Kim Arvin Faner
Snowflakes, an albino gorilla, had become a celebrity in the Barcelona Zoo for over 40 years because of his unique color. However, on Monday, the answer to this mystery was finally revealed.
A recent research conducted by geologists in Australia reveals that a passive margin in the Atlantic Ocean is starting to become active, leading to the closing of the Atlantic Ocean.
Recently, The Huffington Post reported that a teacher in Japan, identified as Mr. Y, had spotted a couple of teenage students licking each other's eyeballs. Upon further survey of the students, he discovered that up to one-third of the students in his school admitted to the new trend known as "worming."
Bill Cosby's opinion-editorial piece entitled “A Plague of Apathy” discussed and emphasized how people should emulate the examples being put out by the black Muslim community. However, Former Congressman Allen West did not seem to appreciate it.
Last Friday, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the younger of the Boston Bombing suspects, has been released from Boston's Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, where he was treated for and recovering from the wounds inflicted during his arrest a week before. He was, then, transferred to Devens Federal Medical Center, which is 40 miles from where the tragic bombing took place.
A recent study from scientists at France's CEA research agency reveals that the Earth's core is as hot as the Sun's surface. According to the study, the temperature of the Earth's core is measured at 6,000 Celsius, a range on par with the temperature with the Sun's surface.
The Third Review Conference of the State Parties of the Chemical Weapons Convention took place earlier this month at Hague, Netherlands. However, participants of the April 8 to 19 affair voice out disappointments due to continuing ambiguity in some of the most important matters concerning the convention, including the use of riot-control agents (RCA).
Recent studies reveal that a new parasite genome has shown resistance to the front-line malaria treatment artemisinin. Parasite carriers are discovered in South-East Asian countries Thailand and Myanmar. Further studies are being undertaken to ascertain whether the new strain poses global concern.
After getting arrested in his Woodland Hills home on Tuesday, comedian Katt Williams received his sentence yesterday for misdemeanor charge for evading the police. The Sacramento Supreme Court judge sentenced him with 180 days of jail time.
Earlier this week, a Kurdish man was sentenced to be paraded down a street wearing women's clothes. All these took place in the city of Marivan, Iran's Kurdish region near the Iran-Iraq border, after a man was convicted of domestic abuse.
