The Police Officers implicated in the case have been suspended.
It is hard to believe this things still happen in the XXI Century.
Policemen in South Africa tied a taxi driver to the back of a van and dragged him down to death
The 27-year-old driver, Mido Macia from Mozambique, was arrested died in the holding cells, of head injuries and internal bleeding.
The Police Officers implicated in the case have been suspended.
It is hard to believe this things still happen in the XXI Century.
The Police Officers implicated in the case have been suspended.
It is hard to believe this things still happen in the XXI Century.
Learn how turtles can breathe through their butts
Turtles breathe in two ways. First, they employ buccal pumping, pulling air into their mouths, then pushing it into their lungs via oscillations of the floor of the throat. Secondly, when the abdominal muscles that cover the posterior opening of the shell contract, the internal volume of the shell increases, drawing air into the lungs, allowing these muscles to function in much the same way as the mammalian diaphragm.
Many species have a pair of sacs (bursae) opening off the cloaca (combined digestive and urogenital chamber). These are heavily vascularized to facilitate the uptake of oxygen.
Do you think is a powerful evolution feature?
Many species have a pair of sacs (bursae) opening off the cloaca (combined digestive and urogenital chamber). These are heavily vascularized to facilitate the uptake of oxygen.
Do you think is a powerful evolution feature?
Before winning the lottery, this guy survived 7 near-death accidents including a plane crash!
Frano Selak, is a Croatian music teacher with plenty of anecdotes to tell. It all started in 1962, when a train going to Dubrovnic when his train ended up in a frozen river after jumping the rails. A broken arm and hyphotermia were the consecuences for Frano. Seventeen people died.
He survived a plane crash a year later, after a door flew open and 19 people died. He then survived to a bus sunk in a river, his car's engine exploding, another car burning, being run over by two different buses and finally his Skoda falling to a precipice.
In the end he won around 1 million dollars with his first ever lottery ticket. As a pensioner, he decided to give the money away to his friend and family.
What do you think?
He survived a plane crash a year later, after a door flew open and 19 people died. He then survived to a bus sunk in a river, his car's engine exploding, another car burning, being run over by two different buses and finally his Skoda falling to a precipice.
In the end he won around 1 million dollars with his first ever lottery ticket. As a pensioner, he decided to give the money away to his friend and family.
What do you think?
A poet goes to jail 15 years for "offensive verse".
The poet Al-Ajami from Qatar received a 15 year prison sentence for a poem published online on 2010 where he gaive his opinion of what a good leader should be like.
During the last year, dozens of people have been arrested for insulting political leader through the social media in different Middle East countries.
During the last year, dozens of people have been arrested for insulting political leader through the social media in different Middle East countries.
Switzerland was not a full UN member until 2002!
On September 10, 2002, Switzerland became a full member of the United Nations, after a referendum supporting full membership won in a close vote six months earlier; Swiss voters had rejected membership by a 3-to-1 margin in 1986. The 2002 vote made Switzerland the first country to join based on a popular vote.
Prior to its formal accession to the United Nations, Switzerland had maintained an observer role at the UN's General Assembly and its Economic and Social Council. Prior to full membership it had no right to a seat as one of the elected members of the UN Security Council.
Switzerland has fully participated within many of the UN's specialised institutions, including the Economic Commission for Europe, United Nations Environment Programme, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, UN Conference on Trade and Development, UN Industrial Development Organization, and the Universal Postal Union. Switzerland has also furnished military observers and medical teams to several UN operations.
Prior to its formal accession to the United Nations, Switzerland had maintained an observer role at the UN's General Assembly and its Economic and Social Council. Prior to full membership it had no right to a seat as one of the elected members of the UN Security Council.
Switzerland has fully participated within many of the UN's specialised institutions, including the Economic Commission for Europe, United Nations Environment Programme, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, UN Conference on Trade and Development, UN Industrial Development Organization, and the Universal Postal Union. Switzerland has also furnished military observers and medical teams to several UN operations.
The game Battlefield 3 is banned in Iran
It is banned due to the intense battles of the fictional US invasion on Tehran, as well as on the intense battle on the Grand Bazaar. Already prior to the ban, many retail stores were removing copies of the said game from the shelves.
