Exuberance and style reign on final day of Brazilian Carnival (VIDEO, PHOTOS)

Rio de Janeiro bids farewell to the Carnival of 2012, and the last day of week-long celebrations saw it all - captivating samba beats, superb percussionists, imaginative choreography and gorgeous samba ladies in colorful feathers.

Six samba schools paraded in front of thousands in the Sambadrome, which runs four entire nights. They are part of an official competition, split into seven divisions where a sole winning school is chosen. The criteria include costume, flow, theme, and band music quality and performance. 

Some samba schools also hold street parties in their neighborhoods, through which they parade along with their followers.

Unidos da Tijuca came out on top and was named the winner of Rio's Carnival of 2012.

Revellers from the Unidos da Tijuca samba school (REUTERS / Sergio Moraes)

Revellers from the Mangueira samba school (REUTERS / Nacho Doce)

Revellers from the Grande Rio samba school (REUTERS / Sergio Moraes)

Revellers from the Grande Rio samba school (REUTERS / Ricardo Moraes)

Revellers from the Unidos da Tijuca samba school (REUTERS / Sergio Moraes)

Revellers from the Unidos da Tijuca samba school (REUTERS / Ricardo Moraes)

Source: Russia Today

Libyan rebels cage black Africans in zoo, force feed them flags (SHOCK VIDEO)

A shocking video has appeared on the Internet showing Libyan rebels torturing a group of black Africans. People with their hands bound are shown being locked in a zoo-like cage and allegedly forced to eat the old Libyan flag.

“Eat the flag, you dog. Patience you dog, patience. God is Great,” screams a voice off-camera in the video uploaded to YouTube last week, which also made its way onto LiveLeak.com.

The torturers are also shown making the group of captive black Africans stand up with pieces of green cloth still in their mouths and apparently forcing them start jumping.  

A number of people are shown standing outside the cage watching the atrocity.  

After Muammar Gaddafi was killed, hundreds of migrant workers from neighboring states were imprisoned by fighters allied to the new interim authorities.

They accuse the black Africans of having been mercenaries for the late ruler.  

In the course of the fighting to topple Gaddafi last year, sub-Saharan African migrants and refugees “became targets of stigma, discrimination and violence,” the human rights group Amnesty International said last month. 

“At the beginning of the crisis, there was vastly exaggerated propaganda for which the highest level of the National Transitional Council should take some responsibility because they largely contributed to that unfounded propaganda,” said Donatella Rovera, Amnesty’s senior crisis response advisor.

Some of the black migrants managed to flee into neighboring Mali and Niger, but more than 5,000 were detained. They face mass execution, beatings, and revenge killings, according to an Al Jazeera report published back in September.

Before the Libyan uprising broke out, the country hosted about a million black African workers, many of them employed in domestic work, construction, trash collection and other low-wage jobs.

Human Rights Investigations (HRI) suspect Libyan rebels of ethnic cleansing of the black population of the country, particularly in the city of Tawergha.

Source: Russia Today

Video: Casillas, Iniesta delude the public in the hidden camera!

Deceived goalkeeper Iker Casillas, Real Madrid and Andres Iniesta for Barcelona midfielder through their participation in public programs, a hidden camera in Spain.

Where Casillas and Iniesta claimed that they knew people in the street, and demandedaccess to their signatures and photography with them!

Source: Yahoo written

Erbayu: Obama's birth certificate may be fake

Erbayu said Joe, a police chief in the state of Arizona, said that the birth certificate of President Barack Obama may be a fake.The investigators concluded that cost them Arbayu, Chief of Police Maricopa County in Arizona, to "the possibility that the document was a forgery."And is subject Erbayu, known for his hardline immigration, to investigate about the use of racial profiling.Claims the U.S. Justice Department said his office discriminates against immigrants of Afro-Latin American assets permanently.Faces a federal investigation against Arbayu and anti-corruption unit and its subsidiaries. Subject as his campaign to win a future investigation.Request the "stream of tea"The results of the investigation, declaring Erbayu volunteer who subjected the electronic version of Obama's birth certificate to check that the "investigation revealed a strong suspicion of being original."He said Erbayu "according to the evidence filed, investigations, I can not say for sure that the original document."The White House was published last April 2011 a copy of Obama's birth certificate after speculation that he was not born in the United States, and they are what makes him ineligible for the presidency.Has limited the White House to issue a birth certificate of Obama's claims of some conservative Republicans more clearly on the point of Obama's birth, including businessman Donald Trump.There Taqraar that began Arbayu achieved at the request of the "stream of tea," the Governor.

