Indian spiritual guru Sri Sathya Sai Baba, revered by millions of followers as a living god, died Sunday in a hospital in southern India.
He was 86.

Posted: 10:53:45 AM  

Documents leaked by WikiLeaks on Tuesday (19) prove once again that the "war" in Iraq was a big hoax - concocted by the capitalist powers and amplified by the corporate media. They show that the British government, in collusion with the U.S., discussed the sharing of oil from the invaded country a year before the invasion.
The history of the existence of weapons of mass destruction was an abject and shameless lie of imperialist nations.

Posted: 10:13:27 AM  

This detailed image of sunspot 1195 looks like it was taken by one of NASA's most advanced space telescopes. In fact, it comes from someone's backyard in the Netherlands. Scroll down for the full story, and carefully examine the starscape as you go:

Photographer Emil Kraaikamp explains:

"I took the picture on April 23rd using a 10-inch telescope with a white-light solar filter.

The sunspot is so large, I could see plenty of details." Indeed, the primary dark core (at the top) is more than two times wider than Earth.

With such dimensions, the sunspot group may be clearly resolved even from humble backyards.

All around the sunspot, the stellar surface is literally boiling.

The blobs shown so clearly in Kraaikamp's picture are solar granules, akin to rising blobs of water in a pot on a hot stove.

These blobs, however, are made of plasma and they are about the size of Texas.

There is one thing not visible in the photo: the sunspot's magnetic field. Space-based magnetographs reveal a 'beta-gamma' configuration that harbors energy for M-class solar flares.

Earth-directed eruptions are possible before the weekend is over.

Stay tuned.

Posted: 10:07:01 AM  

The governor of Japan's Fukushima Prefecture says Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) will not be allowed to resume operations in the damaged nuclear power plant.

Posted: 10:04:34 AM  

Mass hysteria! Science world buzzing over rumours the elusive "God particle" has finally been found

While some physicists are dismissing the note as a hoax, others say the find could be a huge particle physics breakthrough in understanding the workings of the universe.

Posted: 9:57:30 AM  

New concerns over swine flu jab after children given it 'hit by sudden sleep syndrome'

The EMA, which is currently investigating the effects of the vaccine, has also told doctors to weigh up the potential risks before injecting children against the deadly H1N1 virus.

Posted: 9:54:55 AM  

This morning April 24, around half past 9, I was watching weatherforecast for The Netherlands:

Posted: 9:51:19 AM