Tuesday, July 31, 2012

Would you pay $2,300 for a hot dog?

A fancy rooftop bar in New York City, 230 Fifth, has created a “haute” dog with a price tag of $2,300. What goes into such a wiener? More than mustard, we can tell you courtesy of Zagat’s: Marbled Wagyu beef, dry aged and laced with...
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Houston is the ‘coolest’ city in America, according to Forbes

Move over Austin, L.A. and the Big Apple.Forget Dallas and San Antonio.Stuffy old Houston is now the “coolest” big city in America, according to Forbes.The business website used seven “data points” in ranking 65 of the largest metro...
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Moon flags likely lost their stripes

Despite harsh conditions and the ravages of time, the U.S. flags planted on the moon in the past 43 years are still standing and casting shadows at all but one of the landing sites. This remarkable fact comes to us via images made...
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Microsoft saying good-bye to Hotmail

Microsoft's new Outlook.com address is pushing out Hotmail, Curiosity will soon meet Mars, and we look at the head-scanning technology used by EA Sports.Microsoft's new Outlook.com address is pushing out Hotmail, Curiosity will soon...
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Deputy Minister of Costa Rica is suspended for an erotic video

Costa Rican Vice Minister of Youth Karina Bolaños was fired by President Laura Chinchilla, after it was leaked on the Internet a sex tape of the official.Bolaños appears in underwear sending a message to a person in front of a camera....
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Scandal, Albanian sentenced in Greece

The Albanian citizen Mark Marku has been sentenced to 18 years in prison in the beginning of this year for armed robbery in a time when he has been in Ireland. He is married to an Irish woman, July O’reilly, a teacher graduated at...
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Organ traffic in Kosovo

Quoting an article published by the daily German “Der Spiegel”, Deutsche Welle says that the EU investigators are tracking organ traffickers of global activity. The initiative was initiated by cases like a German producer and a poor...
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Bujar Nishani new President of the Republic of Albania

The DP Minister of the Interiors Bujar Nishani is elected the President of Albania as the only 73 of the 140 voted in his favor as the opposition did not vote in bloc. Apart from Kastriot Islami all the other opposition members did...
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