WORLD ACTION NEWS: August 2011

Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Beyonce: Pregnant with First Child!

At Sunday's MTV Video Music Awards, Beyonce made a big announcement: She's pregnant. our editor recommends"OMG Beyonce just made a huge announcement on the #vma carpet! #baby!!!!!," MTV tweeted on Sunday night, with a photo of the singer-actress with her hands on her stomach. Beyonce's rep confirmed the news to Just Jared that she would be expecting her first child with husband, Jay-Z. She and Jay-Z...

Monday, August 29, 2011

Mercedes-Benz Racing Cars and Sports Cars Since 1884

The new book titled “Mercedes-Benz Racing Cars and Sports Cars Since 1884” is already out. Written by Gunter Engelen, a renowned technical writer who already penned several books regarding the brand is composed of 680 pages of Mercedes-Benz history. “Günter Engelen has worked seven years and included seven decades of his knowledge have to cover the essentials of competitive vehicles in almost...

Hilary Duff Pregnant

Here’s a pregnant and already glowing Hilary Duff prancing around North Hollywood and trying to hide her tummy while looking as uber cute as all hell. Ummm, ok, am I the only one who doesn’t see the point of the Duffster trying to hide her slight baby bump (if she even has one already) when everyone and their granny knows that she’s knocked up? So silly. Anyways, I really couldn’t care less…...

Saturday, August 27, 2011

Audi A8 Hybrid

In spring of 2010, Audi and parent company Volkswagen AG joined a growing group of carmakers planning to integrate hybrid and electric drive into their model lineups. Among the several plug-in and hybrid-electric vehicles Audi unveiled at the 2010 Geneva Motor Show was the A8 hybrid. Though details about the car were scarce at the time, Audi this week confirmed it for production and revealed...

Friday, August 26, 2011

Kim Kardashian and Kris Humphries's Honeymoon

Kim Kardashian may be done with the wedding, but the honeymoon phase is just beginning for her and her new husband, Kris Humphries. The two were caught having an intimate moment while on honeymoon in Italy, totally oblivious to the cameras watching them. They should try to keep the PDA indoors before some scandalous photo escapes and ruins their marriage! Kim K and Kris were caught eating dinner...

Tuesday, August 23, 2011

Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck are expecting their third child

Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck are expecting their third child. Reps for the 39-year-old actors confirmed the news to the Associated Press on Monday. According to the AP, the couple is “thrilled” over the news. Ben and Jen who married in 2005, have two children – Violet, now 5, and Seraphina, 2. Jennifer has spoken before about her joy over being a mom, telling Parents magazine in 2009 that it opened...

Hurricane Irene slams Puerto Rico and major storm moves toward Florida, South Carolina

Hurricane Irene pounded Puerto Rico Monday, flooding streets and knocking out power to a million people as it cut a course that may lead it to slam into the South Carolina coast. The storm - the first hurricane of the Atlantic storm season - is growing more powerful as it moves northwest, toward the Bahamas, at 13 miles-per-hour, forecasters told The Associated Press. Its maximum winds increased...

Iran jails 2 American hikers for spying

Iran has sentenced two American hikers detained in the Islamic republic to eight years in prison on charges of "illegal entry" and "espionage," the state television website reported. It further said that the two have separately been "sentenced to...

Prince William, Kate Middleton Visit Birmingham Riot Victims

Kate Middleton and Prince William showed their support for victims of the riots by visiting Birmingham on Saturday. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge spoke to people affected, including the parents of the three men - Haroon Jahan and brothers Shazad Ali and Abdul Musavir - who were killed by a hit-and-run driver as they tried to protect local shops. ‘The families were pleased William and Kate took...

Queensland fruit and vegetable growers worried about insecticide ban

A horticulture group in one of the country's largest production regions fears southern markets won't accept Queensland fruit if an agricultural chemical is banned. The nation's chemical regulator could suspend the fruit fly control insecticide dimethoate because of human health concerns. There are currently 26 products containing the chemical registered in Australia. But Peter Hockings, from...

