SOME GREAT NEWS FROM THE WORLD FOR THURSDAY
1. HOUSE NARROWLY REJECTS EFFORT TO HALT 'NSA' PROGRAMME:-
The house very scrutinizingly shunned a challenge to the National Security Agency's classified collection of hundreds of millions of Americans' phone records Wednesday night after a boisterous controversy set against privacy rights against the government's efforts to stymie terrorism. The vote as 217 / 205.
2. TRAIN DERAILMENT KILLS DOZENS IN NORTH WESTERN SPAIN:-
More than 77 people died and many more were injured after a passenger train derailed Wednesday night on a winding stretch of track just outside the station in the northern Spanish city of Santiago-de-Compostela. It is considered as the worst rail accidents of the country in decades.
3. POPE CONSOLES THE LOWLY:-
The Pope's meeting with the drug addicts in Brazil sent a message across the world that Churches must show more spot light on the destitute and misfortuned.
4.'NSA' LEAKER'S HOPES OF LEAVING RUSSIA DASHED:-
NSA leaker, the ephemeral of US Spy Agency, Edward Snowden's endurance of leaving Moscow's Sheremetyevo Airport for the first time in a month on Wednesday was lashed when his lawyer Anatoly Kucherena who is assisting him in Russia failed to produce the needed 'PASS'.
5.PROPOSAL TO ELIMINATE DOOR-TO-DOOR MAIL DELIVERY:-
In an effort to cut down the cost of Door-To-Door delivery which is estimated as $4.5 billion dollar a year, the service will be stopped by 2011. The residents will pickup their mail from an array of mail boxes based in their neighborhood.
The third inline to the throne, who was born on Monday at 16 : 24 BST, to THe Duke and Duchess of Cambridge will be named as George Alexander Louis, according to the Kensington Palace.
7. ANTHONY WEINER PRESSES ON WITH 'NYC' CAMPAIGN AMID SCANDAL:-
Anthony Weiner urged antecedently with his proposition as Mayor on Wednesday, inspite of grwoing calls for him to dropout over a new scandal, saying the campaign is more imperative than personal things, becoming public.
8.FACEBOOK'S AD SALES SURPRISE INVESTORS, SENDING SHARES UP:-
On Wednesday, Facebook easily beat II nd quarter profit and sale expectations, sending its shares up by 17% in late trading. It swung to a profit and its sales rose 53% to 1.81 billion from a year ago.
9. CAROLINE KENNEDY AS AMBASSADOR TO JAPAN:-
Caroline Kennedy was conventionally per-cussed as the next ambassador to Japan by President Barak Obama on Wednesday. This could be a great idea or it could also infamously blow up in our faces.
