Despite being trapped for more than three weeks, a Chilean miner decided to finally ask the woman he loves to marry him in church.

Esteban Rojas and Jesica Yanez have been spending time together for some 25 years now; they have three children and two grandchildren.

Church wedding is a custom in Chile. That is why Rojas and Yanez, who already had a civil wedding years ago, finally promised to take vows in a church ceremony.

Right after the rescue workers found the miners; Rojas sent a letter to his wife, asking her to marry him.
“Please keep praying that we get out of this alive. And when I do get out, we will buy a dress and get married,” he wrote. Yanez said the note made her shout with joy. “I think he thought about his family at that moment, and that gave him the strength to fight on,” Yanez added.

The rescue workers rigged a line that connects the miners to the world above them. Families were able to speak with their loved ones for the first time after the accident on Sunday. Each relative only have 20 seconds to talk with their love ones, time that the soon to be newlyweds spent planning their wedding.

“I was worried he might not mention it again, but he said we should get married in church. He’d asked me if I’ve already chosen the dress,” said Yanez, after talking to her husband. “Of course I told him we would get married.”

Rojas and Yanez will have to wait before they can fulfill their long time dream. Officials said earlier that it could take for as long as four months before they can put the miners back to the surface.

“We know the rescue will take a long time, but we won’t lose hope,” said Yanez. “He always said he planned to grow old with me, and I plan to grow old with him. Our love is very deep.”

Recessions may have been the reason why US birth rate decline to an estimated 2.6% according to CDC.

A report made by the CDC’s National Center for Health statistics revealed an estimated drop on the number of women giving birth.  The data showed that an estimated 4,136,000 were born 2009 compared to 4,247,000 in 2008.

Previous reports revealed that birth rate on the year 2008 also slumped with 4,251,095 of 2007.

The reduced number of women giving birth may be a result of stern US economic downturn, which happened late 2007.

A significant drop in birth rates illustrated an estimated 13.5 births for every 1000 people last year.

Birth rate has been associated with the country’s socio economic development and status.

Recessions had haul stocks, work and birth.  It had left many people to ponder if they still want to have kids and mouth to feed.

According to Andrew Cherlin, sociology professor from John Hopkins University, economic downfall makes people feel unsecured financially so they tend to delay having children.

The “Great Recession” according to Dr. Michael Cabbad, chief of maternal health at the Brooklyn Hospital Center, restraints people to have more children.

A survey made by Guttmacher Institute demonstrated that women tend to setback pregnancy and limit their number of children due to financial reasons.  Half of these women used contraceptives.  Guttmacher surveys on reproductive health concerns.

Experts suggested that fall on immigration numbers may also be pulling down birth rates in the US.

Reports may have showed a significant decrease in birth rates but an increase number of pregnancies of women over 40, who may want not to postpone pregnancy  regardless of an unstable economy.  These women may feel that they are running out of time to have kids.

According to President Asif Ali Zardari of Pakistan, once the floods decline, billions more will be required to reconstruct buildings and bridges and to get people back to work and it will also take up to two years for the country to get better.

The Secretary General of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon, asked foreign donors to expedite help to the 20 million victims affected in the flood disaster in Pakistan. Furthermore, Mr. Ban said that he will never disregard the devastation and distress he has seen.

Mr. Ban also said that he already seen several natural disasters all around the world but nothing like what had happened in Pakistan. Moreover, the secretary general gone to Myanmar after Cyclone Nargis hit there in May 2008 that killed approximately 138,000 people.

Two months earlier, he took flight to Sichuan Province in China; simply days after an earthquake killed almost 90,000 people. Mr. Ban’s commentary also revealed broad concern about the relating disaster in Pakistan.

In addition, the floods, which started more than two weeks ago in the northwest part, have strike about one-quarter of the country, particularly its agricultural region. Although the death toll of roughly 1,500 is quite small, the level of the flooding and the number whose lives have been disturbed are astounding.

Furthermore, on Saturday, the prime minister stated that 20 million victims had been made dispossessed. However, the United Nations has requested for an initial $460 million to supply assistance, but only 20 percent has been given.

Moreover, the president of Pakistan was criticized because of the response to what had happened in Pakistan, particularly with the president’s state visit to Europe as the disaster was unfolding. On the other hand, the president visited the victims two times since he returned from a state visit.

Through Facebook, Philippine authorities were able to apprehend a serial killer who has killed nine people.

Authorities have traced the suspect, Mark Dizon, 28-year-old computer technician in San Fernando City in northern region from Manila.

Police found out that the suspect was an ex-bf of one of the victim’s daughter, and witnesses easily recognized him.

According to the Chief of Police in Angeles City, Senior Superintendent Danilo Bautista, the muederer had an account in a networking giant Facebook.

The police official said that they have strong evidences and they have an airtight case against the suspect.

He added that the suspect seemingly closed his networking account after he had sensed that the authorities were looking after him, after two witnesses certainly recognized him through his Facebook account’s profile picture.

