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And the results are official! The New7Wonders Cities have been named on December 7th, 2014. Bernard Weber, Founder-President of New7Wonders, said: “I would like to thank everyone who has helped promote the New7Wonders Cities campaign since its inception in 2011….
Be at the Hilton San Diego Bayfront from December 7-11, as “America’s Finest City” will welcome the 113th annual Baseball Winter Meetings for the first time in nearly three decades. With a breathtaking, downtown waterfront location, the 30-story host hotel…
The recent prison break in Nigeria involved gunmen who broke into a prison in the central Nigerian city of Minna, freeing around 200 inmates. According to reports, at least 10 of the escapees were recaptured. A police spokesman and security…
Rolling Stone magazine has issued an apology for the story it published last month featuring a woman’s account of a gang rape at a University of Virginia fraternity house and the university’s failure to respond to the incident. The story,…
British videographer Danny Cooke used a drone to take a video footage of Chernobyl. Danny wrote this: Chernobyl is one of the most interesting and dangerous places I’ve been. The nuclear disaster, which happened in 1986 (the year after I…
Residents of Reading in Pennsylvania are not pleased of the 50-foot spruce Christmas tree in their downtown area. The so-called “City Ugly Christmas Tree” was the last-minute stand-in taken from a city park. Now, residents are demanding for a better…
Megadunes and Desert Lakes in China. In China’s Badain Jaran Desert, dozens of lakes mingle with the tallest sand dunes in the world. Researchers have long studied these features, yet mystery continues to enshroud them. What is the source of…
Will there be more holes? A third hole formed in Pasco County Florida just less than a week after two sinkholes appeared in the mobile home community. The third depression swallowed part of a car Saturday. FOX Tampa reported that…
This is another disturbing case related to Pakistan’s blasphemy laws. A Christian couple in Pakistan have been beaten to death by an angry Pakistan mob after being accused of burning pages of the Quran, police say. Their bodies were burned…
Remnants of a mysterious vessel in New Jersey has baffled finders. According to ABC, the pieces were found 20 feet under a beach and may be 100 years old. The discovery could be nothing more than an old barge, but…