50,000 dollars,вратени на сопственикот

London, 12 July 2010 (MIA) - A Pakistani hotel cleaner, Essa Khan, is being hailed as a national hero after he returned 50,000 dollars in cash left behind by a Japanese NGO worker.

Khan found the money in a bag, which was kept in the safe deposit box, while carrying out a routine inspection of the room before another guest arrived.

Talking about the incident, Khan, who has been working at the Gilgit Serena Hotel near Karakoram for the past 20 years, said that he was simply doing his job.

"I have a responsibility as a human being, as a Pakistani, a Muslim. I never thought about keeping the money," The Telegraph quoted Khan, as saying.

The hotel staff managed to track down the guest and returned the money, which was intended to fund a feasibility study into tourism projects in northern Pakistan.

Gilgit Serena Hotel's General Manager, Rashid Uddin, said that the Japanese man was embarrassed to learn that he had lost the cash.

"Even after three days, he had no clue that he had left the money. He came in the next day, and it was easy to see from the look on his face just how relieved he was," Uddin said.

The hotel gave Khan a Rs.10,000 reward for his honesty, but Uddin said that the 50-year-old's actions deserved wider recognition.

"In these economic conditions, and in a region of poverty, we should be very, very proud of people like this," he added.

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Man kept in coffin for two years

New Delhi, 7 July 2010 (MIA) - Authorities in Porbunder, western India, say that the family took the lid off the coffin just once a day to feed Rajan Killaker before nailing it down again, and that they drilled holes in the casket so he could breath.

They kept him trapped after he had refused to sign over his farm, worth around £100,000, to them

'We have arrested eight of his relatives who confessed to torturing him,' said a police spokesman.

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FACEBOOK'S PANIC BUTTON TO REPORT CHILD ABUSE

New York, 13 July 2010 (MIA) - Popular social networking website Facebook will add a 'panic button' application which will report child abuse to Britain's Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (CEOP).

Once installed, the application appears on the homepage saying that the users are in 'control online'.

Facebook had initially resisted the idea, but finally agreed after months of negotiation with the CEOP, BBC reported.

CEOP is a government law enforcement agency tasked with tracking down online sex offenders.

Other social networking websites including Bebo and MySpace have already added the button, but Facebook had resisted the change, saying its own reporting systems were sufficient.

Pressure mounted on Facebook after the rape and murder of a 17-year-old girl by a 33-year-old convicted sex offender, posing as a teenage boy, whom she met on Facebook.

Forty-four police chiefs in England, Wales and Scotland, signed a letter backing CEOP's call for the 'panic button' on every Facebook page.

'Our dialogue with Facebook about adopting the 'ClickCeop' button is well documented - today however is a good day for child protection,' Jim Gamble, CEOP's chief executive, was quoted as saying.

Meanwhile, Facebook's head of communications in Britain, Sophy Silver, said the new application would integrate reporting to both Facebook and CEOP.

In addition to the reporting application, a new Facebook/CEOP page is being set up, with a range of topics that will be of interest to teenagers, such as celebrities, music and exams, and it will link these subjects to questions about online safety.

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10 creative ads on subway

Underground subway systems are great for placing ads for two reasons: first, there are many people, and secondly, potential buyers are captured - whether waiting for a train or do not want to see them he must see the ad.See these excellent examples.

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Fat kid gets nervous :)

Fat kids are no luck on the internet. This one doesn't have luck even with his brother :)But when you get a reaction like this, it's kind a hard to resist teasing him :)Enjoy.

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The oldest ancestors of domestic cats

Meet the oldest living ancestor of your domestic cat. Manulite (or so-calledPallas cats) are the oldest surviving species of the family cats and they, along with extincted kind Martel cats, probably are one of the first modern cats, which evolved directly from Pseudaelurus - common prehistoric ancestor of cats, about 12,000 years!

Manulite are wild cats with domestic cats size - 46-65 cm long, without tail included (which has a length of about 21 to 31 cm). Residents are of Asian steppes at an altitude of 1.000 to 4.000 meters.They are found around the eastern and southern coast of the Caspian Sea, Iran, India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Turkmenistan, western and central China and Mongolia. Because of their appearance before it was thought that the ancestors of manulite Persian cats, but that proved not true.Fascinating is that this type of cats on our planet is present around 12,000 years.

Pallas's Cat

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Stephen Hawking: This is what aliens look like

Physicist Stephen Hawking , who many consider for the smartest man in the world in the documentary film by Discovery Channel reveals what it would aliens look like.Hawking is sure that life exists beyond Earth in different forms, perhaps even in our solar system.

Namely, under the frozen surface of Jupiter's moon Europa could be a layer suitable for life.The appearance and behavior of individual aliens, Hawking has performed the conditions of the various planets such as geological features, climate and atmosphere. His ideas and calculations were visualised through computer graphics and for the first time were shown in the documentary series "Into The Universe".Hawking said that in space there are nearly 100 billion galaxies, each of them has more than hundreds of millions of stars around which planets circling, for which the probability that life developed only on Earth is extremely low.

"My mathematical mind makes me completely rational to think about aliens. A challenge is to discover how they look the most depends on which feed and live in such circumstances. "Physicist claims.

Hawking believes that there are vegetarians and meat eaters and believes that some of them have legs and eyes that see in front of them.Furthermore, 68-year-old physicist thinks that somewhere there are things that are very similar to animals with bioenergy and which can produce its own light, and that they could live on Jupiter's moon Europa.Life of planets that temperatures are around minus 10, however, have radically different physiology. Hawking is assumed that the life of these planets is very slow.

[ Stephen hawking: This is What Aliens Look like! ]

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Portrait of 200,000 ants

California artist Chris Truman recreating a portrait photograph of his childhood, and it was unusual material required - a total of 200,000 ants.

The artist bought the ants live, on 40.000 of them priced at 400 euros, and then kill them with pincette to put on a piece of Plexiglas. What is amazing is that the artist sold his work for more than 27,000 euros to the U.S. company that owns Ripley museum collection of unusual pieces.

Truman almost gave up from the creation of his masterpiece because of the bad conscience of killing innocent insects. He said: "It took me several years to finish, not because it was hard, but because in a certain point I felt bad because I killed ants."

The inspiration for the painting came from the experience that Truman had when he was a child. He explains: "I and my younger brother attacked anthill and stung red-dark Sun. I decided to go back to that experience of childhood. "Ants are amazing creatures."He added.

The artist was first with an idea every ant alone to catch and kill, but eventually concluded that it would be a long time. Therefore aside more than 2,000 euros and bought the 200,000 ants.Ants were killedl with wool dipped in acetone and then with pincette placed on a piece of Plexiglas.

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