Facebook announced it will offer “memorials” profiles to the profiles to friends or relatives that have died.
The site leader in social networking invited users to report when any of its users to die, to remove sensitive information such as updates and contacts, according to the website of the newspaper The Guardian.
For this, however, it will [...]
Daily Mail’s controversial homophobic column by Jan Moir after death of Stephen Gately has met with severe criticism and public outrage. More than 21,000 complaints have been filed about the piece with Press Complaints Commission. This is more than sum total of all the complaints PCC has ever received in last five years. PCC cannot [...]
Earthquakes in Indonesia and South Pacific islands of Samoa and tsunamis followed by quakes have wrecked havoc and killed hundreds of people. Thousands are still missing and has left both places totally destroyed. Death tolls are expected to rise in next few days.
Entire communities living on Pacific islands of Samoa and Tonga have been left [...]
Lance Corporal Joshua Bernard was a 21 year old Marine who succumbed to injuries in Afghanistan recently. Julie Jacobson of Associated Press had captured a picture of Bernard as he lay in the mud after an ambush. The picture was published recently on front pages and it has sparked a debate in America. It is [...]
According to a survey conducted by Pew Research Center for the People and the Press in America every two in three Americans have said media gave too much coverage to Michael Jackson’s death. Nearly 64 percent feel it was overplayed, 29 percent think the news was covered appropriately and 3 percent felt there was not [...]
An extremely powerful drug used for surgical anesthesia, Propofol, was found in the home of Michael Jackson after his death. This medicine is strictly issued to medical personnel alone. Authorities are wondering how Jackson was able to possess such a drug. An unidentified information source said, “It is inconceivable that such a drug is prescribed [...]
The news is making headlines everywhere for nearly 48 hours. Michael Jackson is no more. Clippings from musical videos are being played over and over again. Fans are keeping vigil and celebrating life and music of Michael Jackson all over the globe. Incredible it may seem, but truly Michael Jackson is making his fans dance [...]
The singer and composer Michael Jackson, 50, died today, after suffering a cardiac arrest at his home in Los Angeles. The doctors of the hospital of the University of California confirmed the death of the singer, who had come to the place in deep coma.
According to the doctors, Jackson was not breathing when paramedics [...]
While the Influenza A (H1N1) virus, formerly known as swine flu, is the disease that is currently shaking the world in paranoia, even panic, there is an even far worse disease that is devastating some regions of the earth – dengue fever. Had dengue cases been more reported, it could have been labeled a pandemic [...]
“Vengeance is not the point; change is. But the trouble is that in most people’s minds the thought of victory and the thought of punishing the enemy coincide.” (Barbara Deming, Non-Violence Theorist and Women’s Rights Proponent)
The fight for land has always been raging. Avenging some other people’s incursion into one’s own land becomes a grand [...]