Philippines ferry Thomas Aquinas sinks, many missing

The damage to the cargo ship was clearly visible

At least 26 people died and 200 are missing after a ferry collided with a cargo ship sank off the Philippines.The MV Thomas Aquinas was in a collision with freighter on Friday night near the city of Cebu, officials said. 






 
The ship carried 752 passengers and 118 crew members, according to the latest data from the Coast Guard.The incident occurred about 2 km (1.2 miles) from the coast.Second largest city in the country - The ferry was sailing to the port of Cebu, when it collided with a cargo ship traveling the other way around 21:00 local time (13:00 GMT)."The impact was very strong," Rachel Capuno, a spokesman for the ship's owner, told local radio.Survivors said hundreds of passengers were thrown into the sea when the ferry started on water and listing. The crew distributed lifejackets.Many of the passengers were asleep and others struggled to find their way in the dark, it was reported.A survivor, Jerwin Agudong he said, and other passengers jumped overboard in the front of the freighter."It seems that some people could not leave," said Mr. Agudong dzBB radio stations. "I feel sorry for the children. Saw corpses on the page and some saved."The ferry sank within 30 minutes after the crash, reports the AFP news agency.MapCoast Guard Rear Admiral Luis Tuason said Navy Divers recovered at least four more bodies from the wreckage early Saturday morning."There could be more but since his body had strings in our divers can get caught up in," he said.The Coast Guard sends more deep diving team to help, again the bodies, he said.Another Coast Guard official told reporters that the cargo ship, Sulpicio Express 7, 36 crew members on board, but had not decline.Passengers on the ferry had taken in the southern province of Agusan del Sur attack Nasipit.The Coast Guard and some trade boats were able to collect over 600 survivors.The 11,000 ton ferry was 40 years old, and is operated by a Chinese company called 2Go, reports the BBC's South East Asia correspondent Jonathan Head.The company was the largest shipping company in the Philippines, three years ago, after the merger of several smaller companies, adds our correspondent.Joy Villages, an official at the headquarters of the public affairs office of the Coast Guard in Manila, told the AFP news agency that it was too early to determine the cause of the collision Friday.She said that Thomas Aquinas, a "roll-on-roll-off" ferry that vehicles are driven on board and is commonly used in the Philippines, was allowed.Maritime accidents are common in the Philippine archipelago because of tropical climate, poorly maintained passenger boats and weak enforcement of safety regulations.World's worst peacetime maritime disaster occurred in the Philippines in December 1987. More than 4,000 people died when the ferry Dona Paz collided with a tanker.

Google goes down for 5 minutes, web traffic takes a dive

Google’s services, including the popular Google Search,                                   suffered a rare outage on early Saturday morning.

NEW DELHI: Google's services, including the popular Google search, suffered a rare court early Saturday morning. The blackout was observed IST to 04.20 clock and lasted about 5 minutes. All Google services were interrupted. If a user tries to access Gmail or Google search, the browser returns 502 error.

 



During the interruption lasted a few minutes, caused a flurry of tweets on Twitter."I wonder how many people checked their wifi before realizing that it was Google that was down," said one Twitter user.About an hour later, said GoSquared, web analytics company that he noticed a 40% drop in page views."Google.com was for a couple of minutes from 23.52 bis 23.57 clock GMT on August 16, 2013 This had come a tremendous impact on the number of visitors, the real-time tracking GoSquared -. Around 40% fall, as this graph of our global pageviews minute program, "said GoSquared. "This is huge. As an Internet user, our dependence on google.com is up is huge."Board of Google services that had monitoring and shows the status of the services Google a pink dot in front of each, indicating that they are. Except the series for the duration By clicking on each point, revealed a general message to confirm the interruption.For example, in Gmail tab, said: "We are aware of Gmail access problems with Gmail, which can have a significant subset of users affected users, but error messages and / or other unexpected behavior are there leave .. an update 08 / 17/13 06.07 detailing when we expect to resolve the problem. Please note that the date is an estimate and may change. incident lasted 1-5 minutes. "About ten minutes after the break was reported, Google engineers added to the scorecard that all problems had been resolved and services are running fine.

Review Once Upon Ay Time In Mumbai Dobaara!

Review Once Upon Ay Time In Mumbai Dobaara!

