11 years imprisonment, Chinese Nobel laureate dies.

  The Chinese activist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo has died at the age of 61, the government has said.

The country’s most famous political prisoner was being treated for terminal liver cancer in a heavily-guarded hospital in northeast China. Mr Liu had been transferred from prison last month where he was serving an 11-year term for “subversion”.

Mr Liu might be a name rarely uttered in the west but many argue the unsung hero must be remembered alongside the other big name dissidents of the 20th century.

The human rights activist, who took part in the 1989 pro-democracy Tiananmen Square demonstrations, was arrested in 2008 after writing a pro-democracy manifesto titled Charter 08 in which he called for an end to one-party rule and advances in human rights. It was signed by thousands of people in China.

Brazil's former president LULA - jailed for 9.6 years.

Lava Jato judge, Sergio Moro, sentenced the former leader to nine years and six months in prison for passive corruption and money laundering.

In a surprising turn of events, federal judge Sergio Moro, sentenced Brazil’s former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva to nine years and six months in prison for passive corruption and money laundering on Wednesday, July 12th.

The former leader is charged with accepting million-dollar renovations on a beachfront apartment from large construction and engineering firms in exchange for ‘advantages’ in public contracts, including those with state-owned oil giant Petrobras.
“The transfer [ownership] of the apartment and the renovations, as well as the payment of storage costs, would represent an undue advantage in a corroboration of corruption and strategies used for this transfer and payment would constitute a money laundering offense,” read the verdict handed down by Moro.

The largest icebergs ever recorded has broken free of Antarctica.

One of the largest icebergs on record has broken away from an ice shelf in Antarctica.

Researchers who have been monitoring a huge crack in the larsen C Ice Shelf,   which had left a vast iceberg more than a quarter the size of Wales “hanging by a thread”, say the rift has finally completed its path through the ice.

The final breakthrough happened between Monday and Wednesday and was detected in data from Nasa’s Aqua MODIS satellite instrument.

“Some of the ice may remain in the area for decades, while parts of the iceberg may drift north into warmer waters.”
Although the iceberg weighs a trillion tonnes, it was already floating before it calved away so will have no immediate impact on sea level.

The Sri lankan government forgives elephant owners.

In recent times, the most talked about was the illegal possession of elephants.This is a nasty undertaking, the government accuses. In spite of this, there is a problem with how to act in this manner, in what manner the law has been analyzed.

 Sri Lanka’s government says it is ready to forgive the owners of poached elephants and give them a chance to apply for license

A group of wealthy businessmen, a Buddhist priest and other social higher-ups on trial in Sri Lanka for allegedly keeping illegally captured elephants may get their animals back — legally.

Sri Lanka’s government says it is ready to forgive the owners of poached elephants and give them a chance to apply for licence provided they can prove in court that they did not know the animals that were confiscated from them had been illegally captured from the wild.

Dambulla cave temple temporarily closed

The archaeological advisory board of Sri Lanka has decided to temporarily close down the historic Rangiri Dalule Cave temple in Sri Lanka, declared as a UNESCO World Heritage site.

Local and foreign tourists will be closed until the cave complex is re-informed.


A sacred pilgrimage site for 22 centuries, this cave monastery, with its five sanctuaries, is the largest, best-preserved cave-temple complex in Sri Lanka. The Buddhist mural paintings (covering an area of 2,100 m2 ) are of particular importance, as are the 157 statues.

Mother Teresa's blue bordered sari is considered to be an intellectual property.

Since 1948, she wore a white sari with 3 blue borders — the outer border being wider than the two inner ones.

The famous blue-bordered sari of  Mother Teresa, who has been canonised as Saint Teresa of Calcutta by the Vatican, has been recognised as an Intellectual Property of the Missionaries of Charity.

“The Trade Marks Registry, Government of India, has granted the registration of the trade mark for that pattern of blue border of sari,” Intellectual Property attorney Biswajit Sarkar said.

The diminutive nun of Albanian descent went around the streets of Kolkata since 1948 to be with the poor and the destitutes wearing a white sari with three blue borders, the outer border being wider than the two inner ones.

“The blue-designed border on the sari worn by nuns of Missionaries of Charity was recognised as Intellectual Property for the organisation on September 4, 2016, the day the Mother was canonised,” Mr. Sarkar told PTI here.

‘It was not publicised’

“The Missionaries of Charity does not believe in publicity and as such it was not publicised, but since we are witnessing unscrupulous and unfair usage of the design across the globe, we are now trying to spread awareness among people about the trademark,” Mr. Sarkar said.

The family with the most difficult life in the world, living with polar bears.

For the Atchley family, normal life is just a distant memory after 18 years living off the grid in remote Alaska

FOR many of us, the dream of living a peaceful, self-sufficient life away from it all will always be just that: a dream.

David, Romey, and their 13-year-old son, Sky, are the only people living on their 250-mile stretch of the Nowitna River.

Fairbanks, the nearest town, is a 200-mile snowmobile ride away, making your walk to the local Asda look pathetic in comparison to the Atchleys' epic - and dangerous - route to buy groceries.

There are no other people to wind them up, no promotions to chase and definitely no Facebook feeds to check out in the Alaskan wilderness.

Have You really the happiness?

'Gonorrhoea 'on the rise of oral sex , new drugs need 'World Health Organization has said

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You can reveal your activities, the pride the social status, and the wealth of the face.

 


Always  enjoy a happy life, It will  lead  to your  success in life. 
A study has shown we can instinctively assess someone’s social status — just from the lines etched into their features.

Psychologists at the University of Toronto have been studying the reality of first impressions.

People were shown photos of faces in an emotionally ‘neutral’ mode — neither smiling for frowning.

At first glance, people proved reliably able to tell if someone was richer or poorer than themselves.

And that has implications on your chances of getting a job, the Journal of personality and social psychology report says. 

“Over time, your face comes to permanently reflect and reveal your experiences,” says Associate Professor Nicholas Rule. “Even when we think we’re not expressing something, relics of those emotions are still there.”

But the study also found such ‘gut instinct’ social assessments were only possible when people held a neutral face.

When smiling, or expressing any emotion, the facial cues become lost.

So what’s going on?

CAPRI ISLAND ITALY: The risk of exploding under the weight of mass, tourism.

       Holiday warning : mayer of the capri  island italy.

Located in Italy's Bay of Naples, Capri has long been favoured for its exclusive holiday appeal.

From designer hotels and shopping to the famed Blue Grotto sea cave which glows electric blue, the island is a major tourist destination. 

But Capri’s mayor has issued a stark warning that its future is severely under threat. 

Canadian PM popular in the world?

   His activities at the G20 summit in Germany this week are even more discussed in the international media as well as on the Internet.
But why is Canada's 23rd prime minister so well-liked?

policies

Concessionary policy on refugees.

n 2016, the country admitted the largest number of refugees in a single year for nearly 40 years.

In 2016, the country admitted the largest number of refugees in a single year for nearly 40 years.

The vast majority of the near-50,000 welcomed were fleeing war-torn Syria.

Just weeks into his premiership, Mr Trudeau greeted the first plane of Syrians as they arrived in Toronto.

He has also spoken frequently about his commitment to tackling climate change and denounced US President Donald Trump for withdrawing from the Paris agreement.