Entry#20-31st May, 2014

Title: Meriam Ibrahim: Sudan "to free" death row woman
Date: 31st May, 2014
By: BBC

A woman in Sudan have been sentenced to death for abandoning her faith, Islamic. Meriam Ibrahim, a wife to a US citizen called Daniel Wani. Ms Ibrahim, a 27 year old lady was brought up as a Christain, but a judge said that because her father is a Muslim she must be considered as a Muslim as well, she refused to renounce her faith and was sentenced to death by hanging becasue of apostasy, which is to abandon one's faith. This Wednesday she gave birth to her daughter the second child from her marriage since 2011. The sudanian court earlier revoked her marriage as this was not considered to be valid, therefore she was sentenced to both death and 100 lashing for adultery. In an interview with the British Prime Minister, he said that the act was barbaric and way out of step with today's world. Abdullahi Alzareg, a secretary at a foregn ministry, said that Sudan Guaranteed religious freedom and are committed to protecting woman.

I think that the Prime Minister of Britain made a good point about that this is out of our way of this modern world, and how they are acting is unbelievable and it should not be seen in today's world. Also i am glad that Ms. Ibrhim is supported by the world and she is safely released becasue of humanitarian grounds. Also she stand tall to the ones who told her to change her faith, and refuse to change even though she is facing death. All in all she is a brave woman and i think that she is a woman that we should all look up to.

Entry#19 - 23rd May, 2014

Title: Will "smart gun" technology make firearms safer?
Date: 23rd May, 2014
By: BBC

Smart pistols have been developed by some German Company, in order to make policeman safer and making users of the firearm more secure. This gun can only work with both the watch and the gun, as the watch transmits a signal to the gun in order to shoot, and if the gun is 40cm apart from the watch the gun is going to lock itself. This aim to make a device like this is to make firearms safer, but in some places like America, this "smart gun" tech is proving to be controversial. A survey have been produced by the National shooting sports Foundation, and 74% of the 1200 respondents, said that they would not buy this smart gun, they all believed that this smart gun would affect a very small percentage of gun violence. They are now proposing another device called the Identilock which is basically fingerprint technology on guns.

All in all i think that this device is going to help a lot in regarding the safety of the user of the gun, as you can be in some kind of situations like, if you are a policeman and a thief or thug stole this smart gun from you, you won't be in harms way as he cannot fire this particular weapon. This i think made the gun really safe for the user and can help a lot when tough situations occur. This should be highly promoted in the USA, as a lot of guns incident have happened there.

Entry # 18 - 20th May, 2014

Title: Nigeria Bombing: Death Toll passes 100

Date: 20th May, 2014

By: BBC

The Nigerian Nation's emergency management agency says that at least 118 have died from the bombing that took place the Nigerian City of jos, there has been no other attacks since April 14th, that's when a bus stop was attacked. The first blast took place near a busy market, which local woman love to shop at, which making the 118 remains mostly woman. The second attack took place near a Hospital, and over 56 people were injured in these blasts. No party of any sort have admitted that they have done these terrible deed. Also the intervals between the blasts was 30 mins making some of the injured are the medics and rescue worker sent to help the survivors. Today, the parliament approved a half-year extension of the emergency status in these three states - Adamawa, Borno and Yobe. All in all more than 1000 people have been killed by attacks all over the country.

I think that this is a terrible thing to happen in the world, as these things goes on, like terrorist attacks and such, it makes us realize that we are not safe even with our door locked. Monthly 1000s of people are dying in the country, its a huge number considering its population, the government should really do something to change this fact, as if it get worse, the whole country could fall into years of depression and violence, as citizens tries to get control of the country. All in all this incident is a tragic one and it should be remembered, also the government of this country must do something about this incident, or else its just going to get worse.

Entry # 17 - 14 April, 2014

Title Glow in Dark road unveiled in the Netherlands
Date: 14th April, 2014
By: BBC

Glow in the dark have been unveiled on a 500m stretch on a highway in the Netherlands. The paint that is used contains a photo luminising powder that charges up in daytime and slowly releases a green glow at night, doing away with the need for streetlights. The technology have been tested and the official launch is due later this month. An artist named Daan Roosegaarde teamed up with Dutch civil engineering firm to work on this idea. This is the first time glowing lines tech has been piloted on the road and can be seen on the N329 in Oss, almost 100km south east of Amsterdam. once the road absorbed enough daylight it can glow for up to eight hours in the dark. The UK Highways Agency said that this tech is not suitable to be in the country as the weather and stuff would affect the effect of the paint. Originally the team planned to use a temperature-sensative paint mixture would be used to create giant snow-flakes symbols to warn users that the road may be icy.

