Newly-arriving data from NASA's STEREO probes suggest that a coronal mass ejection (CME) might be heading toward Earth.
The source of the cloud appears to be sunspot complex 1185-1186, which experienced an episode of magnetic instability during the early hours of April 9th.
Stay tuned for updates to this preliminary analysis.

Posted: 11:32:14 PM  

A bizarre memo that appears to prove that aliens did land in New Mexico prior to 1950 has been published by the FBI. The bureau has made thousands of files available in a new online resource called The Vault.

Among them is a memo to the director from Guy Hottel, the special agent in charge of the Washington field office in 1950.

The release of the secret memo is likely to fuel conspiracy theorists' claims of a government cover-up.

Posted: 11:29:31 PM  

Early this week, we received an extremely violent video from several Web users. It showed men being beaten with sticks and the burnt alive by the side of a road. According to the caption on YouTube, the video allegedly showed footage of a March 29 massacre in the western Ivorian town of Duékoué.

It turns out that this video was shot at least two years ago and was probably not taken in the Ivory Coast at all. FRANCE 24.com readers alerted us to the fact that the footage was posted in September 2009 on this blog, under the title "man-witches being burned alive in Kenya".

Posted: 7:17:05 AM  

Strong winds may have carried the sand from nearby fields - one of them freshly ploughed - to the four-lane highway, Werner said.

The region has recently experienced prolonged dry conditions, affecting agriculture and leaving soil exposed to erosion.

Posted: 7:09:02 AM  

"Progress" - Man's word to excuse the disgraceful abuse of our precious world

Find YOUR easter-eggs now!

The US was behind the Rwandan Genocide

Posted: 7:05:46 AM