hospital was placed in lockdown after the alleged discovery of a handgun hidden in a patient's prosthetic leg.
A doctor reported seeing the gun in the patient's room on level nine of the hospital about 3.50pm yesterday, police said.
No one was threatened with the weapon, but staff immediately locked the hospital down until police arrived and secured the gun.
Read more :  http://www.stuff.co.nz/oddstuff/5887827/Gun-found-in-hospital-patients-fake-leg

YouTube to launch 100 'TV channels'

  Channels will be free to watch from any PC. Move to turn YouTube into rival to cable and satellite TV. First channels will roll out this autumn.

The television channels will roll out on YouTube starting this autumn: Celebrities are to offer own-branded channels - Madonna (pictured) will have a dance-themed channel

YouTube is to take a dramatic step away from its roots as a user-generated video site - launching 100 new professionally produced TV channels in partnership with stars such as Madonna and Ashton Kutcher.