Source: BBC Arabic

DNA reveals clues about Neanderthal extinction

A recent study says that primitive man was present already on the verge of extinction in Europe by modern humans appear in the scene.The analysis of nucleic acid (DNA er) that most people primitive in Western Europe may extinct since about 50 thousand years ago, before that shows modern humans thousands of years, and then set up a small group of this type of people in different parts of Europe, they lived for ten thousand years before the extinction.The study is published in the Journal of molecular biology and evolution.The international team of researchers studying the plurality and diversity in the type of DNA extracted from mitochondria and the bones of primitive man 13.Is the transmission of this type of genetic data to the strain, followed by the mother, because the cells contain multiple copies of the mitochondrial genome, and this type of DNA easier to extract from ancient remains of the extraction of DNA in the nucleus of cells.Fossil specimens were collected from Europe and Asia, and numerous, including the time period of about 100 thousand years ago to 35 thousand years ago.The scientists found that the fossils were collected from western Europe, which is due to periods of ages older than 48 thousand years, as well as fossils of primitive man collected from Asia, all of which have shown a significant difference genetically.However, samples collected from the excavation of Western Europe under the ages of 48 thousand years have shown much less genetically diverse, with diversity decreased by about six times compared to older age samples, and samples collected for the primitive man of the continent of Asia.I suppose the scientists in their study that some of the events, which may be changes in climate may have caused the elimination of primitive man in the West since about 50 thousand years, but some residents of these human ancestors may have been survivors in shelters warmer in the southern regions, which What allowed them to re-spreading again at a later time.And can be of genetic diversity that makes at least some of the human species less able to keep up with changes in their environment, and increases the risk of extinction.The author of the study the main Loew Dalen Museum Swedish Natural History in Stockholm: "It was surprising to discover that primitive man in Europe was nearing extinction, and then returned to spread again, and that this has all happened before we regard the human being contemporary."And Dalen added: "This shows that primitive man may have been more sensitive to climate changes that have taken place the root in the last ice age than previously thought."The primitive man close to the modern man in terms of evolution, as children of cousins, and lived in some of the times in Europe and the Middle East and Central Asia. The remaining causes of the demise of this species, a subject of debate.And provides us with the emergence of modern humans in Europe around the time of Neanderthal extinction is sufficient evidence to find out the context in which the "wise man" to play a role in life. But perhaps the changes in climate and other factors may have contributed significantly in this matter.Said Andres Gotherstorm of Uppsala University is a participant in the writing of the study: "The magnitude of genetic diversity in humans oldest primitive geology, as well as in Asian primitive man, was great as it is in modern humans."He added: "It was not the diversity of human ancestors in Europe in the later high as in the modern man in Iceland."The researchers noted that the loss of genetic diversity in human ancestors in Western Europe coincided with a climatic period known as the "third stage Oasutob Marin", which was characterized by many short periods of temperatures reach freezing.It is believed that these cold periods may have occurred because of a disturbance in the ocean currents in the North Atlantic, it is possible to have strongly influenced the environment in Western Europe, according to the observations of researchers.Over the past few decades, research has shown that primitive man does not deserve the brutal reputation paste it.The researchers announced recently that the graphics, especially in the form of seals have been found in caves in the town of Nerja in southern Spain, which could go back to 42 thousand years vacant, and that these graphics may be the only art known to man-made primitive, but this interpretation is also still a matter of dispute.

Source: BBC Arabic

Yemen: a suicide attack targeted a camp of the Republican Guard south of Sanaa

Military sources announced that the Yemeni suicide bomber detonated a car bomb, which was led in the camp of the Republican Guard forces in the town of white, south-west of the capital Sanaa.The sources said that the attack, which occurred at a distance of 170 kilometers southwest of the capital resulted in casualties, but it did not specify how many.Witnesses said the explosion destroyed the three-storey building.The attack took place at six o'clock so bright local time (GMT third), and a military official said he could have more than one suicide bomber involved in its implementation.The bombing was followed by an exchange of fire between armed forces and Republican Guard, led by Ahmed Saleh, son of former Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh, who officially stepped down from power last week.The white borders the province of Abyan, which is considered a stronghold of the militants, "al-Qaeda."Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula has adopted the suicide attack which targeted on Wednesday a presidential palace in Hadramout and which killed 26 people.RejectionMoreover, the Yemeni opposition expressed its categorical rejection of the practice of the former president for political action and considered it a major threat to the settlement agreement and the transfer of political power in the country.In this context, the leadership of the opposition Yemeni Mohammed Qahtan in a statement to the BBC that the Yemeni opposition is talking about the head of what he called "the former president" Ali Abdullah Saleh, the Popular Congress Party is rejected because it would be so head to the Chairman of Hadi, who is vice president the party and this is contrary to the principle of national reconciliation that the initiative provided for in the Gulf.Qahtan pointed out that Yemen will face a new challenge after the revolution succeeded, according to the project described in down succession, warning of what he described his plans for a project through its chairmanship of the People's Congress.He also stressed that Qahtan insistence of former President on the exercise of political action has led to the imprisonment or trial, noting that the revolution continues and is able to act in accordance with any developments.
Source: BBC Arabic

