Facebook iPhone application updated to 3.5

Facebook has updated its iPhone app to version 3.5 and that's pretty darn significant. Why? Because on top of the usual pile of bug fixes and performance improvements, this update brings quite a few new features to the mobile application.

The updated application will allow you to tag friends and places in posts, share external links from a web view and use privacy controls which match those on the desktop version of the social network. You'll also find that the mobile versions of the profile and group pages have received a little bit of a design makeover and that the Notification bar no longer mysteriously disappears and reappears for no reason.

There still appears to be no cure for the app's tendency to crash at the most inopportune moments.

Bomb blast outside delhi high court

New Delhi, Sep 7 At least 9 people were killed and around 100 peoples are injured when a powerful bomb hidden in a suitcase exploded outside the Delhi High Court Wednesday morning at its peak hour. This is the third major bombing in India since the 2008 Mumbai attack.

Home Secretary R.K. Singh said the explosion took place around 10.30 a.m. outside Gate No 5 of the high court complex located close to India Gate in the centre of the capital.

The gate is usually crowded on weekdays with a long queue of visitors waiting to get inside.

'There are nine dead. Forty-five are injured. This bomb was in a suitcase. We have remains of the suitcase,' Singh told reporters.

'All the injured have been evacuated,' the home secretary said.

Eyewitnesses said the number of injured was closer to 50 or 60.

According to an eyewitness, Bhagwan Das: 'The explosion severed the limbs of several people.'

The home secretary said investigating teams were already at the blast site. 'We have the National Investigation Agency team right there. We have people from the forensic laboratories there, we have NSG (National Security Guard) team there to collect evidence.'

Special Commissioner of Police (Law and Order) Dharmendra Kumar told reporters that police had cordoned off the area and were requesting people not to converge at the site.

Wednesday's blast comes after the July 13 triple bombings in Mumbai that killed over 25 people. Before that, in February 2010, an explosion inside a popular eatery in Pune claimed 17 lives, four of them foreigners.

The terror attack Wednesday is also the second time in four months that the Delhi High Court has been targeted. On May 25, a low intensity explosion took place without causing any damage. The explosives were hidden in a plastic bag near a car in a service lane outside the court.

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Eyewitnesses reactions of bomb blast

"It was a powerful blast...there is a lot of blood there," said a shocked woman lawyer, who was just driving up to work at the Delhi High Court when the explosion took place near Gate no 5.

Live Tweet of a Lawyer :-" Blast in delhi HC. Right in front of me. *shudders* the whole car shook" ..."The bomb was very powerful it seems. Everyone is outside. Lots of injured. The gates are closed now. Can hear sirens"...

Television channels report of injuries to people. There are more people at the court premises than other days of the week since Wednesdays are when PILs are heard.

9/11 before and after

This combo image shows two documentations of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attack in New York City and the current day location. In Top Smoke rises into the sky following the collapse of World Trade Center Towers Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001 in New York. Below the skyscraper known as One World Trade Center, right, rises in lower Manhattan, Aug. 10, 2011 in New York.

Top the World Trade Center destruction is shown in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks in New York on Sept. 30, 2001.

The tower known as Four World Trade Center is under construction in lower Manhattan, Aug. 9, 2011 in New York.

Firefighters work beneath the destroyed mullions, the vertical struts which once faced the soaring outer walls.

The tower known as Four World Trade Center is under construction.

People run from the area of the World Trade Center as the center's south tower collapses.

The skyscraper known as One World Trade Center, center, is under construction in lower Manhattan, Aug. 4, 2011.
People covered in dust walk over debris near the World Trade Center in New York.

People walk near the World Trade Center in lower Manhattan, Aug. 8, 2011 in New York.

New Yorkers walk over the Brooklyn Bridge on their way to work on April 7, 1980, during the transit strike.

People flee the scene of the attacks on the World Trade center on September 11, 2001.

Broadway near ground zero on the evening of September 11, 2001 after the September 11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City.

People pass a McDonald's restaurant on Broadway in lower Manhattan, Aug. 4, 2011.

Emergency workers at ground zero on Sept. 11, 2001 after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City.

People walk along Church Street past Century 21 clothing store in lower Manhattan, Aug. 4, 2011.

A destroyed subway station near ground zero on the evening of Sept. 12, 2001 after the September 11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City.

People walk along Church Street in lower Manhattan, Aug. 4, 2011.

