A massive earthquake changed many people’s life on January 12, 2010 in Haiti and surrounding areas. Countless number of people died, thousands became homeless and the loss due to this disastrous calamity ran into billions of dollars. Unknown numbers of people were missing in the rubbles. The tremors were felt even in Venezuela. A state of total chaos ran into the veins of every person who witnessed the tragedy around them. The whole country’s economic and social platform has been hugely affected since then. Already Haiti is the western hemisphere’s poorest country. More than 70% of the total population is living on a basic income of not more than $2(US dollars) per day.

This disaster has struck not only the nation but its people and deeply shaken their lives. Some have lost their loved ones, others have lost their homes, jobs, hard owned money, everything and they have been in great pain since the catastrophe struck.

People across the world have lent a hand to help in form of monetary and non-monetary means. Many social networking sites, like popular Facebook, have been initiating people to help and support to re-establish lives of those natives who are affected. This site has collaborated with many social servicing agencies that have been active in these areas at the grass-root level. Facebook is accessed by millions of people across the globe and this kind of initiative is highly appreciable as it reaches out to huge masses with 100% guarantee of donation reaching the destitute.

Atleast humans should be able to understand and feel the pain of others. Many have been helping all the way through, join their hands. After all, we are of same kind and we all live on the same land which is scratched by borders drawn by others.

The new teen sensation Taylor Swift’s album fearless released in 2008 has broken all records. It’s truly magnificent achievement made by a young 20-year old country music star. Conquering the world by the music, her hard work paid off at the Grammy’s. Fearless; became the album of the year, got the best female country vocal performance for White Horse and became the youngest artist ever to win “The Grammy” for her album of the year breaking the record of Alanis Morissette.

Where Grammy’s, this time was all dominated by the girls, which was truly magnificent.
Presence of famous and sensational singers of present decade gave the occasion a thrust. Pink, Jennifer Lopez, Taylor Swift, Beyonce Knowles, Katy Perry, Lady Gaga, Jay-Z, Rihanna and Kayne West were at their best.

The most prestigious lifetime achievement awards was given to late Michael Jackson, accepted by Prince and Paris (MJ’s children), which was surly an emotional moment for the audience.

With all the rocking, breathtaking and sizzling performances, the 52nd Grammy Awards on the Sunday night at Los Angeles was once again a hit as it is destined to be.

Playing with billion of dollars at a time can sound fun but usually every pleasure and power comes with important responsibilities. Being “the emperor tycoon”, handling millions of employee, keeping the demands of billions of consumers in mind and providing complete satisfaction to both producer and consumer, isn’t an easy task. But the same job has been done successfully by Bill Gates which has owned him the title for world’s most respected business man. It is the third year he has headed the charts. The founder of Microsoft has always proved himself as a leader, a stimulating entrepreneur, an inspiration, as a source of admiration, belief and most of all as a constant creator of motivation. With such a leader the company was bound to provide its best and thus its continued performance has taken the company soaring towards new heights each year.

Tech firms holds the most respected place in today’s technological era but the story was slightly different few decades back when this period was new and fresh to the market. Facing many obstacles, finally Microsoft dominates the market and the innovation driving it. Giving nearly thirty years of sincerity, dedication and stunning executions of thoughts to produce a reality that changed millions of life, Bill Gates has done his part of the job.

Bagging a Nobel peace prize by U.S president Barack Obama has left common mass awestruck. The name of the peace prize winner has left many puzzled about why he deserved the award. The announcement of the result declared on Friday quickly became the top discussions amongst the bloggers and twitter community. Most of the users presented their state of shock by posting comments such as “They wanted to give him an honor I guess but I can’t think what for”, “OBAMA WON?”, “It would be wonderful if I could think why he won”, “He deserves it I guess, he is the president”.

An online straw poll by MSNBC asked a question, whether Obama deserved the prize or not, 62% of more than 194,000 said No, 24% said yes and rest surly said the decision was premature.

The award was considered as political. While many others were happy to flow with the stream despite of the fact they couldn’t answer “the why”. Well! Deserving or not, the declaration has shown that U.S is still the prevalent power and it does really matter.

After many failed bidding attempts for hosting Summer Olympics for 1936, 1940, 2004 and 2012, Rio de Janeiro has finally got the chance. Missing the shortlist for two times, this time everything fell into the right place and now 2016 games will be held in Rio de Janeiro. Owing the vote was not easy with tough competitors like Chicago with Obama, Tokyo with $4 billion bank strength and Madrid standing along with powerful friends. But at the deciding day, the mad love of 400 millions fans for sports defeated every thorn placed in the way.

It is the first time that South America has been awarded as a hosting country for the Olympics. This city was chosen as a candidate city to host Summer Olympics and Paralympics during its Annual Assembly on September 1, 2006.

The estimated games cost is US $2.005 billion (an additional US $4 billion will be invested in infrastructure). The moment Rio de Janeiro won the most awaited bid; Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva’s eyes were drenched in tears.

Rio’s organizers have structurally and financially profound organized plans in making the 2016 Olympics a grand success.

