The car explosion in Thailand

 In Thailand, police received a signal about an abandoned car in the city center, in which a bomb. The area immediately cordoned off and started to work engineer. However, as soon as he approached the car to defuse it, there was an explosion. The man was thrown to the ground. Thanks to the protective suit he practically did not suffer.

Lottery millionaire's selfless gesture

n Ohio man who needs kidney dialysis to stay alive won $5 million in the lottery--but says he plans on giving part of his windfall away.

"I'm going to help people because I love it. It makes me feel good, and I think that's what God put us here for," Phillip Withem of Logan said Tuesday, right after accepting the mega-check from the Ohio Lottery.

In 2006, Withem paid $20 for an instant lottery ticket, and won $2,500. Then he won a second-round draw, featuring 86 entrants, called the Top Prized Drawing, which gave him his big payday.

Withem said he planned to donate some of the haul to children's charities, and to friends who helped him during his illness.

Before he got sick, Withem worked part-time cleaning and maintaining the Hocking County Courthouse.

Report: Friends say Rep. Weiner to resign

Rep. Anthony Weiner has informed friends that he's stepping down from Congress, the New York Times reported Thursday morning.
Multiple news outlets report that Weiner will publicly announce his decision at a press conference Thursday. NBC reported just  before the news broke that Weiner's staff members appeared to be packing up Weiner's office this morning. NBC's Alex Moe reports that two staff members and two interns left the office with their belongings, turned off the lights and locked the door.

Rexburg Snake House

Rexburg Snake House

Rexburg snake house- The residence near Rexburg, Idaho, now known locally as "The Snake House," is shown. The five-bedroom house on a nearly 2-acre lot in the eastern Idaho countryside seemed like a steal at $178,500. But it wasn't long before Ben and Amber Session realized the dream home they had purchased for their growing family was their worst nightmare: It was infested with hundreds upon hundreds of garter snakes.

Pakistan CIA Informants

Pakistan CIA Informants- (AFP) – Pakistan's top spy agency has arrested five Pakistani informants who assisted the CIA ahead of the raid that killed Osama bin Laden, The New York Times reported on Wednesday.The men arrested reportedly include a Pakistani Army major said to have copied the license plate of cars that drove up to bin Laden's compound in the military town of Abbottabad, two hours from the capital Islamabad.

Lindsay Lohan

 Lindsay Lohan was already an experienced performer when she made her feature debut in the 1998 remake of The Parent Trap.

Cannes 2011

 Another title that will compete at the 64th Cannes Film Festival is Michael, an upcoming Austrian drama film directed by Markus Schleinzer.

justin bieber selena gomez

 Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez went to Menchie's in Encino together - with a bodyguard in tow - last week for some de-lish frozen yogurt.

Rachel maddow beck

 In a sequel to is "Restoring Honor" rally that took place in Washington last year, media personality Glenn Beck is planning to hold a "Restoring Courage" rally in Jerusalem, Israel. MSNBC's Rachel Maddow is not pleased.

jennifer aniston dog

 They say all dogs go to heaven.

Dougie rapper killed

Dougie Rapper killed

M-Bone Killed

Rapper M-Bone of the group Cali Swag District died Sunday night in what police said was a drive-by shooting in his hometown, Inglewood, California.

jill scott 50 pounds

 On the cover and in the pages, Jill Scott flaunts her 50-pound-lighter frame photographed in a captivating shoot by Steven Gomillion and Dennis Leupold. Meanwhile, the Grammy Award-winner’s first CD and video in four years hits the airwaves. EBONY contributor Dream Hampton sits down with Scott, who opens up about the knock-down, drag-out battle with her former fiancé, her move from Hidden Beach Records and her 2-year-old son.

Danielle staub real housewives

 As previously announced, Danielle Staub is officially gone -- but not forgotten -- from "The Real Housewives of New Jersey" after two seriously drama-packed seasons.

How i met your mother

Created by former Late Show with David Letterman writers Carter Bays and Craig Thomas, the 30-minute CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother was, per its title, related entirely in flashback, from the vantage point of 2030. 

