Friday, October 28, 2011

Mid Day International News

Mid Day International News

Prince Charles is a descendant of 'Count Dracula'!

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Prince Charles has joined a campaign to save Transylvania's forests because of his family connections to 'Count Dracula'.

Vlad the Impaler, the 15th century nobleman better known by his patronym, Dracula, was a distant ancestor of Charles' great grandmother Queen Mary, wife of George V.

Rapid economic growth in Romania has put the forests of the Carpathian Mountains under threat from development and logging purposes.

The Prince of Wales has said that the forests are some of the last untouched wilderness areas in Europe, and they are to be protected before they are lost, like the woodland that once covered Britain.

"The genealogy shows I am descended from Vlad the Impaler, so I do have a bit of a stake in the country," the Daily Mail quoted the 62-year-old prince as saying.

Charles has recently bought a five-bedroom house in the village of Zalanpatak, which is said to have been founded by one of his Transylvanian ancestors.

Drunk topless woman leads police on 128 mph high speed chase

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A topless and drunken woman led the police into a car chase at speeds of up to 128 mph on a highway before they were finally able to capture her.

Police had to use stingers to disable her tyres to force her to stop.

The woman, Erin B. Holdsworth, 28, of Hiram, Ohio was found to be only donning a g-string, fishnet stockings and high heels as she was arrested.

She was charged with numerous charges related to drunk driving at Chardon Municipal Court, the Daily Mail reported Fox news as saying.

The charges against her are pending and she has to reappear in court on November 2.


Volcanic eruption in Greenland created life on earth 3.8 billion years ago

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Mud volcanoes in Greenland, which erupted 3.8 billion years ago, were the source of life on Earth, according to a new study.

Despite being one of the least densely populated countries in the world, scientists have claimed that Greenland was the birthplace of life.

A team of researchers, from the Laboratory of Geology in Lyon, France studied mud volcanoes in Isua, a region in southwest Greenland.

Analysis of green 'serpentinite' rocks, which are the key to life, from Isua showed that mud volcanoes underwater would have offered an environment that was warm, non-acidic and full of carbonates - the perfect mix to allow the birth of life

They deem that these volcanoes, which erupted 3.8 billion years ago, forced certain elements up to the surface that were essential in the formation of biomolecules -- the building blocks of life.

"The mud volcanoes at Isua thus represent a particularly favourable setting for the emergence of primitive terrestrial life," the Daily Mail quoted lead researcher Marie-Laure Pons as saying.

Previously it was presumed that the first living creatures evolved from geysers - underwater volcanoes, which ejected hydrogen, methane and other gases, which formed an environment favourable to life.

Pilot claims he saw UFO

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Six passenger planes have reported seeing a UFO near a town named after Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space, in Western Russia.
The pilot of a London to Moscow flight reported spotting a "burning object" followed by a smoke trail travelling at high speed over the town.

An hour later six mysterious red dots were seen in the sky, hundreds of miles away in Siberia.

The Russian Defence Ministry denied any stray missiles or other military objects were in the vicinity of Gagarin at around 7.30pm local time last Thursday.

The Siberian sighting came at 11.30pm the same night.

"Leaving a supermarket with my daughter, I saw six moving red dots in the sky," the Sun quoted eyewitness Andrey Filipov, as saying.

"First, it crossed the sky from west to east, then one flew separately, and the rest at some point stayed almost on the same spot," he added.
Posted by Harshad at 7:28 AM

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