AP – Several countries monitoring Iran’s nuclear program have picked up information that the country’s only power-producing nuclear reactor was damaged by one or more of several recent earthquakes, with long cracks appearing in at least one section of the structure, two diplomats said Tuesday.
Reuters – The United States on Monday ratcheted up its efforts to isolate Iran for its suspected nuclear weapons program, targeting Tehran with currency and auto-sector sanctions.
SF News – UN Special repporteur Christof Heyns in a meeting of UN Human Rights Council expressed concern about the development of killing robots by various countries that would be able to kill humans without any intervention by another human being. He called for a worldwide moratorium on the development of such weapons.
SF News – A picture taken by the NASA’s Curiosity rover from Mars surface has some space and extra-terrestrial life enthusiasts cheering and wondering if they are actually looking at a Martian rat.
Stop Fundamentalism – Iranian news sources report of heavy police presence throughout Tehran and other major cities such as Isfahan and Tabriz, following release of the names of qualified presidential candidates by the Iranian Interior Ministry, today.
Stop Fundamentalism – Iranian authorities announced the names of eight candidates, qualified to run for the post of Islamic Republic’s president, Tuesday evening, said the state-run Fars News website.
SF News – A light detection technology that uses laser light sent downward from a slow moving plane to capture pictures of the rainforest under vegetation, revealed images of a possible lost city deep inside the Honduran rainforests. The images of the city show canals, roads, building foundations and agricultural land in the surrounding.
AFP – Iran is tightening control of the Internet ahead of next month’s presidential election, mindful of violent street protests that social networkers inspired last time around over claims of fraud, users and experts say.
Stop Fundamentalism – An Iraqi parliament committee revealed the involvement of high ranking officials in the import of fake and nonfunctional bomb and explosive detection equipment over six years ago, Aljazeera TV reported yesterday. That report came after a British court sentenced a businessman to 15 years in prison for exporting of the equipment to Iraq.
Fox News – Einstein’s special relativity has proven more useful than ever, as scientists have now used it to discover an alien planet around another star.