Cast: Akshay Kumar, Imran Khan, Sonakshi Sinha, Pitobash Tripathy, Mahesh Manjrekar, Sonali Bendre

Director: Milan Luthria

first news Rating: ** 1/2

What can the sequel of Once Upon A Time Mumbaai is expected to come in in 2010? As the director and screenwriter is the same, I knew the clunkily-titled and written Upon a Time in Mumbai Dobaara Oh! That the same area cover: Gangster show of strength in Mumbai-the-used-to-be-Bombay, non-stop rat-a-tat of the 70 dialogue Baazi style, high ambient music and a plot rife with predictabilities from start to finish.

What I did not know how similar it would be ready, despite the change in lines (Ajay Devgan and Emran Hashmi have been replaced by Akshay Kumar and Imran Khan, Kangna Ranaut and instead, Sonakshi Sinha) and then by a point, so apathetic, it would be.

Hashmi's impetuous desire to eat-for-all Shoaib played by Akshay Kumar in the new film. The character with a nod to the dreaded Dawood is materialized (those distinctive dark glasses and a penchant for cricket and betting) for the first Lord, what we think Dubai is seen. Shoaib is ruthless and ambitious, and lord of all he sees, but `Bambai", it asks a subordinate (Manjrekar), which must be mounted directly challenge him daring.

Once in Bombay, whistles to their faithful. One is Aslam (Khan), who had made about Shoaib as he was (Aslam) and his best friend DEDH Tang (Tripathy) young. But before the script turns his attention to this Bhais `'Dongri duking in (or wherever you hang in large quantities), which comes with a romantic distraction for the two most important men. The Jasmine Spirit (Sinha) is new in Bombay and a wannabe heroine. It is also more naive than any woman's right to be that.

Hezbollah chief blames Sunni extremists for attacks on group’s strongholds

BEIRUT - The leader of the militant Hezbollah in Lebanon Sunni extremists accused by a series of attacks against the strongholds of the group.

Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah says the preliminary investigation shows takfiris groups - a term for Sunni radicals - was probably behind the attack on Thursday in a predominantly Shiite neighborhood in southern Beirut, which killed 22 people and wounded more than 300, and other recent attacks.


He said in a speech to supporters Friday was the end of the month after the 2006 war with Israel.

Nasrallah said there was nothing to show that Israel was involved in the attacks, but added that extremists could work for the Jewish state.

He added that the Sunnis will not be held responsible for takfiris "are murderers who belong to any religion or sect."

Nokia phone with 5.2-inch screen, quad-core CPU leaked

A Chinese news website has leaked details of Lumia 825, which will come with a 5.2-inch screen and quad-core processor.

NEW DELHI: Nokia recently unveiled its largest smartphone history, Lumia 625 with a 4.7-inch screen. However, it seems that the Finnish manufacturer takes the game screen size further enhanced with the upcoming Lumia 825 smartphone.

A Chinese news website leaked details of this upcoming device that not only the biggest Nokia phone, but also probably the first with a quad-core processor. All new Nokia smartphones to come (including high-end models like the Lumia 925 and Lumia 1020) with dual-core processors. The report also says that the phone supports display resolution of 1280x720.

Mobile benchmark GFXBench website had previously reported about this device, which runs on Qualcomm's Snapdragon chipset 400 MSM8X26. Quad-core CPU this chipset is clocked at 1.2 GHz and supports dual SIM technology, Bluetooth, NFC and fast charge Quick Charge 1.0.

Windows Phone 8 operating system does not currently support quad core, it is the update GDR3 which is expected to be released this fall, come. This update brings support for 1920x1080p resolution screens for mobile phones on mobile operating system from Microsoft.

Nokia Store crosses 2 billion downloads in India, 1 billion downloads on the S40 and Asha platform

The Ovi Store is available, located in over 200 countries has been a great success in India two billion downloads with over 80 million downloads per month are currently being considered by crossing.
Calling it a milestone, Nokia said the account of the App Store for 1 billion downloads in the S40 platform and Asha.
 Nokia Store hit the 10 billion mark worldwide with cumulative downloads more than 148,000 pieces of content are available for Series 40 devices. When talking about the daily downloads touches 15 million mark.

While action games emerged as the category number 1 downloaded adventure game in the No. 2 sports games at No. 3, similar entertainment apps including movies and video at # 4, applications utility-based fifth, followed.

