After 3 years and 2 months, another sinkhole opened up in Guatemala, capital of the Republic of Guatemala and the largest city in Central America and the Caribbean. The Guatemala Sinkhole that killed a private security guard and swallowed a three-story building covers a street intersection in downtown Guatemala City, Monday May 31, 2010.
“In Fisherman” magazine ranked Goliath Tiger fish, a seriously toothy creature, as one of the top 10 hardest-fighting freshwater fish in the world. It is a predator fish with 32 razor-sharp teeth that can tear through even a solid steel wire. It can be found in Africa’s Congo River system among the main lake and many tributaries where some companies offer wild safari fishing for the monster fish.
42-year-old Celine Dion is 14 weeks pregnant with twins. Publicist Kim Jakwerth told in an email Sunday that the Canadian singer is 3 months and 2 weeks pregnant and stated that the genders of the babies will not be known until next month.
Memorial Day is a federal holiday in United States celebrated and observed on the last Monday of May. Formerly known as Federation Day, it commemorates the heroism of U.S. soldiers and civilian people alike who died while in the military service in the past wars.
Ali-Ollie Woodson, who led the legendary Motown quintet The Temptations in the 1980s and ’90s and helped restored them to their hit-making glory with songs including “Treat Her Like A Lady,” has died, a friend said. He was 58.
Woodson died Sunday in southern California after battling cancer, Motown Alumni Association President Billy Wilson said. Wilson said Woodson’s wife, Juanita, told him about the death Sunday.
Paris – Rafael Nadal assumed his accustomed place in the later stages of the French Open Monday, his fourth-round defeat a year ago just a fading memory. But his fellow quadruple tournament winner Justine Henin was unable to re-live her own glorious past on the clay of Roland Garros, with Australian seventh seed Samantha Stosur completing an upset of the Belgian 2-6, 6-1, 6-4.
Those hoping to enjoy sweet sea breezes on Cape Cod for their Memorial Day holiday were instead getting a whiff of forest fires from Canada, according to the National Weather Service.
Instead of smoke from barbecue grills, residents in Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont were inundating local fire departments with reports of the smell of smoke, which is apparently emanating from forest fires happening far to the north, in Quebec.
Dennis Hopper divorce battle is just as famous as his estate. Hopper died Saturday, but Dennis was still involved in a bitter divorce right before he died. Hopper filed for divorce in January after 14 years of marriage, but was still married to his fifth wife Victoria Duffy when he died.
With the failure of the BP “top kill” moreover, the effort to combat the BP oil spill is increasingly becoming an attempt to manage expectations. A month ago, when the spill was barely a week old, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar told CNN that the “ultimate relief” – drilling a relief well – was still “90 days out.”
Justine Henin grinds on; Venus Williams wimps out – and Caroline Wozniacki serves notice that she is the sleeper in the women’s singles at this French Open.
While the tennis went pretty much to script, nobody was quite prepared for the stunning conclusion to the delayed main event when Henin had to draw on some of her genius to get past the outrageously determined Maria Sharapova.
