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Green card Lottery hopefuls are to sue the US State Department
Jul 15th
The Diversity Immigrant Visa Program or green card lottery conducted by US state Department, provides up to 55,000 diversity visas annually from a pool of entrants through a random selection process. All entries must be nationals of countries with low rates of immigration to the US. The State Department does not notify successful applicants by email. Rather, entrants are encouraged to check the status of their entries through a website posting.
The DV-2012 green card lottery winners were announced in May for the lottery that was held online from October to November in 2009. Later the State Department announced that due to a technology glitch, the winners More >
St Basil’s Cathedral in Red Square, Russia celebrates 450th anniversary!
Jul 12th
St Basil’s Cathedral is a Russian Orthodox Church located in the Red Square of Moscow, Russia and was built between 1555 and 1561. On 12th July 2011 Saint Basil’s Cathedral is celebrating its 450th anniversary. The church has been part of the Moscow Kremlin and Red Square UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1990. As part of the celebrations Russia is conducting an exhibition dedicated to the “holy fool” Saint Basil, who gave his name to the cathedral.
The site of the church has been, historically, a busy marketplace between the St. Frol’s Gate of the Moscow Kremlin and the outlying posad. The cathedral is constructed to commemorate Czar Ivan’s victory over Mongol rulers, was built on the burial site where St. Basil’s body is buried.
Andrey Busygin, Deputy Culture minister of Moscow said on Friday that the exhibition is opening on Tuesday as part of $50th anniversary celebrations in the cathedral after a decade-long restoration that cost 390 million More >
Earthquake of 7.4 strikes the northern coast of Japan once again
Jul 11th
Japan Earthquake: After last March’s disaster quake and tsunami along with nuclear crisis another quake of magnitude 7.4 stroked the north eastern Japan on Sunday once again triggering a Tsunami alert. There was no sign of further damage along the coast or to the Fukushima nuclear power plant.
The massive 9.0 earthquake hit March 11th and wreaked havoc on the region including shaking up Japanese nuclear plants and causing cooling system failures and radiation leaks. Thousands had to evacuate the area as plant workers battled to stop the nuclear plants from causing even more damage More >
Emma Watson in tears on Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows World Premiere!
Jul 8th
Emma Watson got all emotional and broke down to tears at the world premiere of The Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2.This has been the official farewell to the Harry Potter franchise creating emotional moments to the author J.K. Rowling also.
Thousands of fans had camped out in the rain for prime spots at the massive event in the capital’s Trafalgar Square. Emma Watson, Daniel Radcliffe and Rupert Grint and Potter creator J.K. Rowling meet fans, signed autographs and posed for photographs on the red carpet and after that both Watson and Rowling were overcome with emotion. Producer David Heyman comforted Miss Watson, who planted a kiss on her forehead as she cried on his arm.
Daniel Radcliffe addressed the crowd, saying, “I don’t think the end of the story happens tonight because each and every person who will see this film will carry this story with them through the rest of their lives. A huge thank you to all of you, first of all for giving me a job… Every opportunity I get from now on all goes down to the fact I got very, very lucky when I was 11.” More >
ICANN expanding generic top level domains!
Jun 20th
ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers Board of Directors has approved a plan to dramatically increase the number of Internet generic top-level domains (gTLDs) at its public meeting in Singapore. The vote took place on the first day of the ICANN Singapore meeting.
The vote now allows the process under which hundreds of new domain name extensions can be applied for. The new system enabling just about anything to trail the crux of the domain. In other words, .com may soon be replaced by More >
JK Rowling and her pottermore.com Mystery Website!
Jun 17th
JK Rowling, the famous author of the most famous Harry Potter book series is up to some secretive and mysterious project ahead. We don’t have guess of it right now other than a site name and it is called “pottermore.com”. The information for now is that the coming mystery project is not another book from Rowling according to her spokesperson.
“It’s all top secret at the moment but it’s an exciting new project which is not directly related to the film” says Rebecca salt Rowling’s Spokesperson
The site, pottermore.com, features a holding page with two owls which links to a YouTube page featuring a countdown to a 23 June announcement.
“The owls are gathering More >