Bugatti Veyron Super Sport: The World’s New Fastest and Expensive Car

The end-of-the-line Bugatti Veyron Super Sport isn't just the ultimate Bugatti. With a top speed of 268 mph, the 1,200-hp übercar is now also the new fastest production car in the world.Just 30 of the ultra-rare, ultra-quick and ultra-pricey Bugatti Veyron Super Sports will be built as a final send off to one of the most coveted and extreme modern cars built....

Monday, August 22, 2011

Kate and Pippa Middleton walk around Llanddwyn Island

Kate Middleton wore wellies for a walk around Llanddwyn Island with her sister Pippa yesterday. The scenic spot is near Kate's home in North Wales and is part of a large nature reserve. The sisters were dressed down for the outing, which comes just days after a more formal appearance for Kate. Kate Middleton was in Alexander McQueen to meet with a group of responders that helped with the London riots...

Prince Harry breaks off romance with girlfriend after two months

Prince Harry has ended his short romance with his latest sweetheart, underwear model Florence Brudenell-Bruce. The split comes just two months after the pair got together and sources have revealed that the prince just doesn't want to be 'tied down'. Miss Brudenell-Bruce - who used to go out with Formula 1's Jenson Button - asked him to join her on holiday in Ibiza next month, but that will not now...

Saturday, August 20, 2011

A Smoke-Free Tertiary Education Environment

Not everyone is yet aware that although second-hand smoke is dangerous to health, the danger doesn't stop there because there is also third-hand smoke to consider. To those who feel that third-hand smoke is a conspiracy to rob smokers of their right to smoke in addition to guilt tripping them, here is an article from Scientific American that defines and documents the dangers of third-hand smoke. Here's...

9 Ways Your Business Needs To Change To Become Social

Social media has changed the way we do almost everything. We make buying decisions, find jobs, play games, listen to music and learn socially. But for business it’s clearly been a more challenging shift. Engaging in social media requires a fundamental change to the way businesses function and think. No wonder so many are slow to embrace social media and devote budgets to it. The...

Hilary Duff Is Pregnant!

Hilary Duff is pregnant! Hilary and her husband, Mike Comrie, stepped out shopping in Malibu together on Saturday, sporting a special glow before telling fans their exciting news. Hilary made the big announcement on her official website today in a post about celebrating her first wedding anniversary with Mike on Aug. 15. Hilary writes, "This weekend, Mike and I are celebrating our 1 year...

Wednesday, August 17, 2011

Brad Pitt & Angelina Jolie: Their Family

They've munched on crickets in Cambodia and surfed the waves in Cancun, but for the six children of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, life in the boisterous family is as much about everyday bonding as it is the big adventure. "The children are always playing, jumping on each other and sharing fun moments," a source tells PEOPLE in this week's cover story. "They share a special bond." Leading the...

Sandra Bullock & Ryan Reynolds Take Louis Hiking in Wyoming

That was Ryan Reynolds and Sandra Bullock's plan last weekend, as they explored Wyoming's Grand Teton National Park – with Reynolds, 34, carrying Bullock's son Louis in a hiking backpack Bullock, 47, has a home in the Jackson Hole area and has been vacationing there with a group of friends, according to the report. The two actors are famously close, with Bullock surprising Reynolds earlier this...

Tuesday, August 16, 2011

Natural Insecticides are a better alternative

Many people have their hobbies of gardening. If you go to countryside of Norfolk you will get to see many orchards adjacent to yard of the British people. But just think if your orchard is harmed by insects and pests like fungus, bacteria and virus then what would be your way out without using chemicals like pesticides, insecticides, herbicides, fungicides and or other types of agrochemical products. To...

Kim Kardashian is "so nervous" about walking down the aisle on her wedding day.

The reality TV star - whose biological dad, Robert, passed away in 2003 to esophageal cancer at the age of 59 - admitted she is fearful of falling over and fainting during the ceremony of her marriage to basketball player Kris Humphries on Saturday (20.08.11). Speaking to Extra's Mario Lopez, Kim - whose mother Kris has been married to Bruce Jenner since 1991 - explained: "I was so nervous to...

