Organisations providing relief efforts for the victims by Dawn.com (1) Faith Foundation Flood Relief Camp Contact Information: 021-99250265, 0315-2095953, 0300-8246829 Donation/Collection point: Ideas @ Schon Circle. Goods collected will be dispatched personally to Sukkur for distribution by Faith Foundation this Friday, August 13. Requirements: Clothes, food (dry and packed), blankets, tents and medicine. We also accept cash but what’s required immediately are the items mentioned. We also need to rent transport, you can arrange for the Shehzore pickups that have covered cabins at the back. (2) Food Drive for the FLOOD! Drop-off Locations: DHA: 74 Main Khyban-e-Ittehad, opp. Bobby Mart. … Continue reading Pakistani Organisations providing relief efforts for the victims of flood

Speeding Swede clocks up world’s biggest motoring fine after 180mph chase By Daily Mail Reporter A speeding Swedish driver is facing the world‘s biggest ever motoring fine of 650,000 euros – around £538,000 – after being clocked at 180mph while driving through Switzerland. The 37-year-old man‘s £140,000 Mercedes SLS AMG was impounded along with his driving licence after soaring along at two and-a-half times the speed limit on a Swiss motorway. ‘We have no record of anyone being caught travelling faster in the country,’ said a police spokesman. Finally at a halt: The driver’s Mercedes has been impounded by police … Continue reading £538,000 speeding fine!

Still going strong, Britain’s oldest fridge keeping food fresh after 56 years By Daily Mail Reporter Britain’s oldest working fridge is still faultlessly keeping food fresh 56 years after it was purchased. Edmund Garrod has used the General Electric Company DE.30 fridge every day since it was delivered to his home when he was a child on June 26 1954. The waist-high cream-coloured unit cost £69, equivalent to around £1,415 today, and was purchased by his parents with inheritance money because their milk kept going sour. Old friend: Edmund Garrod with his General Electric fridge which is 56-years-old and still … Continue reading Britain’s oldest fridge keeping food fresh after 56 years

Topic of Cancer One fine June day, the author is launching his best-selling memoir, Hitch-22. The next, he’s throwing up backstage at The Daily Show, in a brief bout of denial, before entering the unfamiliar country—with its egalitarian spirit, martial metaphors, and hard bargains of people who have cancer. By Christopher Hitchens• Photograph by John Huba September 2010 JOINING THE RESISTANCE? The author at home in Washington, D.C., July 18, 2010. I have more than once in my time woken up feeling like death. But nothing prepared me for the early morning last June when I came to consciousness feeling … Continue reading Bitch has Cancer!

New York buses to carry graphic ad featuring picture of Twin Towers attack in opposition to planned mosque near Ground Zero By Mail Foreign Service New York City’s transit agency has approved a bus advertisement that depicts a plane flying toward the World Trade Center’s towers as they burn along with a rendering of a proposed mosque near ground zero. The ad was paid for by the American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI), an organisation that opposes radical Islamic influence in the United States. The group’s executive director says she doesn’t find the ad offensive. The group sued the Metropolitan Transportation … Continue reading New York buses to carry Islamophobic ads

U.S. Is Bankrupt and We Don’t Even Know: Laurence Kotlikoff By Laurence Kotlikoff Bloomberg Opinion Play Video Aug. 11 (Bloomberg) — Laurence Kotlikoff, an economics professor at Boston University, talks about the state of the U.S. economy. Kotlikoff speaks with Erik Schatzker on Bloomberg Television’s InsideTrack.” (Source: Bloomberg) Let’s get real. The U.S. is bankrupt. Neither spending more nor taxing less will help the country pay its bills. What it can and must do is radically simplify its tax, health-care, retirement and financial systems, each of which is a complete mess. But this is the good news. It means they … Continue reading U.S. Is Bankrupt !

Jupiter ‘swallowed up planet ten times size of Earth in massive collision’ By Niall Firth Jupiter is the biggest planet in the solar system because it swallowed up a smaller rival before it could grow any bigger, scientists believe. Studies of Jupiter have revealed that the giant planet has an extremely small core compared to its huge size. Even though Jupiter is more than 120 times bigger than Earth, measurements from spacecraft have revealed that it core weighs, at most, ten times that of our own planet. Jupiter may have gained its dominant position after crashing into a smaller planet … Continue reading Jupiter ate a super Earth?

Will we soon set watches to Mecca Mean Time? Giant £500million clock being built in Islamic holy city By Mail Foreign Service For over a century, an observatory in a south-east London park has been used as the reference point to set every watch on the globe. But Greenwich Mean Time is facing a challenge to its claims as the starting point for each new day. A giant new clock being built in the Islamic holy city of Mecca hopes to usurp the role of Greenwich Observatory, and aims to have the world’s 1.5 billion Muslims setting their watches by … Continue reading Saudi Arabian Clock strikes fear in Chavistan (Daily Mail)!

Let’s hear it for Luntik: The amazing cat with FOUR ears By Mail Online Reporter The brief Seventies craze for quadraphonic sound might have lasted a little longer if there were more cats like Luntik around. The three-month-old kitten who lives in a garage in Vladivostok, Russia, has a ‘spare’ pair of vestigial ears just in front of his real ones. It’s not a completely unique condition. There’s a cat called Yoda living in Chicago with an even bigger pair of spare lugholes. Two? Hah! I’ve got four… Luntik gives his reply to anyone who says he looks a bit … Continue reading Luntik – The Four Eared Kitten!

The moment a shark snapped back at scientist trying to photograph his ‘fin-gerprint’ By Mail Foreign Service A great white shark bites Michael’s camera as he tried to photograph it for his finprinting project in the sea off Dyer Island, South Africa This is the amazing moment a scientist got just a little too close to a shark he was trying to photograph – and the deadly predator attempted to eat his camera. Marine biologist Michael Scholl was documenting great white sharks off Dyer Island in South Africa when the hair-raising incident happened. Scholl is part of an international team … Continue reading Shark eats Steven Spielbergs camera