Hollywood super star Angelina Jolie has donated about $100,000 for the Pakistan flood affected people.The money donated by Angelina is more than Pakistani president Asif Ali Zardari. Zardari had contributed about 5 million and had help extended for many politicians. The contribution made by some leaders had been not released and claimed that the money would directly go to relief fund.
The Pakistani Muslim league Q,Awami national party and Jamiat Ulema- I -Islam had even given donations for the fund. Many goods were being dispatched from the prime minister pklace as the prime minister doesn’t believe in money contributions. The details of the contribution for the Pakistan flood victims appeared on the Dawn newspaper.
The floods Pakistani was started in July 28 and submerged many villages washed out many bridges and crashed 1.7 million acres of crops. The worst disaster of Pakistan was the flood which killed 1,600 people and affected 20 million. Many Pakistani living overseas even contributed for the flood affected people.
The rising sea levels are slowly raising the low lying islands like pacific islands. The new research has shed light on the rising sea levels on slow inundating island. Around 27 low lying islands which are in the Pacific Ocean was taken for the study by the scientists. The modern satellite images and aerial photos of 60 were taken and being compared by the scientists for the research.
The article appeared in the New Scientist journal which the article had been discussed in detail. The research has been conducted by the University of Auckland and lead professor of the study is Paul Kench. Only four islands had declined from 27 islands despite rise in the average sea level of 60 year period. The decline of sea level by 12 cm is seen from the past 60 years say scientist in the report. Around half of the island has remained the same size for the past 60 years and half islands have increased their size. There is no particular island which can be claimed to have remained as it is from the past years.
The climate change and rising sea levels affect the island in different ways. The waves sometimes are making the island grow,even the currents and winds are bring out the coral debris. The study mainly was involved in the study of land area, cyclones and storms even play important role in rising island levels. Some of the island has seen the rise of 30% due to climatic change since 1950’s and the reason may be climatic changes.
Hundreds of blonde Latvian women have been marching through the capital Riga to try to bolster the national spirit in time of recession.
Most of the participants dressed in pink and wore high heels.
The blonde parade began last year and was planned as a one-off but it is back by popular demand and is now a two-day festival.
Latvia has been hit badly by recession. Its economy shrank by 18% in 2009 and it has Europe’s highest unemployment.
Hollywood actor Dennis Hopper has died at the age of 74 following a battle with prostate cancer.
Known for such cult classics as Easy Rider, Apocalypse Now and Blue Velvet, Hopper embodied the image of the Hollywood icon.
Hopper died on Saturday morning surrounded by friends and family at his home in Venice, California.
He was last seen in public in March when he was honoured with a star on Hollywood’s Walk of Fame.
“Dennis Hopper died this morning at 8:15 am from complications of metastasised prostate cancer. He died at home in Venice surrounded by family and friends,” manager Sam Maydew said in a statement.
A powerful tropical storm has struck Guatemala, bringing torrential rains that have added to the disruption caused by an erupting volcano.
At least 12 people have died in mudslides and floods caused by tropical storm Agatha, which is moving in from the Pacific Ocean.
The rains are complicating efforts to clear up ash from the Pacaya Volcano, which began erupting on Thursday.
Guatemala’s main airport will remain close for at least five days.
Tropical storm Agatha – the first named storm of the Pacific Hurricane season – is expected to dump at least 50cm (20in) of rain on Guatemala, as well as El Salvador and southeastern Mexico.
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New York City police have defused an improvised car bomb parked in Times Square, one of the city’s busiest tourist areas.
They say propane tanks, fireworks, petrol and a clock device were removed from a parked sports utility vehicle.
So far, there is no evidence that it was more than a “one-off event”, the US homeland security chief said.
Forensic evidence including fingerprints had been recovered, Janet Napolitano told NBC television.
Early on Sunday the vehicle was towed to a forensic lab in the city’s Queens district and Times Square was reopened.
Part of the district – where many theatres are sited – had been sealed off on Saturday night after the bomb alert.
Both US President Barack Obama and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg praised the quick response by the New York Police Department.
Cambodia which was previously called Angkor, has its capital in great Khmer. Angkor was the largest preindustrial city in the ancient times. The preindustrial city for the world is now in ruins at Angkor Wat. Today visitors can see ornately carved temples of Buddhist, massive and intricate water systems. Dikes which have ponds remnants of the ruins which is sorrowful.
The Thai invaders succumbed the city in1431 when the city declined. The mystery of the collapse has a partial answers say researchers.
A follow up flooding, two massive droughts may have affected the city so much. The agriculture base of the city must have weakened due to the droughts and left it vulnerable. The other reasons may be due to the invasion of invaders and people being vulnerable to diseases.
The severity of drought may have influenced the sprawling city’s water supply. The agricultural productivity may have been impacted by the Angkor droughts. Monsoon years should have damaged the water control infrastructure say researchers. The findings were in the recent proceedings of the national academy of sciences. The cloud forest which is situated near the Vietnam was also conducted tree wing. The rings were seemed to grow wider or narrower based on the rainfall. Angkor was a home for million people according to a study in 2007.
Researchers have found that eggshells of extinct bird species are a rich source of preserved DNA.
An international team isolated the delicate DNA molecules of species including the massive “elephant birds” of the genus Aepyorni.
The Proceedings of the Royal Society B research demonstrated the approach also on emu, ducks and the extinct moa.
The team says that the technique will enable researchers to learn more about ancient birds and why they died out.
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