Mars Curiosity Mission on Mars

At this time the Mars Curiosity is landing on the red planet.

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The landing was a sucess. As the info was reaching the NASA JPL Lab in Passadena all the room was celebrating. Alltough the first picture was not good as expected the mistery was promptly sloved, dust. When the dust settle we saw it, the whell of the rover. After that another of the shadow of the rover. Again celebration, after eight months of wait since its launch on November 26 last year, and 8 years of hard work the mission was a sucess.

We are on Mars again.

Syrian Army Pound Rebel Positions in Aleppo

After some promising wins in Aleppo the rebels of the Free Syrian Army are being pounded by the Syrian Army. The country biggest city has become a key battleground in the nearly year and a half uprising against Bashar Al-Assad. According to the Syrian Human Rights Watch the number of deaths is now at 21 thousand persons, since March 2011. Sunday 40 more Syrians were killed across the country, 25 were civilians.

Other subject receiving international attention is the 48 Iranian nationals kidnapped Saturday in Damascus. Iran says the victims were religious pilgrims, but the Free Syrian Army said they are elite Iranian Revolutionary Guards. Iran has already asked for Turkey and Qatar help. The Iranians support the current regime while Turkey and Qatar support a new, less authoritarian one.

Wisconsin shoting: 7 dead confirmed

So far there are 7 dead confirmed in the shooting at a Sikh temple in the Milwaukee suburb of Oak Creek, Wisconsin, authorities said. A witness who talked to a priest said that a cerimony was taking place when an unknown number of gunman entered the temple and started shooting hitting around 25 people, same witness said. After the police arrive one gunman was shot and killed. The police is  not sure if there is other shooter on the loose. At the temple website you can read that the temple has between 250 and 400 worshipers.

New evidence of ancient culture

The earliest Unambigous evidence for modern human behaviar has been discovered by an international team of researchers in a South African cave. The region where this artefacts where found is in the region of the African San people, in the border of South Africa and Swaziland. Among the findings where the first indication of poison in arrow heads. The findings per se are not new, found in the 70's by Dr Peter Beaumont, only receive the deserved relevance due to advances in the technologies that made possible to confirm this "discovery", proving that we don't know all there is to know about our selfs and our ancestry.