Tourism groups push for easing of US visa criteria to permit more free-spending visitors. Tight restrictions on travel and visa requirements have hit the United States tourism industry hard, with many travelers choosing to spend their holidays elsewhere. The US State Department has said security remains its top priority when it comes to eligibility criteria for visas. [...]
WASHINGTON, DC, .- Sebuah kamera Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter milik NASA menangkap gambar pendarat dari salah satu penjelajah Mars NASA yang tidak terpakai, berdiri damai di permukaan Planet Merah. Ini adalah gambar berwarna pertama pengorbit tersebut dari pendarat, yang membantu membawa Mars Rover Spirit ke permukaan. Kini telah berwarna merah, mungkin karena lapisan debu Mars. Spirit [...]
HOUSTON, – Sienna dan Sierra Bernal adalah kembar identik berusia 13 tahun asal Houston, Texas, AS. Yang unik, tinggi dan berat badan keduanya berbeda sangat jauh. Sienna yang berbobot hanya setengah dari berat badan Sieraa memiliki tinggi badan 1,22 m, sedangkan saudara kembarnya lebih jangkung, yaitu 1,55 m. Kedua remaja berambut pirang dengan mata biru [...]
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Iconic skyscraper in Georgia goes under the hammer for a lark as slumping economy continues to strangle property market. The Bank of America Plaza skyscraper in the state of Georgia, the tallest building in the southern US, is just another lamb to the slaughter after it was auctioned off for about half the amount it [...]
Professional snowboarder Michelle Hytner survives an avalanche after she deploys an emergency airbag from her backpack. Print PDF This post was submitted by CNN / IM.
Today, we’re holding a special session of White House Office Hours to celebrate the second anniversary of Let’s Move!, the First Lady’s initiative to solve the problem of childhood obesity within a generation. At 2:30 p.m. EST, Sam Kass, Senior Policy Advisor for Healthy Food Initiatives, is answering your questions live on Twitter. Since [...]
Pengunjung restoran Fat Smitty’s punya tradisi unik tiap kali datang. Mereka akan menempelkan uang pada dinding restoran. Kini kebiasaan itu sudah berjalan 27 tahun, dan seluruh permukaan dinding dan atap telah tertutup uang kertas! Fat Smitty’s adalah restoran keluarga yang telah dikelola turun temurun. Sejak tahun 2009, Fat Smitty’s dikelola oleh Casey Carson, generasi keempat. Bangunan resto ini telah dibangun dari [...]
Dua puluh enam planet baru telah ditemukan tim ilmuwan NASA yang berusaha menemukan planet di luar sistem tata surya. Ukuran planet-planet baru yang ditemukan tim NASA itu bervariasi. Ada yang sedikit lebih besar dari Bumi sampai yang lebih besar dari planet raksasa Yupiter dalam sistem tata surya kita. Planet-planet itu ditemukan oleh Kepler, teleskop antariksa [...]
Frontrunner for Republican nomination to run for US president wins western state. Republican frontrunner Mitt Romney has easily won Nevada’s presidential caucuses, further taking command of the party’s race to pick a challenger to President Barack Obama. Romney’s win on Saturday was his second in a row and third in the first five contests in the [...]
Before we finish the week, we have to pass on at least one more story related to Facebook’s plan to raise about $5 billion with its first sale of shares to the public. It seems that Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss — the “Winklevii” twins — could get up to $300 million worth of Facebook shares when the deal [...]
It’s not really haunted, but it is really expensive. The mansion in FX’s American Horror Story is on sale for $17 mil. Print PDF This post was submitted by CNN / IM.
SAN DIEGO, .- Pekan lalu dalam perjalanan ke Pacific Beach di San Diego, AS, Josh Menard menemukan makhluk mati mirip monster yang sedikit menyerupai campuran antara Chupacabra dan makhluk Montauk yang terbungkus rumput laut dan membusuk di pantai. Menard mengatakan ia tidak tahu apakah itu binatang asli daerah itu, karena dia berasal dari Massachusetts, tapi [...]
The captains of Wall Street have picked a presidential candidate for 2012 and it is Republican Mitt Romney, rather than Democratic President Barack Obama, campaign donation records show. The records released Tuesday by the Federal Election Commission illustrate a basic shift in political giving at the presidential level by the nation’s financial elite. After a [...]
American Airlines told its unions Wednesday it plans to cut 13,000 jobs from the staff of 88,000 at the nation’s No. 3 airline. The cuts will fall most heavily on the airline’s maintenance operations, which will lose 4,600 jobs. More than 4,000 additional ground worker jobs will be eliminated, as will 2,300 flight attendant jobs. [...]
This afternoon, President Obama made the trip across town to the Washington Auto Show to look at some of the incredible new vehicles being built by Detroit. There, he told reporters: Let me just say, when you look at all these cars, it is testimony to the outstanding work that’s been done by workers — American [...]
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