India Pakistan border can be seen from space

           Snaking for hundreds of miles across the earth's surface, this spectacular picture shows one of the planet's land borders like never before.The dramatic picture shows a bright orange line jutting across the earth, indicating the border between India and Pakistan.
           The stunning image of the earth, taken from the International Space Station last month, also shows busy cities show up as bright clusters hundreds of miles apart.

The International Space Station image captures the floodlit border between India, above the orange line, and Pakistan, below the border in the picture.


The Indian government sanctioned a move to erect floodlights along the terrain separating India and Pakistan in the Gujarat sector in 2003 to prevent smuggling and arms trafficking.In previous years the border has regularly seen attempts at infiltration by terrorists, as well as the smuggling of arms, ammunition and contraband.In total, the Indian government hope to cover 1248 miles (2009 km) of the 1800-mile (2900 km) India-Pakistan border with floodlights.

Officials have so far erected floodlights along 286 miles (460 km) of Indian border with the Pakistan state of Punjab.The extensive floodlighting continues for 635 miles (1022 km) across Rajasthan, 109 miles (176 km) across the Jammu international border, and 125 miles (202 km) through Gujarat.

So far 1156 miles (1861 km) of the border have been floodlit.Plans are in place to erect a total 1269 miles (2043 km) of fencing along the nation's border. The Indian government hope to have completely finished the floodlight operation by March 2012.A similar fenced border zone operates along India's eastern border with Bangladesh, although it cannot be seen as vividly on images like this.

The Gujarat border region was notorious for being infiltrated until officials erected the floodlit border in 2003.The spectacular image showing the floodlit border was taken by Expedition 28 International Space Station Crew on August 21.

 

Also visible on the picture as bright clusters is Lahore, Pakistan, nearest to the orange border line.Islamabad, Pakistan, can also be seen towards the bottom of the picture, as well as New Delhi, India, at the top. 

Artist paints on human body to make them look like canvasses

Normally when a model poses for an artist, they are expected to remain motionless.But this model may struggle to stay still – as they are the actual artwork.Artist Alexa Meade’s technique involves painting directly onto the physical subjects that she is referencing, rather than using a canvas.

Artist Alexa Meade paints model Will Claybaugh, she will then photograph him to create her final artwork.

The effect creates an optical illusion as the 3D effect of her scenes is compressed into a 2D plane.Miss Meade, 24, grew up in Washington D.C. and had previously worked on Capitol Hill as an intern, before working on Barack Obama’s Presidential campaign.

  Alexa Meade's work creates onptical illusion as the 3D effect of her scenes is compressed into a 2D plane

Alexa Meade paints her models face (right) and then takes his photograph (left) to create her pieces

Alexa Meade with her finished model.

9/11 victim's phones in display for 10th anniversary

The burned mobile phones of 9/11 victims are going on display in a exhibition to mark the tenth anniversary.

The devices which were still heard ringing as desperate family members tried to contact loved ones trapped in the rubble of the collapsed World Trade Center are a haunting memento of the 2001 attack. Rescue workers could also hear the phones ringing while they delved for bodies.

  A cross-section of Richard Reid's shoe.

Other items on show include the passport of failed shoe bomber Richard Reid, which is displayed alongside the matches he tried to ignite the fuse with, and the sedatives used to placate him. There is also a cross-section of his shoes, displayed alongside pieces of the engine and landing gear of United Airlines Flight 175.

North Tower's antenna stands in front of a backdrop of front pages.

The deeply personal exhibit also shows the wallet of Ruth McCourt, who was with her four-year-old daughter Juliana on the second plane to hit the towers.  They were visiting Disneyland. A picture of the pair together on the beach is also seen.  The museum's Susan Bennett added: "A lot of family members want to make sure there are public displays because they don't want people to forget what they lost that day."

Visitor looks at the remains of airplane engines. 

Gaddafi's house from indise

The gold-plated cutlery and crystal champagne glasses, the Versace and Armani suits and rows of unworn designer shoes, are all that remain at the luxurious seaside compounds of the children of Muammar Gaddafi.

The fancy beach villas are testimony to the fact that the Gaddafis not only ruled Libya, they owned it, and treated its oil wealth as their personal patrimony.

"They are the ones who enjoyed the wealth of Libya not us. The Libyans got nothing out of it," Kabet said.

At the villa of Saadi Gaddafi, suits, cashmere coats, ties and shoes from almost every famous designer in the world, were tossed on the floor.

"The most important thing is that the people got rid of them. Let the new generation enjoy a better education, a better country and life." "They sucked the blood of this country," Madani said.