Today in the News:
– Russia turns Cyprus down, as EU is waiting for the Cyprus Plan B proposal
– I knew it! Tiger Woods’ and Lindsey Vonn’s relationship is a carefully crafted PR Concoction
– and Dinosaur-killing space rock ‘was a comet’
Russia declined Cypriot begging for aid, leaving the island’s increasingly isolated leaders scrambling to strike a bailout deal with the European Union by next week or face the collapse of its financial system. In Nicosia, the country’s biggest bank urged politicians to make haste and cut a deal with their EU partners as parliament considered proposals to nationalize pension funds, pool state assets and split the country’s second-largest bank in a desperate effort to satisfy its European allies. Over the course of this day, Cyprus fate will be decided and yes dear Cypriots, Russia has sold you out…
Tiger Woods’ relationship with Lindsey Vonn may not be all that it seems. Sources say the announcement that they are dating “was a carefully crafted p.r. move.” The carefully orchestrated announcement on their respective facebook pages and twitter acconts, was accompanied by a set of perfect family pictures, that would work perfectly at People magazine. And the New York Times breathlessly declared that the “potent” pair “immediately stole the title of Golf’s First Couple from top-ranked Rory McIlroy and his tennis-star girlfriend, Caroline Wozniacki. It is a match made for ‘SportsCenter’. But according to a source all this is “Actually a match made in marketing heaven. It immediately makes him more sympathetic, and makes Vonn a household name as she reaches a crucial point in her skiing career, the 2014 Winter Olympics. It’s a win win situation!
The space rock that hit Earth 65 million years ago and is widely implicated in the end of the dinosaurs was likely a speeding comet. That is the conclusion of research which suggests the 180km-wide Chicxulub crater in Mexico was carved out by a smaller object than previously thought. Many scientists consider a large and relatively slow moving asteroid to have been the likely culprit. There are probably many more comets than near-Earth asteroids, but Nasa points out they spend almost all of their lifetimes at great distances from the Sun and Earth.
Today in the News:
– Russia turns Cyprus down, as EU is waiting for the Cyprus Plan B proposal
– I knew it! Tiger Woods’ and Lindsey Vonn’s relationship is a carefully crafted PR Concoction
– and Dinosaur-killing space rock ‘was a comet’
Russia declined Cypriot begging for aid, leaving the island’s increasingly isolated leaders scrambling to strike a bailout deal with the European Union by next week or face the collapse of its financial system. In Nicosia, the country’s biggest bank urged politicians to make haste and cut a deal with their EU partners as parliament considered proposals to nationalize pension funds, pool state assets and split the country’s second-largest bank in a desperate effort to satisfy its European allies. Over the course of this day, Cyprus fate will be decided and yes dear Cypriots, Russia has sold you out…
Tiger Woods’ relationship with Lindsey Vonn may not be all that it seems. Sources say the announcement that they are dating “was a carefully crafted p.r. move.” The carefully orchestrated announcement on their respective facebook pages and twitter acconts, was accompanied by a set of perfect family pictures, that would work perfectly at People magazine. And the New York Times breathlessly declared that the “potent” pair “immediately stole the title of Golf’s First Couple from top-ranked Rory McIlroy and his tennis-star girlfriend, Caroline Wozniacki. It is a match made for ‘SportsCenter’. But according to a source all this is “Actually a match made in marketing heaven. It immediately makes him more sympathetic, and makes Vonn a household name as she reaches a crucial point in her skiing career, the 2014 Winter Olympics. It’s a win win situation!
The space rock that hit Earth 65 million years ago and is widely implicated in the end of the dinosaurs was likely a speeding comet. That is the conclusion of research which suggests the 180km-wide Chicxulub crater in Mexico was carved out by a smaller object than previously thought. Many scientists consider a large and relatively slow moving asteroid to have been the likely culprit. There are probably many more comets than near-Earth asteroids, but Nasa points out they spend almost all of their lifetimes at great distances from the Sun and Earth.