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A video of an 84-year-old grandfather playing Black Ops 2 and Halo 4 with his grandchildren is going viral on YouTube. The candid footage, uploaded only three days ago, has since received over 600,000 views.

“Alien base on the moon” sounds like an element of science fiction. But to UFO watchers and people bent on presenting evidence of extraterrestrial life, proof is everywhere. Consider a man’s insight to an old lunar photo from NASA’s Apollo Image Atlas.

Social networking sites like “Twitter” are currently creating noise once more as users react on the news about “Tampon Girl” Giovanna Plowman’s alleged suicide. Giovanna’s death has not yet been verified true but recent reports suggest that it is another stunt of the Buffalo teenager to gain more fame.

Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) has been receiving phone calls from startled residents of Cotulla, Texas who reported numerous UFO sightings in the area. The organization claims that their experts can solve the mystery surrounding the unidentified flying objects recently caught on camera.

Asteroid 2012 DA14 will fly by Earth on Feb. 15 in a "record-setting close approach," just 17,200 miles above the planet's surface, says NASA. The report came barely three weeks after another near-Earth asteroid had whizzed past the planet.

“Tampon Girl” Giovanna Plowman may be enjoying her sudden fame but the Buffalo teenager is somehow willing to share the spotlight with Dino Bruscia. He is another New York City teenager who created internet uproar months ago with a video of himself eating his own poop mixed with ice cream.

UFO sightings particularly in Cotulla prompted Texas-based KENS5 news channel to delve a bit deeper into witness reports, particularly the strange report from Eagle Ford oil hot spot. The site has been labeled the "mother ship of UFO sightings."

Torrential rains peaked at 10.7 meters in Maryborough, prompting major floods and evacuation in the northern area of Australia.

An outbreak of extreme wealth has been exacerbating the problem of inequality, thus making it much more difficult to fight with poverty, according to Oxfam International - the worldwide confederation of 17 organizations. As it was underlined prior to the annual meeting in Davos, the world's richest 100 individuals collected enough in 2012 to put an end to the burning issue of poverty.

The story on “Tampon Girl” Giovanna Plowman just got more controversial. The Buffalo teenager made an announcement through “Facebook” that she is married to Dino Bruscia, another New York teenager with a video of himself eating his own poop.

An unidentified flying object (UFO) was filmed in Australia, impressing some UFO watchers with the craft movement he captured. Narrating what he was seeing, the man said the strange flying object appears to be moving up and down. He noted it couldn’t have been a regular plane. He also tried to zoom in as close as he could. The UFO video may have convinced some viewers, but some YouTube users pointed out it could be a satellite.

Michael Garcia, a Laurenzo’s restaurant waiter from Texas, received internet recognition for defending a 5-year-old boy with Down syndrome against another customer’s offensive remarks. The waiter refused to serve the customer after hearing the remarks “special needs children need to be somewhere else.”

The “Django Unchained” film’s slave toy collectibles were supposed to bring more success to the Weinstein Company. Criticism from the African-American groups caused the company to discontinue selling the Django toys particularly on the virtual marketplace eBay.

Teenager Giovanna Plowman from Buffalo, New York City posted a disgusting video stunt of herself putting a used tampon in her mouth. The video immediately caused online frenzy particularly with the social networking site Twitter where the disturbed users reacted to the teenager’s act.

A heart-stopping accident occurred on the icy highway of Nizhny Novgorod in Russia where a driver lost control of the Mitsubishi minivan. The 1-year-old baby girl onboard, who flung from the vehicle after it smashed with an approaching truck, miraculously survived the incident.

A UFO sighting in Phoenix on Jan. 16 was reported to MUFON (Mutual UFO Network), with a number of witnesses saying they saw the strange lights, too. The witness, who did not leave a name, said she was driving along the elevated part of the North Valley when she saw some strange lights. She claims she has grown accustomed to the scenery there, but something strange appeared that night.

Bob, the American software programmer who outsourced his tasks to Chinese developers and instead spent time watching feline videos, would surely disagree with a proposal by Gareth Morgan, a New Zealand economist. And so would other cat lovers too because Mr Morgan, in his Web site (http://garethsworld.com/catstogo/), suggested the gradual extinction of the country's cat population because of the threat the animals cause to native bird species.

Google Chairman Eric Schmidt’s daughter, Sophie, instantly became an internet sensation following her controversial blog about a recent North Korea trip. Sophie Schmidt discussed in the blog what she encountered in the “very, very strange” country for three days in early January while accompanying her father who has a purpose for the visit.

Talibans were not impressed with Prince Harry after the Royal family member compared his Afghanistan mission to playing video games. Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid claimed that Prince Harry may have developed mental problems during his 20-week duty in Afghanistan.

Hard-working scientists made huge developments in the past ten years as they identify and track near-Earth asteroids. These scientific space developments have urged the new company, Deep Space Industries (DSI), to become the very first in executing the Asteroid Mining Mission on 2015.

The Bill Clinton photobomb of Kelly Clarkson has gone viral across social networks. But there has been no proof of intention, or lack thereof, to ruin "a moment like this." The still image was grabbed from a video footage of President Barack Obama's inauguration on Monday. Meanwhile, the Obama couple and kids also have their own photobomb on Reddit.

Sophie Schmidt, the 19-year-old daughter of Google Chairman Eric Schmidt, recounted her “very cold and very strange” trip to North Korea. The teenager wrote down on a blog post entitled “It might not get weirder than this” all of her controversial experiences during the three-day North Korean trip in early January.

Patrons of the footlong sandwich of U.S. food chain Subway are reeking mad over the alleged advertising fallacy of its footlong sandwich which was discovered to be lacking an inch short.

A metal detail found by a man in Russia has reportedly been studied and found to be 300 million years old. Findings prompted speculations that the relic could have been left behind by aliens or extraterrestrials.

Australia and Europe are poles apart not only geography but also insofar as discrimination towards gays and lesbians are concerned. Australia's federal government is proposing anti-discrimination laws that would leave intersex people vulnerable to discrimination, while the European Court of Human Rights ruled last week that religion is not a justification for anti-gay discrimination.

A UFO sighting witness from the west-central San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles (CA) reported having photographed a strange craft with the L.A.P.D. helicopter while working on some practice shots. The witness uploaded to MUFON a 2.70 MB (4912 x 3264 pixels) photo to back his report. (See accompanying photo.)

Australian toddlers and other young children frolicking in the shallow waters of Bulcock Beach in Queensland were saved by a foreign national on vacation from an attacking dusky whaler shark.

The Jill Meagher murder case will be heard at an Australian court on March 12 and 13, during which suspect Adrian Ernest Bayley will contest the charges against him. Meagher, who moved from Ireland to Melbourne, went missing in September last year. Her body was found six days later. She had been raped and strangled.

A total of five persons were injured in the 2013 Gun Shows held in the United States. Officials confirmed that the weapons accidentally went off last Saturday which caused the injury of three persons in North Carolina, one in Indiana and another one in Ohio.