2010 OSCAR WINNERS

"Hurt Locker" triumphed in 2010 Oscar ceremony, while "Avatar" performance was finally a great disappointment although its success in cinema's around the world. Kathryn Bigelow's movie won 6 Oscars among them the Best Director Oscar against his ex-husband James Cameron.


Predictions wanted "Hurt Locker" to dominate over "Avatar" in the basic Oscar categories have been confirmed but the amazing is that Bigelow's military drama managed to beat"Avatar" in technical Oscar categories as well transforming its victory in a triumph.
In summary "Hurt Locker" won Oscars in the following categories, Best Movie, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, Best Sound Edit, Best Sound Mixing, Best Picture, Best Film Editing, while "Avater" won only 3 technical Oscars, Best Cinematography, Best Art Director and Best Visual Effects.


By CHRIS KASTA
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Michael Jackson spirit still ALIVE?

Everyone loves a ghost story and it seems that in two separate occasions the spirit of late Michael Jackson was visible to his fans.





First one comes from a CNN's TV footage of the King Of Pop's now deserted ranch NEVERLAND, which appeared on the respected Larry King show in the US, has been seized on by believers of the supernatural.

They are trying to persuade YouTube visitors that a shadow filmed in one of the unending hallways is actually Jacko's ghostly presence.
Neither Miko Brando - the son of screen legend Marlon - nor his cameraman noticed the spectre during their trip to the California ranch.
But after it was posted on YouTube, rumours have spread like wildfire across the internet.
Viewer comments and chat forums have debated in earnest the possibility that the shadow belongs to Jackson himself.
Another wrote: ‘That is so weird. I have played it over five times now and I have to admit that it does resemble MJ. I can’t believe I am saying that actually. It’s his image.’
But others were not so convinced.
‘It is the shadow of a TV crew person in the room, idiot people. Get a grip… that’s not genuine ghost footage!’ wrote tubs1000.



On the other occasion, Gary Sloggett, 43, had taken some photographs of his Rover 200 with the intention of submitting them to a car sales magazine the day Michael's gone. But when he uploaded the snaps onto his computer he was shocked to see Michael Jackson who had died just 13 hours earlier - staring back at him.
'It's quite extraordinary,' said Gary, of Stafford. 'The obvious explanation is that it seems to be some sort of cloud formation that just happened at the time.'
'But I've shown the picture to quite a few people and without prompting they all say: 'That's Jacko.'
'To be honest I'm a bit of a sceptic and I'm not the world's greatest Michael Jackson fan, but as soon as I saw the picture on my computer it set me thinking.
'I'm not saying I've been touched by any sort of presence, but it is pretty unusual. I was a bit bemused to say the least. '
Gary, who is married to Moira, 41, and has two children, Amy, 13, and Thomas, 11, went on: 'I didn't upload the pictures for a few days but I took them at around 10am on the day after Michael Jackson died.
'When I saw the picture I immediately turned to my wife and said: 'What is Michael Jackson doing on my car bonnet?'
'If you look at the picture for long enough it even looks as if he has got wings.'
Mr Sloggett eventually sold his Rover 200 for £650.







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Ahmadinejad: 9/11 Attacks A 'Big Lie'

Iran's hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called the official version of the Sept. 11 attacks a "big lie" used by the U.S. as an excuse for the war on terror, as Iran's state media reported.


Ahmadinejad's comments, made during an address to Intelligence Ministry staff, come amid escalating tensions between the West and Iran over its disputed nuclear program. They show that Iran has no intention of toning itself down even with tighter sanctions looming because of its refusal to halt uranium enrichment.

"September 11 was a big lie and a pretext for the war on terror and a prelude to invading Afghanistan," Ahmadinejad was quoted as saying by state TV. He called the attacks a "complicated intelligence scenario and act."

The Iranian president has questioned the official U.S. version of the Sept. 11 attacks before, but this is the first time he ventured to label it a "big lie."

In 2007, New York officials rejected Ahmadinejad's request to visit the World Trade Center site while he was in the city for a U.N. meeting. The president also sparked an uproar when he said during a lecture in New York that the causes and conditions that led to the attacks, as well as who orchestrated them, still need to be examined.

At the time, he also told Iranian state TV the attacks were "a result of mismanaging and inhumane managing of the world by the U.S," and that Washington was using Sept. 11 as an excuse to attack others.