30 Rock star Tina Fey gives birth to little girl

Tina Fey is celebrating the safe arrival of baby No 2. The Mean Girls writer and her composer husband Jeff Richmond, 50, welcomed the little girl on Wednesday and named her Penelope Athena Richmond, her rep confirms to People. The couple are already parents to Alice, 5, who's very excited about becoming a big sister, says her mum. In her memoir Bossypants, Tina, 40, reveals that she felt anxious...

Monday, August 15, 2011

Car Tips : Use Less Fuel and Lower Pollution

We are polluting our planet each and every day, and each day the amount of pollution we are producing keeps growing. We have already caused harm to our ozone layer and measures need to be taken to help ensure that that our planet will be able to make it through. Therefore, here are some tips that you can put into action in order to reduce the pollution generated by your car on a regular basis. One...

Saturday, August 13, 2011

Toyota iQ:the first four-seater car in the micro-compact automobile category

Think the little two-seater Smart Car looks interesting zooming down the freeway? Starting in the first half of next year, expect to see yet another teeny, tiny car rolling down the streets of your town. Toyota announced that it will soon begin shipping the 2012 version of its minuscule Scion iQ, the first four-seater car in the micro-compact automobile category. "The iQ is the fourth vehicle in...

Friday, August 12, 2011

BRITNEY Spears has been banned from owning a mobile phone.

The Toxic hitmaker — who has been under a legal conservatorship following her 2008 breakdown which gives her dad Jamie control over all her affairs — has had a number of conditions placed upon her in order to stop her from getting out of control. It is thought owning her own phone could land the 29-year-old singer in trouble, so those close to her have removed it to keep her “under control”. “Britney’s...

JESSIE J thinks Katy Perry has “amazing boobs”.

The openly-bisexual singer admitted she has a crush on the I Kissed A Girl hitmaker — who is married to Russell Brand — as she’s “so fit” “Who’s hotter out of Russell and Katy? Katy! She’s so fit, and has the most amazing face and boobs,” Jessie said. The Price Tag hitmaker also revealed she used to get bullied at school, and still has to put up with receiving hurtful comments on social networking...

Kim Kardashian Not Worried About Wedding

The reality TV star — who is set to marry basketball player Kris Humphries on August 20 — explained she is not worried about tying the knot with the professional basketball player because she had all of her “freak out moments” when they got engaged in May. “Everyone says that you freak out, but I think that all of my freak out moments kind of happened at the beginning when we decided to get ...

Caffeine linked to woman’s fertility

A new study finds that as little as two cups of coffee a day can impair a woman’s fertility. Researchers from the University of Nevada School of Medicine in the US found that caffeine could impair fertility in women by relaxing the cells of the muscles in the fallopian tubes, which carry a woman’s eggs from her ovaries to her womb. “Caffeine inhibits the contractions of the muscles in the fallopian...

Thursday, August 11, 2011

Kim Kardashian Loves Food

Kim Kardashian will eat 'just about anything'. The 30-year-old beauty - who is renowned for her curvy figure - admits there is little she would leave on her plate apart from peas, which she used to pretend to enjoy as a child but now will not touch. She said: 'It's like a family rule: The table must be filled with tons of yummy food at every gathering. I'll eat just about anything you put in front...

Tuesday, August 9, 2011

Brain Cancer

Brain cancer is a malignant tumor that grows in the brain cells, both derived from cells of the brain itself (primary brain cancer) or from other organs that spread to the brain (secondary or metastatic brain cancer). Some types of brain cancer known include glioma, meningioma, pituitary adenoma, vestibular schwannoma, and medulloblastoma. Unlike other types of cancer, brain cancer rarely spreads...

Audi to start used automobile business in India

German oppulance automobile builder Audi now pronounced it will start operations for a used automobile business in India by a finish of this year, awaiting it to comment for adult to 20% of a new automobile sales in future. “The proceed Indian marketplace is growing, there is an event in a used automobile business and we also wish to daub it. By a finish of a year, we will start a used automobile...

