Hot Weather Has Killed Thousands Of People In Moscow

Several thousand citizens of Moscow's alleged to have been killed in July alone this year due to heat, which had never happened before, and the death toll may increase in August, a Russian scientist said Tuesday.

Moscow, a metropolis with more than 10 million residents, has been buffeted by the heat since last June. Daily temperatures sometimes reach 40 degrees Celsius.

The crisis makes wilted as the wheat crop in Russia, cut its economic growth this year in the amount of billions of dollars and killing at least 54 people due to forest fires. Hot air somewhat subsided on Tuesday.

Citing a report by the Moscow Registration Office, then a senior researcher of ecology and demography at the Academy of Sciences of Russia, Boris Revich says 5840 more people have been killed in Moscow in July, more than in July last year.

Revich says he believes the vast majority of additional casualties have been caused by the tremendous heat.

"It was so easy to predict," said Revich at a briefing. "The only thing that made me ... I blame myself is that my estimate (of casualties) is too slow at the beginning of a heat wave."

"But we never have experience in estimating this terrible heat, mainly because we had never experienced heat like this before."

State Statistics Committee (Goskomstat) is scheduled to broadcast the data on casualties around August 20, said Revich. Figures of casualties for August will be aired in September.

Health department chief in Moscow, Andrei Seltsovsky end the official silence about the impact of such heat and smoke caused by forest fires that have blanketed Moscow since the end of July.

Andrei said on August 9 that the death toll nearly doubled to be 700 people every day, and heat into the main killer.

source : Antara

Plane Crash In Colombia, The Only One Killed

Most of the media dub the accident that occurred on the island of San Andres, Colombia, as a miracle crashes. Boeing 747 aircraft crashed on the runway after battling bad weather. The aircraft was broken and destroyed. Magic, or rather miracle, nearly all of the 131 passengers survived. Only one who died, it was because of a heart attack.

Numbered 8520 plane flight Aires owned airline was already preparing to land on the island. The pilot''told us that would be landing in San Andres. We then put on seat belts. After the (belt) is inserted, a few moments and then boom! Big explosion happened,''said one passenger survived, Alvaro Granados, 25, who flew with his wife and two children. ''When my wife and I stood up, then look back, the rear of the aircraft were lost,''he said.

Indeed, the plane destroyed. Because, wheel slip planes in the abdomen. Because hitting the runway, one of its engines destroyed split. The fuselage broke into three pieces and crushed.

Ricardo Ramirez, a civil engineer who was in the plane with his wife, told Caracol Radio tells us that everything went well except the rain and lightning. ''Our plane was moving down to perfection. Some time back the plane would land. It was not an accident,''he explained.

Ramirez added that he along with his wife trying to break away from the seat belt. ''We're trying to get out of the plane because the plane had started to burn,''he recalled. ''A few moments later, a police patrol car came and helped us,''he explained.

Ramirez said that his wife was experiencing a shift in the bones of the knee. ''We're very thankful we're alive,''she said, as quoted by Agence France-Presse.

Several officials said the incident was so quick. The pilot did not report the emergency to the control tower on the island of San Andres.

Experts are now studying the cause of the crash. Because, they were stunned to see 130 passengers on board the plane survived. Amar Fernandez de Barreto, passengers who had a heart attack, also reported no injuries.

Manuel Villamizar, director of emergency operations centers in Bogota, told reporters that six people seriously injured were flown to the capital for treatment.

Colonel Donald Tascon, deputy director of the Colombian Civil Aviation Agency, speculated that the plane was flying low, about 30 meters, just before landing. That is what allegedly makes no casualties.

''This is a miracle and we should thank God,''said the Governor Andres San Pedro Gallardo.

14 Years Old Girl, Survived The Lightning Strike

A 14-year-old girl survived the lightning strike. Girl named Savanah Vowers it suffered only minor injuries.

This event occurs when Vowers was washing a car belonging to her parents in her home in Littleton, Colorado, United States at around 12:20. At the time sky is clear, the sun is too bright. Suddenly a flash of light struck her, immediately she felt sick.

