Latest World News
- A group of scientists is pushing to publish research about how they created a man-made flu virus that could potentially wipe out civilization.
- Drone armed with miniature missile "months" away…
- World’s smallest computer watches you — from within: First millimeter-scale computer has processor, memory, battery, solar cell, and radio.
- Millimeter-scale, energy-harvesting sensor system developed.
- Muslim terrorists attack churchs and hotels in Sri Lanka. Over 800 killed or injured.
- Muslim terrorists attack multiple targets in Mumbai, India. Over 500 killed or injured.
- Terrorists attack Baghdad’s government center. Over 850 killed or injured.
- Terrorists attack the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar. Over 300 killed or injured.
- Al Qaeda kills or injures over 300 victims in the capital of Pakistan. Many analysts have termed the incident the 9/11 of Pakistan.
- CIA Says Hackers Have Cut Power Grid: Several cities outside the U.S. have sustained attacks on utility systems and extortion demands.
- The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists has moved the hands of its Doomsday Clock to five minutes before midnight — the metaphorical marker of the end of humanity. The chief reason for the move is the dawn of a “second nuclear age”, in which far more countries can acquire nuclear technology.
- Russia accused of unleashing cyberwar to disable Georgia.
- Russia accused of unleashing cyberwar to disable Estonia.
- Russian caught trying to sell enough weapons-grade uranium for a bomb.
- 33,000 British Airways passengers may have been exposed to polonium 210 due to alleged KGB assassination in London. (Airplanes contaminated by transportion of polonium 210 from Moscow to London.)
- KGB allegedly assassinates man in London using the deadliest poison known to man — polonium 210, a radioactive element used as a trigger in nuclear weapons. It is so powerful that a lethal dose can be passed on through the body in sweat or saliva.
- TEEN GOES NUCLEAR: He creates fusion in his Oakland Township home.
- Complete genome of Ebola virus causing outbreak in Uganda released.
- BT (British Telecommunications) warns that terrorism may soon rise beyond the capability of government systems.
- Terrorist group Al Qaeda attacks Iraq with multiple car bombs and mortar attacks. About 400 killed or injured.
- Terrorist group Al Qaeda attacks Egypt in worst attack in a quarter of a century. About 300 killed or injured.
- Terrorist group Al Qaeda hits Mumbai’s commuter rail network with eight bombs during rush hour. About 1,100 killed or injured.
- Terrorist group Al Qaeda attacks London in worst attack since World War II. About 750 killed or injured.
- Terrorist group Al Qaeda attacks Spain causing Spain to withdraw from the war on terror in Iraq. About 1,700 killed or injured.
- Terrorist group Al Qaeda attacks Iraq with a dozen bombs, leaving about 700 killed or injured.
- Terrorists attack India with 11 bombs, leaving about 400 killed or injured.
- Warren Buffett, the world’s most successful investor, warns the war on terrorism will not be won.
- Colonies in space may be only hope says Hawking.
- Air Force pursuing antimatter weapons.
- Artificial gem-quality diamonds become a reality.
- Scientists develop a material harder than diamond.
- Nanotechnology is the largest federally funded science initiative since the U.S. decided to put a man on the moon.
- Nanotech could generate annual sales of $1 trillion by 2015.
- MIT, Army open nanotech center.
- Iran hardliner says nanotechnology is a key to regional power.
- Nanotech researchers have built tiny self-assembling machines that even grow their own muscles from cells taken from living animals.
- Top nanotech researcher warns that in worst case scenario ALL life on the planet could be destroyed in less than 3 hours by nanobots. (Assuming an uncoordinated attack at only one location. An attack at multiple locations at once would be much more deadly.) He recommends an IMMEDIATE international moratorium on all artificial life experiments implemented as nonbiological hardware.
- Michael Crichton, author of The Andromeda Strain and Jurassic Park, and creator of the television series ER, writes the book Prey showing what could happen with artificial life experiments implemented as nonbiological hardware.
- DNA robot takes its first steps.
- Researchers fill virus with metal.
- Self-replicating robot created.
- Scientists hope to create new form of life. Project could lay the groundwork for creating new biological weapons.
- Scientists say biological weapons pose major threat.
- U.S. agriculture vulnerable to biological attack. Attack could kill 48.5 million animals in two weeks.
- Scientists build virus from scratch.
- US researchers create lethal vaccine-evading virus.
- Smugglers enticed by dirty bomb components.
- Fuel for nuclear weapons is more widely available.
- Spam-blocking lists under siege.
- Spam block lists bombed to oblivion.
- Hackers strike advanced computing networks.
- Attack of the Zombie Computers is growing threat.
- Powerful attack cripples majority of key Internet computers.
- Worldwide terrorism-related deaths on the rise.
- Terrorists attack Bangladesh with 434 small bombs at once — hitting all but one of the country’s cities and towns!
- Terrorists attack school in Russia, killing or injuring over 1,000 people — many of them young children.
- Suicide bombers attack two synagogues in Istanbul, Turkey and then attack a consulate and shopping area as well, leaving about 800 dead or injured.
- Simultaneous suicide bombings kill or injure over 300 Kurds in northern Iraq.
- Simultaneous bombings and shootings kill or injure over 650 Shiites in Baghdad, Iraq, Karbala, Iraq, and Quetta, Pakistan.
- Madman uses new “bump stock” technology to kill or injure nearly 600 people in Las Vegas. 3D printers may be used to create this technology once it is banned or restricted.
- Suicide bombers blow up passenger train in Russia, killing or injuring about 200 people.
- Three simultaneous suicide bomber attacks leave about 200 dead or injured in Saudi Arabia.
- Car bombers strike the international Red Cross headquarters and three police stations across Baghdad, leaving over 200 dead or injured.
- Terrorists bomb mosque in Najaf, Iraq, leaving about 250 dead or injured.
- Over 100 hostages are killed in capital of Russia.
- Sniper terrorized Washington D.C. area.
- French supertanker set ablaze by terrorists.
- Terrorists blow up subway car in Moscow, Russia, killing or injuring about 150 people.
- Terrorists shoot surface-to-air missiles at civilian plane.
- Suicide bomber attacks Finland shopping center. About 100 dead or injured. (This bomber had no “cause” which means that the war on terrorism would have to expand from monitoring thousands of terrorist groups to monitoring all 6.8 billion people on the planet to prevent such attacks!)
- Terrorists attack Mumbai, India, leaving about 200 dead or injured.
- Suicide bomber attacks hotel in Indonesia leaving about 150 dead or injured.
- Suicide bombing of U.N. headquarters in Baghdad leaves about 125 dead or injured.
- Suicide bombing of Jerusalem bus leaves about 125 dead or injured.
- Terrorists bomb four Bangladesh cinemas at once. About 300 dead or injured.
- About 350 dead or injured in South Korea subway attack. (The assailant had no “cause” which means that the war on terrorism would have to expand from monitoring thousands of terrorist groups to monitoring all 6.8 billion people on the planet to prevent such attacks!)
- Terrorists bomb Philippines airport. About 200 dead or injured.
- Terrorists bomb social club in Bogota, Columbia. About 250 dead or injured.
- Terrorists bomb Tel Aviv. About 125 dead or injured.
- Terrorists bomb Kenyan hotel. About 100 dead or injured.
- Terrorists bomb Philippines shopping center. About 150 dead or injured.
- Terrorists bomb resort island of Bali. About 500 dead or injured.
- Next attack could top 9/11.
- U.S. officials expect catastrophic new attacks. White House official says “They are going to kill the White House. I have really begun to ask myself whether I want to continue to get up every day and come to work on this block.”