On Tuesday, in the police manhunt operation, on their encounter with the suspect, he tried at first, to pull out a handgun after the police seized upon him.

The guy was suspected for killing three foreigners, such a Canadian Geoffrey Bennun, 60-years-old, American Albert Mitchell, 70 and British national James Porter, 51, including their three Filipina wives and  their local domestic helpers, in a separate incidents and attacks in Angeles City this month.

Based to the authorities, those foreigners were all retirees and living with their partners in a community that is well-known for foreigners around Angeles.

The mayor of the Angeles City Edgardo Pamintuan showed off the handcuffed suspect on Wednesday in front of the press photographers and reporters and said that they already charged the guy of murder cases that are filed against him.

According to Pamintuan, the murder charges being filed against the suspect had solid evidences to pin down the suspect, and said that they have recovered some valuables stolen by the murderer.

The government official was happy that the case was solved with the help of the witnesses and the used of technology for easy tracking and recognizing the suspect.

The body of one of the two missing U.S Servicemen, who disappeared in the Afghanistan, was retrieved by the authorities.

Foreign forces together with the Afghan authorities have found the body of the U.S. Sailor in the eastern region of Logar, after their long and wide-ranging search for the sailors.

The two sailors disappeared on Friday, on the initial investigation, the two drove out from their military base without clear reason and having no escort upon their flee from their base.\

Taliban group already claimed that they already killed one of the guys in their encounter and abducted the other one.

However, Nato gave only a few details and information about their retrieval operation with regard to the discovery of the sailor’s body.

The Taliban group who is responsible about the killing of the U.S. sailor said that their other captive was in a safe place where the authorities cannot be found.

The spokesperson of a provincial governor told the BBC agency news that the tribal and religious leaders persuaded the people behind the abduction of the serviceman, to keep him in the area of Logar rather than to hand him over to the Taliban group.

According to the authority, the two men’s mission was still unclear for them, and they do not have any information about their mission and why the two had droved out in their military base without any backups to protect them on their way.

A state legislator in Colorado, Jim Kerr claimed that the body of the dead sailor belongs to his nephew, Justin McNeley, who is at his

He said to the Denver Post newspaper that his nephew Mr. McNeley was a non-commissioned officer , he was due to be back home to the U.S. this coming August after his mission in the Afghan country.

Over 25 people died in a twin-bomb explosion that happened in the holy city of Karbala in southern Iraq.

On the initial investigation, police said that the bombs were set off on the road that was frequently used by the Shia pilgrims passing through the shrines during a religious festival.

The two car bombs was detonated by the militant people, police suspected the Sunni extremist to be the one responsible for the attack.

According to the authorities in medical officials, there were dozens of individuals been injured and wounded in the explosion.

The pilgrims are about to take their way going to Karbala as a part of their religious celebration, the Shabaniyah.

There is no group to claim who was responsible about the bomb explosions on Monday. However the authorities linked it to the trademark of the Sunni extremists’ attacks.

In the past years over Iraq, authorities suspected the Sunni group consistently targeting the Shiite religious groups especially during their religious ceremonies and their holy places.

The Shabaniyah festival was the birth of Imam Mohammad al-Madhi, who was very well-known as the Hidden Imam. He was a Shaiite that believed to vanish in the ninth century.

The devotee believed that the Shaiite saint will return to give harmony love and peace to people of the world that lead people to be present to Karbala for the celebration.

Early Monday in Baghdad, there is a suicide bomber that led his bus into the front of the Popular Arabic News station in Baghdad. It killed six people and a lawmaker were been buried alive in his wrecked and collapsed home, according to the police authorities and medical officials.
Iraq does not have a government after the March election and their nightmare was that the rebels are going to abuse the absence of a ruler in their country.

Around hundreds of people were already killed in the violent attacks being made by the rebellious group around Iraq.

The scientists in France said that they have already broken some of the secrets of the Mona Lisa.
According to the researchers in France, they have been studying the Louvre Museum where people can find the arts and paintings of Leonardo da Vinci especially the famous Mona Lisa. They examine the master’s use of sequential ultrathin coatings of paint and polish- a method that gives da Vinci’s work a dramatic effect.
According to Philippe Walter, one of the experts in the Center for Research and Restoration of all the Museums in France found that the every masterpiece of Leonardo da Vinci has the standard of significance. Moreover, the coatings of the paintings are almost half the thickness of the human hair or less than 40 micrometers.
The method, also known as sfumato allows da Vinci to give contours and schemes a blurred quality and make an illusion of shadow and depth. The use of this method is very famous but with the scientific study on it has been restricted because gathering data sometimes demand samples from the paintings.
The researchers used a specialty method device also known as the X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy to examine the paint coatings and the composition of chemicals. They bring the high-tech device into the museum in closing time to study the faces of portraits that is exemplary of sfumato. The research was developed in association with the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility in Grenoble.
Walter said in an interview by Associated Press that the gadget is very accurate and they can find the combination of pigments used by the painter for each layer of paint. In addition, it is very significant to study the method.
Walter also added that the investigation of the different paintings also shows that da Vinci is continuously trying out new techniques. Leonardo da Vinci used manganese oxide in shadowing the Mona Lisa while in the other paintings, da Vinci used cooper. Sometimes da Vinci used polish but not as always.

