I can’t really imagine if it’s the result of constant brainwash of the Chinese Government, or what is wrong with those people, but it has emerged that the internet censoring program Green Dam has been downloaded three million times and it has been installed to 518,000 computers in China.
Once Green Dam is installed on a home computer, it links to a central database and automatically filters out all pornography and some politically sensitive content. According to …

Former Jordanian Prime Minister Abd al-Raouf al-Rawabdeh recently called Israel “a cancer that must be eradicated”, Arutz 7 reports.
“Israel is a cancerous body. This is agreed upon,” he stated.
“Usually, you confront a cancerous body in one of two ways: If you have the power, you use it to eradicate the cancer. But if you don’t have the power, you try to contain the danger, until you obtain the power you need in order to eradicate …

A Japanese spacecraft detected radioactive substance of uranium on the Moon’s surface, along with thorium, potassium, magnesium, silicon, calcium, titanium and iron, the Telegraph reports.
The space probe Kaguya detected the substances with a gamma-ray spectrometer.
The discovery opens up the possibility of mining operations on a commercial basis or even nuclear power plants being constructed on the Moon.
Uranium supplies on Earth are expected to last for another 100 years, although further deposits are still to be discovered.

Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin admitted that she would love to run against President Barack Obama in 2012 elections.
Former running mate of Republican Senator John McCain said that she was even confident of victory, the Times reports. “If it were a long race that required a lot of endurance I’d win,” she said.
Palin has been Governor of Alaska since 4th December, 2006.
As Republicans said before last year’s presidential election that Barack Obama lacked any experience for being …

A vicar, 61-year-old Alex Brown, was arrested on suspicion of organizing 180 sham weddings for illegal immigrants from Eastern Europe, the Daily Mail reports.
He was one of four people being held today, as well as a Ukrainian man, a Latvian woman – believed to be one of the brides – and an Armenian male, the newspaper says.
The marriages were allegedly arranged to allow people from outside Britain and the EU to stay in the country …

Conservative leader David Cameron said today at Prime Minister’s Questions that Gordon Brown’s repeated claim that the Conservatives would cut spending by 10 per cent is a “deceit”, adding that they were based on the Government’s own figures.
“The truth is this Government is planning to cut capital spending. Fact. They are planning to cut total spending. Fact. And the most important fact of all is they are incapable of being straight with the British people,” …

As Firefox 3.5 came out yesterday, I, like millions of others upgraded to the latest version. However, the sad fact is, the browser may be faster than its predecessor, as Mozilla claim, but it uses much more memory than any other main browser on the market.
As I’ve noticed throughout time, it’s not only the problem of 3.5 version of Firefox – previous ones were very demanding, too. But what I saw today was astonishing memory …

A 6.7-magnitude earthquake hit near the Greek island of Crete on Wednesday, CNN reports.
It struck at 12:30 pm local time (10:40 British time), the epicentre was about 80 miles off the city of Iraklion.
There were no immediate reports of damage or injuries.
An earthquake with a 6.7 magnitude is capable of causing significant damage, especially in areas of poor construction.

According to sources in Iran, six supporters of Iranian opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi have been hanged by authorities.
Speaking after Iran’s top legislative body upheld the election victory of incumbent Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, sources in Iran told Jerusalem Post that the hangings took place in the holy city of Mashhad on Monday.
There was no independent confirmation of the report.

…or did they? Well, at least a couple of people saw them and also photographed them when they hovered in the black sky above their home in Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, yesterday late at night.
The sighting of two unidentified flying objects took place at 22:45, according to the Telegraph. 40-year-old Andy Prior said he was out in the garden with his dog, when he saw two strange objects over his head. His wife, Diane, took …

June was the first month of the new Empire Chronicles and here are the statistics of visitors and pageviews. On average, The Empire Chronicles got 735 unique users a day, which is, for the first month and also in summer, a very good result, in my opinion.
Altogether, 19,848 people visited The Empire Chronicles during June and they generated 356,868 pageviews. As mentioned, the site got 735 unique users a day on average, the best day …

Madrid’s city hall on Monday stripped former Spanish dictator Francisco Franco of his title as honorary mayor and adopted son of the capital, 33 years after his death began the transition to democracy, Reuters reports.
Councilors of all political colors unanimously voted to remove the titles, as well as medals Madrid conferred on the right-wing general, a spokesman for the council said.
According to the report, the move is the latest in a effort spearheaded by the …

Demand pushed the price of a rare dateless 20p coin to £7,100 on eBay yesterday, the Daily Mail reports.
Many sellers are offering purchasers the chance to “buy it now” at prices of up £6,200.
Several are hoping to get more than £3,000 for their 20p. But the top seller fetched £7,100 at 2pm yesterday – 35,500 times its face value – although it is not clear whether the coin has been paid for, the report says.
Thousands …

Owners of Apple’s new iPhone 3G S have reported that tsome handsets gets so hot it glows pink, the Telegraph reports.
The problem appears to particularly affect the white handsets of Apple’s new turbo-charged device, which is twice as fast as its predecessor, the iPhone 3G. Dozens of users have reported overheating issues, with some iPhone owners unable to pick up the device because the handset gets so hot.
Some users have said the device has been …