Nokia

 Indian developers have also benefited greatly from this growth. "During 168Indian developers have already reached more than one million downloads of their applications, while three developers have reached 100 million downloads," Nokia said in a statement.
 It is said that 9 developers have reached 50 million downloads, 18 developers have reached 25 million downloads and developer 40 have reached 10 million downloads.
 Some of the leading developers of India Games Ltd., Reliance games, transferring ideas Game Soft Pvt Ltd, Twist Mobile, Hungama Digital Media Entertainment SA. Ltd. on this platform.

   Sari Harju, Director, Mobile Phones, Nokia India said, "apps, we believe, are the core of this investment will help us not only complement our products with an innovative portfolio of solutions, but also give consumers a choice, its still this category .. This is a great achievement for us, and we will continue working really towards democratization of services and experience more "

Chennai Express sets new records, crosses Rs 150 crore mark

Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan in Chennai Express is flying high these days, as it had broken all records.

Shah Rukh Khan in Chennai Express is not action, but an out and comedy

After crossing the 100 crore in just three days after its publication Chennai Express now a whopping Rs 150 crore in its fist weekend even picked.

People talk about Chennai Express over soaring onion prices

Citing figures from across India, known critic Taran Adarsh ​​Twitter "# ChennaiExpress sets new standards crosses 150 cr"

Chennai Express

Benefits and collected Rs 19, the film Independence Day on 15 August vacation crore.

The rom-com with Rohit Shetty, Deepika Padukone and Shah Rukh did in leading roles in 3500 screens across the country.

Made with a budget of around Rs 70 million rupees, the film collected Rs 6.75 billion rupees on Thursday paid previews in India and the opening day, Rs.33.12 crore.

Chennai Express was number 4 in the greatest of all time, with 3 Idiots listed at number 1, followed Ek Tha Tiger Salman Khan and Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani at No. 2 and 3 respectively.

Come to the second weekend, it seems that the film will reach the coveted Rs 200 cr. Mark soon.

Once Upon A Time In Mumbai Dobaara, Chennai Express do good business on August 15

Chennai Express Open last week, Once Upon a Time in Mumbai Ay Dobaara did a good business on Independence Day (August 15).

Chennai Express has run into a dream from which opened on Eid (August 9) and the Company on August 15 gave a new impetus to the film, which has set new standards, been in the first week.

Oh the other hand suffered once Upon Time in Mumbai Dobaara  due to a limited release in August 15 From Chennai Express follow the screens and shows dominate.

Once Upon A Time In Mumbai Dobaara, Chennai Express

 

But despite the limited screens and programs was to Once Upon A Time In Mumbai Dobaara packed houses and was well on day 1, running to packed houses everywhere.

Once Upon a Time in Mumbai Dobaara Oh expands to more screens and shows from today (Friday), so it will be interesting to see how it goes this weekend.

Although the film was criticized by critics.

Indian Express' Shubhra Gupta wrote in his review

"You is a film that leaves you with very little new that if there is any juice in this retro film style gangsta left is thinking."

Ranbir Kapoor goes Besharam for new song Love Ki Ghanti

love ki ghanti-besharam

Actor Ranbir Kapoor has become the lovable lover boy Rowdy screen with your newly released track, love ki ghanti, your next Besharam film.

Your Tapori act in the song is a big hit with the public. Again with this song, Ranbir explored his singing ability. Fatafati last sang in Anurag Basu Barfi movie.

He showed his dancing skills with Badtameez in dil Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani, and now is back on your dancing shoes to show some unique moves.

The song was released on a social networking site on Wednesday and was receiving mixed reviews from the audience.

Ghanti love Ki is a fun musical track in a conversation where Ranbir itemize your friends about the love of his life. On the track, Ranbir desperate newcomer Pallavi Sharda, who plays the romantic lead alongside tried to court.

Supports fun and energetic dance steps with strong expressions, love ki ghanti looks like a winner. Although the film is set in the context of Delhi, the song was shot in Film City, Mumbai. Some sentences true representation of the bylanes of Delhi was erected in Film City, where they filmed these parts.

Director Abhinav Kashyap has been instrumental in the adoption of a few moves when the mischievous humor of the film and Ranbir wanted to emphasize the character of the song.

Choreographer Pappu Mallu has Ranbir possible blatantly wanted to see everything in the movie. This catchy song by musician Pandit Lalit duo together.

