Last night, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan lost his cool, snapped and went on a killing rampage in the biggest army base in the world; Fort Hood in Texas.
Maj. Hasan is a psychiatrist who treated wounded soldiers who had returned from places like Iraq and Afghanistan. He himself was going to be shipped out to Iraq soon and that was his worst nightmare.
This might have been the reason for his actions that lead to 13 dead and 31 wounded.
But it seems that's not all.

This is a quick update about the situation of the H1N1 virus, better knwon as Swine Flu.
It has been announced that the Swine Flu situation in the world has officially met the criteria of a worldwide pandemic!
As of today, nearly 30,000 confirmed cases have been reported in 74 countries.

Egyptian Tycoon Hisham Talaat Mustafa denied having any relation to the murder of Lebanese singer Suzanne Tamim last year, but the evidence is hard to dodge.
Mustafa and ex-policeman Muhsin Sukkari have both been found guilty of murdering Tamim and have both been sentenced to death.
They will be hanged!

20-year-old Mariana Bridi da Costa, is a Brazilian model who's beauty opened the way for her to become a beauty queen.
Mariana, who was twice a finalist in the Brazilian stage of the Miss World pageant, and who was also a finalist to represent Brazil in the Miss World contest, fell ill back in December and was misdiagnosed for having kidney stones!

Mariana actually suffered from a urinary infection that got complicated and turned into a serious case of septicaemia; where the flow of blood, thus oxygen, to her limbs was reduced.

Mariana's hands and feet had to be amputated and was until last night clinging to life.
Unfortunately, her condition deteriorated over night and she lost her struggle and died.

Photos of Mariana Bridi

Israel has begun its ground offensive in Gaza a few hours ago.
The situation in Gaza is terrible, no petrol or gas, the electricity has been cutoff throughout the strip, 700 rockets have already been fired inside the Gaza strip in the past two hours and the number of deaths is on the rise. (Around 500 until this moment)
Israel has called on 10.000 reservists to participate in the operations.
All reporters and international journalists have been asked to leave at once and some have even been forcefully driven out!

First it was Suzan Tamim and now it's the daughter of Layla Ghofran!
Moroccan singer, Layla Ghofran's 23-year-old daughter, Hiba, was found stabbed to death in her Cairo apartment today.
The police found her and her friend bleeding to death as a result of stab wounds.
It is reported that the two girls lived together in this apartment and studied at a nearby university.
Layla Ghofran must be in a horrible situation right now. Our warmest condolences go out to her.
The case is currently under investigation, so we'll keep you posted when new information is released.

Photos of Layla Ghofran with her x-husband Anas

It was shocker when Thomas Beatie became the world's first pregnant transgender man, it was all over the news and his name made headlines all over the world.
Get ready for another shocker, are you sitting down? The pregnant man is pregnant again!
In his first interview since giving birth to his daughter back in June, Beatie spoke with Barbara Walters last month for an exclusive interview about pregnancy, giving birth and being a dad/mom?!
The interview and the baby news came for a program entitled 'What Is a Man, What Is a Woman? Journey of a Pregnant Man.'

Congratulations Barack Obama for being elected as the 44th U.S. president of the United States of America.

We are not Americans, but my wife cried this morning ... she cried because history has been made, because finally the dream of having an African American man in the white house has come true. 45 years after the height of the civil rights movement led by Martin Luther King, his dream has become a reality.
In the wake of this historic event, we hope that justice and a new bright fate will finally prevail in the world, finally after 8 dark years caused by the actions and decisions of an arrogant man who only brought destruction and hate throughout the world.

Obama has a long and hard walk ahead of him, we wish him luck and support him in bringing peace and hope to the U.S. and the rest of the world.

Congratulations to the American people :) Congratulations to all those who have been wanting change for so long.

Congratulations to Al-Dustour Egyptian newspaper chief editor Ibrahim Issa for being pardoned by the Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak today on the occasion of the 6th of October War celebration.
Ibrahim Issa won't serve the two-month jail term...
If you are not familiar with Ibrahim Issa, you can watch one of his shows on Dream TV and read about him in Arabic on Wikipedia: Ibrahim Issa

On the web:
- Egypt's Mubarak pardons editor over health report [Reuters]
- Egypt's Mubarak pardons editor over report [Alarabiya]

A suspect is innocent until proven guilty and when proven guilty, this suspect becomes a criminal. That's when he gets what he deserves!
In the case of the horrid murder of Lebanese singer Suzan Tamim, the suspects have been proven guilty and now they're criminals and should get the punishment they deserve!
Hitman Muhsen el-Sukkari has been charged and will surely get the death penalty.
As for the mastermind behind the murder, Tycoon Hesham Talaat Moustafa, he's either going to get life in prison or will also get the death penalty!
Some of you were skeptical about him being behind the murder, but that's the truth and there's a lot of evidence pointing right at him!

Things were bound to start unraveling in the horrible murder case of Suzan Tamim.
Now and after some threads have been untied, an Egyptian tycoon has been charged in her case!
You might have heard the name Hesham Talaat Moustafa before ... we've seen many ads on different TV channels that hold the name Talaat Moustafa. He's got one of the biggest real estate developments in Egypt, with malls and compounds and complete cities being built for the future population of Egypt that's growing bigger by the minute!
Well, it seems Hesham Talaat Moustafa hired former police officer Muhsen el-Sukkari to kill Suzan Tamim for a whopping $2 million! Yes, it sounds like a story out of a mafia movie!
Hesham provided his hit-man with all the necessary information and money needed to plan and carry out the crime.

A few hours ago, Al-Jazeera announced that famous Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish had passed away at 67 after undergoing open heart surgery in the US.
But, according to our own sources, which are close to Darwish, he is in critical condition. He is weak but he is still alive. So, the news of his death is still a rumor.
He underwent open heart surgery in Houston, Texas a couple of days ago. Although the surgery was successful, he did suffer complications and slipped into a coma.
This isn't his first heart surgery; he underwent two others back in 1984 and 1998.
After his successful 98' surgery, he got inspired to write a famous poem entitled 'Al-Jidariah' in which he says:

The story is still developing and we'll be updating it as it happens.

The legendary Egyptian director Youssef Chahin passed away yesterday at the age of 82 in Cairo.
After suffering a brain hemorrhage and falling into a coma back in June, he was taken to France for medical treatment, but it seems after the doctors reached a decision that there's no way out, he was taken back to his country to die among his family and his loved ones.

Today, a funeral ceremony was held in Cairo and hundreds of famous Egyptian actors and known politicians were present to bid the famous director farewell.
Although Chahin doesn't walk among us any more, he will never be forgotten, for his memory will always be carved in our minds and hearts.

Our condolences go out to Chahin's family ... May he rest in Peace.

I just heard the news ... Professor Randy Pausch passed away yesterday at his home in Virginia at the young age of 47.
You might have never heard of him, but with no doubt, he was a brave and courageous man.
Randy Pausch was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in August 2006 and from that moment he set on a quest to change the way his children and everyone else went through life.
He's famous for a project he worked on called 'The Last Lecture'.
The Last Lecture is a celebration of life. It's his way of contributing to the world: He knew it was his last chance and he took it to give a wake-up call to the rest of the world.