These are the 10 most powerful brand in the UK for 2013
According to Superbrands' surveys, these are the top companies in the UK based on the strengh of the brand:
1. Apple
2. British Airways
3. Google
4. Visa
5. Virgin Atlantic
6. IBM
7. Shell
8. Microsoft
9. London Stock Exchange
10. MasterCard
1. Apple
2. British Airways
3. Google
4. Visa
5. Virgin Atlantic
6. IBM
7. Shell
8. Microsoft
9. London Stock Exchange
10. MasterCard
10 inaccuracies were found in the 2012 film Argo
The film contains some historical inaccuracies:
The climax of film is a chase down an airport runway, as gun-toting members of the Revolutionary Guard try to stop the plane bearing the American refugees from taking off. "Absolutely none of that happened," says Mark Leijek. "Fortunately for us, there were very few Revolutionary Guards about. It's why we turned up for a flight at 5.30 in the morning; even they weren't zealous enough to be there that early. The truth is the immigration officers barely looked at us and we were processed out in the regular way. We got on the flight to Zurich and then we were taken to the US ambassador's residence in Berne. It was that straightforward."
The part of the plot about the Revolutionary Guards discovering the diplomats' identities is fictional. They had left Iran with their fake identities with no hassle. So the scenes of trouble with the bearded guard at the last check point, the scene of the commander raiding the Canadian ambassador's residence, and the entire chasing scene at the airport and even on the runway are fictional.
The character of the guards' commander, Ali Khalkhali is fictional.
There is a sequence in the film where the six go on a location scout in Tehran to create the impression they are movie people. According to Mark Lijek, the scene is total fiction.
"It's not true we could never go outside. John Sheardown's house had an interior courtyard with a garden and we could walk there freely," Mark Lijek says.
The screenplay has the escapees—Mark and Cora Lijek, Bob Anders, Lee Schatz and Joe and Kathy Stafford—settling down to enforced cohabitation at the residence of the Canadian ambassador Ken Taylor. In reality, after several nights—including one spent in the UK residential compound—the group was split between the Taylor house and the home of another Canadian official, John Sheardown.
The major role of producer Lester Siegel, played by Alan Arkin, is fictional.
The film depicts a dramatic last-minute cancellation of the mission by the Carter administration and a bureaucratic crisis in which Mendez declares he will proceed with the mission. Carter delayed authorization by only 30 minutes, and that was before Mendez had left Europe for Iran.
In real life, CIA officer Antonio Mendez has partial Mexican ancestry, leading some critics to argue that Ben Affleck should have cast a Hispanic actor, and not himself, in the role.
The Hollywood sign is shown dilapidated as it had been in the past, but it had actually been repaired in 1978, prior to the events described in the film.
The climax of film is a chase down an airport runway, as gun-toting members of the Revolutionary Guard try to stop the plane bearing the American refugees from taking off. "Absolutely none of that happened," says Mark Leijek. "Fortunately for us, there were very few Revolutionary Guards about. It's why we turned up for a flight at 5.30 in the morning; even they weren't zealous enough to be there that early. The truth is the immigration officers barely looked at us and we were processed out in the regular way. We got on the flight to Zurich and then we were taken to the US ambassador's residence in Berne. It was that straightforward."
The part of the plot about the Revolutionary Guards discovering the diplomats' identities is fictional. They had left Iran with their fake identities with no hassle. So the scenes of trouble with the bearded guard at the last check point, the scene of the commander raiding the Canadian ambassador's residence, and the entire chasing scene at the airport and even on the runway are fictional.
The character of the guards' commander, Ali Khalkhali is fictional.
There is a sequence in the film where the six go on a location scout in Tehran to create the impression they are movie people. According to Mark Lijek, the scene is total fiction.
"It's not true we could never go outside. John Sheardown's house had an interior courtyard with a garden and we could walk there freely," Mark Lijek says.
The screenplay has the escapees—Mark and Cora Lijek, Bob Anders, Lee Schatz and Joe and Kathy Stafford—settling down to enforced cohabitation at the residence of the Canadian ambassador Ken Taylor. In reality, after several nights—including one spent in the UK residential compound—the group was split between the Taylor house and the home of another Canadian official, John Sheardown.
The major role of producer Lester Siegel, played by Alan Arkin, is fictional.
The film depicts a dramatic last-minute cancellation of the mission by the Carter administration and a bureaucratic crisis in which Mendez declares he will proceed with the mission. Carter delayed authorization by only 30 minutes, and that was before Mendez had left Europe for Iran.
In real life, CIA officer Antonio Mendez has partial Mexican ancestry, leading some critics to argue that Ben Affleck should have cast a Hispanic actor, and not himself, in the role.
The Hollywood sign is shown dilapidated as it had been in the past, but it had actually been repaired in 1978, prior to the events described in the film.
There is a very very similar story to Life of Pi published before!
The New York Times reported in 2002 on the similarities between the book by Yann Martel on which the movie is based and "Max and the Cats", by Brazilian writer Moacyr Scliar, published in 1981. The book tells the tale of "a Jewish youth who survives a shipwreck and ends up sharing a lifeboat with a panther".
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