What a gay child lost from his own mum, he recovered from his own grandfather. For members of the LGBT community, it's disheartening enough that society until this day continues to misunderstand them. But it's doubly depressing if it's your own parents, more so the mother who carried you in her womb, would become be the one to disown you.
The Space X Falcon 9 had a first-ever rocket launch on Sunday, Sept. 29, in California that gave the commercial spaceflight a huge boost. However, Alan Boyle at NBC News claims that reports started to pour in coming from witnesses in Southern Africa and the islands of Mauritius and Reunion about fuzzy UFO sightings approximately one hour after the Falcon 9 v1.1 launch from the Vandenberg Air Force Base at 9 a.m. PT (noon ET).
The High-Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on board NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) was able to capture the 2013 Comet ISON close flyby to planet Mars. The released images captured on Sunday, Sept. 29, show a blurry object at the center with the stars as background while the photos taken on Oct. 1 and 2 are currently getting processed.
Never take your king literally, particularly when he says he is open to criticism. A Thai woman learnt it the hard way when she got a five year jail term for a 2008 web comment considered discourteous to the Thailand royals. But she must be relived she got away with a lesser term, in a country which has the world's toughest lese-majeste laws, with royal insults punishable by up to 15 years in prison for each offence committed.
Kim Dotcom has announced his support for Orcon to bring cheaper broadband service to New Zealand. The Mega founder and Internet millionaire said he agrees with Orcon's mission to provide customers with unlimited broadband service.
20-year-old serial rapist Daniel Chipchase was classified as a possible sex offender when he was only three years old after displaying sexualised behaviour.
A social networking war is currently going on between the citizens of the Philippines and a woman named Devina Dediva who enraged the Filipinos after making racist comments on Facebook about Miss World 2013 winner Megan Young. On Facebook, British native Malcolm Conlan’s open letter to Devina Dediva is currently being shared where he defended the Filipinos from her rude and unnecessary comments and urged her to apologise.
Marina Shifrin, a former writer for a Taiwanese company, knows how to say “I quit” in style.
In this heroic video, Shifrin put down her paper by shaking a leg or two on Kanye West’s famous number, “Gone.”
It was a university event which promised three things: pizza, porn and sexual health.
Sky gazers can now start the preparations for viewing the fast approaching celestial display of the 2013 Comet ISON after making its closest approach to planet Mars on Tuesday, Oct. 1. The “Comet of the Century” is expected to become visible to the naked eye in early Nov. before its closest approach to the Sun on Nov. 28 and planet Earth on Dec. 26.
About 20,000 Muslims from UK are expected to visit Saudi Arabia for Hajj in October 2013. Reportedly, British authorities are worried about the increasing number of fraudulent trips on sale.
An exciting new film has just been announced: "Unacceptable Levels" exposes the hidden world of toxic chemicals now inundating society and destroying our health worldwide.
The Syrian foreign minister claimed that the government is fighting a war against terrorists with al-Qaida ties eating human hearts and dismembering people while they are still alive. In the UN General Assembly in New York, Walid al-Moallem said the terrorists send the dismembered limbs of the people they have taken hostage and send them to their families.
The last episode of the hit U.S. television series Breaking Bad proved to be a milestone for the show as it attracted 10.3 million viewers. Despite the record-breaking figures released on Sept 30, there were also 500,000 illegal downloads of the series finale, with Australia coming out as the top country with the most number of illegal downloads.
"Infrastructure is a key enabler of productivity growth," Rod Sims, chairman of Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC), said. He stressed this statement to the delegates who attended the inaugural session of the International Symposium on Infrastructure Monday at the University of Wollongong. Sims discussed the essential need for effective regulation of infrastructure for Australia to reach its potential.
A couple of men were arrested for allegedly having sex in a public park.
With 6 in 10 Australians choosing not to use a smartphone app because of privacy concerns, the Australian Privacy Commissioner, Timothy Pilgrim says, mobile app developers need to put privacy first or they risk breaching the law.
The very first national bank for umbilical cord starts in Ottawa on September 30, 2013.
A hard-hitting breast cancer awareness campaign in New Zealand has been banned featuring comedienne-actress Elaine Smith. This was the first time in UK that a breast cancer ad showed images of a woman's breasts and the effects of cancer.
Sexual passion can certainly reach to a point of becoming deadly, especially with the case of a Ukrainian couple who met a tragic end after having sex on railway tracks.
Derek Huff made path-breaking confessions to expose the Edmonton police.
You might think that today's Daily Reckoning is going to be a boring rant against central banking...again. But we urge you to read it, because the thinking at the US Federal Reserve is getting increasingly dangerous.
Three UFOs were captured last September 18, Wednesday, over Wittenberge, Germany with the use of a camera’s zoom and night vision features. UFOFilesTV shared the video online with the person who videotaped the UFO sighting remaining anonymous.
As much as seventy percent of the human race will become obsolete within just three generations. Why? Because robotics technology is advancing at such a rapid pace that highly-capable humanoid robots with advanced vision recognition and motor coordination systems are going to take over most menial labor jobs.
Australia has pledged $245,000 or P10 million worth of aid for the residents of Zamboanga and Basilan who were affected by the ongoing clashes in the southern part of the Philippines between rebel group, Moro Nationalist Liberation Front (MNLF) and the Philippine military forces.
Kiwi activists were sentenced to two years in jail by a Russian court after the Russian Coast Guard took them in custody along with over 20 protesters against oiling.
Americans may go extinct in the coming years if the pressing economic issues continue.
Stephanie Smith is not another ordinary woman waiting to be engaged to the man of her dreams. She is NY Post Page Six section reporter who is in a mission to make 300 sandwiches before her boyfriend will give her the ring she long waits for.
In one of the largest single seizures of ephedrine in Australian history, a multi-agency investigation resulted in a major seizure of 274kg of the banned substance hidden in a shipment of rice from India into Melbourne. Three people have been arrested in Australia and one person in India on charges for their alleged involvement in the importation and intended distribution of the substance.
Trident Taskforce arrested on Wednesdy a 46-year-old Brighton man for drug related offences. The arrest is part of a major operation undertaken by the multi-agency Trident Taskforce, to disrupt an alleged large drug importation and trafficking syndicate. According to a press release issued by the Australian Crime Commission (ACC), this is the third arrest by the Taskforce since it launched its anti-drug trafficking operation in Dec 2012.
