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With the rise in crime against women, India ranked at fourth place for most dangerous place for women : Survey

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According to report prepared by Thomson Reuters' Trust law Women with the help of the survey, India is ranked at fourth position as the world's most dangerous place for the women to live. This survey was prepared keeping an eye on the high number of female foeticide, infanticide and human trafficking prevalent in India.

Afghanistan leads the in this category followed by Democratic Republic of Congo, Pakistan, India and Somalia.

An orthodox Jewish newspaper which doesn't publishes any form of female forms gets into trouble by editing the famous White House situation room pics.

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An orthodox Jewish printing media which deeply follows the Jewish principle of not publishing or showing women in any form has landed itself into a controversy.

The Brooklyn weekly Di Tzeitung, an orthodox Jewish newspaper digitally deleted US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Counterterrorism Director Audrey Tomason from a photo of President Barack Obama and his staff monitoring the raid by Navy SEALs that killed Osama bin Laden.

Osama much more searched and viewed topic than the Royal Wedding[Figures].

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What will the next most buzzed word after Osama's death? Well we have to wait and see. But the incidents or events which occurred last two weeks had made new record in the Web World.

First the Royal Wedding. The most widely covered topic by media from time when the Queen had no objection with the commoner(Kate Middleton) becoming the new princess. The real buzz started in the cyber world as the date for big day was nearing. New records were emerged in Social media before and during the Wedding ceremony.

Various Osama Bin Laden's warning over the years.

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Selected quotes attributed to Osama bin Laden, whose death was announced by US President Barack Obama on Sunday.

"America has been hit by Allah at its most vulnerable point, destroying, thank God, its most prestigious buildings". - October 7, 2001, after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.

"Acquiring weapons for the defense of Muslims is a religious duty... If I seek to acquire these weapons, I am carrying out a duty." - December 1998, when asked by an interviewer for Time magazine whether he had acquired chemical or nuclear weapons.

Now, India has the World's Seventh fastest Supercomputer 'SAGA-220'.

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Recently, China claimed to be leader in Supercomputing by introducing Tianhe-1A, a supercomputer which has peak performance of 2.566 PFLOPS, powered by 14,336 Intel Xeon CPUs and 7,168 Nvidia Tesla M2050 GPUs with a new interconnect fabric of Chinese origin, situated at National Supercomputing Center, Tianjin, China. How can it's neighbor country can be far behind?

On Monday, 2-May 2011, Indian Space Research Organisation has announced that they has built a supercomputer, which is to be India’s fastest in terms of theoretical peak performance of 220 TeraFLOPS (220 Trillion Floating Point Operations per second).

Photo editing skills almost fooled the entire world by publishing OSAMA's fake death picture.

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As the world was eager to see last glimpse of the World most wanted looked like after shoot out, and the eagerness may remain for ever, as media reports suggest that OSAMA BIN LADEN picture which was surfaced in news channels for some time was not the genuine one.

Classified docs from FBI reveals spying on MJ and Beatles.

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According to the classified FBI files that have now been made public reveal recently tells us that the Federal Bureau of Investigation(FBI) spied on popular music related celebs which includes Beatles and Michael Jackson and others, in case they disturbed national security.

The other VVIPes includes stars like Frank Sinatra, John Denver, Jimi Hendrix and the boss of Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) were also spied upon, The Sun reported.

China steal terabytes of sensitive data from US computers.

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According to secret diplomatic cables made available to Reuters by third party, China had increased its hand in cyber-espionage and said to have gained accessed to sensitive user names and passwords and terabytes of classified documents.

And at the moment, many experts believe China may have gained the upper hand.

According to US investigators, China has stolen terabytes of sensitive data - from usernames and passwords for State Department computers to designs for multi-billion dollar weapons systems. And Chinese hackers show no signs of letting up. "The attacks coming out of China are not only continuing, they are accelerating," says Alan Paller, director of research at information-security training group SANS Institute in Washington, DC.

Amazingly, an 83 year old Japanese women escape tsunami waves on her cycle.

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A strong message for today's youth about will power. Tsuna Kimura, aged 83-year old woman from japan, who lived alone in the town of Ishinomaki, Japan, escaped the huge tsunami waves by fleeing on her bicycle.

After hearing about the tsunami warning the first thing that got to her mind was the bicycle, and then she flee on it.

