The feud erupted Christmas morning after Sheen, the star of Channel 9′s sitcom sensation Two and a Half Men, flew to Colorado from LA to spend time with wife Brooke Mueller and their twin boys, Max and Bob.
The pair had been living apart and had simmering marital problems.
Soon after Sheen arrived at their $7.5 million Aspen chalet, he and Mueller began arguing until Sheen allegedly throttled Mueller, US reports said. Read the rest of this entry »
A woman jumped the barriers in St. Peter’s Basilica and knocked down Pope Benedict XVI as he walked down the main aisle to begin Christmas Eve Mass on Thursday. Pope Benedict XVI was not hurt during the incident ,he quickly picked himself up. A woman who pushed the pope appeared to be mentally unstable and had been arrested by Vatican police. She also knocked down Cardinal Roger Etchegaray, who was taken to hospital for a check up. Read the rest of this entry »
Several years ago, we added another holiday tradition to our list — helping NORAD keep tabs on Santa every Christmas Eve.NORAD’s Santa-tracking dates back to 1955, when a Sears and Roebuck magazine ad in Colorado Springs accidentally directed readers to call NORAD instead of the “Talk-to-Santa” hotline they were advertising.
Embracing the holiday spirit, the folks at NORAD provided callers with Santa’s location according to their radar and have tracked his journey ever since. Many years later, in 2004, the same holiday spirit inspired us to use Google Earth — it was called “Keyhole Earth Viewer” back then — to display Santa’s voyage around the world on Christmas Eve. Google hosted the entire tracker on a single machine and were excited to have an audience of 25,000 following St. Nick’s flight with us that night.
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Stanford scientists are harnessing nanotechnology to quickly produce ultra-lightweight, bendable batteries and supercapacitors in the form of everyday paper. Simply coating a sheet of paper with ink made of single-walled carbon nanotube (CNT) and silver nanowire films makes a highly conductive storage device, said Yi Cui, assistant professor of materials science and engineering at Stanford University. Read the rest of this entry »
The 110th Christmas Bird Count is now in progress. From December 14 through January 5 tens of thousands of volunteers throughout the Americas take part in an adventure that has become a family tradition among generations.
Audubon recently-released Birds and Climate report clearly shows that climate change is affecting birds – and our world – now. For the past 40 years, as our climate has warmed, birds have shifted their winter ranges further and further north. This ecological disruption is yet another wake up call that we must act quickly to solve the climate crisis. The birds’ northward movement is another signal that climate change is here and action is needed now. Read the rest of this entry »
Today, Christmas festival is celebrated on a grand-scale in India as well as in all over the world. Christians and even the non-Christian community take part with great enthusiasm in the different festivities associated with it. Christmas celebration varies in various parts of India. In some parts, small clay oil-burning lamps, mango leaves etc are used as Christmas decorations and banana and mango trees are decorated. Churches, Markets and homes take on a festive air. There is lot of activity to celebrate in all over the world. So much eagerness is witnessed everywhere that people get high on the spirit of the festival. Balls, elaborately decorated Christmas trees, delicious cakes and Santa Claus moving in the streets distributing goodies to the children are the main attractions of Christmas festival. People decorate their houses, erect Christmas trees with branches hung with gifts and decorations, Joseph, make cribs with figures of baby Jesus Mother Mary, the three kings who come to visit the baby and shepherd boys and their herds grazing around portraying the scenes of Jesus’s Birth in the Bible. Read the rest of this entry »
There’s water, water everywhere in National Geographic News’s most popular space coverage of 2009: A probe proved there’s water on the moon, a Mars lander’s leg got all wet, fishlike life may swim a Jupiter moon’s seas, and more. Read the rest of this entry »
Weird is relative. What seems weird to me might not seem weird to you. In the plant kingdom, however, there are definitely some species that most people would acknowledge are highly unusual. Read the rest of this entry »
Have you been facing the challenge of some events that you should not fear about? Are your fears gearing to some other aspects of your life? Are you affected socially, mentally and physically? Do they cause you much stress? Well you are not just having panic attacks. You may already be encountering phobias.
Phobia is a strong fear or dislike of someone or something. It is described as an irrational state. It is very powerful and can affect you in several ways. You may tend to be afraid of spiders, cockroaches and other insects. Sometimes you may also be afraid of confined spaces. At times you may also fear the fact of traveling in elevators. It is therefore best to gather more facts about phobia that may cause panic attacks later on.
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Have you been afraid of something even if others say there is no basis for that fear? What do you usually do when you are frightened of something? Do you become troubled, disturbed or apprehensive? If you are in this position, then you might be having panic attacks.
Fear is a feeling which must be carefully distinguished from anxiety. While both fear and anxiety may show themselves in similar reactions and feelings and even bodily changes, the difference is considerable. Fear arises out of a real experience, for instance, being threatened by a wild animal or being caught in a burning building or a sinking ship. Anxiety arises from subconscious feelings or emotional reactions without any real danger or threat being present.
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