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Much mystery remains to shroud the assassination of Hamas man Mahmoud al-Mabhouh in Dubai. al-Mabhouh was a senior Hamas military commander and one of the founders of the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Palestinian socio-political organization Hamas. Much controversy surrounds the death. After all, here is an Arab fundamentalist [...]

The Associated Press has reported that the Larimer County, Colorado sheriff’s office has already ascertained that the Heene family did not stage a hoax when the Balloon boy’s parents reported that their 6-year-old son was feared to have been in ‘a helium balloon that floated away from their home and traveled more than 50 miles.’ Knowing [...]

After the near-revolution situation in Iran, Twitter has received unprecedented amount of media coverage and billions of web impressions, leading to remarkable popularity of the already popular social networking site. In fact all this media coverage and chatter has led its importance be worth about $48 million, which is nearly 100 times more than what [...]

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 enough coverage. Well, one can [...]