The state of Florida paid $ 1.3 million to a man unjustly imprisoned

And approved by lawmakers, Florida on Thursday to pay $ 1.3 million to a man whospent more than half his life behind bars for a crime he did not commit.

In the vote that the resolution by 37 votes to one vote and the state Senate approved a bill giving William Dillon 50 thousand dollars for each year of 27 years in prison for the murder of James Dvorak in 1981, Brevard County in Florida.

And Dillon (52 years) is the latest of the received financial compensation within a growing list of prisoners who were thrown behind bars unjustly.

And Dillon face thanks to his lawyer and others who took his case free of charge.

Said Dillon told reporters after the vote, "This is the greatest there is to it. There are people who really believe in innocence to the point that drives them to help you."

Dillon was released - who now lives in North Carolina - from prison in 2008 after theadoption of (a patent program in Florida) case. Led DNA tests (De. That. AT) conducted on the evidence of proof to his acquittal.


Source: Reuters

NASA says it has been exposed to infiltration email 13 times last year

She said the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) that hackers infiltrated the computer systems of their own 13 times last year and stole information on staff and were able to see the mission-critical projects in the breach could undermine U.S. national security.
Paul Martin told the Inspector General for NASA to a congressional committee on safety measures that the administration at NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration is spending $ 58 million just on e-safety measures of its annual budget for information technology, which amount to $ 1.5 billion.
Said Martin, testifying before the Commission of Science, Space and Technology House of Representatives unveiled Wednesday, "that some of the systems NASA contain sensitive information that may be offered in the event of theft or loss of the loss of significant financial and adversely affect national security or weaken significantly our advantage of technological competitiveness."
He said the administration was discovered in November that hackers operating from China infiltrated the email address network Jet Propulsion Laboratory at NASA.
He said they were able to penetrate the entire system that gave them the opportunity to amend, copy, delete any sensitive files and set up user accounts for the payment of jet systems and download the materials hacking to steal data from users and other detection systems at NASA. The hackers also managed adjustments in the registry data to conceal their actions.
He said, "Our review revealed that hackers uncovered the accounts of the largest users of Jet Propulsion, allowing them to enter most of the networks of Jet Propulsion."
In another attack last year, hackers stole information related to 150 employees on how to access NASA systems.


Source: Reuters

Cyclone kills at least 27 people in the U.S. Midwest and the South

Powerful hurricanes swept through large areas of the U.S. Midwest and the South on Friday, killing at least 27 people in three states, bringing the total death toll to at least 40 due to winter storms deadly week-long.
Officials said the hurricane destroyed houses and damaged the building and destroyed the prison compounds in various areas, killing 13 people in southern Indiana as well as 12 in the state of Kentucky and two in neighboring Ohio.
Overall, the wave of storms that swept the region to damage a number of states of Ohio and Indiana south to Alabama in the south-east.
Said Governor Mitch Daniels of Indiana said in a statement he would visit the stricken corner in the south east of the state on Saturday.
The areas hardest hit by the storms as Hrnfeil Indiana Tlvzioneth showed footage of homes has been ousted. The television pictures showed the air taken from the rescue workers and residents in Indiana who are searching in the rubble of collapsed buildings.
An official in Indiana, killing 13 people by the hurricane on Friday in four counties in the state's southeast. A spokesman for the Department of Public Health in Kentucky killed 13 people across the state as officials announced the state of Ohio, killing two people in one of the districts of the state.
Have been warning of the hurricane through Friday from the Midwest to the southeastern United States and shut down schools, shops, such as storm doors after a series of hurricanes earlier in the week that killed 13 people in Kansas, Missouri, Illinois and Tennessee.
With dark, storms seemed to have calmed down a bit and turned east, but the National Authority for Meteorology warned of the possibility of more storms on Saturday.
And doubled the severe storms last week have raised fears that the 2012-year-old carries with it more in the wake of hurricane killed 550 people last year because of it across the country, the highest number of victims of its kind in a century, according to statistics from the National Authority for Meteorology.


Source: Reuters