"The whole right side of my body shook, my limbs are numb, I feel sick once in the elbow," he said in his testimony on video Vowers owned news agency AP.

Vowers then taken to Swedish Medical Center. Lucky he survived this incident. "I feel very lucky, my entire body is checked, a number of tests done, including my heart, I am very grateful, just a little thing on the nerves that are problematic," he said.

According to doctors who examined Vowers, the girl suffered only a little nervous disorders, none fatal. He will be healthy and normal as before the lightning hit.


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Because Of An iPod, Japanese Trains Running Late

Railway network in Tokyo, Japan, late for an iPod. The engineer to stop his train after getting complaints from passengers who smells burning in the carriage. Tokyu Corp., the company that runs the rail network in Jepangan told Reuters that the train stop is the destination of Tokyo. The train was stopped in the lane Denenthoshi a distance of about 10 miles from Tokyo.

The train was stopped for eight minutes to find the source of burning smell it. »When the officer checked and checked the entire train, there is a passenger who shows his iPod is so hot and scorched iPod models is not clear which one until charred in the incident.

However, according to some reports several similar cases occurred in Japan in recent years. Four Japanese people also had minor burns due to the iPod. Japan's Trade Ministry has asked Apple to improve safety for its products.

Apple has not commented in this incident, but some time ago, the company is owned by Steve Jobs said the cases of 'overheating' are the very rare cases, usually occurs because the battery rusakya, "said Tokyu Corp. spokesman.

Israeli Soldiers Posing With Palestinian Prisoners On Facebook

A former Israeli soldier posted photos on Facebook of herself in uniform smiling beside bound and blindfolded Palestinian prisoners, drawing sharp criticism Monday from the Israeli military and Palestinian officials.

Israeli news websites and blogs showed two photographs of the woman. In one, she is sitting legs crossed beside a blindfolded Palestinian man who is slumped against a concrete barrier. His face is turned downwards, while she leans toward him with her face upturned. Another shows her smiling at the camera with three Palestinian men with bound hands and blindfolds behind her.

The incident was a reminder of the fraught relations between Israeli soldiers and the West Bank Palestinians under their control.

Israeli soldiers have run into trouble on the social media sites like Facebook and YouTube before. Most recently a group of combat soldiers were reprimanded for breaking into choreographed dance moves while on patrol in the West Bank town of Hebron. The dance featured prominently on YouTube.

Palestinian Authority spokesman Ghassan Khatib condemned the photos and said they pointed to a deeper malaise — how Israel's 43-year-old occupation of Palestinians has affected the Israelis who enforce it.

"This shows the mentality of the occupier," Khatib said, "to be proud of humiliating Palestinians. The occupation is unjust, immoral and, as these pictures show, corrupting."

The Israeli military also criticized the young woman, who Israeli news media and bloggers identified from her Facebook page as Eden Aberjil of the southern Israeli port town of Ashdod. No official confirmed her identity.

"These are disgraceful photos," said Capt. Barak Raz, an Israeli military spokesman. "Aside from matters of information security, we are talking about a serious violation of our morals and our ethical code and should this soldier be serving in active duty today, I would imagine that no doubt she would be court-martialed immediately," he told Associated Press Television News.

It was not clear whether the army could punish the woman, because she has finished her compulsory military service.

The comments by the woman and her friend in an exchange below one photograph suggested how casually the picture was treated, including jokes and sexual innuendoes.

"You're the sexiest like that," her friend wrote.

"I wonder if he's got Facebook!" the woman in the photograph responded. "I have to tag him in the picture!"

Aberjil did not respond to reporters' questions Monday.

The photographs were a reminder of snapshots taken in 2003 by American soldiers at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq that showed Iraqi detainees naked, humiliated and terrified. In that case, some soldiers went to prison after the photos came to light.

The photographs of the Israeli soldier and the Palestinians, by contrast, show no overt physical abuse or coercion of the prisoners, although they are ridiculed in the comments between the soldier and her friends.

Palestinians are routinely handcuffed and blindfolded when they are arrested to stop them from trying to flee.