Pat Robertson's controversial remarks on his television show The 700 Club that Haiti is "cursed" because  it made a "pact with the devil" is very heartbreaking. Robertson said:

"And you know, Kristi, something happened a long time ago in Haiti, and people might not want to talk about it. They were under the heel of the French, uh, you know Napoleon the 3rd and whatever, and they got together and swore a pact to the Devil.

A debtor in Russia’s Altay region opened sporadic fire on passers-by, set two houses on fire and committed suicide. The man declared his personal war against the whole world after local authorities ordered to disconnect his home from electric power for unpaid electricity bills.

The crimes were committed by a male resident of the city of Barnaul. The man lost his temper after he had to have a conversation with employees of a local electric network company. Read More>>

Computer hacker Gary McKinnon faces being tried in the US after requests to block his extradition were refused, the Home Office has confirmed. Home Secretary Alan Johnson told Mr McKinnon's family he could not block the move on medical grounds.

Glasgow-born Mr McKinnon, 43, who has Asperger's syndrome, is accused of breaking into US military computers. He says he was seeking UFO evidence. Now of Wood Green, north London, he faces 60 years in prison if convicted.

Mr Johnson said he had carefully considered the representations but had concluded that sending Mr McKinnon to the US would not breach his human rights. Read More>>

The uncontrolled epidemic of pirates activities in Eat Africa has found signs of growing infections of pirates activities in West Africa on the coast of Nigeria, Benin, and Ghana. 

Pirates have attacked an oil tanker off the coast of west Africa, killing a Ukrainian seaman, the commander of Benin's naval forces says.

 Cdr Fernand Maxime Ahoyo says the Cancale Star's chief engineer was killed and one other crewman wounded. Read More>>

The Buddhist concept of oneness of one's self and one's environment is true indeed. Mankind cannot exist without an environment. Fish and water are inseparable so is Man and his environment.

Delegates from eight nations who share the Amazon basin, as well as France which has an overseas department there, will hold the talks in Manaus. They will be discussing Brazil's plan on slowing deforestation with the financial help from rich nations. Read More>> 

Due to the difficulties faced by EU vessels catching pirates in the Seychelles, the US is deploying its unmanned drone to deter the escalating chronic terrorism on merchant ships, fishing boats and civilian yachts by Somali pirates in east Africa.

The unmanned drone is remotely controlled from the Africa Command (Africom) which is based in Stuttgart, Germany. Read More>>