The first ever trip outside United States of Boeing Company’s Dreamliner’s 787 aircraft, successfully lands in Britain on Sunday.
The first trip of the carbon-composite plane of the Boeing Company was another breakthrough in aviation history.
Media people followed Boeing executives, which includes the company’s CEO Jim McNerney, who gets on board after the plane landed.
They are active to follow the coverage of the plane’s activities and to its arrival. It was another subject not only for plane business interests but also in the community of the flight-enthusiasts.
There are some technical issues being pointed to the plane from recent weeks. They have thought that the plane cannot make its much awaited flight to Europe. However, the plane made it to arrive safe and sound in the runway of the airport on its landing.
The 787 carrier will be expected to take the limelight at next week’s Airshow in Farnborough.
The flight testing of the plane started from Seattle with its 16 crew members through Farnborough airport. It took its test pilot Mike Bryan almost nine-hours for its trip from United States to Europe.
The success of the flight promises a kind of aircraft that can deliver greater fuel efficiency with the use of the lightweight materials and its innovative designs, which is a big help for the aviation industry.
Although the flight testing seems to be on delay, wherein the twin-engine passenger plane of the company already made its inaugural flight last December, the test of this project became the subject for media coverage.
Japan was the first customer of Boeing aircrafts carrier. Deliveries of this long-range passenger aircrafts to their Japanese clients was been delayed for almost two years because of some production and technical problems.
However, the Boeing executives said that their target delivery date of their Dreamliner aircrafts to Japan’s All Nippon Airways is on the last months of 2010. Still, there is a possibility that the delivery will be on delay, delivery will takes place on early 2011.

An Iranian extremity group took responsibility for the pair of suicide bombings in Southeastern Iranian city of Zahedan on Thursday.
The two bombings in Zahedan killed at least 27 people and wounded dozens more. The Iranian extremity group claimed the bombings in Zahedan.
According to group, the operation is due to the continuous crimes that are committed by the Iranian regime in Balochistan. They also said that the two suicide bombers sacrificed themselves to humiliate the regime and they want to prove that their misery will only end up with Jihad.
The statement is announced in the official website of Jundallah which is also known as the People’s Resistance Movement of Iran.
According to Yadollah Javani, the head of the Revolutionary Corps’ political bureau, the terrorist groups that are under the patronage of Israel, United States and some western countries were involved in the suicide bombing.
According to Iran’s State news agency, the blast happened in front of Zahedan’s Grand Mosque and the second explosion comes after a couple of minutes. Marzieh Vahid Dastjerdi, health minister, said that the casualties in the suicide bombing reached 27 on Friday. He said that almost 270 people are injured and 11 people are in critical condition.
According to IRNA, the police that they interviewed said that they are not yet sure of the casualties in the bombings so they do not know what to announce. They are not yet sure of the number of injured and dead people.
According to a lawmaker, one of the suicide bombers is a woman. He said that a woman is trying to enter the Jam-e Mosque before the explosion. The woman was prevented from entering. They are not yet sure if that woman is really the suicide bomber.
The lawmaker said that three or four people died on the first explosion. They tried to help the injured people but the other suicide bomber detonated the second bomb.

An enormous hole occurred in an elementary school in Ningxiang County in Hunan province, China.

The sinkhole gulped down almost the whole area of the school playground.

According to the school officials, the sinkhole started to generate in the middle of the month of January. On their record, the first formation of the hole in the playground was only had 20 meters in diameter.

Due to the intense and torrential rain that occurred across China, the hole begins to hasten its expansion that caused destruction and damages to the area.

According to the authorities, families from the nearby areas evacuates due to their fear of more dreadful things to happen to protect their lives from further catastrophes.

On the record, the authorities said in the past weeks, there were eight additional sinkholes experienced and formed in several regions in China.

The occurrence of those sinkholes formation fears the locals that the things happened in their area was an early warning of a seismic activity in their country.

The latest accounted sinkhole formation in the country on June 4 was the 20 feet deep and 27 feet wide hole in the mid-way in Zhejiang Province.

On the same day in Nanchang city in Jiangxi province, a hole was formed that unexpectedly opened up on a main road.

There are some other sinkholes being  recorded in the country, on June 3, there are four gigantic  sinkholes occurred in the Guanxi Province, where in the place experienced heavy rains and storms. The holes made more than 600 residents to be evacuated for the fear of getting harm and to acquire further damages from disasters.

There are three insignificant holes been discovered between May 27 to May 30 in the southern part of the Sichuan Province, 80 miles farther from the epicenter of a deadly earthquake that occurred on May 2008 that killed almost 80,000 people and left hundreds of thousands of people in chaos.