Donald Trump 2012 Bows Out

Trump bows out of 2012 presidential race

 Out of the presidential race before he was officially in it, the celebrity real estate mogul announced Monday he would not seek the 2012 Republican nomination. He could have won the White House, he said, but instead will continue to steer his business empire and remain host of his reality show "Celebrity Apprentice." 

The first ever parachute jump from a balloon

October 22, 1797, 14 years after the sky was first raised by a balloon, the famous balloonist Andre Jacques Garnerin a historic first jump with a parachute from an aircraft (not a tower or roof).

Container For Food Sunch Lunch Box - Proper Nutrition Is Always And Everywhere

 Who among us would not want to enjoy not only delicious, but also a "proper" lunch at work or school? However, just cook a favorite dish is not enough, still have to somehow pack it and then carry around. As a result, it is limited to a couple of sandwiches in a hurry. New container for the transport of food Sunch Lunch Box will enjoy a gourmet favorite dish in full during the lunch break.

The invasion of algae in China

Bono received emergency back surgery

Bono, the lead singer of U2, has received emergency back surgery after an injury sustained during tour preparation training, his band’s Web site reports.

The American Red Cross

“He was admitted to a specialist neuro surgery unit in a Munich hospital, and is under the care of neurosurgeon Prof. Dr. Jorg Tonn and Dr. Muller Wohlfahrt. Bono will spend the next few days there, before returning home to recuperate,” the statement reads.

U2’s 360 tour launch, scheduled for June 3 in Salt Lake City, has been postponed, the Salt Lake Tribune has confirmed. According to the report, fans who had tickets to that concert at Rice-Ecles Stadium should hold on to their tickets until updates on Bono’s health and the band’s touring status have been released.

U2’s tour is scheduled to stop at Spartan Stadium on June 30 with Interpol opening. LiveNation Detroit promoters said all they know thus far is the information about the Salt Lake City show.

Google celebrates Pac-Man's 30th anniversary and destroys productivity around the world

To celebrate the 30th anniversary of Pac-Man, Google has created the first-ever interactive and playable doodle, or custom home page logo. Seen here is a screenshot of the game, as it is being played on the Google home page.
(Credit: Google)

Saturday is the 30th anniversary of the release of Pac-Man, and to commemorate the occasion, Google is rolling out its first-ever truly interactive and playable home page logo, a fully-functional version of the iconic 1980s video game.

For years, Google has produced its so-called doodles for all kinds of holidays and special occasions, from Valentine's Day to the Fourth of July to Mother's Day and many others. In each case, the Google Doodle team works on a special logo that appears on the search engine's home page.

But a few months ago, when the team discovered that May 22 would be the 30th anniversary of the release of Pac-Man in Japan--it was actually called Puck Man, but that name was rejected in the United States because of the propensity of the "P" to chip and look like an "F"--they knew they had to do something extra special.

"When we became aware of the...anniversary," said Ryan Germick, a member of the Google Doodle team, "we thought it would be awesome to create not only something that references Pac-Man on the home page, but also something playable."

Until now, the most interactive of the logos had been one last Halloween that users could click to see more candy, and another for Isaac Newton's birthday that dropped apples. But for the Pac-Man celebration (see video below), Google has pulled out all the stops and has built, from scratch, a fully-playable version of the game, complete with 255 levels and re-created (but authentic) sounds and graphics. And unlike most of the special logos, which disappear off the home page--but are available in perpetuity in the archives--when the day is over, the Pac-Man doodle will stay up for 48 hours.

According to Germick, the company worked with Pac-Man's publisher, Namco Bandai, to make the project as realistic as possible. Yet the Google team, with the inspirational lead of Marcin Wichary, a Google senior user experience designer, built their version of the game from the ground up using JavaScript, HTML, and CSS.

"We are very excited about the Google doodle project," Namco Bandai President and CEO Kenji Hisatsune told CNET by e-mail. "With this being the first time Google has ever included sound or made a doodle playable demonstrates just how big of an impact Pac-Man has made. "

And in the end, Wichary made a "picture-perfect" version of the game, Germick said. Except for one thing, of course. Being a Google home page logo, it had to have the word "Google" in its design, so Wichary, Germick and their colleagues built their version of Pac-Man so that it had the search engine's name in the middle of the iconic board.