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Bailout terms shock Cypriots

Sinkhole opens up in Washington and jaded humor emerges

Source: Reuters

By Deborah Zabarenko
WASHINGTON | Tue Mar 12, 2013 7:31pm EDT

Washington is used to being the brunt of jokes, particularly those centered around the action, or lack of it, on Capitol Hill. But on Tuesday, the focus moved to the Adams Morgan neighborhood, where some saw a symbol of Washington - a gaping sinkhole in the middle of a bustling sidewalk.

Unlike the fatal sinkhole that swallowed a man as he slept in his Seffner, Florida, home on February 28, or the one a golfer fell into on an Illinois fairway earlier this month, the Washington sinkhole is more on the order of a large pothole. Surrounded by yellow tape, it is about a yard (meter) square, as deep as 10 feet and sits a few miles from the White House, another frequent source of late-night television humor.

But the sinkhole quickly took on larger proportions as chatter erupted on social media. "A sinkhole has opened in Washington D.C. Last to push their congressman in is a rotten egg," tweeted Bill O'Keefe. "25 ft deep sinkhole in DC today and it's expanding. Seems like I got out at the right time. It was nice knowing you, Washington," tweeted T.C. Sottek.

Metropolitan Police were dispatched to the sinkhole site, and local residents said the problem might be due to a new sewer that had just been installed. "If that is the case, it would be typical of this kind of sinkhole collapse," said Jim Kaufmann, a research physical scientist at the U.S. Geological Survey.


Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/03/12/us-usa-sinkhole-washington-idUSBRE92B17F20130312

Police flood Brooklyn neighborhood in third night of brutality protest (PHOTOS)

Source: RT

Published time: March 14, 2013 02:26
Edited time: March 14, 2013 06:11



Dozens of arrests have been reported, with riot police descending on Brooklyn's East Flatbush neighborhood as New Yorkers came out for a third night of protest over the police killing of 16-year-old Kimani Gray.

The demonstration began at Brooklyn's 67th Precinct in East Flatbush, the part of New York's Brooklyn section where Gray was shot to death by police on Saturday. Witness and police accounts differ on whether Gray was brandishing a weapon before he was killed.

According to autopsy results, Gray was shot seven times – four times in the front of his body, and three times in the back.

Brooklynites were heard shouting "murderers!" at the massive police presence Wednesday as officers prohibited people from even stepping onto the street in one of New York's poorer neighborhoods while police helicopters circled overhead.








Read more: http://rt.com/usa/police-flood-brooklyn-neighborhood-238/

Intrade shut down due to financial probe

Source: CNNMoney

By Chris Isidore @CNNMoneyInvest March 11, 2013: 7:07 AM ET

NEW YORK - A notice on the site's home page gave few details of the probe, but said that it had halted trading on the site "due to circumstances recently discovered" that require further investigation and "may include financial irregularities."

The site says it has closed and settled all open contracts at fair market value as of the close of business Sunday. But it said it is not possible to make any payments to members until the investigation is concluded.

The site, which allowed customers to place bets on matters such as U.S. presidential election outcomes, the weather or other upcoming events, is based in Ireland. The odds are set based on the bets made on both sides of the various predictions.

While the betters are right about some of the events they bet on, including President Obama's re-election last year, they are also wrong on some high-profile predictions, including setting odds at 80% that the U.S. Supreme Court would rule the health care reform act was unconstitutional.


Read more: http://www.money.cnn.com/2013/03/11/investing/intrade-shutdown/

Fukushima forests found to be radioactive

Women @NASA -- Women who shoots rockets....

Berlusconi Sentenced to Jail Time

Italy's MPS bank's David Rossi found dead in Siena

Source: BBC

BBC | 7 March 2013 | Last updated at 05:17 ET


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oldest surviving bank

The communications director of troubled Italian bank Monte dei Paschi di Siena (MPS) has died in an apparent suicide. David Rossi's body was found beneath an open window at the bank's 14th Century headquarters in Siena.

Mr Rossi was among several MPS employees whose homes and offices were searched by police last month - though no charges were brought against him. MPS, which is the world's oldest surviving bank, is at the centre of fraud and corruption allegations.

Investigations are under way into how hundreds of millions of euros went missing amid risky investments in complex financial deals. The bank has needed a multi-billion-euro bailout from the Italian state to help cover its losses.

"The death of David Rossi is a terrible tragedy," Monte dei Paschi said on its Facebook page.



Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-21697412

Drip-feeding Chinese culture in Sudan