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Giant Antarctic iceberg on the move

An iceberg the size of Luxembourg that contains enough fresh water to supply a third of the world's population for a year has broken off in the Antarctic continent and heads northern in the Australian south coast may have severe implications for global ocean circulation, according to scientists.

The iceberg, measuring about 50 miles by 25, broke away from the Mertz glacier around 2,000 miles south of Australia after being rammed by another giant iceberg known as B-9B three weeks ago, satellite images reveal. The two icebergs, which both weigh more than 700m tons, are now drifting close together about 100 miles north of Antarctica.
Rob Massom, a senior scientist at the Australian Antarctic Division and the Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems Cooperative Research Centre in Hobart, Tasmania, said the location of the icebergs could affect global ocean circulation and had important implications for marine biology in the region.

The concern is that the massive displacement of ice would transform the composition of sea water in the area and impair the normal circulation of cold, dense water that normally supplies deep ocean currents with oxygen.

"Removal of this tongue of floating ice would reduce the size of that area of open water, which would slow down the rate of salinity input into the ocean and it could slow down this rate of Antarctic bottom water formation," Massom told Reuters.

Mario Hoppema, chemical oceanographer at the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in Germany, said that as a result "there may be regions of the world's oceans that lose oxygen, and then of course most of the life there will die".

B-9B is a remnant of a 2,000-square-mile iceberg that calved in 1987, making it one of the largest icebergs recorded in Antarctica. It drifted westwards for 60 miles before becoming grounded in 1992. It has recently re-floated itself and rotated into the Mertz tongue.

The Mertz glacier iceberg is among the largest recorded for several years. In 2002, an iceberg about 120 miles long broke off from Antarctica's Ross ice shelf. In 2007, a iceberg roughly the size of Singapore broke off from the Pine Island glacier in west Antarctica.

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Earthquake strikes Chile

A massive magnitude 8.8 earthquake struck Chile early Saturday, killing at least 78 people, producing powerful aftershocks and triggering a tsunami.


The epicenter of the earthquake was located off the coast in Maule, near the city of Concepcion, 212 miles (341 kilometers) from the capital of Santiago. The quake struck at 3:34 a.m. (1:34 a.m. ET).

Government officials expect the death toll to rise.

Concepcion is Chile's second-largest city, with a population of 200,000. There are reports of collapsed buildings in Santiago. The quake was felt in several Chilean towns and in parts of Argentina as well. Some buildings in Buenos Aires were evacuated.

This is the second major earthquake that takes places within short time in the American continent, increasing fears of a potential earthquake in the US territory i.e. the Saint Andrew fault system in Northern California responsible for 1906 and 1989 catastrophic earthquakes

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Phelps Olympic Retirement Declaration

During his visit at 2010 Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver, the most decorated athlete in Olympic history. American Michael Phelps told reporters that the 2012 London Olympics will be his last Olympic Games and that he won't attempt to repeat his eight-gold-medal performance.
"I told myself I will not swim over the age of 30, and I will not swim over the age of 30," he said.

Phelps will be 27 at the London Olympics. He has won 14 gold medals in his career, five more than any other athlete. Though he didn't specifically say how many events he'd do in London, five or six would be the most likely (three relays plus two or three individual events).

Usually you can take athlete promises with a grain of salt but Phelps strikes as the kind of athlete who will remain retired. Swimming is a sport for the young and a 31-year-old competing in the Olympics against 19-year-olds doesn't sound like an enviable task, even for the greatest in the history of the sport. Yet, Phelps didn't say he was retiring immediately after London. Could he stick around long enough to lure him back into the pool in 2016?

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VANCOUVER WINTER OLYMPIC GAMES FASHION BLASTS

Apart from icy medals, the 2010 Winter Olympics have brought glamour and plenty of fashion disasters. Have a look at the worst outfits appeared in Vancouver.

WARNING: "Don't wear that, you'll look like clowns."
"Return of Skeleton"
Do not adjust your monitor! Moustache is REALLY painted on!
POPAY THE ICED SAILOR MAN! Just without spinach extra power
MELT DOWN CHIC
Just another vision of BURBERRY
JAPANESE MALE G-STRING
Shirts by Tiger Woods, trousers by Ian Poulter

by EUROSPORT

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