I’m sure all of us have looked at a celebrity and wished they could live their lives of luxury and so called happiness, but a new survey about celebrities is showing us the not-so-happy side of being a celebrity. It seems that 50% of all female artists have been or are divorced in addition 6% of all female artists have canceled an engagement. It doesn’t stop there though 15% of female artists in the Arab world have surpassed the age for marriage and may have to die alone.

For a while now Nokia has been known to many as the best mobile phone brand worldwide and it seems that the numbers are reflecting this. According to research completed by Gartner a company specializing in mobile phone sales the Finnish Nokia Company managed to increase its market share to 36.9%, this may not seem like such a big number but Motorola, Samsung and Sony Ericsson share only 37% of the market. Further number crunching showed that general mobile phone sales have gone up by 17% this year, and that sales increased to 40% in Asia.

How much does Hollywood get for every $1 it pays an actor? That's what determines if an actor should be hired or not!
So, who is Hollywood's best actor? In terms that this actor gives Hollywood a lot for every $1 they pay him ... With out doubt, it's Matt Damon!
According to the Ultimate Star Payback list, published by the business magazine Forbes yesterday, Damon offers the best box-office return on his salary.
For every $1 Damon received in salary his films brought in $29 at the box office!
He is Hollywood's Leading Man!

6 Bahraini citizens were able to break the world record of Texas University in the United States in reading ... The Bahrainis broke the Texan's record with 62 hours. Their new record is 202 hours, 2 minutes and 2 seconds. Guinness' representative Laura Hugus announced that the 6 Bahrainis really broke the record.

There is no stopping the rise of the popularity of the Internet. It is true as evidenced by the facts and figure gathered by the Internet research firm comScore. Their research findings show that in the month of May alone the total online population worldwide is 772 million – a figure that is about 16% of the world inhabitants. This number has been collated from the different search engines – Google being the top grosser claiming 70% of the total Internet user. In the date collected by comScore the three best sites are Google, Microsoft and Yahoo – each of them having more than 20 visits per visitor.

Almost everything in this earth is being ranked, especially when it comes to the most progressive companies. Usually, the higher the rank, the more successful a certain company is. When it comes to the airports all over the world, Dubai International Airport is one of the most progressive being ranked as the world’s 10th largest based on Airports Council International. Dubai has been on the 10th spot for 12 months now and steadily going strong because of its rise in passengers, from 13,759,320 to 16,227,528, which is an awesome 18% increase. Together with this increase was the 11% upsurge in freight, with its 751,575 tones of cargo. For this year alone the strongest statistics were during January and March with 2.83 million travelers.

How many microbes does a fly have on its body?
Well, One scientist found around 6.600.000 microbes on a single hair from the body of a fly ...
It seems scientists have discovered that a fly could carry up to 50.000.000 microbes on its entire body!
But don't forget that on the inside of the fly, there are even more ... !!!

The human heart pumps about 5 liters of blood every five minutes.
Thus, it pumps about 7200 liter of blood everyday, through 100.000 heart beats!
So, a 75 year-old person's heart would have already made 3 billion heart beats & pumped about 200 million liters of blood! Wow!

Did you know that the earth weighs about 5.974.000.000.000.000.000.000 Tons?
Not only does it weigh so much, but every day the earth's weight increases by 10 tons because of cosmic dust falling on it from space !!!

As predicted by analysts, Toyota is fast gaining more ground against the world’s top automaker General Motors. In 2006, Toyota Motors Corporation sold an estimated 8.8 million vehicles, although it still has to release its final sales number by the end of January. This figure is still short of General Motors Corporation’s 9.09 million vehicles sold last year, which is a .9% reduction from the Detroit-based automaker’s 2005 sales.

The New Year is the high season for singers who participate in several parties and concerts to celebrate this big and important event. This year, artists raised their charges since Sherine for example got EGP 200,000 although she is banned from singing according to the syndicate’s resolution after her disagreement with her producer Nasr Mahrous. Another pop star like Hany Shaker took EGP 120,000, Dina the dancer got EGP 60,000 and she participated in 5 parties.

Believe it or not ... but in 50 years ocean seafood will be virtually instinct!
At current rates of overfishing & pollution that's exactly what will happen.

By the year 2040, global warming will have caused the Arctic ocean to be mostly water -instead of icebergs- in the summer!

If you can't call, text!
This is the fact we're living with and the success behind the wonderful, can't live without, practical and fun service called SMS (Short Message Service).
As a word "successful" doesn't do it justice as a new study showed that text-messaging will double over the next few years.
Get this: In 2005 the number of messages sent to and from mobile phones was estimated at 936 billion, according to British market research group Gartner.

With much focus on Sony's PS3 release, we've forgotten to take a look at the most likely champion of the consoles. Nintendo Wii has sold over 600,000 units in only 8 days!
That's 75,000 a day or 3125 an hour or 52 a minute!!!!! (On an average scale of course)
The decisive factor was probably due to two things:
1- It's low cost in comparison to PS3s. Wii costs $250 which is about half the price of a PS3 even after discount!
2- There were simply more units to sell.