A lot of exciting things have been happening around the world recently and I thought I’d share them with you.

Fidel Castro announces retirement after staying in power for 49 years

Musharraf’s rivals win Pakistan election

Its official, Toshiba announces the death of HD-DVD - Blu-Ray wins, and I am quite glad the format war finally got over.

Harvard Site Hacked and Then Leaked on BitTorrent - The Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences website has been hacked and now the content including server backups, full directory strucure, site databases and password files are now leaked on BitTorrent.

Mysteries Of Computer From 65BC Are Solved - A 2,000-year-old mechanical computer salvaged from a Roman shipwreck has astounded scientists who have finally unravelled the secrets of how the sophisticated device works.

The Best Films That Never Won a Best Picture Oscar - I’m happy to say that I’ve seen 2 movies from the list.

Dubai Architecture - Dubai is said to currently have 15-25% of all the world’s cranes. There are more construction workers in Dubai than there are actual citizens.

15 Things Men Say But Don’t Really Mean

Unreleased JFK Assassination Documents Found

20 Things I Wish I Had Known When Starting Out in Life

Kosovo Declares Independence

Seven of the Deadliest Delicacies

5 Common Body Myths Debunked

$14.3M License Plate: Worlds most expensive license plate

The War on Video Games explained [Comic]

27 Worst Pick-up Lines Ever And The Reaction They Get

And thats it for now!

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