Apple plans to launch iPhone 5S on September 10

Allegedly, the world's largest manufacturer of smartphones, Apple Inc., is planning its next iPhone on 10 September 2013 to begin.

iphone 5S

It is speculated that Apple will introduce both an iPhone 5S, and a cheaper iPhone for low-end customers this year, Fox News.

The company has been losing its share of the smartphone market for Google's Android platform in recent quarters.

Apple iOS is responsible for 13% of smartphone sales in Q2, compared to 17% in the same period last year, the report continues.

Meanwhile, Android has its share from 69% to 79% over the same period.

Box Office: Shah Rukh Khan, Rohit, Deepika, UTV create records as ‘Chennai Express’ hits century

Box Office: Shah Rukh Khan, Rohit, Deepika, UTV create records as express hits centuryChennai Chennai Express has exceeded expectations at the box office. The film was expected to open great progress both in payment and periodic review of Friday. But what happens in the locker room was nothing less than a hurricane because the film was not only the first successes, but also suffered incredibly well, proving massive winners on its own weekend.

 Box Office: Shah Rukh Khan, Rohit, Deepika, UTV create records as ‘Chennai Express’ hits century

During brought Advance Rs 6.75 million, more than 33 million rupees to 28 crores on Saturday and then reached 32 million rupees on Sunday, which collects 100 million rupees to be, even before the film entered the week. This is huge, in fact, than any other film in the past raised so much, so soon. In addition, reflecting the fact that collections remained constant acceptance of this type of family film has made for himself.
The film is made for all concerned, and that is good news for the industry. For Shahrukh Khan, that the revival is an important way to see a positive response to. Although three centuries came behind (Ra. One, Don 2, Jab Tak Hai Jaan), it has a special place in his heart. For Deepika Padukone Also this is your room is row major problem for 'Cocktail', 'Race 2' and 'Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani'. You clearly ruled the top and do well as an actor, act, and can also blockbuster. As for Rohit Shetty, the mega career in recent years is not interrupted with 'Chennai Express.
All eyes are on how far this UTV production from now. While 150 million rupees is a fact that would challenge closer to the mark of 200 million rupees. The movie has a lot of competition in the form of "Once Upon A Time Mumbaai Dobaara Ay 'and is therefore not really enjoy a run without problems. On the other hand, to / join several further large releases in recent weeks. During the work for the manufacturer is made, the final distance of saw it is now covered by a very narrow.

21-year-old man attacked with kirpan inside Delhi Metro station

21-year-old man attacked with kirpan inside Delhi Metro stationn

New Delhi: A man who was 21 years old, was attacked with a kirpan, Sikh ceremonial dagger while disembarking from a train in a subway station in New Delhi on Sunday, police said.

The victim, Nitin, was attacked and injured in the waist at Patel Chowk Metro station. The Kanwaljeet defendant was caught by personnel of Central Industrial Security Force and handed over to the police.

The victim was taken to the Ram Manohar Lohia hospital where he was pronounced out of danger.

Police said the attack occurred after an argument between the two in front of the crowded train.

Katrina Kaif writes open letter to press over photos with Ranbir Kapoor

Katrina still good on their photos splashed across the Indian media

Actress Katrina Kaif has an open letter to the press published more pictures of her and Ranbir Kapoor wrote on holiday in Spain. Katrina and Ranbir, who has long been rumored to be in a relationship that was on the Spanish island of Ibiza in the past month. The photos were taken in the Indian media, which has not usually taken diplomatic Katrina, also injected.

Katrina letter, reproduced in the Times of India, deplores the fact that "The pictures were taken while I was on vacation for a person who was shot in an act of cowardice, without permission, and then used the images with commercial purposes. "

The letter says: "It is a breed of journalism, the celebrity of feeds in the worst possible way to keep all lines of privacy and ethical cross operating system, these images support for this school of journalism .."

Katrina asked the press to stop the execution of his paintings and says. "I have a wonderful relationship with the media and have access to the media at all times there is no reason for this behavior and invasive stealth".

Salman Khan's upcoming film Kick in trouble, actor denied visa to UK

Meanwhile, Salman's father Salim Khan has denied such reports, in an interview with a leading daily.

At this time of year seems to be not suitable for actor Salman Khan. Whereas before, the case hit-and-run visa in 2002 came back to haunt the actor to the UK refused.

Salman, who was the team of Sajid Nadiadwala kick in Glasgow come, could not leave India as his visa was denied.

