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Wednesday, December 10, 2008

US-fight jet flys into a village

A US-fight jet type F-18 crashed yesterday into the Californian village San Diego. This accident killed tree people and whipped out four houses. The pilot could come out of the plane in time. He is under shock.
The F-18 wanted to land in the near air force base Miramar, after a turbine was defect. The second one got defect over the village. The pilot first wanted to land on a flat land before the village, but that did not work.



Pennsylvanian teen charged for killing school enemies

A Pennsylvanian teen got charged like an adult because he planed to kill classmates he did not like and then holding the gun at him to kill himself. Richard Yanis stole 3 hand guns from his father and then he told the police he planned to shoot classmates and at the end himself. Yanis (15) was charged for attempted murder in an adult court because juvenile law in Montgomery County does not include crimes with deadly weapons. The investigations started after Richard’s Father reported that 3 hand guns from a locked locker in the basement of his house where stolen. His son took a Smith & Wesson 357 Caliber revolver, a Smith & Wesson 22 Caliber and a colt 45Caliber.

source:BBC.com

Crash of military fighter kills family

In San Diego (California) a fighter of the U.S. air force crashed into a house and killed a grandmother, a mother and two young children. The F/A-18D jet plane was trying to land at the Marine Corps Air Station Miramar. The Marine Corps said that the pilot told them that he is having some trouble. The Man from Korea who lost two children, his wife and his mother in law did not blame the pilot who ejected and survived. He said in accented English: “I don’t blame him. I don’t feel any hard feelings. I know that he has done everything he could.” Authorities said that when the jet crashed into family Yoon’s house. One of the two children was less then 2 months old the other one was 15 months old. His wife Young Mi was 36 and her mother only 60 years, when the jet crashed into their house. And Dong Yun was at Work. Now an investigation of the cause has been launched.




Source BBC

Cancer overtakes Heart disease in 2030

At the moment, Heart disease is the most “Popular” Disease which people die from. In 2030, Scientists say that Cancer will increase the rate of which people die. About Twenty-seven million new cancer cases are expected. The Heart disease rate will decrease.
Source BBC


Black hole in Milky Way

There is a very big black hole at the center of our galaxy. German astronomers tracked the movement of 28 stars that circulate abound the center of the Milky Way. This black hole is 4 million times heavier than the sun.
Source: CNN

Sony cuts 8,000 Jobs in 2010

Sony has announced to cancel 8,000 electronic jobs, 5 % of division as well as shutting 10% of its manufacturing sites. The jobs should be cut in April 2012 but has not announced in which countries the staff would leave the company. The sad news was announced in Japan.
Source: BBC


Virus hits Facebook users

120 million users got attacked by the virus Koobface. It sends messages to a person’s inboxes,pretending to be their friend. The messages say: you look funny in this new video. When you click at the link a massage tells you to watch “secret videos by Tom. DON’T FOLLOW THESE LINKS!!!!!!! If you do, a dangerou virus will attack your Computer.

Please don’t try to use Facebook anymore.
Source:CNN


Bird flu kills more than 20.000 chickens

In Hong Kong over 80.000 chickens got killed because of Bird flu. They got killed on Tuesday after they discovered it in dozens of birds that had died at a farm in this area. The birds in an area of 3 kilometers (2 miles) where discovered dead. In a farm in this area had reported 60 dead chickens. After many tests they found out that these chickens had bird flu. Also in a other farm the government discovered Bird flu. These chickens had the H5 virus. This Virus killed people in Africa, Europe and Asia. Until 2003 over 200 people died on the H5N1. Not many strand of this Virus can be transferred by Human to Human transmission.

source: BBC.com

Tuesday, December 9, 2008

Middle school exam week

From this Thursday to next Wednesday ISN middle school will have exam. This is also a practice for the IGCSE and IBO exam which will come fore MS4 in one and four years.
The rules are clear and strict:
• No talking: Not make teacher think you are cheating, because than you will earn a zero in the exam.
• No erasing things like Tippex or things like that. Just an eraser is allowed, but just at drawings.
• Just a bottle of water and a pen may come into the examine room.
• If you want to go to the toilette, a teacher has to come with you, to make sure, you don’t cheat.
These were the main rules for the exam. The LP’s will write the exam in three different rooms, mixed together, but so thet they can’t cheat: MS1 – MS2 – MS3 – MS4 – MS1 …. Before exam LP’s needed to sign a sheet for academic honesty, which, if you don’t sign it, means, that you can’t write the exam.



Suicide bomber from Köln arrested

The suitcase bomber from Köln got captured. Yesterday the judgment got pronounced. He got life imprisonment.
He and his friend placed two case bombs in trains. If their plan would have bin successful, it would have killed hundreds of people with an over 15 meters big fireball. Only, because they did a mistake, the bombs didn’t detonate. If they wouldn’t have made this mistake, the bombs would have exploded and kill all these people.
Youssef El Hajdib (suitcase bomber) said, that the main points, why he tried it, were the Muhammad-catoons were, which got published in spring 2006 in the German newsletters.
During the lawsuit he often told wrong thing, to make himself look better.
After the judgment got pronounced he showed everyone the middle finger and said bad things to the judge.



Attacks in India

At the moment, India is one of the most frequent lands in news. The situation in India is very tricky. Only in the last week attacks killed over 190 people and injured over 300. The government of India is sure, that a group of Islamists, which came in the land from Pakistan, caused these attacks. Because of this, the Indian government closed all the big airports in the land and set very strong controls to keep away other terrorists. Also the Pakistan government is ready to help, by solving the problems with stronger controls of people traveling out.



Thursday, December 4, 2008

Suicide bomber atack in Afghanistan

On Thursday, suicide bombers struck again in Afghanistan. A bomber detonated a prepared car at the entrance of an Afghan intelligence headquarter. Officials say that at least 1 police officer died. This attack was done in the city of Khost, the capital of the Khost province. This attack also wounded many passengers, including some agents from the intelligence center. Tahir Sabarai, the province deputy governor said that the bomber killed 1 officer and wounded 8 nearby people. The head of this province said that 2 officers got killed and 9 passengers got wounded. A second car next to the building exploded too. The military and some officers stormed the buildings around...
the photo shows a young suicide bomber in training.

source: BBC.com

The richest man of the world

The richest man in world is Carlos Slim. He is 67 years old and has $59 billion in banks. He is the youngest son from the slim family. He recently lent $55 million to an insurance company.
Source: World record Book
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