Syria students killed in Aleppo campus attack

Syrian security forces and students armed with knives have attacked a protest march at Aleppo University, killing at least four people who were protesting against President Bashar al-Assad’s rule, activists have said.

Several others were wounded during the pre-dawn raid early on Thursday, with activists saying that as many as 200 demonstrators were arrested.

Thaer al-Ahmed, a local activist, said that security forces and armed government supporters fired tear gas and live ammunition to disperse the students at Aleppo University after entering the students’ residences late on Wednesday night.

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Real-life Benjamin Buttons: The curious case of the brothers who went back to childhood

The brothers now spend their days watching episodes of The Smurfs, eating crisps and playing snakes and ladders because Cluedo is too difficult

A devastating age-reversing disease has regressed a pair of middle-aged brothers back to their childhood.

Former RAF serviceman Michael Clark, 42, became homeless and now acts like a 10-year-old.

While Matthew, 39, lost his job as a factory worker and started behaving like a toddler – despite having a 19-year-old daughter, Lydia, who is expecting a baby.

Their tragic situation mirrors the Brad Pitt film The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, in which an old man keeps growing younger.

The brothers now spend their days watching episodes of The Smurfs, eating crisps and playing snakes and ladders because Cluedo is too difficult.

Dad Anthony, 63, who looks after the boys with mum Christine, 61, said: “They’ve gone from being fully-functioning adults, with jobs, careers and getting married to going back into a childlike state.

mirror.co.uk

BrandYourself’s Google Tool Tells You Who’s Searching For You

Ever wonder who might be Googling you?

A new feature offered by BrandYourself, a site that helps its users manage their online reputations by controlling the links that show up as top search results on Google, can help you find out where, when and how others are searching for you.

According to Mashable, the new tool, launched on May 1, works with the help of a database of companies’ public IP addresses compiled by the site. BrandYourself uses the database to match the IP address of a profile’s visitor with the company that owns the address. In this way, BrandYourself users are able to figure out where (based on where the IP address-owner is located), when and how others have searched for them on search engines like Google or through other sites, as shown in the photo below, provided by BrandYourself.

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BP Oil Spill Criminal Investigation May Ensnare Executives In Cover-Up

n April 25, 2010, three days after the Deepwater Horizon rig sank in the Gulf of Mexico, Doug Suttles, a senior BP executive, told reporters the company’s deep-sea well was leaking about 1,000 barrels of oil a day, a fraction of its maximum output.

«This is a long way away from something more significant,» Suttles said.

Yet as Suttles and other BP executives assured the nation that the leak was small, the oil company’s engineers had developed internal models showing a probable flow that was magnitudes greater, setting the stage for an unparalleled disaster, according to a newly unsealed federal affidavit and internal BP documents.

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