This tech is an important invention in human history, as if every single country can use this tech we would save lots of electricity on the street lights, as shown in the passage this technology and completely take over the need of street lights, making it extremely environmental friendly. As this paint won't take any electricity in order for it to light up. Also this is sufficient too for the Netherlands as there's more than enough sunlight in a day to light up the road all night by this paint. All in all this is a fantastic plan and this a good start to save our planet from energy crisis

Entry # 16 - 14 March, 2014

Title: Girl learns lesson about twitter threats
Date: 14th April, 2014
By: BBC

   A 14 year old dutch girl apparently as leaned after she sent the following message to the official American Airlines Twitter account on Sunday morning, "Hello my name's Ibrahim and i'm from Afghanistan. I'm part of Al Qaida and on June 1st i'm gonna do something really big bye." The tweet from Sarah started a social media storm that led the girl's arrest by police on Monday. Originally the airline replies that her IP address and the details of her have been sent to the FBI, what happen next was a bunch of message by the 14 year old girl said that she is kidding and said that she is sorry. She didn't learn her lesson as she is now bidding her twitter account because of the tens of thousands of followers, on Monday Twitter had suspended her account and American Airlines took down its reply, this story was told by a police in Rotterdam who posted this news on twitter.

   What this girl did was unacceptable, as she cost a lot fear among the airlines, also she threatens hundreds of men and women who are going to take a flight on June 1st. She should be fully 100% responsible for her crimes like threatening, also she must learned that everything that you said on the internet have a consequence and she should not see this as as joke where others don't think that this is a joke. Also after she is caught she should be regretful and should change, instead she said that she is famous and auctioned out her account. All in all this girl had no idea what she had done and she should be punished significantly for her crimes.

Entry # 15 - 14 April, 2014

Title: Nigeria Violence: more than 70 killed in Abuja bus blast
Date: 14th March, 2014
By: BBC

More than 70 people have been killed in a bomb blast at a crowded bus station on the outskirts of Nigeria's capital, Abuja. This explosion happened when people were about to board buses and taxis to go to work. Eyewitnesses said there were dead bodies scattered around the area, they suspicion of this attack fell on the Boko Haram Islamist extremist group who staged previous attacks in Abuja. Police said that 16 coaches and 24 minibus were destroyed , 40 bodies have been evacuated and another eyewitnesses said that they saw the police picking up and gathering body parts. The blast ripped a 4 ft hole in the ground of the Nyanya motor park. A lot of the other cars and vans exploded because of the ignition of their fuel tanks. Ambulances have been taking the dead and the injured to nearby hospitals, now the police are on full alert in preperation for the next attack.

I think that this is an outrageous thing that happened, why do these Islamic extremist have to do things like these in order to get people's attention. Also why do they have to murder innocence "indafel" to please their god. Also this attack have caused not only life lost but lots of economics lost for the country too as now the government must repair the broken things from the explosion also they need to pay the victims money for their family. All in all this incident is unacceptable and the Islamic group should be taken out for good in case of any future attacks

Entry # 14 - 14 April,2014

Title: "Haunting" art by Jewish children in WW2 Concentration camp
Date: 14th April, 2014
By: Chris Long

   A collection of sketches by Jewish children who were held at a concentration camp in the former Czechoslovakia during WW2 is going on show at a Lancashire gallery. The images offer an insight into the experiences of the children in the death camps, and many of the children didn't make it out of the camps alive. When someone said that a piece is truly haunting that means that the artist of the painting or piece have captured something immutable. The show gathers together of 40 art works by children who was held in the concentration camps in where used be Czechoslovakia. These images are disturbing as they show how their poor living condition and how they still have to work regarding how young they are. These pictures were without a doubt saddening and moving. 

   I think that these pictures are not only an important history piece for the Jews but it is an important history piece for us the whole of mankind. Although we might have heard of the holocaust no one knows how its like in there ecxept through pictures and stories from the prisoners, but these paintings open my eyes on the condition of the children there in the camps. Also we always think that these camps were made to kill or to enslave the adults of the Jewish population but not children, in these 40 pictures they showed us how bad the situation was for them and how that we cannot allow anything like that to happen in future or now, that no race should be discriminated and massacred.