No rain for few months causes drought in South Sulawesi, Indonesia, dry land and crack earth can be seen anywhere. Villagers are forced to walk few miles to fetch drinking water. Nobody can help the villagers, it becomes the duty of men and women, adults and children, to carry containers on their heads or shoulders, walk through dry land to get water, at least for drinking.
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The CNN cable television news network announced on August 30, 2007 that they would stop using the Reuters news service including Reuters text, photography and television material. CNN has been using the Reuters news service since 1980, it will end the 27-year relationship with Reuters.
CNN, owned by the world’s largest media company, Time Warner Inc. said in an internal memo that it wanted to cut cost on agency material and invest in its own news gathering operations.
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A Malaysian “Raja Gigi” (means “King Tooth”) Rathakrishnan Velu pulled a seven-coach train, weighing about 300 tonnes at a railway station in Kuala Lumpur on August 30, 2007. He sat down and using a steel rope clenched in his mouth, a feat that organizers said was a new world record for the heaviest weight pulled with teeth.
His supporters and onlookers clapped and shouted “Malaysia Boleh!” (means “Malaysia Can!”) to boost up the spirit of Rathakrishnan when he performed the stunt.
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Zheng Mengzhu 郑萌珠，the first test-tube baby of China was born on March 1988 in the No. 3 Hospital affiliated to the Beijing University of Medical Sciences. The 19-year-old girl is to enter Xijing Vocational Institute in Xi’an, capital of the northwestern Shaanxi Province in the fall semester starting next week.
It was said her parents had been trying for nearly 20 years to have a child and Zheng’s mother became pregnant at the age of 39 by test-tube technology.
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There was a total lunar eclipse on August 28, 2007, it was visible in most parts of China. This is the second total lunar eclipse of this year. The partial eclipse begins at 4:51pm Beijing time, the full eclipse was occurred at 5:50pm, it last about 3 1/2 hours.
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Paris Hilton and her younger sister Nicky Hilton were spotted partying in the PURE nightclub in Las Vegas recently. Both of them indulged in the VIP booth and attracted attention at the nightclub. The nightclub was so hot that night just because of these two VIP guests.
Paris Hilton was dancing throughout the night, she really enjoyed herself and didn’t miss any opportunity to dance. Something good to praise is – Paris Hilton didn’t touch alcohol that night. Surprise? Maybe her time in jail had scared her.
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The Queen of Mean, late luxury New York Hotelier Leona Helmsley died of heart failure on August 20, 2007. She left her money to her relatives but none of them get more than her dog Trouble, it received $12 million trust fund from Leona Helmsley.
She left few millions for her brother, Alvin Rosenthal, who will be taking care of her white Maltese in her absence. Alvin also was named to care two of four grandchildren from her late son Jay Panzirer, provided they visit their father’s grave site once each calendar year, or else, they will get nothing she left.
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