Although no reasons for refusal have been, you are speculating that the case against the actor hit-and-run may have been behind the decision.

The actor was in court on 24 Published in July. The court had framed charges and adjourned the case until 19 August.

Meanwhile, Salman's father Salim Khan has denied such reports, in an interview with a leading daily.

The newspaper quoted him as saying: .. "There were some technical problems Salman has been a tourist visa 10 years continue Nevertheless, some problems arose ok when trying to obtain a work permit, needs some additional documents, which have been now., And will be presented to them."

He also clarified that the actor was refused a visa, but on hold.

Salman to apply for a visa next week.

Future of Italy’s coalition hangs in the balance as Berlusconi plays the victim

Add captionFormer Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi visited the Senate in Rome last month. He said this week that the decision was his belief that the judiciary was out of control, claiming he was the victim of a political witch hunt left judges confirmed. Photo: Gregorio Borgia / AP

After the tsunami that Italian politics Thursday night, when former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was found guilty of tax evasion through its television company Mediaset, the future of Enrico Letta coalition government under the leadership of affected PD PDL age of 100 days is now attached to a thread.
This at least seems to be the obvious conclusion to be drawn from a stormy day after yesterday, marked by warlike noises from Berlusconi's PDL party, by the relative silence of the center-left TP and Letta tones are soothing.
At a meeting with MPs last night PDL Berlusconi returned to play in the reform of the judicial system, suggesting that even if it could be adopted immediately, it should be dissolved parliament and called for early elections.
In response, Angelino Alfano, the interior minister in the government Letta and PDL party secretary, he and other ministers PDL were willing to give away. In addition, PDL said higher numbers would ask President Giorgio Napolitano, Berlusconi issued a presidential pardon.
At one point during a press conference at State House yesterday, Letta asked if he did not feel at least a little at being in government with a party whose leader had just finally sentenced for tax evasion embarrassing.
"Everyone has to take responsibility for themselves, the country's interests should come first, and these interests are going to do things, all things, including the fight against tax evasion," said the smooth and seemingly unshakable Letta.
The problem is that the Supreme Court finally ruled Italy on Thursday as the leader of the coalition government partners Letta, the PDL is a delinquent taxes, which will soon have to serve a prison sentence of one year.
In fact, the court sentenced to four years, but Berlusconi has a year under the terms of a 2006 law "forgiveness", which reduces the center-left government of Romano Prodi.
Given his age, there was never a chance that Berlusconi (76) would serve his sentence in prison, thanks to a law of their own government in 2005, insisted that jail defendants who are older than 70 years prevents age, provided they have a clean criminal record.
In other words, Berlusconi serve his sentence of one year or under house arrest or community service.
In practice, nothing happens until mid-September, when Berlusconi was officially informed of the judgment against him. At that time, he has a month to decide for social services or house arrest either.
Meanwhile, the debate about its future raged hot and heavy yesterday in Rome.
His closest pursuer in the PDL argued that despite his sentence of one year and the resulting prohibition of public life, Berlusconi's center-right will continue to lead
"After Berlusconi is not only Berlusconi. 'S People of Freedom (PDL), Forza Italia, the largest party in Italy today. An Italian three-vote for the LDP, Forza Italia, Berlusconi," said Renato Brunetta, PDL party whip in the house.
Berlusconi himself had come to fight late on Thursday in a nine-minute televised address, in which he portrays himself as a victim.
He said the decision was his belief that the judiciary was out of control, once again claiming it was the victim of a political witch hunt left judges confirmed.
Such was the "hatred" against which was presented in 50 studies in the last 20 years.
In a speech, the echoes of his infamous "take the field" in 1994, when he went into politics with the new party, Forza Italia, Berlusconi said the ruling will have no other choice than to "continue our struggle for freedom" had , calls the best young minds to the cause of a new, newly founded Forza Italia.
High on the agenda of topics to be addressed by his new party, he suggested, would the Italian judicial reform.
In contrast, argued the party secretary PD Guglielmo Epifani, that the judgment "to respect and apply", Berlusconi's party who are not "acts of God" and therefore the risk of falling Letta government.
Epifani PS knows that the support of the people asking the party from the embarrassment of sharing government with a convicted felon resign.
Meanwhile, nothing is more eloquent polemic that front page headline yesterday Il Fatto Quotidiano, an independent newspaper left was relentless critic of Berlusconi.
"The offender was sentenced - the government is now a dead man walking".