In this Era, Revolution start and gets fueled at Social Networking Sites.

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The Status Msg(facebook) which sparked the Successful revolution by 26-year-old woman is "People, I am going to Tahrir Square". The message may be given credit for the successful Egypt revolution, a movement to oust Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak.

The Facebook appeal by Asmaa Mahfouz led to popular protests that saw tens of thousands gathering at Tahrir Square to demand an end to Mubarak's 30-year rule.

Are America's poorest groups as rich as India's richest?

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According to a new book by the World Bank economist Branko Milanovic about inequality around the world, a graph showing inequality within a country, in the context of inequality around the world.

Here the population of each country is divided into 20 equally-sized income groups, ranked by their household per-capita income. These are called “ventiles,” as you can see on the horizontal axis, and each “ventile” translates to a cluster of five percentiles.

The household income numbers are all converted into international dollars adjusted for equal purchasing power, since the cost of goods varies from country to country. In other words, the chart adjusts for the cost of living in different countries, so we are looking at consistent living standards worldwide.

2011 will witness four solar and two lunar eclipses.

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(IANS) Four solar and two total moon eclipses will be observed in different parts of the world, including in India, in 2011.

The first solar eclipse will take place Jan 4. It will begin at 06:40 GMT and will be visible from Europe, the Middle East and Northern Africa.

Julian at the age 18, had affair with 16 year old and became father.

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Julian Assange, WikiLeaks founder, is said to had an affair with a 16-year-old girl when he was 18 and fathered a boy who is now 20 years old, according to media report said on Dec 20.

Raised by his mother Christine - who flew into London from Australia to see him this month - Assange had lived in 37 towns by the time he was 14, receiving much of his education at home.

Latest Wikileaks cable comes up with new info on ex-KGB man's radiation poisoning.

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By Alan Cowell, New York Times

Shortly after the radiation poisoning in London of a former K.G.B. officer, Alexander V. Litvinenko, a senior Russian official asserted that Moscow had been tailing his killers before he died but had been waved off by Britain's security services, according to a cable in the trove of secret American documents released by WikiLeaks.

The Russian assertion, denied by British officials, seemed to revive a theory that the British intelligence services played a murky role in the killing -- a notion voiced at the time by some in Moscow to deflect allegations of the Kremlin's involvement in the murder.

Fifth Generation Fighter air-crafts to be jointly developed by India and Russia.

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Russian President is on 2 day official visit to India. In his tour, India and Russia on Dec-21 decided to jointly design and manufacture a most advanced Fifth generation stealth fighter by signing a preliminary design contract which is said to be worth $30 billion.

The preliminary design contract for the fifth generation fighter aircraft (FGFA) "envisages joint design and development" of the jet, an official statement said.

Julian Assange out of jail, gets conditional bail.

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Merry time for the Assange fans. Assange, out of jail after British judge granted him conditional bail and said that the Assange must abide by strict bail conditions.

One behalf of Swedish authorities, British police arrested the 39-year-old Assange and held in a London prison for a week.

Anonymous says, won't harm individuals but will target those who go against Wikileaks.

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BBC got a chance to interview one of the member of Wikileaks.

'Coldblood', a member of the group Anonymous, tells why he views its attacks on Visa and Mastercard as defence of Wikileaks.

The Anonymous groups says that they are an average net citizens but not hackers but felt motivated to act against the injustice done to Wikileaks which is widely being targeted by Big corporates under the pressure of Govts. The group said it had no interest in stealing credit card details or attacking critical infrastructure.

Vatican bank comes under money laundering shadow .

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Institute for Religious Works is a bank which is dedicated to priest where he enjoys several privileges.

During the investigation of money laundering case which led to seizure of Euro 23 million ($30 million) in Vatican assets in september, the vatican bank came under harsh scrutiny by Italian policia.

Countries may not attend Nobel Prize cermony at Oslo due to China pressure

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Due to Chinese pressure, at least 19 countries have declined to attend the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony for Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo.

Defying Chinese, 44 countries are going to attend, according to a revised guest list from the organisers and officials.

More than 50% of indian paid bribe in past 12 months : STUDY

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According to a study revealed on account of International corruption day says,one in four people worldwide paid a bribe during the past year.

And so called developing India is in top five, thanks to Common Wealth Games scam.

54 per cent Indians say they hari patti(money) to authorities to get things done quickly and with out fuss.