 The Manchester United as they are popularly and justly known as red devils, are once again all set for the Premier League’s trophy for 2009 season. The club is one of the most successful Premier League champions to retain the trophy for 10 times. It took 26 years long wait for Man U to hold the charismatic trophy and after that there was no looking back for the team. They romped to further titles in 1994, 1996,1997,2000,2001 and 2003. Chelsea nearly broke their dominance over the title in year 2005 and 2006 but the red devils once again claimed the throne in 2006/07 season and where the alone triumphant winners of the Barclay’s Premiership.

The champions are setting the fields on fire this season too, by their outstanding performance holding the maximum of 18 points in their hands. Initially called Newton Heath L&YR F.C formed in 1878, the club changed its name to Manchester United. Under the shadow of extremely talented, long-serving Scotsman Sir Alex Ferguson, club has won 10 titles.

Manchester is perhaps doing really well this season even at the loss of a former key player Cristiano Ronaldo. His place was very easily recovered by Wayne Rooney. Sir Alex believes that there are very good player in this decade like Kaka, Ronaldo and Messi and thinks Rooney can match their levels if he progresses as he is doing.

All fans are waiting for a mind-blowing final match with Man U as insurmountable champions.

Computer engineers in United Kingdom have the worst road accident records while farmers are the safest drivers, claims a survey by an insurance company.

Figures from UK-based car insurer, Churchill Car Insurance revealed that computer engineers topped the lost of those professions making the most accident claims in the last three years. The professional to make the second-largest number of claims were sales managers followed by chefs, students and doctors.

Farmers in UK on the other hand were judged to have the best road safety record based on the number of road accident claims made with Churchill Car Insurance. According to Tony Chilcott, head of the car insurance company, this was because farmers lived and worked in rural areas which were less likely to be congested. Farmers were followed by aircraft fitters, stores personnel and ambulance drivers as the professionals least likely to get involved in road accidents.

The Churchill Car Insurance survey shows that people from the most stressful professions like computer engineers and doctors were most likely to have accidents while driving on road. This is most likely because the nature and degree of stress at such jobs made the professionals more distracted and tired on the road and hence raised the probability of accidents.

US unemployment rate in August touched 9.7 percent, the highest in 26 years even though the total jobless number was the lowest in a year.

Figures released by the US Labor Department on Friday showed that employers across the economy cut 216,000 in August resulting in the highest unemployment rate in 26 years at 9.7 percent. This was a marginal rise from the 9.4 percent jobless rate in July but the lowest in the past year.

Official statistics also revealed that the total number of jobless people in the country stood at 14.9 million in August. Ever since the US economy entered the grip of recession in December 2007, as many as 6.9 million people have lost their jobs, with the construction, service and manufacturing sectors being the worst-hit.

However there were some positive signs from the economy, showing that the labor market may have crossed the worst phase of recession. Data from the Labor Department showed that the decline in jobs last month was less than the 225,000 job reductions that had been forecast. Moreover private sector job cuts were coming down with 198,000 losses last month which was 50,000 better than the previous month, according to Nigel Gault, chief US economist with IHS Global Insight.

Hiroshima in Japan along with many other parts of the world observed Universal Peace Day on 6th August, marking the 64th anniversary of the first use of nuclear bomb which brought about the end of the Second World War but decimated millions of people in the country.

Hundreds including Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso gathered at the Atomic Bomb Dome on Thursday to pay homage to the millions who had fallen prey to the nuclear bombing sixty-four years ago and prayed that such a day would never come again. Hiroshima mayor Tadatoshi Akiba said that the need to abolish all kinds of nuclear weapons was now more relevant than ever before.

The nuclear bomb nicknamed “Fat Boy” that was dropped over Hiroshima on 6th August 1945 instantly killed over 140,000 people, most of whom were civilians. The bombs were reported to have created temperatures reaching many millions of degrees centigrade which resulted in the vaporization of those located at the epicenter of the bombing. Many more people died at later stages from the combined effects of flash and radiation burns as well as from trauma, infections, malnutrition and sickness brought about by the bombings. Survivors have ever since continued to suffer from leukemia and other cancers induced by radiation from the nuclear bombs.

Michael Jackson’s mother will get permanent custody of the late pop star’s three children while his ex-wife Debbie Rowe will have visitation rights, according to an agreement reached between the two parties on Thursday.

Under the terms of the out-of-court agreement worked out between the late pop icon’s mother Katherine Jackson and his former wife Debbie Rowe, Michael Jackson’s three children will live with their grandma but their mother will be able to visit her biological children occasionally. Rowe is the birth mother of two of the children, twelve-year old Prince Michael and eleven-year old Paris. Rowe, a former nurse was married to Michael Jackson for a brief period from 1996 to 1999. The youngest child Blanket is just seven, the identity of whose biological mother remains unknown.

Londell McMillan, Katherine Jackson’s lawyer confirmed that the late Michael Jackson’s children will be personally raised by their paternal grandma who has also been a trustee of many of the pop star’s businesses. A will left by Michael Jackson in fact asks the elderly Katherine Jackson to raise the kids despite her advanced age and health problems. McMillan also clarified that Joe Jackson, Michael’s father, will have no role in the upbringing of the children and would not be allowed to take control of the late singer’s billion-dollar estate.