Rivera Made a Bit of Baseball History

It's not every day that you see both CC Sabathia and Mariano Rivera play less than stellar. However, considering the heated rivalry between the New York Yankees and the Boston Red Sox, and the hostile grounds of Fenway Park, anything could theoretically be possible. Mariano Rivera, the Yankees star closer, gave up 1 hit, a double to Marco Scutaro, and a sacrifice fly to Dustin Pedroia, as the...

Emma Watson Can Not Wait To Become a Mother

Although she was not yet so ripe to become a mother, Emma Watson was anxious to have a child. This was expressed after she got caught out with Johnny Simmon. “I can not wait to become a mother and have a small family of a harmonious and prosperous,” she said as quoted by Female Fisrt Monday. According to her, children can relieve stress after working all day. Movie star ‘Harry Potter’ considered...

Kim Kardashian Starts To Distribute Wedding Invitations

Invitations have been distributed, Kim Kardashian will get married to Kris Humphries on August 20, 2011 in Montecito, California. Invitations with white shades were designed by Lehr & Black who also designed the invitations of the Kim’s sister wedding, Khloe with her partner Lamar Odom. The invitation is adorned with jet black crystal and shipped in a box with the same nuanced. !-- google_ad_client...

Friday, August 5, 2011

Car with Hybrid Technology Help to Reduce The Pollution

Hybrid technology was developed in 1665, when Jesuit and Ferdinand made a four -wheel vehicle that could run by steam when pulled by a horse. This vehicle could reach speeds of up to sixty miles per hour. In these vehicles, it was difficult to maintain enough speed for a long distance. In the twenty-first century, new improvements had been made in hybrid technology, and companies have made advanced...

Thursday, August 4, 2011

The Royal Kardashian Wedding

The channel, which is Kardashian central already with the hit "Keeping Up with The Kardashians," will start showing Kim K wedding specials on the evening of October 9th, and will continue on the evening of October 10th. In total, there will be four full hours of Kim Kardashian wedding coverage, including discussion of the wedding planning, wedding parties, and of course the dress...which Kim...

Audi A6 Hybrid will release in 2012

A hybrid version of the Audi A6 luxury sedan will reportedly hit U.S. showrooms next year. HybridCars.com says that several media reports say Audi will release the hybrid sometime in 2012, contradicting earlier reports that it would take years for the car to arrive, if it ever did. More evidence -- the A6 hybrid already appears on the EPA's website on a list of hybrids to be released next year. Car...

Wednesday, August 3, 2011

Only $1 for Diagnosing HIV in 15 minutes

One of the most incredible parts of our technology world is where it meets up with the medical one and some of the incredible discoveries that seem to be happening everyday. As much as we might complain about our healthcare systems the fact is that we have made some fantastic strides in ways to detect and treat diseases. Much like this news from researchers at Columbia University who have...

Soulja Boy DROPS $55 MILLION ON PRIVATE JET in order to celebrate his 21st birthday in style.

Rapper DeAndre Cortez Way, otherwise known as Soulja Boy, is reportedly dropping $55 million on a private jet in order to celebrate his 21st birthday in style. While the G5 jet itself “only” cost $35 million, Soulja Boy went ahead and spent an additional $20 million in upgrades so he could get his pretty boy swag on while flying the friendly skies. The young artist’s renovation plans included the...

Anti-Cellulite Creams for Reduction Cellulite in The Body.

Many people get problem with cellulite in the body.Cellulite is an accumulation of fatty deposits in the lower layer of the skin, which causes the appearance of orange peel. The skin is not smooth, and many people spend thousands of dollars in treatments and surgeries in hopes of getting rid of him. However, there is a simple and effective way to get rid of cellulite. It is also cheaper, because...

Kim Kardashian : The First 3-D Magazine Cover Girl

Kim Kardashian will be the first 3D magazine cover girl. The 30-year-old reality star took part in the spread for World's Most Beautiful, which is the first ever magazine shot entirely in the format. After watching eye-popping scenes in the Avatar movie, Photographer Nick Saglimbeni came up with the idea and Kardashian said she was excited about the new venture, which will bring her closer...

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